skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> To this day, the Greek ethnic minority living in Istanbul call themselves Rum, meaning Roman.

That's all Greeks. We all call ourselves "Romioi", i.e. "Romans". We also call ourselves Hellenes, like in ancient times and "Graikoi", which is also an ancient word for "Greek".

We call ourselves lots of things. It proves nothing.
I’m not convinced that ANY is that bad. They wrote some bad code, they have special goals and all of a sudden ANY is not good for you.
I'm not sure!

Your innocuous question has kicked off a pretty feisty debate on my floor about whether it is 'primary' as in first (either in the circuit or evolutionarily) or primary as in most important.

If it's the former, adding a "the" seems to add some unwarranted emphasis. I think there's probably some parallelism too. Primary visual cortex is also called "V1" (as in the first cortical area involved in vision) or "Area 17" (according to a map that defines areas based on their cellular organization). While "in the primary visual cortex" sounds fine, "in the V1" and "in the Area 17" sound barbarous.
I wonder who funded this research?

Did it also account for frequent egg-eaters tendencies to maintain a particular kind of diet regarding other foods, and other similar associations?
> "I can take a shit in the middle of the bathroom if I want to."

That would be exceedingly inconsiderate, possibly criminal.
Private disclosure is different from a public one.
FB group for anyone else considering leaving: https://www.facebook.com/groups/373683909882919/

I can tell you that Miami would definitely like you here, even our Mayor cosigns: https://twitter.com/FrancisSuarez/status/1100425644968738822
I don't see this as being competitive with the Chase Sapphire Reserve via points. The best use of points with this card is for travel. This can be done either using the points to book travel through their website for $0.015 per point or through transferring to their hotel and airline partners. Assuming someone also has a Chase Freedom United card they can get at least 1.5 points per dollar spent which is equivalent to at least $0.0225 in savings on travel. Combining this with a credit cards purchase protection and other benefits, why would someone choose your debit card over this?

Do you plan to add hotel and airline transfer partners to make your points more appealing?

Credit cards often have high sign up bonuses. The Sapphire Reserve launched at 100 000 points and later dropped to 50 000. If someone doesn't have one yet, why should they sign up for your debit card instead of the Chase card and putting all of their spending on it to earn the bonus?
There is a trend where all climate events are said by news sources to be indicative of climate change. Abnormally warm winters => climate change. Abnormally cold winters => climate change. Drought => climate change. Hurricanes => climate change. As is typical on many topics, some news organizations are apt to over-state the certainty of scientific evidence. For example, the link between climate change and hurricanes is commonly cited in news sources (see https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hurricane+climate+change+huff+post...). While the link has a reasonable theoretical mechanism (warm air seems to make hurricanes stronger, global warming => more warm air), it hasn't actually been observed in practice - we had an average number of hurricanes last decade and an abnormally small number the decade prior. Nevertheless, some news sources publish articles along the lines of "most damaging hurricane ever, is it because of global warming?"

Depending on where you sit, this is either evidence that global warming is a massive hoax and not happening at all OR evidence that news sources sometimes get a little carried away trying to publish the most alarmist and exotic things that they can find, but that the underlying science of global warming is valid and with uncertain impacts.
Launch HN: Bottomless (YC W19) – Coffee Restocked with a Smart Scale
Hello, HN! We're Michael and Liana, co-founders of Bottomless (https://bottomless.com)

Bottomless automatically re-stocks coffee using a smart scale. Users leave their coffee on the scale, then we detect the perfect time to trigger re-orders. We ship the scale for free when customers buy their first bag.

We met in college, and bonded over talking about businesses we could build together. You could say we've kept in touch since then: we're now married. Bottomless was born out of our frustration managing our household stock levels. We always seemed to be running out of one thing or another.

When we thought about it, we realized that restocking was a universal problem.

