skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search engines like Google and Bing are like a new pair of shoes, imho. You've got to give them a week or rwo of use before they really fit your use case. I used to use Searx, and DDG, and kept having to fall back on Google regularly.

I went to Bing, and had a similar issue. But after its personalization kicked in, I haven't had to go back to Google more than once or twice a month, and in general, I'm happier with my results when I compare the two.

YMMV, though. I trust Google less than I trust Microsoft for search, because the company and its employees seem to lack a "save the world" pathology which I keep getting hints of whenever someone pulls back the curtain on the company's culture. I can intuitively understand a corporate Megalith like MS's interest a lot more easily, so I'm more comfortable deciding whether or not I'm getting a good response from Bing.

But as a daily driver, unless you're really concerned about Google, I don't think there's any material advantage to making the switch.
As a biologist, it's pretty cool, although not quite as cool because it's the same life. Different life, evolved on different planets, would be cooler. It would use some of the same tools, like phosphates as signaling/energy molecules, because nothing else can do the job. But alien life could use different amino acids from the ones we use, or something different from amino acids instead. They would probably be linear polymers of related monomers though. The same goes for DNA: different base units probably, but still a linear polymer, and very possibly a helix (lots of things are helices).

But the problem with all these instances of life is that all but n of them have to get snuffed out before they've developed much further than we are, and so far as we know n has to be either 1 or 0.
>quality ads

I've seen this term for years but I still don't understand what it means. I don't want to see ads. There are no 'quality' ads. All ads are designed to sell me things period. I don't need anyone telling me about what I might want. I understand ads exist to make money and if they didn't we wouldn't have the internet etc. But there's no 'quality' to them, they're a necessary evil i've come to accept and adapt to over my life. I dislike them, I have no need for them, there'll never be a time I say 'well gee, sure am glad I seen that ad, it showed me just what I didn't know I needed.' Ads exist to sell crap to people, they're not good or bad, they just are. Some are invasive, some are reasonable, but they're all shit.
I can tell you that Instgram serves up ads for things I didn't know that I wanted that I end up buying.
I don't know about 'ever', I can believe there are people that interview terribly (because of nerves or whatever) but would be fine in the job.

You'd need to be really sure about the nature of the role though, or else find a stand-in who is similarly skilled (and not).
I don't think it is at all possible to use nginx to write application logic otherwise than serving static files and perhaps doing some URL transformations. node gives you a full programming language that's necessary for implementing an API.
Some Python devs seem to pull in Pandas whenever any math is required.

IMO Pandas documentation somehow manages to document every parameter of every method and somehow it’s almost as helpful as no documentation at all. Combined with the fact that it’s a huge package, I avoid it unless I really really need it.

A version with human-understandable docs could convince me otherwise
I have yet to see a course at any university, however, in which Haskell is used as the project language.

Given the language's inherent complexity (and tortured history) -- is the task of writing a Haskell compiler really suitable for the undergraduate curriculum?

That is, for "mere mortals". Not the kind who take tons and tons of graduate courses. In which case we'd be speaking of graduate-level courses.
> If you use them all, you can add more to your cup account.

We truly are living in the future here.

Just not the one we expected.
If you feel like trying something else than xclip, xsel allows you to easily remember the command with just `xsel -o` instead of that.

Also, if the JS way would use AJAX, it would take the exact same time to perform the requests via the browser, as it would with curl, unless there is some particular quirk with their server/setup/deployment/god, or if you have a computer that doesn't run Twitter (the client side application) so good (bottleneck in cpu/ram rather than network speed)
> This strongly suggests that non-work public transportation usage is much higher in European than in American cities even when the usage level for work trips is comparable.

Sounds about right. For work trips, the origin and destination are both predictable. I can carefully choose where to rent in order so that I would live conveniently close to a public transport stop. But for "fun" trips and anything else, there's a lot more spontaneity in the destination, often not served by public transport, so a car is still necessary.
Exactly. In some interfaces you'll be eventually switched back to "Home" automatically. You can tell this has happened because Twitter becomes less awesome. When I find myself thinking, "Why does Twitter suck today?" I scroll up and find that I'm back on "Home".
That right there is the number one thing that might stop me from REPORTING a bug.

I also am NOT going to sign up to become a full developer just to submit a patch. Don't make me signing some CLA or other thing. Take my clear note saying the patch is submitted as (your choice of) "Too obvious to copyright", Public Domain or CC0 or some other acceptable very permissive thing.
We use Mirage for a large scale ordering front-end built with Ember. It’s enabled almost zero flakiness when writing our acceptance tests; super excited to see the library get ported outside the Ember ecosystem!
Hollywood Bets on a Future of Quick Clips and Tiny Screens
> Most undergraduates take a compiler course in which they implement C, Java or Scheme.

