skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fiber is slowly making its way through my town and I'm looking forward to the speed, but more than that I'm looking forward to telling Comcast that I don't have to put up with them anymore. I picture it like that episode of South Park, except with the roles reversed.
Not necessarily exactly like this but Google Sheet does web publishing of sheets.
Department of Homeland Security Use of Google Analytics [pdf]
At the risk of spoiling the joke, just curious about how powerful the drones will have to be...

https://www.tarpsplus.com/blue-poly-tarp-sold-individually.h...

"3.5 oz. Per Square Yrd."

You have: 3 mi 4 mi 3.5 oz/yd^2
You want: kg
* 3688250.3

So each drone should be able to lift about a gigagram.

(Also, this plastic doesn't have enough tensile strength to support its own weight when lifted from the corners.)
It should be at least more like 10000 according to this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05224
But this is in an utopian world where we neglect quantum error correction and stability and the fact that quantum computers are mostly non programmable (there's not even one qubit logic gate..)

TLDR quantum computing is going nowhere (excluding the low probability of a breakthrough in the field)
My father served on the board of selectmen for my town when I was growing up. He was so miserable during that time, it taught me to never, ever go into politics.
Up here in British Columbia, Canada, the salmon situation this year has been dire. The government was expecting 5 million salmons returning to spawn. We got 600,000.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sockeye-retu...

In one of the most dramatic shifts, the federal Department of Fisheries has adjusted the estimated number of returning Fraser River sockeye to slightly more than 600,000, down from an earlier projection of nearly five million.
If there were a .nazi TLD, would there be debate about how proper it is?
Survival from what - or in what way?

Ignoring a bad idea does not make it go away.
I'm not educated in this area to be able to make conclusions, but one thing I wonder is if in N years if all the disaster dates pass and much less or nothing happens. How will we convince people of risks of climate change if there is a history of it being misrepresented.

My concern is that people are willing to be too extreme at a potential expense of the public's perception of science/climate change. I think it's important to be precise and measured with this stuff.
Examining HPC Storage Performance on Deep Learning Workloads with BeeGFS
If you’re willing to pay, why not rent from the iTunes Store / Amazon Prime?

Pick one, they’ve had all the movies / TV shows I wanted to watch, which are not all mainstream.

If there’s an exception and there’s something you don’t find it there - well, do you, but I really don’t understand how piracy is the default answer to convenience with people claiming they have the willingness to pay.

Someone else commented about the local video store - also an option, if not something I’d do myself (does redbox count?)
"fish populations down 98% in 100 years" is just not something you can dress up and make look pretty.

J, K, and L pods of the SRKW are starving to death, and that's hard to make look like good news either.
The infographic that Cory Doctrow links to from the page below, which was created back in the "DVD" days, is also still quite relevant to the current "which service is it on" world we are entering.

Replace the "unskippable 'you criminal' you" DVD previews with the descriptions of determining where, what, when, etc.

https://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html

The 300 separate streaming services need to understand that they need a friction level very close to the "if you are a pirate" box at the top in order to prevent their customers from returning to the pirate route. And having 300 separate services, with disjoint content, is not at all near the friction level of the "if you are a pirate" box at the top of the infographic.
IP transit rates drop by like 30% per year[1], you have to assume transit is a large portion of expenses. Further, all the hardware an ISP needs get cheaper year after year. There's no reason prices should ever need to rise, apart from greed.

[1] https://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-...
>But streaming services are also heavily underutilized

?

>Even 5-6 people, I doubt my Netflix account is used for more than 10-15 hours a week in total.

Err, you seem to be under the impression that 2 hours/person/week is the norm for someone with a streaming service.. Narrator: It's not.
But even with 50 qubits, the amount of time per operation—if simulated classically—is at least a million+ times slower than what it would be for a quantum computer. This is like comparing disk to L1 cache. Does that count for supremacy? Mathematically, no. Does it count for some kind of advantage? Yes.
The full Jepsen analysis can be found here: http://jepsen.io/analyses/yugabyte-db-1.3.1
In the UK at least, the regulations cover the third category i.e. where you can't demonstrate fraud, but neither does the bank have reasonable grounds to suspect you acted fraudulently. From https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/unauthorised-payments-accou..., explaining when a bank is allowed not to refund you (although they are allowed to refund you and then ask questions and report you to the police).

