skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13849402

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10559387

The day before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552932
That is not true about PLOS One and it’s not a line to just drop whenever anyone links to a study on there. Please substantiate these kinds of statements.
Michio Kaku on the Future of Humanity (Google I/O'19)
Disagree. Reading is not the same thing is learning, or self-education.

When I read to learn, I take notes, I highlight, I reflect and write my thoughts on the subject.

Reading is a highly effective way to learn and absorb information, if you engage with the text, and make it an active experience, rather than a passive experience.

Reading isn’t about memorizing a few sentences. It’s about understanding a subject, the contents within, and being able to apply to various contexts you encounter throughout your life.

Whenever I encounter a problem or challenge in my personal or professional life, I can immediately recall and reference the knowledge or wisdom I’ve gained from books.

And if I can’t, I find the book I’m missing, and actively read it to assimilate a new understanding.
I used to work in SPARK (all caps), and while I don't miss the industry, I do miss working with the language.

When you use it as it was meant to be used, it's incredibly empowering, it's like working with the world's most observant pair programmer.

The book remains one of the best books I've read on software development, although obviously it's from a very specific view.
>for about eight actual search results.

judging from what I understand of how people use Google, it looks more than enough.
power of ten prefixes are part of the SI
Israel’s “successful” system is just racial profiling.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_profiling_in_Israel
Basically, because it isn't actually possible to make a website that loads in under 100ms on poor connections any other way. For reference, on the fast university wifi I am currently connected to, news.ycombinator.com loads in 499ms. When I switch to my phone's hotspot, that rises to 2.38 seconds, and on a simulated slow 3G network, that rises to 6.51 seconds. I haven't tested a 2G connection in India, but wouldn't be surprised if it exceeds 10 seconds. Hacker News is not a heavy webpage, in fact, it is probably about as lightweight a webpage as is reasonably possible to create.

The key technique that AMP promises will beat the limits of network latency is precaching. Unfortunately, users have a strong privacy expectation that random websites will not be notified that you are interested in them until you actually click the link in search results (or news, or whatever). For precaching to work without violating user privacy, the data needs to be loaded from some server that already knows that the link was shown to you, so there is no privacy violation from giving it that information. AMP's solution is for the host company of the results page to fill that role.

The AMP lightning bolt is intended to mean "this page is already downloaded offline on your device, and so will load instantly", not just "this page is well-designed and fast". The difference is minor for blazing fast connections, but that isn't true for developing world users with weak connections and devices.

Google has said that when open web standards like Web Packaging finally show up which enable the same safe preloading behavior, those sites will be included in AMP carousels. We'll see whether they follow through with that. [1] [2]

* All experiments conducted with cache disabled, times are until Load event fires.

[1] https://blog.amp.dev/2018/03/08/standardizing-lessons-learne...

[2] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/contributi...
I think the historical truth is that Oracle was first to market, and IBM just adopted SQL so it would not risk being waaaaaaaaay too late to the market "party". [Darwen, "Why are there no relational DBMS's"]
Where the F#$ unikernel advancements go?
Unikernel were quite hot in 2016, I've seen developments of late, whats going on? I am not talking about AWS, Azure, etc. lambdas.
Can someone explain why we have a shortage? I'm a little confused given current drilling in the US.
The language instinct is bogus, refuted by multiple recent articles. Sorry you’ll have to undo learning a bunch of false info from it :(
I feel like it's appropriate to mention this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
Aquisition/immersion learning is rapid. Thegovernment metrics are likely based on academic learning methods.

Forget the books and turn on the radio and TV instead.
Screening increased (and restrictions were added) after 2001. But the earlier hijackings caused the debut of metal detectors and security screening generally which had been pretty much non-existent before. Anyone could just breeze up to the gate and it was common to see people off or greet them there.

>only in the US

Huh? Although processes are not identical to the US, there has been a significant increase in security in other countries. The UK for one is almost indistinguishable from the US. (No shoes off but they actually more rules in terms of removing electronics.
Banned from Facebook? A Polish Court May Help
Yes! We should simply make credit card rewards illegal in a more direct way. Effectively, people with low-paying rewards cards—and people paying in cash—are subsidizing people with high-paying rewards cards.

In other words, credit card rewards are yet another wealth transfer from poorer people to wealthier people.
The problem is "conversational" means anything from "hello", "how are you", "my name is", "the horse is on the window" [%] to an actual conversation that can convey something useful.

Between a reasonable degree of grammar correctness, some vocabulary, and the pronunciation needed to make yourself understood it takes some time to carry out any conversation beyond tourist level.

