skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think it depends on where you are, last year when buying mine id heard of terrible delays that would no doubt be made worse by my ordering on black friday, but 7 short days later it arrived with no QC issues at all, i can only put this down to the fact that im in the UK and maybe the units sent here come out of a different production plant

i had 2 systems from them last year and both were free of QC issues and arrived within 10 days of ordering. we do pay for this privilege though as thinkpads are drastically more expensive here than in the US (my X1C6 was almost double the US price for the same model)
Yes, in my neck of the woods they cut off some roads used as rat runs by installing bollards. Pedestrians and bikes can still go through but car no longer can.
And who says Linux isn't ready for the Desktop?

Seriously, though, you folks put up with _a lot_ of crap like this (the jokes and the endless system configuration tweaking)
Indeed! It is completely awesome!
> I think RSS are the wrong starting point for such a task. They may syndicate limited content, may contain ads, etc. So I guess you want to collate the posts rather than the feed entries themselves.

Certainly.

> Personally, I "solved" a similar issue of mine (collecting posts I want to read in a weekly EPUB and send them on my Kindle) with Pocket and a web service called Crofflr.

Interesting. That is sort of the things I've considered, however each serial's feed really is a single work being updated (mostly append-only I guess, I don't know how many serials authors go back and significantly rework previous entries) and I don't know how well epubs and their clients deal with updates / additions (without intermediate proprietary storefronts).

I really need to knuckle down and play with epub, seeing how googling around doesn't seem to yield anything useful.

> You can automate the RSS-to-Pocket (or other read-it-later service) part with tools such as If This Then That.

"RSS to pocket" isn't really the issue, going through my RSS feed, reading the regular entries and sending the serials to pocket isn't much of a drain / difficulty. The issue is mostly that serial entries can accumulate rather fast in pocket (especially for those with small frequent entries e.g. one of the defunct serials I used to follow would publish a page per day), and so pocket is a mess of interspersed normal articles to read later and chapters from dozens of serials. Because of that I regularly find out I've skipped chapters.
Unless you have a system in place to take responsibility from seed to logging to long term encapsulation I'll be highly skeptical of that.

What's to say it wont be slashed and burnt to make room for agriculture? What's to say the surplus of timber wont decrease the price and cause less trees to be planted elsewhere?
>Modern IRC servers tend to support TLS on port 6697 and SASL for authentication.

The OC's point was by default, meaning/inferring clear-text is still the modus operandi for generally getting onto IRC services.

>Many applications still aren't encrypted by default, like IRC.

SSL and SASL aren't, precisely, user-friendly implementations with some clients (e.g.: IRSSI[0] - but if you're using IRSSI, you don't want a user-friendly GUI to begin with, so...).

SASL has less to do with the actual encryption mechanism and more to do with the authentication mechanism (think NTLM)[1].

If IRC services dropped clear-text, today, that would go a lot further to standardising (e.g.: making default) encryption but, back to the OC's original point, it is not the default today.

[0] - https://freenode.net/kb/answer/irssi

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Authentication_and_Secu...
All SO tags I've ever followed the number of people answering is greater than the people asking, so that's not really an issue, I think. Although, maybe, it felt that way due to down voting.

The case you described is easy to identify and you can just leave a comment, which will be useful to both: other people answering questions and the person asking. Different from the down vote.
Whatever they like. For the most part I would imagine the majority of a carbon dividend would go on making their lives less marginal. Maybe a nicer home near a decent school, better appliances, or clothes. Maybe some savings. Once they have, perhaps they will look to accumulate more emissions like their more wealthy peers.

So long as the nett overall emissions are down and decreasing it matters little. You ensure that by setting the rate of the carbon tax high enough. Perhaps an accumulating rate.
Things like these are still the reason I am not switching away from Mac OS
I was wondering the same and probably it is related with the 2nd being a US holiday as you pointed out. Thanks for the info!
> IANAL, but: if you are an entity that provides free services to citizens of the EU, and you process PII (e-mail address), you are subject to the GDPR's rules.

Only to the extent the EU can hurt you.

Do you think every company is subject to US law?
Is it possible that you're experiencing the Mandela Effect? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_Effect)
If someone were promoting a cause--say a business just trying to get the word out there about their new offering--were sitting at a table with a box that said "free mugs", would you consider it exploitative to take the entire box of free mugs, scrub off the company's logo, and begin selling them to people? Would you at least say that it's kind of scummy, or at the very least ethically questionable?

