skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GA probably has the power to bring up such a charge, but they don't need to do it within this case. Then again, in practice they probably don't, if they are like the German General Staatsanwalt bound by orders and thus see no evidence for any wrong doing.
7k-year-old wall against sea level rise uncovered on Carmel Coast
The S&P 500 just tracks the largest 500 publicly traded companies. So no, it's not difficult to approximate.
And what? They all want and need smartphones, and they'll get them somehow, even if they're Chinese knock-offs.
Okay, as someone who's run quite a few forums in the past and has written more than a few articles about community management, my experience here is that successful forums tend to have a few things in common:

1. A topic that hasn't been tapped into that much, but which has an existing audience just waiting to get involved. This was the case with Wario Forums, which had no competition whatsoever when it launched, and was started pretty much because myself and a few others in the fandom wanted a forum about the series and were willing to help get one off the ground.

2. An awful lot of dedication to the field from its founder. It's a cliche now, but forums and communities in general are usually not built in a day/week/month. So the founder needs to be super dedicated to the subject area, and willing to put in potentially weeks of unpaid work getting the site off the ground.

3. Unique and interesting content about the topic. Again, this was pretty easy for me on Wario Forums, the people I invited had experience translating games from Japanese, creating remixes of the music, making mods and level editors, etc, and I had a lot of knowledge of the series and what kinds of discussions would be interesting to a fan.

But yeah, this is where the whole 'passion' aspect comes in again. If you're not absolutely fanatical about the subject and don't possess a lot of knowledge about it, you'll struggle to create anything interesting enough to get people to join/take notice.

Seriously though, I'd recommend you check out some of the articles about this topic on sites like The Admin Zone, Feverbee and Managing Communities if you need some more in depth advice on the subject:

https://theadminzone.com/ams/

https://www.feverbee.com/richs-blog/

http://www.managingcommunities.com/
At the risk of making myself seem untrainable, this doesn’t work for me. I can have a habit and break it by accident, but I always manage to say physically fit.
This “motivation is mostly bunk” is about the worst advice you could give some like me. The main reason I stay fit is philosophical, or at least a remnant of my philosophy studies. Often the words of Socrates burn in my head; always a source of motivation.
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
I got a '56 Farmall 230. Not a big tractor, but it can do anything I need for myself, primarily used to feed my two cows which I grow for meat, but also for hauling wood out of the woods for heating my house. Very little maintenance really needed. Just two months ago I even got fancy and installed an electric starter! A fine addition when you need to plow the driveway in the winter and don't feel like doing a full body workout just to get the thing started.
You are making a shallow, angry, generic, and therefore boring low-threshold indignation against the commenters.
I must not have put this clearly, because I've gotten piled on by 50 comments, but: there is nothing wrong with trying to find a deterministic explanation for QM. Lots of people are working on that. Superdeterministism is very very very very very different!
In Xi Jinping’s China, a top university can no longer promise freedom of thought
The "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect" being the banal fact that reporters are sometimes wrong about things?

Sometimes?

I've yet to read a feature article written by a reporter on a subject that I know well which didn't have multiple mistakes.

Have you tried leaving a comment on the Talk page of the article saying that you're Jennifer Tilly's sister, linking to something about you (you're obviously bona fide), and asking for a correction? WP has special reliability rules (WP:BLP) for "Biographies Of Living Persons".

Actually I am one of the brothers that Wikipedia does not know about.

Back in the 2007-2008 period I decided to make some obvious corrections. They got rejected. I left some comments in talk. A couple of my comments are still there on Jennifer's talk page.

If you want to try to fix the page, you could use http://www.officialmegtilly.com/blog/megs_made_up_muffins/ and http://www.officialmegtilly.com/blog/hell_in_a_hand_basket/ as evidence that Meg has at least one brother that Wikipedia doesn't know about. Good luck getting it changed.

As for CMT, you tell me. It is a civil engineering company that has existed for decades and has a significant presence in multiple states. But there isn't much about them online other than the company website. Which, by definition, is not considered reliable.
2029?

Nah. It will happen long before that. Arithmetically, China will surpass US by about 2025. It will be too late for the US to try to prevent that, if it waits until 2025. The US must act much sooner than that to ensure success in preventing China from becoming 'Top Dog'.

That is why I estimated several years ago that the US would have to start the 'Thucydides China-KnockDown War' by Spring-Summer 2020 at the latest. I haven't seen or read much recently to suggest that my original 'Spring-Summer 2020' estimate is very wrong.
Once again, the "superdeterminism" promoted here is a very very very very very different thing from either ordinary determinism or ordinary probability. You're like the 50th person to reply to me in exactly this way.
That depends a lot on the Zen school and the texts you were reading. Zen is based on direct experience. That being said, in some schools, such as Renzai, koans are used as a tool. However, most sangas you attend, especially in the west, will focus more on the direct experience of meditation to start, which is more or less the same sort of thing one is taught by most mindfulness / MBSR / MBCT regimens.

