skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good link. I think a lot of people get intimidated by the idea of emergency preparedness because it feels like such a big, overwhelming thing to deal with. One cause of this is perhaps the Hollywood/media image of "disaster" as a singular extreme event that obliterates the average person except for a few plucky heroes. In contrast, there's a full spectrum of severity, and any small amount of preparedness can help.

In case anyone here hasn't seen it before, I'd like to share the article "Doomsday planning for less crazy folk" [0]. It's a good, sober-headed step-by-step guide to evaluating one's own threat model and making actionable steps toward improving one's emergency preparedness -- both small-scale and large-scale. I have a routine to-do item to re-read one section of this article every few weeks and think of ways I can make myself more resilient.

[0] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
This is basically the stuff of nightmares.

You can't really fault them for the zfs version being so old the feature they needed wasn't yet implemented, because the machine was literally part of the last batch to be upgraded. The root cause is just some random hardware failure that can't be anticipated.

Just bad luck. Beyond radically changing how their core infrastructure works, doesn't seem like there was a lot they could have done to prevent this. Kudos for releasing the post mortem though, at least they've been fairly honest and direct about it.
Flanks – Financial Data Aggregation API
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Revolution Pi is an open, modular and inexpensive industrial PC based on the well-known Raspberry Pi. Housed in a slim DIN-rail housing, the three available base modules can be seamlessly expanded by a variety of suitable I/O modules and fieldbus gateways. The 24V powered modules are connected via an overhead connector in seconds and can be easily configured via a graphical configuration tool.
That "three minute save spinner" is the most puzzling of all. There is absolutely no upside for the site owner in making the user wait pointlessly and it seems to be exclusive to US sites. European sites tend to be content just having that little unobtrusive "yeah right, it's fine" footer/header, perhaps with some color button trickery for steering users to the non-minimal option. Which isn't exactly nice but surely not a hill to die on. My guess is that those "three minute spinner" implementations are expensive third party compliance plugins that deliberately make the problem they solve look much harder than it actually is.
The problem with data science is that usually you have relatively big datasets, you care more about throughput than latency and you work in secure an environment where you can definitely have access to the database credentials.

Streaming over the network the result of a big select is not ideal, moreover I believe that data scientist prefer to work with common technologies. I mean that there are already adapter for SQLite or PG or MySQL, while for RediSQL it won't be as straightforward.

I am thinking to developers for the JAM stack would be interested to this sort of API. Or people that want a database without having to think too much about it.
Their handling of the issue on Twitter was enough for to decide to move my domain names away from them when their renewal is due.
Claims that tyre/brake particles exceed exhaust emissions are inevitably referring to particulate mass, not particulate count. One large particle can weigh as much as millions of nanoparticles, but is far less dangerous. Exhaust nanoparticles (sub-PM2.5) are small enough to penetrate the respiratory system, diffuse to the blood stream, and cross the blood-brain barrier.

Here in London, some of the most obviously polluted and stinking roads are those where the traffic barely moves at all - lots of slow moving or idling vehicles. There isn't a great deal of brake or tyre wear when vehicles are standing still!
"now does cloudy things" has really made my day, thanks. Unfortunately, a lot of modern software does cloudy things, Windows 10 and MS Office included.
We should all move to Krubnernetes
WLW: America's 500,000 watt radio station (2015)
It isn't free -- you have to watch ads, which detracts severely from the learning and enjoyment.
Where are you seeing the advice on protecting documents and valuables that you think is dangerous? I see: "Important family documents such as copies of insurance policies, identification and bank account records saved electronically or in a waterproof, portable container" which seems very reasonable?
Cool! So you have to get really far off before it doesn't notice?
We built a free tool for exactly this: https://itemsy.com/

You can save links in the web app, via email, browser extension or pull automatically by integrating with a Medium blog or any RSS feed. Link collections get automatically turned into an email newsletter that can be personal, public or shared within a group.

We recently launched 'Picked for you' which suggests links you might find interesting. Also, we launch new features daily so feedback and requests are more than welcome!
I have a system of subscribing to RSS feeds and following accounts on Twitter as my source of news and continuing education, starring/bookmarking/favoriting items that look interesting, then returning later to read them - a two-pass filter basically. I'll then remove items I've read if I don't plan to return to them later.

In order to view all these saved links as well as share with anyone interested, I created a website to republish them all on one page:

https://savedforlater.dev

There's more info about the philosophy and implementation on GitHub, as well as all the source: https://github.com/jacobwgillespie/saved-for-later.
I'm not sure I would call a/c/g/t the opcodes, I deem them to be the equivalents of 0 and 1. Opcodes could probably be some proteins?
Yeah. Most "utility" dog breeds have been created simply by selecting for aptitude and propensity for a specific aspect of ancestral pack hunting behavior – tracking, stalking, pursuing, herding, catching, killing, or bringing kill back.
Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media).