But if this was such a big problem, why was there no great solution? Subscriptions should be a solution, but they don’t work well for items that aren’t used on a set schedule. It seemed that if we could capture data on usage and stock levels in a passive way, we could solve the problem. Thus, Bottomless, the concept, was born.

The market for stuff people repeatedly buy is enormous. (We'll leave an exact estimate up to the reader's imagination.) We decided that to start we'd establish a beachhead with a single market. We landed on selling premium coffee because it's cheap to ship and has good margins. It also is much better shipped straight from the roaster than bought at the grocery store.

In the beginning, we built the simplest thing possible to test if the concept would work. We hacked together a scale prototype, made five of them and got them into the hands of friends. We bought coffee from roaster websites with our customers’ addresses to bootstrap supply.

The goal was to test if people would leave their coffee on a scale, and if we could reorder at the right time. It turns out they would and we could!

Since then, it's been a matter of making larger batches of scales. We bought a few 3D printers and acquired quite a few burned fingers from soldering.

We've benefited from a few technological tailwinds. For one, smartphone supply chain has driven down the cost of components quite a bit. We've been able to build hardware that works for this business model out of super cheap WiFi modules and LiPos. Also, the level of open source software for ML is quite powerful and well-documented.

We're aware that we are just scratching the surface of re-ordering hardware. We'd be interested to hear ideas that the community might have about this space!
The Comparison page is pretty illustrative here: this language appears to be an effort to build up a lower-level-ish Go (e.g. no runtime, no GC) with some extra features (e.g. nullable types, generics) and some extra safety properties (e.g. no global state, immutable-data-by-default.)

c.f. https://vlang.io/compare
The problem with this is that there may not be a single zone file. Either because of location aware resolvers, or because the entry won't exist until it's requested. This means that caching the whole zone wouldn't allow for dynamic resolving and would require lots more caches at whatever granularity someone else wants for their local server architecture.
>Even though smoking is in the same category as processed meat (Group 1 carcinogen), the magnitude or level of risk associated with smoking is considerably higher (e.g., for lung cancer about 20 fold or 2000% increased risk) from those associated with processed meat – an analysis of data from 10 studies, cited in the IARC report showed an 18 percent increased risk in colorectal cancer per 50g processed meat increase per day. To put this in perspective, according to the Global Disease Burden Project 2012, over 34,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are attributable to high processed meat intake vs. 1 million deaths per year attributable to tobacco smoke.[1][2]

It's not as cut and try and you may think.

[1]https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/11/03/repo...
[2]https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...
Lobbying has a real and narrow legal definition, and it does not include the other things you list there. It sounds like you're agreeing with GP and that you don't think that lobbying is that effective.
Get to know the cheapest and smallest Bugatti cars in the world
We have an enterprise product built around our own NLP
Here one: https://www.dailywire.com/news/43514/tear-it-down-beto-orour...

google it, there's a video.
Neither did Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Cuba, Nicaragua, etc.

Here's the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court#/...
I'm not in public policy or anything, but it's kind of baffling that no one is targeting fleet vehicles as the obvious first target for cleaning up. Trying to convince consumers of the value of electric vehicles is hard. Trying to convince a guy who is paying maintenance and fuel costs for 4,000 vehicles should be a piece of cake. Especially if you just force them through legislation. Mayor De Blasio could mandate all livery vehicles be electric by 2030 and that's an instant captive market of over 100K vehicles.
The same applies to the island of Crete, so it's true in parts of Europe as well.
There is an heuristic, in that do all the people harmed by the problem benefit from the exchange?

If they do, than it's not blackmail.
For me it's mostly about changes to their phone/watch apps and schedules management

And check this
https://www.pagerduty.com/whats-new/
What is the evidence that this works? Do inuit communities have lower rates of domestic violence, violent crime etc? Are their other ways of measuring or defining "success"?

