skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call me stupid if you want, but I am actually convinced that the poor's access to national parks would be improved under my scheme. Just not during the most requested times, when rich aholes betting each other would easily make enough cash to subsidize access for free plenty of other (less popular) times.

Certainly not a politically popular opinion though, you are very right on that one...
All bridges follow similar designs, even if their implementations are original. Digital systems tend to fail in original ways all the time, because the design is something intentionally new. If it weren't, you'd just copy the existing software.

Which doesn't mean that we have no reusable or generalizable quality metrics - we do. But they tend to express things that correlate to an abstract of quality, and not a failure threshold.

The most honest systems in software are the ones that do not scale, because they have built in their hard failure point - and from that, tolerance metrics similar to bridges can be predicted and planned for. It's software that has to do everything in a multitude of configurations at great speed that runs into deep architectural issues, because it hypothesizes a bridge that will someday tolerate an infinite load.
Really cool project! Thanks for sharing.

Maybe a dumb question (and I certainly haven't read enough): Any plans or projects that decouple language support from exporter/backend support? Bummer to see a bit of fragmentation there, of course can understand architectural reasons for it.
US sanctions or not, I'm sure they did not make $8.9 billion on those transactions.

The Sudanese government could likely still purchase weapons with euros or roubles.

The only situation where sanctions are effective (for now) is when countries need to sell commodities into USD, i.e. oil. But that is also changing as the dollar becomes less of a global reserve currency.
It would be a great idea, especially if coupled with (publicized) programs to get people who couldn't afford it in
Really interesting article but the ending is a little weird.

> This might mean Isolate-based Serverless is only for newer, more modern, applications in the immediate future.

It sounds like you're implying unless your app is written with Node or Go / Rust then it must be legacy. That's not really fair to say.

Plenty of modern apps are built with Python, Ruby and Elixir. I don't know if they are all webassembly compile targets, but in either case, you should probably rewrite that to be less "better write everything in Node or you're a dinosaur!".
Thanks. Our team is also remote, so we don't use whiteboards for collaboration. It seems like, at least here in SF, every room in any company that I go to has a whiteboard. One might then conclude they are indispensable, but I would really like to figure out how to put a number on it.
I have arthritis and my hands had been affected a lot, I actually like it when the languages are more verbose. Because I can use "Procedural memory" and can be more automatic. My hands already know how to type those words. Symbols or short words force me into more conscious typing and/or move my fingers in a not familiar way.
Maybe if the AWS CEO had denied Bloomberg's backdoor story in a tweet, instead of the AWS chief information security officer in a blog, Bloomberg would have retracted it by now?
The busy ones have a fee. From the site (linked downthread):

>Out of the 418 units in the National Park Service (NPS), 115 parks charge an entrance fee.

The majority of national parks are free! However, the most famous ones -- Yosemite, Yellowstone, Death Valley, Great Smoky, etc -- have an entrance fee.
Cosmic Crisps will supposedly not only taste amazing, but be cheaper than Honeycrisps as they're easier to manage and orchard owners are replacing red delicious as it is basically disgusting.
Don't discount that motivation for being religious. I know many people who are church regulars, because that's their only social interaction.
What I find interesting about this article (since it could easily turn unnecessarily political):

1. The use of data to discover an anomaly

2. The impact that poor UI design in one county in Florida (if you consider the ballot part of the voting UI) could potentially have on national politics.
Because people can have opinions and don't have to shill out to the highest bidder. Amazon is in a position where they don't have to rely on Oracle, and that's a good thing for them. It's also a good thing for everyone else.
Reflecting the best of us.
Pink Lady is better than Honeycrisp, as Honeycrisp is far too sweet and generally are too large to eat as a small snack. Pink Lady's can sometimes have a bad aftertaste though. Personally I've been buying the Fuji variety for the last couple years, while mixing in some experimentation with other varieties. Cheaper than both Pink Lady and Honeycrisp, but not overly sweet and without the occasional bad aftertaste.
Pretty neat! Would like to see if/how to handle field offsets/getters/setters that avoids loading/storing the whole encapsulated object. (Is that something the C++ templates can do without special annotations?) E.g.

struct coord_t {
float x;
float y;
};

remote_ptr<coord_t> p = getRemoteCoord();
p->x = 42.f; // as described by OP, only modifies local copy?
So does this finally signal that Oracle is becoming way less powerful and relevant than they were before?

