skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”there's almost no need to buy a TV anymore to watch content.”

You’re talking about access. People don’t buy a TV to get access to content, they buy one to watch the content, whether that’s via cable, OTA, streaming services, pirating, etc. Are you saying that people in India are just fine with consuming all of their TV and movies on a tiny phone screen?

I know some people who don’t have a TV, but they would rather just not watch TV/movies at all than stream it to their phone (other than maybe during a long commute or while on the plane).
That's probably more a matter of natural selection. neanderthal y-chromosome DNA was also almost entirely eliminated from the human genome, as well as neanderthal genes in several other places.

When two different dog breeds have pups those mutts are just as fertile as any other dog. When a horse and a donkey have a mule that mule is almost entirely infertile. The first human/neanderthal descendants were probably significantly less fertile than their parents but generations of selective pressure seem to have purged the particular genes that were causing problems which you would expect to include mDNA.
Actually I tend to think less specific - it's a global problem of globalisation and global supply chains. That rather makes it everyone's problem - those that created it, bought it, disposed of it and possibly recycled some of it. Recycling aimed to make the problem better and ended up so broken that it's making it worse. Pointing the finger at someone else to escape in each and every piece on the matter isn't particularly helpful.

I've slowly ended up thinking that simply dumping it in landfill is less harmful, but not as good as producing less in the first place. Which is still a point in favour of your state's reluctance to recycle.
(note, I'm not the right type of doctor to answer this properly, but my understanding is...)

A lot of chemos are some type of poison, only slightly worse for the tumor than it is for the rest of your body. It doesn't die fast enough (and if it did, you'd be killing the rest of you too). Think months / years with chemo vs. weeks with CAR-T.
Money provides safety and freedom and is crucial for happiness on low to medium-income levels. However, with more money neither safety nor freedom doesn't increase significantly (sometimes it's even the opposite) hence no increase in happiness.
Also one of the most dangerous places to be in a plane, statistically, is on the ground. A surprisingly large proportion of historic fatalities in air accidents have been crashes on the taxiway or runway between two aircraft (eg plane lands on top of another or taxis across a live runway when it shouldn't do).
I have a similar feeling. And that is why I spent one whole chapter in data.table (and pandas). Hope more R users would like to learn and use data.table.
Yeah, I can totally understand struggling with this. I do too...
> I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles all over the country and never experienced either.

Anecdata is a funny thing :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=stenengooiers+viaduct

NL is super small, quite dense and the media here tend to report these things widely so you get a lot of copycat stupidity on top of the first idiot. People have died here because of this.
The article doesn't say anything about that.
Mine as well, I believe it was intentionally click baitey.

However, it looks like they developed the tech in house, which is a testament to China's advances in R&D. I've long worked at semiconductor companies where employees wrote off Chinese tech as incompetent, but their ignorance and hubris was the thing China was relying on to move up the value chain organically.
I'd argue basically everything about mandatory arguments is worse than having edgecases like this.

Honestly, most languages STILL won't catch this, because the typical pattern is to use method overloading to provide multiple signatures if default arguments aren't supported.

parseInt(in)
parseInt(in, radix)
I enjoy not knowing their take. If they saw value, so might I.
No paywall: http://archive.is/y5cR3
The unfortunate consequence of this is that some previously viable types of movies won't make financial sense in a mostly streaming world. Spending 50 million dollars to produce a comedy only to have it end up on Netflix competing directly with thousands of low budget comedy TV shows and indie films isn't going to work. Would a movie like Austin Powers be able to make money today?
I want a newspaper that can call a lie a lie (2012)
If you want to do something about climate change, a paper called Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning[0] just came out, and under Tools for Individuals a startup called Tomorrow[1] is mentioned. I know they're actively looking for help to get more integrations to their app to calculate people's personal CO2 emissions.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05433
[1] https://www.tmrow.com/
If this is a concern, the best solution to me is to limit the influence of elite institutions. If billionaires want to throw money to build monuments to themselves, why stop them?
The primary reason for doing a direct listing is because you don't need to raise capital. It's mostly reserved for the case where you want your pre-existing shareholders to access the liquidity of the public markets.

In contrast, if you're actually going public to raise more capital, direct listings are a lot riskier. Basically the point of the IPO, and paying investment banks huge fees, is to select and handhold the new investors.

