skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, the cause is important. But in this case, it seems quite clear that the deplorable state of the plant would increase the risk to the point that any minor error would cause just about anything. No need for sabotage there.

Wikipedia, unfortunately, can't be trusted. There are companies tasked with bending the truth and inventing doubt about anything negative for any big corporations.

And if you buy a company, you own everything, including the nasty parts of its history. I might believe that nobody from the new corporation was directly responsible for bhopal. But they knew what they were buying.
That's an argument for _allowing books to be rented_, but not an argument for _disallowing books from being bought or downloaded_.

Besides, your argument is already served by libraries. The problem in this case is the publisher wants to be _the library_.
Differences Between Linear and Rotary Actuators
With the advent of multi core CPUs monolithic kernels jumping in on doing slow shared memory concurrency kind of killed the idea of monolithic kernels to be fast. They can't be fast unless they do actor model, but it goes against the idea of monoliths, hence they can't do better than microkernels.
But that's partly because as people age, their brains get less flexible and open to learning new things. There's already been some work on fixing that specifically.
One can do even better by supporting custom "pluggable" allocators, and not just a single global allocator like Rust does at present. Some of these allocators could even implement GC-like logic internally.
To malinger is to lie about being sick to get out of work. I think you just mean "lingering."
Is there anything special about the (absolute) number 30? Surely it's just saying roughly 'for the first [resp. last] half of your life'?

Tangentially, is that actually 'a Hindu saying' - all I can find are other people quoting Jobs and claiming the same - or is it just something a guru said that Jobs happened to like and remember?
There are 1,3 billion people in China so the overtaking of the GDP would be expected if they reach a certain developmental level.

If often hear the economic growth must be due to surveillance and an autocratic regime, a laughable suggestion, although often shared by my unimaginitive government (Europe).

The third reich also had a booming economy. War creates massive economic opportunity. Slavery too. But somehow increased governmental control is the key for economic success? Doubtful at least.

The success of China is pretty straight forward. They had very cheap workers and hungry foreign consumers. I don't see how you wouldn't get any profit out of that situation. But no, it certainly must be due to complete systemic differences instead of economical ones.
Around Christmas, cinemas in my town show these ads which are designed to move you (children with their grandparents, family reunions in slow motion, etc). But they are shown in sequences of three or four. It starts to get ridiculous. It actually makes me laugh.
IMAP was an okay protocol for its time, but in my experience it's basically mindbogglingly bad by current standards. The root of the reason why is the whole concept of "message sequence numbers", which as far as I know are extremely difficult to implement in a scalable and performant way.

Basically, all messages in a mailbox are numbered from 1 to N, and you can reference a message by number, and when a message is deleted all message numbers above it shift down by one. But since this could confuse clients that are sending inflight requests, you can't start translating from the new shifted-down-by-one numbers until you've told your clients about it, which could take a theoretically unbounded amount of time.

One implementation of this I've seen is to get a list of every UID in a mailbox at time of selection, and then update that as clients are informed of new or deleted mail. Needless to say, that's a bit problematic with short-lived or multiple connections.

So if your mailbox gets too big, too bad. This ends up complicating the client: probably influencing rules 1, 3, part of 5, and 8 listed here. (1) You can't have concurrent mailbox access because it might mess up MSNs reified to disk, (3) you can't have connections live too long because they passively eat up RAM with queued updates and a stored MSN list, (5) there are perfectly good UIDs to reference messages with that you have to learn alongside message sequence numbers, and (8) because opening a new session can be heavy.
World's Roundest Object
I don't mind if they win as long as I do as well.

