skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The college I attended has an interesting dynamic in this area. The way the university is laid out, there is a historical "main" campus with a very traditional library, and a much newer "engineering campus" with a very new and modern library. Both buildings are massive and used extensively, but I definitely preferred the modern one - even if some features of it were kinda cheesy (the massive basement with a book-fetching robot being one that was cool in theory - but not often used).

The traditional library had about 10 stories of "book stacks" with quiet areas to study and lots of tables. Unfortunately, each floor only had one conference room and there was a lot of competition for room reservations. The downstairs common area was mostly workstations, and student services, some places to eat too. I liked this library for my first few years of studying, but I felt like it was really hard to collaborate here.

The new library has a ridiculous number of conference rooms which is amazing. Lots of white boards that move around, more variety in seating options, some rooms equipped with specialized stuff (music studios, VR dev spaces, 3d printing), and the layout just feels more optimized (there is a dedicated quiet area upstairs that has beautiful views and tons of space too). The wifi and outlet situation is also better at the new one. The biggest downside is honestly that it's so "different" it becomes a tour destination for random people, which can be a distractions.

All that said, the number one draw for me to both libraries: 24-hour access. Being able to work through the night without interruptions is what made libraries so important to my college experience. I actually really miss that, and I miss that one library in particular.
Introduction to Keyword Extraction
How did y.. I mean NO!

It's just a slow friday afternoon in the office
> You have to go through "Driver's Training" first in order to get a Learner's Permit.

Not in my state. Here, there is no prerequisite to get your learner's permit. However, completing driver's ed is a high school graduation requirement.
The library at my university had four floors and a basement. The higher the floor the quieter you were supposed to be, so you were welcome to talk on the ground floor but would get glares or carefully chosen words on the top floor. I loved this system. If I wanted to work but didn't mind the chit chat then I was fine on the ground floor, but if I needed to concentrate then I could move.

I recall using a library book for research once. Other than that, I made use of the public computers to work on projects that were stored on Google Drive.
As I said, in the US the NRC prohibits you from attempting a nuclear plant black start — that is, starting the plant during an ongoing LOOP event. So, at least in the US context, it's nonsense to talk about "a nuclear plant black start". Black start is a grid event, not a power-plant event.

The 40% number is not based on the New York blackout, which was in 1965 and not in 1967 as you say, and it is not hypothetical; one number is based on the black start capacity system operators file and pay power plant operators for, and the other is based on actual black start events.

It is true that that is not why nuclear plants are sited near water.
I think the main problem is that cars can be a great last mile transport but a horribly scaling transport for common long distance travel (commuting to city cores, etc).
The "see bike, say bike" reminds me of this: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
And I'd argue that "when" is very, very far away. Unless you remove human drivers, and significantly change the infrastructure for self-driving cars, but at some point you are not so far from (existing) self-conducted trains, then.
Dup to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21145500 which has more comments.
I think this distracts from the actual problem. They have a more generalized case, (-inf, inf).

In your case, if we don't allow double selecting, 2 is the lowest number between 1 and 10. So you have a 100% chance of guessing right. You're using the bound to help you. Being unbounded you still have an infinite set of numbers smaller than the number you see and an infinite number higher. To be more analogous, that would be like flipping over 5 every single time (on [0,10]). You have {1,2,3,4} below and {6,7,8,9} above. EVERY TIME.
Why is trading volume the metric for "most used". Shouldn't we be measuring the actual use of the cryptocurrency in exchange for real goods and services?
Generics are not templates (i.e., not instantiated at compile time) so you avoid a lot of this mess.
Recipes are first polled from a central repo so they do update if the app is online.
The one set of dirt-cheap headphones everyone seems to agree on is the KOSS KSC75[0]. What is the KSC75 of the keyboard world? Is there such a thing? There was a story on HN[1] a month or so ago about the Amazon Basics keyboard that everyone ate alive for being so... cheap?

[0]https://www.koss.com/headphones/ear-clip/ksc75

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20866319
Grazie :D

I agree, it's really fascinating. The thing that interests me the most are that many natural phenomena can be modeled as a network of some sort. It's mind-blowing how everything is connected.
Yep, it reminds me of Dutch Disease [1] in economics where countries that happen upon an enormously profitable natural resource see a decline or an inability to compete internationally in other sectors of their economy.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
> Not in my state. Here, there is no prerequisite to get your learner's permit.

And

> However, completing driver's ed is a high school graduation requirement.

