skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a (human-enforced) HN rule to do that for old articles, so they're not mistaken for news. I'm not sure what the standard for "old" is, but it isn't 2019 anymore, so I guess it's technically correct.
I have mine set to be a mostly blank page with a clock.
SuperEvilNew tab is another chrome extension that lets you place arbitrary HTML on the new tab page, and in your case you could you define an empty page with some background color.
Locks, Mutexes, and Semaphores: Types of Synchronization Objects (2014)
The main advantage of a blackbox ML solution is shorter development time to a useful performance level. Creating a transparent, explainable solution typically takes more time, more work, and a higher level of expertise to get to the same performance level. If the problem is complicated and the cost of a mistake is low, then your best approach today is likely to be blackbox. If the cost of a mistake is high, you should not even be considering a blackbox approach (at least not without transparent safeguards). There is a large gray area between these two extremes that requires good engineering judgement to choose well.

I think we definitely need more R&D dedicated to creating easier-to-use, lower-cost approaches to transparent, explainable ML. There is way too much effort devoted to blackbox R&D today. Ultimately, transparent, explainable ML should almost always beat blackbox ML due to a better ability to find and resolve hidden problems, such as dataset biases, that may be holding back performance.
San Francisco is repeatedly called out as the prime example in The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein -- an absolutely fascinating (and depressing) look at statutory racism in the 2nd half of the 20th century -- specifically because it has a reputation for being "progressive". It was pervasive across the country until well into the 80s.

I assume you've read it since he focuses on the narrative of a black man working in the shipyards; but for anyone interested in reading further on the subject, I highly recommend it.
There are some local success stories here and there for sure. But global co2 emissions are still rising. Not declining, not even flattening, rising! According to the latest UN emissions gap report we need to reduce global emissions by 7.6% every year starting now to meet Paris agreement. Last year global emissions increased, again. Reduction trend is nowhere in sight yet. I have no idea where hope and optimism come from.
Timeline of Events Leading to Soleimani Killing
"boy, people who aren't me sure are stupid!"

Finally someone on the internet comes through!
This would be a portable C (i.e. non x86-64, but still Linux) with just 2 syscalls:

$ cat a.c
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

void _start(void) {
syscall(__NR_write, 1, "Hello world!\n", 13);
syscall(__NR_exit_group, 1);
}

$ gcc -nostartfiles a.c -o a -static
$ ls -l a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 9584 jan 5 00:07 a
$ strip -s a; ls -l a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 9000 jan 5 00:10 a
$ strace ./a
execve("./a", ["./a"], 0x7ffd4d4f8250 /* 67 vars */) = 0
write(1, "Hello world!\n", 13) = 13
exit_group(1) = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++

I'm not actually sure why syscall() is inlined and glibc code is not included here while compiling with -static, but well, it works. Maybe it's because syscall() is a macro, or maybe it's some kind of ld code minimization (removing unused/unreachable code) trick which seems to be common in modern static linkers (ld, gold, lld).
In a contrast my country went from 15% wind 30% nuclear 10% water 45% coal to 70% coal 10% nuclear/wind/water.

There are ZERO indicators showing that we will meet any climate saving goals.
1. You can basically buy a passport there

2. Peter Thiel bought there and sold NZ to all of his rich friends which started a snowball effect

3. “New Zealand is an enemy of no one,” Lynch said in an interview from his office in Murchison, Texas, southeast of Dallas. “It’s not a nuclear target. It’s not a target for war. It’s a place where people seek refuge.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doo...
I just checked and we've got roughly half of the number you came up with (~11B). We store logs for 30 days instead of 7 which does increase the price.

Also it's worth noting that not all of the logs are necessarily our application logs but could also be audit logs of third party services we use (Okta, GSuite, AWS, etc.) to detect anomalies or potential breach attempts. We have a pretty comprehensive alerting pipeline based on our logs so we're unfortunately unable to pay that much for logging. I understand that this doesn't apply to everyone but we're able to run a self-hosted logging pipeline for a fraction of that cost without a dedicated team running it (the Infrastructure team, the team I'm on, currently maintains this pipeline along our other responsibilities).
Not when you’re serving American customers for their rent and you say that rent is due 2/1/2020.

This happened to me and I was very, very confused and in a bad way.

When it’s 1/2, next month, I might think I’m a month late!
Yeah doesn't seem like a well conceived plan if there really is a consensus amongst the super rich to isolate themselves all together on one relatively small island. First of all globally there are a hell of a lot of super rich people. Secondly I'm not sure you'd want your neighbors to all be other aggresssively well resourced people in a world of survivorship. Third, if the masses blamed the super rich for the catastrophes of the world we'd know where to find them.
Fair point.

