skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NYT employs enough disingenuous obfuscators that I will never pay them a penny, nor will I let them collect my information.

Beyond that, what they don't realize is that other news sites will simply report on what is reported in the NYT, and those sites will forever be free. From time to time I will copypaste a NYT url to a single-use non-private FF instance to read (and then immediately clear history) whereby I invariably find that the article only has a few bits that expanded my knowledge. Most of the articles are those few bits of new info followed by summaries of days or months old information that I am already fully aware of. And the same goes for the WaPo.

I understand that we need to support good journalism and I will when I find some really good journalism, without auto-play vids and ridiculous amounts of ad content and making sure the readership on "both sides" is fairly represented. The WaPo has potential but Bezos' quest for all the dollars is ruining it.

What they don't get is that they can't control the information and that information has no intrinsic price, for our primary advantage as human beings is our ability to spread ideas and information from person to person. Their information is going to get aggregated and there's not a damn thing they can do about it, and I'm willing to wait 12 hours for it to get to me secondhand.

The MBAs are digging their own graves every single day and they don't have anyone to blame but themselves. That they have gone all in on the advertisers is only hastening their demise.
Blender Institute, the main source of programmers of Blender, is a non-profit organization that pays people real money. As a user of 3D software, your statement about "far better paid tools" is inaccurate this day and age.
This one at least has the justification that there often aren't any words. When you're hip-deep in topology, grabbing graph theory with your right hand and algebra with your left, you've left English way behind anyhow.

Now we just need to go back in time and convince Euler and Grothendieck to pretty-please either discover fewer things, or change their names every couple of years or something.
Even after Brexit (if it ever happens) you should still apply. Rights to work in the UK can be acquired. From my observation the number of non EU IT workers (and foreign workers in general) out-number those from the EU
At their scale, the overhead isn't as high.

I've personally discounts ranging upwards of 90% for certain services and cloud vendors.
I'm an adoptive parent in the US and I've been waiting months for that paperwork........
My other complaint about subscribing is that it's damned expensive and their subscription terms are awkward and arbitrary. Give me a year for $50 and I'd give them my credit card yesterday.
> Can it scale up?

A long while ago when I was in college we attempted to implement a less complicated version of this system for allocating budgets to student organizations and it was nothing short of a shit show. I'm not confident in the voting public's ability to understand the process.
No, it's the least broken event notification mechanism on all systems. And it doesn't have a 1024 FDs limit on most systems either, as long as it used directly via syscall or through an event loop library that does that.

But in general for all event notification mechanism on all systems, it's incorrect to assume that reported FDs are actually ready, because that could cause a busy waiting loop, and incorrect to assume that unreported FDs are not ready, because that could cause timeouts.
Harassment is illegal as is conspiracy to commit harassment. Since we all view harassment to be illegal, a case where there is evidence that a person "sic their followers" to commit harassment should be sent to the legal system, or if that fails we should make a law so that future cases will be addressed through the legal system.

I think the reason we don't is simply because we want to allow speech that result in "bad" people getting harassed but not "good" people, and since different political sides define good and bad differently, what we get is platforms making the decision for us. Personally I would prefer a law instead.
The article says it is a thermoelectric generator.
Trash reporting plagues the alternative news sources too.
Wont be long and this will happen in AU+NZ+UK+CA+USA with

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Indeed. I meant "incredulous". My mistake.
lol, my cat needs clopen doors all day...
Even if that was true of the bill itself, it's certainly not true of how it was (and is) portrayed in the media. On the right wing channels, you hear that it's a G, or maybe a letter even further down the alphabet. On the left wing channels, you hear that it was so watered down that it was basically a B and that we have to do more etc etc etc.
Yeah, but the Guardian is, by my estimation, a truly bad-ass journalistic institution devoted to speaking truth to power.
.. unless of course the standard application for the device is in safety-critical/life-protection systems, in which case "no failures noted" better be honest.
I'm guessing that 99% of newsletters are sending vastly fewer messages than the people who send me half a dozen "Welcome to Adulte Sex " messages a day.
These numbers show that the grid is already 95% efficient! It makes much more sense to improve the really inefficient parts, such as power plants and electricity consumers.
Here's some statistics from 1920: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/AgCensusImages/1920/Far...

Over 14% of farmers in 1920 were black, ~950,000 out of ~6,500,000. This year that number is 45,000 out of 3,400,000, which is 1.3%.