The investment bankers perform a lot of work around actually getting supply to meet demand. They're doing roadshows in front of potential investors, getting feedback on the best way to present the company, trying to determine what the market would price the company, etc. They're also making some effort to curate a higher-quality investor base, i.e. those who actually believe in the company's vision and aren't likely to flip the shares for easy money or sell out at the first sign of trouble.

The reason for the traditional IPO pop mostly has to do with compensating these types of investors for making a commitment and taking a risk on an unproven stock.

Now if it's definitely debatable whether what the company pays in the form of investment banking fees and systematic underpricing is actually worth it. But the point is that for a company like Slack, which isn't raising capital, it's almost certainly not worth it. On the flip side the success of this particular doesn't necessarily tell you anything about how much value a traditional IPO does or doesn't add.
What 'Virginia wants' is almost irrelevant.

"Virginia tried very hard to make sure that HQ2 is not just more government contracting jobs"

Virginia can think whatever they want, but Amazon will do what it wants to do.

The objective is not 'contracting jobs' - that's not Amazon's business. The objective is to deeply entrench AWS services and products into government.

The amount of money - and especially the incumbency - provided to the winner of 'gov cloud' will be gigantic.

Defence and civie agencies spent $6.5B on cloud services in 2018, up 35% (!) from the year before, that's an incredible growth rate. [1]

This is going to grow like wild for some time, and that's Amazon's objective.

The lobbying/relationship efforts will be important as well.

Virginia is just the local government, they are actually not hugely part of the equation other than the specific incentives as you point out. Even the 'investment in education' is not hugely sweet for businesses, as the majority of workers won't come from Virginia anyhow.

The best thing Virginia can do is 'be a good government' - make sure the infrastructure, healthcare, schools etc. are well managed.

[1] https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/09/federal-clo...
Firefox that comes packaged in Fedora. No config changes made.

I believe it's the Roboto font at small sizes that causes issues on Firefox.
I haven't read this book, but regardless of its ultimate correctness, it's worth recognizing that it too is interpretative mythmaking (about who we are based on a very small historical slice of our existence). It probably generalizes well enough to who we've been since the last glacial maximum, but I think there's enough evidence to be skeptical of interpreting any human group since the LGM as untouched by the processes driving what we call civilization.

"Civilization" is a relative measure, not an absolute one. It's shaped by what we're accustomed to, and vulnerable to unknown biases. (Is raising and slaughtering your own pig more or less civilized than modern factory farming? Is solitary confinement more or less civilized than exile?) Claiming to discuss war "before" civilization draws an arbitrary line separating very gradual change driven by many competing/interacting processes. What standard do we measure whether some group of people in some place and time were civilized against?

If you measure against the great apes, when did the relationships between hominid groups and their environments cross a rubicon? What technological and social markers count? Tool use? Language? Trade? Making objects and carrying them around with us over great distances? Art? Stories? Clothing? Religion? Cooking? Baking? Early agriculture?

AFAIK there's evidence for most of these back well into the stone age (and in some cases among pre-homo-sapiens hominids). We're also mostly limited to studying sites above modern sea levels and have vastly less access to evidence of hominid activity that may exist in areas now under water (including glacial refugia such as the potential "Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis"
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> wrong to confuse "material non-public information" with hard to acquire information like counting cars in satellite photos.

Err, no he is not wrong to confuse it.

Is satellite imagery public information? Is that something a person in the normal public could acquire even if they wanted to?

If it's not public and the results of the imagery are material... then it's material non-public information and it's illegal to use it for trading purposes.

>All sorts of people work very hard and spend a lot of money to develop proprietary information in the pursuit of stronger

But they should be doing it under the umbrella of PUBLIC information. If not, then yes it is completely "unfair". Your bullshit about there should be "no expectation of fairness in the stock market" is just silly.
It's as old as time...

Eamon Javers' book Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy covers some cases of this sort of thing. One I can easily remember is a hedge fund flew private planes around taking areal photos near power plants. Coal fire power plants store their fuel out in the open and they buy it by the train-load, so they were able to time the market based upon when power plants were going to make large coal purchases, as they do it when their piles of coal reach a certain size. I don't remember the numbers quoted in the book but they made money doing this, it was a couple percent.