I'm reminded of the research for " Becoming a Man" (BAM) small groups of adolescents males get together and share stories about times they were angry. There have been several randomized controlled trials that show this reduces juvenile crime rates. And it's a cheap intervention to run. Seems like it shares characteristics around story telling, self reflection and acting like a grown up.

https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/projects/becoming-a-man
What a terrible, clickbait headline.

In short (first sentence), tech start-ups are setting up shop in non-SV locations where they can find cheaper rent and more affordable talent. This is a good thing because it means a) physical proximity to funding sources is less important, b) more funding sources are available, c) good talent is everywhere, and d) the trend of tech becoming part of the general economy (dare I say democratized?) continues.
You mean Democrat?!
Right? Sausage and bacon seem likely culprits.
> Many are white nationalists.

He has ~17 million followers — what is your methodology in determining with such precision the demographic profile of his followers?
How to download the compiler ?
I've heard the argument that despite the heavy tax burden, it's just treated as another cost of doing business due to all the benefits of being in the Bay Area (depth of talent pool, fantastic network support, oodles and oodles of VC money, etc).
Yet Julia and Chapel are winning hearts of HPC researchers.

Java is not the only language with GC, there are others which offer control over NUMA, SIMD, cache locality, like .NET Native with C# 7/8, or D as two possible examples.
Amid the neverending diet controversy it seems safest to do low carb (non-keto), medium high-quality fat of which a majority is monounsaturated, medium protein - and be aware not to reduce saturated fat too much as it's not that scary after all, but also don't go overboard like some of the somewhat extreme saturated fat advocates that have appeared in the last few years.
Talk of exodus is certainly accelerating
Judging by the video, the cow is free to touch or not to touch the toilet.
Show HN: Traffic in Flanders Visualized with Leaflet.js
To say Lion Air in particular has been flying 737s just fine simply doesn't agree with the facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air#Incidents_and_acciden...
> You can "unbreak" glass. I had a project that started to get a stress fracture as it cooled. I quickly put it back in a cool part of the torch flame to anneal it. The cracks literally healed.

Curious, would that still maintain a weak point in the area?
This theory has unfortunately never panned out for me. To the extent that I get a little anxious about my employer getting too aggressive with PR. Organic growth always plays out better for the engineers in the short to medium term.

IT's version of the Laws of Thermodynamics is that nearly every interesting action you can do programatically is going to take at least O(log n) time, where n is the amount of data you have (at rest, in flight, or both).

If I have 16x as much traffic as I used to deal with, my load isn't 16x higher, it's 64x higher - if I'm fortunate and we've engineered for scale. But it could easily be three orders of magnitude higher (16164) if I'm not.

For the 64x scenario I tell my boss to buy more hardware and I put medium to high priority tickets in the backlog to improve the worst cases. In the 3 orders situation, those tickets bump all of our other priorities, and there are more of them. Performance is now a feature. It sucks up a significant and very visible fraction of our engineering budget, which comes with its own sort of opportunity costs.

If you try to scale vertically, we all know that except at the low end, buying a server that's twice as beefy costs far more than twice as much. If you go horizontal, there are plateaus where your network topology has to get more complex (hardware cost, maintenance cost, speed, pick two). Personally, I think the biggest lie in cloud computing is that 10G ethernet fixes all of your network topology problems (ie, it's treated as magic that you don't have to worry about). As disks and PCIe get faster over the next couple years I think that'll be back on people's radars.
You're still coming at it with the mindset of a contributing editor. Most people who edit Wikipedia are not contributing editors; they're just plain editors. They fix spelling mistakes and re-arrange paragraphs to make the text flow better, for fun. They could be (and many are!) professional editors for publications. Editing Wikipedia is good practice for being a professional editor.