So there's been a pretty massive demographic shift. And some of the behavior outlined in this article is a pretty good explanation for why.
Related link: GCC 9: Link-time and inter-procedural optimization improvements https://hubicka.blogspot.com/2019/05/gcc-9-link-time-and-int...
Would like to know how much they receive via Brave/BAT: https://batgrowth.com/publishers/website

Could be a nice boost to adoption if it's significant, but maybe they want to keep it their secret ...
In many cases a book is cheaper to order from the Indigo website, which happens to also provide free shipping for orders over $25. Unless you fancy the bricks & mortar experience, which increasingly doesn't involve books at all, there is no reason to shop at a physical location.
Probably the same Reason Microsoft doesn't release revenue figures for Azure. Azure revenue is lumped in with Office, and not broken out.
[1] is a description of an available device using two pitots on different axes, together with a static-pressure reference:

"The AOA tube is constructed with two tiny machined holes to create differential pressure sources. One hole is bore-sighted at the front of the AOA tube along the longitudinal axis, while the second, located at the bottom of the AOA probe, is pointed downward at a 45-degree angle to act as a reference source.

"Garmin’s normalized AOA includes an additional static-air-pressure source to allow the air-data computer to calculate airspeed and air density, important in calculating precise AOA. The addition of the static-pressure reference input makes the AOA indication accurate regardless of the airplane’s weight, speed or configuration."

[1] https://www.flyingmag.com/how-it-works-angle-attack-indicato...
>>> used the heat generated from this highly radioactive material to generate enough electric current to light up a small lightbulb ...

Sounds like an americium-powered RTG to me, albeit not a particularly powerful one.
I don't know, but somehow HN hates this idea?!
The planet goes through natural carbon cycles. For example, natural orbital variations cause a little initial heating, then feedback effects like permafrost melt kick in, taking the planet several degrees further.

Then, over millions of years, the carbon gets absorbed again. Rock weathering removes CO2, and layer after layer of plant material gets sequestered in the ground.

The warming events cause mass extinctions. Hardly anything lives at mid-latitudes, and crocodiles swim at the poles.

There's a lot of geological evidence for all this, and it's the reason people are so worried. If negative feedbacks were quick then we'd see a stable climate in the geological record. We see the opposite. It doesn't take much of an initial shove to tip things into catastrophe, and millions of years to get back to a climate like our own.
Things are still the same today in both West and East.

Seems that tests for heroin will show a positive if you eat enough poppy-seeds on your bread loaves.
Just build a non deterministic AI. Free will and true AI are not (necessarily) mutually exclusive.

"Free will" is a vague concept anyway. What does it really mean to make a decision? It already is heavily weighted by your knowledge and experience, everything else would be "random".

A smart (smarter than us) machine shouldn't have "free will" anyway, as all choices should be exhaustively evaluated for their pros and cons.
Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Other Extremists–But Not as Planned
This article reminds me of ones I have read about the British class system and how it has been blamed for failures in being technically innovative despite being the nation which produced Alan Turing.

I think it might be profound yet sort of obvious - hierarchical organizations reflect the failings of their heads as their control causes the organizations to reflect their /actual/ values, the ones not on banal mission statements but how they act.

The same already happened with Detroit car companies and how they have often been a joke even domestically.

The real question is how to reform or replace Wall Street Investment "management" as they lead down hill by being too short-termist and bean counter.

They seem somewhat aware of it themselves in some ways with market caps often being higher in tech companies with "executive" shares given disproportionate control value to founders.
Well the Guardian has managed to be successful without a wealthy owner.
Best performing - against humans.
Pluralsight has been slowly getting into the analytics space to show management and companies that the training works and land bigger corporate deals.

It started with custom courses, certifications, training journeys and completion scores and I believe the intention here is to tie that towards project velocity and code productivity.
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I'm sure the for-profit prison system would like this as well.
Well if anything, this is good for you, as you can avoid people who are clearly ignorant and unnecessarily risk-taking. They're probably not even considering things like the epidemic of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea cases.
I always suspected that the ban was partly based on the fact that porn content was driving a ton of bandwidth that was not monetizable. Or at least not in any way the decision makers saw as feasible without getting into legal trouble...
They usually don't say that the Germans had cracked all the Allied ciphers, too. The only saving grace was that different agencies had cracked different codes, and none of them trusted the others, so nobody had the full picture.

Results of Enigma cracks were sent by one-time pad to keep them from knowing it had been cracked. I had a cousin whose job was to cobble up reasons for the Allies to know things they got from Enigma -- send a spotter plane to be seen by the tank column on its way to an ambush, that sort of thing.
The must-have accessory for the 1980s: 2-inch screen in-dash TV (2014)
Oh boy. The Brexit Party did not put up a single candidate in these elections and despite having only launched a few months ago they are leading the polls for the EU elections! I wouldn't count your chickens just yet guv.
Yes, why bother with software stack, just let them run their own INSERTs for registration.
What Amazon knows about you
The Intigriti XSS challenge is over, but still up. Give it a try
> Most of Tumblr is not, and has never been, NSFW. The fact that the site permits such blogs to exist does not in any way mean that the vast majority of it could not easily support regular ads.