Relationship between consumers and business don't have to be adversarial : I'm glad to pay for a product that I consider worth it, and having the choice to pay with money instead of brain time with ads is a clear positive to me.
This is the gist of the issue. Ad companies sell advertisers tracking and reporting, not real return of investment. I bet an ad agency could beat google by throwing up vast dashboards with tons of nonsense graphs.
Nick is a former colleague, and I’ve co-authored one of the relevant papers with Isabelle, and with the greatest respect to the two of them I need to caution anybody against taking away the wrong message from this misleading article: these findings are fundamentally not translatable to humans — and even in most cases to mammals, research in mice notwithstanding.

Furthermore, most, if not all, transgenerational effects of epigenetic inheritance even in C. elegans is transient. Meaning, the effect attenuates over just a few generations and then vanishes completely.

To be absolutely clear: Learning is not inherited in humans. There are good reasons to make this a categorical statement. What’s called “learning” in C. elegans is completely different from “learning” in humans, and adaptive changes in mouse behaviour are, so far, still not clearly demonstrated to be caused by epigenetics, and there are good reasons to be sceptical, as summarised by Kevin Mitchell: http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2013/01/the-trouble-with-epige..., and by Bernhard Horsthemke: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05445-5
Australian government proposes face scanning to verify porn users are over 18
I think the organization funding it (which if I recall correctly was the EU) wanted the university research they were funding to turn into commercial products, and so set a blanket rule requring patenting and attempts at commercial licensing. This is a fairly common view on government-funded research these days unfortunately. There was a published report by the main researcher somewhere with more details.
Serverless Event Scheduling – Using AWS Step Functions (No Polling)
Rupert Sheldrake is an esoteric quack and pseudoscientist. He has not done any relevant work in this field, and his theoretical claims are fundamentally unsound.
Will the work of a crank be considered mainstream? Probably not.
How Startups Attract Corporate Investment
"pessimize"?
Talk to them about “uplift modelling”.

Most of the time, the campaigns will be estimated through some AB-testing. It could be a before and after test, or something even less significant like attribution. All of those have one thing in common: you assume that either you run a campaign, or you don’t. Given week enforcement, being louder wins.

If one the other hand you decide to only send that email to people with a high chance of being interested and changing their behaviour, you limit your messages to a much smaller, more relevant subset. There typically is some pushback: “Why not also try people with a less than 0.1% of responding?” In that case, you want to introduce a cost: the fraction of a penny is costs to send an email, chances of being blacklisted, legal process, etc. Even with a conservative estimation of that risk, most of your targets become not worth it.
Reads like it came straight from the PR dept
Business makes better open source
Unlikely. YouTube premium seems like an afterthought at best. Just a few months ago they finally rolled out the program in a bunch of rich EU countries. If it was important for them then I really don't see why it would take them years to offer the subscription service for rich countries.
It works by defining "process" in a way that doesn't imply "registers and cache." If the concern is the ability for one process to survive despite arbitrary misbehavior from another process (and not, say, Spectre-style attacks), software-based fault isolation like NaCl or PittSFIeld or using a restricted language runtime like wasm or Lua demonstrably works fine for that, no hardware context switch required.
Most of the seeds you buy are hybrids that don't breed true if you reuse the seed.

Sometimes, that doesn't matter much - I've saved corn seed and replanted it year after year, and it may not be exactly Silver Queen or Seneca Horizon anymore, but it's still corn. But some things get weird.
Facebook and Google do that and try to limit showing ads to people who will care enough there’s a chance they’ll click it.

Both have x-out options on every ad: feel free to use it, it helps training aversion models.
yeah... as if you shouldn't be worried when you have an apple sniffer... ups, sorry, I mean iphone.
I've worked in marketing for an Agency. If Facebook had to check everything we did, they'd really had a hard time. We had multiple clients with multiple banners with multiple landing pages and all of this with a software rotating stuff with A/B tests and regressions. If a political party came to hire us, I'm sure we'll do it. This was in Spain, so I guess that there will be a lot more companies doing this in the US.

