skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cosmosdb still doesn’t support skip and take.
And aggregate queries are incredibly inefficient.
We’ve had to move a heap of data from cosdb to sql server, our reports ran from 3 hours, to now 5 minutes after moving to SQL.
Exactly. The article mischaracterizes Biden’s behavior and is therefore pointless in discussing his fitness for office. (To the point that writers like this appear to be carrying water for him.)
you can find that stuff with a phone book or other public directory of wealthy zip codes

If someone lives in Palo Alto it's a very high likelihood they have a lot of money or insurance that will pay out a lot.
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The rule is "ask for permission before toucing someone else".

I find it weird that you've escalated this into some huge thing that infringes upon your freedoms.

Keep your fucking hands off my body.
This is fear mongering. Other commenters have pointed out that in other places on our planet, public information of wealth is, apparently, not followed by a deluge of targeted crime locusts.
Surely, you must be joking?
Scala is much closer to C++ than Java, forget Kotlin. It is a kitchen sink with every feature under the sun.
Oh sure, you can always not report - but it also means that, if you have noticeably nicer things than your peers or neighbors but have no official source of income, you stick out.
Of course you can run it locally. The model / dictionary vector files you need are measured in the 10s of MB. Unless you're Apple and still consider a 128GB SSD an acceptable base storage size, you can and should have room for multiple dictionaries and models.
Why should you be any different from politicians? Did you think it’s only politicians who fiddle their taxes?
Both of those are typically referred to as manifolds with boundary. The setting of Stokes Theorem is often manifolds with boundary.
> organising a book club at work

If you're doing this at work, or even among primarily co-workers outside of work, then your organisations policies on harassment and (to a certain extent) physical safety apply. It's a safe space whether you like it or not.

(I am unclear on why people want to organise unsafe spaces; nobody puts a trip hazard and a couple of exposed electrical wires in their office to make it feel more welcoming)
Yeah, the NYTs puts out tons of articles about Facebook and other social networks vioilatinig user privacy
I do agree, and while this is an independent opinion piece, is worth noting that the author is a member of the NYT editorial board.
I'm not saying the credit agencies shouldn't all go bankrupt, and, in an ideal world, have their owners lined up against a wall and shot (exaggerating, but not much).

I'm saying that, no matter how incompetent or malicious they are, they (or anyone!) shouldn't have that much influence over people's lives in the first place.
What I pay in taxes in nobody's business except mine, my employer and Uncle Sam.
> The financial data of an individual should be protected the same way the health data is.

So basically not protected at all?

At least banks will ask your SSN to verify your identity. The health industry just asks for your DOB.

(Example is in the US. Social Security Number, Date of Birth)
In Mexico, and other countries I'm sure, wealthy people don't drive expensive cars (I suppose those who do, have drivers and bullet-proof cars). I've had friends held up at gunpoint while waiting for traffic to move, even in an old car. It's too easy to call attention to yourself with a nice vehicle.
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I wouldn't have been able to do any kind of public speaking without propranolol, it takes away all my anxiety.
they are public servants who have a lot more influence than average individuals.

fiddle their taxes

Isn't that the job of the IRS to determine
If you don’t have a charter, then the leadership is a default dictatorship that can do what it wants.

If you do, then have a meeting amongst the leaders to see how to reconcile actions with the charter.

Most problems occur when the dictator just wants to step aside and let the general population decide an issue, but there’s no real mechanism for doing so.
Your argument does not apply that this would give potential employers too much leverage in salary negotiations or can you explain?
It is easy to get confused whether a brace is part of the json or part of the mustache/handlebars/etc.

{
"hello": {"{{place}}":{{{#items}}"{{thing}}":{{n}},{{/items}}}},
"urls": [{{#items}}"{{url}}",{{/items}}]
}

It's unambigious and can be reasoned through, but it's certainly hard to tell what structure the template is building at a glance. This is not a complex or contrived example.

Syntax highlighting, linters, proper indentation, etc. all help...but when talking about non-programmers who aren't used to this it's an incredible hurdle. People are also lazy and error prone, so you can't rely on indentation to make things clear, especially since it's not always clear how you should indent nesting of the template vs nesting of the json datastructure you're trying to build.

Most modern templating languages have a config option for changing the delimeter. Setting it to something like (( or << might help differentiate things a bit, but then you're throwing away easy use of examples, documentation, stack overflow questions, and so much more that already exists for that language. That documentation and copy-pastable community help is not something to throw away lightly if you're designing a tool for this audience.

It's also worth pointing out that the above template generates subtly incorrect json with trailing commas. In pure mustache it's not possible to get rid of that trailing comma. You have to either change your data (add a "last":true key to the last element of any arrays), or have some kind of post-processing step.

