skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it can’t be quite as simple because in GR you don’t have necessarily a globally consistent arrow of time.
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Looks like this issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/136539678
> Suicide rate often tracks economic cycles - for example, the suicide rate was 50% higher in the 1920s than it is now.

Certainly among adults, but suicides among adolescents and teens tracking economic cycles? I'm skeptical.
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What about the "I can see Russia from my house" line? A ton of people believed (and some likely still believe) that Palin said that. She didn't. Tina Fey said that.
Well, they can confiscate it and/or deport you if you don't.
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4K monitors are very rare, in regular desktop stats they are so insignificant statistically that they do not even show up:

http://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/wo...

In gaming they are just at 1.61% right below 1280x1024 and the increase is so low (+0.01) that might as well be zero (compare with 1080p's +2.04% which is the one increasing the most):

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Tech minded people are a bubble, gamers are a tiny bubble among those and /r/pcmasterrace 4K-or-die boasters are a tiny bubble among gamers. 4K, or even 1440p, matters way less in practice than tech minded people think.
Not my experience.

That being said, if your team was mainly non-remote with some remote employees, then I'm not surprised: it is the worst possible organization and a motivation killer for the remote person. Every article about experience of remote work I've read says: "don't put remote people on non-remote team" and I wholeheartedly agree.
Energy and momentum are in general _not_ conserved in general relativity. This is a well-known feature of the theory, not a mistake made by the article's author.

In field theories like GR, energy is generator of time translations. It's conserved if time translations leave the system invariant, but this only occurs in very special cases in general relativity (static spacetimes). So in general, in Gr, energy is not conserved. Same thing goes for momentum, which generates spatial translations.
Seems to me that you'd want to update the part of the table that's viewable.
Tons. https://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/Thyme.htm

I have Pink Chintz, but if I had to do it again I'd probably go with Pink Lemonade (grows faster) mixed with Caraway (culinary)
Cognitive biases are exceptions or adjustments to the rational model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory On the whole, the field of Behavioral Economics is a correction to the Rational Economic Model. Behavioral Economics says "people are rational, except for the ways in which they are biased." They call it "bounded" rationality.

For instance, the planning fallacy is a correction to the idea that people will rationally predict how much time something will take. So we first estimate how long something might take, and then the planning fallacy teaches us to increase it to account for our bias.

> Any model of psychology or economics which purports to unify these phenomena must be able to explain/predict each bias individually

That's close to correct, but I'd like to distinguish explaining the bias vs. the data. The new theory should explain the data, not the biases in the old theory. Consider that Kepler's elliptical orbit theory didn't explain each individual planetary epicycle -- it didn't need to. Kepler's theory didn't need epicycles at all to explain the data.

Likewise, Attention Economics doesn't need a "Planning Fallacy", because it doesn't assume humans are good planners. It rather looks at how people actually allocate their attention while planning. Consider that if people allocate more attention to their plans, they are likely to make better estimates. So how are they allocating their attention when planning? In the "planning fallacy" [1], Kahneman and Tversky envisage "that planners focus on the most optimistic scenario for the task, rather than using their full experience of how much time similar tasks require." I haven't run the experiments myself, but one could certainly test for this in an Attention Economic experiment, by seeing how much more attracted people are to focus on the most optimistic scenario for their task, rather than the pessimistic scenarios. And then we can learn why they focus on the optimistic scenario, by manipulating other variables until we see which ones lead people to consider optimistic vs. pessimistic scenarios when planning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy
I'm pretty surprised. I've used Calibre's inbuilt EPUB -> AZW3/MOBI converter for hundreds of books to left-align them for my Kindle. The only books where the formatting was messed up were the ones in which the EPUB wasn't formatted properly in the first place.

I'm also interested to know more about why Calibre destructively converts EPUBs instead of making a copy to work on instead. Do you have any sources for how this works?
I don't think social media is the primary driver, because I had similar thoughts about travel 10 years ago.

I would say a few things are factors for some of what is described:

1. It's relatively cheap and easy to travel. This wasn't as much the case in the past.

2. Population boom of millennials and onwards. I have a boomer mom and a pre-war dad who was born in Europe. They both see international travel as a Major Barrier with a lot of friction. I remember that seeming true in my childhood too. The younger cohorts have grown up with it being relatively cheap and easy.

3. The EU. Go to the touristy part of a touristy town in Europe, I guarantee you will hear the national language and native accent of every EU member state. I can't imagine it being like that several decades ago. It also drives tourism from outside Europe because they can enter in one country and cross over to another without hassle.
It's perfectly valid to mention the higher memory requirements as a considerable drawback.

But this is far from the possible performance that Logstash offers, so the comparison is at least misleading.

Also, there is no information about the memory usage of the other contestants, which probably don't have memory limits if they don't run on the JVM.

I say all this as someone who stopped using Logstash, in part due to the high requirements - but benchmarks should strive for a fair comparison.
> Because it is impossible to formally specify all possibilities that can happen, and noone can forecast all the desired specs before the thing is built and tested in real.

You cannot exhaustively test software either - the number of cases to cover are beyond astronomical.

