skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this. As it happens, I am currently tasked with selecting a system like this to replace what we currently use. I was strongly leaning toward recommending Gitlab, but am no longer. (To be clear, I haven't ruled it out, either, despite the fact that I've stopped using it personally -- it's just that it's not the leading contender anymore.)
I have had few situation wherein the order placed was never delivered after 90 minutes and then they go on to cancel the order because they were unable to find delivery drivers. I go and pick up the order and then have to bicker on their chat support to return the delivery fee at least. Talking to a few restaurant owners gave me the impression this happens way more than usual.
I can't at the moment, but as a hint, if I search for X Y Z then I expect the first results to contain all those terms, not 2 out of 3. Like others complain, it seems necessary to quote each on "X" "Y" "Z" to get what I want.

If you have to have a clever read-my-mind search, then instead of blending it into the main search, have 2 search types of 'intelligent' and 'precise'.
I agree, they should also be coffee-shops/delis/bodegas.

A model are the gas station restaurants of the deep south USA:

https://www.southernliving.com/travel/gas-station-restaurant...

Outside of the deep South and freeway rest areas in the US, nobody thinks of a gas station as a place you'd want to get food, because people think (perhaps correctly) that gasoline is toxic. Electricity isn't perceived the same way.

Mid to high end hotels and resorts have already installed chargers due to their clientele increasingly driving Teslas. This idea is to work from the other end of the socioeconomic spectrum.
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Not only that but a big pitch of the tablet itself is to get the desktop web browsing experience.
FWIW, Landing a fish is not the same as hooking it. Landing a fish literally means pulling it to land (or boat).

So landing=catching=scoring.

Depending on the type of fishing, you can still be an underdog to land the fish after hooking it.
This story deserves attention. HN is the perfect audience for attention to be brought to.
sir, this is a bookstore, not a library
Consider the Hedgehog
Google brings in BERT to improve its search results
On Earth it would absolutely show up. Because Earth is tectonically active, and has an active atmosphere that erodes things in relatively predictable ways, along with a number of other processes that can date things, we'd be able to tell that there's a whole bunch of impacts that seem to have taken place at suspiciously close to the same time, even millions of years after the fact. If there's more than a couple of them, it may even be the case that it becomes clear that they were specifically targeted; e.g., 2/3rds of the planet is water, if we found 8 impacts on land or coasts at the same time and could show that there were 0 in the middle of the water, that would be very strong evidence for intelligent action, for which "military" is the most likely conclusion.

In other environments, it may be much more difficult, but similar effects on more detailed scales may be in play.

It's possible the space war was won with One Big Rock, but for a variety of reasons, I'd expect space war is more likely to occur with a variety of smaller rocks. Primarily, One Big Rock is harder to steer at militarily useful speeds, and you have to be pretty committed to wiping out not just your enemy, but the entire ecosystem. A lot of much smaller rocks would be more militarily useful in all sorts of ways, speed of deployment and redundancy being among the most important. If there is a war between a space-faring civilization and the groundpounders, the space-farers win if they just degrade the ground civilization to the point that they are no longer space-faring and unable to interfere. Spending the considerably greater resources to massively overkill past that goal is possible, but would not be the most likely outcome in my opinion because of the outsize expenditures and much longer time to return on said expenditure vs. smaller, more nimble attacks.
> "In contrast to cargo-only chemical space-gun concepts, a mass driver could be any length, affordable, and with relatively smooth acceleration throughout, optionally even lengthy enough to reach target velocity without excessive g forces for passengers."

Wikipedia can generally be pretty good, but the above text from the subsection On Earth shows what can go wrong when deluded space enthusiasts go nuts on an article; it's pure wishful thinking. No major construction project of "any length" is "affordable," especially not one of the sophistication of a mass driver. At about 3g, about 30 m/s^2, it would take you about 270 seconds to get to 8 km/second, during which time you are traveling at an average speed of 4 km/second. This is a structure, with attendant control system and safeguards, about 1080 km, or 670 mi, in length. This is not affordable. By anyone.

What might be affordable (sticking my wet finger in the breeze) is getting 1 or 2 km/s at 5 or 6 g, or higher, and then doing the rest with a rocket, provided that you're firing continuously to amortize your initial cost. Skimming a couple km/s off the high end of the rocket equation brings your mass ratio way down, especially considering the reduced gravitational losses. (I'm assuming, in a fit of witless optimism, that we're launching from a high enough altitude that the increased aerodynamic losses are mitigated to the point that gravitational loss savings dominate, and that this adds no cost.)

