skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I agree with this statement, because every day we all spend a lot of time on social networks or various Internet services or even online games like https://casinority.com/au/ or others.
I'm going to experiment, if I can stop using the smartphone and the iPad for one month. I really hope that I can do it.
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Preserving the Contents of the New York Public Library in a Teaspoon of Protein
Not sure what they mean by lack of support for GPU - Intel Fortan has this and I am sure others do.
Do you understand what run on the bank is ? Do you understand a difference between physical world and a theory that is used for macro economic modeling? Because majority of people are under FDIC limits and basically attribute 0 counterparty risk when dealing with their own bank the net economic effect can be modeled using a theory that you are quoting in very simplified terms. Any given bank can only operate using deposits they have not loaned out if they run out of that FDIC will take over (greatly simplifying obviously banks can borrow money against their assets, loan portfolio etc.). So in real world terms the only bank that creates money out of thin air is FED.
> Driver was obviously over confident on system's ability to self-drive, probably busy looking at phone and ignored warnings to put his hands on steering.

and based on personal experience, he was probably overconfident because the person who sold him that car was overconfident.

i remember my first tesla autopilot test drive on a freeway...i was a bit nervous...constantly stepping in when i thought the car was tail-gating or not breaking fast enough and the salesman had a very nonchalant attitude as if I was being needlessly anxious about it.
First of all it’s not at all difficult to get plenty of protein from plant sources. You are most likely putting your children at much greater risk by feeding them factory farmed meat than not feeding them meat at all.

I guess for me it just comes from a desire to respect and value all life. It’s in our power to create a world full of unnecessary death and cruelty or without it. Why would we choose the former? I found I became a much kinder and more empathic person when I stopped eating animals. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
No one doubts that helped but it wasn’t necessary. As soon as economic management went from import substitution to export promotion Ireland started growing a lot faster. You can’t turn around 50 years of idiocy immediately but EU membership isn’t a panacea either, look at Greece. Countries outside trading blocs in vaguely similar situations have made similar gains. Singapore has about the same number of people and a similar lack of natural resources with an educated populace and went from grinding poverty to the first world. New Zealand shows that agricultural nations can do fine trading on world terms too. Once we stopped punching ourselves in the face growth was going to come.
Instagram is doing the same thing from the activity feed. Clicking on a like/comment/mention from there takes you only to the comments section, so you can't see what image the thread is taking place on
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There are times when I just want to sit or lay down and do nothing but my wife wont let me. When asked about her problem with this, she says it’s lazy not to do anything. Somehow doing nothing is wrong and everyone is conditioned to judge you for it.
The Postal Service.
Sorry about that, I meant to put downtown SF not SV (got mixed up). Downtown in the sense that it was the city'ish area with large buildings. I only had a chance to really drive through the SV area.

Walking in general sucks in my area if you want to talk about being practical. If you don't have a car on Long Island then you're going to be in a world of hurt in most cases. You often need to drive 10 or 20 minutes to get from point A to B.

But maybe I just live in a weird area. I've been walking for the sake of walking for years and there's a number of people I consistently run into. It's a tiny percent of people compared to the general population but they are there. I see them every day and it's a small mix of people.

I was just saying you can walk for the sake of walking just about anywhere if you really wanted to.
I don't work for Google. My company has strict policies to discourage employees talking to the public about internal affairs. That was the case with my previous two employers too. Frankly, it makes sense from their POV to not have their dirty laundry made public. And I take similar precautions as a matter of self-preservation anyway. I don't want anything I write here to be used against me either by my current employer or any of my future employers.

Google could be keeping track of which of their internal IPs visited which HN pages, etc.
I've recently started playing with a Home Assistant set up and came across Snips (https://snips.ai/). A bunch of Raspberry Pis with microphones running Snips is what I'm looking to try next. IMO, the offline/on-device processing is a key differentiator.
Could go either way; distraction is the result but attention is the unit of value (now the meaning behind Basic Attention Token is clearer to me).
Things are so much better if you are not writing apps for general public (mine are trading-related). You can tell your few clients — make sure that the access to mmapped file is exclusive — and get away with it.

And yes, mmap is the awesomest thing out there.
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The EU is a collective organisation of sovereign states, legally equal, not a Franco-German empire, so they can’t dictate the details of tax policy to other member states for their benefit.
Small side note for completeness:

The effects of oh-noes-my-file-is-gone can be somewhat mitigated by using the heuristics built into NSData (instead of using mmap directly).