The effectiveness of both specification and testing ultimately depend on the same thing: thinking of all the relevant possibilities. If you overlook a possible failure mode, there's no guarantee it will be caught at any phase. The main benefit of formal methods, I think, is that the rigor tends to make such oversights visible.

the only people who think formal methods are a magic bullet are those who have not tried them. Likewise, the only people who think more testing (and especially unit testing) is a magic bullet are those who don't understand combinatorial complexity.
I also like this series but starting a new book in the series takes to long to drag me back in every time... I wish it would zoom into the main characters earlier...
In 2017 I got a call from someone saying "the system's down". It was code I'd deployed for them in 2002. Crazy reviewing some of that code. Some was really good, some was... not so much. :)
Ironic. It could save others from death, but not itself.
The obstacle is the way (https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph...) is also a good one on the Stoic philosophy, could serve as in introduction to Meditations
Urumqi is a quite big transit hub, but I opt to never buy flights through it for the chance of winning a free cavity search. That's another reason to keep away from that place.
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> usually described with destructive terms like these

Perhaps a way to inject some visceral excitement into an eSport. Also makes it feel like more of an accomplishment.
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It's kind of funny that the styling example is literally just plain-old CSS and HTML, not sure if that was intentional?
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FYI before you scroll down to gauge the length and interestingness of the story, you have to click "read more" on the top. What a messy website.
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Oil execs and lobbyists are worried about renewables. Better extract as much profit as we can now before renewable energy tech gets better. Keep prices low so consumption stays high. Convince the American people domestic drilling is a good thing, even though it depletes oil reserves for the long term. The oil industry today is similar to the logging industry a century ago.
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Exactly. Artificially reducing the supply of diamonds doesn't reduce profit. It increases it.
They should derive whether something is down from how much traffic the status page gets, and have alerts tied to that as well. I think it would be pretty accurate.
True. But some people will do everything (including ruining team morale) to play with their new shiny toy and it's usually easier to ruin that than taking steps for prevention. But you are generally right.
Why? Ticks are a disease vector and unlike bees their population is increasing due to milder winters.
This app started as an experiment in building desktop apps for the first time. However, as I learned, I realized I could solve a problem I have had as a writer and a problem I know a lot of other writers have. Sometimes, you just need to have a focused period of time to write. Writing sprints are great for writers to get that time, but most writers time them using a stopwatch app or an online timer.

Those apps do a decent enough job at keeping time, but they also make it easy to miss the end of the sprint and keep writing (not inherently bad, but not god if you're trying to see how much you got done in a given period of time). These ad-hoc solutions also don't allow writers to track their progress.

This is where I think Write/Sprint can really help. It takes less than 10 seconds to set the time of your sprint and start it. Then, when the sprint is done, focus is pulled away from whatever app you're working in to Write/Sprint so you can enter your word count for the sprint. All sprints are tracked in an easy-to-view table format, so you can always see how much progress you made for a given sprint.

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But he bought that phone as a burner phone. So then it doesn't matter that it is Huawei right? Apart from supporting them.
You're right. Just let the diseases flow. I relish the sight of diseased children, it's fucking awesome.

Side note: I also make my kids eat slugs off the ground ostensibly to toughen them up, but really I'm gunning for the brain parasites, just because I think it's cool when kids catch brain parasites. It feels like life is just that much closer to a sci-fi/action thriller.
So if you can't run any modern internet what would you use the mesh network for? Some of Google's traffic charts show up to 90% of traffic is TLS in the US for Chrome users.
"hence why companies like VidAngel are constantly mired in legal issues despite widespread popularity with consumers"

Widespread popularity with an incredibly small number of consumers who are generally very religiously oriented. And as seems to be common in the highly-religious groups, VidAngel commits copyright and trademark violations with the justification of "it's for families!" Just like a thousand religious summer camps who make "Reese's Jesus" shirts and shirts with "Jesus Christ" written like the Coca Cola logo because "it's for Jesus!"

The vast majority of people don't feel the need to censor the content they watch because they either understand what's in the content, or simply avoid tainted content altogether. If you're censoring things like ASoIaF, then maybe ASoIaF isn't for you, considering how important incest is to the plot.
I for one appreciate learning a truth about the world, even if someone else thinks it's cynical & dismissive. Kinda like your second sentence is.
What difference does it make? Even if the Huawei phone is doing surveillance on its own (and no one credible has ever come up with evidence that this is the case, even though it would be easy to discover), it's got WeChat on it which we know scans every possible Android location and network API all the time and is in constant encrypted communication with the mothership.
I read that as the Huawei phone being the burner phone, which is the point.
Sure. If you're not a citizen, they can also probably hold you for a while too. But I don't think they can compel you to unlock the device.
The 40-year timespan marks the boundary of the current measurement regime (satellite multichannel passive-microwave measurements). This isn't the first time it happens, but earlier measurements may not be directly comparable.

