skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that's a good point. It's unusual that the articles keep mentioning "a Canadian company" but never names it. Maybe the agreement was at a national level.

And yeah, it's absurd. I just moved somewhere in Ontario where every garbage bag I put at the curbside costs $2. It's absolutely amazing to stand out on garbage day and see just how little people have set out. The system works.

The recycling is still "free" but I would love to see the same happen.
The Green New Deal is a mishmash of left wing talking points, not a coherent proposal.
> If a test has a failure rate of < 3%, it is likely not worth your time fixing it.

How do you know? What you say is plausible, but it's also plausible that these rarely-failing tests also rarely-fail in production, and occasionally break things badly and cause outages or make customers think of your software as flaky.

Since you say this, I presume you've spent the time to actually track down the root causes of several tests that fail < 3% of the time? If so, what did you find? Some sort of issues with the test framework, or issues with your own code that you're confident would only ever be exposed by testing, or something else? I'm very curious.
As far as I understand, most of the ideas concerning how fusion at low temperatures, and their relationship with eg. Pd is not because of chemical catalysis, but because it readily dissociates and dissolves hydrogen (and isotopes) into it's crystal structure.

This process brings the hydrogen atoms ( at ntp ) at least as close as hydrogen molecules at roughly 2000 atmospheres, and maybe much closer, if I punched in the correct numbers.

I believe it was (when cold fusion was, ahem, hot) speculated that the process of hydrogen solution/diffusion within the metallic matrix had somehow forced the hydrogen much closer together, while possibly creating local heating because of changes in the metallic structure at high hydrogen saturation, and that this was somehow both hot enough and close enough to create fusion.
I agree that the frontend landscape is too complex, but much of that is self imposed. Most developers on the client side refuse to string two lines of code together without a framework or large abstraction library. Offers of reducing complexity such as removing unnecessary decoration in the code or returning to a standards driven approach is often met with hostility. Much of this complexity is the result of striving for comfort and easiness. Simplicity isn’t easy.

As an example consider this recent comment that was upvoted 11 times and some of the responses to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20021708
Microsoft, Facebook to help tame internet ahead of Canada's election
Nuclear power was once the fasted growing energy producer in world history. Adoption happened faster then coal, faster then oil or pretty much anything else.

The world was on track to essentially replace fossil fuels with nuclear on a pace that was outside of human experience.

Humanity was quickly entering a new age. But then a small number of accidents lead to a political change, witch lead to regulatory changes that essentially killed nuclear power in most places.

Since the US regulatory system changed the amount of new plants built has essentially gone to 0, far below replacement. And many of the same effects were mirrored in most of the west with the US taking the lead.

The worst thing is that the new regulatory system not only killed the building of new plants, but essentially ended any hope of getting new reactor types into commercial use. No new reactor type have been licensed since then.

This seems rather strange because in the 60-70 new reactor-types were build at a rapid rate, constant innovation even with relatively small amounts of money. All of this was destroyed. Even in places where nuclear power is so clearly a huge win like NASA.

Nuclear fuel storage issues has entered into a political limbo where anti-nuclear lobby has essentially managed to deadlock the whole process and can since claim that nuclear storage issues can't be solved. At the same time the government collects money from nuclear power stations to handle the waste issue.

This is one of the saddest and most depressing stories in human history if you ask me. There is 0 scientific or technical reason why shouldn't have cheap nuclear power even in remote places, even in space.
Also it seems likely at this point that the danger has been wildly underestimated.

The rallying cry against plastic used to be that "it takes hundreds of years to break down".

But now we know that when it breaks down, it gets worse. Microplastics are suspected to be bioaccumulating, carrying poisons and bacteria, and possibly could get into cells like asbestos. And the only way to dispose of the stuff that won't eventually become microplastic is incineration - putting all that carbon into the atmosphere, along with other unpleasant combustion products.
to steal a line from Stroustrup:

"there are to kinds of philosophies: the ones people kill each other over and the ones nobody uses"
Landfill is better then incinerating. Burning it releases toxic chemicals and is effectively dumping it in the air (vs dumping it in the ocean). Landfill (dumping in the ground) is the least worst of all the options. From what you may believe there is plenty of land available.
If I'd limited my writing practice and technique to what was required and taught in K-12 school I'd have been unable to do that, too. It seems ridiculous but arguing on the Internet taught me how to write lean, clear arguments that could stand up to being kicked around a bit. Not school. School just taught me how to pad papers to hit a word count and conform to silly "essay" formats. What was taught in middle and high school writing wasn't even useful for college, let alone crafting text that anyone who's not being paid to read your work would ever choose to pick up.

It's like attending a shop class that uses made-up tools and materials that don't work very well, don't exist outside shop classes, and aren't even very similar to their counterparts that do. Then the assignments all involve making things that seemingly deliberately avoid teaching skills useful to building items anyone would ever want, for any purpose—the analogy's getting away from me here, but you get the point.

