skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they'll sequel until somebody legislates against it.
Lots of people where nailed to a cross. So, even that is not really very specific.
That's a real problem that I've encountered. There were three web services which I consumed. They used a lot of classes with the same name and I had to work with them from one class. I had to use fully qualified names everywhere. At one point I rewrote this code using Kotlin. Kotlin had this feature, you could write "import com.package.foo.bar" and you could use "bar.Something" in your code. My code was sane. But in some release they decided to remove that feature for some reason.
"GM foods are arguably no more dangerous than any massively engineered foods "

This may be your opinion. While GM foods are not per see dangerous, the long tail risk is tremendous, exactly because you can not tell what a gene is going to do in another organism. Take my word for it, I have a PhD in that shit.

Taleb also advocates the precautionary principle:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5787.pdf
According to John Allegro, of Dead Sea Scrolls fame (among other more recent scholars), he looked like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
If there is one thing I have about HN it is how smug they are about software engineering. The leading reason why scientific software stinks (and a fair fraction does) is not because scientists and software engineeres in that field suck, but because there is very strong incentives AGAINST writing better software.

Remember: This is not the 17th javascript framework, but software for problems that we don't understand going in. And often enough we have not understood the problem all that well even after a decade when we write the third code. These codes are research codes. Ongoing experiments. The main goal is NOT to produce long-term maintainable software, but to produce scientific understanding and build intuition about the systems that are modeled. The code is just another tool among experiements, analytic calculations and back-of-the-envelope discussions on a white board.

Rewriting the code every 5 years is an insane proposition in software engineering, but completely ok in some fields of science.

Would I like better language support to check SI units for me? Sure. Would I like highly performant libraries for vector fields, that work with gcc 4.6 on a top 500 machine? Sure. Would I like to be allowed to spend time on fixing yeah-I-guess-it-works code? You bet.

But would I like HN to just up about "scientists just need to learn to code"? Oh hell yes! Because -- believe it or not -- we often DO know better. But fixing code is not what the taxpayers, what YOU, pay us for. We are paided to understand nature. And until you are willing to pay higher taxes and spend more money and science and to invest more into fixing long term infrastructure you really do not get to be so damn condescending.
Lots of previous discussions but not for four years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20to%20Be%20a%20Programmer...
>In other words: would your younger self in high school be able to understand the stuff in Numerical Recipes, and able to write some C(++?) classes.

Yes, because my younger self used to read math books on the side for fun. This is also how I learned C.

While it is true that you may absorb some basic stuff from schooling, it is VERY thin. I was by all accounts an exemplary student, and I still retained a small fraction of what I learned. Meanwhile all of the real-world stuff I learned is still mostly there.

We would do much better to figure out how to integrate young people into real life earlier, like we used to - apprentice => journeyman => master. But we can't tolerate that, because adults need to be "maximizing productivity" or some garbage, and don't have time to train kids.
Can you point out what great truths Dostoevsky distills?
I have never programmed in R before, but why do you say that there is no need for cells?

I use cells/notebooks in Python, so I can keep my code organized and run computationally intensive things once... Is this something that is not needed in R?
I think you're kind of both agreeing. It would be nice if Maybe did work like he suggested, but in practice it's not that big a deal.
I referenced people who've tried this before and were made to shut down or change tactics before it escalated to a court ruling.

You also keep citing copyright cases. You cited a case where the multi-factor test of fair use was met, without explaining why you think Brave would meet that test.

You have not yet provided evidence of a case ruling that all trademarks are "public domain" free for the "fair use" of anyone for any purpose, and therefore that trademarks provide no protection whatsoever. I await your attempt to do so.
Yep, you are right - I was confusing the Square Kilometer Array for the Ice Cube neutrino detector. Heres a direct link to his tweet:
https://twitter.com/Astro_Jamie/status/1070304980224172033
The fact that it's a paid for trip is why it is worth mentioning, not necessarily the length. Five weeks of vacation, while not very common, is common enough that it's not really worth writing about otherwise.
Edit: Agreed that 5 weeks of contiguous vacation is rare
Your unhappiness that the quality of the game's experience was degraded does not make the actions of this person illegal nor does it provide any basis to the idea that what this person did was in any way shape or form copyright infringement, and whether the person made money off of these activities does not in any way affect such evaluation.
How could it be part of the problem if it doesn't exist anymore? If you're just talking about some sort of "fairness doctrine" ideal that still lies in the minds of the producers of network content, why do you assume that any particular network doesn't have a preference for the "absurd lies" side but still feels obligated to have a representative on to at least parody the "less wrong" side? (Remember there are only two sides, and they each have a headquarters.)
How do I get in touch with you?
tl;dr -- it's satire

