skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey William! Monte Carlo is one experiment type we support. :)

You're half right -- Jude started as an intern at Fog Creek eleven years ago and rose over a decade to become CTO. So technically he once was an intern...

But the startup originated outside of Fog Creek, and Joel's involvement is very much intentional.
Your theory is that corporate responsibility ends when you make the first press release? That if specialists everywhere aren't paying attention to the business news, we've arrived at "who could have known"?
Who would do that? Effective Java specifically says not to rely on finalizers.
You can install ArchiveTeam Warrior:

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warr...
I'm getting tired of comments like these. Every single article about climate change or issues with the environment on HN always has someone swooping in to complain about sensationalism or something-or-other rather than talking about the actual article or the actions that can be taken. Then the rest of the HN post devolves into further nonsense because then the discussion becomes more about nitpicking rather than the actual content of the post at hand.

Instead of complaining about sensationalism or nonsense, why don't you skip instead to discussing the actual study at hand and suggest some actual actions we could do to solve the problem? Since you're apparently more of an expert than the journalist here.
They hadn't backed up yet. They had set up accounts with yahoo that they were then planning to use to back up those groups. Backups themselves were starting, but they had to go slowly enough not to bog down yahoo's servers.
“ We'll get right to the point: we're asking you to help. Khan Academy is a nonprofit that relies on support from people like you. If everyone reading this gives $10 monthly, we can continue to thrive for years.”

I would never give khan academy a penny. Sal khan makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from this non profit. They get a majority of their money through grants. I will use khan academy for free forever and you all should do the same.
If I'm buying fiction from an author I know and like, that I think I'd like to last for decades (and maybe leave to my children one day) I'll buy hardcover. That's maybe half of my fiction purchases.

For authors or books I'm unsure of, or just trashy stuff, I'll buy Kindle.

For technical books, I'll usually try to buy non-DRM PDF or eBook from the author, or failing that, a paperback.

I periodically (like, once a year or so) try to strip the DRM from my Kindle collection and back it up, but I basically assume that they could disappear at any time, so I don't trust them for anything I consider important.

I used to use an iPad2 for reading my Kindle books, but it's too slow to open the collection now (since I have a few hundred Kindle books). I'll likely get a Kindle reader of some sort one day, but for now I just read them on my phone most of the time.
Hi, not the original poster here but someone familiar with California's justice system. I went ahead and listened for a bit to what the podcast and its guest had to say.

Your relaying of the podcast, while a little simplified, is not the problem - there aren't "key elements" missing. The problem is that the information on the podcast is blatantly wrong.
Select object, select format tab, select align, select align center/align middle?
AutoHotkey is an ugly language to write in, but oh boy is it useful for gluing disparate Windows actions together.

Theoretically you can do the same thing that AHK does in a .net language or even Powershell but AHK is just easier to whip up something very quickly.

Still I wish there were better Python wrappers for Windows automation.
It's the kind of telescope we should strive for, but definitely not the sort of project we should.

It's more than a decade late and billions over budget.
Earth's atmosphere is annoying, yes, but for huge swathes of observational science it's not a deal-breaker. Not having massive telescopes on the ground where you can fiddle with your instrumentation and take advantage of apertures and construction techniques simply not possible in space _is_ a deal-breaker.

The required precision for construction of telescopes is incredible, and doesn't translate to space well, especially once you start talking about apertures that even folded won't fit into even the largest Starship SpaceX is proposing.

Ground-based astronomy is here to stay and with good reason. SpaceX needs to avoid or minimise the harms to these users of the night sky.

There is another aspect of harm, too - the casual observer. The night sky is a precious resource and shared by all. Introducing huge constellations which in many parts of the world will be visible year-round (and in some quite heavily populated areas like northern Europe, even through the night at some times of year) is like building a huge mobile phone mast outside someone's window and expecting them not to complain, but on a much larger scale.

Light pollution is a huge issue, and satellites can pollute just as well (if not more effectively) than ground based sources - it needs to be an ecological consideration of any launch.
I stopped buying physical books for most of what I read after my last move, but I missed having books around as decoration, conversation starters, and things to loan or for guests to read. And I didn't want to have a bookshelf that reflected only what I read decades ago. So now I've decided that for anything I read that I think is among the best I've read, that I'd unconditionally recommend to anyone, I go buy as nice a physical copy as I can find. This keeps me from having to lug around books that I'm not especially proud of, and leaves me with a wonderfully compact bookshelf full of things I genuinely love.
Don't have any business use, so not sure if this is of any interest to you.

1. Personal domain, currently hosted with Office 365 but I will probably move after the year is up.

2. Student email (.edu, G Suite). Used for all school business, school-related apps, and some things I haven't bothered to move to #1 yet.