Is the same thing.

Just your state decided to standardize what was taught, instead of letting private companies also offer it. For what it's worth, in California we have both.
But... but... you can't "pick a number uniformly distributed in (-inf, inf)". Like, that's not a thing that is possible [0], so saying anything about the probabilities once you've done so is not reasonable. You can pick a random number in infinite range non-uniformly (e.g. to pick a number in the range [1,inf), pick a number X in (0,1] and use 1/X), but then the probabilities are no longer so neat and tidy.

The game only makes sense if you attach limits to the numbers the other person is allowed to pick, and then the only "split" that works is in the middle of the range. At which point the game is sort-of "obviously true".

[0] https://math.stackexchange.com/a/14169/641751
NY Times paywall is wimpy. In Firefox, there's no problem if you hit reader view as soon as the icon appears.
The reason it's counterintuitive is because, in the game, you don't know that the two numbers are random. In fact, they are chosen by an adversary. You flip a 2: do you think this is most likely the lower number, or do you think the other player picked 1 and 2 just to mess with you?

That's the point of picking a random pivot: it reduces your opponent's ability to influence the situation to only placing their numbers as close to each other as possible.
> Even on HN the past few years the number of propaganda posts and comments has gone up and up and up. Continues to increase right now.

How do you know this? What do you use to decide? As far as I can tell, the way most people decide this is: if I don't like it, it's propaganda. Nobody thinks that consciously, of course, but it matches what people say surprisingly closely. That has no evidentiary value, except as an indication of what someone dislikes. You learn this very quickly if you're responsible for the community as a whole, because people have such different likes and dislikes that basically everything contentious gets dismissed as 'propaganda' or some such abuse.

Two things seem clear: (1) propaganda exists; (2) "I don't like it" is no way to identify it. There needs to be something more objective. When people are worried about abuse on HN and we look into it, our bar is that we have to see at least some evidence, somewhere, of something amiss. That's as low as the bar can get, yet even that is enough to reveal that way over 90%, probably over 99%, of perceptions of propaganda have no basis beyond the feelings of the perceiver.
Yes, this is a great start. Higher level abstractions can be introduced very gradually.
Maybe he used the account for stalking.
Michigan? This seems to exactly describe that.
I could be wrong, but it’s superseded by FIPS140-3.

Anyway, compliance doesn’t necessarily imply security.
Yea, but you're not going to get a book shelf to your house using a bike. Or a lot of groceries for the family. If your 8-year breaks his arm, a car of some sort makes that easier to get to the hospital instead of waiting for an ambulance. Oh, just a big pack of toilet paper. That's kind of awkward on a bike. Kind of sucks when it rains or snows. Then you also have to carry around/use more deodorant per month so you don't smell bad at the office.
> It's not from being hit by cyclists.

cars are just the most common vehicle.

For example in Australia 19.1% of all the transport related hospitalisations are for bike incidents.

It's the same percentage for car related accident.

Now count the total amount of miles traveled and the total number of each mean of transport and do the math.

> Quite a lot of it isn't, read articles 6 and 7 and the lists of implementation dates.

That just proves that car safety is taken more seriously than bike safety.

> After having people maliciously aim their car at you for being in front of them, it's quite patronising to have them assume you're riding unsafely

This doesn't answer the question "Why are cyclist so afraid of protecting themselves?" though.

> . People in other countries manage much better safety records through infrastructure and education

What other countries?

Can you provide names and numbers?

> On the contrary, I don't think there's any safety clothing I can wear that will save me if a car crashes into me

And you are wrong.

For example in Australia only 2% of the transport related hospitalisations are for motorbikes accident. Because they usually wear protections.

> You've accused cyclists of being afraid of protecting themselves

I think it was a question, and you proved the poster right: why talking about protection for cyclists triggers this kind of emotionally charged responses?

> The tribalism makes you think of the other party as less important.

I don't even own a car, I live in a city where most of the transport do not happen using motor vehicles, bikers don't usually wear protection and don't make their kids wear protections.

Why? What are they afraid of?

It's a simple question.

> Accusing me of being afraid of protecting just gives me the impression that you feel I have to earn the right for you to tolerate me in the road.

That's always true, you have to tolerate and be tolerated.

It's a shared infrastructure, it doesn't belong to anyone.

> or manoeuvres assuming a cyclist won't be in their path

If that's true, why don't you wear protections then?

