skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are a few places I would start:

https://datahub.io/core/country-list
https://worldpostalcode.com/
https://calendarific.com/
https://data.worldbank.org/country
One way in which it could be an adaption that actually helps its bearer's genes would be as an overpopulation safety valve. Instead of the whole group starving (all of them closely related genes), pause breeding for a while? I would expect that most species that have some form of throttling reaction like that would apply the brakes to female fertility because that is also relevant for individual survival, but it should not be impossible for throttling to appear in males as well. If the giraffe evolution happened to stumble upon a particularly sensitive shortage-sensing circuit breaker in the form of a gender preference flip, then we would see it firing non stop in a time of dramatically shrinking giraffe habitat. It's been a while since giraffes could be observed outside of crisis.

(or they just like it, it does not have to be an evolutionary trick)
I worked in a lab that was studying prostate cancer for a summer internship, and most of our samples came from young men who died in motorcycle accidents. They found that a majority of the samples had some presence of benign tumors, but it only really becomes noticeable once malignant tumors develop.

I don't know how representative the samples were of the entire population - one theory was that our young motorcycle samples had significantly higher testosterone on average and were more likely to develop those tumors.
Ok let's talk concrete implementation.

Rust: https://github.com/pingcap/raft-rs
LOC: 15417

Erlang: https://github.com/rabbitmq/ra
LOC: 18012

Lines of code is not the only metric. I'm actually really curious about Erlang and Elixir but to be honest I do like type systems a lot. I also like the idea of idk...having one language for my os, db, front-end.
Just realized that is the same area as this second photo, so if is Asia nothing of the former is appliable. The list of possible fabaceae trees is much bigger then. There is a pinnate-leaved palm also, so in principle areas colder than -12 could be excluded (USDA 8a).

https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/eur...
In China, 'Fortnite' Penalizes Minors for Playing Too Much
Apple has completely lost its way under Cook that it’s now just rent seeking. They’re just scrambling to fill a $$$ hole for their investors at this point.

Apple is incredibly bad at building services and has been for their entire existence. They cannot multi-task and things will languish for 2-3 years at a time.
Firefighters live in the station when they are on duty. So they'll commute in from wherever they can afford to live. If there aren't enough who will do that, we'll pay them more.
The rich got by for thousands of years without cooking, doing laundry, or running affordable housing programs. The service sector lived on its customers’ estates, often as part of their households.

I expect this is where we’re headed. Several people I know who work on poverty wages in the arts industry here pay their room and board in elder- or child-care for a homeowner.

We often hear that terms like “feudalism” and “landed gentry” applied to Bay Area housing policy are over dramatic. I think they’re dead on.
Bears Can Mimic Faces Like Humans and Apes
From your link: the fastest growing industries are information, professional, and business services.

And it is the growing industries that drive the market rate for housing. Someone who bought in to the market via purchase or rent-regulated lease five or ten years ago has a significantly lower cost of living than someone entering the market today.

Exempli gratia: (in California) If you're living in a $2 million house that you bought for $400 thousand, you might not be able to afford to sell and buy something else at a similar price due to the tax code.

Exempli gratia: If you're living in a rent-regulated apartment that's now leased 40% under market value, if you lose your lease for any reason, you may not be able to afford the market rate. And your landlord has greater incentive to get you out of the unit.

Thus the well-tenured school teacher making $100 thousand per annum[0] can afford to live comfortably, but when this teacher retires, a qualified replacement offered a salary of $66 thousand[1] may choose to live and work elsewhere.

[0]http://www.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/contract%20and%20...

[1]ibid
Depends on the level of trust you place into the compromised systems and your threat model.

Basically they are going down the "nuke it from orbit" route, lets say they miss a system that reinfects the rest somehow.

As for formatting windows, sadly these days that is no longer enough to be sure with a "well crafted" malware. Lets take the industry favourite laptop tracking platform CompuTrace (now named Lo-Jack iirc).

The BIOS/UEFI Module that is its heart is a small EXE that gets executed by windows on every boot (Just like the Superfish incident, though that did use a diff way to get executed on windows launch, lo-jack gets executed by windows, superfish replaced a file that would get executed).

In Lo-Jack case its a small dropper exe that then fetches the real tracking payload once the laptop connects to the internet but it can be (iirc) tricked into downloading and running any exe it likes with system priv's. A BIOS flash of a fixed BIOS is the only "fix".

But in my past I've had fun injecting stuff into and modifying BIOS's (Mainly just to unlock extra options or remove whitelists for wifi cards) and most BIOS/UEFI's these days can be flashed from within Windows. Sure to save bricking the machine you would need to get the correct BIOS for that machine but if a company puts in a purchase order for 100 office machines they are not going to differ too much.