Bear in mind that Zen is a form of Buddhism, and as such, has religious and philosophical depth. That being said, as with many such traditions, the point is for a practitioner to directly experience the religious revelations if the practitioner is drawn to the religion. Most sanghas are perfectly happy to teach a secular lay practitioner how to meditate if he/she is open, honest, and respectful regarding intentions. In that case, you won't be given koans (assuming the school of Zen you are visiting uses them) or dharma talks. You'll be taught how to meditate. Just like with mindfulness training, that starts with the counting and experience of the breaths.
Why not. There are no sides here. There are different moats.
If you want a more elaborate view:

http://reactionwheel.net/2019/09/a-taxonomy-of-moats.html
Did previous generations not go out to eat? Or did they save money by going to Applebee's and Red Lobster over smaller, local options?
Pharma companies explain a relatively small amount of excess spending in the U.S. We can even change nothing about how we pay for drugs and still reduce a majority of the $1.2-1.7 trillion in healthcare waste (though we should still try, and let drug companies increase prices elsewhere). I discuss this a bit more below, ctrl+f monopoly
I had a 2 hour coding project in a language I'm familiar with - entirely based around a sub module that I've never used before.

Maybe 2 hours should have been enough? I don't know - with the stress of writing under time pressure ( I had a new sympathy for contestants in cooking shows ) and complete unfamiliarity with the module, I was pretty impressed that I submitted something that passed the unit tests.

Then I got rejected with the implication that I wasn't using good OOP principles. OK, my decision to store JSON data as a byte array was unorthodox - but it worked without a lot of coding overhead. I thought it was pretty clever frankly.
PinePhone review
I literally have an SSID on my Ubiquiti WAP with that as the name.
No, not at all. That is a simple consequence of ordinary probability theory that is used in almost all interpretations of quantum mechanics. As I said, superdeterminism is much much much more radical.

Here is a more appropriate analogy. Suppose I'm playing a shell game with you and you have to guess where the prize is. You guess the wrong position a million times in a row. Something analogous to this happens when we try to test quantum mechanics. Other interpretations of quantum mechanics explain this by saying, e.g. that the prize doesn't have a definite position to begin with, so the act of checking where it is can't be interpreted as just revealing a preexisting fact. The superdeterministic explanation is: "well, there's nothing to explain. You were simply determined to lose by the initial conditions of the universe. It couldn't have gone any other way."
It's not that Google didn't tell me I had an alternative (I knew about the patching process), it's that they ignored my email asking for further info entirely. I wanted clarification on what it means to be a maintainer of an open source project, to then join Google, and to be rejected for IARC.

There was no place for me to list prior projects I had worked on before joining Google. I've heard about this from one other person. It must vary depending on where you joined Google, because I never heard about any such process through my contract/onboarding in Ireland. All I had was the IARC and patching documentation. I was told to go through IARC for existing projects.

In fact, most of my OSS contributions are to random projects. I only listed the PA one because it was the one that got me in trouble, and the two kernel ones because you'd be familiar with that area (in fact those two didn't even happen during my employment with Google). My OSS contributions are completely random. It's rare that I contribute to the same project more than once or twice, with a few exceptions, outside of personal projects and a few things I may be more invested in, or stuff so fundamental and large like the kernel where over the years I end up finding reasons to send a patch multiple times (and even then to completely unrelated subsystems).

What ends up happening 99% of the time is that I use some open source software as a user, I find a bug, I fix it and send a patch. Chances are small I'll ever contribute to that project again. I just happen to enjoy making small contributions. Often those contributions involve high effort but small amounts of code - both inside and outside of Google, I'm somewhat notorious for figuring out issues that nobody else can, even if the resulting patch is one line of code. I've fixed a problem in the Golang runtime that was breaking Google prod even after leaving Google; that bug had been open for half a year. I've fixed an Inkscape bug that was open for many years. This is what I do - little things in random projects that may not be much code, but I'm sure are very appreciated by people affected by the bugs.

And so, with this kind of development, the old process of "get an approval for every project" was completely unsustainable. I work in bursts. I'll spend an evening finding and fixing a bug that has eluded the project developers for months, then I'll move on to the next thing. The last thing I need is to have to go through a multi day approval request after that to be able to send the patch. It completely kills any motivation to do this kind of stuff. And so this is how you wind up with Googlers ceasing to contribute to open source when they join Google.
Accelerated Language Learning on Whirlpool
A facinating review. Having never read the book/poem, I now want to. Though I suspect I will come to a differnt interpretation than the reviewer, it was interesting to read his take on it.