Mass drivers are a fun idea because they seem to get around the rocket equation, but this affordability nonsense is just over the top.
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Nice and well thought out write up about the ant.
Ants are always busy and preoccupied fulfilling one task or the other.
Despite this, there is great team work and selflessness among the ants, which humanity can learn from and have a better society.
Depends on how big the meteor. Large enough natural explosions would tend to lay down a layer rich in iridium in the sediments. But if it's just an explosion the size of the Tunguska event nobody looking a million years in the future will ever know it happened.
This must be a Linux/windows paradigm? I am lost looking at Firefox on my Mac.

Edit: apparently on PCs the per-window menu is activated with Alt, TIL
> I'm not defending gmail, but I will say that some users simply suck (unintentionally). I bet some of your peers are just hitting the spam button instead of simply deleting the email, generating a bad reputation for the sender.

And yet other companies with spam reporting features are able to maintain a lower false positive rate with their spam filters.
Which would be funny as from what I recall, to answer the headline, Apple led the pack in removing scrollbars, from OSX back in about 2011.
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Horizontal space on mobile is very, very scarce. And designers hate when stuff wraps. And scrollbars take horizontal space.
If everyone did it, it would be material. But everywhere I've seen, other people usually slip into whatever space there is. Which technically does maximize the rate of vehicles passing through a point in the road, as you can take advantage of the various rates of acceleration.

Whether or not the time saved is worth the wear and tear, environmental damage, increased risk of collision, I can't say. I'd say probably not, but it's going to happen anyway.
I can't take anyone seriously who says "carbon" when he means carbon dioxide.
Url changed from https://thebrowser.com/articles/the-history-of-the-hedgehog/, which is dead.
I didn't claim that BB is a "front" for Stormfront -- just that they're closely associated communities. But if Stormfront linked to HN all the time, yeah I'd probably try to figure out what about HN was so appealing to Nazis and change that.

If you dig into either source, I think you'll find a lot more in common along ideological lines than liking pants.
On iOS, you can tap the top of the address bar to scroll to the top (I think since iOS 3.0 or so). This became 2 taps when they started hiding the address bar (one to show it, and another to invoke the "back to top" feature).

In Chrome (and probably other browsers), you can use CMD+Up to jump to the top and CMD+Down to jump to the bottom.
Found an open copy: http://shrager.org/vita/pubs/2019JLMEIsCancerSolvable.pdf

Re "real insight", quoted from the highlight: "Current medical research tries to minimize risk to the individual while
maximizing benefit to society. Yet, in traditional research, no attempt is made
to calculate the value to society of what may be gained by research.
In contrast, GCTA seeks to maximize both individual and societal benefit
based upon explicit quantification for each. One quantitative measure of
societal benefit is information gain, which enables the prioritization of one
option versus another at a specific moment in time. "
I imagine, however, that you don't hear much from the people who didn't become programmers because their English wasn't good enough.
White asparagus are just sprouts that have never seen the sun.
> Snowden was far more interested in PRISM, an obviously legal program) is not whistleblowing

The public outrage was due to various top officials denying that anything like PRISM was going on, when in fact it was.

So either the program was illegal, the false statements made by officials about them, or the classification of the process that prevented democratic oversight. One of the three had to be illegal, it's not really relevant to split hairs over which was one actually was.
Well, anthropomorphism aside, ants kill and eat their peers if they detect damage or aberrant behavior. They behave as they do, because it is beneficial to the queen, whose future is the only one that matters.
Hedgehogs from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10768913

I feel like there have been other major hedgehog threads, but they seem to be hiding.
The biggest problem would be the absence of recursion, but a recursion-free subset of Elm (with a different standard library) would be straightforward.
Ant foot traffic and human foot traffic are probably comparable. Human highway traffic might need to be compared to rat highway traffic.
A grid of rocks in a desert is turing complete. It's not a useful concept for discussing the differences between programming languages, precisely because it's such a low bar.

"Any software problem" includes these two extremely common problems, neither of which has anything to do with Turing completeness:

* It needs to do something fast

* It needs to be written quickly
Err isn’t this a problem remembering your file hierarchy as well? Search is the answer in both scenarios.
Actually a Forth written in a language apart from English would be a cool idea. The 'words' model maps directly to natural languages and would be straightforward to apply to other languages.
I just randomly stumbled again upon this video from 2018 (from Startup Investor School), densely packed and interesting for angels as well as founders.

and yet it has less than 23k views (!)
Kubernetes security audit: What GKE and Anthos users need to know
unrelated: but there's a theory that the sense of smell is actually influenced/determined by quantum effects. see this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction
I'm well aware. But China is also the only country (or even bloc) in the world that's aiming for a fully internal supply chain for high tech. Not sure you can transform basic materials into a laptop (to pick one simple example) at scale without China anymore, but China is on a pretty successful track to do that without anybody else.

