skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much pure math. If I pretend I had never heard of Tao, then I would have completely believed these notes if they had ended with "And that's how I failed my comprehensive exam," instead of, "After this, they decided to pass me."

It's funny to me that just going by the tone (without having any domain knowledge), it's hard to tell how well he was doing.
Desperately trying to keep stability isn't evidence of stability, it's evidence that the leadership thinks they aren't stable.
>> Okay, but if a dongle breaks, you just buy another dongle.

Sure. But what if you're onsite somewhere and can't get one nearby? This is a huge problem if you're somewhere where you are required to use a wire for networking (these places do exist).
It's actually a well put together story and worth reading.
I'm done with Apple.
The same release from a vessel in open water is less likely to damage an ecosystem than release from the shoreline. That said, if it's diluted enough and released over a long enough period of time, it's unlikely to make much difference.
Trump may not want to go to war but he's surrounded himself with people (e.g. Bolton) who do.
I'm an Australian taking a short European getaway. We're currently in northern Italy - Veneto region.

Holy crap it's hot.

High 30s every day, and perhaps because the towns consist of stone streets and buildings, and perhaps because there's not much wind, but it feels much hotter than the equivalent temperatures we're used to in summer at home. (Edit: Others have pointed out humidity would be a factor too - perhaps the biggest. That may be the case, though at around 50%, it's not as humid as I've experienced elsewhere, including in Australia at times.)

We're heading to southern France next week, and the forecasts suggest the heat wave will still be in force then.

I mean, no complaints, we're feeling lucky to be here and are still having a great time, but boy, this is not what you expect in Europe.
I agree that the experience of querying EAV databases using SQL can feel cumbersome [0]. But Datomic's dialect of Datalog [1] is a great fit for EAV and can produce much more readable and simpler queries.

[0] https://gist.github.com/grafikchaos/1b305a4e0b86c0a356de

[1] https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/query.html
If that's your threat model you aren't taking buying advice from HN.
East-European states certainly do not think that they can survive without the help of the US.
Facebook Fined 1M Euro over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
If you want to DIY tesseract is open source and does decent OCR. You can even train it yourself.
couldn't they just enforce the existing encryption export regulations to basically break the whole industry?
A better Fast Refresh mode is on it's way into React Native
To elaborate more and provide some substance, the existential threat posed by regulations like this is really hard to get across to the broader public. The more good analogies we can acquire for explaining why every day people doing every day things should be able to do so privately, is important.
In Germany almost nobody has AC. I would expect France to be the same.
Thank you.

It appears to be a leitmotif with the apple ecosystem: they try to lure you in and then keep you in by limiting your choices of interoperability.

At some point, this should have a negative overall: the number of users gained vs. the number of users not joining due to fears of being locked in.
Why not just use a json store for those sparse attributes?

EAV performance at large scale is really dreadful. So many queries.
Well the source is winds blown in from North Africa so you’re not wrong
Bumble's new community guidelines are ill-considered & unenforceable
No but the treath of it does. Name me on other superpower that doesent rely on strong military.
Caring for the Last of a Species
No, I didn't forget. What else would the "Cold War" be about? In any case, the US wasn't interested in democracy, and in some cases even suppressed it (they certainly worked to suppress elections whenever they thought they would go against improved relations with the US, regardless of what the nationals of the country they messed with wanted). The US was only interested in fighting the Reds, protecting their interests and that "free" trade flowed with the US.

In any case, you're moving the goalposts. "But the USSR...!" isn't a good refutation of "the US wasn't about bringing heavenly freedom and democracy to the world".

Students detained, tortured and disappeared by dictatorships trained and abetted by the US. Pregnant mothers raped, electrocuted, and their babies illegally relocated to strangers. Democratically elected governments taken down by force. In some case, even US citizens caught in the crossfire and murdered. "But the USSR...!". Right, I guess nobody told them it was for their own good!
One important difference is heat management.

Electric weapons are super neat. Their specs can put the projectile very kenetic, they can uitilize more exotic energy sources, etc.

However, in terms of a man portable gun, they just really don't have the specs needed. Sure, we can make them more ruggeded and more effective at lower KE output. But a major issue for a man portable gun is heat. Heat causes expansions and affects ductility, ductility and expansion cause jams. Jams mean you're dead.

It turns out that the brass cartridge is really really good at getting hot and then taking that heat with it as it is ejected. The HK-G11 is a good example of the issues that the lack of heat ejection can cause [0].

As we do not have super-conducting materials that can be man portable and at room temperature, there is significant heat build up in the copper rails of the rail gun. With catridges you can throw that heat away easily, with rails, you have to have a cooling system in them to continue to use the gun. Either that or you have to stop the warfighter from using the gun until it cools. This, especially when lives are on the line, is non ideal.

