skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"because of self-hosting"

Although I follow Bootstrapping projects, I think the self-hosting focus itself is a bad idea. PreScheme, a systems language, was easier to parse, more productive than, and compiled to C. The latter to leverage its optimizing compilers but showed it was not necessary to give up Scheme benefits to do it all in C.

Likewise, many of these compilers would iterate faster with more correctness if written in a higher-level language instead of being self-hosting just because. The libraries will already test the language in a variety of situations. So, that excuse doesn't fly for me if trading away productivity and/or maintainability of the better language for the compiler/interpreter.
Like everything else in the US military, there is a written standard to support this style. See Army Regulation 25-50, Section IV "The Army Writing Style" https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/r25_50....

> Army writing will be concise, organized, and to the point. Two essential requirements include putting the main
point at the beginning of the correspondence (bottom line up front) and using the active voice (for example, “You are
entitled to jump pay for the time you spent in training last year”).
If it were marketed correctly ("literary gaming" or something), I could see a modern variation of a MUD gaining some traction if it were browser based and styled up in way that's a little more accessible, with some other modern conveniences.

Kind of like how Discord and Slack are just a coat of contemporary Web-isms on top of the same old idea as IRC.
It doesn't even have to be high speed if they fill it with sleeping berths.
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What definition of "deterministic" are you using here?
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New health campaign message: remember to eat your 50 portions of fruit and veg a day.
Has it really? I thought it would be useful to share a paper from the opposing viewpoint, which argues the opposite of the conclusions you might first arrive at from looking at this chart...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915751... (Mineral nutrient composition of vegetables, fruits and grains: The context of reports of apparent historical declines, published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis March 2017).

As a non-expert I have no opinion as to which viewpoint is correct. However, as usual the issue is more complex than that...
There's a huge difference between most PHP and good PHP. Just like Perl.

That said, for most new development there's probably a better choice.
That's going to be harder in a dynamic language. In fact, sophisticated type systems are supposed to (and do) solve these problems very elegantly.
So at the end of the first term, we vomit a president up, and might eat the president again for a second term?
> Well, at a minimum it makes goods from China more expensive and drop shipping from China no longer makes sense for many products.

Well, given the number of products we buy from China, this sounds like it's going to make things more expensive for US Citizens.

> If you aren't getting those products from China, they'll come from somewhere else.

...for a higher price, probably, which we will pay.
Except for the 'vice versa' part of your comment. The bus on Thursday only leaves from from SF, so it's only the SF to LA weekend trip that is supported.
Sounds like an overlay network like zerotier to me.
> Growing food has turned into an engineering problem where people think you solve it by investing the least possible resources into it.

This is not a bad thing. Food is so abundant that globally, more people are obese than underweight. This is pretty remarkable considering that for all of human history, up until recently, periods of mass starvation was the norm.
I'm thinking a Wework on wheels. We're not a bus company we're a tech company!
What has it being yes/no got to do with being deterministic? What definition of 'deterministic' are you using here?
I found the article a bit obtuse, but I take it to mean we are drawing a uniform sample from a very large set. This means we don't need a shuffled sample, we just need one with a uniform chance of each source element being in the sample.

Duplication in the context of the article appears to refer to tweet identity rather than content, so taking a stream of all existing tweets and selecting a uniformly sampled subset of them is certainly possible without storing the list of sampled tweets.

The algorithm referred to has an additional constrain of sequential access only. If you have random access there are simpler approaches to take. If you have an unbounded input stream you just filter using a prng for a uniformly distributed sample.

The article only applies to enormous and sequentially accessed data sources, which is why the algorithm died with tape drives: it's not actually a common problem any more.
Flagging isn't for ridding the site of stories you don't like or find personally offensive - continue to abuse flags that way and you'll lose your flagging privileges.

If you don't like a story you see on HN, your choices are to ignore it or hide it. Hiding a story also hides comments for that story. Either way, you can also post more of the content you would rather see. Complaining that stories don't belong on HN or trying to ruin other people's conversations by flagging them only makes the site worse for everyone else.
> My assumption is that waste, fat, energy process is complicated, and that something happens during sleep that the body gets rid of stuff, and if it doesn't have enough time to do that, it will just leave some things in place.

That sounds a lot to an outsider like you'd already made up your mind before you even started. That leads to terrible experimental hygiene, and you're missing a lot of important details in the naive experimentation procedure:

0. Nothing in the body happens at a constant rate. It's wildly inaccurate to assume that everything will happen at the same pace from day to day, even if you change nothing about your behavior.

