skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just so you don't get the impression every physicist is having a fabulous time, here's me:

I have a bachelors in physics. I went for a phd in biology but had to bail to work to support family, plus I can't seem to come up with original ideas.

I now have a job with physicist as part of the title, but what I really do is try to read bad handwriting from records from nuclear weapons plants. It's a dull job a monkey could do but it pays the bills. For years I worked as a computer guy for an academic department and that was fun and I'm trying to get back into it but nothing yet. I teach math at a community college for fun too.

I have great kids, so all and all I'm happy about things, but I am sad the physics thing never panned out. As an undergrad I was excited about chaos and nonlinear dynamics. Still read math texts for fun and play with Haskell.
I'm no domain expert but there's graphs for all sorts of things when it comes to food (usually used for quality control). You can probably just run computer vision over said graphs and get somewhere reasonable.
I mean the two brothers that develop Dwarf Fortress for the past ~2 decades have made a completely free game, only asking for donations. Don't you think if they were as dirty as you say, they would have started to charge a long time ago?
It seems an easier job to un-fuck UK specifically than the entire EU. It's easier to convince a relatively small island that a certain law is stupid than the entire continent.
Blockchain: Feasibilites, Hopes, and Moonshots
hi @mpercy,

Thanks for correcting me on the dynamic consensus membership change. Looks like the basic support was indeed there, but several important enhancements were needed (for correctness and usability).

- To make the "online" piece of the membership change work correctly we added support for LEARNER (PRE VOTER) role (where the new member enters in a non-voting mode till it's caught up). https://github.com/YugaByte/yugabyte-db/commit/909d26e31ecd0....

- Load Balancing (which uses the membership changes) is automatic. (https://github.com/YugaByte/yugabyte-db/commit/e4667eb7ec0e6...)

- Remote bootstrap (due to membership changes) also has undergone substantial changes given that YugaByte DB uses a customize/extended version of RocksDB as the storage engine and does a tighter coupling of Raft with RocksDB storage engine. (https://github.com/YugaByte/yugabyte-db/blob/master/docs/ext...)

- Dynamic Leader Balancing is also new-- it causes leadership to be proactively altered in a running system to ensure each node is the leader for a similar number of tablets.

regards,
Kannan
Portable base library for C programmers, designed for performance and simplicity
I'd venture a guess you're not a male under 30 driving a beater car (i.e. the high crime demographic).
"Space Adventures in your Home" by F. Rabiza is perhaps this - https://itexts.net/avtor-florentiy-vladimirovich-rabiza/2638... - another translation "Space at your house" by Florentii Rabiza.
anyone who's ever had to build anything on it.

but yeah this smells like an attack.
I’m in my last year of a PhD in quantum computing, working on experimental error corrected entanglement between superconducting qubits.
NVC is most effective if you share your feelings in an authentic and vulnerable way. This isn’t the same as being in the feeling (ex getting angry or frustrated) or staying them in a matter-of-fact way.

The magic of NVC comes from the recipient empathizing with the person making the request.
As a tools provider, sure, it makes no sense. But aren't they also a big services company as well, like Oracle? Will there be some record of an engagement on how to manage these particular pages?

And it would also be nice of "journalists" would differentiate between prostitution and sex trafficking. The cops, of course, are using the most inflammatory term possible to justify their actions.
Nasa Wants to Place Calls to Deep Space with X-Rays
> It's like people forgot how to hang out with friends.

This isn't unique, I grew up on the cusp of cellphone ubiquity, and I think it's that in the first few years after people have real latitude in managing their own time, there's a steep learning curve. In In my experience though, this started to change around 18/19 when people started to realize that being flakey isn't cool. Does it seem like that's happening/happened with your peer group?
That's your opinion. I think it was needed, and it wasn't a personal attack.
>I don't think it would be that much effort for facebook to stop tracking Belgium or German users.

On the flipside of that very same coin, <insert three-lettered agency here> claims that it is difficult to discern between who's an American citizens and who's not, so they just deal with it "honestly", afterwards (even though the DOJ has found them to be breaching the 4th numerous times).

I think we've reached a stage where compulsion, through punitive fines, is the only viable means to make these entities respect the boundaries that have been erected.

It might not be much effort to create the infrastructure to delimit their tracking (in both cases) but they have a much higher ROI for not doing so, currently, than actually doing so (if that makes sense).
dungeon keeper is within the same space as well and thematically closer
What about traveling at night? No UV then.
If I remember my government class, it was primarily backed by the owners of multifamily rental property. While most single family houses at the time changed hands every few years, apartment buildings were typically kept for decades.
Why do you say "urban legend"?

Another paragraph from your link says, "The use of the image of the Eiffel Tower at night is therefore subject to prior authorisation by the SETE. This use is subject to payment of rights, the amount of which is determined by the intended use, the media plan, etc."