All of the existing solutions are workable, they just aren't ideal.
They are faster because the type of operations that they can perform puts them in other complexity classes.

In particular, it is possible for a quantum computer to use entanglement for storing the "same variable" at multiple locations at once. Measurement can also be used for driving computation, by limiting the possible state-space of variables that are entangled to the one that you observe. That way you gain access to methods of computation that are not available for classical machines.

See "EPR-pairs" and "measurement" for more details. (Use wikipedia, for example.)
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Zillow already exists. This information might incentivize individuals making much higher than the average reported income in an area to relocate or increase their security in the short term but burglaries usually go down with income inequality.
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I really don't like people who empathize, but I suggest we shake hands anyway.
"treat others as you wish to be treated"

It's a useful minimum surely? How else should you treat a significantly different set of people?

Yes once you get to know them, you learn how they want to be treated (mainly?) based on how they treat you and others.

Are you talking about using general formal politeness?
This is true only for those that flash their wealth. I might be worth millions, but if I am driving a 10 year old Toyota, you wouldn’t know. Obviously this doesn’t apply to high profile jobs like the CEOs etc
In "totally unrelated" news, IMF approved a multi-billion loan to Ecuador last month:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-imf/ecuador-inks-...
Beyond the “Highlights of this release include” section in the announcement, the full changelog for Emacs 26.2 is in this NEWS file: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.26.2.
It's not that Biden is a 'toucher' but who he touches, and possibly why he touches.

Find video of his sniffing the hair of an old man for example ... You can't.
Not your employers business. Your employer only knows how much they paid you and how much they withheld for you.
Not all opinions are equal. Much like a newspaper doesn't (and shouldn't) give an equal platform to an anti-vaccine advocate as they do a scientist, I think these kinds of opinions are so vile that they do not deserve publication, at least not in NYT. The bar should be higher.

It's essentially a piece promoting a policy that would be probably the single largest attack on the right to privacy in the history of the US. Why? Because a president the author doesn't like refused to release his tax returns. Very measured response. I'm sure there would be no unintended consequences.
Looks great! Any chance you plan on keeping it open source https://github.com/jiansing/ryeboard (or at least offer a reasonably priced self hosting option)?
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Some of my favorite meetups were the 2600 meetups from the 1990s (in NYC).

Just a bunch of people meeting up in a pre-defined public space with no real agenda but at the same time everyone there had similar interests. Basically it was a bunch of casual conversations with people who like the same things as you do. No pressure or grand event. Just a bunch of people sitting at separate tables or standing around in small groups for as little or long as you want.

Nowadays most tech meetups kind of suck. I used to goto more meetups but it's always the same thing. A few minutes to mingle with people before it "starts" and then you sit in silence while you listen to 1-2 hours of presentations that feel like advertisements. Then things end with "mingle time" but by this point everyone is drained by the presentations and half of the people leave because it's already 8-9pm and some people have ~2 hour commutes to get home.
I fully agree, but at least by having the information what other people earn in the same company gives them a lever in salary negotiations.
Ravens are huge and they make a sound that to me sounds hilariously like a person doing a bad imitation of a crow.
One of the oldest examples of this: https://github.com/infochimps-labs/ironfan. But yeah, Chef. Examples: https://github.com/infochimps-labs/ironfan-pantry/blob/maste....

I used to use this heavily back in 2013, 2014. Infochimps got picked up by eBay, afair. Hence why this was never developed further.
I will testify that the cost of never leaving the house is exceedingly high.
So the article is talking about touching, hugging, etc., tactile social interaction. I agree we don’t need to codify them. On the other hand it totally ignores the socially unacceptable sniffing aspect. That’s likely on purpose because there is no need to explain it away. Most people accept that as outside norms. Now, also, not discussing that but discussing a non problem is a good way to bury the actual problem.
There are already quality German robot kits for 5k:
https://de.rs-online.com/mobile/p/roboterarm-montagekits/176...
Decent managing of oil resources defnitely played a role there. Also, Norway is a small and still pretty homogenous country. They probably feel at least in some level that they are in the same boat together, something that is hard to achieve when you just (almost) randomly mix millions of people from all over the world like in the U.S.
It's funny, because in my much younger days I dropped out of college and worked as a mechanic for 3 years. In the automotive world and internal combustion World, manifold has a much different meaning, though related.

Basically, a manifold means something that takes the flow of gases from a one-to-many or a many-to-one.

An intake manifold takes one single entry point for air feeding the engine and splits up into a separate input for each cylinder.