How many folks still actually use Oracle? And how many are trying to get rid of them?
Yes, Honeycrisp are too sweet, and too filling.
Yeah, I guess I never thought about putting multiple dies in one package. How are they wired up anyways?
Aha. That explains it.

I assume wind and solar are < 1% of that "renewable" total.
My hot take is that K/V stores solved a problem they didn't know they had.

To whit, de-normalised tables for the sake of "efficiency".

It's pretty difficult to under normalise a two column table -- which is what K/V is.
All Unicode emoji work in SMS, fwiw.
I grew up in Michigan and love Cortlands above all others.

I can't find them in Los Angeles.
The designs offered really remind me more of graphic designers' websites from the 1990s—confusing, impenetrable, but vaguely artsy.

Some people need to be reminded that design is not just being artsy. Design is for accomplishing purpose beyond screenshots to put on one's portfolio.
Global reducers with react-hooks
Oracle bread and butter is back-office systems like ERP/Accounting/Hr. They own Netsuite, Peoplesoft, and other similar products.
I'm not heavily involved with databases from a development point of view, is someone able to explain why Oracle is as successful as it is?
What sets them apart from what seems like a plethora of other DB systems?
Like I said, I didn't see your original comment. All I'll say is that I encourage you to listen to people who've lived in China about Chinese problems rather than just overlaying an American worldview.

Edit: oh nevermind, I can see the comment now. Shame on you.
This is interesting..

That said, only social logins are supported so I am out.

I refuse to login with the likes of Google, Facebook et al.

email/pwd for me and if that doesn't exist I can't enter...

If you manage to implement a regular signup flow let me know.

Tweet me on @conor_hackett

Cheers and good luck with the project.
> same boring people each week

What do you think friends are? My uncle has been having dinner Friday nights with the same guys for the last 60 years. Every time he's about to go, he sighs and says, "I hate these guys."
"Nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle."
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That's cool. Do you use any of your tech from sandstorm days?
Not any more so than other major components. Last SSD failure I saw personally was back in the Sandforce days - probably 5+ years ago.
and what is "unintended"? Who gets to decide if a certain use of a law is unintended?
Maybe so, but that's a problem shared by both thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Both have macroscopic objects that exhibit phenomena like temperature, friction, wave function collapse, that simply don't exist on the smaller scale.

The good news is that macroscopic objects exhibit behaviours that are predictable. The bad news is that. while those behaviours are related to the behaviour of the microscopic scale, a full description of systems involving that many particles will likely remain out of our reach forever. Although I could see it happening that we might be able to simulate systems of a sufficient scale to convincingly demonstrate wave function collapse.
Why Pharo Might be the Future of Software Development (2017)
I'm considering anything that runs firmware. I wouldn't consider e.g. a regulator with configurable voltage via resistor divider to count.

I would consider a switchmode PSU where the main switch FET is driven by a microcontroller running firmware (they can then have an I2C/SPI input to allow programmable voltage control). There are probably dozens of these in any modern computer.
Am I the only one who gets a kind of bitter taste from Pink Lady?

I'm wondering if I have one of those "cilantro tastes like soap" mutations that affects my Pink Lady enjoyment...
Self-implantable double-layered micro-drug-reservoirs for ocular drug delivery
Sure. But only if we're neighbors and approximately the same age +/- 10 years.
They have been around virtually forever, they had a very aggressive sales organization, and their database does generally perform better than the competition for most standard SQL workloads.
In addition to this, there's likely also a climate reason. Here's a map of the U.S. by rainfall:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_rainfall_climato...
They're not lying, they believe it's happening. That doesn't mean it is, however. Chances are they're seeing things that can be explained in other ways.