This seems to fully justify the headline and opening sentence.
I understand that it's a sandbox game, but the list of self imposed restrictions you have to follow to have fun is quite long indeed. Don't wall yourself in, don't use the OP traps, don't farm indoors, don't make bone/stone crafts (really high trade value despite bones and stones being waste goods), don't build using multiple floors (stairs have no movement cost last i checked), etc, etc, etc...

The devs really don't care about making a fun game. I guess their principles don't align with mine, but I won't reward them for leaving bugs unfixed for a decade plus.
This is irrelevant for Mark as he passed the stage of just satisfying the fiduciaries way back. He now implements his ideal of no-privacy social system (using his enterprise).

It is hard to stop anyone implementing oneself after it started.
It doesn't seem too circular to me. Rent control keeps your rent low despite rising rents around you. So in the case of the OP's friend, her rent is now vastly below market. In a non rent-controlled world she would absolutely have been forced to move earlier due to rising rents.
Can anybody explain to me why NIMBY is the common explanation for high rent in SF, but in other cities with high rent have tons of development? There's tons of development in NYC, London, but prices are higher than ever.

To me, NIMBY-hating seems to benefit the land developer far more than the renter.
Yeah, but it it's also from a perspective where the only things that matters in the world is housing cost.

Sometimes you have to step away from your models and remember they're just models.
If I recall correctly, Emacs currently does this. During the build it (slowly) loads all of the elisp into memory and then dumps out the memory image of it after it’s all been compiled.

I’m a bit hazy on the details, but I think it involves calling unexec(). https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/

Edit: just noticed a sibling comment mentioned this too...
> Japan is ... complicated. NTT is required to offer access to its fiber, but also offers its own Internet service

Complicated to say the least. NTT doesn't just offer its own Internet service, it has three different subsidiaries all competing to offer their own Internet services
Big data: the end of the scientific method?
"renters are more transient, so are less invested in the community"

This is the theory behind the US support for home ownership.
In my experience, that's only the case because they have no bloody clue about how much they're being tracked.

Also, from 2012-2013:

Study Finds Broad Wariness Over Online Tracking: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/most-americans...

Survey: 3 Out Of 4 Consumers Now Notice Retargeted Ads: https://marketingland.com/3-out-4-consumers-notice-retargete...
I believe I once read that at the population density of Tokyo, every human on Earth could fit into the state of Texas. Whether that would be desirable is another question, but I imagine that a lot of our current environmental problems would go away with increased density.
Some of the Unity asset work might fit that description e.g. provide a library of chaotic attractors packaged for use in a game.

My grad work had no connection to data/stats and I have not bumped into any low hanging fruit where Riemannian geometry might be the answer!
As of today, you can easily install miri on the nightly channel, which is why this is popping up today.

$ rustup component add miri —toolchain=nightly

You can then “cargo +nightly miri test” to run your tests under miri. You probably should “cargo clean” first.

Of course you can skip the explicit nightly flags in those commands if your default toolchain is nightly.
I'll look into this, thanks! I'm not sure how you will know hunter2 is a password, but interested to find out :)
I'm a postdoc (PhD 2015) working on radio detection of ultra-high-energy neutrinos. I spend most of my time writing software and doing data analysis, but I also do field work (including in Antarctica and Greenland!) and a million other things. It's a whole lot of fun except for the general uncertainty about what I'll be doing in the future part.
First things first. There are entire buildings in NY and SF just sitting empty because foreign investors use it for money laundering and long term investment. This HAS to be made illegal, people need these homes. I am even a staunch libertarian and I think it should be regulated to buy homes and just let them sit empty. Does anyone know of any movements in goverment or elsewhere to combat this?
First Passenger Electric Aircraft to Take Off Soon
Minimising performance issues caused by Django's implicit database queries
Yeah. Going to a bookstore has the same feeling as going clothes shopping with respect to online shopping: it feels good to look at lots of product and to feel the pages in your hand. You can't tell if something will spark joy over Amazon.
The query language can be a bit quirky if you're coming from a SQL background, but you're absolutely right. It is nowhere close to a nightmare.
Is it just me or is every big release from Uber just a custom rewrite of an existing technology?

I'm a little sad that this is the top comment here. I mean, maybe you're right. But so what? Some people find this useful, and some won't. Same as anything else.

At the end of the day, every line of code added to the world's pool of OSS code is a Good Thing™ as far as I'm concerned. Even if it's something I personally don't have a use for.