For example, you call NSData’s `dataWithContentsOfFile:options:error:` with the `NSDataReadingMappedIfSafe` option [1]. The framework will then transparently mmap the file unless it believes there’s an elevated risk of the file going away.

Apple doesn’t disclose how NSData exactly makes that decision; however, I’ve found a few reports that say it uses mmap internally when the file is on the root filesystem, and fall back on an in-memory copy otherwise.

It’s a rather dumb heuristics though, and may not solve the issue entirely.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsdatar...
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Some of us are at /r/fortran
A more nuanced dissection of whose fault it was or could be[0].

"Huang was apparently fooled many times by Autopilot. In fact, he reportedly experienced the exact same system failure that led to his fatal crash at the same location on at least seven occasions."
...........

"Huang knew that Autopilot could not be relied on in the circumstances where he was commuting along the 101 freeway in Mountainview, California. Yet he persisted in both using the system and ignoring the alerts that the system apparently gave him to put his hands on the wheel and take full control."
..........

"Elon Musk and Tesla should be held to account for the way they have rolled out and promoted Autopilot. But users like Walter Huang are probably not the poster children for this accountability."

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2019/05/01/the-pr...
It seems that you are describing Haskell or ocaml/f#, I don’t see how clojure would fit the bill given that it’s a dynamic language.
Here is the relevant Wikipedia article, multiple types of observations was made, visual, radar etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident
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Invite me to live there, I'll bring down the the tone.
They watched Independence Day and know they'd be infected by malware.
> Have you considered making a dispatch_source_t

I think that would have been considerably more work than finding the SO answer that says you need to use sigsetjmp, and would probably still conflict with Breakpad ;)

> Would it be possible to install your own handler before Breakpad does?

I may be wrong, but I think you can only register one exception handler per "task" (process), so Breakpad would override ours.
Started at 10 this morning.
An Introduction to Angular Cesium
I also have over a decade of SIGINT experience and can confirm that this persons friend was pulling a hilarious fast one.
World's biggest cat
Even you can't believe it's size
See her video
https://howto105.blogspot.com/2019/04/worlds-biggest-cat.htm...

They found world's biggest fish
Even you can't believe how big fish is this
That's unbelievable
http://bit.ly/2FHl4pM

Even some goats are better than humans
See that she did and they made her as mayor of city
http://bit.ly/2UjTcS5
See the video a dog shopping and lots of other acts like humans
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Even you can't believe there is a hen in world's biggest animals
See the video
how they looks and what they do
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Cause, like, when you start learning about systems, everything is correlated, everything is connected, everything is linked, and you have to point it all out to everyone all the time.
The big issue that AB/hyperTau studies seem to studiously ignore: studies in human brains have found an inverse correlation between the sites of the brain with excess plaque formation and the sites of the brain with the most significant atrophy and functional decline.

This is unsurprising, given the last two decades of drug trials targeting these molecules have all uniformly failed.

The alternative hypothesis is that these plaques are protective against neuronal infections that provoke alzheimers. That hypothesis has not garnered wide support yet, though it is growing, and is at least consistent with the inverse relationship observed.
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Is it really different elsewhere though?
These are the same conglomerate firms everywhere.
And that's just for reading. Writing, especially if you want to be sure when the writes hit the backing file, or in what order, or if you run out of disk space, is another kettle of problems.

I wonder how Multics dealt with all this, since AIUI in that system everything was effectively an mmapped file.
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It's a house and you can live in it. You're isolated from the job market because you receive a pension. It's definitively a good investment assuming you bought it in a good condition back when its price was $200000.
This has been going on for a very long time. Peter Jennings did a famous UFO documentary in 2005 that's worth watching. It goes into decades worth of reports.
One country blocks the world on data privacy
Can it tell the difference between calling from your phone as opposed to calling from your Amazon Alexa device if you have one? I mean how does it handle spoofing?
I recommend watching the first season of ‘Jericho’ to see how a small town deals with a similar scenario.
Per UFOlogy, they also have telepathy. Internet connection would pale in comparison, they can just scoop an understanding of us en-masse straight out of our heads. Technology wouldn't take long to interpret. Secrets and motivations would be an open book. Figuring how to do anything useful with the resulting mess would probably be the biggest problem.
No, you are not free to leave because the supposed other country might not take you in and even if they do it is a big process, nor are the costs of travel negligible.
> ...split and join data in non-deterministic ways ... to different floating point rounding

Ah, of course! A very timely reminder, thanks!