Being technically within the bounds of your agreement and being exploitative are not even close to mutually exclusive.

>It's also unfair to pretend that companies who are setting up managed services are universally not contributing back- by open sourcing their code MongoDB has been able to benefit off of the issues that these other companies have found, often without having to do more than review a pull request.

It's also unfair to pretend that you know for certain that the benefit of this exchange was significantly in favor of MongoDB compared to the detriment they experienced from having their work repurposed.

It is not a good defense of OSS to say that this is working as intended.
That is confusing terms. Propaganda can and usually is built out of true news as well as fake stories - true news presented selectively, given a specific interpretation etc. can be a very powerful tool.

Fake stories and their spread are a different matter - they can be a form of propaganda as well, but they can also serve other properties (selling ads, such as in spam, is a major reason for fake stories).
If the signs prohibit passage, Waze wouldn't be able to use that (legally invalid) route, would it?
Side note: FreeBSD, i3 and X11 aren't the easiest pieces of software to use if you don't want to spend time dealing with configuration files. There are better macOS alternatives for your use-case!
The cycles you get is dependent on the depth of discharge (and more).

See the chart in [0], where 100% discharge nets 200 cycles, 50% gives you ~500, 30% is ~1200. One would expect that if you discharge 50%, thats half a cycle, and therefore get 400 cycles, but in reality you get 500.

[0]: https://pvcdrom.pveducation.org/BATTERY/charlead.htm
two days is what Amtrak takes today though.
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Some of the most important things to know about homosexuality is that it's neither a choice, curable nor preventable.

There indeed seems to be an immutable difference between those who are primarily/exclusively attracted to the same or the opposite sex. But actual behavior, affected by culture and circumstances, does make all of this more difficult.

Homosexuals are often perfectly able to "function" in heterosexual intercourse, and heterosexuals in homosexual intercourse. But the study didn't ask for that, they asked for the underlying preference. They may even have used physical measurements. Yes, there are studies where the participants are exposed to different stimuli and their arousal is measured physiologically.
A complete aside: the site design on linked page is beautiful. Very minimalist and totally functional.
That behavior also falls directly in line with Canonical's intended distribution of Ubuntu and the business model that surrounds it. Not quite apples to apples.
Since years I'm surprised that Google maps suggests routes through small roads. This makes no sense, maybe I see a minute but it's so much more stressful to navigate. Big roads are actually built for traffic, there is no point to use small roads for transit traffic. Also it is much more likely to compete with bicycle drivers and pedestrians for road space.
Agreed that understanding lags behind when money and cheaper computation (god I hate that term "compute" used as a verb, learn to English my dudes) drives the SOTA rather than actual understanding (on both researchers' and computers' part).

There's a reason we haven't seen a hard takeoff with BERT writing BERT+1 in even better Python and it probably isn't because nobody is trying, it's because BERT is too stupid to write a computer program.
To Facebook.com, about 25 ms.
All high speed rail lines are and have to be newly built lines though.
You would finally find a perfect match for your problem, only to scroll down to blurred out answers. Oh the frustration.
Can you share the code you used to calculate these?
Considering the behavior of top news organizations over the past ±20 years, I have no problem calling them both propaganda and fake news.
Foreign trade is ~37% of China's GDP so probably at least 1/3 of the country depends on it directly or indirectly. For context that's equivalent to the entire population of the US even if only a small fraction of those people are conducting the actual communications, negotiations, and transactions of international commerce.
Around my area in Sydney a few new street signs have been popping up banning traffic from driving through at certain times of the day, without actually changing the roads. The signs say for example 'No right turn 7am-10am' which is when morning traffic sneaks into the side street to get to the CBD faster.

Then I got to sit on my balcony for 6 weeks watching the traffic cops ticket one car after the other until they stopped catching people.
> Mongodb is so different from anything else

CouchDB is quietly weeping in a corner.
According to Figure 2 of the GHP paper that must be why Daytona would be preferable to Birmingham or Dallas if you wanted to minimize overall energy use by focusing on AC alone, using little or none during the warmer months.

A basic rule of thumb is that it takes enough natural gas to heat three homes in order to produce the electricity to heat only one home.

Also that it takes about 3kWh of electricity for an AC unit to cool off the heat produced by 1kWh of electrical appliances or other heat sources.
What if this is the answer? What if our intellect is nothing more than few orders of magnitude more performant network of Clever Hanses in our head developed over years? Look at the history - it's actually hard to find something that is not biased - false, biased believes are spread throughout the timeline of human kind. Given enough time, our knowledge gets closer towards truth - but maybe it's nothing more than a time-trimmed tree of Clever Hanses? Like a child constantly creating false, biased interpretation of surrounding reality, discarding most of it, leaving bits that pass test of time.
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It's an interesting question that poses interesting problems.