"""
Why a refund can be refused

Your bank can generally only refuse a refund for an unauthorised payment if:

- it can prove you authorised the transaction – though your bank cannot simply say that use of your password, card or PIN conclusively proves you authorised a payment

- it can prove you are at fault because you acted fraudulently or because you deliberately, or with ‘gross negligence’, failed to protect the details of your card, PIN or password in - a way that allowed the transaction

- you told your bank about an unauthorised payment 13 months or more after the date it left your account, so make sure you contact the bank as soon as possible.
"""

[edit - remove block formatting]
ParlAI, a Python framework for sharing, training and testing dialogue models
AKA 'sim2real' gap for googling purposes.

related: https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2019/05/05/domain-rando...
The student's input is rendered for teachers to make it easier to grade submissions without opening them in an external tool.

As someone who used blackboard in college I can tell you it's a mess. Neither teachers nor students like it. It integrates with a ton of 3rd party libraries to be "helpful" by embedding content like this but ends up with a ton of different, inconsistent and often broken experiences.
Better test:

time for f in `seq 1000` ; do php -r '$data=[1,2,3];'; done

real 0m11.169s
user 0m6.765s
sys 0m4.477s

time for f in `seq 1000` ; do php -r '$data=json_decode("[1,2,3]");'; done

real 0m9.997s
user 0m6.093s
sys 0m3.974s
I don't follow could you explain?
I mean, I get it, but I think performance is overrated in this particular case; unless it’s a significant and/or very noticeable difference, stick to object literals, please. I’d probably fire someone if I started to see `JSON.parse(…)` everywhere in a codebase just for “performance reasons” … remember, code readability and maintainability are just as important (if not more).
Thanks I'll check them out! There are so many books I had no idea where to start.
I read the entire article and came away mistakenly thinking this was the same thing as GraphQL.
That sounds like a sensible way to go about it to me. Suddenly all those services that nobody would actually pay for, that are simply designed to hook people and consume their time, would go away. A whole lot of services that people would actually pay for would suddenly change in focus because now they wouldn’t be driven my ad metrics and engagement metrics. E.g. You’d be paying for email so your email provider would just be a damn good email provider. So on.
Depends on how it was used.

Holocaust museum? OK.

Michigan Militia. Nope.
My cable provider had an crazy discount on their HBO+OnDemand offering, so I bought it and I had complete access to nearly every HBO show and more for 2 years. I ended up torrenting either entire seasons or torrenting last night's episode because:

- The interface was painful to use. If I watched 2 eps of a show one night, and returned the next night, the box didn't remember where I was, so I would have to search up the show using the remote without a keyboard, scroll through an extremely slow UI of giant show posters that looked exactly the same and didn't show the episode number until I selected it. And that list would lead to another list, and every time I selected something, it took approximately 5-10 seconds to load the next page.

- It was "HD" meaning it was outputting 1080p to my TV, but there was a ton of color banding, dark scenes had really obvious compression squares, etc.

- Newly aired shows would usually not appear until the next day, and sometimes they would appear, then disappear for a few hours, then reappear. The stated goal was to have the shows available right away, but something about the infra prevented them from reliably doing it.

- Once in a while I would be going through an old season, and some random episode, like the second episode of the season, would simply disappear from the list for a day or two.

- Maybe this is a Canada-only/CTV problem, but there were several CTV shows I tried to watch that had rewind/fastforward COMPLETELY DISABLED, presumably to prevent commercial skipping (because they had commercials in their OnDemand shows). If you watched a show halfway, and decided to come back and watch from that point, CTV said "f* you, watch the whole thing again."

In cable company's defense, the interface to all this was very pretty. They were iteratively updating it too and very slowly making the OnDemand menus just a little more easy to use, so it wasn't some old garbage that never changed.

But the sheer number of actions I had to take to watch a single episode made me join a private TV tracker, where I reliably got extremely high quality video immediately after airings, and entire seasons neatly packaged in folders.
Quoting WP:

> The United States Department of Justice defines sexual assault as "any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient.

Saying Minsky might not have realized she was coerced, in context of a 17 year old on a private island having sex with a 73 year old, is just nonsense. If (!) he did anything at all (and so far, there's only a claim that Minsky turned her down, plus no claim he had sex with her, AFAIK), that'd be sexual assault just by merit of the power differential.

If RMS doesn't understand that at age 66, that's tough luck, and splitting hairs about the arbitraryness of the age of consent or territorial jurisdictions, then talking about how it was all misunderstood and mischaracterized, because he was also, additionally falsely accused of defending Epstein, doesn't make it seem like he learned anything, at all.