> The authors explain that the whole study was designed to highlight the limitations of randomized trials and the dangers of not reading past the first paragraph of a study.
soviet collapse was not so simple as just economic “overweightness” as much as gorbachevs “liberalizations” causing the whole thing to spin out of control: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Un...
Make that a messaging service I won’t use.
Depends on where you live. There are lots of places in the U.S. where you can buy a house on a developer's salary. Not all startups are located in areas where the cost of real estate is ridiculously high.
The MGR window system (2016)
> I'd say, "what you should do" is to organize with others and enforce boundaries on those who are in the "bubble" of not giving a (meaningful) fuck of continued organized existence of the human race.

Dumb question here: why should I give a fuck about literally anything that happens after I die?
Power of 'Spin Orbit' Coupling in Silicon to Scale Up Quantum Computation
Are we still talking pasta, or badly written OO code!
Yep, Randy Marsh.
I agree.

Further his exposition on `Either a b` was built on a lack of understanding of BiFunctors.

The icing on the cake was his description of his own planned type theory. What he described was, as I could decipher from his completely ignorant ravings, a row-based polymorphic type system. However he passes off his insights as novel rather than acknowledging (or leveraging) the decades of research that have gone into type theory to describe the very system he is trying to build.

Worse, he continued to implore his audience to spread FUD about type theory, claiming several times, "it is wrong!"
Ignore concepts of “fairness” and think purely about cause and effect.
This is indeed a helpful thing. And leave a note if you had to rename the variable called "s" in that paper to "x" to work with the 5 equations you pulled of that other paper.
How do you prevent risk-first from turning into justification-first?
This is bad advice. No one should have all their (paper) net worth tied up in one investment. Selling secondary shares is just sensible, even assuming you believe in your company.
Good points. It's true there's risk there. I'd have to look up the requirements out here to see what risk. We have less strict rules in the Mid-South on recordings and use of force than in a lot of paces. Might be permissible, might not.
What do your form decisions state about your identity?
And what you use is logical deduction from other facts, not non-sequitur allegory and baseless assertion
> The top earning partner has earned $26,897 and asked over 8,000 questions, averaging about 45 questions per day

That average metric is more suspicious than an indicator of scale/impact.
An excellent point!

>Now change the moon to be more heat conductive (causing the surface temperature to drop due to more heat loss on the dark side),

Yeah, although this isn't too big in the case of the moon (unlike the Earth, it doesn't have an atmosphere and doesn't rotate rapidly, so there isn't too much redistribution of heat across its surface), it is definitely something that would confound the calculations. We'd still be able to just look at the effective temperature of light falling onto the moon and that would limit the temperature that we could light the object up to. But we wouldn't be able to use a direct measurement of the temperature of the surface of the moon.

> and more reflective (causing the surface temperature to drop further due to less absorption).

To the extent that it's a gray body (and most objects are approximately graybodies), this wouldn't actually lower the temperature. Absorptivity < 1 causes it to absorb less energy from the light, but for a gray body emmisivity equals absorptivity so it also radiates out less light too, and you actually end up reaching the same equillibrium temperature as fully absorptive black body.
Sad truth. I feel like this is very generational though. Where I live (Spain) adults and older people are generally very sweet towards kids, they really appreciate the presence of kids. The younger generation already has a much colder/negative (noticeable) attitude towards kids.

Have you thought of why people who have kids create groups? I'm starting to think that it's much like a defensive mechanism, a form of protection.
What if a deadly influenza pandemic broke out today?
For reference, this is better known as sampling from Markov random fields. There is a sizeable literature dating back to the 1960's under that name.
This guy is 100% right, and this is important, so please stop downvoting him.
Lunduke Show - Android vs. iOS: Which spies on you more?
It's fair to say GS has credibility for running a profitable business, not necessarily doing so while adhering to any given ethical (or in some cases legal, since 2008) code.

Also, as pointed out elsewhere in the comments, Malaysia has changed government quite recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Malaysian_general_electio...
Learning to Make Analogies by Contrasting Abstract Relational Structure
I wonder what you think about this paper?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcmm.12088

'extensive evidence has been published clearly showing that the EMF exposure can act to produce excessive activity of the VGCCs in many cell types suggesting that these may be direct targets of EMF exposure.'

