skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again how is that muzzling the media? Not appearing for interviews is very different to gagging the media from saying things like in China.
This lot does not even agree with itself about what it wants, or is deliberately making an effort to appear that way. One day the chancellor of the Exchequer (effectively n.2 in gov, the one with actual hands on the purse-string) says “screw alignment, we don’t need the EU, the Americans are our best friend”; the next the Prime Minister says “screw Americans, they are bullies, the EU is still our best friend”; and the chancellor goes “he’s right, I don’t know what I was thinking the other day”.

In the next 12 months, the public won’t be able to believe a single word coming from government that might involve (even tangentially) trade negotiations.
NDTV and times now are very mainstream
As an aside, this is the best explanation I've seen for what numbering systems are:

> First up, a little primer – the digits used in the Myst games, aka D’ni digits, are a base-25 numbering system. This means they count up using symbols like [1], [2], [3], [4] … [22], [23], [24], [1][0]. That is, what they call “10”, we call “25”
100% on the fediverse!
maybe that's what it was. Used to quotes meant "look for this exact sequence of letters", and at some point that started to maybe work sometimes, and maybe not othertimes.

It sounds like what you're saying is that it acts more like a typical full-text index now? I suppose it's better than nothing, but still not what I would like to see happen.
There were some nasty edits from the parent
I am _not_ a marketer and I did not find this cryptic. If you've at all ever been involved in startups, you will know most terms.
The civic center arena roof collapse is similar to the FIU pedestrian bridge collapse in that the engineers trusted their calculations over physical evidence of imminent failure:

> At 9 a.m. on March 15, a university employee heard a loud "whip cracking" sound while under the bridge span, waiting for a red traffic light. At the same time, the design-build team met for about two hours at the construction site to discuss the cracks discovered on March 13. Representatives from both FIU and FDOT were present. The FIGG lead engineer's conclusions were that the structural integrity of the bridge was not compromised and that there were no safety concerns raised by the presence of the crack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Universi...

Fortunately for NYC, when William LeMessurier received a phone call about Citicorp Center from a student, he went back and re-ran some calculations and realized that quartering winds would put his building under more stress than he originally realized. But no harm, that would be handled by the extra safety factor built into his calculations. Unless it turned out other changes had been made during construction he wasn't originally aware of. Well, I won't give away the whole story:

http://people.duke.edu/~hpgavin/cee421/citicorp1.htm

http://www.engineersjournal.ie/2015/12/08/citicorp-centre-to...
The resolution issue we were seeing has subsided as of about 16:01:30 UTC-7 and resumed again at 16:08:00 UTC-7. I haven't tried deleting any instances, so can't confirm on that particular issue. Hopefully they get this cleared up quick- this is a nasty issue. I can't create new reader nodes and can't hardcode an IP address as the traffic requires multiple readers.
I am opposed to Yang and his agenda, but I am sympathetic to his (and Yang Gangs) mistreatment.

I agree that Yang's passionate supporters grew quickly, and part of this 'bots' narrative is due to cognitive dissonance. But the 'bot' narrative is also a tactic to discredit Yang and his supporters.

Bias against Asian men may play a role, but there is much more going on here. The leadership of the DNC do not like to see people like Yang gain too much momentum.
It does not take hours to master rekeying a lock. It would take hours to do a whole house but probably an hour at most for the first.
It would certainly be wonderful if we all had the privilege to ignore political instability.

But I can empathize with your cringing. It must be tough.
please stop moving the goalpost. I stated that people like us value different things, and that remains true whether or not you want to argue that people who don't display the typical social status behavior do display behaviors of some sort (of course, but it's not interesting).
This warms my crusty heart. The first Unix machine I ever used was a 3B1. Great keyboard!
IIRC, it only had a 10 megabyte drive, yet managed to have a pretty complete development and text-processing environment (i.e. cc/etc and troff/etc).
I really wanted to use GCC on it, but was never able to get enough of the code on the machine at the same time to get it compiled there.
Shame they don't have dental appointments. :)
This is sort of my reaction.

