skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would he want to do that?

Because granting internet fast lanes to certain content providers is a way to generate revenue.

Zero-rating is already happening [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating
For the longest time searching for "Steve", in the UK, brought my website as the first result.

These days with "personalised" search results it is harder to tell, but my own searches for my full-name bring me first. Even though I share that name with a few other people.

(I wish I'd bought steve.com, there was a time when I was tempted but after a year or two it was too late. I ended up having https://steve.org.uk, then later https://steve.fi after I moved to Finland.)
Oh, thanks for this. Very intertesting.
MacTeX 2019 doesn't appear to be available yet and Homebrew isn't sufficiently wise to work with pre-releases in-advance to get formulas working sooner rather than later.
Practical AI 41: CTRL-Labs lets you control machines with your mind
>It's easy to say silicon valley is full of 'tech bros' if that's the cohort you surround yourself with

Everyone hates tech bros, but I don't think tech bros know they're tech bros.
You still need the same amount of iterations (79 685 186 856 218)[1] to resolve the problem but it's now faster because

SIMD instructions[2] lowered the amount of cpu cycles needed per operation.

Novel algorithms[3] lowered the amount of operations needed per iteration.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/lcs35-puzzle-description... (short description at the bottom).

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD

[3] https://gmplib.org/manual/Algorithms.html
The "getting together" is entirely your own supposition. The NAND manufacturers have not made any joint announcements or otherwise admitted to any joint action. They have responded similarly to market conditions that affect all of them equally, which is to be expected whether or not they are coordinating. These announcements were completely predictable; we knew last summer that something like this would have to happen this year unless several companies experienced serious yield issues with their 96-layer 3D NAND.
jealousy leading to anger is all part of the political play book and the NYT is there to serve its political masters by running stories that will soon be picked up by candidates to run with.

it is all part and parcel with an upcoming election. get your direction from the PAC you deny feeds you stuff, write an article with enough truth in it to pass muster but leaving out enough to make a "rational" decision. Thereby upsetting people by appealing to jealousy, envy, and such, by playing on their morals. After all everyone is for justice, protecting children, the environment, and fairness, aren't they?

tripe like this doesn't belong on HN but with the election season spinning up we will get flooded with both direct and indirect stories that are politically driven.
I don't know why but people seem to have an obsession with "taste" even to their own detriment. Every time I see submissions on HN about artificial meat in the top 10 comments you can find multiple people talk how this is great and how companies can use this to increase the flavor of the meat.

For companies that need to make a profit increasing flavor generally means adding additional ingredients or processing the food in a way that is as cheap as possible. Often this means adding high fructose corn syrup, sugar, carbohydrates or fat far beyond what is naturally available in the food.

Instant Ramen is an extreme example of this. Instead of just drying the noodles they deep fry them because it is cheaper and fatty foods "taste" better. Suddenly noodles made out of flour and water which should have zero fat now have 25% of their weight as fat in addition to the existing carbohydrates. I'm sure you can find less extreme examples but across the board this could result in x% more calories being consumed even if people eat the same things they did 30 years ago.
I doubt it’s going to be effective to say “Do not destroy this marker” in the Level 3 warning. Everything in isolation gets vandalized.
Venezuela’s Guaido leads military uprising
Origins of the misspelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERNAL#The_name
>> I dealt with a near-billion row DB and shaving a few bytes off a row would matter to us bigly.

A billion rows require a gigabyte per each extra byte in a row. That's nothing.
It is more about things like stressing over tests, dyslexia, ability to sit still for x hours and ability to express yourself in writing.

These all affect how well you test, but do not determine your skill in the subject. Hence, having a disadvantage in any of the above gives you a system disadvantage in the educational system.
> If candidate A is in SF, and another candidate, B, is in another cheaper area, and Gitlab is trying to decide between the 2 candidates, won't they be leaning toward hiring candidate B because of lower salary? All else being equal.

All else being equal, why would this be wrong? If I can buy a gallon of milk, a TV, or a car based on price/promotion why wouldn't/shouldn't a company be able to seek the best "deal" for them?
One conclusion in the article is that it is unlikely to cause widespread disaster.

>We have all become very marker-prone, but shouldn't we nevertheless admit that, in the end, despite all we try to do, the most effective "marker" for any intruders will be a relatively limited amount of sickness and death caused by the radioactive waste? In other words, it is largely a self-correcting process if anyone intrudes without appropriate precautions, and it seems unlikely that intrusion on such buried waste would lead to large-scale disasters. An analysis of the likely number of deaths over 10,000 years due to inadvertent intrusion should be conducted. This cost should be weighted against that of the marker system.
That sounds like a yes.