People who come to Wikipedia wanting to make some text be in the article are going to come away upset. People who come to Wikipedia wanting to make the article the best article it can be—and in the process, discover some citable sources and decide that the article would be improved by a new sentence containing a gloss of what one of those sources says—are going to enjoy their time. You don't edit Wikipedia to get new information into the encyclopedia. You edit Wikipedia to improve the quality of the encyclopedia-as-encyclopedia. (Maybe, sometimes, by improving articles into existence. Maybe, other times, by improving articles out of existence. Maybe by making the article longer; maybe by making it shorter. One of these states† is optimal for the people looking for an encyclopedia article on X. The editors want the article to be in that state.)

If you look at it as less like a content-aggregation activity (like submitting and titling Reddit posts)—and more like the activity of a group of cloistered monks excited to work together to make a the best darn illuminated manuscript they can make—I feel like the Wikipedia community and its foibles makes perfect sense.

† And yes, that means that sometimes readers will come away empty-handed for their query. Often that's for the best, especially if an existing Wikipedia article on X would just bump down a much better Google search-result for X (say, that of a niche-content encyclopedia) to #2, such that fewer people are using that excellent resource. There is a reason Wikipedia doesn't have articles for every existing Pokemon—and that reason is that Bulbapedia exists, and Wikipedia doesn't want to try to pretend it can beat Bulbapedia at being Bulbapedia. People compare (an offline copy of) Wikipedia to the emponymous Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but it's not; a true HHGTTG would look like a copy of Wikipedia stapled together with copies of all the niche encyclopedias it intentionally defers to.
They've also published:

https://github.com/markku-ai/donkey-vis

An amazing way to visualize what you're autonomous donkey car "sees" when implementing a training.

http://www.donkeycar.com/
Record-level TTLs are useful in practice. Let me give an example. Let's say I am about to make a significant change to the operation of a system. I'm going to flip service.example.com from pointing one place, to pointing somewhere else. If something goes wrong during this deployment, then I want to be able to roll back quickly.

In preparation for this deployment, I might lower the TTL on service.example.com considerably. This way I can roll out my change quickly and observe the effect across all clients, and I can also roll it back quickly. Once the deployment is done, and I don't expect to make further changes to service.example.com, then I can raise the TTL again.

More generally, you might want the ability to propagate changes to the definition of some names much faster than others, and record-level TTLs let you do this. I might be planning to change service.example.com shortly while not planning to change www.example.com any time soon. The downside of low TTLs is a higher volume of queries and thus higher costs, with some implications for availability.

Record TTLs are something that I think about, and consider changing, whenever I'm about to make a significant change to a name.

(Yes, if TTLs only existed for zones, then you could still break out service.example.com into its own zone, and define the TTL there. But if you frequently want different TTLs for different records, then having to do this would be inconvenience without benefit. Service.example.com would be part of its parent zone initially, then you'd have to separate it out into its own zone just for the sake of a different TTL, and then merge it back in later. Under this use-case, zone-wide TTLs only will add complexity.)
One possibility is to take a Lyft to the train station and then an Uber to your office. Which is slightly easier if you've automated the cars so that you don't have to load-balance the wetware part of it, but it's not entirely necessary.

Getting more people into the city is also helpful, but that's a lot of change. A lot of people have become adapted to the pace of suburb life, including me. Getting me into the city is less about cost than about the stress of having so many people around all the time. A lot of people want that, but a lot of people will want to live in the big empty green space, and would pay the costs -- including externalities, if we were to price them in. Improving city mass transit is good, but ultimately I think we'll also have to cope with a lot of people who just want to disperse at the end of the day.
Yes, it depends. "You don’t need to employ professional translators to do in-house translations" doesn’t mean "You must not employ professional translators to do in-house translations".
Well cheers to someone making a compiled language that is like a simplified C/C++. Rust is great but it's a paradigm shift, and Go is great but it (edit here:) has a runtime which we don't have implicit control over.

This is a promising C-ish language without the cruft and easy foot-shot triggers.

Can't wait for the rules regarding packages/modules, how they are distributed, the clean and simple build systems, documentation constructs, and clean integration into VSCode ... and of course all of the key/default libraries we need to be productive.

