skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work in the main office at the college I was attending. For my senior project I wrote a contact manager application that would also help with transcript analysis - allowing transcript data entry, prerequisite mapping, and schedule planning. Most of the students were working adults who had attended classes at other institutions but were unaware which credits could be transferred. In college administration, an 'Articulation Agreement' is a covenant between two colleges that says Calculus 101 at PSU is the same as Calculus 101 at UofO, and they should apply towards a degree at either school without much administrative effort -- that easy transcript analysis. It's more complicated when there isn't an agreement, or when the attended school has trimesters and the degree school has semesters, or when the names of the courses don't match but the content does.
My application (and some personal guidance) helped a few students shave a year or more off their schedule by prepping them for meetings with the department head to get transfer credits for courses they'd already taken, or to test out of subjects they already knew from work or personal experience.
If you're in college and aren't sure about how to schedule your term, the hour you spend with a department head or guidance counselor can be worth a full term saved. Do it early and often. If there's a class you'll be in that looks too easy, switch out as early as possible to save your time and your instructor's, and maybe get into that cool elective class that didn't fit your schedule.
Depends on cluster design and size big ones use exotic interconnects not your traditional network design
Isn't inadequate maintenance alone negligence?
I’m using iOS default Notes and Things 3. Why should I migrate all my notes and tasks here and pay to sync?

It can’t even cache online
Part of my problem here is that PG&E has had rate hikes rejected by the government. When you back out the insanely profitable natural gas from their financials, their margins don't seem that great on the electrical side (if they are profitable at all, there's no breakdown of O&A/DAD). California can't reject rate hikes and then say "hey you didn't spend enough on safety!".

For example

> If history is any guide, PG&E probably won't get all the money.

> While the utilities commission seldom rejects rate-hike requests outright, it typically gives utilities less than they want, sometimes much less. In its last general rate case, PG&E asked for a revenue increase of $4.2 billion, spread over three years. The commission approved $1.9 billion. In 2009, the company proposed spending $2.05 billion to fight blackouts on its electricity grid. The commission approved $366.6 million.

I don't really see how this is entirely the company's fault. I hate to go full unpaid shill for some massive corporation but PG&E seems to have a history of the government telling them they can't raise rates to pay for this stuff.

[1] 2017 financials including years they had rate hike rejections in the article I quoted: http://s1.q4cdn.com/880135780/files/doc_financials/2017/Q4/P...

[2] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PG-E-rate-plan-would-cos...
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Google maps got Google Earth like UI (just scroll out)
I had the same feeling for as long as I can remember: just when I thought I was content with some apps, I find a new one on Product Hunt or Hacker News that promise something that I don’t know I want but after some thought think I need esp. for note taking/organization/productivity combo apps.

Still coping with it with a better clue as to how to deal with it.

The antidote for me is to figure out this (with the help of pen and paper): a list of what are the absolute basic needs I want out of productivity apps. For example, I tried to find the best tools for my personal knowledge management. My criteria (or deal breaker): cross device (iOS and MacOS); easy to export and share in common formats to others; no need for collaboration features; I can throw in any file without worrying that I need to import or convert format. Upon examining the list, I figured out that I want a tool that’s more like a file management system with full text search ability.

A bigger and prior than “basic needs for productivity tools” question that took me some time to figure out last year between October and November is what my workflows are, what kind of communication I need between different apps. For example, I need a central tool to search all my files (preferably full text) in a project, yet I need editing features in specific apps (Photoshop, Mindnode, Numbers).

Last point is to be content. I was on a constant quest for finding the holy grail of all-in-one app to no avail (I experimented with Notion on and off for almost a year but ultimately decided that it’s not for me). And when I look back, my real need disguised as “finding the perfect tool” is actually to master the knowledge that I picked up from life and work, and the best way is really just to routinely index, review and edit my knowledge scattered around in the files (adding and deleting) and write reviews of what I learned whenever possible.

P.S. I grow more skeptical of tools that need internet connection to function (i.e., beyond syncing) because: can’t cope with my need to take down notes fast (therefore I went with Drafts for times like this); files cannot be loaded in places where internet connections are not great (surprisingly a lot of places when you’re on the road a lot); you can’t control which features they add or take down (for their own reasons).
How can they possibly know that?

If that is the case then there should be no problem convicting him.
What you're saying and the conclusions of the study are one in the same. Though I would disagree that their questions were like presenting 1+2=68445788. I would suggest they're more like 1 is 32119592 and 2 is 36326196 thus 1+2=68445788. 1 and 2 are not those numbers, but to be premised such a way formally the results of the logic check out.