If money is your only goal, that's completely rational. However, that's not how I've typically heard people champion Musk. He's been lauded as a progressive person whose aims are meant to serve humanity, not merely his wallet. Supposedly.
I think the subtle thing missed here is the effort required to speak a second language well is not worth the effort. Just scraping by is good enough especially if you still have access to your first language. Why speak French well when for a fraction of the effort speaking poorly gets you 90% of the return.
same. nothing more infuriating than failing a captcha three times....somehow.
Hehe. I believe it.

So I took the SAT-I (out of 1600) with zero prep around 1994.

Math - missed one question (dumb mistake)

English - ~560/800

I was too depressed and anxious (undiagnosed, untreated) at the time to be able to concentrate on the critical thinking and passage questions.
Behind Winston Churchill
That's roughly what it argues further on in the article.

Dr. Hartshorne also points out that native speakers have exceptional precision. Even someone with 99 percent grammatical accuracy sounds foreign. He guesses that I have about 90 percent accuracy, which shouldn’t feel like failure. “Imagine if you decided you were going to pick up golf in your 30s, and you got to the point where you could keep up in a game with professional players. You’d think that’s actually really good. But for some reason, just being able to keep up in language feels not as impressive.”
Rather than a personal website, I think having an "nonpersonal" website ( or domain ) in order to learn and play around with technologies like ( web server, database, dns, networking, etc ) is better. Though I guess you could do all that locally within your own intranet.
And the US are the good guys, never played a role in foreign countries political systems, never spied on anyone, never started wars, killed civilians in countless countries, founded terrorists organisations, &c. ?

It's very easy to tell the bad guys to stop being bad, while doing the same things and pretending it's right. You don't even have to go back to MKULTRA or vietnam, it's happening right now.

But be careful, the mean russians have whales with light harnesses and the chinese have backdoors in all our technology. It's even sillier than most WW1/2 propaganda.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Admin-Wants-500M-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war...

https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-golan-recognition-a-dangerous-p...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/11/03/dozens-us-...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isi...
The Moral Dichotomy of US Politics
My marketplace is filled with ads from companies. So they must be selling those.
If it prevents two or three cars from making the light you were both in together, you’ve needlessly made those specific cars wait for an entire additional cycle...in heavy traffic, it’s bad for everyone when as many vehicles as possible don’t make it through the pipe, as it slows down the entire congested apparatus further.
I've found that, learning vocabulary was easier when I was younger, but I struggled with grammar. Now that I'm a lot older, it's harder for me to hold on to vocabulary but I pick up the grammar stuff much quicker.
Sounds like "Aristotle and the Gun" by De Camp.
I think if it was set like that many more programmers would be asking the reverse question - 'Why is it 16 bytes?' and it would be a Stackoverflow wiki question!

Maybe this is not the underlying reason, but in my opinion code should be written so that it is understandable and maintainable by future programmers
They are prebaked rootkits. They're marketed as such and I think they never pretend otherwise. The truly sad thing is the amount of people that still send money to people who knowingly compromise their entire machine. Then they are thankful for it.
actually, Amazon has not profited from sales of physical products.
Did California's GATE actually have a purpose? I was in it for 13 years (~1982-1996) and it seemed completely and utterly pointless. No extracurriculars, no meetings, no resources... it seemed like a smart-kid inventorying service for (insert random conspiracy theory here). Worse, I was constantly pulled out of class to take IQ tests and then bored to death because I was 3 years ahead after coming from a private school that had phonics and aggressive material plans (Challenger).
What does it mean that it has an incremental compiler?
Does it support hot code reloading like Common Lisp?
That marketplace sounds like a startup idea.
People forget how much time they spent learning something when they were younger. I feel like a lot of adults give up and use age as an excuse for not trying new things.
Reminds me of the story recently which mentioned Grace Hopper and her famous visual representation of how far information could travel in a nanosecond when answering a question about why satellite communications takes so long.
Given the region, I first thought of the Swedish submarine scare and cold war panic in the 80s. Sweden, a non NATO member which didnt want to join NATO, had repeated incursions by submarines into their waters which were attributed to the soviets. It seems that wasnt the case for most subs. Instead the likely culprits were often NATO vessels.

Ola Tunander worte a Book about the incidents, called "The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s". http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/tunander.pdf
The Atlantic had a photo essay about a riding club in North Philadelphia a couple years back. I don't know if they race, but it's still pretty crazy to see people riding horses in Philadelphia:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/02/fletcher-street-ri...

Here's the club's site:

http://www.fletcherstreeturbanridingclub.com/main.html
People who rely on wit and charm as their social lubricant need it.

