skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. But we have prima facie evidence that advanced civilizations -- as advanced as we're about to be, in not very much longer -- are very rare.
It does not make sense to me either unless there are some unspoken assumptions. For example, if you give a copy to a cleaning service, you may want to give only the front door to require access visible from a camera or something like that.

I grew up in a house with nine exterior doors (not very large, just every room had an exterior door) and getting them keyed the same was a wonderful upgrade.
You missed out "create an account in the bug tracker".
I believe the question is that, if two threads take the same immutable vector, and both make a change to it independently, they'll end up with two new vectors (eg two branches in git); a vector that reflects thread1's change, and a second vector that reflects thread2's change. So now you have a conflict, which requires resolution; git has a human intervene.

eg

x = [1,2,3]

Thread1 -> x + [4] => [1,2,3,4]

Thread2 -> x + [5] => [1,2,3,5]

But you were expecting [1,2,3,4,5]

Reality was that you wanted an order to your events, normally enforced by locking, which the immutable vector doesn't seem to help you with; they were both able to update independently, but you actually wanted them to update dependently.

If you try to use immutable datastructures to avoid locking, then how is conflict resolution handled?

I think the answer would be that it doesn't help you avoid locking; either you lock & share a single reference to the latest version of your immutable vector, to enforce ordered events, or you define a resolution strategy separately. The immutability aspect just stops you from not having a resolution strategy -- which would always be incorrect

And if I understand correctly, the ideal scenario for immutable datastructures in concurrent scenarios is when you can define such a merge strategy (and safely give threads their own copy of the datastructure to muddle with, without actually having to copy the entire datastructure)
Can you load that dump using any open source tools outside of AWS and recreate the database identically? Because you can do that with mysqldump.
I'm having an issue where I'm trying to implement CAR-T but I keep melting my patients, has anyone run into this issue?

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out.
MSM takes the same stance any time the US wants to go to war and, each time, the country invaded ends up worse off than it was under the dictator they had before.
(SF Bay Area related)BART not responsible for safety of passenger on platform
Well by the time of riven you could look up the puzzle solutions on the internet, which is what I did when I got stuck one of the problem that turned out to be audio (and silly me I though they were just playing sound effects).

Anyway, I really view those games as the last of the nearly impossible games that were everywhere in the 1980s. And not just adventure games, a lot of arcade games were the same way, I played conan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan:_Hall_of_Volta for probably 4 months straight before I beat its 7 (?) lousy screens. 99% of the difficulty was basically being able to play it perfectly for the ~15 mins it takes to win. If you added a save game feature it would have probably only taken a couple hours.

If you watch the playthroughs on youtube, the difficulty is completely not evident. Another one like that was Dragons Liar.

On the plus side, the incredible rush one got when figuring out a puzzle after spending days on it is maybe part of the reason a lot of modern games simply aren't fun.
Einstein's Relativity Confirmed Near Space-Time Warping Supermassive Black Hole
Well cpan hardly matters in 2020. I haven't even heard of perl in a good 6 years or so. Marven, though largely a java(also a horrible language) thing, targets languages which at least aren't used and abused by people who believe that "6" + 1 = "61" and "6" - 1 = 5 are acceptable behaviors. What's more is the fact that compiling the entire linux kernel takes less time and resources then it takes node to figure out how to "compile" x = 1 + 1 into the gibberish it makes. Also the preinstall, postinstall, preuninstall and postuninstall, all of which are horrible concepts and I have no idea what kind of an idiot thought that this isn't literally inviting the security hell into your bed while you are strapped down naked. I can go on for days, those are just off the top of my head while I'm falling asleep.
Seems perfectly reasonable. Here are some reasons:

1. The fraction of people on the world on Twitter is very small. Either most people in the world are missing important information, or not being on Twitter doesn’t cause one to miss important information.

2. If something important does occur on Twitter, it will be repeated on other news sources. It seems like half the news stories these days are just a bunch of tweets surrounded by boilerplate.

I think that listening to emergency radio is a good model for Twitter. It might provide you with information earlier than relying on conventional sources, and it might provide you with more blips of information, but not all of that information is necessarily correct, and you will spend a lot of time and not gain much of value over traditional sources.
The Unix PC 3B1 system font, for modern computers
Unfortunately, you cannot turn off retweets in lists, at least on the Twitter website or iOS app. I disable retweets for most of the people I follow. Fortunately, in Tweetdeck you can filter retweets for each list individually.
“Snek: A Python-Inspired Language for Tiny Embedded Computers” – (LCA 2020)
DeLorean confirms plans to produce “new” DMC-12s
But at least you can disable it.
I used to use a cheeky 418 for when I get a connection error, timeout, or SSL error to a remote HTTP server and need to log a HTTP response to the logging table. Nowadays though I stick to a -1 or a 0 since it's less confusing!
Pixz Point. Shoot. Shared Photo Sharing for Groups and Events
I did this recently and it is daunting.