It's a little like being astonished that a microbe could be identified so quickly in Boston or Atlanta.
Models are not nature.
Yes, we did it ourselves from scratch. Thank you!
Not going to happen, that very search box is Firefox's main source of income.

There is unfortunately a tax on stupidity, and in this day and age it is paid with one's personal data to multinationals.
Noted. Good idea ;)
I'm near the end of my first month without Facebook or Twitter and I'm not missing the stress of it at all.
You may have never seen a good ad then. There was a period of time I would actively look at ads on penny-arcade, because the owners of the site only ever allowed ads (mostly for games) that they themselves could at least tangentially endorse. This meant I basically got hand curated ads for products I was genuinely interested in, by people who’s taste I understood if not agreed with.

That said this ended up being the exception to proof the rule about ads being mostly noise, and I agree the world would be better with less of them. And almost certainly the current state of algorithmic ad serving is a disaster.
We will check both, thanks!
Gravitational Lens
Word of mouth. Spotify. Eventbrite. Meetup.
You're right that fossil fuels are contingent. They exist because of a big evolutionary coincidence that might not be repeated on other worlds.

It's possible, though, that aliens might not need fossil fuels to get to space. If they had more efficient photosynthesis, for example (ours is <5% efficient), living plants could have the energy content of gasoline. They might eat gasoline. All their fuel usage would be carbon neutral (CO2 pulled out of the atmosphere). They would be way ahead of us.

Or it's possible that we're the most advanced because fossil fuels are necessary and nobody else got them.
YouTube has a lot of Jack Benny TV shows on line. Rochester gets a lot of screentime.
Fully automated luxury communism (2015)
So the authors are using that in a particular manner that might be missed by the general HN audience.

By "insufficient epidemiological information", they mean that the genome cannot, itself, be used to assemble a transmission tree, which is sort of the brass ring of sequence data.

That is not to say that the genome data isn't useful for epidemiology.
Maybe I haven't blogged (yet!) about that, but definitely spoken about it: https://aht.es/#talks-postgresql_configuration_for_humans
I'm with you generally, but this...

> if you can't be bothered with that much work why should I be bothered with fixing the bug?

comes off a bit weird. I don't fix bugs as a favor to any individual. I fix bugs because I want the product to be as good as it can be.

In my own projects, when people report bugs to me though methods other than the bug tracker, I just file the bug in the tracker myself so I don't forget.
Firstly, I find the policy of only accepting correspondence by phone, letter or appointment perfectly reasonable. However...

> he's been an MP since '97 and keeps getting elected!

In the UK, this usually says more about the demographics of the seat than the quality of the MP.
What would satisfy you? And don't you think you are holding Haskell to an unfair standard that you're not holding to other languages?

Do you have research to show a GC is better than manual memory management? That object oriented programming is any better than procedural? Or any of the other thousands of questions you could ask about extant languages today. But for some reason you need rock-solid evidence dependent typing does X before it's worthwhile to be used in an language?
right, but this leads back to what I said before. Why not just lay down and die? It's like the ultimate form of analysis paralysis. What if there are better people to hang out with? What if I'm not meeting those better people because I'm wasting time enjoying the friends I met in college?

At some point you need to either accept it or change it, both of which you can do. My issue with the previous posts is the claim that you must necessarily become victim to this form of analysis paralysis because you can never truly choose to hang out with ANYONE. That 5 year old in the congo who died of malaria will always be a stranger to you.

It's just such a bad point.
The models are incompatible with each other, which means that one or both are somehow wrong, or there is some boundary we can't fathom between the small scale and the large.
It doesn’t. Someone tried to apply digital key management to the physical world, and mapped it poorly. There is zero value in having each door to the same space have different keys. There is some marginal value in having different spaces having different keys (house, storage unit, detached garage), except that generally you will lose the entire key ring when you lose one, so the separation doesn’t net much.
I am reminded that green-screen text causes eye strain, especially with modern brightness levels, and the slightly electric green vs the old phosphor green.

