skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i was rooting for some weighty insight but was disappointed by a lack of perspective and coherence. the author writes at length about what yale, and the problem, isn't and much less about about the consequences and potential avenues to shape them. she seems to lack enough life experience to put her critiques into a wider context that's relevant much beyond yale. for instance, the ivy league is viewed through the lens of 3 schools: harvard, yale and princeton, which suggests she's wholly internalized the elitist tunnel vision she decries and can't see beyond.

as far as i can tell, she's saying administrators, students and faculty are at odds, particularly around what it means to have privilege and how to properly account for it (resulting in deadlock & status quo). beyond that, it's hard to tell.

despite the harsh critique, i'm interested to see where this goes. more research and exploratory writing on the subject should help, as she clearly has something she wants to say.
Let's not kid ourselves. Tomb Raider was just an attempt to sucker everyone into buying a (super hard, let's be real nobody actually finished those games) game for Lara's tits. Multiplatforms were made to maximize profit, not accessibility. Mods were already being released for money (Counter Strike, among others). Although loot boxes are bad, there's no reason to think that execs of the past wouldn't have done the same thing current execs are now doing if they could have.
Thanks for the clarification and the wonderfully detailed response. This all makes really good sense to me now. I really appreciate it. Cheers.
Question, for anyone with physical typing limitations... How hard would sign language be for you? Is that less/more painful than typing? I'm wondering how practical it'd be to set up a computer that could recognize hand motions and/or sensors.

Also, I wonder how long it'd take me to learn to type with my toes. Apparently people do it!

https://www.google.com/search?q=type+with+toes
(This rank is just based on points, but it lists total points. I don't see a way to force it to re-sort, but it wouldn't be too hard to re-compare them by volume.)
They can remove the copyright and everyone can have their own backyard.
It does exist :-)

If you haven't seen it you have either been very nice and avoided angering anyone or you haven't posted many times in a day
Tyson Foods, the biggest chicken firm, gives (sells) chicken to family owned farms that make the decision to cram the chickens in small space, and then Tyson Foods buys back the big chickens. The business is done in a way so that Tyson Foods has all the upside and little downside. I do not think they bore themselves with the logistics of raising chickens, they think of how to market their chicken scam to other family farms.
It is exactly that game! I had no idea - that is just a bit too early to have been part of my video game childhood.

The Android remake replaces the (apparently astoundingly expensive at the time) synthesized voices with samples of a small child saying "kill the humanoid", which is if anything even scarier.
Yeah Split Ortho with columnar stagger. Those are important features. Another one is the overall height of a board, the lower and lighter the switch the better. One of the current issues I'm having is simple MX switch height + a given profile. Tack on a case and suddenly your wrists are all bent!

On my personal boards I go caseless with Low-Profile Kailh Chocs and very low caps for them. It's not pretty but with 12g switches I haven't had rsi flaring issues in months. This is something I went a bit extreme with Georgi and chording, very comfy but very radical. [1] [2]

Wrist rests can help alleviate this issue, but a badly designed rest will do more harm then good.

[1] https://www.gboards.ca/product/georgi

[2] http://docs.gboards.ca/Unboxing-Georgi
Fair enough - I scrolled over the dates. That doesn’t dismiss the fact that you have a national party backing compared to individuals. In which case democrats are heavily outspending republicans.
Thanks for the details. Flat files in the cloud, and heavy caching on the client sounds like the most effective way to go about it to me too. I work at a company that collects data like this for the traditional derivatives markets and fwiw about half of our data is in S3 too. The other half, Dynamo.

I appreciate you making this accessible to indie algo traders, it's def what we need. Will keep an eye on this.
I'm running ECC memory on my R1700X... I'm fairly sure TR also has ECC memory. In fact, all of AMDs offerings except for APUs have ECC enabled, but AMD does not force motherboard manufacturers to implement it.
There must be some miscommunication here. Gabapentin and Pregabalin are both used successfully for SFN and are first line treatment options.

For severe cases, things like mexiletine can be used if you're willing to tolerate the side effects. Sodium-channel blockers like lidocaine + epinephrine can be used for localized treatment during sever pain.

It's a fuzzy distinction because SFN is almost always a sign of an underlying cause (even if unknown), and symptomatic treatment IS medical treatment.

(fwiw: I have SFN as well, not that it matters)
So what.
Use whatever money you have to put yourself into a more favourable position. Isnt that the whole way weve set this up?
You’ll never be able to prevent privileged insiders, or their accounts, from being able to cause damage. But I have worked with organisations where internal tests were not able to compromise the most critical assets, and where the outcome of the tests was those assets become even more well protected. Which is really the best outcome you could be hoping for with these kinds of engagements, imo.
> Andy Pavlo wrote a paper looking at this comparing different concurrency control strategies under very high levels of concurrency.