I don't understand.
Of all the college libraries I've been in what you're describing is the typical structure I've encountered.
In early 2018, Apple forced their users to opt-in to migrating iCloud encryption keys and data to Chinese data centers:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

Chinese government nationalized the data centers six months later, gaining access to all the encryption keys and user iCloud data at rest:

https://mashable.com/article/china-government-apple-icloud-d...
>But you’ve got an improvement because not only does the other number have to match the sign for you to lose, it also has to be larger in magnitude, and that happens in half the cases where they have the same sign, so that gives you 1/4 extra.

This assumes that Player 1 allows for negative numbers. What if Player 1 always writes down positive numbers?

Let's take it a step further. What if Player 1 only writes A and B whenever he plays the game (but we keep changing Player 2 so they never realize this)?

The claim in the paper is that even then they'll guess correct over 50% of the time.

I'm probably wrong about the statement below, but will state it anyway:

I suspect (but cannot quickly prove in my mind) that the other flaw in your argument is utilizing rules like "If the distribution is uniform, you have a 50% chance of picking a positive number, and 50% chance of picking a negative number". The reason I have trouble disproving it is that classical probability theory doesn't allow for such statements: The probability of picking a single point in a continuous distribution is 0.

Edit: I figured out why it works. See this comment and its parent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21160811
I saw "RDP" and immediately thought: "Remote Desktop Protocol".

In this case RDP stands for something more interesting: "Ramer-Douglas-Peucker Algorithm".

The Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm, also known as the Douglas–Peucker algorithm and iterative end-point fit algorithm, is an algorithm that decimates a curve composed of line segments to a similar curve with fewer points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramer-Douglas-Peucker_algorith...
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Yeah, good luck with this one then:

template <typename foo> void func()
{
foo::a < foo::b , foo::c > d;
}
You are interpreting this as a political statement.

Threatening to bomb a country is threatening violence, this is against the terms of service: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules to quote:

> you may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people

Like the law, it either applies equally to everyone, or its does not apply.

> You don't get to impose pacifist foreign policy on the president by conflating random threats of personal violence with the legitimate business of statecraft.

Again, you are reading way more into this. Either the Terms of service apply to everyone, or they do not apply.

According to those terms of service, there is no different between me threatening to kill a group of people, and trump doing the same.

As I said, transparency and consistency is the only way it can be implemented effectively.
I added 217.79.184.91 archive.is to /etc/hosts and did
sudo service systemd-resolved restart

It works;
It's not the same thing. You can still get your learner's permit even if you don't complete high school or the driver's ed graduation requirement.
Some school libraries don't even have the required course textbooks. A community college I went to did have 1 or 2 copies of required course text books, you just couldn't check them out of the library. 4 year university did not even have them, making sure you paid for a personal copy of your course books from the university book store. It seemed really strange a library wouldn't have the books students needed most.
That's fair. Their sales team and the relationships they had made over the years is definitely a huge part of their success transitioning.
I love the weather and constant sunshine in the Bay Area, but every year for a few weeks I really miss the fall foliage in the South near Asheville and the Smoky Mountains. There are some areas within a few hours drive of the Bay Area that have foliage, but there’s nothing like seeing an entire mountain range quilted in colorful leaves.

(See for instance the Tennessee River Gorge: http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/8ba1595e-fe54-11df-af79...)
Quoting from your link:

> While the region “has been a laggard” on renewable energy he points to game-changing recent developments. “The finances are shifting to green globally. Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand will all pivot over the next two years.” Vietnam, for instance, has seen a surge in solar power development in the last year alone.

> “No-one forecast Vietnam can do that. That’s how quickly you can pivot markets,” [sic] said Buckley. Earlier this month an auction for a solar power project in Cambodia saw the lowest power purchase tariff for solar so far in Southeast Asia. The Asian Development Bank, which supports the scheme, described it as “a new era for renewable energy development in Cambodia and the region”.

> In a survey of regional leaders last year, media platform Eco-Business found “the ever-increasing risk of stranded fossil fuel assets” was another factor that would drive Southeast Asia’s transition to a greener economy. A big sign of the shifting financial backing for coal regionally came in April as three top Singapore banks said they would stop financing new coal-fired power plants. And in a June meet of Asian coal leaders in Indonesia, they talked of the difficulties of securing finances for projects. Some experts believe that the majority of proposed coal plants won’t emerge.

...

> It’s a “tipping point” in Southeast Asia, said Justin Guay, director for global climate strategy at The Sunrise Project, an environmental group. “It’s the last major region on earth where we are seeing the transformation” away from coal and “it’s a question of when not if.”

