skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some time back in the dark ages of 1994, life was simpler but I was aghast. I had never attempted to extract meaning from the threaded output stream of a Postscript printer driver, not even for fun, because it was a fool's errand. It's like unknitting a sweater. We seemed to be headed in a general positive direction. The power of parseable plain text was generally respected, and approaching its zenith. Everyone knew implicitly that as long as plain text was accessible, the promise of the future was that information would become increasingly searchable over time. Information was kept separate from presentation. Postscript was merely a printer transmission conduit.

Then the horror began. Adobe started promoting PDF as some sort of bastard substitute for website pages, documents, and even the web site itself. Their deranged engineers actually envisioned websites of the future that actually were single giant PDF files. PDFs that were mere pictures of peoples' information began to be published on the web, instead of the information. It was so obscene that the only thing more deranged would be, perhaps, a website that consisted of nothing but a rectangle of Flash -- with absolutely nothing that could be copied to clipboard, nothing that could be saved to disk. Just a visual masturbatory experience. And wouldn't you know, Adobe was involved in that too. But I digress.

Before Adobe, anyone who proposed a system where an image of body text was shown instead of the text itself was ridiculed. Then people changed, became more stupid. When Adobe slapped text into PDFs almost as if it were an afterthought, people who were mesmerized by this horrific poverty of ideas were perversely excited. The amount of processing for extracting text from a document achieved a new record. Not our proudest moment in information technology. And it was done in such a shoddy fashion that even after decades of refinement of the paragraph in text streaming formats... we were once again relegated to fixing hard carriage returns within paragraphs that had been extracted from mangled text streams from PDF files.

Here we are in the next millennium... and we're getting excited about clever ways to extract information from PDF documents. It is as if PDF documents were some force of nature -- strewn accross the landscape, put in our path by the Universe as a puzzle to solve, the information embedded in it like oil in shale. No one remembers the time when information was actually JUST SITTING THERE, before stupid people embedded it into a PDF.
Dark matter’s interaction with “regular” matter via gravity is covered in the article. It also interacts with light via gravity.

Measuring the interactions between galaxies, and things like gravitational lensing are providing evidence of dark matter’s existence.
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That assumes that it is "matter". Maybe there is something we just fundamentally don't understand about gravity.
Real natural childbirth involves “minimal enough problems” if you don’t particularly value the lives of individual babies, a significant minority of whom would die during birth or late pregnancy if we just let nature take its course.

And putting “natural” in quotes is entirely appropriate when discussing most vaginal births, even drug free vaginal births, in the first world. There’s nothing natural about 9 months of prenatal care and monitoring, careful observation of the fetal heartbeat during labor, prophylactic administration of antibiotics to women with group B strep, early delivery of women with gestational diabetes or pre-eclampsia, and the availability of c-section any time labor starts to go south. The women who end up delivering vaginally have very good outcomes, in part because a bunch of “unnatural” interventions before the moment of delivery weeded out all the women and babies who would not have done so well. If you want to see what real natural childbirth looks like, you can look at the maternal and neonatal outcomes in countries without modern health care. It’s not pretty.

We need to stop using the world “natural” as some kind of signifier for goodness. “Nature” doesn’t care that lots of tadpoles or lion cubs, or salmon fry don’t make it, and it doesn’t care that lots of human embryos miscarry or lots of babies die in birth. WE care about human babies, and so intervene.

Also, is there some reason we wouldn’t gestate fetuses in artificial wombs if that was safer for women and babies? Are we just obliged to suffer and risk our lives for no benefit? Because it’s “our place”, I guess?
Just a Few Seeds More: Value of Network Information for Diffusion
Both F8 and CTRL work for Windows 98.

But it probably didn’t matter what he answered in their two-question interview.
It might have been a scholarship or something.
That's not Occam's razor. The razor applies to theories with identical predictions and tells you to pick the simplest one. I'm not sure how you got your inference from Occam's razor.
No, eBay's website specifically says to forward phishing emails to spoof@ebay.com.
You just invented XML or JSON
But you do not need to measure it particle by particle. Just because those have mass, there should be a bunch of dark matter particles hanging around with earth. And given that we have quite good idea what earth consists of, there should be a discrepancy in some of the measurements that use earth's mass against the mass we have from our understanding of earth's composition. Unless, of course, the extra mass of earth due to dark matter is calculated in e.g. kilograms. That's why I would like to know the expected density of the dark matter.
As a user that did use Live bookmarks I would be pretty pissed off if anyone merely by my usage counted me as an excuse to keep supporting that nonsense. I use pocket now - lightly. It's still heck of a lot better than live bookmarks.

Live bookmarks never worked very well, now did it?

