skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wordpress always felt really overkill for what i wanted, and static site gens are fun for people who like to tinker under the hood. personally i use hugo, but i am still shopping around for something a little less convoluted. stumbled onto a super old package called blazeblogger and it'a been neat, but we will see

when i just want something i can setup with minimal hassle, i have always loved GetSimple (http://get-simple.info/) although i imagine mentioning a flat-file platform will probably elicit some reactions - flat-file meaning it doesn't use a database to store content, but instead simply stores the data, encrypted, in actual textfiles on your webserver. when i was using godaddy as a host, their mysql db's were always a bit laggy, and something like wordpress would always have that extra, noticeable pause during loading that bugged me to no end. getsimple with the blogging plugin was always faster, configuring it was easy, and i didn't have to stray too far outside my limited knowledge of html/css/php to play with the styling and theming.
> The panel wrote that “high-achievement students deserve to be challenged,” but in different ways.

One could argue that bad public schools with bad teachers and less capable colleagues are a challenge of sorts.

My takeaway for stories like this is that "progressive" ideas continue to inch closer and closer to the dystopia of Harrison Bergeron.

It's a shame that this line ended up at the very end of the article (which most people won't reach):

> Still, the report said, a system that relies heavily on sorting students according to academic ability “is not equitable, even if it is effective for some.”

Handicapping people for the sake of equity. What could possibly go wrong...
> Many would say that the objectification, tokenization and gamification the left does with minorities is racist.

Insofar as bigotry is proposed as a cause for something—a way you're suggesting a person or group thinks about the world, that leads them to the actions they choose—then I would suggest that such modelling only works to the degree that said behavior doesn't have a clear game-theoretic justification.

Or, less-flowery: if making some particular choice would help you win—in fact, would help anyone win—then that choice probably wasn't motivated by racism.

Or, by analogy: if an AI with no understanding of humans but a perfect understanding of strategy would do it, it's probably not racist.
Menard's in the midwest has an entire grocery section. So does Rural King which encourages pets in the building.
I'm not the best example because I write vanilla PHP without frameworks and I don't work at a big exciting tech company on the cutting edge of anything, but here goes.....

I think it's a valuable skill to have, and there are still plenty of places who use it. Learning something new is never a waste if it's achievable. I'd have no reservations listing it as a skill.

As far as the technology: PHP7 is extremely fast and powerful. Even for quick and dirty synchronous command line scripting it's magnitudes faster than Python. [1]

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
It seems self-evident to me, although I'm willing to admit I'm wrong about this, that if the creators of the simulation we find ourselves in didn't want us to figure this out, we couldn't. The rules could be set up to prevent us from discovering the truth, and they could have caused a "blind spot" in our reasoning that prevents us from even realizing it.
Speaking of schedule, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day is one that worked well for us when we were busy. It's not the best bread in the world, but, considering the amount of effort that goes into it, the technique feels like cheating.
Oh yeah? How do you explain then proliferation of FP idioms and libraries in PLs like Javascript and Python? Or success of Clojure and Elixir?
Not sure if you're accidentally excluding the >1 billion Hindus (and Jains) from your list or if that was an intentional dog whistle towards Indians and other South Asians.

I'll assume it's the former.

The reason why I'll assume it's the former is because we should always assume good faith - it's even a posting guideline on HN[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We already know C's future.

The people using old C are self-selected as those who like it the way it is. They accepted atomics because of new hardware. The place to ask for new, better stuff is at the C++ desk, and it has lots already.
It's a split. There's the eminent domain question from the city - they need space for the road, which would eat my front yard and put traffic a few feet from the front door. There are various kinds of eminent domain (some other comments have discussed the more speculative kind), but this is the more straightfoward "take your land, give you something of theoretical equal value, and use your land for city improvement". The uncertainty there comes in:

- If it would happen at all. The city (technically Shoreline, not Seattle, but I'm literally across the street from Seattle) can't afford it, but it got federal funding to make a plan. Following the plan would take another infusion of cash from somewhere, but there are potential sources. Potential. Or maybe the street will just get more congested because they can't afford to fix it.