I think we should encourage companies to release code as open source, and give Uber at least some small measure of "props" for the stuff they release. Maybe none of their stuff is a game changer like Linux, but it doesn't need to be.
Be great if they had a direct download of the APK.
Yes, and the vast, vast majority of important papers by the three winners were co-authored in the same way with supervisors, graduate students or other collaborators.
I think if we also look at a proposed legislation unemotionally, it would be understandable that this would not be expected to be done in a single operation, but rather, a concentrated and on-going effort to begin to either decouple the tracking from existing code, or rewrite functionality without the tracking, and that Facebook would be subject to assessments to ensure they are continuing to do so.

I get that likely this very likely means that just burning the whole thing to the ground and starting from scratch for most functionality would be less of a time sink, but the point is more that Facebook actually begin to engage in operations to remove tracking from their infra, not just throw up their hands and say "It'll be too much work!". We can know for sure if it's a new code base that just never had it to begin with, and Facebook was transparent in the migration process.

Regardless, though, I do get that the thrust of your point is that this is not a trivial task.
You didn't mention increasing density by constructing more and larger buildings, which would help a lot and is a lot more practical than trying to treat people as residents merely for owning property (which I can't imagine would hold up in court).

Hudson Yards gets undeservedly shit on, but it's adding thousands of new units of housing and a lot of retail and office space to the city, all on what is essentially reclaimed land. Build a lot more of that level of density and you'll be making serious dents in the real estate market.
Very much so. Camping, hiking, fishing are very popular in a lot of places. There are still many areas where it's not uncommon for a boy to get a rifle or shotgun at around age 10 and start learning to hunt. This modern super-protective cocoon life is largely a suburban thing.
Highly nested data with a schema that might change from site to site = Electronic medical records.
> This article feels like a strawman to me. Infrastructure improvements are not the cause of SF rents. You just need to walk down any block, or sit on BART (if it's working!) and step in a pile of excrement to prove that.

Huh? No, it's the other way around. SF rents are the cause of lack of infrastructure improvements, according to the article.
It scales with your data (at Hugging Face we use it on a 1TB+ cluster) and is blazing fast for all operations, including sort/skip/limit. Built on TypeScript/Node.js/Angular.

[disclaimer: made it]
This is cool if you need to roll your own solution for mobile or something. For all internal use cases Ive just been using metabase and its pretty awesome.
I disagree, I think outlawing investment properties would be a good first step in the right direction. People need these homes, they shouldn't just be sitting empty.
Then what's the problem? You don't expect to get those advantages without paying for them, right?
Benioff seems like a tool. He puts his name on children’s hospitals...it is possible to donate without people knowing, Keanu does it all the time. If you don’t hate Salesforce, you haven’t been paying attention. I’ve wanted forever to rid our company of anything to do with Salesforce, but I work with some people that can’t handle change.

This law suit seems like a money grab. Go after the deepest pockets, but I personally won’t shed any tears over it.
Ah, the Lion King. A movie about the non-representative government suppressing the underclass through force, by divine right.
Modi says India shot down a satellite to join space “super league”
Octave Chanute in the case of heavier than air flight. He was the spark and the hub that connected most of the pioneers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Chanute
This really buries the lede, which is 'Use timestamps'.
I finished a PhD in astrophysics this year and just started a job as machine learning scientist, working in computer vision for a startup. I massively under-anticipated how much this change would improve my work conditions and my sanity -- and I haven't even gotten my first paycheque yet.
> Especially in the last days

Because you are in a specific industry. But in other industries (food, banking, insurance, trading, agriculture, electricity, transportation, etc), counter-productive laws have been voted for years.
Exactly, this tells us nothing.

If media were running this, the whole point is to not have it be publicly known, make people feel guilty for using the service.

If criminals are running this, obviously they don't want to be publicly known.
C# very easily knows if a variable like that is volatile.
How I am balancing my investment portfolio
Californians like to pretend Prop 13 never happened, because homeowners don't want to pay property taxes. The alternative is to blame a lack of housing stock.
I don’t quite understand your point about govt-funded Xprize-like rewards—who is paying for failed research under such a regime? Is a govt-provided IP monopoly not itself an “Xprize-like reward?”
Council tax on the most expensive property (band H) in kensington and chelsea is £2,246.14 in 2018/2019. Westminster would be £1421.00.

Council tax for my band C property in south gloucester was around £1700, with the highest (band H) in the area being around £3800.

All numbers yearly.
I think the lesson here, is that by putting themselves out there as a beacon of equality and women's rights, Benioff has also made them a target for this type of attack. In other words, no good deed goes unpunished. I'm sure there were plenty of other vendors supporting Backpage.
Plenty of people are successfully using MongoDB for real, customer supporting data at a large scale. There's a selection of users on the website for a start: https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb

(Disclaimer: I work for MongoDB)
I have spent so much time with this book growing up. It was THE Book to solve to get the bragging rights that you know your physics.
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You are complaining about someone donating to a children's hospital and being credited for it?
Why 'Cultural Fit' Is Just Another Way to Discriminate
Is Apex still a thing? When I was at my first internship that environment was one of the only things that has ever made me consider quitting programming.
Ah, I may have incorrectly stated this - it's 30M or so boomer _homeowners_, which are less than 10% of the current US population.