Is that true? I thought those compiler courses typically implemented some toy language.

Maybe "in" is misplaced and the following was meant instead?

"Most undergraduates take a compiler course which they implement in C, Java or Scheme."
Actively calling for violence isn't the only way for a piece of media to cause social harm.
It’s the top of HN.
Jenkins has a Groovy DSL for several years. YAML support came much later.
BRT may have been your (and many others) approach to 'taught missionaries how to be Mormon missionaries), but it's not the only approach. ;)

I was taught about building a relationship because it is more than just an attempt to 'convert' someone—what things in life do you _not_ build a relationship of trust with others? You need to have empathy, understand them, to be able to help (if so desired), etc. I met with people who in the end, after understanding them and their situation, we simply helped out in other ways (more material) ones.

We weren't trying to sell things or increase numbers, but genuinely trying to help others. I had people who say they didn't care about the church, but because they trusted us, we helped them in other ways (finding work, overcoming alcohol addiction, etc).

Were there others who just wanted to convert/baptise a million people? Yup, but they're missing the point.
Well if you were Irish - who had been subjects of the deposed king - it's probably unlikely that "confused" would capture your feelings. Estimates vary widely among historians when it comes to proportion of the Irish population that perished during the Cromwellian conquest but the numbers range from 25% to 80%.
I switched to Bing last summer because Google was mostly showing me useless ads. Bing is years behind Google, but that's a good thing.
Not on my watch
1,000 bed hospital for Coronavirus patients being built in 6 days
Here I am wishing they had showed up at my school. Out of curiosity, what hardware did they give you?
Maybe when the scientific community will abandon the arrogance and piggy-backing mentality upon theories are built and upon which ideas are accepted into testing, we will actually get more results as a species.

Then again, history has shown that real work is done by the outliers, people who think outside of the norm of stupid masses.
Golden tea is full of anti-oxidants
I'd say its mostly just majority in-group dynamics that you'd find anywhere that a majority shared any characteristic. That combined with well intentioned missionary zeal will of course cause issues.

That said, the Salt Lake Valley is now under 50% LDS- the previous Mayor is Lesbian and its pretty progressive generally.
Looks cool. Always wanted to learn something about graphics. Shame there are no examples.
We use the "container" pattern for this via graphql (the container component handles all the data fetching and logic therein, the underlying component is usually attempted to be pure / functional / stateless. )
That's right. C being more limited, it has a more simplistic ABI. But the parent comment was replying the "need for a stable, standard ABI, which C provide". Which is misleading as both C++ and C have the same level of stability and standardisation of their ABI. (I.e: none of them is standardized, but both of them are stable on practice)
Phenomenal landing page. The first text I read is a ~10-word description of the value proposition. The next thing my eyes are drawn to is a visual demo. The first thing I can click is a link to use it myself. Plus, it's all visually very appealing without being distracting. Well done.
I don’t know. I’d like to think if the media were not distrusted then they’d be more credible as authorities in discrediting crackpot theories.

Unfortunately they wasted their credibility over the years and can’t be trusted to be reasonably unbiased and without agenda.
> I would argue that having the government individually operate each hospital and directly employ each doctor and nurse imposes a heavy administrative burden

That isn't what happens in the English NHS. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/audio-video/how-does-nhs-in-eng...

Current inefficiencies in the NHS are caused by lack of investment in buildings and in staff. The NHS has less management than similarly-sized commercial companies, and none of that management is The Government.
I am a retired engineer, so take it with a grain of salt:
They discuss about 50v/m levels, in the company that employed me(France) it was roughly one hundredth of that.
BTW I never understood why this kind of unit (V/M) was used, instead of power density, for example.

As far I know, 5G should be much less dangerous, than for example LW/MW radio emitters. If you inhabit close to one of those emitters, you see daily weird things, because they are considerably more powerful than any mobile cell tower, and lower frequencies penetrate much more deeply.
OMG this! We have this over engineered issue tracking system with incredibly detailed information fields. In my opinion it has failed spectacularly because most people avoid it with a vengeance, and those who try to use it gets older much faster then the rest of us.
Agree, it is quite hard to impose a new habit to people (you can check "The Power of Habit" book).
In some cases, it is better to see how people are doing things and adapt tools.
I'm working on the knowledge base app for slack. When we started building it, we thought that all users would interact with our bot using slack mention `@`; (primary interaction is asking bot a question); however, in reality, it did not work. But instead of spending time trying to produce more/better docs to force people to use `@`, we decided to adapt it to the way people ask questions now; they do it without mentions, so we did this https://onebar.io/learn/setup-a-slack-autoresponder
I would argue that a good chunk programming tools don't reduce complexity at all. Just shifts it to well understood "accidental" complexity.