1. When people talk about losing "weight", what they really mean is losing fat.

2. Without exercise, your muscles atrophy.

3. Muscles weigh something, but that's not the weight you want to lose. The reason that it's diet + exercise and not literally just diet is partly because people want an excuse to not put down the fork but mostly because exercise is critical for physical and mental health beyond weight loss.

4. Nobody says that sleeping isn't important for all kinds of things. Sleeping _is_ important. For one thing, sleeping well help you maintain your diet and exercise better. You will be happier, you may be satiated by eating less, and you will be able to push yourself harder while exercising. But none of those things mean that you're specifically losing weight while you sleep.

5. You don't immediately excrete everything that you took in the previous day when you get up in the morning. It takes a lot longer than one day to pee out your body's retained water unless you're plowing through intense diuretics (DO NOT DO THIS).

6. All of your poop is food that your body didn't absorb plus bacteria that live and die in your intestines. Your body doesn't clear cellular waste that way. You also don't immediately poop out everything from the day before when you get up in the morning unless you're plowing through intense laxatives (DO NOT DO THIS).

7. Your body does clear cellular waste through your urine, but by mass the waste that you pee out (as opposed to all the water) is just not very much.

8. By far the vast majority of weight lost is from carbon exhaled as CO2 [ref1], which you literally do all the time, not just when you sleep.

9. Sleep affects how often and how much you pee (kidney filtration rate) and poop (gut motility).

[ref1] - https://www.sciencealert.com/where-body-fat-ends-up-when-you...
As I said elsewhere: the IPCC report says we'll see somewhere around 5% global GDP reduction in 2100, in a world that's vastly wealthier than today. In my opinion, she uses dramatic, condemnatory rhetoric far beyond the conclusions of scientists.
Their last outage worries me greatly.
Most stories about Brexit, HK, natural disaster, breaking news and "politician X thinks" are already getting flagged regularly. Some stories have an interesting angle though, like voting fraud, a proposed law that affects the tech industry, HK protestors have been using mesh networks.

Even harder to decide if news about Musk, Bezos, Bill Gates, Thiel is relevant or entertainment. Or company X sold to company Y, stock market news, bitcoin movements.

So news about a new school shooter rarely makes it to the frontpage. An article or opinion piece about gun control sometimes does. Same with the current hurricane vs articles about climate change.

2016 election period (felt endless) has been handled alright on HN, I think 2020 election will be alright.
What’s your preferred methodology to Agile? Waterfall?
Coast Guard seeks tips for threatening radio broadcast
> by dint of its greater leverage with corrupt small governments

Because any nation that isn't on your side is corrupt, right?
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Climeworks – Capturing CO2 from Air
What, just because you're grossed out by poo?
A specific industry for a short period of time.
When crops are removed from the land, more complex fertilizers must be used to replace the minerals. A good example is sulfur. The sulfur removed had been replenished by acid rain. Once scrubbers were applied to remove sulfur from coal plant emissions, farmers needed to monitor and replenish sulfur levels by sulfur fertilizer.

"Seeking high yields, the reduction of acid rain and the need for sulfur" - https://www.farmprogress.com/management/seeking-high-yields-...

The bottom line is that agriculture is mining, and any elements that are removed in crops must be replaced. Adequate sulfur levels are particularly important to cruciferous vegetables.
Trump got elected, in part, because a lot of religious conservatives hoped he would appoint conservative (read anti-abortion) judges to the supreme court. Religious conservatives don't, for the most part, like his obvious loose morals but many are willing to "hold their nose" and vote for anyone who will make it more likely that abortion will banned in the Unites States. I personally know people who have this attitude.
The U.S. State Department, which is the lead negotiator for the U.S. in UPU, has submitted a proposal that would allow the U.S. to “self-declare” international postage pricing and to decide on subsidy levels, if any. Unless the UPU agrees to the proposal by a September 30 deadline, the U.S. will leave the Union 17 days later and, over time, begin a framework of bilateral negotiations with individual postal authorities. The self-declare regime would begin in 2020.

These are negotiations, not flipping the table.
Wait, if my rides are subsidized, why am I still paying so much??
I'm a little surprised by your story. I was in a similar situation myself, except that I chose to go to an Ivy League school, and there were sufficiently many work-study options available to help pay for all my expenses.
Politically, abortion is a very useful issue because it's emotional and it will never be resolved completely one way or the other. So when other political factors fail, abortion can still "move the needle" on parts of the electorate.

A lot of those other factors seem to be failing for President Trump right now, so his administration and other Republican supporters are leaning into abortion as a topic for the next election.

The general election is not until early November 2020, but Democrats are getting a ton of air time now with their primary process, and Republicans don't have much success to sell right now other than all the federal judges they've confirmed. Basically these judges have been the #1 focus of the Republican-controlled Senate for the past 2 years.