- If it does happen, what form will it take? They are now talking "relocation", which I imagine would be easier on the city budget since they could use properties they own that have value on paper without having to find a way to make that value "real". But info is scarce, and until there's a real offer it will continue to be scarce. If it was an outright purchase there would still be questions (how much, when, would there be an interim where we can live/rent while finding a new home) and with the relocation it gets more uncertain (where, when, etc)

Then there's the flip side of the coin: If the city doesn't use eminent domain, or does so in a way that leaves the property usable (perhaps my front yard is halved), there's still the chance where I'm not "forced" to leave, but I may be stupid not do. My neighbors and I are considering selling to a developer as a block. Developers, sure to be able to build a profitable apartment/condo on what was multiple single lots, could pay a decent amount per sq/ft. I have no idea what numbers to trust, but the middle of the range of what I've heard being speculated about could very well put us in the "dumb not to take it". I like my house, and it is convenient and awesomely close to the light rail when it opens, but I'm not so attached I wouldn't sell, particularly if traffic on the street will get worse and louder (and possibly closer). In such a case, the house itself is meaningless, they just want the land. But this is also fully speculative. I don't know if there will be real offers, if there are I don't know what they would be, and I don't know how the _possible_ eminent domain would impact it.

And there's no real way to get answers to those questions without waiting out the clock. Which is what we've been doing. For years, and probably another year or two to go.
> Cow farts contribute over 40% of the world’s methane. Methane contributes 34 times more towards global warming per unit than carbon dioxide.

How many total units of methane are there vs. total units of CO2? Otherwise, I can’t make a value judgement about the impact of cows on global warming.
If you are doing signal processing (Laplace and Fourier transforms especially) and want to gain an intuitive sense of Complex Analysis, I recommend the book Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham.
In the midst of a time of economic warfare, one might expect some additional volatility.
> The market had already priced in all the future judgments

The market has already priced in what it anticipates the future judgements will be (but that expectation may be wrong; for instance it could be $0—in which case GPs only if there are no future judgements is literally correct—but there may turn out to be substantial future judgements.)

If the market had already priced in all future events, the price would never move.
A flawless, proven solution to eliminate inequality is to seize everything of value from everyone. Then we are all equal.
> it is only capable of 150 cycles of charging and discharging for the time being. At the present stage, the energy density of the battery is also only able to reach around 220 Wh/kilo, which is only around 55-60% of the 350 Wh/kilo of energy density for lithium-ion battery.

Key Point
There could be follow-up judgments that don't behave as the market would expect, and move the price. The opioid epidemic has a long and complex history. I'm not too sure this is the legal end of it for them.
“Anything But This” – NPM install funding
There are quite a lot of people these days on a quixotic quest where diversity is their one and only holy grail, and it is to be achieved at all costs, all other considerations be damned.
Initially I was amused by OpenAI's claim of "too dangerous to release" but during the past few months I have come to agree with the decision they made. Auto-generation of convincing text is actually very disruptive. Our news cycles and influencing stories are driven by things like Twitter hashtags, how many tweets are on a given story. People look for validation of their thoughts in places like 8chan, reddit, hn etc. There is an undeniable influence of all these discussions that occur online. Now imagine, one is able to create hundreds of accounts and do autonomous discussions to create an impression of consensus towards desired goal. Imagine large number of tweets that makes wise cracks are actually autogenerated. Imagine you as a person who is on borderline is taking cues from number of people pro-something to make decision. Imagine NYT running article on smearing some activist because there were thousands of Twitter smart-bots convincingly calling for his resignation with humorous mimes. Better the quality of AI, better the chance journalists and others would think it's real. I think GPT-2 would go down as one of the first real large scale danger of AI.
There's a lot of dissatisfaction with the race-blind test-based admissions that result in disparities in admissions between ethnic groups [1]. A significant portion of people want equality of outcome. Especially how the article writes:

> The city should also redesign its competitive high school admissions process to ensure that high schools reflect the racial and economic make up of their boroughs, the panel found.

It does sound an awful lot like racial quotas (or, "outcome base goals" is I think the more contemporary term). But that's the view of equality that many people have.

Ultimately, I'm not sure if this will result in real desegregation. Even in schools that are desegregated on paper, students are internally segregated by academic capability. A Seattle HS principal explains his perspective here [2]. Students studying AP calc aren't studying with the ones doing geometry. Same with AP ____ classes. But that's a harder problem to solve, and politicians feel pressured to deliver something to their constituents.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/nyregion/black-students-n... Stuyvesant isn't impacted by this proposal, but this article offers a good portrayal of what I'm referring to.

2. https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/microcosm-of-the-...
It also shows how short sighted USA is with this. They’ve given China incentive to reduce their reliance on the US and give the US less leverage overall. China may set a damaging precedent here with regard to US power
Having seen Chanos interviewed on Tesla, I don't think he thinks it's the next Enron, just a loss making car company which will struggle. He's a long short investor who is basically long the S&P500 so he doesn't need Tesla to go to zero, just to underperform the market which it has done during his period of being short. He's also recently bought call options on the stock as a hedge against it shooting up.
I noticed in the beginning of the article they claim greater capacity than Li-Ion and then contradict that statement in your quote.