Last, but not least: Not knowing someone's age because one didn't ask for ID isn't ignorance, it's not wanting to know. Likewise, a highly intelligent man thinking "oh my, this young lady who also happens to vacation here is really into me, what a lucky bastard I am" and any variation thereof doesn't pass the smell test. Even having attempted that argument was insulting to anyone's intelligence, and it's insulting to victims of such things.
curiosity & knowledge >> survival.

I'm vote for taking a risk even if there is change that we get burned.

If we send a message and we are not ready when they come or send return message hundreds or thousands years later, good riddance.
I don't disagree that asymmetric speeds are a problem, but I think there's this bubble where tech professionals think that once everyone has gigabit up and down, your average Joe is going to be demanding 10 gigabit and up, and the data isn't proving that out. People are happy to stream a couple of views of Netflix at once and that's it (even if you're thinking everyone is going to do live syncing of block volumes to the cloud; everyone might use iCloud for their Mac backups once Apple supports it natively for Time Machine, but even then deduplication and off peak transfers will do the heavy lifting).
> Nothing has been proven

Do you know the presumption of innocence principle?

> I absolutely would lose my job if I was holding a high leadership, PR position at my company for making idiotic statements. You would too.

I dare you try and lose at this game.

I can't lose my job, I live in a country where workers freedoms are protected.

Especially when expressing opinions as private citizens and not while doing their job.

You probably should learn a few things about what RMS stood for, even for a low standard country like the US.

> Why should anyone care about what YOU

For no reason.

In fact I'm ok with it.

You are crying that are tired.

> You guys are the type of people to get mad at the world and can't understand why you're hated by everyone

I really don't care.

I'm loved by the people I love, you, believe me, are less than dog shit to me.

And I'm quite sure it's reciprocal, and that's ok.

It is very saddening though to watch "you guys" still using this pathetic tactics...

This are things people use to say when they are kids, to try get under other people's skin and make them angry.

They don't work with functioning adults.

Are you sure you aren't the one everybody hates?

Looks like it's very important for you to be loved, you;re obsessed with it.

Have you talked with someone about it?

> RMS by his own account hasn't written actual code in decades

And Bosso hasn't played any music in ages, and Schumacher hasn't driven a race car in years.

Guess what? they can't anymore!

So what?

> So he had that going for him as well.

What makes you so sure you're not gonna be next?

> Oh wait... it's literally PR for FSF's values

He was founder and president of the FSF foundation.

He stood up for FSF values, because FSF values are HIS values.

He made them. they didn't exist before him.

He wasn't a PR, he was himself.

A PR is someone who works in public relations, he never did that.
.gql extensions are already associated with GraphQL in some IDEs.
When I was a junior, I mentioned to my housemate that I had forgot my Blackboard password. "It's just your birthday" he said, and I looked at him shocked.

30 Minutes later I was in my professor's account. Their birthday month and day were public on Facebook, so it was only a matter of guessing their age.

I reported this to our IT department and they were not pleased. They let me know they had the power to expel me but wouldn't.

A week later, I found another exploit. I think blackboard group chat allowed JS execution outright. I redirected the class to "disney.com" but never disclosed it to IT because of the earlier threats.
This is what dwarffortress needs IMO.
Does the Financial Times accept all ads without question, or publish all letters to the editor?
Where I’m from in a “folksy” rural area you can get gigabit internet service to your farm for $75 a month. But it is not a particularly interesting story.
And just as every company is trying to work out how to "use AI" they'll be trying to work out how to "use Quantum" in future, with all the typical buzzword bullshit that comes with it.
The op "XOR" the the "xor" operation between two things and stores the result in the first operand. "XOR"ing a number with itself always results in 0, which is then stored in the operand itself.

This operation was almost always faster than moving a constant (like 0) into a register, because of all of the overhead of making the constant and reading and writing.
So they just don't suspend your account even if billing fails, then after a year or so they can go after the price for 12 months of access.