From the article:

The one other several-year period during the time frame of modern instrumental records with an estimated loss of hemispheric sea ice coverage comparably as rapid as [the current one was] in the mid-1970s. Calculations based on a variety of datasets [..] show rates of decrease of ∼600,000 km2/y for the 4 y from the start of 1973 to the start of 1977 and for the 3-y subset from the start of 1974 to the start of 1977

The concluding remark is helpful to reproduce in full:

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I can't help but feel the amateur radio community could have used a rebrand for the internet age. I understand there's a lot of history but it's hard to get young people interested in being _hams_, a word that has not aged well. I got my licence about a decade back and really loved the technical pieces - learning about how radio waves worked, propagation with different bands, the ability to (try) to build your own modem with two radios and an Arduino, but when it came to actually talking to people on the radio... other people just wanted to talk about radios.

It is really fascinating what you can do with 2m band radios. For those times and places where your cell phone won't work, digital modes on the new Icom radios look pretty cool. Being able to hook up a radio to a laptop to send something digitally still seems valuable and relevant! But the community branding could use some modernization to push those use cases.
> The Süddeutsche Zeitung reporter said they saw machines that appeared to be for searching iPhones at the border.

Is this known to be possible? I would've thought it isn't (at least without the user entering their passcode and "trusting" the device).
It's called clickbait, guys.
How are these related?
From the ARRL: http://www.arrl.org/news/restraint-urged-in-response-to-2-me...
In the car-free historical center, the wait for a spot on a “vaporetto”—the canal-borne local version of a bus—can be up to 20 minutes, despite the 6 euro ($7) fare.

That's why you don't buy a single-use ticket and go for the day pass instead, which is €20-ish.

My SO works seasonally in Venice, so I visit the city every year and while it's overflowing with tourists, they seem to be concentrated mostly around Rialto - with districts like Cannaregio more or less free from crowds.
Being a jerk matters if you want to actually communicate with people. If you want to be a jerk more than you want to communicate something, then you're going to be ignored. But if you want to actually talk to us, you'd do better without the attitude.
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There was an article posted on HN recently (no time to track it down) but the thing that struck me about it was; the content moderators they do have are powerless.

One moderator spoke of watching animal cruelty to a lizard, deciding it went against community standards, but being over-ruled by superiors who thought "leaving the video up would lead to crimial punishment." As days went on, more people shared the same video and more people kept reporting it. This one moderator wound up seeing the same video come across his screen many multiple times. It happened for days until enough people reported it and the post was removed.

The people currently doing this work aren't really valued. That's why they're contractors. They are simply fodder teaching a machine how to do this insanely damaging job for the future. That's why Facebook doesn't employ them. They're going to be damaged and replaced by technology soon. That's the roadmap. Nobody wants to pay for their rehab, or their counseling, or even their wages.

In 10 years it might be more reliable, but then we'll be complaining that the human element has been completely removed.
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Hi everyone. I went through an advanced Webpack setup last week and documented everything I encountered along the way. You start with a basic JavaScript application which gets bundled by Webpack from scratch. From there, you introduce development and production builds, source maps, environment variables, further build configuration depending on development and production mode, additional add-ons and lots more.

I have another minimal React + Webpack tutorial [0] on the side which can be easily combined with this one to evolve it into an advanced React + Webpack setup. You can also combine it with ESLint [1]. I hope it’s useful for someone :)

[0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/minimal-react-webpack-babel-setu...

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Note that the software does not currently appear on online marketplaces; it seems to be installable exclusively via sideloading. I don't think anyone has really tested what would happen when a government legally mandates for app stores to carry state-sponsored malware.
That's your opinion. I rather not have a moral system where someone decides how much you do of anything is immoral.
US is not part of OPEC. US production was meant to stabilize prices, increase supply, improve national security, and generate economic return.
I think it's just sloppy terminology on the authors part, using "clean energy" to refer to wind/solar/whatever new method that has much different pricing characteristics to stuff that was making up a large percentage of the grid 20 years ago (like nuclear). Like how in programming code written yesterday can be called "legacy code".
Moving the second derivative... yeah, that might actually be a realistic goal.
What a great idea. We have been doing this with our lawn, although more down to laziness!
What does the climate need to be like for this to work? I've seen it done very nicely in the Adirondacks, but I haven't seen it within NYC.
Your argument puts a lot of emphasis on short term gains at the expense of long term public/environmental health.
On the west coast it seems like school districts often only cover a single city. Here are the lists for Washington, Oregon, and California. There are tons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Wa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Or...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Ca...
That's worse IMO.

I can (and would) opt out of taking my phone to China. I can't easily dodge US' requirements.

These two bully super-powers really give me a bad feeling about the future...
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All signs point to you being wrong.
I have found debugging in Clojure is much easier as you could test out each function in REPL and the fact that clojure code is stateless. Debugging/refactoring a complex business rule in Java or Javascript is painful because developer end up writing humongous methods with generous sprinkling of state .
I want to accept the challenge but I don't understand it. Are you asking for a case where a capitalist loses? I can show plenty even in the US. Hell, the number #1 platform of the democratic platform is to abolish private insurance, and its not tied to a buyout as far as I know.
Sounds like a very Google-cloud/appengine issue. Maybe it's time to rewrite a bunch of things(very appengine again)