skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paris is shaped like a snail and concentric circles of density and affluence with the inner most circle being most affluent.

Paris also has a stellar and reliable public transport system and is very walkable. Bay Area wants the density (and property taxes inflow) but don’t want to invest in infrastructure and public transport.
Yes, and for Cononavirus, it will be even more.
Covariant.ai, robots from the lab to the real world
I wrote code to repeat the wpe variable N times along the context axis during model load time.

Specifically, the code checks whether the model's shape is greater than the shape from the snapshot on disk. If so, it repeats the shape from the snapshot on disk N times to fill the expected greater shape.

At that point, you can just set context window to a larger value, then train.
Cipro was a weird one; it was "omg last resort top of the line" there for a bit; then Amerithrax happened and the shit was being handed out like candy; and a few years later my dog gets it post-op "for the rest of her life".

I doubt the story of how that happened, the corruption and stupidity that enabled it, will ever make it out of the land of "conspiracy theorist ravings" ... but it should.
Whoever uses it now must have shares.
The influences does, but what you really need is an engine that recommends bands based on shared influences.

In other words, two bands in totally different genres who both call Led Zeppelin an influence
Very late relative to what?

Certainly later than one would hope, but is there a real world benchmark for the handling situations like this that they fell short of? Have similar viruses crossed over in other countries and been handled better?
I think you're confusing software patents and design patents, because the latter is what Apple famously used against Samsung.
I don't know if emailing them would help, but I'd try it. They probably have a system to grandfather people in, who reach out. I would hope.
https://www.caltech.edu/ tells the tale.

I've never seen it spelled CalTech in anything from the university nor from any techer.
I'm surprised that's surprising. I always figured most people rely on grandparents for at least occasional childcare.
Fuck, I had no idea IBM was found in 1911. That's mental.
Got a book or reference in mind? I’d love more on the DMN.
This assumes you can make a reasonable estimation of the commercial value of the patent at filing time, which is unlikely.
Heck, they even copy/pasted from a Caltech statement which includes "Caltech" twice, so they had the correct spelling literally right in front of their faces on their screens as they wrote the story:

> “We are pleased the jury found that Apple and Broadcom infringed Caltech patents,” CalTech said in a statement. “As a non-profit institution of higher education, Caltech is committed to protecting its intellectual property in furtherance of its mission to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.”
Your comment has helped assuage some fears of mine regarding meditation. I've been meditating most days for the past month now, and plan to continue to do so, but just within the past few days I've realized that I no longer effortlessly see amazing colours and shapes whenever I close my eyes. I'm worried that meditation is diminishing that creative aspect of my mind that produces such vivid imagery automatically. Ideally I want to keep my creativity intact, while also getting my neurosis under control.
Nice, the output isn't a direct mapping from characters to emojis. I wonder why?
I work at a very large company where each team builds and deploys its own production artifacts, but we always build everything off of head rather than choosing versions of each dependency and upgrading on our own schedule. The choose-your-own-adventure approach seems like it might be nice until you write (e.g) a critical security patch and you have to go nag N teams to upgrade their version of your library. With our system it goes out in everyone's daily or weekly release.

The system only works because of very good integration testing infrastructure and a culture of being able to roll back almost any change that broke you.
Power to the People (1996)
The front-end is in Visual Basic.

The backend is most certainly not in anything close to Visual Basic.. (MUMPS - using Intersystems Cache as the object store implementation)
If congress appropriates the money the president is required to spend it on the things that congress wants[1].

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_fu...
ForwardEmail seems not open source
now. It's licensed under BSL. sad.

https://github.com/forwardemail/free-email-forwarding/blob/m...
computer modern in the hizzy!
iPad's software designer and program lead look back on its first 10 years
Hubei is estimated as being max at the 5th generation, and genomes so far have indicated less than 0.02% genetic variance. I don't see evolution playing a succincts) significant role in this timescale.
Environmentalist support for density increases is only about 20 years old. When these policies were created, it was done by the previous generation of lawmakers.
People are indeed complex. The first type of person described specifically is rare, but what is more common is a dangerous combination of aggressiveness and charm.

Tying back to the OP, I think an internal monologue is valuable. If you don’t have one, that’s out of your control. However, I think it encourages pro-social behavior on the margins. Using your internal voice is quite literally introspection. It can make you feel bad about a potential course of action, preventing you from doing it. It can also make you feel worse about something bad you did, by replaying it in your head. Too much of that can bog you down, but I think it’s an important part of the self-policing toolset. I believe reflective people are more trustworthy (not that internal voice = reflection).
I just wish spotify would give us an "all songs by this artist" page. Clicking through like 10 albums is tedious especially when they often have 1 or 2 songs in them.
Jesus Christ. I didn’t know CA already had that law. As you said Prop 13 is absolutely not required.