What percentage of people complaining about this are actually using the RSS support in FF itself at this moment?
Can you tell me the advantage of L-Threonate? Choosing magnesium (and dosage) opens up a world of options and examine.com doesn't help a huge amount...
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My super high-level partial understanding of Judy is the following:

Start with ART, which is pretty simple. Then do the obvious improvements: First, we want fast access to "element number N in sorted order", i.e. you also store number of descendants. Next, you do key compression: Storing the portion of the key that can be reconstructed from the tree traversal is silly. Next: an 8-bit tag for signaling one out of 4 node types? Are you, like, filthy rich? More node types it is. Next: Spending 64 bit for a node pointer? Are you crazy? Put the type-tag into the parents pointer (earlier resolution of the branch!), and use a custom allocator to get smaller pointers (you allocate big segments and your node pointers are offsets).

You end up with an unintelligible monstrosity. Give it a cute name, forget about SIMD because it is 2001, and you end up with something like Judy.
Thanks for the observation. I regularly read the HN comments before an article to avoid such detrirus. The child comments, plus The NYer tends to have well written content, lead me to believe it may be worthwhile reading as I am ignorant of the current evwnts,anyway.

Lately, I have been experiencing articles short on facts that restate the same couple of points reiterated 3 & 4 times making a snippet of info become several paragraphs saying the same thing in slightly differing ways.That is noise I can do without. Anyway, despite the disagreements below, every opinion/angle is(should be) appreciated.
I agree, I think a "data" only news source would be highly useful. Especially one that ties pieces of data together so that it's possible to view timelines and development along different vectors.
Who knows what future physics holds (I’d love to know!) but our best theory of gravity (Einstein’s general relativity) is shown to be amazingly accurate in every experiment ever conducted for it.

Some form of only-detectable-via-gravity matter fits the math. Coming up with provable alternative math would be the greatest scientific breakthrough of the past century...or possibly of all time.

I’m sure people are working on it (along with quantum gravity). So either it’s wrong or it’s dark matter.
google vision api for OCR should be this one:

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/ocr
Looks like that conference had two completely different audiences.

As a developer, I tend to look at things and wonder about the future: "what can I build with this?"

I'm getting the realization that the equivalent for journalists is something like: "what controversies can I write about this?"
Are you basing this on the huge costs for pocket?

I use pocket; it's better than nothing. Also: if it weren't for pocket, FF would have some difficulty competing with Googles suggestions, which are pretty OK, really, and definitely enough to keep me occasionally entertained - and without killer feature to beat chrome, why pick FF over chrome at all?

(Some context: I used to use chrome precisely for that reason, and recently switched back because the suggestion feature appears to work less well now, and FF's version is good enough).
How to break down a door without hurting yourself
AWS tips and tricks to optimize cost and performance for better ROI
Why are you afraid of other governments? Your government has a military to protect you from them.
> The additional mass can be measured, this is why we suspect the particles are there in the first place :)

Yes, in interstellar scale. How much there should be dark matter within solar system? 1 gram? 1 kilogram? I mean, if there was supposed to be 5/6 parts of mass of dark matter within solar system, it would quote obviously be somehow observable?
> If the universe consists of 85% of the stuff it would seem that it should be easy to find.

How did you infer this? We are bathed in gravitational waves but they weren’t “easy” to find.

> Occams razor should apply as usual.

So what would be your razored explanation for the gravitational anomalies that point to the presence of matter we cannot see?
A newspaper, even one with a bias (as they all have), is still a more objective source than an avowedly conservative-libertarian think tank that fires people for having a different view on an issue.
London's food couriers under attack
Sorry guys, my bad!

FaaStRuby is a fast, lightweight and scalable serverless platform built for Ruby developers.

I will add that to the tutorial page as well.
The website doesn't seem to mention that several of the papers on the filesystem won best-paper awards at major conferences. The paper, Optimizing Every Operation in a Write-Optimized File System, in particular, won best-paper award at FAST '16.
"Think of the amount of mass required to generate a gravitational pressure needed to overcome the electromagnetic binding force between molecules inside the mass--the equilibrium occurs, basically, when an object in space becomes spherical. This happens at about 10^20 - 10^21kg. Divided by the mass of a proton implies you need about 10^47 atoms to generate the amount of gravitational pressure to break the electromagnetic strength between atoms." (1)

Richard Feynman would tell you that this immense difference is "what's keeping you from not falling through the floor down to the Earth center." Or why the apple hanging on the "few atoms" of its stalk is not falling from the tree, when the summary gravitation of all atoms of the whole Earth are pulling it down.

Or, again to compare such big numbers, there are "only" 10^86 atoms in the whole Universe observable to us! (2)

1) https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-are-the-gravitatio...

2) https://www.universetoday.com/36302/atoms-in-the-universe/
Why mention the race and gender of the culture, if the specific race and culture aren't relevant? The author easily could have made that point by saying "sci-fi obsessed leadership" instead of "white male sci-fi obsessed leadership".
> This README outlines the details of collaborating on this Glimmer application. A short introduction of this app could easily go here.