Alternatively, they can do the same as the ISPs around here: jack up the sticker price, then give a large discount - conditional on your permanence as a client for X months. If you decide to cancel, you have to pay them back the discount accrued.
iOS developer search: change how art is made
As a European observer of the general discourse in "popular speech platforms" of the "American Brain", I am baffled by the narrow breadth of topics that get discussed most of the time. Enormous heat is generated from discussions on gay marriage, gun laws, abortion laws and minority rights. Identity politics at full throttle. It feels very shallow and unintellectual. You are forced to identify as a member of some group, and then you become a social justice warrior of that group. It all feels like a very wrong way to approach politics on a national level.
I imagine just for goo.gle
It seems that you could define a subset of JS Objects that are exactly those you could define with JSON (no functions, no recursion), and the browser could always read these more efficiently. With modern tooling, these could probably even be automatically be discovered at compile time, and all your `const a = {b: "c"}` objects could be changed into `const a = SimpleObject({b: "c"})`.

Without that, you could probably use Typescript today to spit out JSON whenever the compiler saw that it was more efficient.
I'm reminded of the confederate general statues in the USA.
I have CenturyLink 1Gbps in Colorado Springs. Not sure what you mean about not upgrading their infrastructure. The price is $75 fixed forever as long as I always pay my bill on time.
I find this really interesting, because at some point the absolute performance benefits of `JSON.parse` is overshadowed by the fact that it blocks the main thread.

I worked on an app a while ago which would have to parse 50mb+ JSON objects on mobile devices. In some cases (especially on mid-range and low-end devices) it would hang the main thread for a couple seconds!

So I ended up using a library called oboe.js [1] to incrementally parse the massive JSON blobs putting liberal `setTimeout`'s between each step to avoid hanging the main thread for more than about 200ms at a time.

This meant that it would often take 5x longer to fully parse the JSON blob than just using `JSON.parse`, but it was a much nicer UX as the UI would never hang or freeze during that process (at least perceptively), and the user wasn't waiting on that parsing to happen to use the app, there was still more user-input I needed from them at that time. So even though it would often take 15+ seconds to parse now, the user was often spending 30+ seconds inputting more information, and now the UI would be fluid the whole time.
Nintendo cards catalogue from the mid 1930s
Yup, and it also fails to take into account inherent group interests. One example would be that homosexuals have an inherent group interest in having others accept homosexuality.

It isn't enough for an idea to be "more wise" or "more correct" or whatever for it go from a fringe idea to a mainstream one. Someone needs to have some reason to bother pushing the idea. Any idea with a dedicated group pushing it is more likely to go from the fringe to the mainstream.

Depending on how dedicated that group is, and what kind of resources they have to push the idea, there is no reason to believe that some idea being "more wise" or "more correct" is even necessary for it to go from the fringe to the mainstream.
No there’re not
What I do when looking for words is go to `/usr/share/dict/` and grep for things, for example `grep 'su$' american-english` gives me:

Amaterasu
Fujitsu
Ginsu
Ieyasu
Iguassu
jujitsu
shiatsu
tiramisu
I wholeheartedly disagree. The usability improvements have been major for me, and I can't think of any regressions.

Again, I think Microsoft has to (and is doing arguably well at) focusing on the lowest common denominator of users.
The question is, does rational thought win in the long run in the marketplace of ideas, despite emotional thought also benefiting from the marketplace? I believe it does. That's why human rights move forwards overall, not backwards.

I'll refer to Steven Pinker's excellent books for much deeper details on this.
Real anime fans (and Scotsmen) view dubs with, at best, open hostility, so they would have no motive to defend Mignona.

But it is hilarious how the article only describes as a "free speech advocate" someone making a mean comment. But all those 1st amendment lawyers fighting against the silencing (including the "we must allow Nazis to speak" Ken White [1]) don't make the cut. Somehow, only the side making censorious legal threats gets associated with "free speech".

It would be difficult for me to have a lower opinion of these journalists.

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2017/04/18/the-seductive-appeal-of-t...
I remember reading somewhere, that it's wise to avoid naming your classes after design patterns. It only leads to discussions about technicalities.

Makes sense to apply this to bigger designs, discussing the concepts is more important than following the book by the letter.
I strongly agree. When I take notes and put files in geographic directories, I still use .oz.
10 Ways to Save Time and Money on AWS
>labor costs

It depends. If you're constantly doing new customer setup/teardown, yeah that'll cost man-hours. But once your network is up and running it really doesn't take much work to keep it running.

My ISP is a very small local outfit. They have a "few thousand" customers... and the whole thing is run by literally two dudes, doing everything from netops to hw installs to billing and support. Yeah I'll have a few hour outage once every few months, but overall the service is great and it really doesn't take that much effort to keep things ticking.
Yes, that's it.

Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза

Communist Party of the Soviet Union