It's only unfair if you think your 401k or personal trading account is/can/will grow anything like what hedge funds do. This coal market manipulating fund, they put money in, flying planes around and taking pictures isn't free, then they did analysis on the pictures which wasn't free, then they put real money in to the market to bet on it moving a certain way... which they are really only allowed to do because there is a counter-party that is willing to take that bet on. If it were really egregious, you could argue that the folks buying energy at incrementally higher rates are getting the shaft and that's not really fair but their energy provider could be smarter about when it orders up fuel. Once it goes public, the players and market tend to react to it
> Aside from implementation details
Everyone on the team would benefit from strongly preferring short (single change) pull requests. Complicated PRs have a high cognitive load for anyone and this issue is highlighting that problem, not causing it. This is a good excuse to enforce a policy to package changes as small, separate PRs whenever possible. Although I might be reading too much into your comment about "significant amount of code" being the tipping point.

I generally think PR tools are all based on the same bad, diff-centric workflow that doesn't capture the narrative of the changes while bludgeoning the reviewer with minutia up front. The only defense my team has found is by making bite-sized PRs whenever humanly possible.
I can't think of any reason we'd want to encourage retail investors to buy single name stocks. In days of yore you could argue that it was a good way for them to share in the bounties of economic growth, but with the rise of low-cost passive index funds that's obviously no longer true.
Heh, you can't even use it in Europe with paying for them to respect the GDPR.
I think this is a case where one size doesn't fit all. For a laptop, or a car as the other poster mentioned, it's high cost, and there's many options.

Whereas if you're just buying some simple items that have no options at all, you don't need a complicated checkout, just a list of the items and the taxes and shipping cost.
I'm able to read it if I open the HN "web" link in a new private window and click through there.
Chrome opens non-Chrome clicked links in last active window, no matter the profile.

This is the expected behavior.
AI2 did this analysis to shed light on this surprising disparity. We believe this gender gap likely has impacts across the computer science field, as it's likely that fewer female researchers means fewer academic role models, and therefore fewer female students engaging (and sticking) with the CS discipline and becoming researchers themselves.
That's what I've done, but I still idly (this is not really in the top 100 things I'm concerned about right now) wonder where this ends up if things sort themselves out so much.
"listen, will you get on your phone and find that actor's name?"

"Oh of course that's him, brilliant! And he was in that other movie, what was it? yes, that was the one!"
Very many are supplied by pipelines though to avoid that need.
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Glides Past Intel Core I9-9900K in Leaked Geekbench Numbers
This would depend on when you spend your review times. I do mine 2-3 times a day: morning with my coffee, around lunch, evening after dinner. Times that are otherwise mostly "idle" (if I'm doing anything else, it's browsing, reading a book, or watching a show). I do sometimes put together cards during the workday (I need to get back into this habit) after looking up something I don't know or couldn't recall but thought was worth committing to memory.

In the end, trying to remember everything would be silly and largely a waste. But memorizing those things that are common (but not daily) pain points would probably be an improvement over not. OTOH, I'm not going to quantify my time sufficiently to be able to provide clear evidence that it really speeds up my work.
Recipients who have malicious programs on their computer may still be able to copy or download your messages or attachments.

Recipients who do not have malicious programs on their computer also may still be able to copy or download your messages or attachments.
>> off-field forced landing that went badly.

Parachutes. They are now a very practical option for GA aircraft. More than a few cessnas have been saved. The concept of "off-field forced landing" should too be going away.

https://brsaerospace.com/cessna-faqs/

"
Q. How many aircraft saves are credited to a BRS Whole Aircraft Rescue Parachute System?
A. As of August 2017, 376."
Lisp isn't a large language, it's a small language with a large library.
Some information has material amounts of actual dollar value. Whoever knows that your employer has an acquisition in the works that will be announced tomorrow has an extraordinarily easy way to monetize that. This information rightfully belongs to your employer, who is keeping it under wraps for financially important business reasons. Sharing it or acting on it means enriching yourself at the expense of those business reasons (or more directly, through influencing stock prices).
It appears that it isn’t working, since crime has risen quite a bit in London for the past few years.
People with a greater emphasis on work-life balance probably wouldn't stay at a job requiring occasional massive overtime, like the comment you replied to. At that point, the dinner after work is no longer the issue.
What's the definition of over-utilizing a VPS?
Being factually correct is probably not the best way to get someone to go home with you.
The list is at https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/file/tip/too... looking at the blame view will usually lead to the bug that introduced the probe. Short of the file being refactored, which case you need to look at the file before the refactoring happened. That will describe the reason and the data review that occurred before adding the probe. There is also the probe dictionary at https://telemetry.mozilla.org/probe-dictionary/?optout=true&... which is a bit easier to read.
Also, Common Lisp's standard library cannot compare to Python, Java etc. They have a lot of language manipulation tools but not actually anything that will help you ship quickly if you are building generic CRUD style applications. CL tends to shine when it comes to extremely domain specific niche stuff where you practically have to write your own tooling from scratch.
> This is believed to be a commonly violated regulation