People who say they've seen bigfoot aren't lying when they genuinely believe they've seen bigfoot. That doesn't mean bigfoot exists.

If Yelp actually did shake people down like that, there would very likely be concrete proof by now (recorded phone calls, documents, emails, undercover journalism, whistleblower employees). Just as there would be concrete proof of bigfoot by now.
This murder was most certainly not related to that report.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/viktoria-mar...
No. No one does because it doesn't happen.
That's the first time I hear about racism there. How does this manifest? "No Asians please" written on female profiles?
I was thinking more I’m terms of the number of countries, I.e. you could fit, say, the smallest 70% or so of European countries into any given province.

But looking at a globe I don’t think that’s accurate either.

So I concede the point. Well played.

I stand by the rest of what I said though.
I feel like there is this blanket, universally accepted fact that humans are social creatures. But I can't help but feel like it's not the whole story.

This feeling comes from my own experiences that I am at my happiest, best self when I'm alone. And I don't understand how starkly this contrasts from what I hear from others and from studies such as this one.

This isn't a "I'm an introvert" or "people suck" anecdote. This is something that I repeatedly try to objectively access and measure, and almost every time my body responds better to being alone. The less people I have in my life, the better I feel. The more time I spend by myself, the better I feel. The less I speak to anyone, the better I feel.

It might be a bit ironic to ask this, but am I alone in this feeling?
Oh you're being a literalist. I can go into Bitcoin for global warming if you want that, but when people say "destroying the world" in the thread they are talking about destroying the set of values and institutions that make up our current culture/society.

To that definition, I think ad tech is helping destroy the world will of it's psychological manipulation of people at a scale that's never been done before
Same exact situation here. Moved, got mailed a code to verify my address change, was lazy and never entered the code into Informed Delivery, still get Informed Delivery email notifications for scans of mail sent to my new address, and I am able to view the scans.
We can explicitly construct such numbers using 2x2 matrices. These are called "dual numbers"[0], and the matrix representation is essentially an analoge of the same for complex numbers. So if you accept the complex unit, i, as a reasonable algebraic thing, then the "dual unit" shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

Anyway, all that is completely fine in standard foundations. The LEM contradictions only come in when we impose other axioms. For example, in Anders Kock's Sythetic Differential Geometry[1], we essentially start out by assuming that every function is differentiable.

This seems sorta crazy at first blush, and it does give contradictions, but the interesting bit as that those problems hinge solely on LEM. Thus, in a way, we're left with chosing between universal differentiability or LEM. Kock explores what happens if we pick the former, and it turns out to be pretty deep, interesting and useful.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number

[1]:http://home.imf.au.dk/kock/sdg99.pdf
It's difficult to explain how broken real social networks are post-social media.

First, friendships for men and women are different. The women (over 30) I know are a kind of social glue who are the center of their networks, and they are the ones organizing parties, dinners, events etc. However, as a man, if you depend on others for your social network, you are going to lose it if you don't have activity friends.

If you don't have activities, you are going to be a leaf node someone elses network. For men, the most social activities I can recommend in order of sociability are, volunteering and political parties/activity, fraternal organizations e.g. (https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80240816) , team sports (hockey, soccer, etc) then things like group activities like sailing, crossfit, golf(!), group cycling, outdoorsmanship like hunting, camping, etc.

If you live in a city, it's extra hard. Treat your social network like maintaining fitness or keeping up a skill, it requires exercise.
Thank you. Made my day.
That's incredibly false. Literally everyone makes m.2 PCIe NAND.

In fact it's increasingly hard to find M.2 SATA these days with how overwhelmingly common PCI-E 3.0 x4 M.2 is.