I'm calling for a different group of people to sit and think. People with a bit of abstract math, systemic and various fields (food, geology, ecology, logistics) to assemble, and reflect on how to migrate people lifestyle gradually.

Spreading small degrowth groups around, creating nature cattering associations, educators to turn people from consumers to actors of their neighborhoods with pleasure and care.

I'm highly convinced it doesn't require much to tip off a whole population in our case. Because the system is already sick to me. People just need a smooth path out and the benefits are not far (better diet, more physical exercises, less loneliness, less stress, less toxic competition, more control over their life).
Two notes on Go. Since Drew is stripping the binaries for many other languages, he should also do it for Go:

go build -ldflags '-s -w' -o test test.go

Also, since he's complaining about the difficulty of obtaining a static build in Go: There's an issue for that. (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26492) Drew definitely knows, he left an incredibly unhelpful comment there yesterday.
If it were not for the astounding coincidence of it being a munitions factory, it looks to me like we would be assuming an impact. But, given the absence of any smoking gun (e.g. impact crater), and the abundance of gunpowder on the site, I'm not surprised that there is debate.
Oooooh I’m walking out of this one. Never mind we have a Supreme Court justice and a President who are/were black.
I don't understand why the response to the alarm was to send a guard to check it first, instead of sending the local fire department to check it. Supposing there was a fire and the guard discovered it, he'd have to call the fire department anyway. Wouldn't it be better to call the fire department automatically for every alarm so they can save a few minutes getting there?

I know false alarms are a thing, but I've been in buildings with false fire alarms before and the firefighters still showed up to check it out.
The Word of Manfred (Fiction)
Please find some time to write it. It would be a great resource for self hosting.
I also assume that the mechanical setup wouldn’t be sufficient as it was designed to move on the scale of a whole day, not tracking flying objects
> the writer undermines themself with the inclusion of misleading statistics like this one

This author does this a lot. I just couldn't keep up with all the inaccuracies and mischaracterizations, so I stopped reading near the bottom. This article is an example of modern top-notch fear mongering.

As much as I loved The Newsroom, that Toby clip is one example of a failure in their writing. Where 1 death by climate change somehow translates into everyone on earth dying. Spoiler: Everyone does at some point. SMH
The PS3 thing is a contrived example or this really was happening?
I've seen some people get killed after leaving their homes. Better stay inside all the time.
Sorta similar situation happened a few years back in Wichita Kansas. A 747 Dreamlifter (what Boeing uses to fly 787 fuselages) landed at Jabara airport (corporate jet airport) instead of the Air Force base 9 miles south of it. The videos online don’t give it justice, but from folks I know there, it was a frightful takeoff.
Hikers find skeleton of Japanese American who left internment camp
"How could you possibly imply that us engineers blame MBAs for everything? Here is me following this question by saying that MBAs ALWAYS choose profit over doing the right thing and that all other teams do not so therefore we should criticize MBAs and engineers are above criticism.

Do you think you'd understand my point if you had self awareness?
You'd need a standardized font rendering engine to defeat fingerprinting via canvas.
I do not think x86 atomics are implemented as LL/SC internally. As a minimum they always guarantee forward progress: as soon the cacheline is acquired in exclusive mode (and the coherency protocol gurantees it happens in finite time), the load-op-write always happens and cannot be interrupted.

Also as far as I'm aware, at least on intel all atomic operations take pretty much exactly the same number of clock cyles (except for CAS and DCAS which are ~10% and 50% more expensive, IIRC)
That is so mistaken I’m not sure where to start. I agree there should be accountability, but to say it should be commensurate with compensation is absurd. What happens around here is the engineers are never to blame and it’s always management. Even when it’s specifically an engineering problem it’s the managers’ fault for not preventing the engineers from making a mistake.
Also read "read the fine manual"
Mobidoctor – Always at Hand
Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). So in Perl `say "same" if .1 + .2 == .3` will not say anything, as that condition is not true. In Raku, `say "same" if .1 + .2 == .3` will display "same".
Say you're building a self-driving car. You need to take an image of what the car sees, and figure out whether/where there is a pedestrian/car/bicycle/etc in the image. So your input/variable is the image itself.

Almost every image the car sees is going to be different. I'd guess that's why GP said that it doesn't make sense to use a hashing function - there's little value in mapping inputs to results, because your input images are pretty much always going to be different. So pretty much every time you look up an image in your hashmap, you wouldn't find a match.

That's the point of ML models - find patterns in data so that when you see a new example, you can predict what you're seeing based on what you've seen in the past.
It depends on the reason for the preference. If it's status or racial inferiority based (with the potential, unpleasant addition of fetishism and white superiority complex from her partner's side), Asian women and their partners suffer. All that weirdness would make a healthy relationship difficult.

Asian women suffer from 3 main problems.