An exhaust manifold takes the hot exhaust from each cylinder separately and combines them into one big pipe.
to consider the opposing side, you cannot use the FOIA to get tax returns

https://reason.com/2018/12/19/you-cant-use-foia-to-get-someo...
Mathematicians messed up here… A manifold with boundary is not a
manifold. But a manifold is a manifold with boundary (the empty set).
Publication of tax returns does nothing to reduce inequality. A state which supports people does a lot to reduce inequality.
I believe "treat others as you wish to be treated" should be taken from a much higher approach than "if you like to be hugged, hug others". I've always seen it as more of "respect others and they will respect you." I still think it can apply to this situation though. Instead of setting social rules, we should show respect for the people we are interacting with.
For the electron rocket https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLab/wiki/vehicles, which is smaller than the Pegasus (smaller than XL) with a mass of 18,500 kilograms

first stage delta-v is:
303 s * 9.80665 m/s^2 * ln (10200 kg / 950 kg) = 7053.19 m/s

second stage delta-v is:
333 s * 9.80665 m/s^2 * ln (2300 kg / 250 kg) = 7247.06 m/s

LEO requires near 8600 m/s. So, the second stage is necessary for LEO starting from 0 m/s. The big unknowns are how much delta-v is lost to air resistance and due to the gravity of the earth (launch trajectory optimization). To calculate those would require numerical simulation, see https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/20848/how-to-deter.... Optimistically an air launch would occur at 40k' (12k metres) and 600mph (270 metres per second). The effect on the first stage only due to the imparted velocity reduces the delta-v to 6783.19 m/s or a reduction to a wet mass of 9314.03 kg (885.97 kg of fuel). 270 m/s / 7053 m/s = 0.0383.
What programming languages do you want to see?

A programming language focused on usability, along the lines of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19478086
Exactly. German perspective here: I pay for my public health care quite a lot. Probably around $10.000 a year pre-tax which is half coming from my employer and half out of my pocket. My wife is having a private insurance and is paying a little less. That is ok, even if I don't think her option should exist and the overall system is only working due to the gating for the private option. I'm earning above average and am paying for some who earn less. Any public option that covers a large population section needs to include some redistribution aspects. Because health care is too expensive for people on lower incomes.

But it does not need to be as expensive as in the US i.e. twice as expensive as anywhere else and no better outcomes. Insurance companies are not the party that is benefiting the most. They make money and probably more than they should but this does not explain the difference. Most doctors are also not swimming in money. So where does it go?

One is Pharma companies who are then using that money to do marketing. So Pharma Marketing gets a share including doctors taking money from that source (another whole can of worms).

Larger hospital organizations and their management as one of the stronger buyers of services being able to push for high rates and low salaries.

Bill adjusters, debt collectors, partly working in insurance companies (where they contribute to insurance cost) to deal with the chaotic billing, payments and non-payments.

There are many, many who earn a good living who would not be able to get similar jobs in other advanced countries as these jobs simply do not exist. The US system is inefficient but there are powerful incentives for many to keep it going.

It is really important to separate access from payment. Otherwise small wounds will fester until it is too late or really expensive. A good compromise imho. is having some small access fee (in Germany we had a once per quarter 10 Euro fee on top of a 5€ per prescription fee. That was too much for low income and too much paperwork and the former was scrapped) as we know there is a huge difference between demand for free services and services that cost $0.01.
I used Mercury intensively for about a year a while ago. I think what ultimately turned me off was the incompleteness of the implementation (several of the most interesting features were only 80% implemented, and the unimplemented corner cases were undocumented and caused the compiler to crash, so you just had to guess what it was you were doing that was too advanced), and the incomprehensibility of the error messages (an order of magnitude even more incomprehensible than C++ template errors).

Notably, the lack of support from the instantiatedness system for partially instantiated structures put Mercury at a big disadvantage to Prolog's expressiveness in my opinion.

So now, instead of using Mercury and wishing it better supported partial instantiation and had comprehensible error messages, I use Prolog and wish it had even a basic static analyzer and support for the !Var and @Var syntaxes.
This is where these two issues beautifully tie together: Saving the environment is important - consuming less is a way to do say - with less paying consumers, adds become less valuable - less incentive to violate privacy.
Yes definitely. Or choose particular chapters that you think would be relevant for you.
I started tracking my time. It turned out surprisingly effective
They even might find books by Otto Corvin ....
They are not paying for R&D but they are paying for drug pushers and doctors bribes. Seriously, the marketing budget exceeds the R&D budget.
So did you already know about persistent homology? Are you aware of its potential applications to machine learning? Did you already know why some people say the answer is 2?

Consider all the people who (a) did not know about these things, and (b) didn't bother to watch the video because of your post. I'm sure you feel like you've done them a favour, but have you really?
If you want to ensure everyone pays what they owe then tax law should be sound (probably more simple than tax calculations are currently) and without loopholes.