Could be a good idea to describe the project. I get that it is a chat UI, but I went straight for the README file and got essentially nothing.
We have countless observations that tell us that a lot of places in the universe have a lot more mass than we can see. The two most obvious solutions are that dark matter exists, or that we are wrong about how gravity works. So far we have failed to come up with a satisfying alternative description of gravity and it's not looking good for ever finding one.

So if you really want to apply Occam's razor on this, the existence of matter that only interacts with gravity and nothing else is a much simpler explanation than some elusive alternative theory of gravity.
And this is (close to) the crux of the issue. How can we prevent malicious actors from abusing our numerous and diverse surveillance technologies (law enforcement; ad-tech; pretty much every 'smart' device) whilst also allowing authorised, regulated, controlled, legitimate uses. (And is it worth it?).

What processes and assurances are enough? (Formal methods, I'm looking at you).
I never heard of these offerings. Thanks for mentioning them!
"In seriousness, we can observe the effect, and even map the distribution of the stuff."

No, we can measure the dissonance between our best theories and reality. And make a conjecture about 'stuff'.
Is this legal? Did they even read the TOS for Google?
Truly amazing website. Being transition to learn JS/Typescript lately, I come to understand how powerful this scripting language is to power the whole Internet.
Yes, I know sales tax in various jurisdictions makes it impossible

I heard this argument many times before but never quite understood the explanation. Could you elaborate on this?
Yes, Estonia. :)
Was it the voting over the Internet that gave it away? I think that we and Switzerland are only countries that do that atm.
Fascinatingly, it is known that the interaction of the dark matter with the Earth is so weak that there would be no "clumping" of it around the Earth at all! No "clumping" even around e.g. Sun can be observed. The "hanging around" is on the level of the whole galaxies, and sometimes the dark matter even remains outside of the whole galaxies, being too slow to follow their gravitational interaction(!) That's the famous example of the "bullet cluster":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/09/the-...

That's how weakly the dark matter interacts with anything else. And it obviously doesn't even interact strong enough to "fall" to the center of the galaxy. Otherwise it would be there, but it remains to the outside of even where the "normal" matter is (mostly the stars and black holes, the "supermassive black hole" in the center is only at most 1e-5 of the estimated total mass of our Galaxy).
Not really convinced firebase is “covering it up”.

The official status page breaks down availability by-service with descriptions of each outage and updates with timestamps.

https://status.firebase.google.com
They are not distributed evenly throughout space. So if you measure more gravity in a region of space that you cannot see (because dark matter doesn’t interact with em), is it dark matter, or an error in your theory of gravity?
> After V1, the accelerate-stop distance, the pilot is committed to continue flying.

I'm not a pilot, but I'm 100% sure V1 means you can't safely abort the takeoff, _not_ that you're committed to the remainder of the flight.

Also, the ILS is at the end of the runway, they were surely airborne by this point (i.e. past V2), so I'm not sure why you even brought up V1 in this discussion.

In fact, I can't imagine being so low at the end of the runway. At somewhere like Midway (MDW), you'd almost certainly hit a house, at the very very least the perimeter fence.

> In a case like this, the pilots would want to climb to several thousand feet and evaluate the situation before landing.

I'm fairly certain that in an emergency situation you don't "evaluate the situation". Short of actually being unable to fly, you have to take off after V1. If there is any issue whatsoever, you alert the tower and begin to come around to do an emergency landing using "normal" emergency procedures.
I don't get the hate; I played around with the Hololens for a bit and while the FOV issues are hard to ignore, both devices are steps forward into an interesting and likely THE interface for future computing.

One can hope that if MagicLeap fails at least someone will pick up the IP and continue to develop it.
I wouldn't actually apply such an invasive patch on any system I ever cared about anyway, but I wonder if it would work on the RHEL/CentOS kernel, which has a supposed version of 3.10?
This is another possibility, and would be exciting.

But it's very very hard to come up with plausible models for such modified gravity. There are lots of people trying, and their ideas tend to break all sorts of other things we know. For example (IIRC) lots of candidates gave a slightly different speed for gravitational waves, and were ruled out by recent detections where we also saw X-rays from the same event.
This seems to be a global epidemic.

Back in my hometown in India, where average 3 bedroom rental properties go for under $300/month, builders are making luxurious homes that cost $300,000+

They've been on the market for nearly 4-5 years. No one is biting because no one has that kind of cash. Yet, the market doesn't seem to relent
There's a comment upthread that it works on a very much patched Linux kernel, so it certainly isn't upstreamed.
Our understanding of gravity might be completely wrong. If 85% of the gravity is unexplainable that seems like a pretty safe bet. Maybe it just behaves very differently at galactic scale.