There are a lot of reasons they have been focused on judges, but abortion is the easiest way to talk about it with large groups of Republicans.
Makes sense, depending on complexity my email sections tend to be.

Executive summary:
Summary:
In general:
Specifically:

Now I feel all sorts of validated for being pedantic about the whole thing.
I for one am a specialist on quantum mechanics since I read Steven Hawking. It's all bonkers, I can tell you that, but because of the uncertainty principle, I'm not really sure. That's OK because there is some parallel world in the multiverse in which it isn't. And please don't ask me to explain, I've read enough to know that by Hoffstadter's Incompleteness theorems I cannot prove it.
Original title: "How to Explore The Cosmos from Your Own Backyard"

Nice images. Is it much cheaper than the Hubble, but the resolution is also smaller.
I enjoyed TFS but tend to agree with this review:

> Thinking Fast and Slow is my runner-up for “book most overrated by investors” (with Klarman’s Margin of Safety the champion.) People who pitch this book as “required reading” simply haven’t read broadly enough about cognitive biases: while the content is certainly useful and I don’t take anything away from Kahneman as a researcher, his writing/communication/worldview leave much to be desired, and the same lessons can be learned far more effectively and enjoyably via a variety of other books (many of which are suggested below).

http://www.askeladdencapital.com/daniel-kahnemans-thinking-f...
Yes, and quite often those donations come with major athletics perks.

I went to a big basketball school (several NCAAM titles), and I was in the band/drum line which did a ton of entertaining for wealthy alumni during games.

Basically the way it works is that you make a “donation” to the school in order to access blocks of tickets to games. The more you “donate”, the better your tickets are. If you “donate” enough, you even get access to exclusive pregame events that usually entail comped drinks and live entertainment (band and cheerleader performances). Some of the biggest donors even get to travel with the team on road games. There was a small group that would travel with university personnel and get some interaction with players during tournament trips.
Can they order a whole bunch more and find a place to park them in SF near a gym? Then they can charge $1000 per month per spot.
There's a nice table here: https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/appendi...

Quite a lot of common staples (eg: potatoes, greens, vegetables, pulses) have a fair amount of potassium, if you look at the "potassium in a standard portion" column (and remember these are fairly small portions, the assumption being that a meal has a portion of several different things).
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How are poor people supposed to get good news? Or are they not supposed to participate in that democracy?
Not exactly disagreeing with you, but it seems like increasing yields and inadequate fertilization focusing on macronutrients would also explain the drop. If I grow crops that preferentially absorb certain minerals and then take away most of the vegetable matter from the plot, the soil content of the absorbed minerals is going to drop without something to replenish it. Now, I'm not saying soil bacteria and mychorrhizal networks can't pull minerals from the underlying bedrock and transport it to the top layer, but even assuming they did, I would think high-yield farming would tax their ability to keep up with mineral outflows.
I'm confused by your post. Did the original comment suggest that vaccines were the only cause of this trend? The comment even states that "They’ve never had to watch a child die from something that was readily preventable with cheap, nearly risk-free medicine," which doesn't only include vaccines. In either case, vaccines for certain things like polio were being used before 1960, https://www.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/us-polio..., so I don't understand your comment.
Yeah, I-5 is smooth as hell and getting smoother by the day. But I believe buses feel bumps in the pavement to bridge transitions
More like assuming society is capable of regulating itself
Edward Snowden is a useful idiot.
They are profitable, just not in ways you can measure with money/capital. China depends on their massive rail network for social cohesion and connecting people to the central government in Beijing. How much that has generated in industry growth is not something that can be independently measured.

Likewise, in American areas with good rail transport, you see business boom around it. The net gain in commerce, sales tax revenue, etc. cannot easily be measured, but it's significant and American could benefit greatly with better rail transport. You'd see America begin to collapse in and become less spread out within less than 50 years (especially in urban spaces).
This seems to be making the code less readable and more like javascript. I much prefer

public function getName(): string {
return $this->name;
}

over

public getName(): string => $this->name;
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if I remember right flagging threshold is really low - 30 or so? Or at least it was for a long time.
quit smoking
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No metaphor is perfect - my claim is that this is quite a bad one compared to many others that he could have chosen.
Let's just read the first paragraph again:

"Here’s a program roughly 0% of programmers know how to write: generate a list of random tweets, without duplication. You may think you know how to do this, but you almost assuredly don’t."

This problem can definitely be changed into harder problems, but this is the premise of the article and it's pretty darn easy.
Yep, I’m quite happy to have peaked in adulthood and not in high school.
So is it your position that things would go just fine if we followed the anti-vaxxers advice?
I think it also happens because of synthetic fertilizers (and possibly modern genetics).