Good start folks, looking forward to the next rev.
I should probably disclaim at this point that I'm not a lawyer, let alone a constitutional law scholar. I'm also not a physicist.

Here's some instructions to build a nuclear bomb, right off the top of my head:

1. Take a mass of U-235 about half the critical mass of U-235 and shape it into a rod.

2. Take another equal mass of U-235 and form it into a hollow cylinder, into which the rod will fit. DO NOT PUT THE MASSES OF URANIUM TOGETHER!

3. Put some kind of inert material between the two masses of uranium to keep them separated, and also to keep the rod lined up with the center of the cylinder. Place the separated uranium in a tight cylinder with room left on top of the rod.

4. Put a charge on top of the cylinder, behind the rod. Connect the fuse for this charge to whatever detonation mechanism you like--igniting this charge will also ignite the bomb.

You might say, "hey, that's cheating! Where do you get all that U-235 in the first place?". You're right, that is a hard problem. The entire US managed to scrape together enough U-235 for one of these bombs and just dropped it on Hiroshima completely untested because getting U-235 is a pain in the ass.

Instead, you'll want to have concentric shells of plutonium that implode together into a critical mass with the use of shape charges. Plutonium isn't even a naturally occurring element, but it's still easier to get than U-235. The shape charges are a little harder to figure out (this is one of many things John von Neumann is known for) but enough of it has been documented that it can't be that hard to work out. This is the design of the bombs tested at Trinity and later dropped on Nagasaki.

So, yeah. Some details of specific, advanced nuclear bomb designs are restricted, but largely because the information is currently classified and virtually everybody with that information works in a government position where the laws surrounding classified information and the non-proliferation treaty are binding to them personally. Also, actually putting the information into practice requires lots and lots of hard, large-scale work to get enough fissile material in the first place. I'm pretty sure the physics and engineering faculty of the average American university could build working nuclear bombs if they had unlimited budgets and resources, it's just that once you start trying to refine weapons-grade plutonium, it's kind of obvious and then someone from the Department of Energy shows up and confiscates all your plutonium and you probably end up on some sort of watchlist somewhere.
Why give up sovereignty?
How can you save when you’re paying $4k a month in rent?
Ask HN: What do you think will happen to Facebook in the next 1-2 years? 10?
How to Onboard a Junior Designer
Does Betteridge's law apply to comments?
The sun follows a pretty regular schedule, so might be easier to just program that in :)
Interesting to see this, when just a few days ago we had another "new fast hash" item on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357895.

Anyone have a TL;DR regarding how these two compare?
That's explored here: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/03/local-heating.html
> Java is usually within factor of two

No. That's on synthetic benchmarks. Run a real server and you see that Java shits its pants while a C++ service is running rings around it.

That's because memory/cache fragmentation and usage is vastly more important in 2019 than CPU cycles.
Hexadecimal representation includes 0. So 0123456789abcdef not 123456789abcdef as is written in the article.

color codes can include the full hex values for example #ff6c70
> he still only won by < 3 in a state Trump
> won by 9 and Romney won by 15

Now read that again and tell me where it contradicts my point.
I have seen people advocate for this in buildings with old pipes but most places these days it is OK to flush the paper down the pipes.

One thing to note is that bidets (the ones with the little shower head) are very common so hardly everyone uses the humidified wipes.
France in general. I took this number from here: https://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/1698781/ce-qu-il-faut-ga... (in French)
A self hosted dyn dns requires a short TTL. eg most of a zone could be 2 days, but myhome.example.com can be set to 15 minutes.
The value of Pagerduty is not in its notification, but the workflows around it. Alert in the middle of the night? Don't page unless its critical. Management of on-call schedules, escalate when on-call engineer doesn't answer. We use OpsGenie for this (in addition of sending messages to a chat, but off work that is usually muted or not installed on engineers phone), but PagerDuty has the same functionality.