skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along similar lines, Dr Ben Goldacre's Bad Science is an excellent beginner's introduction to the scientific method. If you understand how quacks bamboozle unwitting journalists, you gain a key insight into what good science looks like.

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Quacks-Pharma-Flacks/dp/0...
I use my own tokenizer. Regex for lexing is not to my taste.
I always thought that websites are tested with Selenium and similar (https://www.seleniumhq.org/).

For other kind of GUIs, you can also emulate mouse + keyboard interaction with tools like Sikuli (http://www.sikulix.com/). This is also scriptable, e.g. in Python, but actually quite painful in my experience:
When you GUI needs significant time for loading and rendering, the Sikuli program might fail to find a button that did not appear yet. So you need to play with timeouts and trial-and-error.
Ask HN: Any free resource(s) for Maths terminologies and notations?
Are there any free resources that explain in plain English all Maths terminologies, notations and symbols that kids and teenagers will be able to understand?
No, IIRC the --activate flag accepts either 'y' or 'n' so you can active as well as inactive the array (LVM has similar flags).
For the US, the National Weather Service has an API: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

Since it’s a government service, it’s entirely free and will likely stay that way. I have noticed occasional data quality issues (e.g. missing items), and I recommend a catching/proxy layer if you are planning heavy usage.
Standard of living arguably continues to increase as well.
Correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_lVSrPB6w

Getting lost in the weird side of the internet, outside your usual AI-generated recommendations is wonderful.

Human generated viralness >> machine learning recommendations.

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A machine learning algorithm walks into a bar. The waiter asks: "What'll you have?", the algorithm responds: "What everyone else is having."
It’s an investigation by the common definition. You know Mueller is a Republican right? What do you think it is, can you expand?
I think the moral of the story is; always use software RAID.

Hardware RAID (even fake ones like Intel) are time bombs, either you have fun configurations like this or the controller dies and no replacement exists.

Unless you'd absolutely need a HW RAID, I'd go for a Software RAID that mounts and works natively in Linux. I can put the harddrives into a fully foreign computer and it would work.
Great read! If you accept both his evidence that tech is accelerating AND the consensus thesis that productivity growth is slowing, then the simplest explanation is that there is a separate, fast-growing phenomenon that saps economic productivity.

Anyone want to propose what that is and share some measurements?
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A Smithsonian Researcher Reflects on What It Will Take to Land Humans on Mars
That’s the thing with all the “soft” power the US has: you can maybe use it once or twice to bully allies into doing your bidding. But that’s a terrible way to spent all the good will built over decades of mutually beneficial cooperation.
The take away is that lock free != Fast. Some lock free algorithms and data structures happen to be fast, but in general maintaining the lock-, and especially wait-, free guarantees is not cheap.
It still feels like a hack to work around a problem that should be solved at the protocol level. There's no technical reason that multiple assets couldn't be streamed over a single TCP connection. If it's a common use-case that a number of assets need to be loaded at once to display a web page, then this should be supported by HTTP.
I think this is one of the unintended consequences of strong welfare states. If your government spends $xx,xxx per resident per year then someone who arrives and doesn't contribute at least $xx,xxx is a net drain on resources. At the VERY least, you need to ensure your population produces at least $xx,xxx per year in gov't revenue.

While I am strongly in support of things like free healthcare, education, etc. I can also see how adding residents who aren't net contributors threatens those systems. If Canada let any 60 year old American with health problems immigrae regardless of their ability to help pay for the health system it would reduce care for existing Canadian residents. After all, they're almost certainly going to cost more over their life than they kick in via tax.

Of course, the same argument can go dark places, like forcing people to get exit visas to leave. After all, the state put a lot of money in to your upbringing, you owe them!

Current visa regimes work pretty well to encourage this sort of behaviour. Young, educated people with lots of promise who will work hard (thus the tie to employment) or old people with millions can move. Others, well, can't.

Barring that, sometimes less-educated people can move but in ways that try to ensure they don't become a burden (you work here for a set time and then you're kicked out)

I sometimes wonder if the current system of heavy indebtedness for school and housing helps ensure people work as hard as possible and pay as much in taxes as possible as opposed to allowing them more leisure. Without having to cover a mortgage or health insurance, how many people would work part time? Or how many couples would have a stay at home parent?

There were fewer formal barriers to moving not that long ago. The US had pretty much unrestricted immigration in the 19th century, but it also spent very little per resident. Passport restrictions in Europe showed up for WWI (well, briefly for Napoleon too IIRC) and never really left, probably because WWI also roughly coincided with cheap international travel.
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I'm surprised that Britain is even behind this, as they might have been a bit nervous about the US response, considering their ongoing Brexit.