It's a race to grow as big a product in as short of time as possible which causes the mineral ratios to be different.

A tomato which takes months to grow and ripens on the vine has more time to assimilate minerals than a tomato that is "pushed" with synthetic fertilizers, then snatched off the vine unripened and ripened with ethylene gas in transport.
A moderator told me "A botnet has been working on stealing accounts for the last several days." Likely a quick fix to counter that.
I'm old enough ( graduated HS 1987 ) to have had woodworking in middle school. Still have the shitty pine box I made in class. I now enjoy woodworking as a hobby, not a profession. Currently building a dresser for the bedroom. Will take me probably a year. Real wood furniture built by real craftsmen is expensive, because labor aint cheap. Most people don't want to spend / can't afford to spend anymore.
I think simple observation provides plenty of evidence. It's not a real scientific-method approach, but if you want to dismiss the relationship he's talking about, you need either to find a flaw in his reasoning or offer a better alternative explanation for the observation that when people try to "multitask", they usually do a shit job of it.
I just got an itemized bill today for a minor fall I took a couple months back..

On top of the nearly $6k in other charges from the hospital, they charged $531 for one dab of superglue or "liquid stitches" on my forehead for something that would have healed by itself.

One of my friends died two years ago from pneumonia. He didn't go to the hospital when symptoms first started because he was afraid of the bills that would come from it.

They don't ask you if you want to spend $500 for a dab of glue on your forehead, they just do it and you're essentially writing them a blank check in the process. I hate our medical system.
> For computer viruses, maybe we can have 10 operating systems, but you still don't want to be the unlucky one, and you also don't want to be stuck with the 10th best operating system or the 10th best browser. Diversity is how nature defends against corruption, but not how human engineers do.

Hold up. I'm not sure what "the 10th best browser" even means. There isn't some absolute scale of browser quality. The web browser that more than half the world uses is kind of lousy in my eyes. That's why these alternatives exist.

Even if there were a single "best", you'd be much less likely to "be the unlucky one", because if everyone is using a system with tiny market share, you're each much less appealing to attackers. And the distribution falls off really fast.

What's the 10th most popular OS today? NetBSD, maybe. I searched the CVE list for "Microsoft Windows", and see 61 issues in 2019. "macOS" has 44 this year, and NetBSD hasn't had any since 2017. The NetBSD developers are smart and careful, I'm sure, but at least part of that has got to be because they've got <0.1% market share. Nobody wants to spend time attacking NetBSD because then you've got the problem of finding a NetBSD system to actually attack! I wouldn't use obscurity as my only security, but I'm not going to discount its value, either.

> In fact, a major goal of modern engineering is to destroy diversity. As Deming would say, reduce variation. Find the "best" solution, then deploy it consistently everywhere, and keep improving it.

I disagree. Software engineering (real engineering, not "I built a webpage over the weekend") does indeed use diversity as a tactic. Avionics famously has multiple independent implementations, and checks results between the units.

"Find the best solution" is great for general problem solving strategies, but not good for sourcing implementations. When I'm building something, I don't want to use a hardware component that was only available from one supplier. Standardize the interfaces and requirements, but then make sure you can meet those in more than one way.
The US is able to do large unprofitable projects. E.g., the Apollo program, the space shuttle.
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The GrooveShark of the movie industry. Thanks for changing the way we watch movies.
Also, we're talking about land in California, which isn't known for cheap real estate. Even if the central valley might be relatively cheap, the amount of land that needs to be acquired in the LA and SF areas, which sprawl considerably, means a good portion of the needed land is likely very expensive for infrastructure. Building something on the 300 miles of I-5 from Tracy to Santa Clarita is probably much easier and cheaper than the last 30-40 miles on either end.
What about embryos that aren't implanted? That just don't make it naturally? 1 in 3 eggs don't make it for every kne that does. Does the Catholic church want to do anything about those? I quick Google search didn't bring anything up.
Probably worth calling out, since we're apparently supposed to believe Jeffrey Epstein broke his neck by kneeling too hard.
Japan has even stricter property rights and they manage to do better than us. See, e.g., https://japantoday.com/category/features/opinions/eminent-do...

From a legal perspective eminent powers can be exercised quite efficiently. They haven't been exercised efficiently in California because of politics. HSR officials spend far too long haggling with farmers and pay much more than a court would require in an attempt to minimize negative media attention. But it has backfired by drawing things out and ballooning costs.
One could argue that it still doesn't exist today at most companies. I think whatever most people call DevOps is an evolution of Sys Admin role in the era of Cloud Computing.
depends. I prefer Android (although more difficult to develop)