skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given it's been seven hours with no comments, I guess she's still going to be overlooked. Presumably nobody has ever heard of her, this is certainly the first time I've seen her name and I worked at Google for years.

Perhaps she's not well known because her contribution to search engines can be summed up like this: "if a word appears a lot in a document, but not in other documents, it's probably important to the content of this document". I'm not sure such an insight really deserves to be credited to anyone, let alone yield an obituary in the New York times. It seems very obvious to me and the sort of thing that would occur to anyone writing a search engine but ...

Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. With Overlooked, we’re adding the stories of remarkable people whose deaths went unreported in The Times.

... ah :(

Perhaps Sparck Jones' death went unremarked in the New York Times at the time because she is, in fact, unremarkable? She died in 2007 having spent a lifetime in academia, and the above rule seems to be the only thing she's known for (according to Wikipedia). It appears that the only reason she's getting an obituary now is because she's a woman and Nellie Bowles (who appears to write specifically about gender in the tech industry [1]) wanted to write an article about a female computer scientist.

Will we get an article about overlooked male primary school teachers now? I am doubting it.

[1] https://www.wweek.com/technology/2018/03/12/while-startups-i...
I agree that it would have been better to plan it right the first time, but would spin this a little differently:

The governor shouldn't have had to get involved at all, but I think it's good that he did. I wonder about the planning process that made it necessary. Something was screwed up there.

If this is opportunism, more of that, please, rather than letting bad plans go through.
I'm not familiar with this chef, but if somone is a "carnivore" that typically means that meat/fish/eggs compose most if not all of their diet. That's an extreme diet.

At least in the US, the percentage of calories of a typical diet is 70% plant-based (including nut/vegetable oils) vs 30% animal, and I believe red meat has been on the decline for years, whereas consumption of chicken has risen.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2016/december/a-look-at...
The Elite Intel Team Still Fighting Meltdown and Spectre
How is your gaming union going to make international developers and game designers of the entire world stop producing games at heavily discounted rates?
Maybe you should actually read the article instead of spouting nonsense.
Here is where TCO is implemented in the Coconut compiler code:

https://github.com/evhub/coconut/blob/07e311fb8f69861d30e58f...
This is precisely the attitude which would probably get you banned, and I would ban you for such an attitude. You titled your post with CP and switched to neo-nazis who kept moving around when they were banned or blocked, the switched back to CP on the networks.

You didn't write about CP posters that you blocked or banned only for them switch to other pods. Any reason for that omission? You see, insinuations can work both ways.

The truth is you want moderation for other things besides CP, and you are using CP to draw attention to your cause.

You are already making insinuations like:

> "Or maybe you just think CP is cool huh? Are you one of the D* core devs, is that why you are defending this network where child sex abuse pictures are being posted every day?"

> "IMHO people who scream CENSORSHIP when you start talking about removing CP and going after child predators, are usually child predators."

Your behaviour is like some militant activists and SJWs who vilify and impugn people innocent people for no other reason that they don't share their views or subscribe to their causes. You might as well say that people who support and defend the 2nd amendment right to bear arms support mass murderers who go on killing sprees line Sandy Hook etc, and enjoy seeing the aftermath of such events on television. Do you characterize all defenders of the second amendment in that manner?

The whole point of decentralization is to avoid the very kind of controls you seek to have implemented. In any case the proper thing to do is for end users to have the kind of software that screens out users they don't like. If end users want to share their lists that is fine, centralizing the process without total transparency and accountability defeats the very idea of decentralized networks. There is no such thing has having your cake and eating it.

stevenicr has already made some comments along such lines, but without a transparent process which allows users final control on what they see or cannot receive you are bound to wind up in the Spamhaus situation. The end user must have the final say.

Since it is also a software issue, have you considered forking the software and implementing the changes you want, and letting pod administrators choose which software they prefer? That is a saner approach than casting innuendo about the software developers.
The code is available on Github: https://github.com/evhub/coconut
Mongoose (web server)
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Needing plastic is totally irrelevant because we can still create plastic without cars.

>You probably pollute FAR more with EVs than actual car's, only perhaps you pollute someone's else land, for a while

Every study I have seen does not confirm this so I would like to see your source.
Yes, similarly to how CoffeScript is transpiled into JS, Coconut is transpiled into Python.
Using the method the article describes, you still have to turn your head to check beside you but you don't have to turn it so far as to look over your shoulder.

The method in the article doesn't eliminate the blind spot, just puts it in a place that's easier to see.
A true Renaissance man.
Developer of Startup Jobs here. We use a pretty broad definition of the word startup. In future analysis I'll see if we can differentiate between early-stage, later-stage, etc.
The world is full of excellent programmers who learned BASIC as a first language.