The main problem is that beta reduction is an awkward operation from the perspective of computational complexity, which is a fairly fundamental concept in algorithm analysis. There's a discussion of that here:

https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/41776

P.S: Purely Functional Data Structures is a great book. It's focus is more on the implementation details of algorithms in a functional language (ML), and the necessary abstractions.

It's not an analysis of algorithms within a formal model, like lambda calculus.
You've started with Arch and are judging the entire ecosystem based on that? That's ridiculous.

Start with Ubuntu, Fedora, elementary OS, or any of the myriads of actually complete operating systems that let you get some work done less than half an hour since you start an installation.
By googling you probably find better answers than mine, but afaik the problem is that many GHG compounds that decay rapidly at ground level (e.g. NOx) live longer at airplane heights and the clouds that precipitate around exhaust particles also have a warming effect.
That's funny, I only feel like I'm putting up with "_a lot_ of crap" when I'm working on a system where I'm not able to tweak the configuration.

I'm currently working on Mac OS, and the limitations when rebinding keyboard shortcuts for example are absolutely infuriating. Getting to log in on my home Arch Linux desktop is so relaxing every day after work - if something doesn't work the way I want it to work, I can just fix it myself.
"All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods."

"It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying." - Hitler

Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, is generally credited with scaling up the "big lie" technique. He had access to radio broadcasting, which was new then, and pushed mass production of radio receivers. With those powerful tools, propaganda became far more effective.
Or perceived risk since we pay just as much so there's really not much on the line

I had one former colleague turn down my request because his current company gives great health insurance and 401k contributions. I was like "you are 22 years old! Take a tiny risk!"

Don't you realize you've contradicted yourself here? Perhaps you've failed to consider that great health insurance and 401k plans are part of the total compensation package. If you're matching base salary but ignoring other benefits, you're not matching anything.
Carrot and stick. Just like today, have CARB and EPA to make sure the fuels are being burned cleanly.
"compute" actually is a verb, though, I thought? I think you mean "noun".
Even if the train ride were completely free I'd usually opt to drive. That's because most places in the US you need a car to get around. So I might as well just bring my own. Except for a hand full of major cities, the US just isn't dense enough for rail to work well.
If they were doing E2E encryption, that would not be a problem. Broadcasting to find the right recipient (the one with the decrypting key) but contents protected from everybody else.
Every time I check the prices for Amtrak it costs much more than flying, which is frankly absurd. Which is sad because I have a station within walking distance of my house. I should be able to explore the whole US from my house but it isn’t even remotely possible due to cost. How is it possible to fly through the air for cheaper than trundling along on a rail?
If you don't discharge below ~60% of system capacity, use flooded cells, and keep up with balancing charges, etc, you should be able to squeeze ~1,000 cycles out of a deep cycle/marine lead acid battery. A partial discharge only counts as a partial cycle, so you're within the expected range by your description.

https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/archive/advancements_in_...
There are many types of events where there exists an objective truth. 'humans went to the moon', for example, is a statement whose truth is objective. You may choose to believe this truth or not, but you can't say 'the truth is more complicated than that'. Of course 'Americans went to the moon to further the human condition' is an example of statement for which there is likely not an objective truth - the terms themselves are fuzzy, people usually have multiple reasons and contradictory feelings about their reasons etc.

So if I post a story claiming Hillary Clinton is running a child sex trafficking ring from a pizza place basement, that is unequivocally false. If I run a story saying Hillary Clinton is an evil person seeking to lead the country astray, that may or may not be true depending on many different factors, definitions, personal beliefs etc. It would be wrong to label it as fake news,for this reason.
Satellite comms would still work. But you raise an important point, as it's a strategic issue in the region: https://www.asiasentinel.com/econ-business/taiwan-fears-chin...
I see two possible explanations to this patent :

- Google is rather open about deep learning development, they want to protect the ecosystem from patent trolls. It is a defensive patent to eventually punish unfair players who don't want to play the collaborative game

- Google noticed OpenAI, which (legally) built stuff using some Google's findings in the field. Now OpenAI is aiming at becoming a multi-billion dollars successful "non-profit" company, and Google wants its share of the money if it happens.
A straight "No" to technical testing probably won't work, but you can always negotiate to do something that works for both the company and yourself.
I wonder how they'd get the data off the ship again. I guess they'd need to mine the data on the ship before exporting it.
But imagine having much better memories than you have now. It is much better to wake up and go to work knowing that you spent a good vacation last three month, than having boring eternal life of a regular worker with low wage. Forget that your SO cheated on you. Believe that all people are good.