If you have a payload running on a machine you could call home with its motherboard make, model and revision. Download the bios from the vendor, inject a payload into it, send it back to the machine, have the machine flash it in the background and using the same methods Superfish / Jo-Jack use have malware that persists though a format or even a replacement of the drive.

I'm sure we have already seen malware using these techniques already in the wild. Signed BIOS updates will protect to some degree but their have been a fair few cases of being able to bypass the sig check (which is often only done during the the read of the bios before the flash takes place).

Is it overkill? is it paranoia? Probably. It might just be simply the case that the machines were due to be replaced at some point in the near future anyway so 2 birds, one stone.

EDIT: It might of not been Lenovo's use of superfish that was installed via bios on reinstall of Windows, but their own bloatware. It replaced Microsoft's copy of autochk.exe with its own that installs other pieces of Lenovo software. After the shit hit the fan in that case, Lenovo quickly issued BIOS Updates to remove the "feature". But it goes to show how abusing the Windows Platform Binary Table can be used to inject unwanted software into a system.
I read that and I don't see an alternative presented, just criticism.
When I had a long bus commute (around an hour) I used over 10gb a week watching youtube
"a general search can be machine learning" I don't get this sentence: Machine learning is about building a mathematical model of sample data, known as "training data".

If you want to talk about machine learning and search you should probably talk about learning to rank (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_rank)
The thrust of your argument seems to be "lots of homeless people don't belong here, and if we figure out who belongs here and who doesn't, and help them accordingly, we can improve the situation dramatically". Not a great opinion to have if you want to work with homeless people. They aren't bad people, and they aren't stupid people either, and will see the condescension from a mile away. So even if your solutions are pragmatic, I don't see how a city government could implement them without a backlash that would make their efforts ineffective.
It's not about criminalizing poverty. It's about trespassing and having campers at your house 24/7/365 who are criminals. It's an awful drain to your quality of life.

Stop demonizing people for not thinking it's "progressive" to let people crap on the streets and shoot up in public. I voted for Bernie, but I live in SF and I see how much money we waste by not addressing the problem directly and in more common sense ways. Just allowing criminals to take over the city and make everyone else feel unsafe is just not fair.
Why I wrote a shitty NPM package and why few people still use it
I enter my email in the "getting started" field, click "getting started" and then never received a sign-up email. Anyone else having trouble with this?
Search is often formulated as 'learning to rank'.
You still need fees or inflation because you can't force everyone to install a miner-heater. Some people will refuse. Some people will not upgrade it after 5 years. Some people will want to mine in another fork / altcoin.

So the fee/inflation is important to pay the additional cost of the miner-heater, and to encourage people to upgrade it.

I've seen a few similar projects before. For example https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/08/qarnot-unveils-a-cryptocur...
Summarizing Garbage Collection (2016)
YAML predates JSON as far as I know.
Show HN: Harness: A featherweight microservices framework for Apache Camel
Another option is krill oil, which contains large amounts of omega-3's and is low in mercury because krill (tiny shrimp-like creatures) are at the bottom of the food chain and eat only algae, unlike large fish which eat other fish and thereby concentrate mercury in their flesh.[1][2]

Incidentally, it's also possible to get DHA supplements sourced completely from algae.

[1] - https://www.drnewtons.com/blog/avoid-dangers-mercury-pure-kr...

[2] - http://krill-oil.wellwise.org/krill-oil-side-effects/krill-o...
Free market capitalism has never existed and will never exist.
American Racism Influenced Hitler
tocopherols have been shown to have negative effects, including increased mortality, in other studies too. Nothing new here.
Physicists decode the mathematics of knitting to make bespoke materials
I'm from a small town in Oregon that sees a lot of nomadic traveling folk, either homeless or lifestyle (the PCT comes through the area, for instance), and the town is generally pretty receptive of these people. Growing up I would hang out and spend time with them, just chatting and playing music and enjoying the area. I carried that to adulthood and I now live in Portland, where the homeless problem is quite severe.

Last weekend, looking at food carts downtown, a man who looked quite disheveled and in shock starts trying to talk with me. He tells me he just got off the bus from the hospital, and that morning he had been attacked with a knife by a homeless woman with gang affiliation. He showed me his wounds and hospital bracelet, and I decided to spend some time with him and try calming him down.

Before long he tells me that he's only been homeless a few months, and before that he was collecting enough SSI to sustain himself. He says a while back he had spent time in jail and been released, but the jail never put that in the manifest. Apparently (someone) looked into his record and it looked like he had escaped, causing him grief that suspended his SSI payments, in turn putting him on the street. He was expecting payments to continue soon.

We talked about things like honor, culture, respect, family. Eventually I let slip that I was a software engineer and he started telling me that he used to really be into Linux, and his old work had him using BSD and Unix, and we eventually started talking about physics which he was much more knowledgeable than I. After I thought his shock was gone and feeling a little better, I bought him some food to help him through the evening.