> I don't think that the version created by Milton, blind and ageing, out of political favour, dictating it day by day to his daughter, will ever be surpassed.

He is clearly in awe of this work, but I don't like it when reviewers make remarks not previously commented on at the very end of their review. "Our of political favour". Perhaps to others it is obvious what he means by this? But he doesn't discuss it at all in the review, and it seems almost like a subtle jab left right till the end. Is it simply because it is a religious work? Or is the idea of sin politically incorrect now? It seems like a rather silly remark to make by somebody that is clearly so well read and open minded about literature.
And slavery in prison continues to this day because of a neat little exemption in that 13th amendment.
I don't know if this really answers your question, but seems to be relevant:

> The particle pollution analysed in the study is produced by burning fossil fuels in vehicles, homes and industry.
How is anything before Catalina better?
HomeKit isn't that closed. You can basically add anything to HomeKit yourself as a hobbyist. The only restriction is on commercial sales of products. There's dozens of HomeBridge plugins that act as a glue for non HomeKit devices.
I’d been wondering when they would finally shut the doors in the US. I’d used the product quite a lot in Europe - worked especially well in Berlin. Was very difficult to use in the cities here in the US, and I found the UX to be consistently so bad I often gave up.

All the key folks are based in Berlin.

Seems very naive to think you can launch a mobile app based logistics business, dependent on UX fussy millennials, while managing a fleet of high maintenance automobiles, consistent and scaleable cloud infrastructure, that needs to grow geographically in cities across NA, AND fight and broker deals with municipalities along the way....

From San Francisco? Maybe.
From Berlin? Hardly.
With a European corporation supervising... Better off lighting the cash on fire.
> And because a UI for revoking access to individual files would be a complete nightmare, there's no UI pathway either...

Citation needed. It is just a list. I don't see the "nightmare".
From the perspective of a >200 people company, gmail/gapps starts to become a discount email provider.
Like it or not, as the Org growths considerations about legal liability of providers, SLA enforcement etc become a topic
This algorithm strikes me as seemingly having something in common with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure.

As such, I wonder if you could restate Hindley-Milner type inference in terms of solving "perfect" mazes?
I suppose you seriously underestimate the harm it causes, and its scale. Hint: chasing "user engagement" boosts extremism and violence.
I can’t verify it, but I’ve heard it repeated plenty of times that AWS has never raised the price of an offering.
Dang is the moderator of hacker news.
Is this problematic?
It completely depends on the manual. If this is the first time I have ever seen it, and it's about something I have never used, it very well might take me a while to figure out how to look up information quickly and effectively.

Does the manual having working code examples? Then is it probably a good manual. If it does not have working examples that you can copy & paste (and they actually work), then it probably is terrible.
How do I know if my comment is lame before you tell me what to think?
Amazon relaxes return policy for holidays
I read the draft.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but it's obvious advertising and has no place on Wikipedia. Maybe a Medium post would be more appropriate.

Wikipedia already has a problem with bad software articles like this.
> I've done a lot of these tests and interview projects, passed plenty, didn't pass a few, didn't bother finishing a few, but - weirdly - every place I've been hired didn't use them in the first place.

Similar here. Strangely, the places that don't do them pay about the same as the ones who do (in the same market—not talking FAANG versus Bob's Printer Service & PC Repair in Madison, WI).

After my latest search my new policy for future searches (at least until the downturn or it otherwise stops being super easy to find jobs) is at least not to do any kind of project or evaluation before a real interview, that is, without a real person from the company taking the same time I am, at the same time. The kind where they send you to some "coding challenge" website or give you some "take-home" project before even talking to you. If they're asking me to burn a bunch of my time to save some of theirs, it means I'm too far down the slush pile and/or they're too bad at interviewing for it to be worth my time.
Is MVC a good thing?
No, climate will change regardless.
What's a reasonable strategy of proving a statement like that is undecidable in ZFC?

I think it must use some tools I'm unfamiliar with.
Interesting that he needs to pass judgement on a site where users can vote on comments.
The number of code repositories I've seen where the database layer was (leakily) abstracted away "in case we ever need to migrate" is WAY greater than the number of code bases where there was actually a need to migrate.

Yet they all still introduced the headaches of having to update the abstraction layer whenever you wanted to make schema changes
I know that feeling. It never lasts long.
The deaths caused by the THC oil are definitely nothing to scoff at, but they are more reflective of cannabis' 70+ years as a black market product than they are of the effects cannabis has on the human body. The CDC has determined that a high concentration of Vitamin E was the likely cause of lung failure for the afflicted [1].