> GPU's aren't anywhere near as reliable as CPU's when it comes to being able to run for hours without any random bit flips/errors.

Now that's worrying. A bit flip can't be expected to be skewed towards any particular bit within a float, so it could easily happen in the exponent, skewing a single value by orders of magnitude one way or the other. Combine that with the rest of your 'good' results and yuck. That's very concerning. Thanks for the warning.
>> (Where is my cross-platform, OSX-Linux-Windows one-file text editor that just has smart indent and syntax highlighting for python?)

Just use vim? I mean, if the complexity of the projects you work with require access to a single file you might as well use _any_ editor that supports automated syntax highlights.
An office building nearby renovated their ground floor with a new food court. Great idea but they also added a semi-circle of TVs all tuned on CBC News that pretty much looks over most of the seating and the food stalls. It’s hard to avoid.

Easy enough to modify the environment on our phones and desktops but it’s more inconvenient to avoid IRL distractions.
"Any sufficiently advanced alien invasion is indistinguishable from local politics."
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Neat, thanks for the tip. It's too late to edit the post now, but it'll come in handy in the future.
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How to install RavenDB on a VM in Azure (step-by-step, part 1)
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Does the clock speed permanently reduce as soon as you use a vector instruction? I would have thought that the clock speed goes back up once the temperature has gone down.
Interesting site. At first I thought my browser was somehow set to 250% zoom. So then I zoomed out to 50% but the font sizes are still as big as they were at 100%.
I guess if you are using RPC you could forget about NFS and just run your "editor server" on the server where the file is actually stored :-)
I agree, configuration was just part of the “bullshit”.

I had to manually disable the dedicated graphics card in my laptop or it would get ridiculously hot while idle. This is probably not an issue if you buy a laptop with preinstalled Linux.

I do a lot of presentations. Getting Linux to work with various projectors wasn’t great. Maybe that’s better in 2019, but it’s never been an issue with my Mac. The lack of ports have, but buying a converter solves that.

Updates broke my software and I had to spend a lot of time sorting it out. A more stable Linux distro might have been better.

My external displays never really worked without problems.

Having used a MacBook trackpad makes it really hard to use non-MacBook trackpads.

It’s a range of stuff like that.

I’m sure you could get Linux to be better, even for me, but I don’t want to use a single second on making it happen. I did when I was younger, that’s why I turned to Linux in the first place. I’ve spent my time building gentoo, but the older I get the more I want things to work out of the box so I can spend my time on other things.
Are you one of those online (unclear)?
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What if you simply can afford to pay off the mortgage? If you can't, then buying the house was a bad idea no matter how the market moves.
Many wrongly think UFOs being equivalent to alien flying saucers. No, it is an unidentified object, which means that they can be a bird or a plane, until it's identified.
They got visits from PR and Legal but there's no mention of a Project Manager - the sort of person I could imagine being the most pissed. Do PMs at YT not rule over their engineers with an iron fist?
I feel like this is kind of a dumb design.

You want to abstract two different kinds of file reader: an mmap reader and a regular reader. (And I would add a gz reader, personally).

Then by inspecting the properties of the file, you can determine if it is local when opening, and if so, mmap the file.

I say this because if the file is coming via the network or a FAT32 partition you’re not going to save much time with mmap relative to the read speed anyways.
The premise of housing depends entirely on how society or more specifically the government or even more specifically banks/business want it to be.

The only true purpose housing serves is shelter. That's it.

Any other purpose is artificial. Housing normally is a depreciating asset, like cars. Normally it shouldn't be a hedge against anything, including inflation. It normally shouldn't be an asset of speculation, no more than tulips or bitcoin. And as for security and stability, you can get that from renting ( especially if you live in rent controlled apartments ).

The idea of a house as an asset or investment is due to government and business policy decisions. Increasing immigration, limiting development via zoning laws, creating tax incentives, advertising pushing home ownership, laws favoring home owners and landlords over renters, etc.

All the premises we believe are premises we are taught. Your premise is just as false as anyone elses. It's entirely artificial. Policy decisions could make renting more favorable than owning. Policy decisions could actually make owning a home near a coal mine more stable than owning a home in silicon valley. Policy decisions could make home prices decline considerably by encouraging overdevelopment so that supply outstrips demand.