Regardless of whether it's revealing or not it's a good thing to work towards establishing these sorts of conclusions through studies so that someday we can hope to have fewer terrible premises.
That's a misrepresentation. I took the trouble to find the offending paragraphs on my phone and paste them:

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Dependencies

20th-century languages are all at least vaguely based on a formalism from the ‘30s called the “lambda calculus.” The fundamental operation in lambda calculus is variable reduction from name to value. So lambda languages all have a symbol table or environment which binds names to values.

Modern build systems assemble large programs out of small files by reusing this symbol table for global function names, a process called “linking.” Unfortunately, linking causes a problem known as “dependency hell,” involving baffling, unpredictable upgrade failures. The fundamental problem is the “diamond dependency” — when a build requires two different versions of one symbol.
I have to believe scholars who study pop music did this research decades ago, though probably by hand.
Nothing's wrong with it per se, it's just 100% a political opinion encoded in the bit width of the protocol.
One of the most important roles for drones is fully independent observation of police that is very difficult to physically disrupt.

If independent, amateur, volunteer drone operators begin to observe nearly every outdoor police encounter in the United States, without the police being physically able to stop it, that alone will be a big enough victory to justify many of the side effects.

Let's ensure that observation of government agents, whether at a traffic stop or a huge gathering, becomes a regular, legal, celebrated practice.

Nobody stands to benefit more from this than honest, integral police officers who live in fear of reporting their less savory colleagues.
Helicopters have a large airframe directly under the blades. That is part of the problem with their noise generation.
Does it allow exporting data to human readable form like csv? I am very wary of exposing myself to the risk of losing all this information and history if the company goes under or if I want to change to something else.
But believing that would make me feel uncomfortable and threatened, like maybe I don't understand the world as perfectly as I thought I did. Can't we find someone with high credentials to tell us that it's all bunk so that we don't have to actually read his ideas?

I saw somebody else saying that Peter Thiel was funding Tlon. That's a good start - Peter Thiel is bad, so maybe Curtis Yarvin is also bad? It feels true.
Have you tried that before? Theres the obvious, that “night” is longer than business hours. Then theres the squishy people problems of things like sick time, meal breaks, using the WC, holiday, or PTO. And ignoring all that what do you do when there are two discrete problems at the same time? Varying shift times is terrible for humans.

In short, no 1 headcount does not 24/7 coverage make. I dont even believe the grandparents 2 per rota is enough to be sustainable. I have seen as small as 4 work acceptably.
I think the biggest win of Go over Python is around the single binary distribution, which I guess you included with deployments. But it truly deserves a mention on its own and it’s a major point over other (most?) languages. It really makes up for a lot of the shortcomings of Go as a language IMO. But I enjoy Go best for building system tools, the single binary doesn’t shine as much once you involve containers at which point the friction between say a Python/Node container and a Go container is pretty much the same
First thing they should do is to cover propellers so that they don't hurt anyone. Most of the drones I've seen have no protection. The manufacturers and owners don't care about the safety at all.

Also, what if the drone flies into someone's window or a car? How do you identify the owner?
Isn't the exact same political opinion "encoded" in IPv4, and/or the continued use thereof? It seems weird to complain about Urbit specifically when it's just perpetuating such a long-standing practice, and even mitigating it (to the extent that its address space sees more efficient use than IPv4 itself).
'1984' and 'Brave New World' are not within the periphery of consideration of everyday dissidents when talking about authoritarianism or protest in China (it's not part of the currency). If these tomes became a tool and entered the consciousness or became a vehicle for discussion and dissent then they would be banned. Why ban something almost no one is entirely aware of. It'd be like Iran banning Chinese authors. It makes little sense. It's not pragmatic.
The other amazing thing is size. How much smaller and cooler m2 drives are compared to old 3.5" HDs. If you have integrated graphics, PCs can now be tiny. The big tower cases are really for gamers only.
San Francisco considering eliminating fines for late library books
When I was your age, and extremely worried about climate change, I went to live on an ecovillage with like minded people trying to demonstrate a lower-impact lifestyle.

It was terrific, highly recommended! You might find visiting a few to be a satisfying way to connect with likeminded folks.

The one I lived on was a secular, rural-US community with at the time pretty intense covenants [0] but there are lots, with widely varying beliefs.

[0] http://dancingrabbit.org/
I work exclusively in VS Code with TypeScript. It is very fast after it first parses the project which isn't instant, but I often use the AWS SDK and some other packages with very large type surfaces. I'm not sure how fine grain it gets with caching, but it feels like it at most only ever needs to re-evaluate the file you are editing and this is practically unnoticeable to me.
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TFA includes discussions of all SSDs, M.2 formfactor included.
In my neighborhood, a noisy drone would get shot out of the sky pretty quickly. Or even a not-so-noisy one, if it were spotted over someone else's property.
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A serious enterprise is not going to bet their cloud infrastructure on Linode. AWS offers a lot more than just a bunch of hosted VMs.

