skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stepped up and looked after my grandmother when no one else would.

Even if I was painted as a villain when her vulture children descended on her for her assets, and even if no one will ever recognize it, I'm glad I did the right thing, regardless of the personal cost.
I used to work on the 7th floor of the building at 1-5 Railway St, Chatswood. Sometimes at around 5pm the building would shake subtly but noticeably, we theorised it was from the trains passing underneath.
LOOP (programming language)
Well, you just repeated the argument that when we cannot measure it anymore it does not exist anymore.

But my question is: Is that true? Why?

We also cannot measure stuff outside of the observable universe. Yet we do not say nothing exists beyond the observable universe.
But a lot of the most interesting titles are stuck on “very long wait” which seems to mean they’re not planning on buying another copy to replenish their library.
I started running a especially early in the morning. All this was to prepare for a 10K (6.3 miles) run. The aim was to improve my time. I went from 56 mins to 50 mins and finally achieved a Personal best of 47 minutes in the event I trained for. I learnt a lot about discipline, running technique, nutrition and fitness tips. I am now preparing for a half marathon i.e 21K (13.1 miles) and aim to achieve a sub 2 hour finish. Planning to keep up the routine , train harder and hopefully get there.
The third great file format (after text and SQLite) is the zip file with custom suffix. That is ideal for BLOB-by-nature data.
'A rose with a thousand petals': what makes an aphorism
> when everything is set up _just right_

That's why I'm still using Enlightenment DR16 as my window manager, with the same theme/config I've been slowly customizing for ~20 years. Every time I try a different windows manager (including any enlightenment >= E17) it feels like an incomplete toy, not the feature-rich tool I'm familiar with.
These are expected when people run behind instant gratification instead of creative happiness.
For me, it's like chain smoking, everyone says to quitting smoking, you know it's not making any good for you, you know it's you paying cigar industry to make yourself sick. Still you can't give up. But once you give up, you will start seeing the world differently. I Uninstalled Facebook and insta from my cellphone. I am counting that as a small step.
Python lists are actually arrays — contiguous chunks of memory.

Just wondering here, is this guaranteed to always be the case? Practically it probably is, but does the Python spec (as in: the laguage, not one of it's implementations) say a list must be implemented using contiguous memory of slots with Python objects? That seems so low-level and C-ish. Or does the OP actually mean CPython here for instance?
Explain to me how there is even such a feature in the first case?

Adults sure, but what decent human sets out to get kids addicted???
The SECURE_DELETE pragma sounds like it'd be useful for this:

https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_secure_delete

Needs to be manually enabled though, as that doc says it's generally not enabled by default. :/
Super fun.

I’m not caught up yet. Finished day 17 earlier today.

I’ve been using the advent to learn Rust. I’m pretty happy with my progress so far. A few things were more difficult than had I used C++. But for the most part it’s gone swimmingly.

I love the advent of code subreddit. Every time I solve a puzzle I check how other people did it in Rust. I learned several new things this way.
Not sure what an open standard gets you above what SQLite already is. You can’t get much more open than that.
There is a Woody Guthrie song about that town during a strike - "1913 Massacre".
Apart of Me –  New game for bereaved young people
Another victim of abusive math classes.
Apple doesn’t listen to users either. Think headphone jack. I believe it comes down to a core set of values that guide you daily through tough decisions. Like: we believe we should not trade privacy of our customers for profits (just made this up on the fly). This will rule out a lot of stuff.
...but don’t people/users speak of “running Java apps” all the time?
Next level: Make someone play Asturias by Isaac Albeniz
Ruby 2.6.0 Released
Essays, yes, I can see how a computer would help with essay writing. To write well by hand, one has to rewrite them twice: first write notes and fragments, then draft, then edited essay.

But I don't know how I'd take notes in science and math if I couldn't quickly write formulae and draw. My handwriting is also terrible, but I could read it, and I would not be academically successful if I wasn't forced to take notes. I'm 100% certain of that. In fact, I've been writing more lately as a part of my studies. Things just seem to "stick" much better if I don't passively record, but either summarize, or embody something in code.
You cannot be anonymous in the next town over, because those townfolk, like your local townfolk, know everyone and everything that belongs in their town. Your unfamiliarity means you don't belong and aren't trustworthy.

You can be anonymous in a city.
Memrey sync way better than simplenote I kid you not. In fact no other application sync as fast as Memrey, its core technology is built for this stuff. And it is available for all platforms as well.
> Your whole comment can be condensed down to "I think poor people should have to live in dangerously built housing and die but it'll be their own fault for being poor."

I think this is accidentally being uncharitable. It's possible that GP did not think all the way through to the conclusion you saw. A more accurate inference that doesn't assume hatred of the poor from GP would be something like "this will lead to a system where only the rich can verify the quality of housing" and stopping there.
That option doesn’t exist on my TV. I think it’s limited to the web interface.
The biggest qualm that I have with the example for the incompleteness theorem, is the use of two-valued, Boolean/Aristotelian logic, in which "not true" automatically becomes "false".

