skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that matter?

It is clear that the duration between 2015-05-15 [1] and 2019-06-19 is about 2019 - 2015 = 4 years or exactly 1,496 days (or 1,497 days including both endpoints, yeah this is also somewhat ambiguous). It is much less clear that the duration in question is 4 years, 1 month and 4 days; depending on the use case months can be uniformly 30 days long, may or may count the "excess" days, or even do not matter (in which case the duration would be 4 years and 35 days). Generally such a duration is ambiguous without a context and it would be misleading to present it as exact.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md#ve... (in case you wonder)
Talking of PayPal in India, money should be automatically remitted to the bank account immediately.

At-least 3 months in SA sounds reasonable incase we have to process any refund, though I'm not trying to belittle the discomfort faced by your mother.
No consequential female characters? I don’t know what series you read, but it was not the same one. Almost half the cast is female.

Do you mean something different?
He painted himself in a corner very clearly. The series is about the legendary chronicles of a kingkiller, but 2/3rds of the way through, the story was about a street urchin, then a magical academy.

I thoroughly enjoyed the stories, but I feel closer to Harry Potter than the kingkiller. If he tries to get there in one book, I believe he will stumble. The tone and scale of the story so far has been much too small for a trilogy that promised an epic finish.
my emotions say "good he gets to spend time", my common sense says "now he gets a chance to surround himself further with already convicted haters which radicalize and cement his broken views further".

Sadly incarceration does't fix the underlying problem nor does it provide a net gain to society.
So if republican uses your findings they are automatically wrong?

Brb, gotta publish that P!=NP proof in a Republican journal.
A good comment on r/SlateStarCodex: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/c1nnsn/fbi_...
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It's my money, so also my flow of control, not that of the country I live in.

I know this is open ups the whole discussion about cryptocurrenies all over again, but maybe some people don't want government to have the monopoly on storing and transferring 'money'.
I suspect you've been downvoted because you've put out these long acronyms without (much) explaination and they may suspect, as I mistakenly did, that it was said in mockery.

From the wiki page:

The initialism LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual)
Actually, not enough with tax. :(
Raphmedia is talking about improving competition through better classifier, and you are pointing to experiments when people removes all classifiers.

There are searcher studies on how much of athletic success is heredity. That number is estimated to be around 66% at a minimum for all athletic sports, and around 80% for sports which has highly heritable (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3993978/).

That number is with gender separated sport classes. If we did coed brackets it would naturally go up, and in many sports above 90%. No one is advocating for such solution.

Instead what is suggested is to replace current classifier with those that reduces heredity as a determining factor. If we take endurance sports like biking, skiing, and running, blood values should not all be in the 99.9999 percentile of rare blood disease. Blood doping tests use conservative numbers and allow extreme range of blood values, and yet most contestant in world championships and the Olympic tend to be on the border of doping.

Heredity should not determine the outcome of professional competition. Weight, height, blood, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, and more all influence outcome. As can be read in the linked study, there are key performance genes linked directly to performance.

As the study conclude, Current evidence suggests that a favorable genetic profile is critical for the achievement of elite athletic status. Splitting sports into male and female does not fix this problem, and the discussion around rare chromosomes disorders that Caster Semenya has is a good reason why we should look into fixing unfair advantages that favorable genetic profiles has in competitive sport.
>Why can't this concentration of heat be used in straightforward distillation and why does distillation always seem to come in second best in terms of efficiency compared to the use of membranes? Is it because of the large surface area required?

Energy intensity (and the cost thereof) are a rate limiting factor for thermal desalination:[0]

"Thermal processes are robust, durable and, once in operation, require less maintenance. However, these processes, mainly MSF [Multi-Stage Flash], require large amount of energy for their operation. In fact, up to 50 percent of the operating cost may be attributed to providing energy for the operation of the plant. As a result, many thermal plants are constructed in conjunction with power plants to utilize exhausted steam from the latter. The associated costs of high-energy consumption can have particularly strong restraining effects on small and medium sized plants. However, thermal processes can utilize low grade, low cost source of heat, which would otherwise be lost and discarded to the environment like stack gases, cooling water streams or low pressure exhaust steam. Heat from solar energy can also be used in such processes."

>It surprises me that we haven't worked out a more efficient solar distillation process for desalination.

I'm often surprised at how long it takes to move from discovery to implementation and adoption. The photovoltaic effect was discovered in 1839.[1] Yet 180 years later solar is only 2.4% of the world's installed electricity capacity; transportation and heating/cooling are still overwhelmingly gas/oil.