I remember one place I worked had an exchange program between labs, we had a French girl in ours who seemed very shy and withdrawn, but the colleague who'd been to the French lab the year before (and was fluent in French) said she was an absolute riot and the soul of any party in France.
Buy Samsung NAND, it's good and they keep making it.
Your website's menu doesn't work. theme.js is replacing the browser's click listener on each of the menu a tags with a call to the "smoothScrolling" function. That function scrolls the page down to an element that has a "name" attribute that matches the hash, but you've used id attributes on them instead.

FYI you could replace that entire block of code with "html { scroll-behavior: smooth; }" in your site's CSS and get the same effect without needing any JS code at all.
That would be great. I need to make some updates in the code and in the documentation regarding the sunset of the Mercury Parser service. Hope I can get some of it done this weekend.
>Good point. I meant the developed world.

I think your parent also meant the developed world.

In devloping countries it's sometimes much easier to get fibre. No or very little infrastructure means no old copper wires lying around. You can go fibre instantly this way.
This doesn't sound like a labor of profit but more a labor of love. I'm sure the cost comes from production cost rather than an attempt to make an obscene profit. That's the reality when making a product of this nature especially at the early stages.
>I feel super fortunate that I have a relatively common first and last name, and you pretty much cannot find me through search engines.

Same here. My ultra-common first and last name means I'm also essentially unsearchable. On occasion as an experiment I'll try to find myself using combinations of my name (including an also-super-common middle name) and birth city, cities I'm lived in, jobs I've had, companies I've worked for, hobbies, and other things would normally narrow down a person in a search engine. I've never found myself. I've gone a hundred page deep in google, bing, duckduckgo, and others (both regular and image searches) and I've never once found me. It's like having an invisibility superpower.
Yes. You'll study the shit out of old school flat belts because V-belts, serpentine and cogged belts require more math that nobody wants to grade. Maybe you'll do one problem calculating how tensioner placement affects the force needed to make a cogged belt skip teeth.
Does the Scottish approach differ sufficiently from the "legalise gangs into cultural associations" approach taken in Ecuador[1] that it wouldn't count as "larger than half London"?

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/26/18281325/ecuado...
As an expat trying to learn the language of my new country I have found I have the most difficulty forming the vowel sounds I didn't grow up with.

I made something of a breakthrough when I finally found someone who could listen to me and tell me what I'm doing wrong with my mouth and tongue position.
Out of curiosity, why not use a free platform like stack overflow or a github issue to publish your solutions?
A lake of acid would massacre wildlife, like tar sands tailing ponds do.
There is a book I'm currently reading that lines up nicely with what is discussed in this study.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007QMZ7Z8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

The theory laid out is that early childhood trauma gets stored in the body, and that there has to be a bottom-up approach to dealing with the afteraffects of this. A top-down approach that is purely cognitive won't suffice. I'm not yet at the treatment portion of the book, but it seems to exactly line up with this study and might be interesting for you.
Routing it all underground is going to do a really good job drying it at the expense of tons of condensation in the lines. The latter is easily solved with drain valves and traps like you'd find in a steam system.
But the string representation has five fields, not four.

There might be an interesting story in tracing the history of GUIDs through the ages...

I found some 1987 code dealing with UUIDs here: https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/opssrc/quota...

They seem to have originated as a 64-bit "uid"s:

struct uid_t {
u_long clockh;
u_int clockl: 4;
u_char extra: 8;
u_long node: 20;
};

Then the 1987 version seems to have been something like this (with the reserved field ignored in the string representation!)

struct uuid_$t {
u32 time_high;
u16 time_low;
u16 reserved;
u8 family;
u8 host[7];
}

And I guess that's pretty close to the current struct...
All that is true.

Howver.

Given the choice, I would much prefer to live in the US (or US-dominated/sponsored West) than in China, Russia, Middle East etc. US has better economic, legal and political systems. It doesn't discriminate against foreigners or religions, allows foreigner people and companies to compete in the markets and make enormous amounts of money, it has one of the most transparent and stable political systems in the world (which allows immigrants to participate in partially, and 2nd generation immigrants completely).

Sure, the US is not perfect, but that's why I support the US and am in favor of boycotting China (and other less-free countries).
I got a chance to try out the beta bionics artificial pancreas in a research trial and it is a truly new innovation in this field, it lifted about 90% of the constant thinking about bolus and blood sugar from me and allowed me to live my life. It truly deserves all the hype that it is getting.
Let's say you run a gas station, which is a notoriously low margin business. You have $1,050,000 in revenue this year, and $1,000,000 in expenses, so you make $50,000.

Let's say you run a small software company, which is a high margin business. You have $1,050,000 in revenue this year, and $500,000 in expenses, so you make $550,000.

You should be taxed on the $50,000 and the $550,000, not on the $1,050,000. Otherwise, if business expenses were not deductible, low margin and capital intensive businesses would be punished severely. We would have decreased investment in the economy and everyone would suffer for it.