I've met a few that believe Dijkstra but consider themselves the rare exception.

It's worth noting that this was probably a quip and not a serious statement and Dijkstra probably took less stock in it than those who repeated the news as gospel.
One approach I can recommend against: making "% of sprint commitments completed" a KPI. When that was implemented, suddenly time estimates (we used hours instead of story points) on everything tripled.
Fixing photosynthesis by engineering it to recycle a toxic mistake
Also a tool to compress WINS/DHCP databases: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
The US has laws that essentially "unprotect" certain invasive species and encourage the hunting of them.

Unfortunately, infected monkeys aren't really useful for anything.
Something most people don't know.

Your travel insurance policy is not valid if you travel to a country that has a travel warning issued by the country that the policy is issued by.

So essentially, if you go anywhere even slightly "not first world" your travel insurance is useless.
Well, the gameifized version of that particular trope is quite popular (survival games, that is camping with the added spice of death).

I don't know to what extent you can remove risk-reward loops without making it a product that can't pay for its own development.
While not completely orthogonal, I feel like real-time (soft or hard) is distinct from low latency; real-time can be still relatively high-latency as long as the latency is bounded/controlled/predictable. Of course generally in practice real-time systems strive to have low latency too.
Soundly launches beta for “Functional Music”
On the flip side, I've also heard "low-latency" (or even "instant") to mean "within 30 seconds", as an upgrade from "the mainframe runs a batch job every hour (or day)".

I don't think there's any way to consider a phrase like "low latency" without considering what you're talking about.
I pay for two newspapers (WSJ and a local one) and I am still served ads in both. My local one still serves "sponsored content" which I consider to be the worst kind of ad. WSJ also seems to have no problem with using targeted ads and third party data collection. I understand why they do it; I'm the kind of person to pay for a newspaper and that makes me an especially valuable.

I genuinely don't think it is hyperbole to consider online advertising perhaps the single most destructive invention in the last decade and a half. Many of the terrible aspects of social media would not exist if people were paying for it with their dollars. Social media has exasperated divides and now poses a serious risk to democratic institutions.

Anonymous trolls in a no advertising world would be fewer because people would actually have to pay for those twitter accounts. Moreover, there would be no incentive for online publications to feed us clickbait, sponsored news, and outrage simply to encourage more eyeballs on ads.

While WSJ comments can be pretty partisan and terrible, they pale in comparison to Twitter's.
True, but a bit sad that we live in a world where it makes sense for a woman to invest 70 percent of her income on her face so she can eat for "free" via dates. Sounds like a polite form of probably very underpaid prostition.

They would likely make more as actual sex workers, but their self esteem and social standing would take a hit. (Which means some of these folks seeming or claiming to "spend 70 percent on their face" may actually be sex workers making more money than others think, but hiding that fact.)
Yes, the point of the article is to adjust the side mirrors further out in order to shrink the regular blind spot (the same one you are talking about).

I disagree with that though, for two reasons:

1. You don't eliminate the blind spot, only shrink it. Depending on your car, the FoV of the mirrors, and the size of the other vehicle, you might still have a large enough blind spot so that your peripheral vision doesn't have it once it leaves the side mirror.

2. It risks creating an even more dangerous blind spot behind you (the one between the mirror views). Maybe not large enough for a car, but definitely for a motorcycle. This one is much harder to catch even if you turn your head.

I think every driver should turn their head, always.
Curious to learn more about this herpes variant?

Check out wiki, which has links to some papers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_B_virus
Who really knows what type of negotiations have been going on behind the scenes. I personally never fully believed a complete L train shutdown could ever possibly happen. You just can't re-route that many people without creating massive chaos. Brooklyn-Manhattan subway transit is already strained as is.

What we do know is that the MTA is controlled by the NYC construction mafia and is purposefully opaque. The MTA likes to give the appearance of losing lots of money so they can get federal aid. The money flows from residents and taxpayers into the pockets of union bosses and their construction company partners in the form of extremely lucrative construction contracts.

Bloomberg would probably have handled this crisis better. The proposed complete L train shutdown was unrealistic from the start.
LinkedIn is straight up a Microsoft property now, so it's not even considered "late-stage" anymore.

Netflix was founded in the late 90s, so if you consider them a startup, then the term is pretty much meaningless.

This really puts your overall methodology in doubt.
If you look straight ahead, there is a blind spot in your vision. To see things in your blind spot, you need to move your eyes. It's biology, not an excuse.