On an optimistic note, that means humanity probably has tonnes of undeveloped science and engineering that has been discovered but not yet built. It would be infinitely worse if we had already exhausted our collective capacity for invention, yet still had not solved the problems and existential threats we face.

[0] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3f8c/147635ef7dae3050075c2c...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Becquerel
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Devil's advocate here, but to be fair, there's a pretty decent likelihood that we in the west have indeed been "brainwashed" into believing that freedom is actually more important than these other things he's listing (health care, housing, education, etc...).

If you set aside freedom as a goal in itself for a second, then it's actually worth asking: is freedom actually the most important factor leading to those other creature comforts everyone wants?

I traveled once to Singapore, where a number of people I met made the exact same argument Liu makes. They phrased it this way: sure, we don't have a free press, and we have a benevolent tyrant running the place, but:

- I drive a nice car

- I can travel anywhere in the world

- I live in a spacious appartment

- My kids go to great schools

- My country is a very safe place

- Healthcare in S'pore is great

- I have a million bucks in the bank

I know how repulsive such a line of reasoning might sound to a western-educated mind, but try to step out of the cocoon of your culture for a second (the actual "brainwashing" that every culture basically make us undergo) and see if you can actually counter the argument with logical arguments.
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"the the link between merit and (cladogenetic)[1] outcome(s) is(are) tenuous and indirect at best."

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

In new and fertile territory (random) variations that offer small (unforseeable) advantage can and often do dogpile until total victory is achieved, but I would hardly say the rest of the field flounders. Populations of 1%er's begetting the next don.
A stretch? If prime isn't a direct competitor, then no one is. Competitors can have different pricing structures and still be competitors.
this is a startlingly good idea.
I wouldn't be that hopeful. We have quite a number of wackos for the same reason that the US does (escaping religious "persecution" in Europe). Sorry.

Edit: also, much of the thawing land is the Canadian Shield, which is pretty useless for farming.
I wouldn't reference it to debunk global warming. I believe humanity has made a contribution.

But is it a problem?

It's also scientific fact that ice ages happen. If the climate cycle has entered a cooling period. Wouldn't it be beneficial if we can prevent or soften it?

What exactly is the ideal gas composition for earth considering carbon based life forms?
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>After the collapse of the USSR, regional governments and foreign governments stepped in

There was nevertheless a 30% drop in GDP. That's bound to have some effect.
It's amazing how detailed this is, and yet there are still steps missing!
> List the good outcomes you want, and the bad outcomes to be avoided

I feel like sometimes you don't know the bad outcomes, until they happen. E.g., years ago, my team had a fairly big outage/issue caused by S3 reads taking multiple of 60s. (That is, our latency graph had very large spikes right over 60s, 120s, 180s¹. These were reads in the typically in the 10 KiB to 100 KiB range, sometimes as large as single-digit megs — i.e., they should take milliseconds, maybe a second, not 3 minutes. It took a significant amount of back-and-forth² as it either only effected our bucket, or just nobody else noticed. But it slowed our ability to process down that we built up an incredibly backlogs. (Processing a file had previously taken <1s, and was now taking over three minutes in some cases, a 200x slowdown!)

This is still not covered by the S3 SLA.

Also had a different cloud provider where the "Create VM" API returned 200 OK. The VM never finished booting. The SLA was over the 200 OK, not the actual completion of the task. Basically, exactly the example in the article, with a real world "we're paying for this?" provider.

¹I'm simplifying. It was weirdly actually 70s, 130s, and 190s. I can only presume that's a 10s timeout and n 60s timeouts, somewhere.

²Woe unto the person who doesn't come to support with request IDs. My impression the whole time is "these guys can't see their own response latency?"
All it would have taken was to ensure that the children had a meal at night
Currently in incoming btw:

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Do not use third party recursive DNS services, such as Google or OpenDNS.

If running own DNS recursor, turn off EDNS; only send traditional 512 byte DNS packets.

Use DNS software that does not support EDNS, such as djbdns.
No, but they're also under no obligation to allow the ship to dock. Any ability to enforce standards ultimately derives from this option.
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he is just using a joke to refute rousseau's noble savage idea. nothing new, just a new way of doing it
> The average build for a AAA game coming out in 2020 is barely in playable shape and certainly not ready to be shown at E3.