That law basically says if you can’t afford the increases, we’ll bank it. If you can, pay up.
While your probably will not write something better than std::vector in a good c++ library such as libc++, it is quite possible to do better than a bad implementation of std::vector. Source: I have done better than the std::vector that was shipped with the compiler on an old sun.
You can turn a bar into a dance club, and I can still drink there. But it’s a little academic to suggest that.

That said, I’m am quite free to choose not to install npm packages that use Babel or Webpack, and I that’s what I choose when I have a choice.

Certainly don’t have that choice at my work.
It looks like each characters has a bunch of equivalent emotes and one is picked randomly when generating output.
they are anti-displacement provisions in the bill.

gentrification/displacement can't happen if upzoning happens at scale of the entire regions/state. e.g. techies won't move to Oakland if there's a bunch of new housing in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Cupertino etc.
I live in Atlanta. I’m curious what do you mean?
I do not agree. Investigation is needed as the doc can be fake. But charge ? Psychological pressure ? What harm they do, any broken things? Compensation not chasing after the minor contract issue.

You let go of the police and the gov lawyer bit by bit you lost your liberty. Make them pay! At least there is a negative feedback loop. Otherwise you end up with police state. Or gov lawyer state. Or worst like hk both.
I grew up in a small town in northern Greece where due to the large number of students in my zone the middle school and high school operated in a bi weekly morning/afternoon schedule where one week you’d have school between 8am-2pm and the next between 2pm-8pm. Eventually a new school was built switching all schedules to the morning but I found my last 6yrs of school incredibly hard having to those bimodal schedules.
Is it slow compared to C++?
My way or the highway doesn't work in politics. I'm sorry if you were told otherwise.
I disagree with the conclusion. While every situation is unique, the default should be separate persistence layers for analytics and transactions.

Analytics has very different workloads and use cases than production transactions. Data is WORM, latency and uptime SLAs are looser, throughput and durability SLAs are tighter, access is columnar, consistency requirements are different, demand is lumpy, and security policies are different. Running analytics against the same database used for customer facing transactions just doesn't make sense. Do you really want to spike your client response times every time BI runs their daily report?

The biggest downside to keeping analytics data separate from transactions is the need to duplicate the data. But storage costs are dirt cheap. Without forethought you can also run into thorny questions when the sources diverge. But as long as you plan a clear policy about the canonical source of truth, this won't become an issue.

With that architecture, analysts don't have to feel constrained about decisions that engineering is making without their input. They're free to store their version of the data in whatever way best suits their work flow. The only time they need to interface with engineering is to ingest the data either from a delta stream in the transaction layer and/or duplexing the incoming data upstream. Keeping interfaces small is a core principle of best engineering practices.
I think you are putting Java in the pillory today, for the worst aspects of its ecosystem a decade ago.

Outside of perhaps stodgy banks, technical folks are not choosing to run their JVM projects today on Websphere. Gradle is pretty darn nice.
I much prefer driving over sitting in traffic. One thing I noticed with Waze is that it would route me way out in the middle of nowhere to my location vs sitting in traffic. It was kind of interesting to see some of these back roads, I'll admit. I did learn some good alternate routes that I would sometimes just use on my own because I knew the freeway was going to be a parking lot.

I mostly use apple maps now with car play which is fine. After we moved my commute went from ~20-45 minutes to ~12 minutes so Waze really isn't a necessity anymore. :/
What to do EXACTLY if a person has symptoms and the Hospital is full?
Medicine is also a team sport now. Caring for patients with complex conditions requires coordination with multiple other practitioners. Exchanging paper records with them just isn't practical or safe. Plus if the doctor has to write a prescription, doing it on paper is so error prone as to border on malpractice.
A fundamental part of engineering accreditation in most countries is ethics and enforcing the fact that you are to blame for the things you build and you are obligated to raise objection.
Thin client architecture allows people to use into products they otherwise wouldn't have been able to. Loss of control is only bad for an individual if they used to have more control. As someone who doesn't have a high-end rig, I never had control in the first place. With Stadia, I might now have an option to try the latest games. I can't help but feel that "Stadia bad because centralized" is a poorly thought-out argument.

There's room in the world for both centralized and decentralized services. Which one you use depends on your situation.
I’ve hadn’t realized it until you just said it, but I am the same way. I’ve played roughly 10-20 games a day for years! That said, I feel I am simply trading one mode of thought for another. I tend to be _even less_ present when playing chess than nearly any other activity.
Fast Fourier Transform? Maybe he counts by increasing the frequency of his voice then.
That is a big surprise. Thought everyone talk to themselves ... good to have difference but if you cannot talk to yourselves how can you think ?
Historically, have creative geniuses tended to have/not have internal monologues?