I believe that is an understatement. I've heard it described as the most commonly violated rule in aviation. There are a number of youtube pilots who commonly violate this rule seemingly without too much worry.
It's a bummer this is happening in a major way internationally too. Wandering Earth was maybe the worst movie I've seen in 10 years, yet China is falling over itself saying it's the best "Sci-Fi" ever made. Once Asia only churns out Michael Bay garbage, it'll all be over.
We must meet very different plutocrats, that's all I can say.
Indeed. The stock market isn't a game where one person's win is another's loss. The price is an information conduit which signals where the economy should allocate capital.
The lists, and Nature index, seem like a pretty transparent ploy. Want your institution ranked well? Make sure you publish with us.

Departments and institutions already fret over US News rankings. I wonder if we'll see memos encouraging publication in NPG journals if these rankings become regular.
Great way to disrupt a business - reclassify it from 'job' to 'not a job', so you can mistreat your workers, and don't have to pay a living wage.
Genes from Dennisovans, which had been living in Tibet for a very long time, are also why modern Tibetans are better adapted to high altitudes than other homo sapiens groups living in similar conditions.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/tibetans-inherited-h...
Do you imagine or do you have experience? My contacts with the government has been okay, not amazing but okay. Shouldn’t we try to increase communication between the government and its citizens?
There are plenty of publicly traded hedge funds that any investor can buy into. BlackRock, Blackstone, Berkshire Hathaway..
And then some major activism and those laws go away. We can't afford a fatalist attitude to this. It very much is not inevitable that airplanes with cameras with monitor everything we do. And even if the data is gathered there may be some ways to control or delay its use for nefarious activities.

It's a choice, and we have a voice in that choice. There is a broad range of possible outcomes here some much worse than others.
This sort of thing has been going on for a while.

https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/koch-foundation...

> In 2007, when the Charles Koch Foundation considered giving millions of dollars to Florida State University’s economics department, the offer came with strings attached.

> First, the curriculum it funded must align with the libertarian, deregulatory economic philosophy of Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist and Republican political bankroller.

> Second, the Charles Koch Foundation would at least partially control which faculty members Florida State University hired.

> And third, Bruce Benson, a prominent libertarian economic theorist and Florida State University economics department chairman, must stay on another three years as department chairman — even though he told his wife he’d step down in 2009 after one three-year term.
> exemplifying their bad-faith approach to politics

One may agree or not, but I think his position is fairly clear, and not healthcare -specific.
Unfortunately not. There are also 4-5 year renewal cycles. In any case, for the affected machines, there is no Apple Care aware any more as it is limited to 3 years after purchase.

This is an even greater problem with iPads, Apple Care only lasts for 2 years after the purchase, so any significant repair after that usually means a total loss.
Walmart's Kickstarting a $1T Driverless Delivery Market
A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore
They should not. All that's left to retail investors are mutual funds and index funds, which can be a decent deal but which also tie the interests of retirees to the interests of shareholders, which is kind of dumb and fucked up.
If you live in the US, I'd suggest you join your local NextDoor.com - especially a suburban one.

You'll quickly learn that people would vote for a totalitarian authoritarian fascist state with constant surveillance and instant death penalties if it meant eliminating the risk of their Amazon package being stolen from their porch, or their car being broken into.
Every person learns differently, so there's no absolute statement that applies when talking about learning.

You are right, if you code frequently, it becomes much more retained. Not everyone who wants to learn to code has time, that is, a full time job, or a dedicated course of study within which to build that repetition.

I'm managing now and when I go home I like to spend time with my family, but I still like to learn new things and play with new ideas/languages on hobby projects, but I am very time constrained. Things like flash cards help me a lot, especially if I have a large gap of time between the last time I touched something.

I assume the author is in a similar position to me, or that they learn better with flash cards. I went back to Rust to play around a bit and found myself having to re-read the Rust book to get my head wrapped around a few things that were really obvious, but lost in the prose of the book after being away for a few months.

I strongly encourage you to think about how others learn, especially if you're ever in a position to teach or mentor anyone in your field.