That same night I had conversation with a different homeless man, who was more rude and rather creepy. He talked a lot about how the homeless are being fed human meat, and how addictive it is.

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A friend who's from a wealthy Asian-dominated town in California tells me there's a service where people will drive around and pick up homeless people and give them a free ride to the neighboring town. The first gentleman in my story above told me a similar thing: Las Vegas was apparently giving free bus tickets to the homeless to come to Oregon, because our homeless services are top-tier.
I find that re-reading the books help. For instance, it wasn’t until my 3rd read of The Goal that I felt as if I completely understood the underlying themes.

As others mentioned, being able to relate to the content of the book helps immensely. For instance when reading The Innovator’s Dilemma I kept finding parallels to my previous industry and company. This struck me so much that I can list most of the content of the book simply by thinking back to those insights.

As a last note, non-fiction books are seldom gripping. Reading a few pages before going to sleep doesn’t cut it for me, words zip past my eyeballs without hitting the brain. I need to actively focus on the content, much more so than when reading fiction. I try to force myself to pause and actively think about the content every few paragraphs: does it make sense? Can I follow the logic of the argument? Does it resonate with my experience? It’s the only way for me to actually get anything lasting out of the book.
We started using ~this selector pattern for timelyapp.com almost two years ago, and have found it tremendously helpful.

Anytime we’re reading data from Redux, it’s via a selector (usually a composition of multiple selectors).

For data fetching, we use a slightly different approach, but same principle: An xhrCacheBuster string that, when changed, fires a thunk action. Query params/payload is determined via a selector in the thunk.

We use similar patterns to “sign” expensive-to-render things, then compare the renderCacheBuster string in shouldComponentUpdate. Same with virtualized lists (named virtualizationCacheBuster)
They seem to be branding LTE as even better than 4G. My phone has an "LTE" indicator on top most of the time, but it switches to "4G" when I'm in a basement parking garage with lousy reception.

I'm not sure what these terms mean, and the phone/service didn't exactly come with a user manual.
Might want to update your user name, Diogenes slept rough
So what are vegetarians, or those with fish allergies, are supposed to be eating?
I’ll take useless bridge any day over so many destroyed bridges that US left in montenenegro in yugoslavia bombings and wars elsewere in the world.
And then there was Clojure...

(defn average [numbers] (/ (apply + numbers) (count numbers)))

(average [8.988465674311579e+307M, 8.98846567431158e+307M])
=> 8.9884656743115795E+307M
first, just want to say this is pretty amazing!
They also have a habit of mis-identifying people and hounding them down.
Doubt it - most businesses barely want to shell 5-10$/mo for a single user license of software.
Risk means a higher standard deviation of returns, also known as volatility.

But you’re right to bring up the exposure landlords have to the real estate market. It’s unclear to me whether low valued properties or high values ones have more beta to the market. If I had to guess, I would venture that lower valued properties are actually less correlated with the market.
> it is necessary for landlords or anybody else to yield a return on capital.

In my town there is a proposal afoot called The Missing Middle,to improve availability of medium density / multi family dwellings.

A vocal group is furious. Furor that the economic impact study showed that their current and predicted home values over the next ten years is expected to decrease from an 11% year over year increase, to a 7% year over year increase (still).

The very definition of feeling entitled to profits.
Pretty good. I disagree on long term residents. Just as nobody is entitled to live wherever they want regardless of whether they can afford it, nobody is entitled to live in the same place forever if they can't afford it. The history of America is people and families moving to where the work is. Expecting to live your whole life in one place often isn't realistic.
Same arguments are made against streaming gaming today! Even on HN
Ask HN: Why doesn't Yelp do QR code payments POS systems?
Yelp has a large database of all restaurants and could easily make a name for itself by introducing QR code payment POS systems in restaurants. Zapper in UK and SwiftPass in APAC are trying to expand into the US with their payment systems. Would this be a good move for Yelp?
Isn't Seattle mostly OCI? Why the layoffs there?
Lmao at every critical Apple comment getting downvotes. What Apple service routinely gets feature enhancements every year?

Apple cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.
A well balanced diet without focusing on any particular food or supplement in the belief that it's some magic bullet for good health?
Higher expenses and the risk premium are orthogonal to each other. The higher the standard deviation of returns, the more premium will be charged to offset the uncertainty.
If one wanted omega-3s of the DHA/EPA variety, there's algae oil. It's commonly available as a supplement from many of the same companies that produce fish oil supplements.
The css/js coverage tab in Chrome's developer tools is also pretty neat: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2017/04/cov...