It would be interesting to know whether Claude Shannon, etc had internal monologues.
Is everybody conversely entitled to live in low density areas?
Not a prediction, but if what I'm reading in the news is true, it's supposed to peak within two weeks.
Yeah the social impact will probably be just streaming movies and shopping.

I wonder if tracking down some malicious attacker will be much harder without the need for wires, although probably not too different
https://www.linuxserver.io/

not a resource but docker containers you might want to run in your homelab. checkout awesome docker on github or katacoda
I used to constantly think my mind wandered from subject to subject. I never thought of it much (ironic?) until I read an article about meditation. In meditation you make a conscious effort to not think.

As I got older I found I lost that fire as I call it. Now I find most of the time my mind doesn't wander and it feels wrong. I used to be incredibly creative just from the sheer volume of thoughts.

I do think I have mild ADHD I can't concentrate even the slightest noise ruins my thought process. A friend of mine who has been diagnosed as having ADHD has traits I see in myself. Headphones with brown noise, caffeine, night time (now) are the only ways I can concentrate.
I think the author's hypothesis is

> Even without looking at the data, it would be surprising if there were any VERY LARGE differences in intelligence between the average Trump supporter and the rest of the general public.

Which the data does seem to suggest. The sample size is sufficient for statistical significance, though I would say the difference in intelligence is not likely significant

Which gets back to the author's point, that the perception espoused by CNN anchors, claiming Trump supporters are significantly less intelligent, is incorrect.

> In this essay, I analyzed the results of over 30 questions from 22 different representative national surveys, involving over 20,000 respondents. Not one of the questions I examined here supports the idea that Trump supporters are significantly less knowledgeable than Clinton supporters, and some of them point to small or moderate differences in the opposite direction. The idea that there are very large differences in intelligence or knowledge here is implausible without strong evidence.
Nice how you slipped your pet bugaboo into your argument. Enviros are not responsible for the height caps and the sprawl.
> Bay Area wants the density (and property taxes inflow)

They already have sufficient density and property prices to actually invest in infrastructure. The problem has always been Prop 13 and the artificial limits placed on taxes that would otherwise fund infrastructure locally.
This comment seems to be assuming that Indians are over-represented at the C-suite, but that seems doubtful. Given the huge proportion of the tech workforce that Indians occupy, the number of CEOs being discussed seems perfectly... average. If I were to draw any conclusions at all, it would be that Indians are just like everyone else in tech, not the opposite.
Agreed. I love The Current. When they play a song I don't like I switch to something else whether it is kexp or another genre. (Sadly, one of my favorite hip hop stations beatbasement seems to have gone away. I still haven't found a good replacement for underground hip hop. Gtronic radio is good but not to the same level as beatbasement).
No free lunches. You want creativity? Ok, go let your mind be feral like Van Gogh's or Kurt Cobain's. You want sanity? Become a perfect meditator and let those branches of thought die out without reacting to them. In return you can think like Spock.

If I could press a button, I would trade almost all my creativity for sanity/logic.
Coronavirus Exposes Core Flaws, and Few Strengths, in China’s Governance
now this is a cool site.
These sample sizes are on par with poll sizes used by 538 in their predictions.
are you using OpenWRT or something else?
It could be done as you say, in 16 bytes (assuming 64 bit pointers):

struct not_too_long_string {
char* data;
uint32_t size;
uint32_t capacity;
};

Of course, if you do it that way then the longest string you can store with the small string optimization is probably ~15 bytes instead of ~23. So although you do save 1/3 on the size of each string, on average you're probably still going to end up doing a greater number of dynamic allocations because of the reduced small string capacity. Unless of course you know a priori that a sufficiently large portion of your strings will be > 15 bytes anyway, which of course the implementors of std::string almost certainly don't know.

Edit: I failed to notice the part about the length being in the data block (doh). I guess the disadvantage to putting the length there would be that an extra indirection is required to get the length, a rather common operation. And as others have pointed out, that only saves 4 bytes, which will be used anyway for alignment..
To add to your examples, Publix is one of the largest employee owned grocery stores in the US, and Vanguard is the largest mutual brokerage owned by its investor customers. It can be done!
There are huge problems with that piece. For starters, OLAP != OLAP cube. Columnar databases and OLAP cubes are both designed for OLAP workloads. They are simply different architectures. Therefore, it is impossible to argue that 'OLAP is dead' — it cannot be dead, because OLAP is simply a type of database usage.