Your program needs a way to store and retrieve key:value pairs. It's an inherent complexity your program requires. You solve it by using an industry standard product like Redis. Now your code doesn't contain any key:value logic itself! complexity avoided right? Nope just shifted and doubled or trippled in size to boot. No KV logic but now you have to have db libraries, parameter parsers and sanitizers, sockets between services, etc, etc, so on, and so forth.

It's well trod ground, your IDE will generate 90% of that type of code for you. you throw a library or template or whatever at it and go about your day.

Software isn't just your code. Now your application that needed K:V storage has the entire bug and exploit surface area of your code and Redis. Do this 20, 30, 100 times with other libraries and packages. Each time your code gets a little smaller, a little slicker looking and the actual running software is an unholy monster spread across an entire server cluster. Oh well, your code is clean and tidy.
Huh. We said the same thing a bit over a century ago.
There is a “hide” button made specifically for your situation.
> When there is a deficit, agencies cut there first, leading to frequency-ridership spirals in which lower frequency deters riders, justifying further cuts in service until little is left. I

This is one of the things that drives me nuts the most about American attitudes towards public transportation -- that they must make a significant portion of their revenue from fares/ridership.

If we think that large scale people moving is important to a healthy city, we should all be funding it, even if we're not all riding it. Everyone benefits when ridership is high -- businesses, other commuters, people who cannot afford cars, etc.

Why do we always seem give transportation (or public housing, etc.) a heavy initial investment then immediately start neglecting it but tightening the purse strings. We're just making our initial investments that much less valuable.
This site is actually misleading in my opinion; someone with no prior exposure might think postgresql users are obligated to spend their time in endless configuration push ups. That is definitely not the case. As the parent points out, developers rarely have to change more than a few things. Production means real loads and real loads drive administrators to configure and tune, but that's as true for MySQL/MariaDB as it is for Postgresql.

Over here[1] you can read about the 1163 snake cased MariaDB variables if you want... 231 of them are specific to innodb alone.

[1] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/server-system-variables/
How to See Voids
It May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. and Europe Wants Justice
Steve job spent quite a bit on font and Apple did. It made a difference.
News Sites Use Google Ads to Spam Seniors with Terrifying Medical Misinformation
> There was another tech that allowed you to get two turns (for each the enemy had).

Time Warp Facilitator. I installed it on each of my Doom Stars, along with a Stellar Converter that could vaporize pretty much any ship with one shot.

One of my favorite games of all time.
Actually they don't do that, and neither would I if I could run 50 mph, was huge, and preferred breathing air, but anyway: Importance (which is import, meaning) is mostly subjective. If there's such a thing as objective importance, attention is probably orthogonal to it. And to subjective importance too, at least at first, but then extended attention probably increases perceived/subjective importance just as protracted inattention decreases it.
The author's books on game programming are really solid if you're interested. (I own both.)

He's got a very clean way of presenting what's going on...
There's also these [0] two [1] on Norway's 2003 requirement for 40% of boards to be women and the 2018 California requirement, which both found that mandating gender diversity on boards had a negative impact on the companies. (This has very little to do with whether a 'naturally' acquired diverse board would be valuable, though)

0: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1364470

1: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3265783
SDL probably isn't performant enough for AAA titles.
“ Thereupon many statesmen and philosophers came to Alexander with their congratulations, and he expected that Diogenes of Sinope also, who was tarrying in Corinth, would do likewise. But since that philosopher took not the slightest notice of Alexander, and continued to enjoy his leisure in the suburb Craneion, Alexander went in person to see him; and he found him lying in the sun. Diogenes raised himself up a little when he saw so many people coming towards him, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. And when that monarch addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, "Yes," said Diogenes, "stand a little out of my sun."[7] It is said that Alexander was so struck by this, and admired so much the haughtiness and grandeur of the man who had nothing but scorn for him, that he said to his followers, who were laughing and jesting about the philosopher as they went away, "But truly, if I were not Alexander, I wish I were Diogenes." and Diogenes replied "If I wasn't Diogenes, I would be wishing to be Diogenes too.”
DirecTV rushes to dispose of satellite that might explode
They used quotes to take the place of + which used to be a prefix you could add for words that were required. We lost + to Google+.
I love when I come across sites like this, where someone is just so wholly knowledgeable and enthusiastic about something I would have dismissed as mundane.
I've played it recently and the waiting times between actions made it put it down. It's incredibly slow to do anything substantial. It could probably be fixed through a speed up button in an emulator, but I didn't go the trouble. As much as it seems like a solid strategy game, there are better modern alternatives. It was nice for the historical perspective though.
I wonder what this looks like for Chicago.
No 64-bit OS X DOSbox?
Idon't have a horse in this fight, but that's a logical fallacy. For the times the roads are snowy -find-another-method-.
I concede. If you have algorithm to do the `git merge` equivalent without human help, I guess no locking or STM is needed. Although that's very costly in implementation.

