skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sense is that this may be the case, but I have trouble understanding it if the school's culture during his time was anything like it was during mine (that is, accepting of diversity not only in backgrounds, but also in aptitudes, with niches for high intellectual and physical achievers, normal kids, and even, perhaps especially, those who would have been marginalized elsewhere.)

That said, I think what I'm advocating for approaches a sort of noblesse oblige, in that Brin has been SO successful that any deviation from his existing path might have lead to much less success, obliging consideration of every step along the way; and in that even a marginal actor in his life would be worth giving back to, from the point of view of the actor, commensurate to their involvement. ERHS is a school that could benefit hugely from a modest grant, or periodic appearance (if not personal, perhaps from a Google rep), which would presumably be a incredibly small sacrifice on his part. But most who went their didn't even know he had.

It just seems weird.
Overheating rooms which then have to be ventilated / air conditioned and aren't even an efficient way to heat an area compared to heat pumps.
I don't have anything to say about whether or not the article is anti-China propaganda, but I just wanted to address this comment because there's some underlying assumptions being made here about names and ethnicity.

In this day and age, I don't think a name is guaranteed to tell you much about a person. It's a bit fallacious to say "she has a Chinese name, so she's probably not against China."

She could be from Taiwan or Hong Kong, both of which have plenty of reasons not to like China. She could also have been born and raised by Chinese, Taiwanese, or Hong Kong parents in any other country.

I have an incredibly "white" name, but I'm ethnically Korean. I know I'm an outlier, but it gives me first-hand knowledge that using names to assume things about people's ethnicity (and from that, their beliefs) is not a good tactic.
If they are public, yes, it should be ok. Regarding groups that are old or inactive, A couple that I'm concerned with had important early discussions, that people on other derivative groups refer to regularly.
update: just enabling the vpn was enough to 'reset' captcha to the simple level, seems like yahoo does not take into account whether your IP is 'residential'.
The way I describe it is that FC3 is the better game, but FC 2 is the better experience.

I don't really know of a better way to describe it than this. I vividly remember playing this game, marching around at night, and getting the vivid feeling of being there. I've been playing games since the Atari days and this is the only game I've ever felt like this with, period.
I live in the US and if I see Georgia in the news, I tend to assume it's the country rather than the US state.
Sure, and you can add some correction bits to fix the lossy encoding of the autoencoder.

The problem is that you have to encode/send the DNN itself, otherwise your receiver won't know how to decode the data. If you are not smart, the added codelength of the DNN will likely blow away your savings. If you are smart, this leads to a whole formulation of machine learning called MDL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length
I think "the people who most need credit often just to make ends meet" fits into that first bracket. Anyone who's drowning just trying to keep up with absolute essentials needs help, not loans. If you can repay a loan then you can save. And if you can save, you shouldn't take out a loan.
Types are closed terms of contracts encoded in a language within specific phases. If you really need any guarantees without further knowledge shaped before running, then, besides the typechecking, the typing rules should also be programmable by users (rather than the language designer) for the sake of providing proofs. The base system must practically have no mandated static type systems at all, which is far from Rust.
I also noted that for yahoo changing IP, even changing continents, allowed me to use the same cookies as long as I kept my original browser window open.
“Insurance companies save thousands from fiery death-traps.”
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein#Stein's_Law
I live in Eastern Europe. Could you give me any companies I could try? Ideally in Austria, English-only.
> nothing bad happens if they're "compromised"

It can make debugging your program a lot harder :)
I talked in person to some technical Googlers at an event a few weeks ago.

I asked them about this particular rule and they said they were allowed to use Windows but certain other engineers were not allowed to.

I came from the same understanding as you but my new understanding was that except for certain departments they are allowed to use Windows.
I quite like Pinter’s “A Book of Abstract Algebra”. He writes very cleanly, is aimed at beginners, but doesn’t cut corners.

If you’re already pretty serious about math (i.e., you already write proofs; maybe you took an analysis class), then I recommend Artin’s Algebra.

If you really want tons of practice and a Stewart’s Calculus-like book, then Dummit and Foote.
given the speed of light, I think its probably true.
I suppose that depends on whether they end up having the same reliability. Only time will tell.
Why not use ML to build a statistical model of your data, and then use that model to compress it? You will likely get better codelengths for your specific dataset than off-the-shelf algorithms can achieve. And if you figure out a good model that describes the fluctuations in the cryptocurrency prices very well, then you can use that model pretty directly to make money via automated trading.