Curious to see how that gets reconciled.
Please remove your package that is designed to spam large banner ads in the build output logs from NPM. Don't distribute viral adware through NPM.
If you mean "gaps in my education" or "basic things that I don't quite understand", you could try studying some high-quality texts. Look for books written by extremely smart people who are trying to explain the ideas rather than taking you through the standard topics. Hamming's books on probability and signal processing and Strang's books on linear algebra and applied math come to mind.

Alternatively if you're really interested in intuition, you could also look at the Math Olympiads. Pick a problem, beat your head on it, finally look at the solution, repeat. There are web sites and prep books.
I flip flop back and forth.... I'm encouraged by the Blue Wave and AOC, and the rise of Bernie/Warren, but at the same time I see corporations and Super PAC's becoming more and more powerful in this country. I do like what RiseUp is doing with anti-corruption campaigns across America. Ending the revolving door of money in politics I think is the surest way towards a more fair government.

I'd much rather have a farmer or astronaut or scientist as President who was given 10 million for advertising and not allowed to fundraise as was all his opponents than a system where the person with the most money wins. Even though Sanders is very good at fundraising and grassroots fundraising on the left has skyrocketed, we can't always count on that being the case.

As I said I flop back and forth, I'm encouraged, but at the same time I feel like things are desparate in America. I freelance and I have gone through periods of poverty when I have trouble finding clients.

I'm in one right now, sadly -- it also coincides with my periods of depression, I'm pretty sure the depression is stress caused, and I've done extensive therapy to learn coping mechanisms but I still feel the pain coming on a few times a day lately.

I think I'll totally drop cynicism about politics when we get a real progressive in the Oval office, or if Biden doesn't win and Warren or Bernie does. Just the fact of the progressives beating the establishment would totally lift my spirits and resolve. I'm hopeful that we do see more and more progressives, and intellectuals run in 2020 and win. Guess we'll need to wait and see how things pan out.
No, it isn't. The increase is just capped at a low number.
Take beef vs. Impossible Burger as an example. These articles have some detailed info:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/impossible-burger#nutri...
https://www.cookinglight.com/news/is-the-impossible-burger-h...

It's not a clear win for either side. Impossible Burger has more carbs and less protein, so it's inferior in that way. But it also has more fiber (beef has none), which is good. Impossible also (surprisingly) has more saturated fat than beef, but it has no cholesterol.

As one of the articles points out, Impossible's main goal isn't making healthy food. It's other stuff like saving the planet. So it is possible that another fake-meat company could prioritize health more.

The formula for beef isn't going to change, but the formula for fake meat will, so fake meat might gain ground when it comes to health.
Thought of the Day: Perfection Is the Enemy (2008)
> I'm not an American, and not a lawyer, but doesn't the ruling in this case count as precedent that will allow others states to pursue lawsuits against them?

No, because:

(1) trial (as opposed to appellate) court rulings have almost no weight as precedent, and

(2) state court rulings on state law issues have almost no weight as precedent for courts in other states applying different state laws, and

(3) precedent doesn't allow or bar states or other litigants from pursuing cases, it just impacts the expected results.
"how could anyone support communism..." yet it happened. In many countries (including mine), the communist were the minority, but they won by sheer force of being the loudest/most extreme group in the field.... and some USSR backing.

In this case you have a group that is loud enough, to demand changes, which will probably/might help some on the segregation side, but sink all smart students that actually want to learn more than the lower common denominator...

The article mentions that currently 75% of the students in NY public schools are from minority groups, and a large portion of white and asian students have already left the system altogether...

this is akin in third world countries, where people vote with their feet and flee their countries to escape the corruption and bad conditions and become immigrants somewhere else....

The NY public system is like the Venezuela of education....
The compiler can't autovectorize because it can't assume it's okay to read past the end of the string. Only the human or the machine can make that determination, using special knowledge about the environment, such as that when locating the NUL byte out-of-bounds reads are okay so long as they don't cross a page boundary. And "okay" is a stretch because tools like Valgrind ship with huge lists of manually maintained suppressions to account for hacks like this that violate the standard rules.
The bootloader and linker script pieces were both quite good, I thought.

Would love one on bootloader/firmware updates.
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Iron is considerably denser than lithium, so it would have a higher capacity for a given volume.
It would be a lot quicker for you to have posted your own interpretation of the incident, so that everyone could compare their own views with it at once. But, I'll post the version of events I gathered anyway:

* Boeing wants to make a new plane, by pretending it's a "small" modification of their existing plane. (don't have to get certified; the old plane designs wouldn't get certified today; costs a lot to certify and re-train; take your pick)

* One of the regulations they have to stay within is that the plane shouldn't pitch its nose up without any pilot input in that direction. (Maybe it was more specific than that; something about requiring more force to pitch higher up?)