Much like the aether, it seemed most likely that light traveled through a medium until it turned out that it probably doesn't.
I knew about status 418 but I didn't know that Google had a page to return that error status.

See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

I also saw a mention of the fact this is not so silly in the IoT age.

Also https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7168

Time to add it as a test case!
Street drugs cause loss of life, health problems and financial distress which leads to an increasing population of chronically homeless people, higher medical costs, loss of tax income, theft or becoming drug dealers themselves to pay for drugs, etc.

Imagine for one second that you could solve all of these problems at once with medical grade drugs and all you have to do is let drug addicts visit a doctor regularly. How is this not admirable?
Operation Vulture
It might not drop prices on the lower end but if these places didn't exist the people now houses in them would be displacing the people currently housed in more modest dwellings.
They each talk extensively about it themselves. It’s not others belittling their careers.

> When I was talking Instagram, last thing you wanted was your picture snapped.
I was under the impression that GPUs were mainly optimized for data-locality, while other access patterns are better left to the CPU with its sophisticated (in comparison) cache hierarchy. It seems this data structure is operating against this principle.
Here's the talk Bradley Kuszmaul [1] gave to MIT 6.172 in 2010...

How TokuDB Fractal Tree Indexes Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rb85cOXTKU&t=202s

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/
Modifying the execution permissions in Powershell requires admin permissions. I'm guessing the author has local admin and does not realize it.
> In a cease-and-desist order against Voya Financial Advisors, the investment advisory unit of Voya Financial, the commission used the “Identity Theft Red Flags Rule” to censure the firm for allowing hackers to access social security numbers, account balances and even details of client investment accounts.

I’d like to see them use this more often.
Back during the Reagan years when the US restricted Japanese car manufacturers to only shipping a certain number of cars per year to the US Toyota responded by no longer selling Camrys and introducing the high end Lexus brand.
What made it terrible?
Feels more like an academic project to prove a point, than an actual usable file system.
So, basically physicists have deduced two facts, and these facts don't agree with one another. From this they conclude that there must be something else in the universe, something unseen and undetectable, that they call dark matter. But what about the other possibility, which seems far more reasonable to me, that either one of the facts is wrong?
GP was proposing scrapping the aircraft, which is not necessary for ground repairs.
High-speed calculator users in Japan's workforce
And quite probably many people living just past the end of the runway.
I think it's intended to be pronounced as "better fs"
Usually? Because there's an urban area with people and highways and houses past the runway.

As far as I can tell this wasn't unusually close to the runway, the plane just stayed on the ground far past the end of the runway.
What webex/facetime/goto/hangouts needs is live transcripts, or... pretty live.

Each person's mic/setup has much better audio of what was said, and can be configured (eventually) to learn that person's accent. When 2-3 voices talk over each other, I have to ask people to stop/repeat, wasting time, losing momentum, when the computers themselves can likely give me a good indication of what was said via text as well as audio. And if a transcription is bad, the person can 'correct' it on their end, or just verbally - "no, that's not the word I used", etc.
If we can't detect it or disprove it, it doesn't even belong to science. It belongs to the same realm as witches and demons - until some smart physicist devises a way to actually detect it.
As a developer who has spent most of my time developing web applications, I get this feeling whenever I work with micro controllers. Memory usage and binary size are ever-present during the development process. Compiler optimization flags become really important. You're accessing registers and peripherals directly and you sometimes run into weird bugs and limitations with on-chip drivers that require a clever or unorthodox workaround to be found.

It's a nice deviation from high-level programming.
I can totally agree there are segments of the software industry where these issues exist more meaningfully, like in your experience.

Internally to tech companies though, I think this sort of thing is trumpeted around too much to try to shift the balance of decision making power away from engineers. Sometimes of course engineers are not the ones in the position to know all the relevant factors for decision making. But often they really are, and if they tell you we can’t over-promise to the customer on XYZ because our legacy code is reaching a critical failure state, it needs to be urgently believed and trusted, but most of the time is not.

There’s often a fundamental incentive struggle between parties who get bonuses or commissions because of a binary outcome (closed the sale, shipped the feature, lost the customer, revenue less than the target), and people for whom the binary event translates into long-term service requirements (support the feature and backwards compatibility, deprioritize a critical version upgrade, grow support capacity without being granted more headcount, etc.).

Ideally it should be based on situational evidence and technical details (both business tech and engineering tech), and hopefully not just generic principles (often invoked via confirmation bias or argument from authority) like in this article.
Economics is often right about that kind of thing. You think you will not snack as much if you put your M&Ms in a faraway place, but you end up doing the incentive-predicted thing and eating more M&M's each time you go to get some.
Why does it matter if they stay addicted? As I already said all the downsides of drug use are fully avoided by using medical grade drugs. It's like eating fast food without getting fat.