If you allow the use of a three-valued logic, for example, with (true, undetermined, false), the Gödel statement, “I am not provable" amounts to saying "My provability is false or undetermined".

The same problem occurs in Russell's paradox, "Does the set of all sets that do NOT contain themselves, contain itself?"

The use of the NOT-operator is degenerated in a cyclic group Z2. It is the only situation in which the NOT-operator is not set-valued.

In my opinion, if the "isProvable()" predicate allowed for multi-valued logic, Gödel's incompleteness theorem would look much less paradoxical. In other words, the paradoxical outcome could simply be the result of Boolean shoehorning.
Not accessible, is there an archive?
You’re right. I’m wrong. Tokyo has grown by 3m people in the last 20 years. It has not tripled. It’s increased by ~10%.
What is a non-physical method of testing?
Markets are unifying, eg the EU, in reaction to large nations like the US and China. It's extremely unlikely in 50 years that things are as you described. A bi-polar Chinese and US world will accelerate single market pacts. These mega nations are likely spelling the end of the nation state as a useful concept, which after regional market pacts leads to world government. Trump is a last battle cry against globalism, but it can't be stopped. US and Chinese power guarantees it.
Wtf? What possible good could turning off WWVB do? Are we going to have to buy digital GPS-enabled wall-clocks because the Orange Menace isn't done taking a baseball bat to the china shop? Bloody hell. GPS does works, barely, inside given the right receiver and antenna combination... at least good enough for a time fix.
So as far as I understand, they can use an electrode to probe what part of the brain they're dealing with, then periodically probe again to see if they've weakened or damaged it. Even if they have, they can stop before they've done serious permanent damage, at which point the damage can heal on its own over time.
We're making GitLab ChatOps available to everyone
Consumer Electronics Upto 69% Off Using AliExpress Coupons
I don’t intend this to be a personal attack but I think you need to take a step back and re-evaluate what you’re saying because what I’m reading is that because of increasing populations, property is more valuable, which creates more opportunities for corners to be cut as land is developed; and then the solution to that problem is to ensure land doesn’t increase in value by implementing strict population controls by the state. I don’t even think immigration is a core element of your argument since logically you’d still want to limit the native population through some sort of dystopic state level program.
> Instead, why not make your app use less battery power and improve the camera's functionality? Those types of improvement are universally appreciated, yet the least likely to be implemented.

That requires hiring one or two really good developers and product managers and letting them polish the product. You can get a great product that way, but not a billion-plus valuation.

If you want your valuation to grow, you need to hire thousands of really bad programmers and hundreds of very bad managers, endlessly churning out "updates" and "redesigns" and "refactorings".

Nobody ever got to be a billion-plus company by keeping headcount and expenses low.
How to Choose a Marketplace Development Platform
But what is the interest of the creator to this gamification? I would think the only effect could be to turn off users who wish to contribute then see a large amount of contributions already and think they don’t really need my money.
From the OP article:

“Researchers have learned a great deal about the neural mechanisms underlying global states of consciousness, distinctions between conscious and unconscious perception, and self-consciousness. Further progress will depend on specifying closer explanatory mappings between (first-person subjective) phenomenological descriptions and (third-person objective) descriptions of (embodied and embedded) neuronal mechanisms.”

I wouldn’t call that “haven’t got near to cracking”, especially when the technologies needed to specify those closer mappings are clearly defined and already under development.
You argue bases on a good principle. But while the principle of open well documented standard is good one, it's just a principle. The goal is portability, consistence and long term stability.

SQLite is a Recommended Storage Format for datasets according to the US Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0004...
Well, I actually would expect someone to be checking Twitter and HN ;)

But maybe they've given up paying attention, given the other stuff going on. Or maybe overwhelmed and frustrated.
"What's a gun doing in your trousers?"

"It's for protection."

"Protection from what? Zee Germans?"

Also: https://outline.com/RBrG7p
Zooming in: Cubic, not linear, right? (No snark, just curious if I got it right)
The problem is data corruption. If a CSV is corrupted, then I could at least parse part of the data. For a corrupted SQL file, I'm done. Also, diff is not working for binary format, and it is more difficult to trace change for SQL format.

In this sense, I prefer a SQL dump file.
I can think of a number of viable business models. It has a strong following without any marketing, and surrounding industries rely on tech for radio controlled clocks etc.

Private industry could easily profitably operate it, however the core technology - the atomic cloc - is nuclear weapon grade technology, which is simply unavailable to anyone but the government.
Yes, I think there should be a difference between companies A and B and obviously Netflix has its upsides like no Netflix-unrelated) ads. However... your edit sums it up pretty nicely ;)
It is still the best language for exploratory data analysis, fitting models intuitively, and visualizing data.