I spent many, many hours in the computer lab with someone who used white text on a blue background, and adopted light grey on blue for myself. A color scheme that some word processors also adopted.

Neither of us, nor Corel nor Microsoft, succeeded in converting the world to white on blue. I have bigger fish to fry now, but try it out sometime when you're tired of staring at the screen.
I know it is possible for a few "special" kids to read at 2.5 or 3 (I didn't know about the word hyperlexia though, thanks for the link !). My point is that such kids will read very early, whether their parents are super dedicated or not (unless, of course, their parents have no book at all and never read which is unfortunately not so uncommon)

On the other hand I am convinced "normal" kids won't read before 5, whatever you do and how hard you try. This makes it even more unworthy to try to reach such goal imho.
Having a single woman on the board to remind you that having tampons in the woman's bathroom is probably more important than making sure the developers have the exact kind of mechanical switch keyboard and the right variety of arabica beans.

Having a single homosexual person to remind you that having the picture postcard white hetro couple in all of your adverts isn't very inclusive.

Heck, some of these things might even cost you money but they are the right thing to do and requiring one person on the board to have some kind of diversity is an incredibly low bar.
Or that he has a safe seat.
This this this!
The problem with trying to teach or share this is that you have to transcend survival and face your death to become Love/God and devils will demonize you for speaking this Truth.

So you must go it alone, and realize that you are ultimately alone as The One.
microprocessor/embedded systems is a compilation target after the initial browser implementation. We're very aware of how awesome it would be to have the Erlang programming model without having to require an OS
If google servers decided tomorrow to shut down your domain, because the anti-fraud algorithm decided that the use of the domain has patterns which it decided is indicative of fraud, what would you do? All there is a computer saying that it de-registered the domain name and all the support options becomes a circle of the computer saying that it de-registered the domain name.

To me that is a risk. Through I have no evidence for this, I think that the false positives of those algorithms are higher than the risk of a hacker managing to social engineer a high end registrar. The reason I think so is that there is very little incentive for google to eliminate false positives but a huge one for eliminating false negatives.
Formatting and Dealing with Dates in SQL
Does anyone know if this is the same font that was used in the AT&T 3B2? My memory of that era can be a little... cloudy.
I can believe that if there were another solution that were marginally better it might not be enough to unseat the top player in the market. But switching costs in search are extremely low so it would be surprising if people did not switch for a substantially better experience. In particular, it would require us to believe that what happened when Google showed up on the scene would not happen again, and to me that just does not seem likely.
Indeed, and do you know what kills you faster and more reliably than lack of free/subsidized medical care?

Lack of food (9 days), and lack of potable water (72 hours). Since we seem to be leaning towards the opinion that the gov't needs to provide everything for us and we should have minimal/no responsiblity for our own sustenance, repair, or longevity, where's the Free Sh*t Army slogans for no-cost food and water?
Yes, this is a good and important point. There are many people who declare NPC a vile, dehumanizing term...who hypocritically call everyone who disagrees with them a bot.
https://www.writetothem.com/

A website that you can use to send your MP a message. Not quite as convenient as using email directly but almost so. They have a fax machine purely so that Julian Lewis' constitutes can contact their MP.
Lean. It's implemented in a
dependently typed programming

Lean is implemented in C++ [1, 2]. There's a message in there somewhere. The message is probably something along the lines of: if you want performance, use a low-level language.

[1] https://github.com/leanprover/lean/tree/master/src

[2] https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/tree/master/src
Pentagon says 34 US soldiers suffered traumatic brain injury in Iran strike
> There's no way you could connect with, say of a dozen of fungoid admirals in the way you connect with a Hanoverian Capet general who learned to respect eastern religions on an aborted crusade and is now wed to a close relative of a recently ousted Czar.