Once they get there, I'm not sure they have a lot of motivation left to do high-tech on foreigners' terms and in foreign languages.

While it doesn't follow that "we" need to learn Chinese then, whatever they'll use instead of StackExchange will simply outnumber the English version.
And doesn't have a constant scroll bar
(rpmisms and hnbroseph both make excellent points! I want to add that "Stupid opinions are not valid." is, of course, just my own stupid opinion, eh? Combine that statement with "Opinions are valid, even if they're stupid." and you have a logical self-referential paradox, eh?)
Good for you. You don't necessarily have to leave. Once you have some experience you can find another prospect and then deliver an ultimatum. You want dev work full time or you will quit. And mention that you already have another job lined up.
Just as government put regulation in to require different standard octane ratings, phase out of leaded etc, I would hope government regulates that some percentage - say 50% of pump space must be devoted to vehicle charging. Requiring enough to cause irritation to ICE vehicle drivers seems an important nudge.

I'm conveniently ignoring any practicality of adequate electricity supply to the petrol station in my sweeping generalisation. :)
That is pretty much the nature of the beast with contractors; not another matter. If you don’t understand what they’re doing at some level, they’re probably just using you for billable hours. If for no other reason, they have other more demanding clients that actively manage them.
I also dislike the book. As someone who loves motorcycles and fixing an old Honda myself, it is something I want to love. To me, the protagonist is trying to show how smart he is after reading some intro to philosophy book.
You are assuming that lambda calculus is a necessary part of that path. So far as I can see, you did nothing to substantiate that assumption.

Can you reach the stars without computer programming? Probably not. Can you do computer programming without lambda calculus? Absolutely. You can do it based on Turing Machines, for example. (Are they equivalent? Yes, but also no. The Church-Turing Thesis says that they are formally equivalent. Yet nobody, when they say "lambda calculus", is thinking of Turing Machines and calling that lambda calculus.)
I was responding to a comment that introduced the transphobic comments, simply to attest that I had heard the episode and that the skinny guy who is on that episode with Rogan was venting/ranting in a way that I found very dumb.

Rogan himself was holding back from joining in, and I think some of the commenters here mistook my comment as critiquing Rogan for being transphobic, which I did not observe. It was the skinny guy (whose name I don't know).
There is also a comparison against HotSpot, which is a hand-written GPU program (albeit imperfectly).

Futhark does not outperform expertly hand-optimised GPU code, but most of the GPU code found in the wild is hardly expertly hand-optimised. Futhark comes out on top surprisingly often, but can be solidly beaten for complex algorithms or clever implementations. See figure 8 in this paper for examples: https://futhark-lang.org/publications/ppopp19.pdf
That's most likely the reason: OVH is well known for their lack of attention on spammers using their VPSs, so most operators will just filter their IP blocks.

I run a low volume email server and 100% of the connections from OVH blocks are spam/phishing/vuln-scanning/etc. It's true that Gmail could do more to help low volume operators understand deliverability problems, but in my opinion OVH should be doing something about their spam issue.

My advice when looking for a VPS provider for running an email server is to read their AUP and check their blocks on Talos.
What is it with the price of Bitcoin and avocados?
He’s against the Nordic model, he doesn’t wants to punish the sex workers, maybe their clients.
Nikhil here, CTO and co-founder at Mutiny.

The purpose of using this data for personalization is to help the incoming visitor find what they are looking for and understand more specifically why a product would be right for them. Our system is built such that when a user visits a Mutiny enabled website, their information is never shared nor sold. Only the company whose website the user has chosen to engage with has access to this data, similar to how company's use analytics platforms today.

We do not use 3rd party cookies, so user data is always protected across companies and domains. If users prefer to forgo personalization we respect these privacy settings and allow users to opt-out.
Wrt your tldr solution to procrastination: You are possibly self-disciplined enough not to be their target market. It's not that easy for everybody.

Different strokes...
Hamburgers and Heiroglyphs, GUI of the future!

At least Dropbox hasn't gone full in on the Heiroglyph side of the fad, they still have text labels for buttons, so you can understand what they do by looking at them and reading them.
This isn't very unique, it's called a suburb. It's just a little more extreme and poorly governed.

A common suburbia pattern is to build a shopping hub in a county or other subdivision on an interstate adjacent to a bigger community and exploit the increased revenues. The community starts keeping costs down by leeching on state and county level resources for police, allowing undesirable business etc.

There are variants in different states because of how land in allocated. For example, New York doesn't have unincorporated land, you're always in a town or city.
You might be surprised how much Arabic you can pick up if you spend a few weeks in a place like Cairo. It helps if you make an effort to completely immerse yourself and not spend too much time in western style shopping malls.
Man that page is garbage.