3. Gmail account for spammy/annoying websites and signups.

4. Gmail account used for public records/FOIA requests, nothing else.

5. iCloud account (basically used for nothing except iTunes receipts).

6. ProtonMail account--used for my VPN accounts only.

On my Mac mini and iPhone, I use Apple Mail with 1, 2, and 5 added. On my Windows laptop, I access 1 and 2 through webmail (I have Outlook installed for 1 but rarely use it). Anything else, I just sign in to webmail as needed. I also have access to a few team/shared Gmail/G Suite accounts, I don't have these added to Mail b/c I don't want their unread statuses messing up my unread badges.

Only 1/2 are generally used for IRL stuff or accounts that I care about. I follow inbox zero and turn off email notifications for all but the most important stuff (ex security alerts, receipts, eBay auction results) and email analogs (ex. Canvas messages).
We should not stop reaching for the stars. Or bottom of the ocean.

I don’t understand what’s stopping people from fixing the earth’s climate crisis while a minuscule portion of our resources is used for space colonization.
Luajit does something vaguely like this: http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector#arenas_block-ma...

It doesn't need to access the actual data when sweeping.
SLAM and structure from motion are basic techniques in drone navigation/mapping, which is currently experiencing a boom in demand due to the unmanned vehicle bubble.
Ma is no longer running Alibaba day to day, and he kind of retired long before him doing it formally.
Hey Åsmund, all. Tom's got it ^^ In theory you can model all of the above, but simulating complex environments in an agent-based fashion is the initial thing we've focused on creating a really streamlined experience for.
Before clicking that link I guessed at what it would be, and I was wrong but not far (I was expecting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-lia-FEIY )
It's not vanishingly tiny, simply small.

Can you think of a reason selection bias could be an issue, thus invalidating twin study cohorts?
It has other advantages compared to fibrous cement, like being a very good moisutre buffer, having a time shift of 10…12 hours, CO2 absorption as it cures etc. It can use natural hydraulic lime or pozzolanic binders.
How much state is in the expression of DNA? Will all this type of state be lost eventually, or is there also persistent state in the expression of DNA?
I think I’d be suspicious of articles about a country edited by nationals of that country if Pew Research shows that country as having relatively high national pride. Usually, that manifests in an attempt to avoid shame by altering representations of reality rather than being secure enough to handle reality.

An example of something I encountered was that many articles on India in Wikipedia were written in a manner that is sort of child like, aiming at grandiose claims and conspiracy theories. It was obvious, reading from the outside, that it was nonsense.

Anyway, in general I find a English language Wikipedia pretty good where there is a lot of traffic but it looks like the rarer articles are where random people assert their propaganda.
We also know about contraception. But that isn’t going to stop the population from hitting 10 billion by 2050.

The best way to solve climate crisis is to reduce world population leading to less consumption and GHG reduction.
You could hire interns/apprentices to click and type for you, some coders do this.
Underground rated fiber cabling is around $1300 a mile on Amazon in 1000 ft spools, and I bet you can get a much better deal than that if you buy in quantity direct from Corning. At that point it's mostly labor and a mule is a darn clever way to save on labor costs. Also, rural folks are used to physical labor. Another advantage to laying fiber in a rural area, especially out west, is that you need to negotiate with far fewer landowners than you would in a more densely populated area, and many of them will probably let you lay the cable for free in exchange for a connection.
> A phone company in the UK that assigns phone numbers using the groups and now will lose all those phone designations when it’s deleted.

Wow, somebody invented a database that's even worse than an Excel file on a network share.

(Also, how are they going to assign new numbers when archive.org takes over? Is archive.org going to give them write access?)
> (eg: libc’s created file descriptors will all inherit by default)

Isn't that the kernel default? Even if you use system calls directly, file descriptors still inherit by default.
Great idea but come Tuesday evening you'll have a couple who hate themselves as well as each other, who can't remember a word of that deep-and-meaningful they had at the weekend.
It's not stupid. There were serious groups using that platform. While I never thought it was a good idea, they nevertheless did. My personal concern is community driven medical/biohacking research groups that go back to at least the late 1990's.
Maybe those who care (we?) could organize a campaign to get customers to commit to leaving Verizon if they let the messages be deleted without archive? That would convert it into the language they understand.

To raise the perceived threat level, many folks could support in building tooling or docs to help ppl migrate as easily and streamlined as possible, to minimize the tax on consumer time that they rely on. (E.g., help on comparable plans, cheat sheet for call centre keywords, etc.)