Most of the cost and page views on Tumblr came from NSFW. Everything else was a really long tail. It costs more money to monetize the long tail than the long tail can be monetized for.

> It shouldn't even be difficult for Tumblr to enforce a separation between the two—a hard requirement for any blog that hosts adult content to be marked as such, and blogs with adult content only get ads from advertisers who have explicitly indicated that they're OK with that

Advertisers for non-explicit content to not want to be associated with non-clean content whatever that not clean content may be. Tucker Carlson is much cleaner than "daddybeatshisproperty" and there are successful campaigns to pull P&G and its likes ads from Fox News. Now imagine "Dirty Mouth, clean it up!" ad next to ... well... something something in your mouth. The screen caps of that would be on youtube in half and hour and on all TV channels by the evening news. There's no way Mars, Inc would be Ok with that hit and they are rather edgy in their commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxmkiy9txBE

> Now, granted, it may still not be a multi-billion-dollar enterprise. I don't know much about the economics of ad impressions. But that doesn't mean it can't be profitable.

Right. So it at most a lifestyle business, not a multi hundred million dollar operation.

P.S. Reality does not care about downvotes. Tumblr lost money since its inception because it cannot get enough ad money to coverts its costs. And it cannot get enough ad money because of its content, not because there's no ad money.
If it's a large class, I wouldn't recommend saying anything. You can take the exams and do the assignments, but don't hand them in.
And again some wrong claims, there is 3 nuclear power plants over 19 that uses the water of rivers to cool down, in the summer there is temperature limits on the outputted water (25°c) for the aquatic life on the rivers. It is a variation of a few GW on about 60GW, that are blip on the daily consumption, and do not impact the grid.

Source : https://twitter.com/TristanKamin/status/1025396660615237638

France is a net exporter to Germany since at least 2011 : https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange.htm?source=de_pf&year=...

France as Germany are the 2 world top exporter : http://www.worldstopexports.com/electricity-exports-country/

You can see here in last july and august that france mostly export to germany : https://i.imgur.com/99f8stA.png
Source :
https://www.rte-france.com/fr/eco2mix/eco2mix-echanges-comme...
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Companies weigh the benefit of open source for their needs against non open source products.

A limited list of reasons they may use it include available talent (people often learn on free stuff), availability of support and consultants locally or at their price, specfic features of one tool need or not needed, availability of developers to contribute/fix bugs, desire to have input handled openly and open governed. They prefer the UI or APIs. Flexibility to integrate more openly. Desire to make a statement in support of FOSS or specific project.

Reasons why they may not us FOSS, liability (someone to blame if there's an issue, spread insurance costs), privacy when dealing with issues, availability of consultants or training at the desired price, availability of talent (many people learn paid software at school), availability of managed server farms. They prefer the UI or APIs. Available APIs that have simple integrations. Etc.
He's not talking about new fundamental physics, just self-organized complexity that physics doesn't have the tools to predict.
Your #1 tool is simply a stopwatch. Write programs, time them, and then learn. See why some programs are faster or slower than others.

Your #2 tool is hardware performance counters. Its much easier to understand the cache and branch prediction when you use the hardware to count how many times the cache is hit, and when branches are taken.

http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html#Events

Section 5 of Linux "perf" accesses these hardware performance counters for you.

Write a program, see how many cache-misses it has. Write a slightly different program, the cache-misses will be different. How did it change your #1 measurement (time to complete the program) ??

Now do that a thousand times, with a thousand different programs trying to solve the same thing. Bam, now you're an expert.

Its not really hard. Its just an issue of experience. You'll get there if you work at it, and use the right tools to "see" what is going on.

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Why do people talk about cache hits and branch prediction? Because in THEIR experience, counting cache hits and looking at branch predictions results in performance gains.

Their experience won't necessarily match yours, but you can still learn from them in general.
Life may survive as a concept, but few people want to live in a world populated by jellyfish and cockroaches. The cute, cuddly megafauna (whales, snow leopards, humans etc) certainly do care about what we do to this planet. I'm on the side of the snow leopards and really do not care a jot about the jellyfish. The argument that "life shall be OK" is a delay tactic, a reason to procrastinate the coming nightmare.
Those effects did not work for Tumblr. Tumblr always lost money. That's exactly how it ended up in this situation.
My mistake indeed, thanks for clearing that up.
But you are tying it to a timezone: the timezone that will be valid at the place and date that the meeting is at.