I think you mean his paper "This is the Best Paper Ever on In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control" which is available here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/papers/p781-wu.pdf

By the way, his courses are really excellent. I highly recommend subscribing to the CMU Database Group channel on YouTube.
Veterinary services and dentistry aren't in the same situation though.

And you can have both a public option alongside a free market.
What is the hypervisor OS? RedHat certifies hardware so you know your disk controllers and hot-swappable memory and CPU are supported.

You CAN use Alpine as the hypervisor, but IBM/RedHat/Oracle customers typically don't.
Telecommunications device for the deaf # Etiquette
..creeping normality
This is exactly the way I do math in my head.
I don't read this as a critique against the companies, but against the reliance on the fed's current mechanisms for impacting the economy.
`[1]+[1] = [1]` also doesn't hold for natural numbers if you are programming in a language with integer overflow.

Neither does the multiplication `[1]*[1] = [1]`
I don't understand what is challening about pathfinding specifically. Are there just a huge number of vertices and edges so known algorithms don't perform well? How big are the grids? Is it making the path finding look a certain way to humans that's the hard part?
Why? The D's as a group are outspending Trump, in fact the top 3 D's are outspending Trump. I'd be interested to see this type of analysis for the 2016 (and 2012 and 2008) elections.
One thing that struck me from the piece (what I could read, before switching to skimming) was the implicit acceptance of the outsized power of Yale people. It sounded like the concern was that they acknowledge and wield this power well. I didn't see a question of whether they should have this power.
You don't have to look too hard to find the most obvious examples. Hop on over to an HN discussion about the ongoing Hong Kong extradition bill protests. You'll find plenty of accounts that use whataboutist arguments to change the topic to Western interference on the geopolitical landscape, or that the protests are more violent than how Western media portrays them. Then check out the accounts more closely and you'll see that they're only a few weeks old, the only comment sections they've been active in are about the US trade war with China, Chinese imprisonment of Uighurs and the Hong Kong protests, only spouting pro-China comments.

But something this focused on one specific individual I haven't seen before, not on HN at least. I don't think it would be nearly as obvious as what China's doing, though.
Don't forget Red Hat bought CoreOS, which was a huge k8s contributor (and the original authors of etcd).
I live in Europe and I'd never even heard of CCC.

(Probably goes without saying, but I'm well aware of DEFCON and have been for 20 years, I know a handful of people who've been even).
I think they're looking for changes in the sky from those locations. Supernovae for example leave visible traces--clouds, rings, shock fronts, etc and emit all kinds of radio and x-rays. But FRB's not so much, it would seem, so far anyway.
Ha! Firstly, that's spot-on. Secondly, you have remarkable powers of recall when it comes to 18-year-old observational humour.

In my defence, it was only that one playthrough. Most games I approach more normally (albeit with a sneaky-snipey style wherever possible).
Buying your own stock is like returning money to shareholders. It's effectively a dividend, by raising the stock price by the same amount they use to buy back stock.

Like if they use $1 billion to buy back stock, the aggregate value of the outstanding stock should go up by $1 billion. Doesn't matter if they borrowed the money, the company retains the value.

Having a high company value must have some benefits to them in other ways. Perhaps even less negative news articles in the press, and an easier time hiring good employees, just to name two.
Or they don't don't know about it. It is pretty apparent that the google maps team have never tried to navigate via compass on an actual phone.
asking gamedevs what is today the perfect pathfinding algorithm
It's easy to destroy things buts very hard to come up with something to replace them. Religion is a good example, borders also comes to mind.

Not saying it's all black vs white but some traditions emerged for a reason and should be fully understood before being destroyed. Again religion is a good example, life meaning was a solved problem for most believers.
I had an identical experience to you, however Fibro is diagnosis of exclusion. When the doctor doesn't know what else to do, and you match the symptoms... Boom, Fibro.

I think that hanlon's razor applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

In my case, after seeing dozens of specialists, the doctors simply had no clue what to do. Thus what was left was fibro (which few understand) or psychosomatic causes.

I much rather frame a response of "I don't know" as just that, they don't know. It allows me to proceed further with a more knowledgable source.

Early in my experience I took it as "Go Away" or "You're faking", which made me combative. Combative against a source that lacked the knowledge to help me further. It was a COMPLETE waste of time.

If I took "We don't know" as just that, I would have much more quickly moved towards finding a proper specialist with the knowledge to do proper testing and followup care.