> Radiation would need to be ionizing and intense or have enough of a heating effect to materially alter the structure of gated ion channels

I don't understand this point — why is it necessary that radiation be ionizing to affect VGC ion channels in a transient fashion that could still lead to long-term biochemical changes?
Fun google - "jesus magic wand" because... for early Christians Jesus often had a magic wand!
Spectral composition is completely irrelevant for typical material and temperatures, it is just watt per square meter which matters. You can't concentrate watt per square meter to a higher level than the light had at its quadratic falloff source. You can show that this is true by using the blackbody example, concentrating its light would break the laws of thermodynamic. Moonlight has quadratic falloff from the moon and not the sun and is therefore impossible to concentrate further so at best you can use lenses and mirrors to get the same light intensity the moonlight have on the Moon which of course isn't enough to heat anything above the temperature of the Moon.
> Have you ever implemented an ORM? I did.

Several actually, which is why I know what I'm talking about; I've explored this area extensively. When Fowler first released PEAA I dug and went nuts and spent years coding up and exploring all the possible approaches and figuring out which ones I liked and why and which ones I didn't and why.

> Same thing with high-level database abstractions - they're all either leaky in subtle ways, or they constrain you to extremely basic operations that can be automatically implemented efficiently on everything (but e.g. forget joins).

If you're doing joins in your ORM, frankly, you're doing it wrong. Most ORM's do it wrong, they try and replace what a db does best; the right way to do it is to keep joins in the db. The role of an ORM when used properly is to map tables and views into objects and allow querying over those tables and views with an abstract query syntax. Joins belong in a view, not in code. It's called the object relational impedance mismatch for a reason, you have to draw a line in a reasonable place to get anything reasonable to work well and putting joins into the ORM is crossing that line and is why most ORM's utterly suck. Joins aren't queries, they're projections; put the queries in the code and the projections into the database, this works perfectly and lets each side do what it does best. Queries are easily abstracted, projections are not, projections don't belong in the ORM.
Your argument implies that young immigrants will somehow find it affordable to have babies in Japan when Japanese citizens do not. This is perhaps true for skilled workers? But unskilled Japanese workers cannot fill that demand, and without access to a wider pool of skilled labor the Japanese industry will continue to stagnate.

Another factor that you didn't consider is that prices dropping due to economic decline doesn't make life cheaper for people who live in that same economy. Their income is of course linked to demand on the labor market.

And last but not least, population can also drop due to expatriation, which inevitably grows in times of economic decline.
I read through some of the Beginner section that I thought seemed inappropriate for beginners and found a number of grammar and punctuation errors. While trying to navigate the file I found that the page numbering shown in the Table of Contents is off by two pages. His advice on "difficult people" sounds like he is talking about a single, specific person but is doing so in a vague way and expects that to function as actionable advice. That seems like a common pattern as I look back on the rest of the section. He talks about what were probably specific events or situations in a very non-specific way and by doing so falls short of providing useful insight. It would be more effective to write about the details than to try to adapt the story to a common experience.
There is no sources that mention many, many figures in Antiquity until after their deaths. And yet, no one disputes that, say, Heraclitus, Hesiod, Plautus, or some of the Ten Thousand’s generals existed. Why hold Jesus to a different standard?
YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
Non-citizens may have been added to voter rolls, DMV says
This is accurate, non-founders don't have a clue how hard normal everyday things can be, like even buying a crappy used car for a fair interest rate. I got downvoted in my other comment likely because I pointed out I would be suspect of early employees that get upset.

Fact is, if you explain to early employees the truth and they get upset than they MAYBE aren't in it to win with the team, because if they are they would see you as a founder needing to be able to function in everyday life as critical to the business succeeding. But this is the exact reason I usually have seen founders hide the fact they do this and try to hide even purchases or say they came from a family member. Personally, I prefer the transparent method myself, but understand why people hide it so often.
I think depicting Jesus as attractive is a reasonable assumption. A young, charismatic leader seems more likely than the average person to be attractive, or at least distinct looking.

But of course, not the blond hair blue eyes thing.
From Wikipedia:

Allegro argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient "sex-and-mushroom" cult. Critical reaction was swift and harsh: fourteen British scholars (including Allegro's mentor at Oxford, Godfrey Driver) denounced it. Sidnie White Crawford wrote of the publication of Sacred Mushroom, "Rightly or wrongly, Allegro would never be taken seriously as a scholar again."
Even more so if they compared it to Kaldi TDNN-LSTM with RNNLM lattice rescoring (test-clean 3.22%, apparently): https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/blob/master/egs/librispee...
*reckon

I thought you were saying you do reconnaissance for $300 before finishing the sentence.
Sounds like a plot for the prequel to Idiocracy.
It's called indentured servitude [1] and it's still practiced in the US [2], but only to benefit the state and its cronies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude_in_the_Am...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...
> Wikipedia is not the absolute authority on everything.