A serious CTO whose neck is on the line is not going to go with a small player.

To paraphrase an old saying.

“No one ever got fired for buying AWS”

For an MS shop, the same could be said for Azure.
My point, I guess, cities, townships, what have you, don’t care about noise.

Cities, townships, what have you, will care about whatever their active constituents tell them to.

It took a few years, but a neighborhood organization managed to get a crackdown on motorcycle noise in Chicago. I don't know if it worked because I moved away before it went into effect. But there was a ton of press coverage for a very long time, so there's no way the offending riders could know that people don't like them.

Loud Motorcycles In Alderman's Crosshairs As LSD Noise Monitoring Starts: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170824/lincoln-park/loud-m...
The drones can also intercept GSM equipment identifiers (IMEI), WiFi points identifiers, recognise car plate numbers and their owners' faces and sell all those data. This can even be more profitable than delivery.
Exactly. Similar to the famously political choice to restrict the space of IPv4 to 4 billion addresses.
Yes. Samsung and LG are the top screen manufacturers.
Great minds and all that.
It is an absolute non sequitur because there are plenty of languages that do not have the diamond dependency problem and are still based on the lambda calculus (and on symbol tables, which as it happens is pretty much not required by the lambda calculus at all, that's kind of the whole point of alpha-conversion and beta-reduction). Rust, for instance, will happily let you import two different versions of a library in your dependency tree, and just treat type definitions from each as different types. You get non-baffling and predictable (but still annoying) compile-time errors when library B and library C try to pass an object from library D between each other while requesting different versions. Rust also will happily let you define lambdas.
Have you tried a strategy like method of loci? If not, I would try it first, to see how it goes.

Visualizing is one part of the strategy (depth of processing), but a huge other piece is that you are enlisting spatial cues to help prompt recall (cued recall).
Toxic behaviors normalized by society
Logify – One button click to log out of all your online accounts (Web only)
Back to 1987 rockin' with the "NYNEX/DPI Telco Friendly" system on original System/38, later AS/400. Nice table-driven structures for toll call classing, rating and billing. RPG III was like working in some bizarre structured assembly language with a db query front end... but the granular nature of the filesystem's storage and OS-maintained/enforced file indices were super performers.

Going from the CP/M world of dBASEII/FoxBase and CBASIC to IBM was strange and I remember thinking, "The money's better, but I look forward to unlearning all this some day." I did, and rejoined the ASCII world with no regrets. Except the pay. Did I mention the pay?

I did manage to save my company more than a year's worth of my salary once. Telephone calls were recorded on 6250BPI mag tapes and the ITT 1210 telephone switch dumped call information to the tapes twice a second to clear the queues and protect from data loss. You could see the tapes advancing in little spurts. This resulted in a dismal blocking factor since there is a physical ~1/2" leader per block, and they were required to archive the information for several years in a fireproof vault. The vault was full of these $250 tapes and they were on the verge of building an additional vault!

One day I was puttering around and noticed that the block factor was a major problem. I wrote a simple CL command to recopy and re-block the tapes to regroup the data into blocks 10x the size. After some very careful testing (my supervisor was very dubious at first) they were able to recopy their entire archive and recover 80% of the original tapes.
On any given day, for most of the year, there's a good chance that someone in earshot of me is running a lawnmower, a string trimmer, or a leaf blower, all of which are louder than a drone. There's also a guy down the road who regularly leaves his loud diesel truck idling, motorcycles going down the road, and occasional jets flying overhead.

All of this annoys the hell out of me, but no one else seems to care. Certainly not enough to ban any of it.
What do you mean, exactly?

1) Objectivity is a kind of ideology? This is objectively false ;)

2) Assigning desirability to that which we perceive as rational is a kind of ideology? In this case, can something so universal that it's surely biologically hard-coded be considered an 'ideology', esp in the context of the article?

3) Choosing to reason rationally instead of ideologically is an ideological choice (or perhaps even a choice motivated by the kind of ideological reasoning discussed in the article)?

4) Something else entirely?
Energy efficient buildings tend to handle noise pollution better with their extra insulation. Not ideal, but there's always a solution.

Translation: "You go inside if you want peace and quiet. The outside is only for the self-entitled now."
Perhaps the difference is that IPv4 was an experimental protocol that was supposed to be replaced while Urbit seems to explicitly plan to remain 32-bit forever.
Better than a fingerprint is still not great!
Often it comes down to trust, whether that's rational or not. Take climate change. The topic is too involved for most non-scientists to absorb enough to come to an informed decision on their own. Therefore, unless one invests boatloads of time, they must rely on expert opinion for much of their conclusion.

Therefore, climate-change deniers ask if one should trust scientists over their favorite political pundits or favorite CEO's. There are enough incidents of scientists being biased based on funding source to have some skepticism.