Which is where the licenses tie-in, less as officially sanctioned and more as popular user mods! Set your 4X in the world of Dune! Or of Warhammer 40,000! Star Wars, Trek, Battlestar Galactica! Babylon Five! And so forth.

> give the individual designs an identity by accumulating RPG-like bonuses over time so that an outdated but properly "leveled-up" design can remain a viable option over more modern contenders

I'm pretty sure everything from the recent Civs back to the original Starcraft tracked unit advancement. But usually it doesn't translate to RPG levels of immersion. I think Starships Unlimited, an early 2000s indie space 4X, did this fairly well.
How can you escape network effects? Not at all. Thats what they are. You cant force the public to leave this abusive relationship with a privately owned main street.

The only thing that could do that- is another layer around the whole eco-system, that subverts it and surplants it. I can not see anyone of the alternatives trying this.
Those who pose a real danger (instagram, using the want for generational different medias) are bought.

The only way to escape, is to encourage institutional blindness in big companys. Convince microsoft that a desktop windows needs to be on there cellphones and tablets.

Convince google that no product except of search is actually viable- and these little turtles should all die fast before even reaching the ocean.

Tell facebook, that all that is longterm sellable is user-data, not user-usefullness.

The best way to archieve a new competitor, is internal self-sabotage of market dominant forces.
There are lots of other ways it's being monitored. But as for the flying below the radar, there are these along the southern border and Gulf of Mexico:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_Syst...
Absolutely. But we found over many years that know which 5-10 (out of the 300) and what values are good is a hard job for most.

Despite that, we end up tuning 30-40 for most of the customer environments we work with. For instance, logging (for appropriate logging or troubleshooting) is like a dozen. Autovacuum takes its fair share too, and if you have a heavy traffic db, it is a must.
Blue light may not be as disruptive to our sleep patterns as originally thought
In Re Carter W. Page: Order Regarding Handling and Disposition of Information [pdf]
This is what made me quit Facebook originally.
Nyzo development: 15 months of hard work (and beyond)
Which is not actually a Twitter policy....
Whether the "merge" implementation is costly or complicated very much depends on exactly what it has to do. The git example is pretty much a worst case example in this regard.

An easier example could be that you have a tree structure that represents a mathematical expression. The evaluation of every node could proceed on its own lightweight thread. The merge strategy would be to simply perform the appropriate operation on the results produced by the threads evaluating the child nodes.
GR is no more or less wrong than Newtonian physics.
and it doesn't update automatically, and it doesn't update when you click the header, and it's just basically a static list of the tweets from the last time you refreshed.
Yep, you're right.

There is a difference, but the difference is in complexity, not availability.
remove the barrier between
types and terms then ...

... you will loose type inference, and hence Haskell becomes completely unusable in industrial practise.
But these are not poor people. At $37k annually they are in the middle third of US income and substantially above the poverty level.

The article linked below profiles a man that "worries that he will not be able to find another job that pays as well as this one does". This indicates to me that all else being equal, they are already offering a premium.

Nor does it sound like he is either desperate or naive. He is well aware of market compensation and he is struggling to decide on the tradeoffs.
Everything was "unprecedented" at some point before they existed. It's only a matter of choice and priorities.
The presumption of innocence is the standard used in criminal trials. It makes no sense to apply it outside a courtroom to someone who isn't accused of a crime.

The allegations against Krauss are backed up by direct testimony and eyewitness evidence, not merely some general appearence of shadyness.

There's no "mob mentality" involved. There's good evidence that Krauss is a serial sexual harasser, and that is why I think that he is one.

Every contrarian likes to imagine that they're standing up to a baying irrational mob. But in most cases they're just missing something obvious that everyone else can see clearly.

None of this, obviously, entails that Krauss is wrong about the clock thing.
Thanks for the reply - I wasn’t sure what Julia did in terms of type inference.