If you look into your car mirrors, there is a blind spot in your vision. To see things in your blind spot, you need to move your head (since you can't move your mirror "eyes" every time you look). It's physics, not an excuse.
No need. If you wanted to respond, you would have by now.
anyone try the new lcd rearview mirrors. some of them claim no blindspot. https://www.amazon.com/Master-Tailgaters-Mirror-Adjusting-Br...
Inside Computer Stores of the 80s: PCMag.

They weren't in print yet in the 70s.
Bio-coal is conceptually easy to make: just burn the hydrogen out of plants leaving just carbon. Generally called charcoal. The next step is to compress it into a rock.

Of course it isn't cost effective when you can just dig the finished product out of the ground, but conceptually it is easy.
Yes, you do need independence to assume the likelihood factorises. You do not need independence to find a MLE/MAP.
Actually, I've seend benchmarks to the contrary. As usual with benchmarks, there's no useful data to understand them -- specifically not performance counter data. I've yet to see a good analysis and haven't been able to do it myself. Many large-scale computations actually aren't CPU-bound, except insofar as they spin in MPI; some do plenty of filesystem i/o, but at least with something like PVFS2, that can be just in user-space on the compute node.
I'm not saying it's ok, just that people often have more trouble with coding than finding a solution because bad solutions can be easy to find but hard to code.
Even better, use npx (bundled with npm): https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx
That site may not be blogspam, but it is definitely some sort of spam. Sadly, this is par for the course: almost all news sites are absolute garbage these days. Worse, they are trapped in a death spiral that forces them to be more spammy each passing day.
This is a new law in illinois starting 2019

http://q985online.com/governor-signs-the-dutch-reach-law-tha...
There are two things you can do to ensure that the transpiled Python is as fast as possible. First, disable TCO (while leaving TRE enabled) with the `--no-tco` argument to the compiler. Second, make sure you set the target version of Python correctly. This will allow the compiler to make a number of optimizations that are specific to different Python versions.

Overall, for the majority of use cases I have found Coconut code to be approximately as performant as Python code written by hand. The compiler speed can leave a little to be desired though.
This is similar to what I remember from playing Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. I wasn't very good at the actual game, but there was a post-credit sequence I would skip to where you could just walk, drive, and fly around quiet, rural, and sparsely islands. The simulation is pretty unremarkable by todays standards but being able to explore a huge open world at my own pace was incredible at the time.

One encounter that stands out in my memory was of driving along a remote road in the middle of the night and coming across a bad traffic collision where a truck had completely crushed a small car along with its driver. Something about the brutal and almost mundane nature of the encounter has stuck with me.
I might be excessively critical, but I don't like these two sentences in the article:

- "... a type of herpes lethal to humans."

- "But in humans, McHV-1 can cause a flu-like illness that can progress..."

I'm not clear -- is this always lethal (as I understand the first sentence to be) or is there some survival rate (as I understand the second sentence to be). I haven't yet found any clarification on McHV-1 online yet -- anyone know?

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There are a few promising technologies in the works though.

The helicase-primase inhibitor Pritelivir is more effective than Acyclovir and related nucleoside analogues. It is also understood that the efficacy of both drugs accumulates.

A few labs are working on CRISPR therapeutics for HSV, most notably Keith Jerome's work at Fred Hutch.

Another company, Phylogica, are taking a different approach. I'm not exactly sure of the mechanism.

https://phylogica.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/181206_In-v...

n.b. If anyone here suffers from HSV (statistically, many of you do), consider ordering Pritelivir from Japan. It is marketed under the brand Amenalief, and it's for a different strain of HSV so you would be taking it off-label. Usual disclaimers apply; I'm neither a doctor, nor a lawyer, nor responsible for what you do.
Here is Scenic, the UI agnostic scene graphic composition engine.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/master/docs/ui/sce...

Here is fuchsia-ui, an UI prototype done in Rust, remains to be seen if it really only meant for the Ermine session shell.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/0a214f5721d723a7d0...

I bet Flutter will either be yet another UI framework and then the one with market adoption wins, or it will be rebooted somehow.
I think most of us can agree that as a society, we have an obligation to take care of the poor.

The question here is who exactly should shoulder this burden.

Let’s make an assumption: Gig economy workers are better off due to the existence of the gig economy. That is, if we destroyed the gig economy, the average gig worker’s income would fall due to the destruction of jobs.

Assuming that, is it really the gig economy company that should shoulder the burden of funding the poor?

Shouldn’t it be the government? That way, as a society we all chip in fairly.

It might seem most fair to put the burden on the parties closest to the problem, but I don’t understand why that’s right.