If you’d sell memory tampering devices, are you sure that most of them would be used against someone other instead of on buyers themselves?

What if we had special devices that could sneakily push preferences or suggestions to unaware person? It would be a very dangerous tech! (Oh, nevermind, I use one of them to write this comment)
Well, not if doing some work is somehow related to hardware video decoding or taking advantage of latest GPGPU features.
“Out of the thousands of scripts that are gender-specific to men, here we have one that we know is gender-specific to women,” says Silber

Anyone have more detail about these thousands of gender specific male scripts? Never heard of this.
My theory is re-writing is simpler, more efficient, basically elegant and all that's needed for achieving the task of producing a memory. I don't necessarily think forgetting an event is illustrating memories being deleted because the same result can be from re-writing neurons for newer memories.
I think the target audience here are the FreeBSD users, not the all Unix users. Mind you, installing Linux on Thinkpads is usually hassel-free, but again it's only useful for someone who wants Linux.
Streak freezing things can be purches with their in-app currency "gems", which can be obtained without paying. Not even sure if you can buy them. I have so much more of these than I'd ever need, just because you can do barely anything with them
Don’t be too hard on yourself. I get stung by the Guardian April fool story almost every year. It typically takes at least 2 paragraphs to spot what are obviously absurd stories.

To me the April fool stories highlight the biggest issue with media corps... being normally-trustworthy actually makes them very powerful on the occasions when they are mistaken or misused.
Surprising given how easily defeatable it is for anyone sufficiently motivated.
In "Ghost in the Shell" there is a sub plot with a man who talks all day about his family until it is revealed to him that it is all false memories. I always found this one of the most horrifying scenes in the movie.
> How can it be a state machine if you aren't mutating it?

You are confusing a state machine (which is an abstract model of computation) with the behavior of a program implementing it. The set of possible states and the conditions of transition from one state to the next never change.

These conditions can depend on mutable state, as is the case described by the author (in this case, mutable state is kept in the current and previous node pointers).
Postgres is better than Mongo for all of Mongo’s use cases, and 100 others besides, why wouldn’t you use it?
> You end up basically losing a day when flying anyway, even for short trips

I wouldn't at all agree with that. I live in SF and can get door-to-door to a friend's house in San Diego in 3 hours. I can do similar things for LA, Vegas, Portland, and Seattle if I like.

Even when I fly cross-country to visit family (near DC), yes, the flight out is a waste of a day (unless I take a red-eye and hope I can sleep), but the flight back is just 3 hours after adjusting for the time zone change. I can take an early flight out in the morning and still put in a full day of work, or have a full day visiting and fly back after dinner.

I really don't want to spend several days just on travel, were I to take a train. I would consider that a waste of valuable time that I could be spending at my destination. I might enjoy a long multi-day train ride as a vacation (once every few years, perhaps), but not when my plan is just to get from point A to point B.

I'll usually take the train from DC to NYC, or NYC to Boston, when I'm out east visiting friends, but I recently looked at doing DC to Boston direct, and was disappointed to see that I'd burn 7 hours on a train for only $20 less than a much shorter flight. And some of the trains were more expensive than the flight!
Well, we are in front of two different cultural habits then: one that requires quietness and one that does not. The second one is incompatible with the first one.

You can't claim to be respectful of other's cultural habits if you insist on using yours knowing they are incompatible.

And I'd like to point out that the author of the article presents (what I believe to be) the French typically accepted attitude of quietness in cemetery as the result of being a "less advanced capitalist society" where secularism is less developed. Which is a laughable claim done by someone who obviously does not know the history of secularism is France after the 19th century or the demographics of religions there.

And gosh, I do have a young kid and I know how noisy he can get without him meaning any harm. And I do see other parents oblivious to the noise of their own kids. Seriously, that's not about cultural differences. That's about understanding that not everyone developed the tolerance to your kids behavior that you develop during the first years.

Imposing your kids to other people, especially when they want to focus on something else, is an asshole thing to do. That's the case in France, and that's the case in any culture that does not elevate kids-breeding to a cult that needs to be protected at any cost.