The problem with the hypothesis here is that it suggests that public opinion be the arbiter of what is fair for a very individual level. In our age of social media indignation how could any individual get a fair shake? An angry populist sentiment can selectively cherry pick unpopular or polarizing figures to whatever ends they choose.

No thanks.
The absolute worst bug I have ever had to debug was using CosmosDB as table storage. Everything worked fine up until we hit about 1700 records in table storage. Once we hit that point it just stopped returning any records. We eventually find out that if you query using a field that isn't indexed instead of throwing an error or something sane like that it acts like everything is fine and returns an empty set of records.
Many people that flash their wealth aren’t in fact wealthy.
I bet this discovery is related to another recent discovery: "Blocking IgSF9b in pathologically anxious mice has an anxiolytic effect and normalises anxiety behaviour in these animals." (see https://www.mpg.de/12620765/anxiety-protein-amygdala)
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It seems like this is a common theme in every city these days - people are forced out of their neighborhoods by high RE prices and as a result high cost of living.

Perhaps one way to address this could be to modify outdated landlord laws - make it so it is prohibitively expensive to be a landlord in a major city or to be a landlord period. There is no need for landlords these days, its an outdated concept that must die off, just like landlords from centuries ago.

Also, perhaps introduce rules prohibiting city transformation into one big "shopping mall".
Love me some explanation innovation. More of this and the coding world will reach a plateau.
Weird. I had access and then a paywall Came up the next time I accessed it.
I've thought about this - along with a few other changes like using '.' as a statement terminator.

As others have said, Python's significant whitespace is a mess because there are syntactically important characters that not only can't be pronouced but sometimes can't even be visually distinguished. That could have been addressed by either banning tabs or mandating them like Makefiles, but allowing mixed tab and space when they're semantically different is madness. What does Python do with the various invisible Unicode spacelike characters, by the way?
If semver says the next version is 2.2, then it's 2.2, what discussion is there to side step?
I'd imagine there are some cases that would be fairly difficult for automation. Take a philosophy book, for example. I have no idea how automation would provide an overview of what happens in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Some written material requires going beyond the text and explaining the ideas themselves.
How, exactly? Read out the number of spaces at the start of every line?
Other people argued that block languages, such as Scratch, don't have syntax errors. If you can drop the block, then it will run.

I'd argue that it still is a syntax error when it prevents you from placing the block at an illegal position, but the feedback loop is much faster and less disruptive than traditional syntax error messages.
This. So much this.

Communication. And grace.

If you're not sure if something is welcome, ask... politely. If someone does something unwelcome, say something... politely. If you see two other people involved in an unwelcome exchange, try to smooth the situation over while teaching lessons... politely.

I volunteer with a variety of alternative groups. It's actually logically impossible to act in a way that everyone's norms around touch are satisfied, because many are mutually exclusive.

In an absence of clarity, all we have is communication, consent, and fundamental decency in how we treat each other when one or both of us &#+@s up. Because we all will, at one point or another.

Teaching children to reach for polite assertiveness when called for, and polite apology when due, would go a long way towards making the world a better place.

(And just to head off the inevitable: we're clearly talking about sub-criminal actions here)
This opinion writer is on the editorial board for the NYT. The standards should be hire than this, but the NYT has proved time and time again that much of their content is pure agenda pushing (political and economic).
If anyone has questions (especially technical ones), the ##math channel on freenode is pretty phenomenal. It's quite active, with quite a few grad students, across a range of fields. The best part is how friendly and helpful they are to learners.

Anyway, highly recommended.
I think my original statement stands with this example as well. Codes of conduct try to standardize interactions. It tries to get rid of the "unknown". I think they can make sense in a business sense. You would want your employees to all act roughly the same towards each other or those around them (customers). On the other hand, I don't think we would need a "Code of Conduct of Life" for basic human interaction outside of the workplace.
The data they are collecting about me & my friends is a growing liability. It's a goldmine of highly personal data that can be used for malicious purposes when it finally leaks.

They are putting me at risk in order to grow their cancerous business, but when shit hits the fan I will be the one dealing with the consequences, not them (they will just issue their fake apology as usual and carry on).
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One of the issues is that Australia is ruled by the same person who rules the U.K.
The article mentions some research. Let me add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow#Partial_and_total... to the list:

"Partial isolation involved raising monkeys in bare wire cages that allowed them to see, smell, and hear other monkeys, but provided no opportunity for physical contact. [..] partial isolation resulted in various abnormalities such as blank staring, stereotyped repetitive circling in their cages, and self-mutilation."