1. If other Asian women are desperate to white men because of racial inferiority, many white men will develop the idea that Asian women are desperate, think that they are superior for being white and treat Asian women poorly. Asian women would also have lower boundaries and would tolerate more misbehavior from white men that other women would not due to the inferiority.

2. People in general seek commonality in relationships. Some Asian women who are severely affected by an inferiority complex may sub-optimally choose unwoke partners that they have little in common with. The lower commonality and inferiority also bias Asian women's partners and the partners' friends and family toward being less accepting of diversity than the average interacial relationship. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAJAVHzBsAg

3. If she does have an racial inferiority complex, then chasing white men would confirm and strengthen her racial inferiority complex and cause additional suffering.

Having established that some forms of that type of relationship can be harmful, the question to answer then is: how prevalent are racial inferiority and status/acceptance seeking from the Asian women and fetishism and white superiority complex from the white men in these relationships?
Human cognition itself is a black box model. We routinely make snap decisions first and then justify them after the fact. Anything that requires serious consideration is darn near insurmountable for a human mind in the presence of incomplete information, emotions, and conflicting motivations.

So while I'd like neural nets to be more interpretable, to me it'd take a distant second place. The first would be to get models that actually work better than humans for practical tasks, even under limited circumstances.
I was like you. I spent my first 10 years after college reading essentially 0 books, instead filling my reading/idle time with news, podcasts, and other pursuits.

When I started my company, my co-founder was reading books at a heavy clip, and was suddenly coming in with great ideas to discuss, new perspectives on things, and a whole world of different opinions based on what he was reading.

I vowed to keep up with the awesome pace he was setting, got over my "audiobooks aren't real reading" stigma, and have since torn through over 100 books on 2x.

I have learned SO many amazing things about business, history, my own philosophy, and how to interact with other people through reading. Reading has enriched every possible portion of my life.

I typically read 3 business or self-enrichment books for every 1 fiction book I allow myself, and I find that's a great balance.
I'm talking about the backend for storing the messages/events in the outbox pattern.

That's how to persist in case of a network failure.

The outbox-pattern pattern removes the send message from it's datastore when send/acknowledged.

Persistency is different from the outbox-pattern, it handles what is does if the message broker received the message. The outbox pattern handles failure before the message reached the message broker.

NoSql and event stores normally have methods to adjust data to the latest version of the model, eg. Postgress ( which can be used as NoSql using bson) supports js v8 transformations. This is useful for edge-cases in the outbox pattern.

In short, I was more or less talking about the tech used. Rabbit vs Nats and sqllite vs NoSql ( in my case, using Postgress as NoSql).

Ps. Nats can be persistent as others mentioned in this thread, look up: nats streaming
Tangential: If anyone ever struggles to put theory to practice, this is a great example of the "Great Man Theory" promulgating itself.

It checks all of the boxes for the "Radical outlier who changes everything by dint of genius and hard work" while barely acknowledging the circumstances, environment, timing etc...

Gifted from birth

Non-traditional and "Troubled" socially

Ahead of peers and mentors

Focused and Driven

Overcame institutional/structural resistance

This is not meant to detract from Oppenheimer's immense contributions, to the contrary. I thought it was something worth keeping in mind as I read the article - especially considering that Oppenheimer himself would spread credit to others and attempt to dismiss the idea that the Manhattan Project was a "One man show."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
Even then I still had to remove the Firefox Home Content features, like Highlights, Top Sites, and a few others... maybe a clean & slick checkbox during setup could achieve this.
We are careful to use throwaway email addresses like randomusername@mailinator.com on our dev and staging servers so they still get delivered, but we can just forget about them.

Really interested to learn about the SES simulator address though (posted as a reply on this thread) - don't know how we missed that, and it would have really helped with early testing when we were developing the email queueing system on our app.
The Shadow Commander, Qassem Suleimani (2013)
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Yes, in practice you have to dedicate the whole machine for a specific application, but the one thread per isolated core is a proven one for high performance/low latency applications.
A little off topic, but also not:

I once worked at data science consultancy. They worked on a project that they ended up using random forest. But they also ran a simple single layer net to validate the results, scoring a similar accuracy (it was like 70%). They gave a presentation on a Friday to the company (it was a regular show and tell demo slot).

At the end, I asked them if they double checked whether the net weights corresponded to the random forest and almost everyone in the room just looked at me like I was an idiot.

I ended up causing a heated discussion in the pub later on because I’d actually done something similar for my masters thesis (it was for modelling XOR operations on binary inputs).

The company in question is notoriously short term focussed, so it shouldn’t really have been a surprise that they didn’t even try to think about it.

And that’s kind of the problem. Short term speculative projects don’t care about interpretability. A director at some clothing firm doesn’t care about the super nerdy maths, they like getting their numbers.