I've got an easy-to-use library for arithmetic encoding in Java, it would be easy to port to other languages:
https://github.com/comperical/MirrorEncode
It's clear that "this mood enhancement research" has some value. So what is the problem? That we should aim higher? What could be done better to compared to the story you describe?
Just saying "No" doesn't add information, so doesn't count as a substantive answer. "Saved you a click" is even worse: that's not just informationless, it's an internet trope that signals the comment has nothing else to say. Those two things add up to a very shallow dismissal—exactly what we don't want here.
Amazon rainforest ‘completely lawless’ after Brazilian president’s first year
Love the idea from an absurdity aspect.

Accuracy is very low, portability requires a vehicle, wear is quite high on the "outside" side of the channel.

Feels as effective as a repeating shotgun mounted on a car.
> [...] it still feels very misleading [...] referencing the country VS the state of Georgia

You know, there exists a world outside the US. And yet, when "Georgia" and "nation" is mentioned in the same sentence, you feel misled because it doesn't refer to the US state of Georgia? The problem is with you, not with the headline.
Accounting for your transactions and watching a tight balance are two entirely separate activities, as different as day and night. One involves checking a list / notifications for fraud and the occasional exercise of self-control to stay within a reasonable budget. Easy peasy. The other involves frequent constraint solving and optimization, which explode in complexity as budgets get tighter and constraints get harder.

The latency built into modern tooling exacerbates the issue. Credit card apps, mint, etc are decent for accounting (or allow export to an app that is), but they are so bad for dealing with a tight budget that people resort to debit cards and hand-ledgers (under which I am including manual entry of amounts into an app). A sizable safety margin lets you tolerate latency and gives you access to modern, low-overhead, highly capable tooling. Also, the luxury of choosing your own budgets lets you dodge tons of constraint solving right off the bat.

> Stochastically speaking, many of us--including myself--come from humble beginnings.

Then surely you remember the massive cognitive unloading that came when you first built a safety margin, yes?

Even putting all of the above aside, I just don't have much faith in patronizing and finger-wagging as tools for social progress. Even if responsibly consuming credit were trivial at all income levels, I still would still object to business models that encouraged and monetized irresponsibility.
>weather conditions 3-to-4 weeks out will soon be as readily available as seven-day forecasts

Get ready for a month of pre-hurricaine coverage before every storm.
Oracle Product Manager Claims He Was Forced Out for Refusing to Sell Vaporware
You could just charge for the electricity and the problem would solve itself.
IIRC DNA methylation (sp?) is used in blood tests to determine the rate at which you are aging biologically. This article does claim that the children who are touched less develop at a slower in addition to having a lower DNA methylation. So in a sense, the less a child is touched, the slower the child ages biologically according to this marker and observation.

Anecdotally, there are environmental situations where animals can significantly increase life-expectancy but at the expense of delayed sexual maturity.

It would be interesting, but of course not conclusive, to see if these children experience puberty later and if they also live longer. Perhaps some neglect has some benefit.
Sounds awesome :) Are you speaking from personal experience?
Please don't respond to a bad comment by making the thread even worse. Personal attacks make the thread even worse. Not cool.

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BoingBoing has picked this up: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/08/oath-makes-you-swear-2.htm...
> Another interesting adoption to the containerized world we live in is that GCs recently started to frequently return memory to the OS when not being used.

I'm wondering if there are any security implications here. Like a container could figure out the workload of another container probablistically. Thinking out loud here but sometimes these side channels are leaky.
As I recall the minimum total user + kernel stack size is 10kB in the Linux kernel, so 1M threads is 10GB of space. It should be doable, though you will probably have to bump up kernel limits.

A million threads is an extreme case, though. No system can reliably spawn that many threads that are actually doing something interesting without a very large amount of memory. When you leave the realm of microbenchmarks you have to expect that an unknown quantity of threads will have deep call stacks at any given time, so you really need to give yourself leeway to avoid the risk of OOM.
I’m happy to not reply to your provocation.
Please don't make unduly personal remarks in arguments here. It just leads to flamewars, which we're trying to avoid.

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What Are the Major ERP Products of Microsoft Dynamics?
It's about the ability, not the reality. As Racket, the base language can have no explicit rules for any type systems to be embedded. There can be more powerful candidates, e.g. Kernel: https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html.

Racket is special because its designers provide dedicated support of language-oriented programming. But that is about ecosystems, not typesystems.
Please don't do call-out-style shaming comments on HN. That online culture doesn't lead anyplace good. This site is for curious conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
It's also reasonably dense, up to 3 letters can be packed in one square, compared to one and a half in latin.
No surprise now that bitcoin mining tends to migrate to heavily corrupt regions with subsidised power but likely something that the original design didn't anticipate when it spoke about distributed mining
Well, typically you need consent from the service being used.
If you look at how the "robots.txt" standard works, consent is assumed even for basic web crawling by search engines. (At least for legitimate businesses; many crawlers do ignore robots.txt.)
Not totally true. As I pointed out in previous HN threads, there is a lot of power used by miners that would otherwise be unused. In the Chinese regions of Yunan and Sichuan, there is such an overcapacity of hydropower that dams are forced to release water (without spinning the turbines) which amounts to over 100 TWh wasted every year. So just these 2 regions let more hydropower go to literal waste than the worldwide consumption of Bitcoin miners.