And M.2 PCI-E isn't just stupid common, it's also cheap. Really, really cheap. 1TB of crazy fast PCI-E nand is $230: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B0...
At the very least there must be some kind of very broad bell curve or something, with extreme outliers on both sides.

There are people who spend years in a cave or closed room practicing meditation. If done properly, there don't seem to be any negative side-effects. I'm sure the fact that it's a voluntary activity is very important - as opposed to involuntary confinement to the solitary cell.
For reference, I successfully ran 2 Kickstarter campaigns in the past and both times I did it, I had basically no audience or any idea what I was doing.

I don't think you can blame KS for your campaign flopping. That would be like opening up a store on your own, and then getting mad at the person who rented you the building because you're not selling anything. All they did was provide you the location to sell goods, it's on you to bring people in and convert sales.

Kickstarter is basically accepting money as a service with some unique twists. They never claim to be a marketing agency that will promote your campaign for you.

Sure, if your campaign gets popular you'll probably trend for that category on their listings page, but if you're depending on random people browsing KS to back your campaign then you're just setting yourself up for failure.

The long story short is, running a KS campaign is like running a sales campaign. You really need to plan a ton ahead of time, and ideally have an audience before you start the campaign, and if you don't have an audience, you need to find outlets to find people who are likely well aligned with what you're trying to raise funds for.

In other words, there's no shortcuts or guarantees when it comes to sales.
The amount of land set aside for wilderness and parks in the US is amazing. More than all cities and towns (urban) combined. This webpage[1] as a lot of cool maps of US land use.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
There is! We’ll have an agent/sidecar available soon that means any exporter can be written in Go and only Go.
It's odd to me that they've discovered an anomaly (statistically significant "undervoting" in one particular county) and yet that alone seems insufficient to trigger any sort of audit/recount/remediation. Especially since one of the three plausible explanations for the anomaly is hardware malfunction. What good is anomaly detection if you take no action from that data?
What are interesting uses of this?
Here in Los Angeles your typical store has 6-10 varieties of apple, almost all of them painfully similar.

Braeburn, Jazz, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Gala, Ambrosia, Jonagold, Envy... these are all the same basic apple: overly sweet, hard/dense, not a lot of taste outside sugar. Envy apples are the yellow version of the same thing. Pink Ladies are marginally better.

If anyone knows an LA area market where I can escape the tyranny of obnoxiously "crisp" sugar bombs in favor of Cortlands, McIntosh, Jonathan, or anything out of the ordinary... do tell.

If the Granny Smith wasn't available I don't know what I'd do.
I think that will eventually be solved by https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-service
What? No it wasn't.
> More to the point, it would violate an express prohibition in Art. I, Sec. 9 of the Constitution: “No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law”.

Well, you are right, I wasn't really thinking about the appropriations clause in my previous post. Although, a President could argue that Congress is violating (at least the spirit of) the Constitution by refusing to present an appropriations bill for signature, and that the President's action is forced by Congress' own dereliction of its constitutional duty. Furthermore, the President could argue that by applying pro rata last year's appropriation acts, the President is still appropriating "by law", just using a previous law faced with Congress' failure to pass a new one. If the President can present an interpretation of that clause by which keeping the government open is constitutional, then the President can insist they are not violating the Constitution, unless and until the Supreme Court says that the President's interpretation is wrong.

> Yes, the Supreme Court would very likely order the executive branch to stop expending non-appropriaed funds.

But how often have the Courts enforced the appropriations clause in the past? There seems to be very little case law. The Executive has violated it in the past (e.g. the Reagan administration violating the Boland Amendment) and the Judicial branch has tried its best to duck the issue (Sanchez-Espinoza v Reagan).

If the Supreme Court wants to stay out of it, they have the tools to do so – standing, the political question doctrine, etc. Whether they choose to do so or not may ultimately turn out to be a political rather than legal decision. If the Court has a Republican-apppointed majority, and a Republican President is refusing to shut down the government, the Court might decide to stay out of the matter, while they might decide differently if the President were a Democrat.