But, on the flip side, Explaining loss functions and backprop is also a no go for the directors. If you can’t help them understand an algorithm in 2 sentences then they often don’t buy it. So then explainability becomes a big thing (hence why random forest was implemented and not the net).
... and I thought about a similar thing (Email server using Lambdas) just yesterday ... ^^
Really? I think even many white people, and folks of other races besides, would feel quite awkward and embarassed at being considered "the only people worth dating", over and above the very ethnic background that these women know best! It's something that should strike everyone as strange and awkward, not just Asian males.
And in this case we can identity the multiples causes adding up to the catastrophe such as the complexity of the system, the lack of training of the operator, and their lack of sleep due to a long shift.

It's interesting because it fits perfectly well with the _How Complex Systems Fail_[1] article, often shared on HN. A timeless valuable lesson for engineering, and any human activity really.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sy...
I mean, if you think electing one black man president solves racism for all black people I don't know it's going to be a productive discussion anyway.
I lack proper terminology. I mean:

- individual initiative is not enough

- nation wide (or larger) is not happening (there are big efforts but there are also contradicting accounts of actual progress and even opposing forces like countries investing in coal even more)

the usual levers (parties) are not effective, how to combine individual efforts into groups (the middle layer) so that people can 1) have access to useful information 2) find solutions to problems (buying local food, consuming less, producing some stuff locally if it makes sense).

I have this view where small groups spread in enough numbers would divert all the yet passive people into followers so that quickly economics will be redirected into a sustainable low pollution model.
7) Posts lock after a couple weeks, so good luck with that one.
Which is the Reason Why I always use Letters for Month. Then there is no confusion.

It doesn't matter if you write 01 Jan 2020, or Jan 01 2020.
It is always clear. Although I argued the first is still clearer.

In the age of Internet we have American companies writing in all numbers and it is a heck of problem in communication when the rest of the world dont have it the same orders.
Hopefully this ends open Office spaces trend. I hope that there be a resurgence of private offices again. Cross discipline cross company cooperation sounds interesting.

I also tends to think that the move fast and break things builds technical debt. As such as there is a need for a cross between agile and a more planned approach.
The Carbon Dioxide We Dump into the Sky Is Just Another Kind of Garbage
This is exactly correct. There's a wonderful late-1990s documentary on the history of East Palo Alto called "Dreams of a City: Creating East Palo Alto" that describes how the community was formed and ultimately became an incorporated city. Here is a clip that describes the discriminatory housing policies in the Peninsula that led to East Palo Alto becoming predominately black:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RHppw20Zm8

The sad thing is that had the original African-American inhabitants of East Palo Alto been able to buy in Palo Alto instead, they or their descendants would be multi-millionaires today given the tremendous boom in Silicon Valley's housing prices starting in the 1970s. There was only a decade-or-so window between when racial covenants became unenforceable and when Palo Alto's housing prices started booming in the 1970s due to the growth of Silicon Valley where African-Americans could buy in Palo Alto at affordable prices.

Also sad is the story of San Francisco's Western Addition, just south of the Japantown mall. Many African-Americans from the South migrated to San Francisco during WWII for the war effort and also for the war-related job opportunities that were abound in the area. Due to racial covenants, the Western Addition was one of the few places where African-Americans could rent and buy; that area had a lot of vacancies due to the unfortunate internment of Japanese-Americans who populated the area before and after the war. When WWII ended, Japanese-Americans and African-Americans lived side-by-side in the Western Addition. However, in the late 1950s, San Francisco started a massive redevelopment project where many of the old Victorian homes in the area were torn down and were replaced with public housing projects. This is also the time that Geary was widened. Many Japanese-Americans and African-Americans lost their homes during this redevelopment project. These homes would be worth a minimum of a million dollars each today, potentially more, due to their proximity to Downtown and Market Street.
That was the theory, but I don't recall courts ever actually ruling on this.

There was also the RSA t-shirt. The originals are no longer being sold, unfortunately, but these days it's easy enough to do a custom design for your own made to order. My take: https://www.customink.com/ndx/?cid=jxu0-00bx-9p0k
The problem is not what you know you don’t know, but the things you don’t know that you don’t know.

The solution I have found to this problem is to discuss with other people or read books. Internet almost works as a echo-chamber some times.
Taking bets on the most likely path to worldwide civilization collapse, sans adequate action.

My bet is mass migration north in response to loss of tropical and subtropical agricultural production drives isolationism, putting fascists in power, who initiate wars leading to (limited?) use of nuclear weapons. Resulting chaos disrupts farming, food transport, trade, industrial supply, and climate disruption response, resulting in more chaos, more fascism, more war, and on down. Timeline 2030 unless CO2 is actually declining by then.

Reason: already started, action already inadequate.