skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The traffic from Hacker News is bi-modal. If a post takes off, HN provides 50–60% of the views (along with some delightfully readable comments)(jk).

I guess it’s my turn to add to that: I think this is more like a Pareto distribution than a bimodal one, since there really doesn’t have two modes.
There is a theme park just outside Da Nang, in Vietnam called Ba Na Hills[1]. The park is done up just like a European village. It's complete with a Gothic cathedral and a German beer hall, and is surreal to walk around.

Oddly, it's primarily targeted at South Korean tourists rather than locals.

It's well worth the visit if you're in the area.

[1]: https://banahills.sunworld.vn/en/
"Its founder, director and senior pastor is Jeffrey William Wright, known as “Pastor Jeff”, who is the son of the founder of Wrightbus, William Wright. Pastor Jeff is also the majority shareholder in Cornerstone."

This kind of thing really should be illegal.
Google and IBM Clash over Quantum Supremacy Claim
Time to amend it to counter Globalization
Yes. It's also why you have the Blue Light Filter on your android phone (which I have always-on).
Uber has almost completely wiped these out.

There used to be loads of taxi offices, you would go in and talk to a human and outside you would get into a taxi.

Now, the offices still exist - but if you go in, it's just an empty room with a phone for you to speak to some central room.

Uber has killed all these small businesses.
There was no traffic or pedestrians in the videos.
Heh, I read that as "How does this help gitlab's competitors?" and thought "isn't that obvious?"
Was actually this one (warning autoplay video that adds nothing to the text): https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/amazon-rainforest-...
May be it's not contributing/promoting our https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
Some algorithms guarantee that some arithmetic operation(s) applied to 2+ floating point inputs will result in a list of floating point outputs which when summed have exactly the correct result. This gets all screwed up if you mess with the order of operations or the rounding of intermediate results.

e.g. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/robust.html

Some keywords to look for: “compensated arithmetic”, “error-free transformations”.

FMAs generally speed up these tools, but you need to be careful and deliberate about how they are used.

(Disclaimer: I am not an expert on this, just some guy on the internet.)
Model Mommy changes name to not reinforce gender stereotypes for women
I agree that it shouldn't be called the most powerful, but there's an insignificant difference between the top 20-30 countries on this list which makes it rather meaningless (IMO) to compare between them. Some random country that few people actually visit might open up visa-free travel to some on the list which will shoot them up a few places.

Anyways, I like the Nationality index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quality_of_Nationality_Ind...) which takes into account freedom-of-movement with economic and quality-of-life factors, so it isn't just a count of visa-free travel agreements. This seems like a better measure of the power or value of a specific citizenship.
The one thing that that picture of HPPD does not adequately explain is time. In my opinion you should think of the (distorted) square as a superposition of the total time spent, not a snapshot.

Another thing to mention for (some?) people with some sort of psychoactive or hallucinatory experience is that "real" things can complicate matters. An example: If you wear glasses with coloured reflections and are not used to it, then it can compound your paranoia about the other things that are "not real" that you are seeing. A similar thing about streetlights: Foggy or misty nights already do funny things to the lights and you can overexaggerate this effect by confusing real and not real things.

One should be careful about these things. In my case I had these kind of experiences at university and without psychoactive substances. Doing abstract mathematics certainly can complicate matters, but it is not a prerequisite. Also, crazy people may be crazy, but often their fears are logical in the sense that you can't really disprove them. I mean, how do you really prove to someone that they were not kidnapped by aliens? In the end you just need to show the value of Occam's Razor in your own life.

I think the best case scenario is maybe analogous to eventually writing an interesting movie (I think the Twilight Zone was inspired by such experiences) and NOT getting to some super hyper special plane of existence. I do also think that the creative cycle has both a logical and an illogical component. The latter is like training the model, where you cycle through senseless things with funny connections until the logical part takes over and makes it concrete. It's like the difference between "OMG what is this weird static electricity thing OMG it's so weird" (which is a fair observation) and going to "So, what we can say about electricity is that x, y and z. And this is how to build a circuit."
Usual business model, undercut and overwhelm, extinguish competition and increase prices.

The same model stagecoach used after buses were privatised in the UK.
> The lawyer would get totally absorbed in devising a strategy for winning a case, and would stay up all night enmeshed in the details. “It was like being in combat,” he said. He felt fully alive, and like nothing else mattered. But when the case finished, win or lose, he would lose his energy and sense of purpose.