Checking all of this within an acceptable timeframe for advertisers requires a lot of labor. That comes with another wide set of problems. Loosy boundaries, arbitrary bans, increased cost of ads etc etc. I have no special sympathy for Facebook, but we have to understand that this is a really hard problem to solve, and maybe there won't be any solution that satisfies the public.
Das Inbox - an SMTP handler server written by Kenneth Reitz

https://github.com/billzhong/inbox.py/blob/master/inbox.py

It's about 42 lines of actual code excluding newlines.
Thanks. I appologise for writing it that way and appreciate the correction to my baked in assumption there.
And those satellites burn up in the atmosphere when their useful life has expired. This is notable because it returned to Earth in one piece.
Private equity-backed nursing company linked to serious safety lapses
This morning a fox stole my artisan Sourdough that had just been delivered.
They are climate models, not weather models. Buried somewhere in the IPCC reports is the sorts of time space they apply to. I vaguely remember 10 years or so. I do distinctly remember thinking during the pause if something dramatic didn't happen by 2016 they were in serious trouble, because that was at the end of the range.

> That is to say that the current alignment is just coincidental.

Sort of. The model is (heatIn - heatOut - seaAbsorption) = surface weather. They got the seaAbsorption wrong, something they later figured out with the Argo network as you noted. But that means they got the primary driver of global warming, heatOut dropping as CO2 increases, right. Which sadly means if you wait long enough, their predictions were always going be right because in the end heatIn - heatOut is all that matters.
The NYtimes may feel immune to advertising woes because they have a paywall now (even though they still make tons off advertising), but what is the paywall other than an obnoxious, loud, obstructive full page ad?

I 'm glad to see they are tackling advertising itself though, rather than fabricating stories about social platforms. The ad industry seems to be very much lacking in real metrics, and seems to be particularly dumb in innovating, holding up appropriate standards and protecting their art.
Furthermore, it has nothing to do with epigenetics. It’s good old genetics.
I have to admit that there was something surreal in the short videos of hearing I saw on the internet. Congressmen/women, people of power, whom we stereotype as poker-faced, cynical, and manipulative, having people-like problems - e.g. "my granddaughter played with a mobile phone and then some creepily relevant ads started to appear", against a youngster without any formal power who cuts them off with laconic responses.
back when we all dressed more formal lol :)
Everything is an illusion. \s and /s are just liquid crystal pixels on the screen, filtering some light. However it's easier to say that if something has a name and you can identify it, then it's probably that thing. I see a maze it means it's a maze :)
Have you seen or heard of the Night Trap hearings? They refused to hear answers to accusations of lurid content that "wasn't even remotely in the goddamn game".

The have proven that they will refuse to listen to any answer that they can't grandstand about. I think Zuckerberg and Facebook is shady as hell and even I feel sympathy for him here and suspect he may be drugging himself to not snap at the hours of stupid and dishonest questions. Since it wouldn't be good for the company long term to make enemies by shaming them during their grandstand hours with many choice lines.
I really do hate ads, and I've even worked doing ads both for web and TV.

I want to pay for my services, and would like real micro transactions, maybe I read an article i really enjoyed - I want to be able to pay for this, as a donation.

I'm pretty sure we need to look beyond ads for funding services and websites. I'd much rather pay, and while I know not everyone wants to pay... if we could push this behavior, it would really make the web better.

Personally, I have adblockers, privacy badger and even AdGuard/PiHole on my network.

So to all creators, let me pay you, even a tiny amount. I'm aware that transaction fees are en enemy here, so maybe that's a problem to fix?
Cool stuff. I've seen something similar for handling interrupts when reading from floppies. It didn't use the zero page, but it could have.
Author here, the widget maker is actually written in Flutter and it can definitely compile to Linux/ Mac/ Windows/ Android and anything that has a screen.

Flutter Desktop, unfortunately, is still in a very early phase and I had some troubles getting the same experience one all platforms. I'm working on fixing those issues and I will provide a Mac version pretty soon and eventually a Linux and Android build too.
I believe your third criterion is actually met by this generator. The grid is just tilted 45 degrees.
Yes the high level language on first Macintoshes was Pascal. Lowest level was assembly.