With regards to being better / worse in the shell scripting domain, I would say that currently performance wise, Perl is better for shell scripting. But development of shell script-wise, I think Raku has superior handling of command line parameters built in: https://docs.raku.org/language/create-cli
Yeah I got FttH gigabit down 50 meg up for $65 here in upstate NY. It's the best in the area and it's a small company.
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There's a standard recommendation to periodically look away from your monitor and focus on something farther away for a few moments because of mumble mumble eye strain mumble reasons.

I don't know if a monitor farther away would alleviate this. There are differences, because even if it is the same visual angle you are focusing on something farther away. (For a quick example, sit in front of a window, ideally a dirty one, and shift your focus from a point on the window to the scene behind, back and forth, while still looking in the same direction.)
This latest development follows a 26 December 2019 ruling by the Constitutional Court of Turkey that the more than two and a half year block imposed by the Turkish government was unconstitutional. Earlier today, the Turkish Constitutional Court made the full text of that ruling available to the public, and shortly after, we received reports that access was restored to Wikipedia.
There's applications to do this on Windows too. Using Sandboxie you can create a sandbox on the file system to isolate files (for sketchup for example) in the same way you can use a Wine prefix to isolate a single application.

Of course this doesn't cover all uses, but in my experience Windows tools exist to provide most features you can use Wine for. The difference is having to download 20 apps for 20 things and writing 20 scripts to automate everything versus downloading wine and just writing 20 scripts.
Each human sits on a contraption that can move the human in front of the desired cabinet, within some subrange of the overall storage unit.

These crazy elevator things must be able to move left and right to some degree as well as up and down, right?

It seems crazy that this solution would achieve a faster seek time than some sort of conveyor belt moving a human just left and right in front of a normal height stack.
My apologies, you are right. There’s even a case from a few years ago where EUCJ decided that it lacks jurisdiction.
There is a salt mine in Kansas that has a good tour.

https://www.underkansas.org/
Could you explain a little bit more what you didnt like about the video course. No affiliation but I want to enter this area and I always looking forward to understand what make a course bad/good for a student.
On the phones that have a home button and 3d touch, you can switch to the previous app or bring up the app switcher with a force touch swipe from the left edge, fyi.
Well, they could take a leaf from India and just rename the city? Although, politically motivated in India, it works. Eventually Bombay became Mumbai, Bangalore is Bengaluru, Madras is now Chennai and what was known as Allahabad is now Prayagraj.
I’ve mostly given up, since web developers seem to have forgotten that URIs should be stable. If there’s a 50% chance it’ll be gone when I go to look for it, it’s not worth the effort to me.

This is like reason #17 why I wish we had a hypertext system (like we used to have) that was separate from the application deployment system (that’s been given to us).
Excel actually mostly ignores the extension and relies on heuristics to detect the file type on load. Many web applications used to implement "XLS export" by writing out CSV file with .xls extension.

This magic detection of file type has one unfortunate side effect: it is not exactly obvious how to convince Excel to load plain text data that is not CSV with delimiters from the current locale. (which is major PITA with most European locales where Excel uses "Semicolon"-SV and not "Comma"-SV but still calls it CSV)
Just rebooted mine using VuePress: https://ethanaa.com
An "about" page would help
No problem.

Basically the physicists thought I was winding them up and the engineers, notably including the prof, thought my priorities were all screwed up. I really did want to know the answer, but in retrospect they were both a little bit right.
I don't think about Spanish flu when I think about travel to Spain.
Some answers:

#1 VC is very expensive. If you need it, you need it, but debt and customers are non-diluting.

#4 #7 #5 Are all a pain and extra work.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/576000/total-health-expe... shows its up by about 30%, relative to GDP.

That doesn’t look worrying to me. Think of it: if you ask people wants most important to them, health always is #1. Also, there’s only that much utility you can get from owning ever more clothes, cars, or houses.

Also, the health industry isn’t automated that much, meaning
economies of scale don’t work as well there as in other industries.