Typically someone shoulders the responsibility for solving a problem when they caused the problem. But, these companies arent the cause of poverty. They are arguably helping it.
Agree that extra caution is needed for pedestrians and bicycles. Having said that, I never understood why bicycles aren't required to ride on the sidewalks in areas that have them. The threat posed by a car to a bike is much greater than the threat posed by a bike to a pedestrian, therefore, to maximize safety bikes should be on the sidewalk.

As far as motorcycles are concerned - I think they're a bad idea in general. I have a cycle endorsement, and when I ride, I am acutely aware that it's on me not to get hit, because many vehicles just realistically don't have the kind of visibility to reliably spot motorcycles. The law should probably be updated to reflect that ... because although most bikers are aware that that's how it is in reality, it's not codified anywhere.
Haven't looked deeper in it, but why does it happen all the time that people think they can fix complexity by adding another layer of complexity too it?
Yeah, but I'm talking about if you got quoted for a policy on a specific journey, not just some blanket "travel insurance" policy.

I'm pretty sure they can't quote you for a trip to Elbonia and then say "lol j/k we don't have to cover anything because there was a warning against Elbonia at the time".

(I could maybe believe they could exclude events happening after a warning after the policy was issued.)
The Robinhood Checking Account Was Doomed to Fail
Well I always thought there was a fine line: an invention must be brought into existance witj intelligent design (probably by a human), and a discovery exists naturally.
My dream is a mountain bike ride through the Wakhan:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/across-t...
Right, I think a linear array would work best since it matches where your eyes will be when you move left & right in front of the screen. https://lookingglassfactory.com/how-it-works/ It shows up on HDMI as 2560x1600 but I don't know how the physical panel is laid out.
What "doctrine" is this? Since World War 1, when the military has deemed it necessary to kill combatants who happen to be American citizens abroad, it has done so.
> anti-meat agenda

I hate when people say that people with a valid viewpoint/lifestyle (vegetarianism, homosexuality, atheism) has an "agenda", it's disingenuous and biasing. Attack the methods and conclusions of the article, you're getting pretty close to ad-hominem.

> This is a multi-factored problem with numerous areas which can be addressed to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

So why do you immediately throw out "eating less meat" as one way to reduce some emissions? I'm not saying it's a big part, but it's pretty easy to not eat as much meat. I am a meat eater, but I don't understand why every other meat eater has to treat vegans/vegetarians like they want to take away your ability to breath oxygen.
I thought the difference between soft vs hard realtime wasn't one of magnitude, but context.

Soft: After X time, usability of the data degrades with age.

Hard: After X time, the data is useless (example: realtime car control systems; if you take too long the car has already crashed)
Do you really feel that Prop C is “fighting” tech growth, though? Not sure if that is your position.

I think a big reason Benioff came around is that he’s taking a long view. Perhaps you could even draw a connection with the maturity of Salesforce as a company vs young startups whose current teams might exit in under 10 years. Benioff got his whole team on board not only out of altruism, but by noting that homelessness was seriously threatening Saleforce’s future in the city.
My car has blindspot detection lights on the mirror. I don't do this most of the time now.
Exactly. The article doesn't state it quite so clearly, but any mirror showing space that can't be occupied by another vehicle is wasted mirror. Turn them out further.
> Essex Crossing and Atlantic Terminal are poor?

Yes? Essex Crossing is right near the LES NYCHA and was not at all a nice area until very recently. Furthermore, saying
"Atlantic Terminal" is misleading -- they're not developing Fort Greene and Park Slope but that messiness up towards Fulton.

> I don't do "Reddit" style emotive discussions.

That's fine, although this is a forum for discussion. I'm not sure what you want here.
Just letting you know, your site breaks if a browser does not allow third-party scripts.
Perhaps because David J. Wheeler said "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."
except when someone cuts in front of you and brakes when you have ur head turned.
There are a lot of "configuration-free" Webpack solutions popping up. The one thing that they all have in common is optional configuration.
Making games with PICO-8 (2017) [video]
Show HN: A Clojure-based on-demand delivery routing system
Marketing in Vendor Neutral FLOSS Projects
I'm of a similar opinion. Peek and Poke would be the most trivial things to add.

Converting from line numbers to labels a bit trickier. I'm not sure if I attempted it I would get annoyed and write my own.

I kind of want to make a language from AVR assembly to have the full make it from scratch experience (and to be able to build and run it inside a browser with the emulator and assembler I made http://fingswotidun.com/avr/AvrAsm/Testbed/ )
So build some more housing. The problems in SF are completely self caused.