Pascal was not bad at that role, and it would have been possible to develop all the code which was eventually written in C in Pascal too. At least in the dialects that weren’t made just for education.
Is that binary being drawn in La Loterie Infernale?
My favorite is this one-liner for generating the Fibonacci sequence in Haskell:

fibonacci = 1 : 1 : [x + y | (x, y) <- zip fibonacci (tail fibonacci)]
The whole "grilling" format is just publicity for politicians. If they were really interested in answers, they would send an email and get a response back, and if they didn't they'd send a subpoena or start court proceedings.

And if they really wanted to do something, they would pass legislation. But of course, you can't do that and get paid by lobbyists and/or get favors from businesses at the same time. This grilling format solves all interests. Politicians get to look like they're doing something, many gullible voters think the politicians are doing something, and the businesses being looked into get to look like there is something being done about them.
same here - getting captchas, and ... I got put through 7 before I gave up.
Definitely sounds like "turn up" to me. Plus "turn out the volume" isn't idiomatic in Standard American English.
But do we communicate with a mechanical slot machine when we push a coin in and then pull the lever?
Google Business Model:

"Get dominance on the market, establish a Monopoly"

1) Invest long-term, offer free attractive services, don't expect any profit during first several years

2) Implement locked-in methods

3) Wait until monopolic position secured and majority is locked into your free service

4) Start monetization and track feedback. Optimize to find perfect tolerance with long-term profit maximization as objective.

5) Enjoy! You are Monopoly.
Even the print ads seem to have gotten way more intrusive over the past few years. Amazon puts ads on their shipping boxes. I got a fortune cookie in a restaurant the other day with an ad printed on the back of the fortune!
Yes it was, thank you for answering.
Head over to Google, be greeted with ~10 captchas before being able to do anything.. yikes.
MIT Psychologist Sherry Turkle on Device Addiction and Loneliness
Thank you for answering
I say this as a die hard FP fan: I agree with your parent comment. I think FP is generally good enough or sometimes even quite close. But I don't know how many times I ended up writing C in Haskell or scheme to make an algorithm really fast (once all other algorithms have been tried or discarded).

The quicksort example is a shitty quicksort, because it will be slow as molasses. A proper quicksort in Haskell will degrade you to writing C in Haskell (with the benefits of a large standard library)and then you have lost. C in C will always beat C in Haskell or any other language.

Is it a worthwhile tradeoff? I believe so. The few times I am limited by speed in that way are few and far between, and most often it was because I thought something like O(n2) would be good enough which is easily fixable. Sometimes I just need to make optimal code faster. By then I always wish I would be using an imperative language instead.
Or NewPipe (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/), but it does require you to have FDroid (which is not a bad thing in itself, just adds a bit more friction)
My company sold for $100M and I got Zilch. How can that be?
I think you very greatly overestimate the typical level of isolation and "sanity" of most setups in general, let alone most PHP setups (which are likely generally much worse than most other setups).
One blown strike illustrates MLBs need for robot umps
At least that was a great interview with good questions/answers.
Worse, we've build a conceptualisation of these phenomena that renders us as calculators on steroids! I don't think it's feasible to account for or describe anything more with the ideas we have so far.
For when you have shared your code as text but want a pretty hero image to go with it?
Learning, usually depicted as some tedious process, may in reality result to just some one simple bifurcation triggered by some environmental properties, which of course can be encoded in DNA, why not.
To be clear, this wasn't written by me, it's just an interesting read I found.
It's blogspam of https://www.hackerearth.com/blog/developers/tower-hanoi-recu... I'm not sur if it is auto translated or manually translated.
This article has 5 ads on it, from the top and then every 3 paragraphs. The irony...
It was bad even 20 years ago, I remember a discussion when we were trying to implement something coining the phrase "University of Washington brain damage". It seems to have been extremely tightly tied to the UW-IMAP implementations.