Given that I have plenty of polish friends and contact with the language the "few weeks" is either an exaggeration or, more likely, the bar for "close to conversational" is set relatively low and differs from other people's definition leading to this discussion. Unless it's someone who already speaks a language that's "close enough", maybe czech?

[%] Actual example used by my french teacher a few decades ago.
Yeah... if he read Guns, Germs and Steel in 9 hours, I’m not surprised he didn’t retain much of it.
Tbh Google would make a good fit considering the existing auto devops CI/CD integration with GCP.

I guess MS will roll out something similar on Github + Azure sometime in the future.
Why do people contribute to Gitlab and help a for profit company for free?

I'm curious about what motivates you such as improving a tool that you use everyday or code quality?
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To put it into perspective, the PIC10 has up to 512 instructions and 64 bytes of RAM. IMHO it's not something you'd really want to program in anything other than Asm, because even if a C compiler is available, the "dialect" of C you get is so far from "typical" that you're really just using it as a not-so-portable assembler.

I'm not sure why you included the PIC24, because that's a 16-bit family and more into the region of "not too bad to use C with".
This is an excellent example of what the author wrote as "taxing but skillful metacognition" and it's great! You hit the nail on the head that it's really easy to lose track of what's happening and where you are.
The amount of effort required when a refcount reaches zero is unpredictable in general, yes, but at any particular site, the shape and lifetime of objects tend to follow a pattern. So if a particular bit of code drops a refcount to zero and takes a long time deallocating objects, it will with high probability always do so and is hence still fairly predictable/consistent.
THIS IS WONDERFUL!!!

And needs to be applauded loudly.

I've heavily criticized GNU family licenses, and HN has been full of companies who have moved from more Open licenses (MIT, Apache 2, BSD, ZLIB, etc.) to more restrictive licenses (GPL, AGPL) and "open core" crippleware has become trendy lately by failing companies trying to exploit their communities to survive.

To see a move from GPL to Apache2/MIT is fantastic!

Let's hope that this starts a trend. :)

Great work!
Quality schmality. Many books I read do little more than just enumerate facts (e.g. history books, especially the dry ones). The reason I remember the facts I read in books and don't remember a lot of the random bits of knowledge I've seen on "history of ancient rome" twitter accounts, or whatever, is because I set aside large blocks of undistracted time to read, where I allow myself to imagine the scenarios described (without feeling pressure to get back to work, nor have some "hey I wonder what casey neistat is doing"-type voice distracting me from really absorbing what I'm reading) and think a lot about how what I'm learning connects to what I've learned before.

Another kinda big reason I can find it harder to learn via the internet vs books is because there's so much deception online. You get primed to always think and try to figure out "ok, how much of this is marketing, or signalling, or the author just spewing BS, and how much is something I can rely on", which takes away cognitive resources from what otherwise could have been spent on building a rich and secure knowledge-base.
Especially if it's just Gitlab's About page and not some newsworthy event.
If it worked, he or YC would have every reason to favor it. So if you're right, this supports what pg said.
A counter example to this counter example is the children of diplomats and stationed secret service bodyguards, some of whom I know. The parents pick up the language faster, with greater fluency and less accent.
We have compared both versions and for the most use cases performance are similar and EE is a bit faster but for some even the CE is faster.

I know projects that are 100% open source would be nice, but the reality is that it is not a bad idea to have a business model attached to an open source IMO increasing its sustainability.
FYI, Chrome will not let me load this site.

> Your connection is not private / Attackers might be trying to steal your information from open-registry.dev (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). / NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
How is that any different than roads and sidewalks?
It is the old page of ?art.
SQL has nothing to say about the layer of physical implementation, and that's where INDEX belongs (as does STOGROUP [DB2] and what have you).

That's not a bug, that's a feature. Deriving from the deliberate intent to make physical independence (which was simply nonexistent at the time the model was conceived) a reality.
If somebody feels books don't work for them (any more) I highly recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book)
Well, the amount of contrasting opinions in the comments here and [1] and [2] are enough of a proof, to me, that written words and video/audio are equivalent, with the latter having the potential of being much more engaging, especially in our current "low attention span" society. I gathered arguments in favor and against books in a recent /r/changemyview [3]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095947521...