Being able to do these things thoroughly and quickly, has (in my experience) been the most important technical skill for getting data science right, regardless of the language production models end up getting deployed in.
> the simplest model of the brain will be too complex for our brains to understand

Why? We already have models of the brain and cognition, and they're improving over time. Just because we can't gain a sufficient understanding within a time scale suitable for you doesn't allow you to call it "too complex for our brains".

We'd have a much better understanding if we conducted live vivisection of prisoners, but we're not cruel. We have to glean what we can from shadows of knowledge. One day maybe our children will see the shape of reality. Even the things we think we understand now will be greatly expounded upon.
How is that different from bank transfers or credit card numbers? It just reduces the risk of fraud by only sharing a token that can’t be used for anything else. If anything it cuts the middle man and allows the bank to capture a greater share of the fees.

The problem is that it has to be international.
>> The only way to read an SQLite file is using SQLite

> This part unfortunately isn't a position, it's absolute.

It's also false. I know of SQLJet which is a pure java implementation, there may be others. But in the end, the SQLite format being well defined and documented [1], a sure-fire way to read an SQLite file is writing the code to read an SQLite file.
Since SQLite a rock-solid, public domain, portable C library, it might not be the best idea to do that, but it is completely feasible. No one stops you from "implementing whatever minimal hack is necessary to finish your job" while using the SQLite format.

[0] https://sqljet.com

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html
Nguyên nhân, triệu chứng và cách phòng bệnh virus Zika
This year I learned Redis, made me lower the latency of our api endpoints below 25ms and solve a lot of use cases where db was just too slow. I use it a lot now and love it!
2 of the 3 I was supporting offered alternatives. You might want to check their websites.
The tax base grows with population growth. The advantages of subways and other mass transit are strongest with denser populations.
How to Increase Your Instagram Followers 2019
I thought nuclear was many times safer than hydro, especially if you compare the fatalities from the Chernobyl disaster to the Banqiao dam.

Hopefully more countries start reprocessing spent nuclear fuel the way the French do, though this does raise proliferation concerns.
The walrus was paul: everyone recycles.
Will second this. A friend of mine had to write his own wear leveling software to make use of SD cards in his hardware, sadly bom made anything better way too expensive to be commercially viable.
All of these critiques are full of actual quotes from Peterson. The Reddit thread is even full of direct Twitter links to posts made by him, on his verified account.

The man is a fraud and a charlatan, and you exhibit the clear signs of having been taken in by a convincing speaker, with little regard to what he's actually saying and preaching. A so-called "True Follower", with a complete lack of understanding for criticism against the Adored Idol, in this case Peterson.

I do see the appeal. He's positioned himself as a father figure to disaffected young white men, and he says things they want/need to hear (stand up straight etc.). Unfortunately he also uses that platform to spread old-fashioned misogyny and fear of the Other, and some outrageously wrong-headed nonsense. I suggest you review the Reddit thread I linked.

As per a previous thread, you also thought Gab was entirely above-board, and not an alt-right/white supremacist hideout with the very thinnest veneer of legitimacy haphazardly added on top.

More critical thought about the "hidden" agendas of notorious online presences would be very good practice.
China will pass the US as the largest market within five years so what I'm saying is certain to happen.

Sure, as a regular boring American 9-5er you won't need it but if you want something more from life you better learn a language and Mandarin is objectively going to be the most useful.
They make the point that they don't know if their entire perspective and approach is misconceived:

"We cannot yet know whether today’s students will find the solution to the ‘problem of consciousness’ or whether the problem as currently set forth is simply misconceived."

And all the while we're making that same category error: Mapping subjective experience to neural correlates. This is like someone claiming that they know how internal combustion works because when they push the pedal the car goes faster.
Thank you. Casper is very interesting work, and I am aware of it. Program synthesis offers an alternative approach to such problems, with different trade offs and characteristics.

The paper includes a brief discussion on synthesis-based techniques, and the reasoning behind Froid's design choices.
Desks without modesty panels are a feature of offices without due consideration for personal privacy.
Ultimate Infographics React+SVG Library
Being able to say I’ve overcome my nearly 15 years of depression. I did some pretty neat things in and out of work too, but none of them can really compare to finally feeling happy and healthy again.

I learned that if I’m not happy, then nothing else in life will really matter to me, and that my own happiness and health are the most important things that I can have. I always knew this on some abstract intellectual level, but it wasn’t until after I had actually gotten better that I truly, deeply understood it.

Take care of yourselves out there. You’re the most important thing you’ve got.
The main reason we have a housing problem is we have gone from a population of three generations to four.