Hence, railguns are mostly used in much larger applications like ships. There you can have the cooling equipment to keep the gun functional and operating and you can use the ocean as a heat sink. Your heat issues are still present though. More exotic materials than cooper are used for the rails, things that need to be at LN2 temperatures. But on a ship, you have the room and weight to carry the LN2 cooling equipment. Currently, railgun tech is still being developed. Reliability is a big issue, one that was solved in chemically launched projectiles through decades of tial and error. Rail guns are likewise going to need those decades of learning to occur.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGKcvM2Hh4g
> But I never see anyone anymore, and that's starting to wear on me.

Work is not a replacement for a social life, and there are more ways to develop one now than ever. And, the social load from people who do their social life at work is actually one of the reasons I prefer working from home: I have only so many spoons to spare, and I'd rather spend them on people I chose to associate with. Those might, occasionally, happen to be coworkers, but even then I'd rather socialize in non-work context.

It is a drag when other people still work in the office, or _really want to_ be working in the office, as evidenced by a heavy emphasis on synchronous communication. I'm starting to despise Zoom, for reasons that aren't really directly related to anything Zoom does.
Work Misperception
Lol.. That's the normal temperature during summer in India.
China is already nearly spending as much as the US is on its military once you adjust for the difference in the cost of personnel (which is half of US military spending), ie adjust for PPP. The US has the best paid soldiers in the world for any major military, which matches up with the US having among the highest median pay of any nation.

When China's economy is another 50% larger, matching where US GDP is at today, you can expect China's real military spending to considerably exceed the US today.

Thanks to drastically lower salaries & benefits, the personnel costs for the Chinese military is a far smaller portion of its total military spending as compared to the US share.

Adjusted PPP comparison: https://i.imgur.com/SY22Whj.png
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48795264 has a map of the worst affected areas
> The disk images are disguised as Adobe Flash Player installers, which is one of the most common ways malware creators trick Mac users into installing malware.

Most Mac users know that Flash is a piece of malware itself and would never be fooled into installing it.
Personally, I'll avoid any Apple products just because of the not uncommon horror stories I hear from customer service.
Federalist 68 applies to any conversation on the original intent of how the Electoral College was supposed to work. Unfortunately, state legislatures long ago perverted this system by making the worst possible people in America the Electors, by law: party loyalists.

By definition a party loyalist is not a deliberative person, as described in Federalist 68. And further, party loyalists are the people most centrally located in bitter partisanship, the very thing that lends itself to "cabal, intrigue, and corruption" referred to as things most to be avoided, in Federalist 68.

We have all permitted this perversion of something that, despite its also racist past, could actually be useful but is instead detrimental. The Electoral College could play a role if we were serious, but Americans right now take their TV shows more seriously.
What is the name of the font on that B-17 checklist? It is that mid-century engineering font that I love so much.
This is from 2018 but has good advice on what to do during a heatwave and how our bodies react

Why some people suffer during heatwaves:

https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/23/why-some-...
Ok, here's something 4K with same or better other specs compared to mine, at $1000. https://www.amazon.com/VivoBook-Touchscreen-i7-7700HQ-GeForc...

I've used the trackpad and looked at the screens of MBPs and it was nothing special. Didn't even realize the resolution was more than normal 1080p at the time. Battery life/speakers/microphone/trackpad are fine on mine. I don't see how you could think aesthetics are important enough to skimp out on power.
I started using the techniques immediately, for applicable deep learning and NLP projects. There's no need to finish the entire course to get some actionable rapid prototyping done. Each lecture is nearly self contained once you're comfortable with the basics.
Basically he says Carbon is contributing to GHG and climate change but claims that managing a 1.5C is more expensive than “going green”.

That is it would be long term cheaper to adapt to climate change than to reverse it (with the proviso that we tax the externalities of carbon.)

It’s an interesting proposition and perhaps it does have economic merit. Of course many people will dismiss it out of hand because it questions our present assumptions.
> That's just not possible in the US.

This is a chicken and egg argument. Supply and demand fixes these things.
Part of it is pharmaceutical companies overselling them as safer alternatives to previous drugs that caused epidemics. Oxycodone was marketed as safer than Heroin when it first came out. The other part is we still treat drug users as criminals and there is a lot of prejudice against addicts. People seem to think it is just a matter of willpower to beat it and it isn't. Drug users return to drugs because society still shuns them even in recovery.
Except Nvidia publishes some of the best (and most) machine learning papers when compared to other companies or universities
You fall in one of two groups here:

1. The NSA probably has the ability, one way or another, to break E2E encryption. This is a symbolic move attempting to soothe the masses into thinking their communication is still secure.