It's really easy to think that Doctors are being malicious because, hey! They're doctors, they're not dumb, right? Except they are. Even the most educated of generalists lacks significantly more medical knowledge than they possess. Doctors know a lot less than they know, and almost always best to recognize those limitations in an individual as soon as possible so you can find the right person for your care.
Did we evolve to see reality as it exists? No, says cognitive psychologist
It's of course contrary to what proponents of the tax cuts claimed would result from the cuts. If logical consistency is important for you then the discrepancy might matter to you but if not then there are probably some more policy proposals for you to consider.
The attack ad category is very interesting but I suspect also very controversial.

It would also be interesting to see how many ads are identically shared between candidates of same party and how large percentage is unique for each candidate, and preferable being able to select them out (maybe a bit fuzzy so the difference is not just a few characters at the end that adds 2% uniqueness).
"likely that many of the EV-to-grid arrangements will be for fleet vehicles"

Wont these be out and about during the day when the sun is shining and need to be charged during the night? Seems like these are the opposite of storage, they would exacerbate the problem? Creating a lot of demand(lots of buses in lots of cities) charging at night, and driving during the day.

"will be technically sophisticated"

This is an assumption, though it does seem technically possible.

"scenario you describe where a private EV will have it's battery depleted"

Im an environmentalist myself, but if I wake up on the morning of my vacation, and my car is at < 100%, I'm not going to be happy. You might say you could provide a way to signal that your car needs to be at 100%, but I see a non trivial amount of people enabling that all the time.

I guess if we require every parking lot with > x spaces to have plugs for all vehicles to charge/store during the day. Still requires people to actually bother plugging them in. Of course, they would also have to plug them in during the night, and unless they are getting paid to, I dont see people going through the minor hassle if it is no benefit to them. I'm just not really optimistic about the vehicles as storage idea, sadly.

Sorry for the pessimism, but I feel like there is too much naive hand waving among environmentalists. I think we need a more realistic, critical discussion, focused on likely, probable solutions. Theres too much: "Everybody can just go out of their way too do x." Theres still people who think putting an aluminum can in a different bin is too much work. We have to work with these unfortunate realities, not just dismiss them.
Sorry, no. That long article attempts to explain why one "lost in translation" and that would be another. Again, from the article:

"As Latin scholar Maria S. Marsilio points out, “carpe diem” is a horticultural metaphor that, particularly seen in the context of the poem, is more accurately translated as “plucking the day,” evoking the plucking and gathering of ripening fruits or flowers, enjoying a moment that is rooted in the sensory experience of nature."

(I've already plucked some ripe fruits this summer and I can only advise those who can't relate to the original meaning to try doing this once too. FWIW Steve Jobs knew and apparently that's how he named the company:

http://www.minyanville.com/special-features/articles/little-...

"Steve was coming back from a visit to Oregon to a place he called an 'apple orchard.' Steve suggested a name - Apple Computer" )
And? The investors receive these billions in cash for the stock they sell, and they'll invest in other companies directly, instead of having that megaholding company do acquisitions.
The risk is wasting this much money on this overrated star powered team that will not deliver enjoyment per dollar.
All exercise has risks. Walking has risks. The question is not what the risks are, but do the benefits of the exercise outweigh potential risks?

For lifting weights, the answer is absolutely yes. Strengthening bones, improving mental health, better sleep, lower blood pressure, less injury prone as you get older, etc. etc. These are the benefits of regular strength training.

For otherwise healthy people, you do not have to consult a professional before starting a weight lifting routine.

I'm sure that your caution is well meaning, and people should definitely ease into a new exercise routine slowly, but recommending that people talk to a doctor or PT before they go to the gym is an overabundance of caution that will lead people to skip out on it altogether out of a misplaced fear of injury.
The Non-Traditional Developer – 12 Stages of Your Hero's Journey
I’m wearing Warby Parker right now. I had some issues with my prescription, and the in-store customer service was very good about getting it sorted, including having a pair remade at no additional cost.
I never got an email from them. Blaming users for having incorrect email addresses is a cop out. It sounds like there are very many people they didn't notify. Did they actually notify anyone before HIBP?
Stock value can decline.
I read through this whole despicable thread to find an interesting comment. I can't imagine having the mentality of taking advantage of other people to satisfy personal desires and the enabling of others to do the same.

To your point, I don't think I would live very much longer than ~10 years in prison; it's unconscionable. It's also interesting in the context of this administration's allowing for the death penalty at the federal level, with some complaints about "cruel and unusual punishment" flying around as a result.

Some religions argue suicide is a sin that sends one to eternal hell.

Lots of interesting ideas surrounding this ugly chapter, the least of which is the conspiracy theories. Epstein was never a credible witness, and would not have talked anyway. There is an underlying theme of revenge (rather than justice) in some of these comments that makes me uncomfortable.