At this point you might say, "oh, OLAP cubes refer to an abstraction, it can be implemented using columnar stores!" — and I would point you to 40 years worth of academic research that stretches back to the early 80s. The OLAP cube or data cube refers to a specific type of data structure. It just so happens that vendors like to use the term 'OLAP cube' even when they are using a columnar engine under the hood, because it sells well.
Most mailservers don't send emails one character at a time. You appear to have a mental model of how a spam filter works that doesn't include fingerprinting the behavior of the sending server? Even open source mail servers do that, for example postscreen is a part of postfix.
Surely it must be (23 - size) << 1, otherwise you won't guarantee a 0 in the LSB.
If you can't see well enough to turn safely, you can't turn.
Making a left into a lane of traffic, you do not have right of way. We have a similar visibility problem with parked cars near our driveway and our municipality allows for a certain amount of yellow paint on curbs adjacent to driveways, specifically for visibility. People generally respect it, or at least park further than before the paint. I'd encourage investigating if this is an option where you live.
Principle over efficacy, donchyaknow.
We don’t have any smart weapon system with kill authority that doesn’t have a human in the loop. Perhaps we should solve it for stationary sentry guns or missiles before complicating it with a flight platform.

Thats not to say we will never get there (as horrible as that future is), but you have to stage things.
Free Cool Calendar and Planner for 2020
Well keep in mind that China, at least Hubei is overwhelmed. But if anywhere else on earth it ramps up to 100k sick quickly will be overwhelmed as well.

It remains to be seen if the rest of the world can keep the infection rate low enough to not repeat the Hubei progression.
The language / the cultural barrier isn't as high as it is for an American living in China though. I've grown up speaking English and watching a lot of American / British movies and TV, reading a lot of english literature. I assume this is not the case for most Americans with Chinese culture.

There's definitely a culture shock when you first move here and are figuring stuff out - How do you order food at a subway or a chipotle? (not a big deal anymore given the explosion of these restaurants in India in the last few years). Why is called Cilantro and not Corinander? How do I get a phone when I don't have any credit history at all? What is a turn-pike?
Of course, consider your use cases. There are good reasons to use NoSQL, and excellent reasons to use RDBMS. I use both professionally and appreciate the benefits of each.
> No but Apple's patent for rounded corners didn't help Samsung engineers from creating their devices...and yet Apple filed the patent and sued Samsung for patent infringement.

It's unfortunate that this story has now been twisted into "Apple suing Samsung over rounded corners", when in actuality Samsung deliberately produced a 132-page report comparing the iPhone to their current phones at the time and pointed out hundreds of features and design elements they should steal from the iPhone user interface.

https://archive.org/details/436142-samsung-relative-evaluati...

If you read through the report it's pretty blatant and goes well beyond "rounded corners".
Aren’t most patent lawsuits settled? I’m sure similar sized institutions have also settled patents. It may be normal
I went back to read most of the academic literature on OLAP cubes while working on this piece (which, unlike vendor marketing, is used with consistency since the early 80s). OLAP cubes or data cubes refer specifically to a data structure. An OLAP cube may be materialized from a column store, but a column store isn't an OLAP cube.

The proof of this? Go to any serious columnar database provider and search for the words 'OLAP cube'. You will find that they are careful to say 'OLAP workload', but not 'OLAP cube' — because in the strict definition of the term, an OLAP cube or data cube is an entirely different architecture.

Relevant sources are included at the bottom of the piece.

endorphone's comment has it right.
I guess at the end of the day those who own property will do what feels good for them.

It’s funny to see non owners seem up of ways property owners could do with their ‘wealth’.

Guess what, they own property in the hot Bay Area market by virtue of..wait for it..being here and working before most of us were born!

So we can sit here on hacker news and think of all that they need to do to make us feel better, but it means nothing, you know. It’s like the French peasants wondering how Louis XIV should redistribute his kingdom to them. There are no victims. They aren’t the villains...they are just old folks who want to continue to live and die in the towns they funded and built and not be bothered by kids who were likely educated in free public schools they helped build.
Today is the 64th birth anniversary of Guido van Rossum
Ask HN: How do you provide support to your SaaS application
I have a small SaaS app running but I am struggling to support my users vs spend time in building/maintaining app. I am unable to respond to some of my user reported issues quickly and it is hurting the credibility of my application. How do you guys handle this? Do you hire someone for support?
Part of the motivation for writing this blog post was that I enjoyed this talk so much.
I did build something like this (but even simpler) for the support website of my side project: https://support.filestash.app/. a PHP script calling grep and displaying the results. It's very hacky but is good enough for its intended use case: search through the entire IRC chat log
This would be a great idea if speed limits were set by any plausibly reasonable process, but in truth they are set arbitrarily and capriciously.
I don’t think that idea holds up in practice. If you know anyone who has lived under non-democratic government, ask them how efficient it was.
"unexpected acceleration" in cars comes to mind.
Shame on the downvoters. Shame Shame Shame
As others imply, it's the flying itself that delivers the potentially worrisome dose.

But that's not an issue, unless you fly every day.
Did you notice any differences in behaviour, concentration, creativity or others with the voice: on vs voice: off?
Pretty sure it comes from the Waze users; Google owns both.
> replace "dumb" uses of std::string with essentially the equivalent of what a smart C programmer using pointers would write

Can you give an example?