Maybe something team "Do Not Pay" could help run with...! [1]

[1]: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/28/parking-tickets-plus-plus....
I do work in a related field and give your answer really sad. The answer is simply that standardised tests are not a suitable measure of learning. They miss most of the important insights and even efforts to open up, like the attempt to measure 'problem solving'in PISA, are damned to stick to very narrow concepts.

Standardized testing is good for:

- measuring system performance against set standards
- giving basic insights into student's average level of knowledge of a subject (if you use a thorough theoretical framework to conceptualise learning outcomes and link test items to this)
- maybe measuring school performance against standards
- maybe measuring teacher performance against standards

But for students this individual measure of an exam is simply not a good measure of learning in any modern education system. Yes it is a useful measure in really bad systems where teachers are bad and teach wrong things, or where eg attendance and exam fraud are huge issues.

But modern pedagogy is not about teaching book knowledge which is easily measured. In any Western education system we are mostly past that point. It's about helping students discover own interests and abilities, develop competence and confidence, experiment, fail and try again. This learning is simply too individual and hard to measure for a standardised test.

The only option is formative assessment (essentially teachers grading students repeatedly throughout the year on things like effort, achievement of general learning aims, additional development, results produced, presentations, support to other students, etc - a bit how you would measure a good office worker). Or maybe let's do like Finland and Estonia and let's mostly eliminate the testing burden.
I deal with email spam by dumping all emails from non-whitelisted addresses in the spam folder. My phone has an app to auto reject calls and texts from non-whitelisted numbers. If somebody wants to contact me, they can damned well get my consent first. If they can't be bothered to do that, then they have nothing of value to say to me.
What are circumstances? How do we measure those? What is fair? And most importantly, how do we keep the people who are better at life from capturing those cutouts like they do in 99.9% of the times there are cutouts? You may think you can create a Byzantine set of rules to make life perfectly fair, but you'll just create a framework for someone unburdened by ethics to win, as we see basically everywhere this is tried.
I doing high-end amateur photography and there are plenty of tools that are able to enhance (sharpen, noise reduction, color correction) imagery using AI that was not possible before.

I took AI/DL course before and professor demonstrated from scratch how to build an algo and train model capable of amazing upsampling of imagery.

Hence - bubble or not - there are lots of useful, practical benefits to this today.
Will AMD’s Radeon Boost Take Down Nvidia’s Budget GPUs?
The problem here is Gessen uses Zhukov's words to bash Donald Trump, but neglects to mention that Zhukov is a right-winger who supports Trump, and the Tea Party. He's also anti-feminist & new yorker readers would feel differently if they knew these things. It's disingenuous.

https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1203785706860109830
Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime
No online businesses.

1) work email (access from the office or through blackberry work, ugh)

2) personal (that’s actually two addresses on similar domains, but I only actually send from one) — google hosted, read through iOS mail or mail.app or win10 mail or web interface

3) a more professionally-sounding personal, which I don’t use much, forwarded to 2)

4) spam hole for random website registrations, read through web interface when I need to confirm an email for some business’ enjoyment

5) one for newsletters, which I convert to a feed to read in miniflux

I guess I also have a Microsoft account from my office 365 subscription, but I never actually opened it.
"Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives" and most past headlines using the word don't attach any particular connotation: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (including when it refers to SV companies)
That doesn't equate to having full control over the monetary flow. They can mint new tokens, but since the contract doesn't have a self destruct function, it's out there on the blockchain forevermore, even if Brave were to disappear tomorrow.
IANAMD. The polio virus usually attack the intestine, moreover it usually attack only the intestine and cause no symptoms.

The normal way of transmission is eating something that is contaminated with poop of an infected person. So it is probably easier to create a vaccine that can be "eaten".
What’s Wrong with Me? (2013)
That looks fine? Similar to a lot of paperbacks I see in the States.
ditto on fastmail and .me. Also hate the did you mean me@domain.de?
Can you point to some of those cost estimates?

Latency absolutely matters for "high speed internet". Once you have reasonable bandwidth, that's the dominant factor in the user experience.
Practical Common Lisp is very accessible for learning and quite project focused. http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
It is 100% a political issue.

From what I've read running fiber in San Francisco is a nightmare. You have to get a bunch of permits approved, do an environmental survey because you have to install a box on the street, and get local approval for that box. Then you have to do the same for the next block.
I am a self interested party, but I’m personally glad since there’s a post in a Yahoo Group that’s findable through Google, that would absolutely ruin my reputation and life if discovered.
That's why I'm not a fan of those laws --- in addition to the fact that in practice they turn into something more like "right to rewrite history".
The iOS Simulator does something along these lines for macOS. When macOS is updated CoreSimulator rebuilds the dyld_sim shared caches because simulator runtimes pull in libsystem_kernel, libsystem_pthread, and libsystem_platform (which cover the core of the kernel’s ABI).
This is, iiuc, how the movie and construction industries work. Spin up a minicorp for every big risky project to shield the mother ship.
That's a very justified question!