With JavaScript disabled, you get a big white page of nothing. Not to mention the full screen menu as was mentioned.
I read his books and they’re based on his investigation plus the testimony of a number of sex workers.
We all have some dumb opinions. I appreciate it when people help me develop awareness of my own.
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You're going the right way and that is something to be very proud of for yourself. It didn't happen overnight so it won't go away overnight.

Seriously, you should be very proud and I truly commend you. I was 133 pounds when I stopped running track and field. I went up to 200 pounds with some ease. It's been a struggle to return to 150 pounds.
What I nailed is the idea of back-pressure. Removing the consumer's ability to use back-pressure mechanisms against excessive stream provision is an anti-pattern.

Providers who want to maximize "engagement" do not care.

This is known as "spam".
Do you remember the full query?
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I'll give you that it's a bit of an idealistic view, to be filed under "epistemology".

It is my understanding that margins of error in reproducible rates are on-par with our limits in engineering capabilities to 'test' experimentally. The validation becomes statistic because the real world is too chaotic/complex/whatever external cause, but the sum of evidence must tend to show (mean, SD, etc) that the theory applies to the real world, and predicts "a range of possible within some margin of error", which in practice results from our imprecisions. E.g. how we continuously prove Einstein's GR.

Quantum uncertainty is a whole other paradigm which I don't think can be discussed in the same terms; a lot of our 'logic' does not apply and thus I'd rather refrain from using classical frameworks of thinking to even characterize it.

But the fact stands that you should always be able to verify experimentally a valid theory; our failure in practice, sometimes, has nothing to do with theory.

Social sciences look at category of problems considered "hard" by any scientific metric because of their complexity. It's like meteorology and indeed astrophysics, we lack the processing power (both our brains and computers, for now) to go all-in on theory. I was however surprised, in my studies, that the more down-to-earth approach of anthropology (naive, dare I say seeking first principles) seemed to yield observation 'closer' to theory than its modern sister sociology, whose subtopic —the modern world, as opposed to very specific cultures for a quite narrow spacetime— is vastly too multi-factorial to even begin to modelize, let alone theorize.
It's not quite as bad as that, as electricity is a more efficient fuel source for many applications, including heating if you have a heat pump and the cold side isn't a lot colder than your target temperature. For transport it's much more efficient - 1kWh of electricity will get you a few times further than fossil fuels containing 1kWh or energy.

But your point is still valid, we certainly need to more than double grid capacity if we want to rely on electrification to avoid lifestyle changes.
Scroll bars and top menus! One factor was the removal from the market of anything but 16:9 displays which sucks as well. I want my workstation UI back and to return the fischer-price bullshit on every OS. Windows and gnome are the worst, every thing they do in the name of progress makes computers harder to use.

I miss the simplicity of Windows 2000/XP classic, been downhill from there. Ubuntu Mate is good but is suffering from the encroachment of gnome also.

Also took 15 years for dark themes to become allowed again due to loss of theming functionality.
This language is called 'Kelb' which translates to 'Dog'. Why is it called that?
This is because they don't drive.
This is in every kind of newspaper. You have to learn to discern propaganda from news and learn judgement.
Any CSS that doesn't take screen density into account is doing it wrong, though.
I've managed to find it in calibre and inkscape, although not in audacity, gimp, firefox, emacs, or transmission.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? You've done a lot of that, and it's not what this site is for.
This confused the hell out of me, because I'm quite fond of Golfs and agree. Turns out I had to append the word "electric" to my search, otherwise I got a very Civic-looking car.
Is the headline figure here actually kind of small?

| The IEA finds that global offshore wind capacity may increase 15-fold and attract around $1 trillion of <<cumulative>> investment by 2040.

Averaged over the next 20 years, that's $50 billion per year, or 2.5 percent of oil and gas revenues in 2017[0], or 7 percent of what was invested in oil and gas supply in 2016[1]. I could be thinking about this wrong but it seems like there numbers could have been much more encouraging.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030915/what-percent...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iea-energy-investment/ele...
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The law of the excluded middle is about the truth status of any proposition. The fact that the alphabet of the language has to have a decidable equality does not mean the law of the excluded middle is true for any theory built from the lambda calculus. (Or true in general)
Google seems to have gotten away with bulk scanning of books, one way or another. Though, having a potential army of lawyers handy probably helps.
Iosevka converted me into a narrow width font fan, +1 for this suggestion.
Genuinely curious how websites built in this fashion will adhere to accessibility guidelines, especially with companies (like Target[0]) getting sued recently.

Additionally, can these sites be responsive such that the content will look good on desktop and mobile?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/08/target-to-pay-...