The need for a better protocol is why JMAP exists: https://jmap.io/spec-core.html

Although I see their point about non-REST, I think there's still a case for having a REST flavour available even if it may not be the most efficient.

I wonder if anyone's tried mail delivery over git repo yet.
> So to all creators, let me pay you, even a tiny amount. I'm aware that transaction fees are en enemy here, so maybe that's a problem to fix?

There are models for this (e.g. Blendle), however they suffer from the same problem as Spotify did and Netflix does: the content creators (newspapers, studios, labels) lose the direct connection to their audience and cannot upsell them any more or gather data about them.

This is why newspapers employ massive amounts of trackers and why studios build their own crappy streaming service instead of licensing to Netflix.

The only idea I see to fix this is regulatory: require rightholders to license their content under FRAND terms to aggregators. Otherwise the negative incentives of modern capitalism will block a user-friendly solution.
Public Monopolies Are a Good Thing
No, you cannot. I think the intention is to deprive you of the opportunity to start writing at all. There are studies that show the longer you take thinking before acting, the better your outcomes are.
“No one had any doubts who the adult in the room was Wednesday,” ends the article. Right before the promoted content “This deadly sex habit is killing seniors!”

I know that’s a bit off topic, but does speak towards the current environment of not just Facebook, but the entire internet.
That is absolutely not how evolution works at all. Mutation, such as it is, occurs at the moment of conception. It's not a very helpful word - "random and imperfect mix of two data sets" is a better way of thinking about it.

Anyway, evolution is a very confused concept in modern society. None of the old factors apply any more.
I think there is something else going on here.

Claiming that Cambridge Analytica had a catastrophic impact on the 2016 election. It's hard to know what to answer to such a thing.

If you get into a debate with her on whether her completely unproven claim is true or false you are guilty, if you try to avoid it you are basically saying she is right and are guilty.

This kind of questioning only works because it's not a courtroom. This would never be allowed as an actual question.
I have had that with web work browser - amusingly it clearly pegged me as female as I got me birth control, tampon ads, and similiar. Along with Prager U but that fake non-accreddited university seems to target everyone.
> If it was important for them then I really don't see why it would take them years to offer the subscription service for rich countries.

When you pay for something, you expect service and support. Google is not known for support, especially if providing support requires staffing of actual breathing humans, so the rollout was delayed until at least a minimum of support standard could be met.
I found it really hard to read, but I loved the presentation. It was definitely a much smoother parallax effect than the one that Apple did for the iPhone 11 launch page (though I'm assuming they've since fixed it). You should definitely be proud.
Also to be able to manipulate and use the conceptual realisation ? "I could use this twig (but not that twig) as a hook for ants if I strip the bark off and turn it when I hold it i the hole, then I can eat the ants"
i hate ads i cant avoid seeing because my agency to do that has been subverted. i will attempt to acquire tools to avoid that in future.

i dislike ads as 99.??% are effectively automated insults.

"buy this or you are lessened"

over my lifetime the ad industry has offered insult to me perhaps 100s of 1000s of times.
My understanding is that this is also a big part of the difference in emission standards between the US and EU. i.e. In the past we have been a lot more strict about things like NOX and other countries have been stronger about things like CO2. At least as far as diesels went, anyway.
Isn't there a similar mechanism in humans though? Like this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127768/

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One the most provocative observations regarding Holocaust offspring was the report that Yom Kippur war veterans were more likely to develop post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in response to combat if they had a Holocaust survivor parent25. A higher prevalence of PTSD, mood and anxiety disorders was also observed in Holocaust offspring, largely selected from a convenience sample of people seeking treatment for Holocaust‐related problems, compared with controls26. These findings were replicated in a study assessing the relationship between PTSD in offspring and their own parents, assessed directly by clinical interview of the parent (s)27.
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