Immigration has an effect but it's small compared to this.
Being someone who pays ~zero attention to Twitter, and very little to "politics", I had no clue that there was a shitstorm happening over "censorship" by Patreon. (Although I think that it probably is censorship, I'm not sure, so scare quotes.)

Anyway, so searx.me shows me a NY Times article from today.[0] And it contains these ironic bits:

> Patreon takes a highly personal approach to policing speech. While Google and Facebook use algorithms as a first line of defense for questionable content, Patreon has human moderators. They give warnings and reach out to talk to offenders, presenting options for “education” and “reform.” Some activists hope this will become a model for a better and kinder internet. [emphasis added]

> “There are no automated takedowns,” Mr. Conte said. “As a creator myself dealing with these big tech platforms and getting an automated takedown notice, there’s no appeals process. You can’t talk to a human. And I never want to do that.” [emphasis added]

Funny, that.

Edit: And if this is truly a " fraud / financial flag", wouldn't one expect to see the same level of outreach?

0) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/technology/patreon-hate-s...
Q. Will Earth always be able to support life? A. Probably not [...] Over the next couple of billion years, the increasing amounts of energy Earth will receive from the aging, expanding Sun will warm its atmosphere.

Two billion years' work is a hefty amount in terms of scientific and technological development, assuming people survive. So, as David Deutsch would point out, what actually happens will depend on what solar engineers choose to do.
Because there is no reasonable way to possibly prove the sound still exists.

To find out if something beyond the observable universe exists, you simply wait for the light to reach you. Every minute your observable universe grows larger and you see more stuff, the obvious conclusion is that there is more stuff.

But the random movements of air molecules allow for no analysis that there is a quantum of a sound traveling through it. It cannot be reasonably proven that the sound still exists. You can't wait to see if you notice more random sounds or anything, it's gone, part of the background noise. The information in the sound has been destroyed for any way to measure it via the movements of air molecules.
In technological terms, cryptocurrencies really have fixede this. However, the adoption is lacking behind somewhat. However, the few creators that do use cryptocurrency (even just in a rudimentary way of putting a bitcoin address in a video) - have gained from this.
These brothers have a rare disease and can't eat a traditional Christmas dinner
Total anonymity may lead to this anarchy, but having a persona that's not tied to your everyday life, your social status and appearance, but to your status in a specific web-based society or a sphere of your interests, this is what helped moving meaningful discussion forward.

What really devastated so much of the pre-social-network internet is erosion of this practice, in my opinion.
This reminds me of this video player for screencasts and code tutorials I want to build where you could see someone code, and you could copy the code straight from the video/cast.

So basically a google doc where the caster is typing code and you are able to pause and speed up.

How difficult would it be to build that? :thinking:
fast.ai - practical deep learning for coders
This is absolutely amazing. Is there anyone out there collecting these projects in a list somewhere? I know they pop up on HN, but they get lost in the noise unless you remember to bookmark them all. There's something special about hacking existing consumer hardware to do geeky things.
AgileOps
Not true. You can buy a rubidium atomic clock module for a little under $2K: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14830. I believe cheaper options are also available.
In your wiki link it says the tear down was expected to cost $11.5 million which must be much lower than construction costs. (quick search says $275 million to build) In general it only makes sense that demolition is much cheaper than construction.
I can't see how you can get more productive by removing a channel of information from yourself though.
Politics by itself isn’t necessarily the problem, it’s the tribalism that brings out the worst. Politics is just one outlet that leads into tribalism, just like sports and religion.
But notifying the owner is not a part of automated flagging? How hard is it to make it send out a short e-mail? This is basically very bad care and support for clients, however one spins it.
I mean, how would you concretely propose we make better progress on this?
Heck yeah. For instance, Tall Poppy Syndrome is a national sport in New Zealand unless rugby is involved.
Atomic clocks show up on surplus auctions/stores somewhat frequently (they’re called a Caesium frequency standard, e.g. the HP 5071). There’s a few reports of enthusiasts keeping them running at home (http://leapsecond.com/ptti2003/tvb-Amateur-Timekeeping-2003....)

I’m sure HP/Agilent/others will gladly sell you the newer state of the art modes as well (although as high precision, very low volume devices they’ll be fabulously expensive); if an industry consortium wants even more precision you could staff a research team and shave off a bit more frequency error.

However, I think for industry it’s cheaper to use GPS receivers instead of supporting a powerful transmitter (and its use of value able spectrum). GPS can keep incredibly accurate time.
Immigrated to a new country and went back to school. Both academically and socially, learnt the same lesson - don't quit. Also learnt that there's a time and place for everything - if you miss that window of opportunity, it doesn't matter how hard you grind later on.
That‘s also the reason why orchestras usually play two to three pitches (e.g. C - B flat - E flat) before starting the concert, so that the conductor can determine if the relevant instruments are attuned to their respective pitch in harmony.

Listen here: https://youtu.be/KfSH1ezevjM