For anyone reading this I recommend using your own domain for your email (e.g. yourname@yourdomain.co). That way you own it and can change providers whenever you wish.
I'm currently reading Competing Against Luck and it is a truly eye-opening book that highlights and puts the finger on a lot of the luck-based innovation work we've been doing over the years.

I was planning on taking MR Christensen's online class[1] this coming April, but I wonder if this will still be happening given Mr Christensen's passed away.

Would anyone have any good resource, online classes, books, videos, etc that they would recommend to learn more about Jobs to be Done and Disruptive Innovation Strategy?

[1] https://online.hbs.edu/Documents/Syllabus_Disruptive_Strateg...
I'm in a demographic that's very heavily invested in Facebook. FOMO was real when quitting, and I'm sure I've missed some event, someplace, sometime. But the neat thing is, people actually use other means of contacting me if they really want to hang out. I mean, it's not even hard: a text, a mail, whatever.

What I've noticed is that I actually meet people IRL more often now, because the events I get information about are the ones that really matter to me, and they don't get lost in a constant buzz of less important but attention-grabbing stuff.

I also realize I can miss talking to someone. It's a feeling I haven't had in a long time, because people used to show up in my feed every day and it was like they were there anyway. Now I can get a sudden urge to just shoot a few texts back and forth with someone about something that's actually meaningful and not just the usual facebook wall banter.

I'm quite introverted, so being selective is something that suits me well, but facebook also made me even more socially lazy and avoidant than I really am.
Yeah, but it doesn't record what the bookmark is or its URL, just that you opened a bookmark. Same thing with the new tabs. It doesn't record the login or password or the URL of the page you saved a password for. It doesn't record anything about your screenshots or downloads either, aside from the fact that you did it.

They are very openly using the least amount of data possible in order to know how people use the browser so that they know what to focus on to make things better, or what to fix that isn't working. They don't care who you are, all they want to know is how you are using their product so they can keep making it better.
This happened to me yesterday as well, only it was "liked" instead of "replied". In my confusion I clicked on the account, since I didn't recognize it. Only to mistakenly click the Follow button, as my brain didn't manage to correctly derive the current status of it. Because I actually thought I had accidentally followed them or something similar.
Thanks - I've re-opened the article and will read it carefully now :)
The official way is to switch from Home to Latest Tweets. It works quite well, actually.
This is possibly the most confusing and nonsensical period in English history. When you start throwing in the Scottish connections and the protestant vs catholic swirls, it is very difficult to keep track of anything.
It is frustrating because it seems like CA and PTB at Sacramento are trying hard to make SF Bay Area unsafe and unliveable.

On one hand they want to increase housing density near transit and otoh, they don’t invest in public transport infrastructure and safe transit. It’s like they purposely want to destroy the region and make it as difficult as they can for the region to be stable and safe.
One of my litmus tests for whether I trust someone's judgement is whether they take the time to read and interpret the concept, and whether they openly admit when they have not.

There are a few words that come to mind in my day to day where this definitely applies: "disruption," "affordance" (UX design), and "agile." All of them point back to an originating body of research and writing and then tons of discussion as the idea gained popularity, so there's a concrete test of "did you read it and try to internalize it?"
How does gravity impact photons and quarks? That’s the part that’s missing.
and thus at peak, fossil fueled energy production is higher now then before when nuclear stood for 30%

But that's an irrelevant metric: What matters is the total CO2 released, ie the integrated value. So short-term, you replace coal plants by gas peakers, and transition to next-gen storage mechanisms long-term (better batteries, cryogenic storage, power-to-gas - the latter is especially interesting as Germany has pre-existing gas infrastructure than can store hundreds of TWh, and we use natural gas anyway for heating and industrial purposes).
There are several UK MPs who are former or indeed currently practicing doctors.
Yes the antenna pattern will attenuate the signal coming from the ground somewhat, but it also doesn't suffer from 182 dB of freespace attenuation like the real signal. It doesn't have to bounce off of an airplane either, the Earth has a layer of atmosphere around it that gets ionized by the sun and is also full of water vapor. We also don't have the ability to build perfect antennas, especially since it has to cover the entire sky (GPS antennas do not physically track the individual satellites).
End Price Discrimination in Healthcare
It would be funny if they were analyzing CAT scans and MRIs and outperformed radiologists simply by being more specialized and training on huge datasets.
So then if everything goes to ADS-B and GPS, doesn't that create a potential single-point-of-failure scenario, as isn't the data that ADS-B sends out itself derived from GPS? Having all navigation information come from a single source strikes me as about a good idea as the single AoA sensor on the 737MAX.