2. This is vast government overreach trying to stifle personal privacy. Such a bill is idiotic not only because it runs counter to the US Constitution, but also because enforcing such a bill would be virtually impossible.
The “slander” (not a legally accurate use of the term) referred to the media campaign, which was effective around 2010-12 and has lingering effects, as seen here.
It's also a lot harder to write, and in most cases developer time costs a lot more than another instance or two.
It does seem like Macbook Pros have been on the decline. But this new Mac Pro feels like Apple turning back to the workstation use case anymore, especially with a quad-GPU option. I'm hoping the departure of Jony Ive will turn the Macbook Pros back in the right direction.
I got "reCAPTCHA script loading".

You need not to use hosts to block it, uMatrix could do it by itself.
I did read it, and it is attempting to portray what it calls mitigations as strictly negatives with no benefits when in fact they have huge potential as engines of job growth and other positive effects such as long term reduction of pollution outside of just the CO2 being discussed.
This is not old news. There is still an IBM slack channel called #general with 30k+ people in it. And people regularly arrive in it to say "hi". No useful information is shared.
Just out of curiosity, what else if not the kernel would be interesting to copy from MacOS? I use a Mac but just don't have the inclination to learn about it under the hood (unlike Linux). Besides the various apps they include and the graphical / window system, I can think of LaunchD, drivers, but not much more that would be worth a lot to China.
As if the bash syntax for simple string manipulation and piping and quoting and escaping and even determining if a string is empty wasn't unnecessarily complex.

As I said, the "Unix Philosophy" of plugging together artificially limited tools by pipes is intellectually bankrupt (and terribly inefficient). That was my whole point.
Astronomers discover the source of unexplained cosmic radio burst
Notes "just works" for me.

And I have hundreds of notes that I migrated from Evernote.
Genetic Ancestry Math
What dating method do you use to confirm this?
There is also a 2A argument if encryption algorithms are classified as munitions.
" We only need to be as strong as the combined strength of our nearest rivals. "

So eternal arms race then?
To be fair what PC company does not have horror stories when it comes to customer service? The only exception I've personally experienced is Dell enterprise support, but that's a far reach from what any consumer will have.
>but might have been even lower in 2013

$7.25 has been the federal minimum wage since 2009
> Why do you say China is unstable?

It's now a dictatorship, with a single man ruling for life. The history of dictatorships shows, for fundamental reasons, stability in the short term and chaos in the medium.

(The fundamental reasons include not being able to back away from bad decisions, eliminating competent rivals, and as a result bumbling into crises that seem to escalate themselves.)
I think of phones as a 3 year replacement cycle. Though I am in year 4 with my 6s now. I get the manufacturer's original warranty plus the additional 2 years of repair or replace from my American Express card. One upside of keeping longer is that I am personally contributing less to the e-Waste problem than if I went through an Android phone per year.

So ballpark math, a $900 iPhone XR would be covered by either Apple or American Express for 36 months and cost me $25/month to maintain. I effectively run a leasing program for myself inside my small business budget.
Thanks! Was this for work or personal use?
i've picked up this kind of thousand separation at some point to make large numbers scannable. c.f.

1600000000
1'600'000'000

separating at 10³ is due to counting customs of the region i live in.

using an apostrophe `U+0027` appears to be the least wrong use of possible glyphs accessible on my keyboard layout

also c++14 does it this way
This is in France, so it's not normal.
Google searches all the journals I need. I try searching journal databases (like web of science) and they always miss papers I know exist. I type the title into Google and I usually find it, and if I don't I ALWAYS find it on Google scholar. They even have nifty little links to download the citations for endnote etc.
But in big letters above it are "DESIGNED IN CALIFORNIA" and that deception works for most people.
For Americans: this village in the south of France is at about 43.8 degrees north latitude, about the same latitude as the Great Lakes.
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I, like many others, use OneNote for science and engineering purposes. I use it to keep hand-written notes from seminars, calculations, discussions with collaborators, as well as keeping track of every every wafer I've fabricated on. I take my tablet into the cleanroom with me. When I'm repairing a piece of equipment, I take pictures and paste them in my notebook and draw on them where I think a failure has occurred. My daily experimental workflow involves making a new sheet per day, logging my changes to my experimental setup, and pasting matplotlib plots into it. My life as a scientist revolves around onenote. If you go to a conference, you'll see numerous people with their surface pro or surface laptop, surface pen, and a copy of onenote open. Evernote missed the opportunity to make a real tool. They kinda almost did. They sorta grazed by making a real tool. Enough so that I sunk more time than I wish I had into trying to make their software work for me before throwing my hands up and realizing they're completely unserious about what they're making.
On one hand, this seems like a terrible waste of metal. But at the same time, it reduces the amount of plastic bottles. Depends on how cans are recycled, I guess. Also, a plastic bottle can be reused, but a can can’t be.
I should note (i already mention it in my other post but it is in a little bit in a sea of words) that disliking tearing and wanting to run a desktop environment free of it is perfectly fine and X11 does allow for that - there is nothing in it (considering extensions too) that prevents such use and if there are bugs then these are bugs that can be fixed.