We need to get his victims very good therapy so they can heal from their traumatic experiences.
What does everyone think of Microsoft Kaizala? It meets HIPPA requirements and you can backup your messages. It has a lot of group chat features. It also has a beta web chat. I've heard a lot of people in India are moving to it for personal and work chat ilo WhatsApp.
They are not trying to keep cars from driving down on public streets. What they are trying to do is prevent navigation apps as treating these roads as main thoroughfares.
> and most drivers who do this eventually end up losing their license or ending up in jail

How could you possibly know this? You have no idea how many people do it and never get caught.

> Reckless driving like this consistently kills innocent people

You know what else consistently kills people? Tesla's Autopilot. I bet Tesla isn't discouraging use of that expensive feature though. In fact they defend it ruthlessly in the media and in court, despite more and more evidence pointing towards it being more dangerous than manual driving. To be fair though, I'm unaware of it ever killing anyone outside of the vehicle, so I guess it's just people killing themselves which is very different from killing innocent bystanders.
We've been investigating using these features for some compute intensive workloads to see if we can keep some things inside the database that would normally have to break out to a separate compute service. The biggest problem really is this:

> .... if a parallel plan is not produced, refer to the PostgreSQL documentation on parallelism for details.

That is, there are a number of incidental features of queries that can silently disable parallelism. It becomes an art of knowing what will trip it off and another thing you have to test and think about while working with your queries.

Other than that however, it's extremely powerful to be able to use these features and I'm hopeful we'll be able to avoid a whole lot of bespoke compute services we'd otherwise need to make just to do certain compute operations in a timely manner.
The article talks about selling on hardware even once it's declared end of life and the article also gave the 9000 series as an example of hardware that requires a license. I assumed there was something similar going on already with the 9000's predecessor (the 8000?). I didn't mean to imply that the 9000 is already eol.

It must be hell for these guys when they hit a show-stopper in old sw and they have no access to the fixed sw for their old hw.
It’s like a dividend but better. It’s tax efficient and now the company has more shares it can deploy if it needs to raise capital in the future. Moreover, it sends a signal to the market that the company believes it’s stock price will continue to rise in the future.

It’s kind of strange that people hate on buybacks all the time (people like Elizabeth Warren), but no one gives a rat’s ass about dividends.
I was under the impression that purchasing stocks was an investment (i.e. an investment into your own company). Seems like there can be instances in which that can be favorable to everyone involved.
How to Crash an Airplane – Nickolas Means – The Lead Developer UK 2016
I think the author is making a big ASSumption here. Why is it that an IP that geolocates to Las Vegas isn't using a VPN? Would you say the same about San Francisco or LA? Of course not. There are VPN end points in Las Vegas.

I'm writing this from Defcon, over a VPN, to an endpoint in Las Vegas. All the benefits of a VPN without a huge latency penalty.
Yeah we aren't on 12 yet. In fact we just got off of 8.
I can't see how one can explain something that doesn't exist without telling lies.
The argument isn't that the companies are necessarily doing the wrong thing for shareholders, but that cheap money is not spurring investment in capital equipment, R&D, etc., which is a change from what historically happened. The opinion of some people quoted in the article (not all) is that this lack of investment is bad for the economy long-term.
That's a really interesting keyboard! I think I've seen one or two like it at the office - I will have to take a closer look.

It wouldn't work for me, because as I mentioned in another comment I am a TrackPoint fanatic. I've used ThinkPads for 20 years and even have a USB ThinkPad keyboard on my desktop at work.

But thank you for mentioning this option - everyone has different needs and I'm sure this will be very helpful for someone.
Ask HN: Editing and Email Accssibility for Stroke Victim
A good friend, a professional writer, recently had a stroke. He has some limited mobility of his left hand but little if any mobility on the right. He can speak with reasonable clarity although his voice is weak. His mind is clear, bedridden in a recovery center, and bored. Recovery from a stroke is slow.

I would like to get him a computer system that would allow him to read, write, and edit documents and allow him to send and receive emails.

Suggestions gratefully received.
this really is the issue. I just asked someone who just moved here how they got to work and they described my secret shortcut that I discovered by bike when I was a child. People step off the plane and now able to drive the streets like they have lived here there whole life.
> What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

Hehe, there's another name for what you're describing: baader-meinhof effect...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect

Everything has a name nowadays. Taxonomies are almost complete :)
I could swear I just read about that somewhere ;)
now the company has more shares it can deploy if it needs to raise capital in the future

Er, no. That's not how it works. Companies can create new shares out of nothing anytime they want.
It's sad that used goods are considered a "grey market" and not a fully legitimate market like selling any used goods should be.