[2] https://mitili.mit.edu/news/compared-reading-how-much-does-v...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/beiywx/cmv_vi...
Why on Earth would you use a Google Books link for something in the TLDP? Here is the equivalent canonical link:

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exit-status.html (HTML)

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf#page=57 (PDF)
There may be some difficulties with the criterion that you just laid out, one practical and another logical:

1. 'Conceivable experiment' is a changing definition, since the realm of what humans can conceive is always expanding with the growth of technology and knowledge. If we had been around 2000+ years ago, would you have considered Democritus's atomic theory to be meaningless, given the lack of any conceivable path to test it at the time?

Either you have to take quite an expansive view of what is 'conceivable', or admit that 'meaningless' here refers more to practical difficulties that may be temporary, rather than anything inherent in a particular claim.

2. If we turn your statement back on itself, statements about meaning are also statements about the world (after all, what is 'meaning' if it doesn't involve what humans think and believe?). Is your statement that 'only falsifiable claims are meaningful' itself falsifiable? If so, what sort of experiment would you set up to test it?
But then you carry a balance
The Biggest Problem with GTK and What Qt Does Good
So they removed a useful, granular functionality (switching off autopilot trim input while retaining electric-assisted manual trim) and made one switch simply a redundant backup, merging the previously separated functions without clear explanation.

A cynical man could be inclined to think that with this change, they casually removed a possibility of pilots/airlines realizing the existence of MCAS: "we have thrown off the right switch to unlink the autopilot from the trim motor and there is still something making automated stabilizer inputs, what could it be?"
have you seen https://ops.city ? - moreso - there are quite a few unikernel projects out there now
I think you might be reading books wrong if that's what you're hoping to take out of them, that is, remember this or that specific quote out of it. For me, at least, the value of a book is changing your way of thinking, or better yet, present new questions that you did not even dare to ask.

I would recommend Darwin's own Origin of Species instead of Dawkins' Selfish Gene. I've read both. They can't even begin to compare. One is a serious scientific and a mind bending exercise in nature's ways, the other one deserves the title of pop culture. I cannot tell you the different beak sizes of Darwin's finches but I can tell you I've felt a void inside me after finishing the book and for a few years I thought constantly about the implications of the theory and saw behaviors around me that could be explained in terms of evolution, survival of the fittest and all that.

After you've read some serious books you won't ever say again that books "don't work". Schopenhauer said it better,

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
CLT is a theoretical model indicating how we process information, not how it is stored. There is long term memory, which stores it schemata (knowledge), and working memory, where schemata are retrieved from long term memory and processed. Working memory, however, has a finite capacity, resulting in mental effort (cognitive load) being required for processing and maintaining schema. The latency/delay in retrieving and processing schemata (or lack thereof) is labeled as "expertise". CLT is primarily used to study the mental effort in processing things like worked examples and problem solving. This is where the idea of having random pictures on PowerPoint slides is seen as bad.

However, all of our current theoretical models on memory hold the premise that our capacity is infinite, as we are able to recall memories and information from decades prior (think about minuscule knowledges like walking). There is a "forgetting curve" model as well that supports the idea to spaced repetition as a method of reducing the latency of retrieving schemata from long term memory. Further, we identify diseases like Alzheimer's, dementia, etc as diseases as one of their trademark symptoms is the loss of mental ability. Is this forgetfulness due to losing scheme from long term memory or an inability to appropriately retrieve/process schemata?

Regardless, as I mentioned in my previous comment, if our capacity is infinite, then our only limitations are time and motivation. Adults, unlike children, need to be motivated beyond "because mommy and daddy said so" in order to allocate time to practice.

I think this is why "full immersion training" when learning a language is so powerful - regardless of motivation, you have allocated MUCH more time to "practice". Adults that move to another country and are willing to learn will have an easier time learning than someone that doesn't move but wants to learn or someone that does move but doesn't try to learn.

The last bit would be people willing to "teach" novice adults. This is another issue all together, but could still be framed as a time and motivation problem.
Eric, Could companies listed on NYSE and Nasdaq eventually move over (not dual list) to LTSE? If so, what does such road look like?
There exist runtimes that use reference counting and mark/sweep together. Mark/sweep is used to collect cycles that reference counting misses. PHP and Firefox's XPCOM both turn up in a google search for Cycle Collector.

Maybe Swift will gain it, one day.
I agree. I had to critique fellow classmates writing in a business writing course once. I am older and had been in the business world for a while. My one often used critique was brevity. I didn't have all day for then to get to the point.
There was a lot of work on partial evaluation in the 1990s, including getting compilers
via Futamura. But that research mostly withered. Speaking to some the
old timers, I get the impression that the core problem was that
compilers obtained from interpreters by Futamura didn't perform well. Indeed, in his 2010 PEPM keynote, Augustsson asked: "O, partial evaluator, where art thou?" [1]

Is there a brief summary what is Graal etc doing differently to overcome 1990s style partial evaluation performance problems?