It drills down into the files, and there's a toggle to unminify: https://www.vojtechruzicka.com/static/911b02bfd910c9a689e363...
The reason exponents have so many bits is basically to solve this problem. The exponent/mantissa bits of IEEE 754 double could have been 8 and 55, but I suppose the standard committee decided that some precision should be sacrificed to allow stupid values outside the range of meaningful physical numbers so that you never have to worry about the problem mentioned in this article. So if you pretend that doubles have 8 exponent bits as they probably should have been, then `sum(list) / len(list)` will always work for this set of "sane" values.

And if that isn't enough, you have subnormal numbers as a safety net as well, although using these kills performance on many FPUs.
As I understand it, the fact that 1.00 is included in the range of CI indicates that the result in question could well be down to random chance/variation. i.e. because 1.00 is included, chance has not been eliminated.
Right, I’m unclear where the incentive to run the node comes from if there is no payment for running it.

People might have an incentive to use mining rigs to heat their home but why not something that pays?
Interesting concept.

Going straight to the critique...

1. Isn't the appeal of online dating not only to find potential matches, but to avoid those a dater is not interested in?

2. Do people still have profiles? Or does it just show very basic stats, age and where they are at (and presumably they are single).
If you read Evicted you'll find out what it's like to be a landlord in these places.

I considered it a bit because of the profit margins but it's a nightmare of a thing to do. Low income people have a disproportionate number of behaviours non-conducive to being rented to. They'll do things like put food down the sink, block it, then wash food in the tub and block that and so on. They'll smoke in the place and damage it. They'll stop paying rent because they wanted to treat themselves. Multiply that with the fact that you have to deal with a large number of them because your margins may look good but your absolute return is low and you will have trouble every month.

No moral judgment here. Just that it's not free to compete here. I, for one, do not have the stomach to evict a single mother with four children every month from my rental property that she's wrecked.
Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction in playroom lab
I wonder what those numbers would be if everyone had broadband. Everyone I know who has satellite or mobile hotspot internet can't use streaming media. For them it's impractical or too expensive.

Didn't see anything regarding what they consider a subscription. Are hotels, hospitals, bars, nursing homes etc. lumped in with the figures?
Internet speeds are higher, alas the latency is still perceptibly there and for the set of games I play you cannot really beat the speed of light: It does matter.

Regardless, what bothers me and many others is streaming games becoming the industry standard due to the DRM benefits and taking away ownership from gamers. That would be really shitty.
Vim in the Future (2018)
> But that relatively small number is still enough to dominate the economy of a major metropolitan area... So the rise in visible homelessness is perhaps the expected result

I'd imagine the expected result is that prices increase to support higher wages for service workers... which they actually have. Just one example: a take-out salad for lunch now costs $15 in San Francisco. The place I'm thinking of has huge line at lunch, so business seems extremely good.

Regional economic prosperity being a _cause_ of homelessness makes no sense to me, unless that economic prosperity for the few took away every business opportunity for everyone around them (e.g.: robot manufacturer replaces all jobs in all industries). The people making money are going to have to spend money.

So I wonder if it has more to do with other societal/economic changes going on that have changed how money is spent:

* Could it have something to do with Amazon/Home Depot/big box stores impacting local retailers?

* Could it have something to do with local manufacturing jobs going overseas?

* Could it have something to do with the 1099 gig economy work making it infeasible for companies to employ people full time (in that type of gig work), and driving down income for those jobs?

* Could it have something to do with the massive increase in drug use[1]?

Or all of the above? Or more reasons?

Also, the fact that it's happening in a period of very low unemployment does not bode well.

ps - Firefighters get down-payment assistance in San Francisco. I personally know a couple who live near me, thanks to this. https://sfmohcd.org/resources-first-responders

[1] - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Number-of-people-shoo...
Can the replication process that occurs when a cell divides be used for data copying? It seems like this, if doable, would be a huge boon for DNA storage.
You can pay property managers to deal with the day-to-day management of the properties, vetting new tenants, collecting the rent, etc. You can still come out ahead. I know a few people who do this and they don't spend much time on their rental properties.
That's the primary example, yes. This in addition to curbing police enforcement of actual drug use and possession, from what I've heard in reporting and from officers themselves.

One anecdote I've heard through my brother, who has been in law enforcement and monitors things in our old home region. He told me an officer he knew left the force because those types of restrictions were becoming untenable to deal with. Secondhand, so take this, too, with a grain of salt.
Another P2P protocol that wasn't mentioned, that is already powering 2M people across Internet Archive, d.tube (decentralized YouTube), notabug.io (P2P reddit) and others is https://github.com/amark/gun (mine).

I find it interesting how people mention file stores (IPFS/DAT) a lot more than databases (SSB/GUN). Distributed file stores have been around for a long time, and are not inherently useful for creating Google/Facebook-etc. killers, where-as a P2P database is very needed.

Is it perhaps because everyone already knows about BitTorrent, and there is BitTorrent nostalgia?