So, it shouldn’t be strange that, the richer a country gets, the more it (relatively) spends on health care.
Make a Plan -> Step 4 documents
This is really good work! I have been trying to find a hub that I can use between Macbook Pro and LG 27UK850-W USB Type C display but so far didn't have a chance

MacbookPro <-> USB-C Hub <-> Display

Currently, the display can provide enough power to RMP, I would like to have hub in between so that I still have only one cable but it seems impossible to find
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It was determined that the axe had missed the jugular vein[7] and a clot had prevented Mike from bleeding to death. Although most of his head was severed, most of his brain stem and one ear were left on his body. Since basic functions (breathing, heart rate, etc.) as well as most of a chicken's reflex actions are controlled by the brain stem, Mike was able to remain quite healthy.
Your IT department decided that "blogs" are forbidden? Any clue why?
There's also lots of information at other layers, e.g. epigenetics, that is difficult to capture and adds additional complexity to interpreting a genome, in addition to elaborate post-processing and other aspects of the 'compiler'.
https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html might also be quite interesting due to the potentially significantly higher fuzzing speed (no fork(2) for each try).
In companies, the biggest problem is their "risk culture". Some of these aspects apply also to individuals and families.

In short, a company "Risk culture" is the sum of the company's "shared values, beliefs, knowledge, attitudes and understanding about risk, shared by a group of people with a common intended purpose..." (as described by the Institute of Risk Management).
I think you go a bit too far here. Of course math theorems, scientific consensus, algorithmic inventions etc. are not up for democratic debate, they are specialized subjects, to be debated among experts.

However, when it comes to applying said technology to society at large, we do all need to have a say in what happens.

For example, the science of nuclear physics is not up to democratic debate. But whether to nuke another nation definitely is (indirectly, via elections). And today with more and more algorithmic tracking and data analysis it is de facto up to tech companies to decide in what ways the deeply impact society without our consent.

Yes, measuring the performance of a classifier from different aspects, with different metrics and optimizing it with novel techniques is not the job of the public. But deciding whether we allow an all-encompassing social credit system that assigns you "sentiment scores", tries to guess your level of narcissism and sociopathy and recklessness based on your Uber data or emails or Airbnb feedbacks etc. definitely is. "We're not yet there", you say. I say, give it some time. If it's up to businesses we will arrive there. The only way around it is the democratic process you despise.
But, it takes a month to receive an order from Wish in the US.
The George Bush example was not impressive. I havent seen many DeepFakes, but is hair generally not part of the equation?
There is no such thing as "ethical technology". A controlled fire can be used to cook food, repel predators, and torture enemies.
I have two levels of content saving:

1. Every article I will read, I'll drop straight into Pocket, to highlight/read. I will never rea the article outright - this is important, because some clickbait can find me in a "vulnerable" state. After this time has passed, I'd delete it out of my Pocket without reading if I determine it's not worth it. I delete about 40% of the stuff I intended to read.
In pocket, I would highlight heavily (I have pocket premium)

2. All my highlights, notes from the books I read, my Tweets, articles that I write and newsletters I send end up in my Evernote.
This gives me the single source of truth for the knowledge I am gathering. I can instantly search for a figure from an article I've read 3 years ago. I organize it by topic and treat it as a "Commonplace Book".

As such, this is not for organizing "Links", because I dont care about links. I care about quickly finding the piece of information I've seen on the web, and -of course - proper attribution.
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I have a 2201 day streak playing Duolingo. I love Duolingo. I have taken Spanish and French that whole time and German for a few years.

I find Duolingo to be an extremely fun game. My wife and I really enjoy trying to speak other languages and even more so now that we have talking children. I can speak passable Spanish and can string together broken sentences in French to be effective (they get what I mean) and hilarious to native speakers.

Duolingo has never purely taught me a language. If my wife didn't know Spanish and learning French like me, I would have never been able to practice enough in the real world to know.

I enjoy using Duolingo immensely. For me it is a fun way to toy around with a hobby I've had for years without committing myself to dedicated training costs and time.
https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/2020-q1-renter-mig...

> Methodology

> Results are based on searches of Apartment List users occurring between June 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. We include data from both registered and unregistered users. While registered users are uniquely identified, unregistered users who perform multiple searches may be counted multiple times. For users who search in multiple locations, we consider the initial search location to be the primary one. Each user’s current place of residence is defined by the IP address from which the user is searching. All results are aggregated at the metro level, using Census definitions of metropolitan statistical areas.

I forget what its called, but this is the sample population problem where all of the sample is based on people who voluntarily come to a website. This can substantially skew the results, IIRC.

For example, I can't determine if the study demonstrates the impact of Paradise, California being completely evacuated. It's a bombed out ghost-town and probably 20,000 people have moved some place else, even if to nearby Chico, Red Bluff, Redding, and Sacramento areas.

I also wonder about other factors. California has a looming tax-base problem in that new company formation outside of tech and biotech is slowing, new small businesses creation is slowing, the number of public employee pensioners is rapidly growing and the pension fund is backed up by tax dollars, should the fund lose money in a downturn. Most of the people leaving the state are taxpayers and not government employees and the rate of business exodus continues to grow, even for capital-intensive manufacturers but including large publicly-traded companies such as McKesson.