In my opinion, this reinforces how important regulatory bodies are when it comes to things that we put into our bodies. If we choose to continuously gravitate towards giving citizens greater bodily autonomy, it is extremely important that we ensure people know what's going into their body and the risks associated with it.
Yeah but it is great equipment to have in a garage ready to go all around the country. So much shit is thrown away because you need some new little piece machined or repaired that you can't buy. It's not worth it to a machining business, but to some individual at home with a waiting machine and time on their hands? They could make a good deal making simple replacements pieces or parts for things.
Zen and Vipassana are the two major Buddhist practices which had revivals in the 20th century and gained popularity in the west.

Vipassana was originally popularized amongst westerners by S. N. Goenka[1] who was a Hindi expat in Burma, where he learned the practice. Many of his western students went on to be prominent teachers[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._N._Goenka
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Students_of_S._N._Goe...
They are abandoning it outright. I'm not sure what good open sourcing a failed browser renderer would accomplish. Between Gecko, Webkit, Blink, KHTML, and others, there are already plenty of FOSS options out there.
You can always apply to triplebytes and get exactly such position :)

<disclaimer: my affiliation with triplebytes is that they've rejected my application twice - possibly cementing parent suggestion that I'm underqualified to interview developers>
It's enabled by copy and pasting because the pasteboard carries capabilities.

I agree it's a bug that these cannot be removed, but it's not user hostile. You wouldn't say Linux is "extremely user hostile" because it allows Terminal to access ~/Downloads without prompting.

This is an extra layer, it alone does not give the app access. Apps which retain this permission are still governed by sandboxing and filesystem permissions, just like on Linux and Windows and Mojave.
Not so. I don't present it as evidence, but I present it as a startling lack of evidence.

Take the other news story in the news today, about someone at Google who made a notification about something to do with labor organizing I guess. I read the blog post and the news article, and I'm just not convinced by the union-busting argument.

I keep seeing things like "X behavior is like posting a flyer on a public bulletin board". So where are the articles talking about people getting fired for actually putting up flyers on a public bulletin board? That's the thing I don't understand. There is a startling lack of unionizing going on in these supposed cases of union busting.

To bring it back to this article, do I think the ruling is bad? Yeah I do. I disagree with the ruling a lot. Maybe there should be some kind of organization where workers could fight against that sort of thing... Hmmm...
Your question was answered in the comment underneath it -- the answer is taken from the article in the discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21709446

Basically: selection criterion was, any published model that had the inputs ("forcings") and outputs (temperature) needed.

Then, incredibly, the paper author chimed in with this offer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21709010

And you couldn't respond constructively. If he didn't include a model, point it out.

Instead, you've come to another thread complaining that you had concerns and "wasn't able to find anyone who would seriously and objectively address them".
No, you’re just upset they didn’t vote for your preferred party.
Don't know, never followed up on it.
When was the last time you saw an advertisement for Google search.

I'm serious, they advertise for other people, but nobody advertises for you to use Google.

Who exactly is Google paying for preferential treatment regarding search? Microsoft's default browser uses Bing, Apple's uses Yahoo. Android? Android is made by Google, and most phone manufacturers still swap out the default browser for something using Yahoo.

Google spends virtually no money on user acquisition. Everybody uses them because they have a track record of being trust worthy with email and providing the best search results and tools like maps and even free tools for finding the best flights all for free.

Also, an anti-trust lawsuit would require that they charge their users. Having 90% of a market that doesn't charge its users doesn't make them an oligopoly, it makes them a non-profit.
Open sourcing huge code bases is not straightforward. Some of the code could be licensed from other parties who Microsoft needs to bring together and convince on the effort. The code needs audit for any potential legal risks. It's not like "hey I'm just gonna put it on GitHub". It's a tremendous investment.
Really disappointing to start seeing this after all the assurances that were made during the merger about strong support for open source.
That's fine until you need to distinguish between your/you're, to/too/two, their/they're/there, its/it's, and similar problems. Maybe people think it doesn't matter, or that it won't matter, but it always disrupts my flow when I see errors like that.

Clear, effective communication is best when there are no, or at least very few, grammatical errors to distract the reader, and in the cases given above, and more, spell-checkers don't help.
They clearly haven't since they didn't even bother asking their users.
Such a contrast to an article two days ago about woes of online returns: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-16/how-to-re...
The Music Of Miles Davis by Lex Giel http://amzn.eu/157pL3z
Ear opener and enough theory to understand the compositions and solos of the master. Pleasant to read and whatever your level, if you reached the end, you have dug deeper into music theory.
There's a name for the bias where something seems obvious once you've been told about it, but I can't remember what it's called (I don't think it's hindsight bias...)
Thanks for that.

I was thinking about trying their browser.

That press release is insane. Sharing "approximate location"?