My issue with Wayland when it comes to composition is that it forces it whereas in contrast X11 just enables it - but doesn't force it.

It is the good old "having options" argument which, for some reason, always comes up when GNOME and Red Hat projects are involved.

(just as a note, composition isn't my only issue with Wayland, i have other issues with it being short-sighted and needlessly limited, but these are outside the current discussion)
War Is the Worst Horror
Amsterdam Light Festival – Starry Night
Intel is a thankless job; if you keep people safe, nobody knows you are doing anything, but if something happens, you're the first to get blamed. Just because you're ignorant about what people working in various intelligence agencies are doing, doesn't mean they aren't doing anything. I worked in various intel fields for most of my adult life, and it gets tiring to hear that intel agencies don't do anything.
I don't think pointing out the biased nature of the source is an ad-hominem. It's pretty standard critical analysis.
Interesting observation, though it becomes fairly readily explained on several points.

The militaries of WWII were fighting an active, unrestricted, war. The US military of today is active, yes, but highly resstrained. aRather than occupy and subdue, its primary role is to project power -- think "gunboat diplomacy" for an earlier example, rather than exercise it. The nuclear arsenal as a prime example.

Where the US does exercise force, it is typically highly focused and targeted. It is not unreasonable for foreign journalists to repprt on ongoing air raids from exposed locations within the cities directly targeted (see Bagdad, in both gulf wars, in ways that reporting from a firebombed Tokyo or Dresden would not have been. Murrow's rooftop reporting of the London Blitz was notable specifically for its daring.

Several authors have noted (some, such as Robert J. Gordon apparently unconciously) of the near le=inear relationship between energy input per worker and productivity, particularly in the case of factory manufacturing of the 1st half ofvthe 20th century. Whether measured in mechanical horsepower or kilowatts, the relation holds. The US military brings a tremendous amount of energy (itself largely responsible for the pollution mention in TFA) per soldier, sailor, airman, and marine. That includes embodied energy in vehicles, arms, and structures, as well as motive and destri]uctive power, again with the nuclear arsenal as its apex.

To wrap my examples: the military is also a highly-tuned logistics system. Much of the task of a military is package delivery -- parking hot lead, dU, HE, or other actives, where they will have a desired effect. Getting the parts and support where and when needed is complex, and the DoD is a masterwork of central planning efficiency. Result: fewer workers -- combatants -- required.

As a parallel to the role of mechanisation and automation in general employment, there are multiple lessons to draw.
>your computer will just get switched out for a bugged one at the cashier.

I doubt it. How would they swap it in time if you drove to a random Best buy, picked out a laptop (I think they still keep them in locked cages on the show floor), and kept eyes on it until checkout? Nevermind that they'll need surveillance on you 24/7 and have the exact model ready to go (or be able to plant the bug within minutes) to pull this off. It's much more feasible to only bug delivered/ordered equipment.
>I just find it hard (however biased I may be) that we can just say "Node has all these problems, let's throw it out" when it's helped lower the barrier to entry for new people programming at-large.

This seems to assume that it would be impossible to design a better package manager which also provides a low barrier to entry.

Bear in mind, however, that all you actually need to write javascript and learn programming with it at a basic level is a text editor. The low barrier that NPM provides is for publishing to NPM, which needn't be synonymous with "javascript development."

Your comment also seems to assume that the barrier to entry everywhere else is prohibitively high, but plenty of people still learn with Ruby or Python or other languages. There are whole industries for teaching new programmers.
I think the strategy of promoting coal in the 21st century is basically to be the first to run out of it. Kind of like a furniture store doing a liquidation sale. Nobody wants that product, but the store doing everything they can to sell as much as they can possibly sell is the difference between having a convertible asset and having a liability. In national terms, coal & coal mines = GDP. For every country that mines coal, the goal is to not be the last one selling it for power generation. That's why there is a push from the top to outproduce everyone else.

At the rate things are currently going, it looks like China will be the last one selling it. The international market will go first, and finally the domestic market will shrivel up in the next decade or two, and so will coal's material contribution to any country's GDP.
It has been low enough the whole time.

Radioactivity is super easy to detect even at harmless levels. Sunburn is a far (probably a million times? More?) bigger concern with similar effects (radiation burns possibly leading to cancer), yet people still go outside.
The observer themselves placed their observations of the time and date as part of their larger observations of Wednesday's events.

The key here is the difference between an active observer intentionally communicating information forward from their present time and an observer looking into the past, attempting to infer events without any observer at that time to corroborate assumptions.
Yeah but then a lot of people have use cases for SSH. The solution is targeted towards replacing jump boxes.
Honestly this is a very one-sided view of the issue. The life of Chinese people definitely improved with economic improvements.