Gaining a better understanding of who is leaving will provide a far more valuable insight into how this activity is going to affect the state than just broad stats on where people are leaving and where they are going to.
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Thanks so much people, I really appreciate all your feedback. I read all comments, already answered to some them. I will try to respond to every one, but can't promise that.

I noted down all the feedback and ideas for improvement and will tackle those points:

* better filters (video resolution, displayPort, card readers, power delivery) and sorting by price, "no-feature" search

* Better and cleaner design

* Moar data: definitely Thunderbolt 3 hubs and usb-c hubs of higher quality (anker?)

* implement reviewmeta to check the reviews of each product

* better quality of product data/prices and so on
Let's just say I'm seriously dissatisfied by how I deal with them. After trying multiple variants I (once again) ended up basically just using Pocket (which I hate and promise myself to replace by Wallabag or such, but... yeah) for everything I'm going to read (removing permanently after it's done), and just bookmarking everything I want to keep between history cleanups in my address bar suggestions without sorting much.

I would like to use bookmarks more, assigning tags, using them in my planning, but Firefox bookmarks just suck and I end up spending too much time without any benefits. There were some external tools for that, but they aren't better than a plain text file because of poor browser integration.

Anything that can be annotated and put into context ends up somewhere in my *.md notes.
Or mount the drawers for each pair of columns in a paternoster elevator arrangement (but not running continuously.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster
This is a course a few friends are working through and they recommended it highly. https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra...
Don't forget the Flat Earth movement.

I don't think anything about that is "deliberate propaganda".

It's just nutjobs gathering and gatherings of nutjobs creating more nutjobs. It's much easier these days with "social" media.
I was an admin for a company that had lots of open plan offices. In one of these offices a specific row of computers kept failing. Although they were cheap (Compaq Evos with NT4), they were pretty damn reliable throughout the rest of the company.

Lot of head scratching ensued about the fault. Nothing really made sense.

Totally by chance we found out what was wrong. One Saturday when the office was empty and with no a/c background noise one of the other admins noticed the PCs in the problem row weren't making any fan noise. A quick investigation revealed that the PSU fans had been blocked with paperclips and bits of paper causing the CPU to overheat.

An older member of staff who was in that row found the PSU fan noise irritating and just decided to take action to stop it. She genuinely didn't realise she was breaking the PCs.
My current probability distribution is just a bunch of curve fitting and solving the equations as I put them in the StackExchange question.

I don't sum over all k, I only sum over k - 1, k and k + 1 where k is the closest integer to c.

I don't believe you can get constant variance, due to the endpoints, where if you wish to have a correct mean (non-negotiable) the variance must approach 0. Therefore I believe the optimal variance curve to be constant in the middle with a small curve towards 0 at the endpoints.

> May I ask how you came up with the current probability distribution? you call it triangular but it's not really a hat distribution.

The reason it's called this way is because in a linear space this effect can be achieved by a regular additive dither using a noise source that follows the [triangular distribution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_distribution). Why? I don't know I got from reading some audio dithering material. But plotting the results does give beautiful near-constant variance dithering, if we ignore sRGB and assume a linear space, except at the endpoints. This can be corrected, see this question: https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/a/8777/10515. That's the origin of the plotting code as well.

You can recover the correct linear p(c, k) by doing a convolution of the triangular distribution with a unit box: https://i.imgur.com/2AKVS4B.png
Maybe vaccine can be made similar as those of Mers,SARS since the virus is closely related to those genetically.
Damnit he skipped the female models. Which I think is the most funny. Thinking about monetization - what about animal models? Who wouldn't want to look like a panther...
Tell HN: There is a flame-war detection system
I'm seeing this often enough to think it's worth telling people about.

HN has a an automated simple proxy for flame-war detection. One characteristic of flame-wars is that people get into a to'n'fro over the issue, and the number of comments balloons. However, no one else is really interested, so they don't upvote the submisson, and the participants can only upvote a submission once, so the number of points doesn't increase.

Result is that a simply proxy for a flame-war is the number of comments on a submission out-stripping the number of votes.

A side-effect of that is that if there's a mildly interesting submission that lots of people comment on, but very few upvote, then the flame-war penalty will be triggered, and the submission will sink like a stone, never to be seen again.

Like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22158218

It's a reasonably interesting collection of suggestions and comments from a fairly wide range of the HN community, but it's now lost, because while people commented, they didn't upvote.

So this is a public service announcement ... if something is interesting enough to comment on, consider upvoting as well, so others can see your comment, and you can then see theirs.
Clickable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22158218

(This post, and this link, partly so I'll be able to find that submission again, and its friend from earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105561 )