In my opinion, Datalog or — more generally — Prolog is where many querying APIs will eventually arrive, because this syntax has many nice advantages: It is very convenient, expressive and readable, programs and queries can be easily parsed and analyzed with Prolog's built-in mechanisms, there is an ISO standard for it etc.

When semantic web formalisms were discussed, Prolog was sometimes mentioned. However, it is so far not very widely used as a querying or modeling language even for semantic web applications. Recent advances in Prolog implementations may increase the uptake of this syntax.

Also, public perception of Datalog and Prolog lags somewhat behind recent developments in these areas and what these technologies can actually do or what they even are. For example, here on HN, many posted articles that claim to be about Datalog often show snippets and examples that use completely different notations which are no longer a subset of ISO Prolog and therefore also not Datalog. Thus, they also do not immediately benefit from recent advances in Prolog systems in that they cannot directly be parsed and interpreted by them. It may take some time to advertise these improvements, and increase interest in these formalisms.
Neither, Graeber defines bullshit jobs something along the lines of that that the employee knows that they don’t do anything meaningful. For instance being an underling of a manager so he can feel more powerful having more people under them without really having a task.
Security-Enhanced 24K KryptAll K iPhone
Yes, Autohotkey can search for pixels and stuff:

https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/PixelSearch.htm
It depends. If you use the official app, then it's sort-of end to end encryption but with an asterisk that you have to trust their servers not to mess with you from the beginning. They can't start intercepting at will, though, they have to target you from the beginning, and if the server did that with everyone, odds are that someone caught on by now. So it's probably fine.

If you use a client where you can view the crypto keys for out of band verification (I think the command line client can do this, but it's awful to use as daily driver), then it is actually end to end encrypted, and you should only have to do this once.

Verifying your key in the command line client and then using the app will not do, since the server can selectively lie to your app. I'm not saying it's likely, but when speaking of sending keys to the kingdom through it, it can be a reasonable precaution to verify crypto keys for the client you're using, depending on your company and threat model (if you're in the USA, well, so is Keybase so that's less of an issue than when you're in Iran and you think Keybase is magically end to end encrypted with no verification needed, as their docs suggest). Since all devices connected to your account receive a copy of the data, it doesn't matter which device you use to send or receive the secret keys.
> But I think it's also an argument against VR being particularly special in terms of immersion.

Or rather, it's an argument against 6DOF controllers being central to VR immersion. I think they make a difference albeit a small one.

Actual physical hand tracking is wonderfully immersive but hits other snags. No haptic feedback and tracking limitations. For some scenarious however it's a step forward.

(You need to design interactions around the controller limitations. Current VR experiences are too enamoured of the novelty and give the user too much freedom. Immersion comes from carefully stage managing the experience to avoid those things that sign-post the artificiality)
For only $300/m too.

I'm seriously considering moving there. Costs are low across the board. No income tax, inexpensive real estate, gasoline, and electricity. Biggest downside I see is the humidity.
I can attest to this. I had similar experiences when I was in Aerospace. The complete incompetence of management is staggering and the mentality to stick with what has worked keeps efficiencies down. They instead went after the workers to "work harder" instead of allocating time and money to automation. I finally left and went to work on automation for industries that were receptive to creating tools that would make them more efficient. It's exceptionally frustrating to be in such a position, and you are right, it's better to do nothing and find yourself a place that fully understands what it means to save time and money by spending a fraction of it to fix while putting functioning processes in place to mitigate the risk of someone changing anything without going through the proper channels to ensure that the tools continue to work.
Of course, but research is still the best we have when it comes to support a claim or try to establish certain truths about the world.

If you don't believe the results of the study, please provide the counter evidence.
Funnily enough, I never saw those games as criticising me. I saw them as portraying a particular character, who I was playing as but ultimately had little control over.

In Spec Ops: The Line, I'd go out of the way to check whether there was a way to avoid committing a war crime before taking the action the game was railroading me towards. This meant that I was able to prevent some things, e.g. shooting over the heads of a hostile crowd to drive them away rather than firing into them, but at other times the needs of the character's narrative drove the experience. It felt like playing as the remnants of a conscience, rather than controlling the whole mind.
I'm not sure I get it. A row_number() based approach is the same thing as using OFFSET...
This paper indicates a relationship between a lack of economic opportunity and opioid addiction: https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/259261/ASPEEconomicOpp...

I understand that you may have strong personal feelings about individuals who use drugs but I would encourage you to not make claims based exclusively on those.