So, if not on local variables, where are explicit types necessary (other than function parameters)?
Kudos. Miracle follows the similar philosophy shared also by Ember that i know will be the future of the webdev
It's a lot more than 100 square miles. Here's an NREL report on this exact question: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56290.pdf If you extrapolate (see analysis here: https://www.freeingenergy.com/how-much-solar-would-it-take-t...), you get 21,250 square miles. Elon musk says 100 miles x 100 miles, which is 10,000 square miles. Both of those figures are just for current electricity demand, so if we electrified all transportation and industry, we're looking at maybe 60,000 square miles.

60,000 square miles is half of Arizona. Now suppose we want to scale up energy consumption in the U.S. by a factor of 100. At that point, you're at twice the land area of the U.S. Even at current consumption, the amount of ecological damage you're causing by covering half of Arizona with solar panels is huge.

On the other hand, if you wanted to replace all U.S. energy production with nuclear, you'd need about 7-10x more than we have today, or about 1000 reactors. The land area for these reactors is about 700 square miles, or about 25x25 miles. If we wanted to scale it up by a factor of 100, we'd be looking at half of Arizona again.
For Julian Lewis, it now refers people (with a broken link) to the Parliament website.

e.g. https://www.writetothem.com/write?who=47046&pc=SO42+7ZN
I absolutely love HN, what a small world. I worked on the 360 software and thru the Kinect days! I'd love to hear more about this space elevator, feel free to email me.
The key quote:

“ Much of the organised abuse which has caused many MPs to “burn out” and withdraw from public life results from their opening up themselves and their long-suffering staff to interactive online communications by email and social media. Indeed several have confided that they wish they had adopted my unshakable policy right at the outset.”

I think there’s some wisdom here—-and he is indeed protecting his staff; he wouldn’t be filtering all the email himself.
More like proximity to each other (and being a huge majority of the population).

See also: echo chambers, which are probably a societal plague more than anything.
I have PTSD. Believe me, you don't want it.
Set SMART goals?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
It's too bad that just "thread" is a bit too broad.
And thank you, atum47, for sharing this story! You'll encourage more people to develop and share their ideas in a virtuous cycle.
Nah, it means "people being mean and awful, by a reasonable person's standards." Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but abstracting it into "things I don't approve of" misses the point.
Yes, legislation is the first step. They made it illegal to access certain data with the CFAA, there's no reason illegally accessing data of a person can't be legislated too. Well, except for "businesses should be allowed to do anything they want."
Firefox has it built in, no redirect necessary, and you don't even need the bang: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
28 here, diagnosed in 2019 as well. In 2016 I actually lost a job because of the 5 - 10 minutes it took to rebuild Tomcat after I fixed a JS typo. Finally the server starts up and I get called into a retro, or a planning meeting, or town hall. Then I fall behind and feel the need to catch up on work at 10pm. 4am I get to sleep to be late for the 10am standup. Meanwhile the guy adjacent to me is typing on a mechanical keyboard amd screaming through a bluetooth mic on a sales call.
Boris Johnson presumably.
Oh, I heard about this. Is the same EU where one of the most senior politicians signed over 300 secret deals with corporations to help them avoid hundreds of billions in tax? And we only found out it about decades later, the deals were "off the books", because govt officials leaked it?

The region that is most responsible for tax avoidance is the EU. End. In BOTs, everything is reported (company ownership, beneficial owners, and financial institutions report everything back to home tax authorities). Member states in the EU are engaged in industrial tax avoidance (Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, etc.) and marketed themselves to corporations that way (i.e. they didn't just facilitate it, they caused it). And one big reason why no-one did anything is that the EU was led by (Juncker) the guy who was solely responsible for this (he was signing these deals in the 90s, before Ireland and co. got in on the game).
By inference. this means we trust the holographic principle so thoroughly that we don't even consider that it could be the unbalanced part of this equation.

Is that true?