I'd like to be wrong about this, but I'm not sure how I am. How am I potentially wrong about this?
Worth noting that Whitman has acknowledged the reporting was accurate and apologized.
Updated: Boeing 777X’s first flight postponed as weather fails to cooperate
Cromwell was one of the leaders of a Revolution. By the time of the American one you had the example of this one as well as the French Revolution, anything becomes easier to get right after a few iterations.

An alternative viewpoint to it being about religion is this [1].

[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/hill-christopher/english-re...
Honestly, I can't fault him for this -- and I say that as a person who uses email as my primary communications method.

His reasoning makes sense to me, and if his constituents don't mind, then it's hard to say there's something wrong with his approach.
If we work hard to get more than 2 candidates from that 10%, aren't we being very biased against the 90% though? I think I'm missing some step in this logic where we should be acting in a highly biased way to get equality. If 90% of candidates are of one type, the most reasonable outcome that I can think of is if your board is 90% of that type, assuming people are largely equal. If we go off merit, and assuming there are no really significant differences between peoples gender/sex/ethnicity, it should just be a simple distribution. That's where I get really caught up with this, when people what an "even" outcome, i.e. 50% one type, 50% another (or equal percentages of each type). I think non-bias outcomes are closer to simple distribution of the candidates.

Does that make sense? I'm honestly trying to bridge the gap between what I hear a lot of people's views are and what mine are.
I dunno, it's a tool, you can use it how you'd like to use it.

Twitter is kinda weird in that there are some blindly obvious UX improvements everyone is aware of that Twitter refrains from because the poor UX is subsidizing their business model.
Well none of us have eternal security. Money is just a buffer. Network is a part of it. Health is apart of it. Education is a part of it. Network and health and education are hide things to hide when living your life, but they are signals of security and that one can afford to invest time, effort and money into them.

If you met these millionaires next door, they signal this security in many different ways outside of material wealth.
Fifty years from now we're going to look back on medicines prescription rates of hormone and brain altering drugs and (understanding the repercussions better) liken it to doctors prescribing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, like candy in the early 1900s.
I hate creating new accounts as much as the next person (maybe more), but if you can't be bothered with that much work why should I be bothered with fixing the bug? I definitely prefer bug reports in the bug tracker, even though I will still respond to those that have been emailed to me.
What do you mean with es6 lifted closures into the language? As far as I remember, closures have been in JS right from the start (and given that Brendan Eich joined mozilla to "do scheme in the browser", we can be pretty sure where they came from). ES6 just added a more lightweight syntax.

I agree that SML isn't even on the map, in terms of practical programming language choices (one of the most hilariously titled CS books of all time must _ML for the working programmer_ where the final "real project" chapters consist of writing such working programer perennials as a lambda calculus interpreter and a theorem prover). And I believe that even scheme is less suited to write almost any type of practical software than Haskell. But that's precisely my point: a language having a positive influence on the state of applied programming does not mean that it is actually a good choice for solving practical problems with. And vice versa.
Simulating Cohorts
As far as I can see chance of this happening 0%

Unless China is doing it. They have promised a few countries but have yet to deliver. But I think if they start delivering it could happen in places like Ghana.

But no evidence China is finally following through here?
We do possess optical tractor beam technology:

> However, about 10 years ago, researchers found that the object may experience an optical pulling force (OPF) toward the source direction when illuminated by an unfocused beam, such as a diffraction-free (nondiffraction) Bessel beam, which is named an optical tractor beam (OTB). Although it seems counterintuitive, OPF has been theoretically proved and experimentally demonstrated within recent years, as will be reviewed in this paper.

Source: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/advanced-photoni...

Although, there's a lot of distance to cover between the current state-of-the-art and actually capturing orbital debris.
You know how E-mail scams are always riddled with typos and grammar mistakes? A theory is that this is a deliberate way to filter out the people too smart/cyncial to fall for the scam. "By sending an initial email that's obvious in its shortcomings, the scammers are isolating the most gullible targets. If you trash their email, that's fine. They don't want you, someone from whom there's virtually no chance of receiving any money. They want people who, faced with a ridiculous email, still don't recognize its illegitimacy." [1]

When you say your service offers a cloud-based solution for delivering orchestrated micro-services powered by AI and ML, you're not targeting technical people who know this is bullshit. You're not even after business people with a real problem to solve. You're trying to isolate out-of-their-element execs with more budget than brains, who are impressed by jargon they don't understand, and who have a KPI to "undertake synergistic partnerships with hip technical solutions providers."

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are...
Yes, Miranda was very expensive, had an onerous license and only ran on Unix, that's why researchers felt the need to create a free and open alternative.