This is a great example of how current US foreign policy means a loss of soft power all over the world.

I do think that this is a win for world stability though, trading tends to help relations, which helps stops all sort of unpleasantness. Whether this will be enough i don't know, but it seems like a good step forward.
Not Compared to London though - London does have a much better transport system so living 60-70 miles away and commuting isn't as bad as it would be in SV.
I'm Western European and most of what is considered left here it's (at least) center, if not directly right.

With the left vs right message the up vs down battle has been mostly forgotten.
Here's another "way out":

3) Reverse the changes that led to the arrest of the population growth.
The way people are so regularly sucked into tapping away on their phones is one of the reasons I don’t like it.

Haven’t used it in over 3 years, and I don’t miss it. It got to the point of why I was wondering why I’d sit there flicking through the news feed only to read about what someone’s aunt Joan was going on a racist rant about.

Instagram hasn’t been any better with the rise and incouragement of influencer culture.

They’re increasingly subversive in their tactics which is something I’ve always disliked in any company.

They get to a certain size and have to keep pushing for growth as they need to further maintain their growth rates to prove they’re still worth investment money.

Where does that end?

In a heavily diluted form they would both be fine, but the dark patterns in their designs are prevalent, in spite of what good they might have offered the world.

I don’t give Coca Cola a pass because their drink tastes good and can make people happy at times. They’ve cordoned off entire towns water supplies through shady dealings. Know what I mean?
Which is the problem with the gig jobs - yes people are employed but they don't earn enough.
I can support for the article's content & add examples from gaming & collectibles. The related community is partially on discord & telegram, e.g. https://t.me/BlockchainGamesCommunity, https://t.me/egamersio https://t.me/cryptobitgames. Writing, you have the experience (and can do it better ;-) )
IA Link[0], for Europeans (like myself), who get "Page Not Found".

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20190131120900/https://www.reute...
Good. I don't know how much longer Americans are going to buy the boogiemen we keep getting fed.

Sovereign nations under the the U.S.' thumb, not being able to control their own destiny only works so long as we're complacent.

I sense we're growing tired of war for war's sake, leery of ideological battles built for future blowback down the road. We see enough people profiting from these wars to wonder how much global conflict is manufactured.

I hope we stop buying in. When a politician tells us a country is evil, we need to start asking for receipts.

I don't see this having a ton of impact on U.S. relations other than a few terse, typo-laden tweets directed at Europe, but who knows these days. The notion that Western alliances are being intentionally weakened no longer seems far fetched.
Actually, what I would like to have (currently missing from MeWe), is the ability for people to see what I post as "Public" without needing an account to MeWe.
Which was, for me, an important feature of Google: if I wanted to broadcast a link or some content I could publish as public (so everyone on Google+ would see it if they visited my profile or were already linked to me) but I could also send the link to the G+ post via email or chat to people who had no Google account and they would still be able to see it (even if they would not be able to comment without logging first). See what I did in this same thread for a public post that I would like to have available on the Internet Archive... it is just a link and you can read it without needing a G+ account.

I proposed it as a per-pay feature to MeWe but so far I only got a canned "thanks for your suggestion" - my main problem is that even what they call "Pages", like the BBC MeWe page is visible only inside the app itself.
What Impossible Meant to Feynman
I do not think so as this has bern mainly created for teaching but recently I had the same question
>Using parallel loops running on many cores yields a factor of approximately 7.

That depends on the number of cores.
>Ps: the HN author use of all caps sounds like he’s happy about this, but we all lose when the cancer cure is not found

Newsweek used all caps: I quoted their headline.
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All good points. I wonder if instead of a voting mechanism, a site could crunch things like number of posts, type of posts, length of posts, frequency of posts, replies to posts, and so forth to calculate something like participation/activity/clout scores, assuming this could be used to add value for the community of users. Essentially, mask any gamification of the system so the focus is textual/graphical interaction among users, instead of engaging directly in a ranking/award system.

IME, communities in the analog world engage in ranking, albeit largely unconsciously, and perhaps mimicking this pattern in a digital environment would be beneficial compared to current systems.
BEAM's "processes" are lightweight too AIUI, pretty similar to goroutines.
People keep bringing up existing "weird" websites as a sort of proof that life on the web is as fun and weird as ever. What's really missing on the web is a sense of raw discovery and wonder. I can't recall the last time the web really surprised me. We're so connected we stopped changing. I had no idea what today's web might have looked like back in 1997. Tomorrow's web feels a lot easier to predict.
The other moral is that RAID is not a backup.

I’d also argue that for most individuals who don’t really need to worry about an hour or two of downtime, it’s a lot more useful to have good (multiple) current backups than potentially complex RAID configurations.
Isn't that a little agressive? His text did not say he was a guru. Also if you read it through it was just a call to try to engage in the more Dionysian mindset. I really don't see how that can be bad? He's not from an organisation, or selling anything.