Wikipedia is not (by design, one should note) an authority on anything. As a tertiary source, it summarizes and provided pointers to actual authority, when it's quality standards are being upheld. It is never more than that.
> The designers of Java wanted to support arbitrary Unicode characters in source code -- not just in string literals, but in identifiers as well

That's bad! I recently noticed "my" C++ compiler allows you to write
something like int mäin(){}. I didn't try it out but I guess it breaks
with different file encodings.

Please stay with ASCII!
I have to amend my statement here somewhat. I hadn't really looked into Milo, I just assumed based on what everyone was saying about him. Turns out he's not alt-right either. You see? I was duped by the label-everyone-alt-right mob. Makes my point even stronger, I think. As for Stephan, I've listened to about 8 hours of his stuff and I can't find any direct racism, but he is strangely fascinated with the connection between race and IQ, and not in a provocateur way either.
> Canning said he expected Facebook to continue leading the way with chatbots and ads in Messenger, along with WhatsApp

I think Facebook has truly pioneered the worst form of advertising. Compare it to YouTube. YT puts ads at the beginning of videos, and tries to make the ad as relevant to the video's audience as possible. They're still ads, they're still annoying, but at least they are clearly and obviously ads. It also incentivizes good content. Both the audience, the content creator, YT, and the advertiser benefit from the videos being as high quality and engaging as possible.

Facebook does the opposite. The vast majority of the advertising spend on Facebook is to "boost" a post, which just means that Facebook biases the algorithm to cause the post to be more visible to more people than it otherwise would be. This means that 1) that post pays money to displace other content. Content that the viewer would have enjoyed more. Generally it's organic content from actual friends. 2) that post is in no way marked as an advertisement. The viewer does not know that someone is paying money to influence them. Something as simple as "<friend> likes <company>" can be shown in your news feed just because that company is paying money to show you that.

It's as if someone paid your friends to say things like "wow, I love McDonalds" when they're around you. Except that both you and your friend don't know they only said that because McDonalds paid for it. It's deeply manipulative. And there's really no line between advertising for some company selling a product and advertising for a political candidate or platform. The fact that they want to expand into private conversations is genuinely scary.
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You're alluding primarily to AAA games that target consoles. Nothing wrong with these games, but they are generally built to target the widest possible demographic and so you're going to get some typical patterns: action + simplicity + low difficulty + crazy good production values. Probably not what you're looking for.

To find what you're interested in just step off the beaten path a bit -- right now is probably the single best time in history for things like RPGs. For instance there is literally a brand new Bard's Tale out, in the same spirit as the originals, including having Michael Cranford on board. [1] You could start your search there - the "More like this" suggestions (on Steam) tend to be really quite good. Another place to start the search might be with the remastered Bard's Tale Trilogy [2]. Definitely don't avoid games just because you've never heard of them. For instance I'd never heard of Spiderweb software but have gotten an immense amount of enjoyment out of their games. [3] If you're okay with just dropping the story and playing a turn based RPG type game purely for an incredibly phenomenal monster training/creation type system in an incredibly expansive world then the Siralim [4] series is another great thing to check out.

No affiliation with any of the companies/products mentioned here. But I was literally in the exact same situation as you. Was really disappointed that it felt like my console had every type of genre - first person shooter/stabbers and third person shooter/stabbers! I was never much of a PC gamer. Then I took the path I'm recommending here and was just left jaw dropped to realize we're seriously in the golden age of games right now, most certainly including classic RPG style games!

[1] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/566090/The_Bards_Tale_IV_...

[2] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/843260/The_Bards_Tale_Tri...

[3] - can't link

[4] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/841770/Siralim_3/
Sounds like it's time to refactor that system into something less crazy. Or better yet, rewrite it in Rust.
I think VR has sufficiently demonstrated that > 60fps is easily detectable by the vast majority of humans.
A Spacecraft's Journey to the Space Station
Yeah absolutely, it's just this one guy's nailing that happened to become central around biblical retellings.
While I agree that marketing and advertising is bad for the world, suicide is no joke. Words can have big consequences, especially online when they can reach so many and you can't see who reads them.
Why not just ban all commercial advertising in public spaces and online? I don't think anyone thinks advertising is a public good, why do we tolerate it?
Is it just me or does that last Jesus look like Shia Labeouf
This is why I am strongly against anything but the most urgent genetic engineering. We completely screwed up the industrial revolution. We have never recovered from it, and maybe never will.

So now we are going to start in on biology?
That honestly sounds like an incredible deal. If you have any entrepreneurial aspirations, try building them on your two days off. Just make sure the university doesn’t automatically own them.
None of those feel true at all in western europe
What? The invite email from blind is the email confirmation from blind...