Fundamentally, as I stated before, the only purpose of owning a house is shelter. Everything else are "false" premises we've been taught.
I try not to assume bad faith in your responses, but you're making it very difficult. My original comment was very clear that it was assuming a technology that we don't currently own. And then you put arbitrary restrictions to the conjecture to force it wrong.

Now you're moving again goal posts just "to be right". That's incredibly childish.

Of course you haven't adressed my core point, possibly because you can't understand it.

Edit: try stating my point and we'll see what's on your mind.
I got a lot of freedom when I realized that other people’s judgements are often designed (sometimes subconsciously or culturally) simply to get you to do what they want you to do.

It is quite in the benefit of other people and groups for you to be “productive”.
Jenny Odell has an earlier iteration of "how to do nothing" as a 2017 blog post: https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f5...
Except when it regresses. See 'Tesla hit truck broadside'.
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That's because the Russians founded it's own couple of months prior.
> I can imagine an exponentially distopian world where 4 families are forced to live in a single house.

Have you seen Hong Kong cage homes? You're right that there is a limit, but we're far from close to it.
> I've travelled by road a fair bit around different countries and I assure you that a lot of high volume maintained roads still fall into the categories I outlined. Moreover, a lot of high volume roads aren't maintained. I honestly don't think you would even get remotely close to covering 80% of the roads for 20% of the cost.

I did not say 80% of the road, but 80% of the travel. Most of the kms driven are on highways, ring roads, and main roads into larger cities.

> having some roads updated and others not would actually be more dangerous than having none redeveloped because humans would demonstrate the same complacency across all the roads once they're used to autonomy on the new roads.

The car will pull over if you don't take over. I fail to see the issue in that. I'm advocating for a system that will autonomously drive where the infrastructure allows, not everywhere. If the system can handle driving at the highway for me for 2 hours, I'll be significantly more fit for driving the last 20 minutes.

> Shooting the cables is the easy if you have pavements with cables already installed. If you don't then you need to dig up the road to lay them

No you do not. They can even remove a small patch of tarmac, "shoot" and entire sewer line a long way and remove patch of tarmac at the destination. That's how they get optical fibers under roads and brick paving without digging it up.

> There's a whole load of costs involved in the planning stage; scheduling the work around busy periods (which sometimes means paying for night shift work) and organising the road closures

I never said it wasn't extra work. A cost benefit is needed, but the current AI approach will either cost many lives, or we agree on a better more expensive way.

> If you don't have total coverage then the mesh network isn't going to be reliable.

Again, a 100% solution is never happening. But by legislation we can increase adoption slowly, but steadily, until and past the point where we see the many benefits. In the EU all new cars must have DLR, AEB, TPM, ESP, ABS, seat belts, ect. - this would just be another thing new cars must have to ever be allowed to be sold on the market. It should not be up to the manufactures to agree, because they all want their solution, not an interoperable one.
Passive funds took power away from investors
I have to stop myself posting that every time the subject comes up (I know what it is without opening the link) :-)
You use a component to connect to some networked light control system. The "Light" category has 71 components: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/#light

An example would be IKEA Trådfri (https://www.home-assistant.io/components/tradfri/); you connect the lights to its gateway device, then Home Assistant will use the API provided by that gateway to control the lights.
I can only imagine the training data you used for this game. One moment a metal crappy girl is going to show me the site of a brothel murder, the next Donald Trump is showcasing a gala for real estate investors.
I certainly hope so. A black budget allocation syphoning from a legitimate project of dubious progress is actually more comforting than the alternative of financial malfeasance and design/engineering/fabrication management incompetence.
> I genuinely don't understand

This can only make sense if you ignore all the weird, incoherent, inchoate, abusive, and absurd things that come out of Elon Musk.
Racket is still my preferred language based on how fun it is to use and the community is just awesome.
Caving is a great adventure, there are unique challenges from many disciplines including bouldering, fixed rope ascending/descending, logistics, navigation, cartography, first aid/rescue, communication, psychology, leadership, etc. You tend to spend a lot of time in cold, dirty, cramped spaces, but the rush of exploration and gravity of danger make it quite exciting and rewarding too. I found the camaraderie to be fantastic, there’s local clubs all around the world and the community is pretty small and tight knit, it tends to draw a somewhat unusual group of individuals. Perhaps how rock climbing or scuba diving felt in the earlier days, pushing your limits doing something that most people find pointless and/or terrifying.
This post talks a lot about creating a community. Are they doing that anywhere in particular?