This sounds like me but with programming. It's the one thing I can always do and focus on no matter how the rest of my life is going. But outside of it I constantly need to push myself to do anything.
He had an idea and tested it. 3 month and $1900 sounds about right. I don't think you can test product ideas with significantly less time and money investment.
Let's move all that into systemd services and make the DE just a DE that talks dbus to them :)
At this point they could as well use an electric cable that detaches once the plane has reached a certain altitude/distance from the airport.
Don’t take everything at face value: a fall in Sterling necessarily means that an exporters products are cheaper overseas, so should boost sales. Unless their costs were already higher than their revenues, in which case they were doomed anyway. The reason brexit will be bad for exporters is the possible future imposition of tariffs. This hasn’t happened yet, so actually in the short term brexit is relatively good for them. Just to be clear I’m against brexit, however in this case blaming brexit for the failure is wrong.
Psychedelics effect is very dependent on your mind state. I would never advise psychedelics to someone who's not stable, or predisposed to schyzophrenia, or in general to anyone under 25 - but for me personally, using LSD and shrooms have had very significant and long-lasting positive effects on my life.

I do see patterns sometimes, and one time when I was posing for a artist and have stared at the same trees outside the apartment for 3 hours straight, I have gone into a very heavy trip state, but it's never disrupted my life in any way. The key is, every time I saw hallucinations unders psychedelics (or without) I could easily "feel" my imagination creating them, and just allowed it. Now I'm so used to the tripping state that I even take LSD when I go out clubbing and dancing - I've stopped taking all other "club culture" drugs (alcohol, cocaine, MDMA, mephedrone) because of their health effects, and LSD has very gentle stimulating effect, and you don't have any kind of hangover afterwards.
Vim is great thing to learn and then go use other text editors.
> same unethical act

At this point, this is your opinion, and you'll see lots of people with different opinions on the same matter, deriving those from different ethical principles.

And while you're fully entitled to it, your opinion does not have the same power as the law - especially the law made by democratically elected representatives. As it stands, scooter companies are not breaking the law where I live, while hacking them en masse would be a serious crime.
Health and life expectancy varies geographically. Worldwide variation is enormous, but even within the United States you can expect to live 6.6 years longer if you live in Hawaii, the top-ranked state, than in Mississippi, which comes in last. With its 81.3 year life expectancy, Hawaii looks more like the Netherlands than the United States. Mississippi's 74.7 year projection looks more like Kuwait.
It took me a while to get this, because initially I thought something I'd broken.
- Essentially a link posted to this article
This reminds me that fateful question that we, software engineers, use to hear from our moms/dads/family: "Why don't you start a facebook?"
> When I’m surfing the web I want to be drawn in by articles on Europe’s political history or the nature of quasars

That's the problem right there. Articles are the white sugar of information. They contain a tiny amount of actual info, but not enough to be useful in any meaningful way. If you truly want to learn about something, read a book or a paper. Articles will get you nowhere.
That's very interesting. I know someone who has had very similar symptoms for years; they come and go. Doctors have been unable to diagnose/fix it. Started with getting mono years ago.

From these comments, it seems actually not that uncommon. Yet given the vagueness of the symptoms / inability to diagnose accurately, it doesn't really have a name and is not considered seriously by the medical profession.
they didn't go thru with it. like most other banks, they were in fact waiting for handouts. some countries were actually hoodwinked into giving them.

they're currently hiring all across the world, including the UK:
https://careers.bankofamerica.com/search-jobs.aspx?c=&r=emea
>But I'm generally very curious about stuff and regularly read news/studies/documentation and get lost in wiki holes

Well this is it, the curiosity comes when you know there is something you don't know.

>but for a lot of useless stuff I don't really have a use for

That's a different matter, usefulness depends on billion factors around us and things which you consider useless might very well one day define your life.
Because your attention is your future self.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16x8vd2L4cw
> I'm also partial to exposing it per-function so the control is actually in the hands of the people writing the code that know the context

As a C++ programmer who routinely uses fast-math "until something breaks" with DSP code, I would find that capability very attractive.
In my mind social networks are probably one of the hardest things to crack. People are only attracted to it if there are already lots of other people and activity there. It's like a chicken and egg problem and your job is how to make one of them appear out of thin air
I didn't realise these are hybrids (the exhaust is hidden), any idea how the emissions compare to the old ones.

Even as hybrids, I guess the engine can run more efficiently, only runinng as needed and never idling so it must be a win.
None of those metrics are important to average daily use. Taycan is way more expensive and the only gain is on some dumb benchmarks. Also, I'd never buy a car of the Volkswagen Group ever. They are criminals, liars and their handling of the Diesel scandal is disgusting.
Bradley Kuhn is no longer associated with the FSF anyway [1]. That doesn't mean that he doesn't care about free software anymore. I just thought it was interesting that you mentioned him specifically.

[1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
If you really care about the low latencies, you might want to not pull up megabytes of JavaScript libraries to simply render up a few bytes of text.

I have a single server on another continent, yet my pages load several times faster than any of these Cloudflare-powered websites served from another part of town.