Still, less than 10% of the US population owns 40% of the homes.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/collaborate-on-word...
Very timely Show HN post: we just released Mongoku, a neat Web-based interface: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500859
Sorry for the aside, but... Haskell gang represent!
A good pocket knife has a lot of utility, and now you can probably afford a nicer knife to carry.
Unusual, but not as far as I know illegal or anything.

It would be unusual for an illegal operation to be

- Agreeing to the laws of a US court

- Have business transfers and be a for profit entity in that sense, hell, to even have a privacy policy.

(of course, they could also have just written that for fun)
The problem with that is it encourages murder. That's the reason for the lifetime + X years rule.
Basically, take the numbers 1/3, -1/3, and count how many terms you need to produce something that sums to a whole number. You can get four with (1/3 + 1/3 - 1/3 - 1/3), so it's not an impossible configuration.
My sense is that, once you get to a certain size of project, it becomes both impossible and undesirable for everyone in the project to be able to keep the whole thing in their head. And that this boundary is something of an event horizon in terms of what's desirable in a coding style - up becomes down and down becomes up.

There's also a lot of code that's so tightly coupled to some business domain that it's natural to write it in the language of the business. That way you don't have to maintain separate mental models and translate between them.
My project as well, sharded over 4 nodes, ingesting about a TB every two weeks. Automatic deletion of old data was too slow so we had to work with a scheme that allowed us to drop daily collections, but beside that it ran great. This was 6 to 3 years ago though. Maybe there's a better log stash out there now? I haven't seen one yet.
Anyone have details on this? Didn't see headcount & rationale in a quick scan of the twitter thread.
60% of College Students Admit to Smartphone Addiction – and How to Change It
One other thing I've seen in NYC is that rent control results in increasingly divergent incentives for the landlord and the tenant over time, assuming that the value of the property is increasing.

It gets to the point where some landlords do truly despicable things to drive out tenants who they cannot otherwise legally ask to leave. It also leads to things like tenants refusing necessary repairs because they fear the landlord will use that as a pretense to raise the rent or evict.

Basically, trust just breaks down on both sides.
"""try to read bad handwriting from records from nuclear weapons plants. It's a dull job a monkey could do but it pays the bills."""

+

"""For years I worked as a computer guy for an academic department and that was fun and I'm trying to get back into it"""

Sounds like you could enjoy automating your work. Learn a bit of Python and some Machine Learning/Deep Learning and digitize the handwriting and build a little program that reads the stuff for you.
The default example for reading handwritten digits is called MNIST if you want to read further. I'd suggest fast.ai and watching the first couple of lessons. That should get you started to play around with this. You don't have to tell anyone that you do this (I probably wouldn't) but hey at least it might be a nice way to do a little less boring stuff and ease into a bit of programmin/data science?
Something I like about Calvin and Hobbes was how I was able to change from "reading it because its funny" to "reading it to make me think" without really noticing it.

My favorite "arc" is when Calvin finds the dying raccoon, takes him in to try and save him, the raccoon dying, and realizing that even though he's sad that the he died, he's still glad to have met him while he had the chance.

Calvin coming to terms with death, and realizing that even though fatalism is basically the only inevitable outcome in the long-term, it's important to enjoy life now and enjoy the current relationships we have is enough to get me teary-eyed (even to this day), and has greatly shaped my outlook on life, since I read it when I was really young.

It's a great comic, and despite centering on a child, it does a really good job at using that kind of innocence as a means to make a commentary. Watterson resisted the urge to talk about politics or pop-culture, and instead focus on people, and as a result the comic will always be timeless to me
The Dune references aren't limited to this article. :)

The BERT article [1] has 'em too!

[1] https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-bert/
There is development in NYC but there could be exponentially more except for the very strong NIMBY movement here. Most of the new development is occuring in Long Island City and Downtown Brooklyn, where there isn't as much organized resistance from old rich people. Chicago built multiples of NYC in terms of buildings over 40 stories in the past decade. NYC has at least equal demand (probably far greater) for tall buildings, yet much of the most expensive neighborhoods in Manhattan are filled with four story buildings.
Until you leave France, that is.
Big data will be used to identify, track, isolate, and then indoctrinate the most vulnerable members of society.

You will be shadow banned and gas lit into a pipeline that serves to supply the insidious demands of those who see humans only as resources.

We coders will unwittingly(poorly compensated) or wittingly(well compensated) algorithmically functionalize the pimp psychology and business practice into a system of sinister use.

For now it's just immigrants driving cars and delivering food, but you might guess what comes next.