(Although in theory the Supreme Court is apolitical, in practice they sometimes appear to be motivated by political concerns, see e.g. Bush v. Gore, and also Roberts and the Affordable Care Act.)
I'm not in ads. I guess everyone has their own personal preferences. I hate generic ads, I literally cannot listen to the radio or watch TV because of ads. But I find personalized ads much more acceptable, and occasionally even useful as I said. Mostly though, I view ads as a cost, which I'm willing to pay to get cool services. Until they get too annoying.

I know other people who prefer no personalization because they feel it invades privacy. And I know yet other people who just don't want any ads.

I'm comparing ads to influencing friends and family and others around us not because I think ads are good, but because I'm curious about how people develop dislike for ads.

When you said "No, I've never seen a Google or FB ad I wish hadn't been there", did you make a typo? I think you meant the opposite? Or did I misunderstand you?
AFAIK you do need to have the cookie popups, at least until the new ePrivacy directive comes into effect next year.
Mountain biking has had an uptick in popularity for all ages it seems.
County here is 40,000. There's 3 stores with lots of apples in town. (Walmart, a regional chain and a local grocer).

One county over isn't big enough to have a Walmart, but the smaller local grocer does it up with their produce...
Yes. And a really interesting business model to incent mobile providers to install them. Stay tuned!
The original Healthcare.gov was a clusterfuck because contractors did a shit job. They did a relaunch, but I'm wondering how much of it was actually rewritten.

I'm putting my money on brokers/agents having weak passwords and someone did some guessing like firstname.lastname@something.gov/<password>
I bet Amazon uses Oracle back-office software like PeopleSoft , some Oracle ERP and/or BI Tools(Hyperion). Oracle has a stronghold on these type of systems and they only play nice with other Oracle products.
How does the tracing API differ from the open tracing APIs? Pros/cons as compared to that standardization effort?
Wait, really?
I thought that the proper time along a lightlike path was 0?
Do you meant seratonin? Because I have huge issues with my digestive and also huge issues with major depressive disorder. Both are an influence by my lack of seratonin. It’s proved that a deficieny that leads to both.
Almost! This is something I've looked into, and hopefully I'll have time to write a whole blog post about it in the future.

There are some fundamental syntax limitations due to the way that operator-> works (and that operator. does not exist).

The best thing I have is a `pointerto()` macro that gets you a remote pointer to a member of a remotely stored object. This uses C++'s `offsetof` macro and a whole bunch of template voodoo to make the types work.

struct coord_t {
float x;
float y;
};

remote_ptr<coord_t> p = getRemoteCoord();
remote_ptr<float> p_x = pointerto(x, p);

float x = rget(p_x);
rput(p_x, x+1);

You can make operator-> work as well, for both methods and members, but unfortunately right now it has to involve pulling the whole object, storing it inside a proxy object, accessing the member of the local object, and then storing it back in remote memory in the proxy object's destructor. It's a cool piece of code (I'm open-sourcing this library as soon as I have a free weekend to clean it up and document it).

I hope that metaclasses or reflection in a future version of C++ will allow the syntax you wrote above, but right now this is the only way I've come up with.
Also, to answer who owns the "empty land" in Texas - it's largely private ranches:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
The hundreds of thousands of visa overstays translates to potentially unlimited migration under your idea.

This is not 1882 anymore.
If you had a Chase card they could use some proprietary way of saving the language, but for other banks there's no standard way of saving the language (on the card for example), so the only solution is for the ATMs to maintain an online (since you're unlikely to return to the same ATM) mapping of card numbers to languages, and that would bring a huge liability.
Yeah, its kind of interesting how the cultural nuances of talking about dating frustrations is what allows these dating apps to function this way, leaving a large underserved audience.