Let's Encrypt itself is an artificial construct that your homepage would hardly benefit from, and where Cloudflare reaps the most benefits from by having it be a selling point that noone outside of commercial entities ought to need in the first place.
Google's AI Quantum Lab Reports Breakthrough in Quantum Computing
What are the best uses of the Oracle E-Business Suite?
100 year olds are probably still receiving baby products, etc
Good Product
Pretty interesting that those guys took what are essentially joke passwords. Seems like they probably didn't expect anyone to bother trying to crack them.
> Everything began from the moment a severe Reddit addiction started to develop, it went so far that I fully stopped visiting Instagram and Facebook.

I like this quote. Like another Russian proverb meaning "fight fire with fire".
So I guess we aim for augmentation first before shooting for a complete replacement.
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Are there any plans for certification's to catch up with regenerative braking ?
I see them every time I close my eyes, whether in a lit place or not. The only difference is that they're always tinted red/orange/yellow, and very rarely green when I'm in a lit place (and they seem a lot more muted because they're overpowered by the outside light).
As a digital nomad I have come to realise that tourist experiences tend to be very inauthentic for a number of other reasons as well.

Cities like Prague and Budapest make for great photos, but if you go just 20 minutes in any direction life is very different. There is very little glamour if you're outside the old towns.

Being a digital nomad forces you to actually live in a city rather than just sweeping through it and staying at 5 star hotels. Even then, you can't fully experience a place if you don't speak the language.

In Munich there were so many events going on, but they were not really accessible unless you spoke German.

Even if you're not in a place to do the full time digital nomad thing, I highly recommend trying the live and work in a city for a month, it's highly educational.
The Taycan has been reviewed to have better performance already. It has a better drivetrain with a higher voltage which means more power, faster charging, smaller more efficient motors, cooler operating temps, along with more advanced suspension, traction control and braking system.

If anything, Tesla would win on non-performance factors like autopilot. The whole point is that Porsche made an electric car for their performance-focused clients who otherwise didn't want a Tesla.
One of the best benefits of working from home for me is that I can have the lighting I prefer (4000k, with both my light and screen set to the same color temp). But if I ever go back to an office I'm stealing this idea.
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The nature paper by Google

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

Says they completed it in December with 125 job moves. They don't need to fire everyone in the UK to change where their money moves.
> In the end: yes!

OK, so who gets to decide which SUVs are "too large" to be used in cities? You and your friends, just because you're capable of hacking them?

I have no love for SUVs, but even less love for the vision of a society where arbitrary decisions by self-appointed judges replace a democratic lawmaking process.
I generally find other people to hit me with a broom until I finish the project I'm currently working on.
This is not renewable because generally these people don't fully understand the product I am building and at the same time the whole broom as a service does get expensive.
I think if we can get too the point where we distribute the brooms in such a way that people do not need a third party for their sweeping needs that humanity as a whole might finally be able to finish a project.
How did we get to the point where, after the introduction, the first point of advice in a guide like this is on avoiding burnout?
Fully Codified Common Law would be the best of both.
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Nice introduction to Vim!

Using bash/zsh extensively, and Vim a few times a day, I have been wondering if people treat bash/zsh and Vim as two different worlds when it comes to keybindings, or is it common to use Vi/m keybindings in bash/zsh/other shells? Would love to hear some input on this! :-)
That's why I use Authy (able to have backup keys).
$190 per week, for 10 weeks, looks like a very small loss considering the experience and 'fun' of learning all this.
"The Shanghai Gigafactory going from breaking ground to production ready in 10 months is staggering."

it is.

1. how many died during construction?

2. how many slaves were used?
That's a bit ironic given that we are browsing a website that degrades gracefully without JavaScript, frames or images.
You can use iterators to avoid unnecessary bounds checking on every element in a slice and you can still get an index to the value. Something like this:

```
for (i, val) in my_slice.iter().enumerate() {
let x = *val + 9999;
}
```
I guess it depends on the grading system doesn't it? I mean, if the top mark is essentially 100% to mean "there's nothing that reasonably could have been done to improve it" and A is defined as 80-100, then you can't to better than A. Or if the top mark is 1.0 and the worst passing mark is 4.0, and A means 1.0, then you can't do better than A.

They already went way outside, above and beyond anything I could've imagined. How do you change a grade decades after the course? Surely they're locked down soon after. To me, just going off and making it an A (rather than the professor just saying "well I've got egg on my face don't I?") is already incredible and a generous deviation from the bureaucracy.
I wonder if the remote-ness of the company has contributed to the out-of-touch-ness of this idea.
For context, Model Mommy is (or was) a fairly popular library for creating fixtures for testing in Django. New version (model bakery) is not compatible with model mommy. Do you think that changing libraries names in the name of gender equality is worth it?
i'm waiting 'till Musk goes on another interview and the stock tanks.
I started by typing vim into the terminal and then followed the instructions.