> “In many ways Southeast Asia reminds me of where India was five years ago,” he added. “They built a significant number of coal plants, but now they’ve got stranded assets. It’s a big problem. Southeast Asia has the opportunity to avoid that.”

...this is your evidence for nuclear power being the cheapest source of energy and coal being second? That banks are increasingly refusing to lend money to finance plant construction because already-built plants in India have become stranded assets that can't compete with solar?

The NPR link is equivalently pessimistic about the future of coal plants.

As for turbines, most poor countries buy their turbines (of whatever type) from rich countries.
No, undervalued means the market valuation of the company is less than what it should be. I.e. Deutsche Bank believes that Google's profits summed up for the future (and discounted to account for inflation/risk) will exceed what people are buying it for. As an example, if a share is $10 and it pays $5 per year then it's undervalued because it's value ≈ $5 + .9($5) + .9²($5) + .9³($5) + .... This is essentially how Deutsche Bank is setting their price target. Since their target exceeds the equilibrium price of Google, they have decided it's undervalued.
Article is light on the details, but I think they're underplaying how quickly this is happening. BYD in China is building 6k electric buses every six weeks [1] (and this was as of a year ago, I believe they're building them even faster as of Oct 2019), which is enough to replace London's entire fleet. Bloomberg BNEF predicts at least half of buses in the world will be electric by 2025. Unlike electric cars, heavy duty vehicles consume much more fuel per mile, making the ROI on electric versions that much faster.

[1] https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/when-it-comes-electric-bus...
You need to look no further than sports cars in the 70's. American companies concentrated on straight-line performance for our seriously long and pretty straight roads. But dodging things is one of the reasons you have to go somewhere other than straight ahead.

Meanwhile you had British roadsters with literally 0 body roll on corners because the CoG is below the top of the axle.
I don't really think its fair to say that the "field is in a sad state". Plenty of insightful and well-written papers are put out everyday by hardworking and intelligent people. I still have a long way to go.

I do research because I like solving hard problems that people have never considered. I like to ensure that what I have learned will be put into practical use.
It might antagonize the students who are looking for a place to nap, but is that all of the students? I think other students might be happy to have their library available to them as a library again.
Walking outside can result in deaths. Should we ban that too? What a silly premise.

Obviously cars confer a lot of benefits. They are fast, and in areas that are not high-density, they save time relative to ANY alternative (walking, biking, buses, trains) and therefore drastically improve your quality of life. They don't require you to wait on someone else's schedule, especially given the often inconsistent timing of buses. They don't require you to risk sitting down on dirty seats (6-year-old girl stabbed by uncapped needle on bus: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/08/girl-6-injected-needle-hidden...). They don't require you to risk personal injury (40 to 60 teens rob train: https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-takeover-robbery-5...). They let you travel all over, including away from cities, and therefore give you a greater degree of freedom than the reach of fixed rails or transit systems that are limited to cities.

Yes cars can cause deaths. So do a lot of other things. But the rate of vehicle-caused injuries/deaths has been dropping sharply since the 80s (see CDC data). It will continue to drop as backup cameras, lane departure prevention, collision detection, collision avoidance, and other assistance features become ubiquitous or required. Nothing is ever perfect, and this is the fundamental reason why efforts like Vision Zero are flawed. Zero deaths is not the goal, and generally any such absolute goal is unrealistic.

We get massive benefits from fast, private point-to-point transport. Let's not forget that and work to retain those benefits, instead of damaging the benefits of vehicles with low speed limits and other 'road diet' suggestions.
Petrol is more expensive and it seems that owning a car is less of a requirement in Europe than the US. Most major cities in the US that are exclusively designed around the availability of automobile transport. People live in the suburbs and commute in, and it is prohibitively expensive to live in non-car commuting distance.
why should my culture or background influence my need for transportation? the swiss have different economic classes too so let's not bring that in play.
I agree! I think this need really shines at universities where housing hasn't kept up with enrollment, so common areas are converted to living space, living space becomes more crowded, etc. Squeezes students out of a lot other spaces they might have otherwise used for working, collaborative or otherwise.
It all made perfect sense to me. I'm not sure why people get so upset about it.

I suspect people can't tell the difference between the arbitrage that will happen no matter what (Chicago to New York, etc.) with the front running that came from seeing orders too large for one exchange and buying the rest from the other exchanges so they could sell it to the original buyer.