Lazy evaluation was invented multiple times. First in theoretical studies of the lambda calculus by Wadsworth in 1971. Later, Friedman & Wise, and independently Henderson & Morris proposd a lazy Lisp, Turner (who later did Miranda) gave SASL a lazy semantics (SASL was eager initially). All three were from 1976, so it was clearly an idea in-the-air. SASL later evolved in to Miranda. Another of Miranda's innovations was to use combinators for graph reduction to implement the Miranda run-time.
Ok, let's forget about the deception part.

Interviews are horrible. They round-down to being useless at actually determining whether someone will be good at a job. I think we all mostly agree with this, at least to a degree.

To be clear on why I bring this up: this cuts both ways. If someone does poorly during an interview, this is a poor signal as to whether they'll actually perform poorly at the job. But, similarly: if someone does exceedingly well during an interview, this is also a poor signal as to whether they'll actually perform well at the job. It works both ways, you see?

I love the quote from Andy Grove at the bottom of the article. We all know interviews suck, from both perspectives. Its easy to just jump to a conclusion there: Well, lets kill the interview, they're pointless, why do we do them? Its a signal. Its not a very useful signal, but it isn't useless.

There are two signals that are, generally, characteristic of a much higher signal-to-noise ratio: references and work history.

This isn't bullshit gatekeeping. This is prioritizing the signals that have the highest probability of accurately predicting how well a new hire will do. He wouldn't have gotten an interview had he told the truth. That's probably because, at this point, there's very little information at the hiring manager's disposal to conclude that the hire would be a successful one. Even at the end of the interviews, he probably wouldn't have gotten hired.

It is gatekeeping. But its not bullshit.
I just wish DMS supported real-time data synchronization for utf8mb4 on MySQL... That really destroyed my workflow with errors when I moved to utf8mb4 (requirement) and then had to stop using DMS altogether. It’s pretty much the only thing I used from that services.
I don't know how you managed that. I don't follow "toxic people" but Twitter just doesn't work. The use case for Twitter seems to be to follow important thinkers in areas you care about, so I get to hear what a renowned scientist had for lunch, an out-of-context reply from a computer security researcher said to someone else I don't know about something I don't understand, and that an F1 star took his family to the zoo.

Maybe I'm just the wrong audience for twitter. Facebook, as problematic as it is, has people I actually know, with their real names, and their real pictures, and their real life.

The nature of an "open" platform like Twitter seems to be specifically for people who want to hear from people they don't know, and unfortunately the content from those public figures is almost never about the thing you actually follow them for, because, guess what, people are multi-faceted.

Add to that the outrage-driven like/RT algo and I think it's toxic by default.
Which is double “damning” because plentiful memory means more objects, and often deeper interactions, which means the likelihood of getting object lifetime exactly right declines. Not only does manual management become less necessary, it also becomes less tenable.
Sort of related question. I have an old clock with a 3 inch clock face that I want to change to be digital.

Does anyone know where to get a 3 inch round led/lcd display (ideally that can be attached to a Raspberry Pi)? I've looked online and they are either crazy expensive, a round display on a square back, or I have to buy 1000 of them.

I assume I'm just not googling right.
AWS Route 53 Issues
> how does it provide a sanity check between what the back end delivers and the front end expects

The team I work on have been using Mirage with GraphQL for 6 months or so and GraphQL’s tooling almost entirely addresses this question. There will still be false positives in API behaviour (you can never have a completely accurate simulation) but you can get an incredible degree of confidence at a startlingly low cost, with a delight developer experience to boot. Similar strategies could no doubt be employed for JSONSchema, Swagger, or Pact tooling.
Argentina Brazil and France also are very Whats app dependent
They put an exception for security related use
ClojureScript is a superset of JavaScript, something as simple as writing a loop would very quickly illustrate there is a huge gap between the languages
Hmm... I see. (x y) is a list, g (x y) is a function call, f (...) is another function call, so f (g (x y)) is (f (g x y)) in regular LISP syntax. The syntax is parsed from innermost to outermost, so where is the ambiguity?
Lunar New Year
>One was so bad that they had no idea what a variable was.

I'm curious as to how someone like that could even pass a phone interview. Even if they were cheating, they would have had to have been reading stuff verbatim to answer the interviewer's questions. How was this not at least picked up a little bit during the interview? How could someone with such a small amount of knowledge in the domain trick the interviewer enough that they raised no flags at all during the interview?
I always solved this by setting my systems to a time zone without DST. Since I am in California, I always use Arizona time. 9 months of the year it's the same as mine and the other 3 I can easily subtract 1.
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We're having issues with AWS Aurora for MySQL. Aurora uses Route 53 for DNS load balancing amongst reader nodes. When diagnosing by doing nslookup to the RDS cluster hostname it will sporadically return a public IPv4 address and not an address inside the VPC. We don't allow public ingress to RDS so the connection times out.