All you basically need to do at the beginning is press F1 as instructed and just read. There's a very nice tutorial included with vim. :)
> Telemetry is a lazy, paternalistic way of improving user experience

> That is simply not true... but telemetry is something you can trust far more than user feedback

nutin said
>things that would be useful to know

Again, I'm not talking about usefulness - it's altogether another dimension.

>I find it difficult to diversify my interests

Try a simple thing - pick anything outside of your interests and ask all sorts of questions about it to yourself, to see how much you really don't know. Some examples could be - where does it come from? who invented it? under what circumstances? how come it has this color/size/shape/feeling? how come it's this material? how come it takes this time?

I promise - you will discover all sorts of strange, funny and fascinating stories which you could not imagine. This is a way to spark interest.
Another anti-china post from Vox.
I'm trying to be a guerrilla of ideology, but come on, this one is lame.
$933 million lost in unclaimed salary makes for ~$7.3 per worker per year in the US (~128m in 2018). Tese are of course, like the article says: claimed losses. Not many know about what they could have.

There should be no unclear expectations in a workplace, but that is easier said than done. Lots of errors happen due to mistakes and incompetence, because people running companies are not special.

I have no idea as to what would eradicate this. Perhaps unionizing would help? Their job is to oversee these kinds of things
There is a new Mirai planned for 2021. Also, Bosch and BMW seem to be recently looking into fuel cell technology.
Current global BGP IPV4 routes fits in 150 MB of RAM with all BGP attributes (in BIRD).

For forwarding, you do not need most attributes, but you may need better data structures for best-match lookups.
It isn't 2006 anymore obviously. If you want to create a viral social website in 2019 you will have to bribe Facebook, Twitter and Google with hundreds of thousands worth of ads within those 10 weeks and you will still never get the same reach you could get for free in 2009. The internet, since around 2014, has stagnated into a few protectionist tech world powers that pretend to be everything else.
It looks like what the author was looking for is [1]

f64::mul_add(self, a: f64, b: f64) -> f64

Adding it to the code indeed allows the LLVM to generate the "vfma" instruction. But it didn't significantly improve performance, on my machine at least.

$ ./iterators 1000
Normalized Average time = 0.0000000011943495282455513
sumb=89259.51980374461

$ ./mul_add 1000
Normalized Average time = 0.0000000011861410852805122
sumb=89259.52037960211

Maybe the performance gap is not due to what the author thought...

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.f64.html#method.mul_...
> And all I want, all my life when using software, is for companies to fucking listen to that. If I say I'm reasonably happy with things I spend 95% of my time, then I am reasonably happy. I want you to fix the 5%-time case.

soo much this!
US Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness
I use vi key bindings in bash and in tmux for that matter.
It's less baffling if you value mental health and physical health equally.
Orange is a lot better if you want to keep your night vision and be able to see into the shadows (or e.g. look at the stars with your unassisted eyes).
These are all great suggestions but I think it would be helpful to give a small intro to some of them as they are not quite what they seem on the surface. For example, "Kill La Kill" is mostly about exposing the absurdity of fan service in Anime. "One Punch Man" shows that being the best at something is actually the worst thing ever. And "FLCL" is really weird - I truly don't know what it's trying to say.
And yet an insect with a brain smaller than a grain of sand can somehow figure it out while humans with a brain thousands of times bigger and more complex can't find a way to make it work when it comes to transport routes. Thinking about it further, perhaps it is because ants 'have to' obey the 'rules of the road' while humans have free agency which introduces an (almost?) impossible to optimise for degree of chaos. In other words it is unlikely that a single ant would disrupt the flow of traffic whilst a single human could (and often do) manage to obstruct routes through a misplaced sense of their needs/wants outweighing the needs of their fellow 'commuters'. Guess ants figure that things work best with universal co-operation whilst humans appear to optimise for a 'me-first' outcome. It will be interesting to see which option mother nature/evolution decides works best.
> In 2018 it reported a loss of £1.7m, citing a difficult UK bus market and near non-existent overseas sales aggravated by Brexit.

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2019/the-rise-and-fall-o...

> It [Church set up by Jeff Wright] received more than £15m from the firm in recent years, most of which was donated while the group was profitable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49869944

I'm sure someone smarter than me can explain how Brexit was the cause of Wright's downfall, especially given Brexit hasn't happened.
>Many people reported that if they stared at a textured area like a carpet long enough, illusory geometric patterns would start to form.

I have always had this, is this not normal?
Not really in this case; Rav1e runs over blocks of image planes (like say a 16x16 block of a specific 720p color channel), so there is no continuous slice to iterate over.
Well they are being discussed by Americans. He reached his intended audience.
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