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1706356.1706357
Peanut butter jelly time at Yorfriends Forum
Coinbase Bans Milo Yiannopolous
From what I’ve read, the next (normal) ice age has definitely already been prevented. The benefits include making it easier to ship across and drill for oil etc. in and around the north pole.

This doesn’t appear to make up for the downsides, as we’re looking at changes on the scale of the difference between ice ages and warm periods, but starting from a warm period and going up, and the effects will last for long enough to mess with the next 1500 years.
The other possibility, and this has already been floated in Illinois, is putting a tracker on every vehicle and taxing drivers by the mile.

A gas tax increase, in comparison, doesn't look so bad.
This also makes it more obvious why google is trying to create this new portal tag. They don't won't people leaving google at all.

Link to discussion on the proposed portal tag.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19866584
Not when the law says differently.
Alternatives to OpenDNS After Cisco Takeover
Now that OpenDNS is part of CISCO, What are the opensource and non-business alternatives
Unicode Version 12.1 Released in Support of the Reiwa Era
...or if it included amount of Federal tax credit the EV owners got from the government when they purchased the car.
This article attacks a straw man. Being falsifiable is necessary but it is not sufficient to be considered a scientific hypothesis. Such a hypothesis also, and more importantly, has to provide a better explanation of some phenomenon than the current best theory. Experimental evidence is only brought to bear to decide among plausible alternative theories after the vast majority of candidate theories have been eliminated for not providing good explanations.

It's easy to see that this must be true because we can only ever have a finite amount of data, and that will always be consistent with an infinite number of falsifiable theories (c.f. Russell's teapot). So data cannot possibly help us choose from among those.
I'm surprised that list puts French in category 1, and German in category 2. Would have expected it to be the other way around.

In my experiences, learning French well is more difficult than people think, German not as much.
What kind of pollution from agriculture? Tractor / other farm machinery emissions? Burning agricultural waste like stubble, dry leaves/stalks, etc.?
Twilio PM here. You ordered a starter pack of our IoT SIMs we launched in partnership with T-Mobile. They connect to TMO in the USA and have broad coverage globally. They don’t have access to ATT or VZW in the USA like the Super SIM.
That's great to hear. In contrast, I was in Russia last year and it was hard to buy a train ticket and they had this airport-style security checkpoint even for buying tickets (and the security theatre at the airports were even worse).
Can someone explain why we have a shortage?

That would normally be the job of the journalist that wrote the article. ‘dafuq, Bloomberg? “You know, the helium shortage.” No, I don’t know, Bloomberg. Is it related to the sell-off of U. S. helium reserves a while back? Or is it something different this time?

Instead, we get “will your kids get balloons at their party this year?” Oh, and some brief mention about pharma, but we don’t really know how that works, so...yeah.
Huh, sounds weird and first time I hear this. ".dev" needs to be over HTTPS, could be that something is in the way and forcing the HTTP version on your side?

Are others having the same problem?

Just tested it with Google Chrome Version 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Arch Linux, and not seeing any issues.
A big reason for the shortage is that about 75% of all the helium comes from just three places: Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar, ExxonMobil in Wyoming and the National Helium Reserve in Texas, according to gas-trade publication Gasworld.com.

In Texas, the reserves are being depleted, while at the same time overall demand for the gas has been growing.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/09/helium-short...

"In 1996, the US Congress decided to sell off the strategic reserve and the consequence was that the market was swelled with cheap helium because its price was not determined by the market. The motivation was to sell it all by 2015"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/discovery-of-massive...
This practice continues in Islam. There's even a word for someone who's memorised the entire Quran: 'Hafiz'/'Hafiza'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)
It has been fascinating to watch layer after layer peel back around all of this.

Bad design decisions forced from chasing the bottom dollar, optional, critical safety features with the warning indicator and now these switches.

> Boeing declined to detail the specific functionality of the two switches

That's also interesting- I assume they are in CYA mode and wouldn't discuss anything that could be sensitive to the current investigations in any point. I wonder how hard the Seattle Times had to work to get manuals for the MAX.

I hope the loss of life is vindicated in the end.

I hope there are lessons learned from this but I fear our culture of quarterly profits and lack of real punishment for companies and their directors will result in nothing drastic happening.
I don't see anything. Looks like * to me.