Basically, a timestamp should be tied to a timezone or a location, or at worst an indirection (like you being at a specific location). And since we don't tend to have practical support for tying timestamps to locations, we tie them to timezones instead.
You just used 103 words (541 characters) to basically confirm that your reply is just one "Well, actually...". This makes a discussion forum extremely annoying and makes me regret wasting all this time writing for you.

If I am not the first one to point out your failure of understanding the Principle of Charity, do us all a favor and focus on that before continuing discussion with others online.
It's interesting comparing this to the airline safety issues in the news lately. Every single thing on an airplane is designed with safety in mind but for road traffic, they just put up a stop sign and call it a day. These aren't directly comparable issues but it does seem like they don't really think about safety in the same way at all when designing roads. Why are trucks that can't fit into the tunnel even physically allowed to make it that far?
Why do you find this site convincing?

It appears to be small sample set of temperature records taken in growing urban environments.
> So is this essentially an RTG powered by Americium instead of Strontium or Plutonium?

That is the idea. Plutonium RTGs are very hard to get by. As in only the U.S. have a few such RTGs in stock and I am not sure they are producing new ones.
What happens if you just play stupid and pretend to have "forgotten" your password?

If I felt I was going to be in a position where this was going to happen I'd be more than okay entering 10 incorrect codes on my iPhone to wipe it...

Also curious what happens if you have confidential info or info from a work computer that you legally cannot show anyone else?
Don't worry. They'll be permitted to compel you to restore your backup soon enough.
Apple should let a user disable physical backups / exports of data from a phone. If you hand over a device and there is no way to image it, is there really a problem?

This doesn’t solve the “this is messed up and shouldn’t happen at all” issue, but does give you a way out. Realistically this will happen more frequently in other jurisdictions as it stands.
This is one of my complaints with ORMs these days: they’re starting to feel a lot less sophisticated than the databases, and data, that they sit above.
Not even the sources a lot of the tabloid type newspapers use, like Reuters?
Dying Is No Reason to Stop Fighting
Stump grinding is actually a big thing now. They make woodstove pellets from it, and mulch, among other things.

edit: I should add that it adds to the overall destruction of a forest ecosystem and I don't agree with it on large-scales.
I believe that's one of those cat-and-mouse games, where ideally they can't tell if you're in incognito.
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How we update Alexa's skill selector without causing “catastrophic forgetting”
Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory
That gets us back to Tumblr being a money losing enterprise. The question is what is a working strategy to monetize a massive user content driven platform where advertisers view on that content is somewhere between the gigantic landfill on fire and a nuclear waste.
High disagreeableness gives you ambition.

High conscientiousness gives you the power to achieve it.

Low neuroticism helps you avoid self-sabotage.
The stigma isn't necessary to continue working towards a cure.
am I the only person bothered by table names being converted to lowercase and having to painfully quote the table names that are capitalized?
All those had communities outside the main company long before they "moved out". What's the percentage of external contributors to GitLab? 1%?
Out of curiosity, what's the monthly limit?
Postpartum psychosis: Doctors sent woman home despite hallucinations
I believe OP was more making the statement that he appreciates when people state that they're uncomfortable with it. As any grown adult should be able to do.
>Hannity or Maddow will explain why tonight...

There is something very sad, yet true, about that statement.
FWIW, I am guessing it's a rare case that you can be confident that all strings you'll want to store are of a specific length, but cannot predict the set of characters they may use.

The use cases for CHAR instead of VARCHAR that I'm thinking of would be things like serial numbers. CHAR(1) seems even more specific; the only time I've ever seen that used is for some version of enumerations with mnemonic keys.
The whole point of these Bayesian filters is that you don't have to spend mental cycles thinking of clever words to filter on. Just mark 'em spam and not spam, the algorithms are plenty good at finding which words are spammy or legitimate without human help.
> The Guardian has proven to be one of the few sources of reliable, in-depth reporting on the Brexit shambles

ha ha sure
Wav2vec: Unsupervised Pre-Training for Speech Recognition
More likely anyone official who found out was added to the bribes lists - actual bribes, political contributions, etc.
Given our propensity to dehumanize political opponents, perhaps the converse is true as well.
It means an unwarranted view of an "undetectable" individual as a source of HIV transmission.

That is, an individual that is "undetectable" (formerly HIV+ but underwent treatment so that the viral load is not detectable) is still viewed as a potential source of HIV transmission, despite assurances from the medical community that an undetectable load is unlikely to be a source of transmission.