I do think part of the problem is that good writing sense is, in part, developed by reading, and most kids never really pick up the reading bug and so don't have much hope of ever writing half-decently to begin with. But the classes, at least when I was in school, weren't doing anything for those of us who'd met that pre-requisite, either. I'm not sure who or what they're for.
How about we wrap around the alphabet to introduce a new grade ‘Z’ that’s ostensibly as hard to get as A’s used to be?
Canva is ranked at 170 on Alexa [1]. Hootsuite is ranked at more than 1100 [2].

So we'd expect Canva to have a lot more users than Hootsuite.

Also, they've raised over $80M in multiple rounds from top VCs including Sequoia [3], which would be hard to do if they were bullshitting about their numbers.

[1] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/canva.com?ver=classic

[2] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hootsuite.com?ver=classic

[3] https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/news/canva-50-9...
The relevant question would be whether the activity is a crime in Canada, not in China.
Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby (2008)
I am using Version 76.0.167.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit). I can watch YouTube videos no problem. Chat does not work. In my opinion: YoueTube, please disable chat for all browsers. It is a useless feature that causes problems. Thank you.
>Ok, so after his navel-gazing was tested against observation, how accurate was it at describing life, the universe, and everything?

Judging by its adoption, quite a lot.
I would think Clojure vs. Java would be used given immutability. I like both Haskell and Racket for math, especially this article on geometric algebra with Haskell:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/ga.html

I am personally learning Shen[1] because Lisp, optional typing (great type system), and the formal work done within it, and for it in proving, verification and other related endeavors. It seems to tick the Haskell, Lisp, Prolog and logic boxes for me. Its portability is great[2], however, it is still young and building libraries. I am thinking on trying to mimic the DL work done by Dragan Djuric[3] for Clojure in Shen. We'll see how that goes...

[1] http://www.shenlanguage.org/
[2] https://shen-language.github.io/
[3] https://dragan.rocks/
I would bet those services are included in the lease agreement provided by the property management company they pay their rent to.
The api doesn't seem to be fleshed out compared to dogpile.cache yet.

Normally you don't want to pass cache backend instance to decorators on module level.
> it used to be based on SGML (though now it's not, for various reasons)

HTML doesn't cease to be based on SGML by mere declaration, or even by brittling it to the point it can't be parsed by any known formal standard. That's more a political stance, as in American isn't English or some such.

WHATWG's formulation of HTML has deliberately distanced itself from SGML out of ignorance and a desire to not being accountable or formally verifiable (aka move fast and break things) against established, rich theoretical foundations of markup languages. And it shows: already in a paper I published two years ago [1], I show flaws in HTML as described by WHATWG, some of which have since been fixed ([3]). Not only is the concept of "transparent markup" flawed and underspecified, it also has since be used in the definition of the content model for the dl element, and as an unintended consequence also the div element (cf [2]), flaws that could be easily avoided by just using SGML for the grammar WHATWG is attempting to describe when SGML has been around for ages.

It's also not entirely true that WHATWG HTML can parse all legacy docs. For example, the keygen element has been removed, and while not a terrible loss as such ;), since keygen is a void element (an element with declared content EMPTY in SGML parlance), its presence in a legacy document (eg without an end-element tag) will make HTML5 parsers fail hard ([4]). It's also completely unclear which version of HTML is being validated by eg. W3C's nu or another validator. Heck, even the spec text for WHATWG HTML itself reads

> This file is NOT HTML, it's a proprietary language that is then post-processed into HTML

when a large portion of the spec text portrays HTML in the role of an authoring language.

So tell me why, as an author, I should follow WHATWG's vision for HTML? As you say yourself, WHATWG hasn't advanced HTML the markup language at all, and has rather prevented the evolution of declarative UI features, to the effect of making JavaScript essential for all but the most basic documents.

[1]: http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2017/files/xmlprague-2017-procee...

[2]: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/1116

[3]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/6e305c457e42276bf275b8...

[4]: Edit: this affects differences introduced in HTML 5.2 vs HTML 5.1, not some distant archaic HTML 4 version
In a nutshell, the reactants (small nuclei such as from deuterium or tritium) have to be brought into intimate contact, against electrical forces that tend to push them apart. The primary effort to achieve fusion has been to overcome those forces and increase the sheer density of nuclei in a way that is not more costly in energy than the fusion energy that can be extracted and used, and without the experiment obliterating itself and its surroundings.

Even on a small scale, lack of measurable excess heat is not necessarily a show stopper, because fusion should produce other signatures such as by shedding extra neutrons. The lack of neutron evidence is what generated strong doubts about early reports of CF.
I meant iffy mostly as having negative side effects as seen with most attempts at Marxism for example. I also dislike the intellectual style which seems to lead towards grand sweeping but vague and unfalsifiable theories. Give me simplicity and testability.
> Why is this not politicized more?