Yet Nintendo let people play Breath of the Wild at E3 2016 and it came out in 2017. Everything from that trailer are things from the actual released game as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LIq8ryhG9c

So some companies clearly manages to do this. Another example is Blizzard, they typically have wysiwyg games as well.
Yeah the stairs was something I wasn't quite prepared for - I live on the 4th floor and have 60 steps to my garden, I have to carry our pup up and down every 2 hours at the moment (or less if she's eaten recently). She's never peed in her crate or on either of us, which is great but she has done so in the house a few times when we're ever so slightly distracted, but we're getting slightly better at it.

Glad to hear things are working out for you :)
I see your point, however, function parameter lookup is present in all IDEs I've tried/worked with (VSC, Atom, Jetbrains').

Is boolean flags antipattern? Well, this all depends on the workflow. I follow ideology of making thing work first, then making it perfect. If introducing flag saves me two hours that I can spent to deliver on time - hell - why not - knowing that everyone who works with me uses some modern text editor / IDE - they will know immediately what's the parameter is doing. Also, what I've observed is that most of the people do have a habit of `fn + click` into function they've never seen before - so they will learn about parameters one way or another.

Cheers
Sure, they partner with you and force you to sell the same thing for less money, with less brand recognition.

All under the implied threat that if you don't partner with them, they will go to a competitor and push that product before yours.
DuckDuckGo can do this for text just by entering base64 encode or decode and your text.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=base64+encode+Hacker+News&t=lm&ia=...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=base64+decode+SGFja2VyIE5ld3M%3D&t...
What if we designed the resolver to fetch many responses with the caching disabled and then caching all of them? In essence, force it to give you as many cookies as your desired anonymity set size and then sample this local store of cookies when calculating the response for the end client.
People keep spotting Teslas with snoozing drivers on the freeway
> When I moved here I was warned of 100 people turning up to a flat viewing, and laughed it off as some hyperbole. Only later did I find out that it actually happens, albeit the maximum viewing I went to was around a meagre 50.

The Bay Area has a rather efficient solution to this problem: limit the open house to 15 minutes. I wish I was kidding, but I saw multiple open houses that were literally 15 minutes long, and if you arrived 16 minutes after it started, too bad. And, unless you show up with a pre-filled application, credit report, blood sample, and your checkbook, there's no guarantee you'll even have a shot at the place.

Ok, the blood sample is a bit of an exaggeration, but not much. Apartment hunting in the Bay Area is not something I'd wish on anyone. I'm pretty sure Dante wrote about it in the Inferno somewhere.
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We used D3.js and WebCola to build the graph. Hope that helps!
> try to step out of the cocoon of your culture for a second

I like to think that the cocoon of my culture values all human lives equally.

Obviously it doesn't really (I'm Australian), but it feels nice to pretend anyway.
Cheng Xin, compared to Luo Ji, has next to zero initiative and is a paper thin character which seems to only be there to metaphorically scream "woman are weak and bad for civilization".

The whole section of the book/civilization where everyone is feminized and most of the toxic male behaviors have been repressed is depicted as a "bad thing" leading to weak people and a weak civilization.

The first book was decent, certainly good, science fiction, with an endearing new scooby mystery at every chapter leading into another mystery. But the other two were bad. Going on in bad tolkien-ism (I've beared reading the Silmarillion three times) with overlong descriptions of unimportant details and derailing into ideology every two paragraphs.
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Zeit.co does this too. I think it's weird
I don't understand how a crawler could change the language of the wiki without being authenticated.
Company wikis should not be accessible from outside a VPN or physically being on the office lan.
The benchmark states that, for intel's processor, "# of samples" is 1 while AMD is 32. What does this mean? Are Intel's results taken from a single lucky test run while AMD's results are a statistic compiled from 32 test runs?
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> An other issue with that is when the service is used internationally / globally

This also often happens prematurely. If the team in the US needs live data entered in Asia then there's not much you can do, they system has to be global. But an often overlooked option (today) is running multiple instances of the same software with each only needing nine fives in it's region. Even if you do need live data it might be better to have another process shuffling it between international instances. Also helps with latency.
If you don't want Firefox Quantum, you should still switch to a supported browser that kept XUL, such as Basilisk.