Incidentally, this overcapacity is why some estimate that half the global Bitcoin mining capacity is located in Sichuan and Yunan. Despite that, they just make a tiny dent in the wasted hydropower...
Be careful all you people flashing your Apple's around the coffee shops. One day your precious symbol of hipsterness may turn on you and label you as a murderous minority hating bigot.
I have several problems with this and I'm concerned by the number of people promoting this as a good thing:

1. "Nearly half of Huabei's users are under the age of 30 [..]". There is value in teaching young people to budget well and save for what they want or need. There's this feeling of "hard earned, well looked after" with many of the items I personally own.

2. Whilst the intention is supposedly good, I feel as if this is really a move towards putting large amounts of the Chinese population into a debt for (mostly) meaningless purchases. This isn't somehow generating more money for the average person, this just traps them into borrowing from their future selves at a worse rate. This doesn't lift people out of poverty, if anything it traps them in it.

3. "As of June, 1.6% of Huabei's outstanding loans were more than 30 days past due, while 1.2% were more than 90 days overdue, according to a document for bond investors.". That's 1% overdue every month! They compare this to credit cards, but it's a false equivalency. People getting credit card loans a) typically plan to get something that will hold value and b) there are fewer of these loans approved.

And lastly:

""Only at the end of each month did I realize how much I've spent," Ms. Zhang said, adding she made many impulsive purchases on clothes and cosmetics because the credit was available to her. She said she has never been late with her repayments."

Therein is the major problem, people purchasing non-essential items without care because the money is readily available. If only she had waited just a single month she could have saved money, even whilst purchasing the same items.

Micro-loans could be mostly considered as a poor-people tax. A communist backed newspaper should know better.
So you promote furthering social inequality? Also donations from rich guys to their schools creates so many bad incentives even if you don't consider the direct effects. It means that rich kids will be valued more since they are tied to donations, it means that schools will seek out people who might become rich in the fuuture etc.
Oh man, that video reminded me of Metal Storm[1], something I hadn't paid attention to since 2008.

The idea seemed so cool to the college grad in me. Clearly there are problems with ammunition handling in actual battle situations and/or long term storage that probably made this a non-viable war machine similar to the G11.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm
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In Australia electricity and gas both have a certain amount at a lower rate, with amoumts exceeding that going at a higher rate, also different on/off peak.

I suppose having a particularly steep increase over an amount only cryptominers will hit would be good.
Awesome! Just awesome.

One of the first "discoveries" I made is how much bigger the distances to the outer planets are and how much their spacing geometrically increases. That's never been obvious to me before.

Thank you.
> US also has "programs" and generally spends more on preventative medicine.

These programs are often implemented by insurers with already healthy populations, such as large corporations. Hardly the populations that medicare supports. It's not surprising that Microsoft has good support for smoking cessation (and spends lots of $$$), but a mother of two working multiple jobs has no such access or funding.

> Further, actual medical evidence suggests medicine doesn't have good treatments for obesity

Depends on how you define "medicine". Are societal programs like healthy school lunches and subsidized healthy meals part of public health plans? Europe would agree, the US would disagree. Part of the issue is the US scope of interest isn't holistic.
Perhaps the use of "black art" rather than "technical challenge which only experts can tame" in the paper implies poetic intention on their own part?
Pixel Art of Playstation 1 Era
Unless you need the loan to generate income. Then you cannot first save (or it would take much longer)

Take the example of needing $ 100 to setup a small restaurant. You probably need tables, kitchen equipment and some ingredients. After you have those you can start selling food and over some time pay back the loan. Once the loan is paid back you have more profit leftover for yourself. So you've become less poor and more able to provide for your own future.
So? I don't understand how that's material to my point.
Gcs egress is 0.12 per GB, so 3GB per user?
I've been happy with influxdb, but I've also noticed that a lot of people switch to a time series database way before they need to. You can go pretty far with postgres/oracle/sql server, and it has the advantage you don't need to manage different databases.
That is a fantastic visualization to get a feeling of the scales involved.