It is! It has been politicized by telling "hard working, red blooded Americans" that the government has no business "taking" money out of their pocket because it will just go to help freeloaders.
Really? I'm envious about your government's competency in the matter, in that case!

I'm fairly pro-nuclear, at least as part of a broadly renewable energy portfolio, as I think industry and transportation will need at least something more than solar and wind to reach none-emission energy production saturation any time soon.

However, if my own Government's record is anything to go by here in the UK, waste management is a perenially-deferred problem and clean up was not part of the original billing of any existing Nuclear facilities. It's all stored on site pending long-term secure solutions or - if optimisim is t obe believed - until we can develop technologies to eke every last joule of energy from the ever-growing mountain of waste.
Maybe you can start from a different angle. It might sound odd, but try taking a simple concept that you know, say calculating a restaurant tip or something and write it out in English + LaTeX. Build on this until you can do some more complicated problems, and soon I would bet you’ll read math as something a bit closer to code in your head. I had to do this a lot for classes in college, and forcing yourself into exposition is the math equivalent of rubber ducky programming. LaTeX will give you a feel somewhere between math and code that might feel a bit more natural.
Please don't call willing experiment participants customers.
Those are both very good libraries and I did a lot of research on them before deciding to write SPHO. I'm planning to write an article on my findings but I can pretty much guarantee you that SPHO will save you many hours over those libraries.

The funny thing is that even doing a proper investigation of the different libraries will easily take you over an hour.
I love this. I will be using this from now on.
The Web Authentication standard [0] seems super useful and something we really need in the web.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Authent...
only if the subsidiary or branch has enough independence should the delegate be allowed;
can the local exec stop the spying on Canadians? if not, the top guy must be grilled.
> This is extremely wasteful and can be simply corrected by making schools actually hard.

What might actually help here is to move to a two-tiered method of grading. One is the actual grade, which is solely for the student as a personal evaluation and never made available to anyone outside the school, and the other is a pass/fail for the course.

Then if you have a D for the first half of the semester, you know you need to work harder because there is a significant risk that you don't pass the course. And mediocre students actually fail courses and either have to repeat them until they genuinely master the subject matter or have a "fail" show up on their transcript.

But the school doesn't disadvantage their students by giving out a B as the most common grade when other schools give As, and thereby doesn't deprive their students of honest performance feedback or make it impossible to fail bad students because when the 40th percentile students have an A the "bad" students have a B- when they deserve an F.
The reverse proxy is accessible from your browser and is properly configured to not accept random requests from any webpage (See: CORS). The others are not directly accessible, but only through the reverse proxy server. Does that make sense?
no dogpile lock support?
Using TfL open API

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389 inbound:

min: 24.14811016418819

lq: 63.13737031546762

med: 117.45915732519208

avg: 159.1719773263877

uq: 188.0955557392336

max: 845.60445291754

389 outbound:

min: 27.01945592261999

lq: 41.34298814984834

med: 117.00503319935248

avg: 146.97253048021068

uq: 167.28703169991314

max: 809.8962084249061

631 inbound:

min: 7.0860750640801

lq: 27.685480182275676

med: 104.91095883281287

avg: 128.12981380619047

uq: 218.11267557818746

max: 363.41330216008436

631 outbound:

min: 7.636546343123111

lq: 45.34651661429212

med: 105.97332735159804

avg: 135.50969372368004

uq: 203.01187569586028

max: 363.41330216008436
There is something based on Bloom IIRC, but the whole concept should be well-described and discoverable from the Keeping CALM paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01930
> Looking solely from a code perspective, how would this be done prior to Postgres 9.5 (before SKIP LOCKED)?

It's possible to implement SKIP LOCKED in userland in PostgreSQL (using NOWAIT, which has been in PG), although it's obviously a bit slower.
Google makes mobile-first indexing the default for all new domains
Lol this is terrifying.
You're still talking about progressive enhancement though.

There's a difference between using a user-agent check to find a very specific environment where a bug will occur, and using a user-agent check to determine which of 3 browsers you accept. Used properly, user-agent tests can be a kind of adjacent form of feature detection. Used improperly, and your site is best viewed in IE, even though the user is on a browser that they know will work.
Agreed, i'm not sure whether one letter (immutable) greek variables are better than proper named variables.

Another consideration: A formal rule based math syntax could be checked by a computer (theorem prover).
It was a Vancouver based company called Chronic Inc. that has since gone out of business. Hopefully the government can still recoup costs from the owners for their negligence. The waste is now being brought back to Vancouver, to be incinerated in a waste-to-energy plant.
كلمات اغنية عفوك يا رب عبدالله عادل مكتوبة كاملة
It's Youtube, not high frequency trading.
> Explicit sequences tend to be wrapped in angle-brackets, so that:

s = <s1, s2, ... sn>
(Please note that in LaTeX, one should use \langle and \rangle for angle brackets--not less than and greater than.)