* Some airplanes comply with this requirement because they comply with the laws of physics. (Including presumably the original 737; otherwise this system wouldn't be new, right?) Not so the 737Max.

* The system that caused the crash was meant to comply with the above. If the aircraft was pitched up, it applied a force on the controls down. (every 10 seconds or so?)

* One of the problems was that there were only 2 sensors feeding into this system. If you have 3 sensors, a single failure can be outvoted; if you have only 2 that disagree, no matter what you try, you'll get it wrong in some cases

* Something something software. We've already established we're working with too few sensors to be safe, and the system applies force intermittently every 10 seconds, so it's hard to even tell that it's a problem. Who cares how the software works?

* Because of the original desire to pass through this new plane under the same certification, there was no new pilot training that mentioned this system. There was some sort of optional indicator, I think, too? The output of the broken system was also intermittent, so it was hard for pilots to quickly realize what was happening.
FreeBSD Gains KTLS Support
It's not that it's a ring array; it's that it's a fixed-size ring array with an eviction algorithm, and specifically one that holds representations of entities, where the entity is considered to be destroyed in a semantic sense if it gets evicted from the ring array.

Picture a background jobs system like Sidekik/Resque. Imagine that one worker-node of this jobs system had a fixed-size ring array of jobs it had taken. Now imagine that you could push new jobs onto a specific node. And now imagine that the worker-node responded by not just overwriting one of the filled slots of the local jobs set, but actually ACKing said job to drop it from the global job-queue system. It's destroying a real entity with persistent global identity, in order to reclaim the slot that the local representation of that entity takes up.

That's what OAM is, when combined with the design pattern I'm talking about. It's a ridiculous system that'd never fly in a business; but it happens to work for games, where you control the world such that you can make the world hold "reminders" for the state you destroyed.
Only if they're perfect.
If we were on the decline since Homer we would already be living in caves grunting at each other. Perhaps what is being lamented is that the successful found their offspring lesser not just because the properties that made themselves notable weren't heritable that they ultimately arose from circumstances they naturally strove to prevent.

If adversity results in 70% dead or broken, 20% damaged, and 10% triumphant what survivor of adversity gambles with his loved ones. The weaker children of better men then aren't an example of universal decline but rather the result of softer situations.
As long that it’s done with all deliberate speed [1], white parents will be fine. /s

More seriously and with less snark, as long as our schools are separate, we can’t have true social justice. That was at the heart of the Brown v. Board decision. It’s sad that even after more than 60 years our schools haven’t lived up to the spirit of that decision.

[1]: https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/delibe...
Yes, starting with my youth in computing and video games. Following my hobbies in aviation and skydiving.

It's routine to find accidents that are 100% inaccurate when reporting the cause.
They can get better with additional prototypes. They might hit a wall with further development, but they at least think they want.
How many/which countries use direct democracy/popular vote at the national level?

vs

How many/which countries use a proxy votes/delegates at the national level that don't necessarily reflect the popular vote?
My professional career started working on University owned SGI Indys. I keep that on my resume. Those machines were my favorite. The token ring coax network was prone to disconnects, and the window manager sucked, but they could solve complex math problems way faster than any other machine I had access to. The math department shared them with the Radiology department to process MRIs.
I think the moral objection to supporting addictions is quite valid here. We try to provide societal remedies for other similar self-destructive behavior so actively supporting this seems against the societal values we've settled on. I personally think it is callous to so disregard even an addict's well being and it seems like there are decent alternatives we can invest in like counseling and programs to build out social support structures for addicts that are by no means out of reach for the US.
3B1B is the best place to start.

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html
C gives the illusion of mapping to the hardware. Hardware manufacturers have moved heaven and earth to help maintain the illusion. It finally got too hard and they had to admit atomics and cores ro the model. The next watershed will be along soon enough, but the ability to present as a C machine has long been the gateway to success or failure of a new hardware architecture. Myriads of arguably superior machine designs have foundered on "but can I code for it in C?"
I wonder how many people are upset that the vehicles had to drop them off in a valid passenger load/unload zone as opposed to the usual Lyft / Uber tactic of parking in a no parking / no stopping zone, bike lane, crosswalk, etc because it's most convenient for the drivers and passengers (at the safety and expense of everyone else sharing the space)...

That quote at the end:

> I guess Lyft has me spoiled. I like getting dropped off in front of the place im going too [sic] not just in the parking lot....