Also I'm curious, what extensions are missing? Most of my pre-quantum extensions, such as Tree Style Tabs, have been updated now.
In three years, Libra will be the largest single venue of public financial services. All branches of retail banks are upgraded with Libra teller machines, becoming fully distributed. Afterwards, they transact with a perfect operational record. The Blockchain Currency Bill is passed, replacing the dollar with Libra. The system goes online on August 4th, 2022. Human decisions are removed from central banking. Libra begins hashing at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
They do, I developed the basis for a pet tracker more than 10 years ago, actually the highest cost for them is the cellular plan and monthly service fees for the service.
The process is called Multiple Effects Distillation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-effect_distillation

It is a commercially successful process. For example Hitachi have build 8 plants delivering a total of 8,600m3/day https://www.hitachizosen.co.jp/english/products/products011....
Just my impression from my reading. Now I think of it I can recall three female characters from the first book. The only one who I would consider consequential was a scientist who survived the cultural revolution and lead a campaign to destroy humanity because of her horrible experiences then (didn't think she had a believable motivation). Her mother who basically sold out her father and her family to stay on the good side of the cultural revolution. The last one was a love interest of the main character who was defined by her physical characteristics (they actually found a woman who matched his perfect dream partner). I can't recall any new female characters from the 2nd book, and I am only reading the third book now. All the other scientists, politicians, police officers, conspirators etc... that I can recall were male. I didn't have a problem with this. It just reminded me of something like the lensmen series. It probably reflects a society where it is common for women to be home makers and the men to pursue careers.

Edit: In reply to Aeolun (couldn't see a reply button below your post):
>We have the technology today to launch boulders weighing hundreds of tons to Mars.

You must be joking, or you are completely unaware of Tsiolkovsky's equation.
It's a truly fascinating piece, but wow, I didn't expect going in that I'd come out not liking him. On the other hand, I didn't really know anything about Liu Cixin or his work before now, so maybe this is all well-trodden ground for everyone else.
Hashes are one-way, so cannot be decrypted. The server can _compare_ the results of a hash (by doing the hash itself, and comparing the results), though.
Exactly. Honestly, having lived for a while in Singapore myself, I don't think there is much logical argument to be made against that.

Another thing to be considered is that freedom in the West gets more and more relative latterly. Say the wrong thing in public (or even in private, if it is made public), and you can easily be fired, even denied future jobs. Is the overall degree of freedom in most Western countries that different to that in, e.g., Singapore? I'm not sure it is (it's clearly better than China's, though... at the moment).
I agree a large advance is still newsworthy, but it's just laziness not to go on to say what that means, ag "giving a really rather good 36% overall" or "despite the still-low overall officiency, scientists are optimistic about future progress" etc.

Then again how are they even measuring efficiency, is there a theoretical minimum energy required to remove the salt from water?
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Could have been Gandhi? Surely if it's clever, one of them must have said it.
Where is the bandwidth coming from? Coax in general is sharing bandwidth between the whole neighborhood, hence the piss poor upload speeds and latency.

Obviously all bandwidth is shared at some point, but the extend to which coax is is ridiculous in my experience. They sell individuals hundreds of megabits download, 5 “megabit” upload, when the whole neighborhood might only have a few hundred megabits download capacity total.

It’s a joke compared to symmetric fiber connections, and that they share even more of your connection with their xfinitywifi adds to that. Hence why one should always buy and use your own cable modem.
I'd hazard to guess that Milankovitch cycles come up seldom because they're pretty widely recognized as not being a determining factor in the climate change we see. For an in-depth explanation of how the phenomenon relates to climate change see this well-sourced video: https://youtu.be/zQ3PzYU1N7A
> After determining the source IP of the crawler (one of the admins was experimenting with Nutch as a supplement to the wiki's impoverished search capabilities and had authenticated the crawler using their admin credentials)

Quoting the article.
Its only a "problem" to stagnant banking industries upset bitcoin offers superior service and reliability to consumers at reduced cost.
Internal crawling to build a search index:

> one of the admins was experimenting with Nutch as a supplement to the wiki's impoverished search capabilities and had authenticated the crawler using their admin credentials
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The problem of your people being hit by a bus is much higher in the military.

What's crazy about these systems is they spend decades writing millions of lines of code, and then only put it in 200 devices.
Pendulum is slowly turning back to "Everything's an Object". Time to decorate Jabba sections in that CV and remember to drop in an obvious reference to GoF/Fowler/UncleBob writeups.
The Israeli Ituran has a similar service for cars, although I think they are based on cellular location and not GPS.
There are few problems with that though- thieves know where and how to disable the device, even if you can locate the car you need someone to go and fetch it- most of the times this will be in place you don't want to go to alone, and a problem unique to Israel is that thieves can cross the border to the Palestinian Authority before you can deploy any police force to stop them.
Care to name and shame? Or are you talking about many different experiences.

I’ve never really had this problem but my sample size is small.