It's great to have git as a mental model in this discussion, really useful.
A pharmaceutical founder is sentenced to more than 5 years in bribery case
Both private bookstores and public libraries curate their offerings selectively. This isn't the Internet Archive, the equivalent to the Library of Congress or another institution that stores everything.
Your hope isn't compatible with "move fast and break things"
You're right. Wow. Just tried it. (yandex.com/images) This thread is really opening up the truth which is that Google is no longer the be all and end all of search.

This is a great feeling. Thanks for the Yandex tip.
Check out http://bivector.net, a new community on geometric algebra.

Check out the demo https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits

Join the discord

https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk
Just Ship It
ADHD is related to some dopamine dysfunctions which a decent proportion of people correct for with aggression[1] - I think predominantly men do this - since conflict will supply the reward response our brains should have given out for success. So a lot of confrontational people that have un-diagnosed ADHD will actually level out with medication.

1. Sort of a vast simplification, but basically hulking out and raging - maybe physically, maybe passive aggressively, maybe verbally - the form it takes varies wildly.
LinkedIn is full of this shit. Depending on what people one follows or has in contacts, it's just too esy to forget there's anything else but 'thought leaders', 'thinkers in cheaf', 'harmony executors', 'power multiplier' and so on. Our office is next to a managed kitchen,one of those that cook food for restaurants on Deliveroo or Uber Eats. It's a kitchen. If you'd look at the owner's LinkedIn profile, you could probably say he's the next Elon Musk. You have a few managed kitchens, that's it.You are not a visionary,come on,man.
Eventually others start copying.
Oh, it’s all just in their heads. In case of the pill, the very first study on it [1] claims that “side reactions” are “in large measure psychogenic” so “means for dealing with them may be devised”.

/s

Unfortunately it’s 2020 and I can imagine too well how seriously these women’s reports of “side reactions” were taken.

[1] Pincus, Garcia, Rock (1959): Effectiveness of an oral contraceptive.
Everyone can build it locally, but they'll be out sick if they do.
As an atheist who lives in Utah, I wish r/exmormon would calm down a bit. The echo chamber groupthink there is staggering.
As a ex-tableau user, the app looks good. Quite clean.

I missed a Big Query integration since I have no data on Google sheets to give it a try.

Probably AWS Redshift would be a great addition ;-)

Great job, btw!
But stable doesn't mean (for instance) treating your very treatable brain cancer after discharge. They will remove the tumor causing falling and doziness, but won't provide radiation / chemo follow-up until its terminal and you have to be inpatient.
Thanks for sharing. If you enjoyed this, you will probably also enjoy Models by Mark Manson. I’m only 1/3 of the way through, but the topic of focusing on your strengths rather than changing yourself is a theme throughout the book.
Your calculation does not make much sense (GWh isn't even a unit of power). One would have to look at actual power production and consumption curves in order to estimate the required storage capacity. Battery storage is still very exotic, pretty much the entire capacity is provided by hydro nowadays.

Current-gen solar panels average about 30 W/m² over the year in Japan's latitude and climate. So a solar park the size of the Fukushima exclusion zone would produce around 7 GW on average which is more than the combined nameplate capacity of the six reactors (5.3 GW). Supplying the entire country with electricity (~114 GW) would require about 3800 km² of solar panels, or about 1% of Japan's area.
It automatically reverts to home every few days (at least using the official Android app).
In my experience, the WWVB signal can be hard to get, especially inside of buildings. Its going to depend on where you live though. However, if you have Internet access then NTP is going to be very reliable. I'd go with NTP over WWVB for reliability.
Riven was among the last games in a category where I included its official strategy guide in the base cost of the game. I had a bad habit of reading the "novelization" part of the official strategy guides as a book in school before I could actually play the game. The only game I recall that this sort of spoiler "ruined" the experience was the original Myst when the problem solving part of my brain untangled the dependency map of the game and arrived at the "ten minute solution" speed run of the game, which was my first playthrough because I couldn't believe it would work.

(It's possibly something that helped my love of Myst itself long term for me, though, in that I really struggled with the tone puzzles in later playthroughs, and it was good knowing they didn't keep me from the end of the game. Relatedly, that a tone puzzle is the reason I recall having never yet finished Myst IV.)

The official strategy guide as a book that a kid could read in school, with a full first person retelling of the narrative, was such an interesting artifact of a past age. I believe I've kept a bunch in a box somewhere as interesting tokens.