If individuals could deduct their expenses, it would encourage people to spend every penny they make. The mortgage interest deduction is one example where this nudge becomes apparent (albeit real estate has merit as an investment, not just consumption). We already have a low enough savings rate as it is.
> Try googling for John Carmack,

And what should the top match for John Carmack be, in your opinion? Where is his homepage?

FWIW on Bing I got his Wikipedia article first and his twitter accoount second, which seems like sensible results in his case.
> And I revel in small triumphs, like discovering that a woolen ball on a sweater is a “boulouche”

It's not. It's "bouloche" -- https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/bouloche

> When my kids brought home notices telling me to check their hair for “poux” (pronounced “poo”), I correctly deduced that it meant lice. But later, in a first-aid course, I was perplexed when the instructor told us to immediately check an unconscious person for “poux.” He was telling us to check for “pouls” — a pulse, pronounced identically.

There are homophones in many (most? all?) languages; but in this case "poux" are almost always plural (les poux / des poux) whereas a pulse is always singular (le pouls).

"Check his pulse" would be said as "vérifiez son pouls" and "check if he's got lice", "vérifiez s'il a des poux": it seems hard or impossible for the author to mix them up.
How can one guard their device against this?
Not sure how this is news. Learning anything, especially a new language, in middle age difficult. What am I missing here?
I don't think its an article about Amazon's tax bill as such. It's about how Ohio voters and presidential candidates are reacting to Amazon and several other firms' effective tax rates.

If they went through what Amazon and Goodyear and GM and Duke Energy all did then they would just be rehashing the report that they conveniently linked.
It's possible to value journalism without assuming it's accurate.

For example, one can subscribe to a local newspaper, but also hold them accountable for stories that are weak on supporting evidence.
Chinese investors probably buy more houses than the actual Silicon Valley crowd. They love investing in homes in CA and NY.
Amusingly, modern hydraulic accumulators of a different sort may still have a role in power generation. I'm working on a couple of wave generator projects where the waves pump hydraulic rams, storing pulses of pressure in hydraulic accumulators, where it's then used to drive a generator at a more constant speed.
Me too. I have a simple static site/blog with mostly textual content going back to around 1999 and I'm lucky to have a reasonably unique firstname/lastname combo (ish); my blog currently is top on Google and Bing.
Maybe someone should build a seach engine that only indexes pages without ads. That would mainly be private blogs and wikipedia, I guess.
Oh noes... not more Russiagate conspiracy theories. Chris Hedges and Aaron Mate were just on with an American RT host Rick Sanchez talking about the reasons for this sort of theme. I also think it feeds into rising nationalism that (inevitably?) lead to things like civil war and world wars.

https://youtu.be/b1wlheHxuLY
But reservoirs pretty much never burst unless relief valves fail or oil gets into them.

(inb4 a bunch of hand wringing about rusty compressor tanks, those just leak and are generally harmless)
I’ve been a bike commuter too and if it’s any consolation whatsoever, I just want to let you know that if you see me with my cell phone on my steering while driving, it’s because I have my navigation app open and I want it in my peripheral vision so I can be attentive to the road.
> One of the characteristics for which the English gentleman is famed is his self-deprecation. He is trained in understatement in all things; he has litotes coursing through his veins. The height of vulgarity is to draw attention to oneself, and the more remarkable any of his achievements, the less attention he should draw to them.

What happened that we've lost this today?

I feel the 'English gentleman', with its self-deprecation, humility, self-sacrifice and honor, is something we need more of today. I'm not sure how we lost it. In the UK, perhaps something to do with social change in Britain post-war, but what about similar personal codes in America?
Avertising has been around since at least the industrial revolution, I don't see why it should go away soon.

That said, we might be above sustainable levels of advertising, so the market might be forced to shrink (either voluntarily or involuntarily though ad blockers).
I'd actually like to see a study on slipping on banana skins. When I was young I heard the phrase and soon after I tested it. Banana skins aren't that slippery unless the medium under it, or the shoe above it is slippery.

Admittedly, this is just my experience, and probably not statistically significant
> I started running a vanity domain name around 2000, for email and Web, and have a few thoughts based on that...
>
> Hosting chronology something like: home Linux box on ADSL, 2 different shared hosters, 1U in a colo facility, back to earlier shared hoster.

Much the same sort-of chronology and hosting story for me…

> For my real-name vanity domain, I went with a `.org`, since I didn't want to be a `.com` in personal life, though today I'd prefer `.net`.

I'm curious to pick your brains on that. I've gone the other way: I ended up standardising on a .net but I kinda wish I had the .org instead, my rationale is, .org is a closer match to what my site is: if I squint I can consider it to be an "organisation" of one, but I can't convince myself that it or I'm a network. I originally picked the .net because I thought it scanned better with my choice of domain.
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