It reminds me a lot of the "planet trail" next to Zurich, Switzerland, a trail with scale models of the sun and the planets [1]. The sun is about 1m in diameter. The earth is about 1cm in diameter, 100 or 200m away. Pluto is more than 3km down the path. Walking down that trail was the first time I realized how empty the solar system really is, and how far the giant planets really are. I highly recommend it to anyone having the opportunity, particularly with children. It gives you the same feeling of emptiness, with views of the Alps.

[1] https://www.zuerich.com/en/visit/sport/planet-trail
A good solid book printed on good paper is a joy, a gem.
Netflix “what’s something you can say during sex” tweet blows up
> Secondly, the best way to build something good is to have more data. This involves tracking people. I think most people have two opposing options: tracking people sucks, and making product decisions in a vacuum is wrong. It's a tough balance.

I disagree. In the past decade companies have been collecting more data than ever and software actually became a lot worse than what we used to have. Now it’s all about catering to idiots (the lowest common denominator) and wasting user’s time.
I think he hasn’t sufficiently explained the curvature in this graph:

https://i2.wp.com/randomcriticalanalysis.com/wp-content/uplo...

Drawing that curved line is crucial for making the US appear to be on-trend. If you simply use a linear correlation — which seems more reasonable from first principles — you reproduce the US as an outlier, albeit with a slightly smaller z-score. We do see a good fit on the log-log plot (but anything fits a log-log plot) but there remains at least the open question of why the proportion of healthcare expenditures should increase with absolute household disposable income. Even if this is a global trend, it is still clearly not a sustainable one.
I love stuff like this. It's fun and educational. The code and linker script look very clean. Nice project!
Repeating things doesn’t make them true. People aren’t asking for the government to do everything, they’re asking for affordable healthcare and education
It’s worked once but then it’d randomly stop. Dealt with trying to get it to keep working on and off for a long time before giving up. Maybe something has changed in the past few years, but out of curiosity, I went and did some searching to see if any others had this same problem. Turns out that the answer is yes.

Unless I get a reply from a reddit dev who can guarantee that it works on my phone, I’m just gonna stick with “it doesn’t work.”
> I wonder what can be done about this.

You can do something about this: support Proof of Stake crypto-currencies and denounce Proof of Work ones.
Same, unless it's about eroding rights for women's reproductive health
Speaking of pixel measurement of the moon: According to CSS, the moon is 24.3 pixels wide [1], due to the fact that pixels are display-density-independent.

[1]: http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx
Devolving to personal attack is worse. Someone else posting misinformation is no excuse. If you have better information, you are responsible for presenting it in a way that doesn't take the discussion deeper into hell. Failing that responsibility discredits the truth, which makes things worse all around.

If you see a comment that you think we should have moderated but we didn't, the likeliest explanation is that we just didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here.
Thanks, I've thought about teaching too.
2017

>Mod Note (Andy): top 50 posts of 2017, this one ranks #1 (based on # of silver bananas)
Russia has oil, Ukraine doesn’t.
This issue is from 2014 with last activity in November of last year. It was just marked as stale 15 days ago by a repo bot.

Am I missing something as to why this was posted?
I’d argue the disaster was caused by front-end developers. “Let’s replace a perfectly functional website with megabytes of JavaScript browsers now have to parse & execute on every single page load.”
That would make a good sci-fi - an army of sociopaths that live until they’re 200 years old.
I've just recently redesigned my website and I really like it: https://lukaszkups.net/
A client side request to GitHub would require them to serve up a relevant CORS header, but I do think you're right about me misunderstanding where execution is taking place. I'm unfamiliar with Jupyter Notebooks, and assumed "downloading" meant "to the client". I, too, am now confused about why this is set up like it is. Probably some constraint of Jupyter Notebooks that I'm unaware of.
First, to Hell with whoever downvoted me, probably lawyers (not you, johannes). Second, I get there are occasionally complicating factors, BUT - licensing can't be difficult at most times, since the company often owns what the worker produces - for better or worse, it's simple that way. As for third party work, are you talking about library imports, or copy and paste? The logistics of solving those problems are either simple or really complex.
AST Builder – Building AST Nodes from Code
"Feels as effective as a repeating shotgun mounted on a car. "

Dunno, an AA-12 loaded with HE-12 explosive rounds mounted on a car or truck could be a very effective mid-range area of denial tool.
Or datalog.
A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM
I still own a copy of "Database Systems: The Complete Book" (by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman and Jennifer Widom). I highly recommend it. Those books with such deep knowledge are very rare these days.
I wonder why they don't use it to make synthetic gas.
Maybe because it’s been closed recently?
The options are not only GraphQL vs REST. In a lot of cases, you can also render server side and push just plain html / components to the client instead.
You can refer to this article: https://blog.container-solutions.com/raft-explained-part-23-...