The article is pretty good overall, but I find this an little odd. I don't think I've ever seen sequences denoted with angle brackets. You usually see those used for denoting an inner product. I've only ever seen sequences denoted with parentheses, like (a_n) = (a_1, a_2, ..., a_n).

It's kind of humorous to me that we can sort of fingerprint the textbooks/lecturers people learned from by the idiosyncrasies of their notation.
Though some like humanism tend to lead to less killing than might have gone on otherwise.
This post is gold, thanks @ptrott2017.

I've figured out about 50% of the stuff in this post already (hard won), but if anyone's starting out this content pretty much sums up the majority of B2B and B2E sales steps.

I'd add that with some of the higher value sells send them content or news articles which might be useful to them as an ice breaker. Establishing a genuine rapport is always a nice plus, especially if it shows that you understand their pain points.

Also if you have a prospect in mind ping them about something they've posted then wait a week or two before you pitch them with your proposition. Helps make it feel less like a one way transaction.
The same reason why the last Price is Right bidder will sometimes bid $1 more than the existing highest bid in the qualifying round.[0] It takes out one of the three other competitors, unless their guess was exactly correct.

The first ice cream vendor sets up in the center of the boardwalk, to minimize walking distance to all available customers. The second vendor sets up immediately adjacent, to take half the customers, who will stop at the nearest cart instead of walking another 2m. The third vendor, sets up on the opposite side from the 2nd, and then the first loses all their customers. So the first relocates to the other side of the 2nd, and they lose all their customers. Then the 2nd relocates to the other side of the 3rd.

The vendors should really cartelize, divide up exclusive territories, and collude to drive out newer competitors. But whenever the cartel breaks down, or none is active, the individual vendors are constantly trying to cut each others' throats by taking market share from the others. Each ice cream vendor cart needs a certain length of boardwalk territory to remain in business, so any two colluding vendors could force another to move by bracketing the target on either side. The game gets increasingly complex as you add more players, and more so when adding a second dimension, such that the vendors have a territory area, rather than a length.

Secoma is pursuing a strategy of claiming territories too small to support a greedier store, such that 7-11 can't carve away pieces of it without destroying itself and making no gains, whereas 7-11 is pursuing a strategy of sacrificing some of its stores to destroy all of its competitor stores, so that the survivors can divide the secured territories amongst themselves.

The game is like Go, but in real life. Instead of a grid on a board, the moves are putting a franchise store location down on a map. Pieces that are surrounded are removed. Scoring is by profit rather than by territory.

[0] In the qualifying round of Price is Right, 4 contestants try to guess the retail price of an advertised product, as closely as possible, without bidding greater than the actual retail price. The winner is then allowed to play one of the prize-awarding games.
Both Chrome and Safari generate passwords for you. In Safari's case, it also uses the OS/platform-provided secret storage and sync facilities, works in mobile apps, etc. I don't think you're accurately describing the current state of in-browser password management at all.
Yes, as usual those of us that told us the risk was low or non-existent were wrong again. How often do we have to be duped by so-called experts before we realize that the "experts" have actually no idea how to calculate risk, and that we can't rely on their "assurances"? It goes both ways, where scientists told us that salt and high fat diets were causing heart disease and now both of those have been walked back.
Non-English-Based Programming Languages
"I think its very important to engage with the fact that this is something China can do because of what we in the west deem unacceptably "authoritarian" governance."

I disagree.

Check the article again:

- Canada has been responsible for 40% as much 'man made greening' as China.

- Canada is 3% the population of China.

- Canada has provided 1500% 'more greening per capita' than China.

- Canada is obviously a decent modern democracy.

In 'per capita' or 'per square km' terms, or even in 'per GDP' terms, there doesn't seem to be a much of a story here.

So I don't think this is at all about 'authoritative power', in fact, arguably just the opposite.

FYI I think the 'real' story is in the opposite direction - a large country like Brazil which is currently having problems with deforestation.
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"the government arrests people and seizes factories that violate these ecological goals"

But near human slavery in factories with working commiting suicide, that does not violate any goals.

So it says greener today than 20 years ago. How Green were they in say 1960 and 1970 and 1980, etc. I take it since the article says 20 years, then 30 years ago the space was a lot greener before then?

Yes the US needs to pick up on green space, but remeber when you look at the map the south west (Cali to Texas, is not exactly good for trees.
no mutex dogpile lock or get_or_create functionality..
I'd refrain from using this person as any indication on what's happening in FreeBSD - he's known to be openly hostile against FreeBSD and making many repetitive false statements about it, after feeling hurt by the project rejecting his low quality and poorly written 'security' patches.