When I reply, "Don't pundits and CEO's have similar financial biases"?

Deniers typically respond something like, "Sure, so I have to rely on my gut, and my gut gives them more credit than it gives to scientists. Most scientists come from liberal-leaning universities."
The best way I can describe FoundationDB is it is like a file system. You can do just about whatever you’d like with files and a file system, in theory. You can implement just about any data model you can dream up in FDB.

But the current storage engine is not as well optimized as it could be.

It does have scalability limits, although they’re not relevant for 99.9% of use cases.

Upgrading a cluster to a new non-patch version will require a small (seconds) amount of downtime. A mitigating factor there is upgrading your client doesn’t have that limit, which is where all the interesting stuff is.

The minimum latency for a transaction is relatively high compared to systems which acknowledge writes before syncing to disk or only after syncing to a single disk.

I wouldn't say it doesn’t solve “use cases”. Rather, if you can live within the limitations (which means you need to know what they are), you can reduce the complexity and cost of designing a system for your use case by a lot.

Check out my talk from the FDB Summit for an example: https://youtu.be/SKcF3HPnYqg
These (handful of) Urbit threads are the only place I see this happen on HN. People here just hate him. The last time I was in one of these threads, it was "no platform for fascists."

Now that he's leaving, I wonder what the angle is supposed to be? And... it's flagged off the front page!
The box with the feathers could be very tall but narrow so that the air resistance won't be large.
For anyone working on Nodejs targeted TypeScript I would highly recommend checking out ts-node. I use it a ton when I want to not worry about the pre-compilation step for various reasons. Can work with absolute imports, and caches code on the first run as well. Pretty sweet.

https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node

Article mentions ts-jest; can also recommend. I use Jest for all my TS projects from serverless to selenium. Its watch mode is fantastic.

I also typically use ts-loader with Webpack instead of Babel.

Eh, might as well toss a few more recommendations in there:

* source-map-support

* Bluebird for long stack traces with async/await(v8 now has a zero-cost feature behind a flag now though as of end of 2018)

* Get the debugger hooked up to your browser/nodejs process for a great debug experience
> It's well know that if you start using C# , your entire stack will generally be MS based...(SQL Server, Azure etc... )

It may be "well know" but it's entirely untrue.
What's about capability per dollar of cost? KEPLER (a great instrument) can't boast this - "...this whole mission has an end-to-end budget of $10 million Canadian, or $7 million US.", can it?
I don't know what the heck you are talking about. I have read countless articles in the mainstream media and environmental sites, and none of them say pollution in China is low.

What they all say is that for decades pollution increased radically in China, but then about 5 years ago the government decided to take on the long, difficult task of trying to eliminate it. And since then major steps have been taken, and there have been some big improvements, like the air quality in Beijing, but that there is still a very long way yet to go.

But now let me ask you this. You seem to be implying that you don't believe that anthropogenic global climate change is a hoax by the Chinese. If I am reading you correctly, then are you angry at Trump for claiming it is?
ah, did not know that. thanks!
the average age of the people working at the FAA

That's ageism, plain and simple. I hope you don't ever have to hire people, or you'll get your company fined.
You're getting downvoted, but I can't tell why. Maybe you've offended both sides by contending that their side is as guilty as the other of ideological reasoning?! :)

EDIT: Wow, someone downvoted me literally ~2 seconds after I posted. Good work, Quickdraw!
I don't think the designers of IPv4 claimed to be non-political. They were working on a project to link the US military with major US universities. I agree that IPv4 is also a poor basis for systems that are generic to all possible politics - I just don't think the designers of IPv4 ever made such a claim.

I also think the politics of the designers of IPv4 are closer to the politics of most people on this forum than the politics of the designer of Urbit. So even if there are political assumptions encoded in the use cases it was designed for, they probably do match your use cases.
Did this guy spend 17 years building a decentralized platform, then launch it on Ethereum (which is centralized), and quit?
A plain wing is way less noisy, though. Construct a glider with the same mass as a typical quadcopter and you’ll be hard pressed to hear any noise from it, despite the fact that the wing is unshielded and has edges to shed vortexes from.
SSDs consume more, not less power, to comparable spinning HDs, especially in always-on scenarios. Once started, the amount of power required to keep a platter spinning is miniscule.
Guess how many Canadians are detained in US right now? 90k
We use it but it can cause complications with other tools that expect compiled JavaScript such as testing and code coverage. They're solveable but the choice isn't free.
Give me a way to contact you :-)
Re: Maybe the Patent Office accepts concepts, but that leads to nothing but trouble.

Perhaps, but definitions don't have to be practical nor rational. Vocabulary is typically driven by common usage (language), not by logic. I'm just the messenger.