Did you see how much reading he has done from a broad scope of fields? I would have respect and be interested in anyone who has read even half of what he has read. Why is parts of the new atheist crowd always so quick to violently dismiss people even if they are extremely well read?

I would never do the same. For example i disagree with Dennet on a lot of things but i still have respect. Also i am not religious.

If your knowledge of "spirit" stems from pop culture phenomenon like Life of Pi, and your entrance to philosophy is through the new-atheist / neo-enlightenment crowd of course you won't understand all of philosophy - just as if you angle your way in from any exclusive school of thought.

The whole point of his text is that if you don't actually read the Philoshophy, and do it with a broad scope, or do the actual ritual you won't "get" it. Just like you won't get meditation by reading about it as Sam Harris points out.

In my eyes Eliezer Yudkowsky is very clever, but outside a narrow field he is just wrong and perfect example of the militant unemphatic new-atheism crowd which are historically revisionist and ultimately chauvinistic in their approach to philosophy.

But that is just my opinion and you don't have to agree, *so i don't get the downvotes honestly.

This is also why many actual philosophers agree that his blog is a bit too sophistic: (although i agree he has some very interesting and well written posts! ) https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/425h9e/why_i...

I say start with your own curiosity instead of hopping on a bandwagon, doing that always leads you astray, that's at least how it has been for me, just as Eric writes - try to actually read the texts without too much framing, try to meditate, try to adopts different mindsets, try to have historical hyperstitional dialogues etc.

This means reading the cannon yourself, engaging in meta analysis from different angles, both leftwing, rightwing, positivistic and hermeneutic. Read history through different lenses. That's the whole point, to get actual eureka moments from new modes of thinking instead of labelling yourself a rationalist or whatever and then reading only second or third hand sources while constantly having an agenda in the back of your mind (we all do this).

We don't like organised religion, snake-oil salesmen or depak chopra either so the whole "lets put everything from neo-platonism to wishy washy pop astrology" into the same trash can and set it on fire is extremely saddening to many historians/philosophers.
I agree. I keep hearing the most wonderful things about the people of Sudan, I can't wait to get there soon and discover for myself!
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In 2017 KGB does not exist.
As an employee on another team, I remember at launch when the extended Plus team got flown to Hawaii to celebrate, around the time their marketing made its way on to the homepage. I sat incredulous, back in the office with my colleagues thinking how gross it was that an obvious failure from the off got rewarded and supported in such a manner. It marked a real shift in my personal perspective of the company.

I realised much later that the team were effectively being rewarded for having being punished prior to launch. The offsite was an apology for the grotesque demands put on them during the extended crunch.

The commitment to the product was so complete that nobody involved could see the wood for the trees, and we saw the damaging impact of reality distortion first hand.
Crypto exchange Binance now accepts credit cards despite banks' warnings
Please change all-caps titles to not all-caps when submitting.
Don't forget the Stagefright-like bug in iOS where a malformed TIFF file could lead to remote code execution!
Thanks for sharing, added to my watch list.
> That assumes the demand and the supply are independent variables.

When the argument is that an increase in supply causes lower wages your counter argument doesn't make any sense at all. For wages to rise the demand has to grow faster than the oversupply. The primary way to increase demand is by lowering the price of a service aka workers get paid less.
In other words it is possible that even with an extreme amount of immigration everyone still gets a decently paying job but in the end wages across the market have fallen.

Whatever pie analogy you're trying to pull doesn't matter. I don't know why people keep getting nerdsniped by that word and often even use their own hyper specific definition of it which doesn't match the definition of the other person. There is no law that says people always benefit from a growing economy and there is no law that says people can never benefit from a shrinking economy.
> Clearly the fault lies with Walker and his cronies.

Voters are the only people to blame, Walker was re-elected TWICE.
Have you looked at the Should I Answer? app?
So you don't have a CS degree and think you are a developer?
They should have... Imagine all the money they spended on me ?
Your example does nothing to persuade me that two cameras aren't enough. It just says you need a powerful intelligence behind those two cameras.
Doesn't HN use Racket?

Edit: according to wikipedia Arc, which HN is written in, is developed in Racket
I would rather see the regex expanded to more verbose pseudo-code than a weird flowchart
Wouldn't want to lose access to that oil... who cares about preserving the liberal order and not giving an incentive to states to turn rogue? But hey, President Trump is thinking about doing the same thing wrt. the Ukraine, so who am I to complain? Maybe two wrongs can make a right.
The fact that some boogiemen are not as terrible as portrayed, or that we shouldn't put too much effort to go after them, does not imply that all boogiemen are actually nice.
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Wow! thanks for pointing out there is an Elisp Shen implementation!
Interestingly, my bank in Romania does this. For every single transaction on any card, I get a text message with the amount that was deducted and how much there is left.

Actually, almost any bank in Romania offers this service. For both debit and credit cards. It's very useful.
I would definitely agree with your assessment of the target audience. I'm not sure if it's enough, though (depending on what it's enough for).

I think it's enough for someone who is just trying to understand the basics, but I wouldn't feel comfortable hiring someone for a qualified position who only just learned all of this (maybe just for the interview).
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Am in Luxembourg, no problem viewing the page. Reuters HQ is in the UK...
The more important aspect of this story IMHO is that the Foxconn factory was used as a disingenuous political tool.
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It’s mostly a win for world stability because it preserves, to a limited degree, the notion that you can mutually agree, put it in writing, and count on the other side fulfilling its obligations as long as you do.

Nobody with half a grasp of reality doubts that Iran was fulfilling its end of the nuclear deal. It’s entirely unclear why China, or North K, or really anybody should trust the US Government in the future. That means one of the arguably most important tools to avoid armed conflict was entirely eliminated from the US arsenal. What makes it even worse is that there just wasn’t any reason to do so, beyond some egotistical jingoism. Saudi Arabia is far worse in almost any observable category.
Reading this, I feel they should hand this job on to someone else. There comes a point where if you're not experienced enough to do this, no amount of Googling and investing more time will help you.

tl;dr I get the feeling that this person has been sold the idea that throwing money at things will help (why is he using argo for a smallish blog, it's not worth the money?)
technetium video from Periodic Videos channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud5c1TVkcnU
Japan's bizarre ‘dancing zombie squid’
I think you misunderstood the ...start asking for receipts part of nkozrya’s comment. nkozrya is not suggesting that U.S. politician’s are never correct in their assessment of evil. nkozrya is suggesting that they aren’t always right. This is hardly a controversial point. Believing otherwise is dangerous. It is critical that we trust but verify claims of our leaders.
New? This was part of the philosophy in Fight Club. I remember hearing Chuck Palahniuk talk about it. Ted Kaczynski (of all people) believed humans had domesticated ourselves. I'm not sure what to make of an article that boldly claims "Wrangham grapples fully for the first time" with a theory older than I am. Certainly the author of the article didn't do his homework. Perhaps in the book the author acknowledges he didn't come up with the theory - I can't say without reading it. But clearly someone is grossly misrepresenting the facts here.
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What is your country?
I've never even watched The Lost - and neither Quantum Leap nor BSG, for that matter.

The ending of HIMYM was awfully contrived.

The ending of Mad Men, however, was thought-provoking.

Brit Marling had a good ending in "Another Earth", but both "The East" and "Sound of my voice" copped out with cliches - imho.

Arguably getting the ending right is among the most difficult parts of the job.
The Iran regime largely owes its very existence to the way the West (particularly UK and US) behaved towards the country.

Do they think that hitting even harder will have any result?
Self driving cars will have to solve the problem of "snow" long before they have to worry about that...
Did it end up going to data recovery? Most of the time it should be possible to retrieve most of the data, at least.
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Having an arbitrary large number of concurrent read operations and expect no or minimal contention is completely reasonable.
It’s a call to humanity, not emotion.

When you’re talking about selecting who dies with a 1% margin with some ML process with an unknown margin of error, I question your judgement.
I assume by incrementally is meant to have a base backup and store the difference in between.

Personally I prefer full backups - they feel more complete.
I thought that was only in IE11, but apparently it has been around since IE8.

It is only available client-side though, and while you can feed it back to the server if relevant there (i.e. server-side rendering which most of the legacy code I'm responsible for does) you'd have to keep doing so in case the mode changes between requests.

Also you are forced to add in extra conditionals to your page whether you are working client- or server- side: you can respond to this property to deal with display differences via CSS selectors.
I think this ought to be the default. If you don't have children, consider not having any children. If you do have children, consider not having any more. Let's pool our resources and try to give the best opportunities for the children in our communities rather than everyone trying to have children.

No, I'm not being funny or sarcastic. Humans pollute a lot. Also for the 99%, it doesn't so much matter if the world GDP continues to skyrocket. As long as we can keep productivity going up (no idea how), the 99% should be ok.

No, I'm not talking about a ban on having children or a lottery system or a qualification/licensing (at least not yet). If voluntary restraint works (and so far it looks like it), there won't be any need for coercive action.
Absolutely. It's completely stupid to go back on a deal when they were upholding their end. It means that there is no point in any country doing long term deals with the US when they know the next president is just going to tear it up if they feel like.