skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two weeks ago in Atlanta, I was dropping my wife to the Airport. Atlanta traffic was doing it's thing (not moving). Google said it found alternate route that will save 7 minutes. I was like meh. Then it said 10 minutes so I took the turn. I don't know how many people did the same but I ended up spending half an hour extra in some internal road and half of it was being stuck in a right turn lane that rejoined the original highway I was on. So if I had kept on the slow moving highway I would have definitely reached much earlier than the alternate route. Bottom line is that the 'Save time' works only when the alternate route is truly alternate and not just a detour and rejoin the same highway as you will get stuck on the ramp while joining back.
I was dealing with NULLs whole day on MySQL workbench. It wasn't considering int as NULL value. Needed to make all empty cells 0 to be able to import data properly.
But not the cryptography that was in use at the time - for example Enigma is more combinatorial than number-theoretic.
TF2 has also accumulated a decent amount of design cruft -- I'm not a fan of the cosmetics added post-release that alter the silhouettes of the classes, plus the alternate weapons dramatically change how some classes play/must be played against.
At the end of the article, apparently it has something to do with clouds.
What about in the case where it's already known that there is a product-market fit?

When Pioneers leave an absolute mess in their wake, changes to the project take more and
more time. There is a trade-off, and the "immature pioneer" mindset (working with no thought for the future maintenance of the code) can make the scaling / maturing process of a product needlessly painful and slow.
Gilad Bracha: Dart, Newspeak, and More (2011)
What Lovelock is suggesting that if Musk wants a challenge, he should try to fix this planet. Instead of seeking a challenge in brand new, clean space for him and a few extremely lucky individuals, how about saving the planet for seven billion of them?

I think Lovelock is missing that Musk is also doing some of that -- he thinks that electricity storage is the key. I suspect Lovelock knows that -- the "Mars" and "Musk" aspects are a tiny fragment of the interview, and perhaps if he'd elaborated he's have talked more about that. Lovelock is right that there's much more to do, though.

Musk is perhaps understandably self-centered in that he wants his adventure to include a clean-sheet planet, an adventure open to humans for most of history until the last century or so. There are lots of adventures here, but they're messier and harder, and it's not as if Musk is opting completely out of them. So I think Lovelock is partly on the mark and partly off it, and I think it's a mistake for the headline to focus on that one tiny part of the interview.
You'll find no shortage of people wanting to negotiate with you if you are consistently willing to give up negotiating leverage for feeling good afterwards. In the case of the trinket vendor, they won't spend a second thinking about that one tourist who negotiated better or worse than the other hundred tourists that day. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with charity, but I don't think you should delude yourself into thinking it's anything other than that. Personally I can think of other causes I find more deserving than trinket vendors in touristy areas but whatever floats your boat on that.
I carry a 10000 mAh battery pack[1] in my jacket[2], which besides powering the heater elements inside the jacket also provides wireless charging to my phone.

I don't know about effectiveness, but 20-30 minutes of wireless charging gives 60% + of battery power on my phone, and while i don't regularly charge my phone fully in the jacket, only top it off, i charge the battery pack once every week or so, and it is very rarely at 0%

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SANAG-Wireless-Portable-10000mAh-Co...

[2]: https://www.ministryofsupply.com/products/mens-mercury-intel...
Oh, the memories!

Speaking of Italy, my family comes from central Italy, in the country, 100kms from Rome, I was born in Rome, but spent a lot of time there.

My mom's sister still lives in a tiny village of about 15 hundreds inhabitants.

My grandmother was a farmer, my grandfather a tailor, they used to have all kinds of animals in their farm, from cows (they had two, they made milk that they sold to the local milk consortium), they had pigs, sheeps, chickens, rabbits, pigeons, everything one imagine in a small family farm.

I used to drink fresh milk and eat tomatoes straight from the plant, we slaughtered our pigs every year near the epiphany and we hate "polenta e spuntature" on the "scifa" (a large plate of wood) together (like these fine gentlemen in the picture http://i.imgur.com/zcYK800.png), we made, and still make, our own wine and olive oil.

It wasn't much different from what Americans imagine in their tv shows and movies Soviet villages with babushka in the 50s, but it was the 70s in Italy and we already had cars and trucks (the milk tank truck was very much like this one already https://www.autocarri.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20190506...) and, of course, there was the occasional donkey cart, but it was already more folklore than the norm.
Sampling vs. Tracing (2016)
AFAIK, this Oracle "feature" is only true for columns marked as "not nullable". So if you attempt to insert an empty sting ("") into a not-nullable column, it will fail.

All other relational databases differentiate between empty strings and NULL.
A massive, underground biodome would be cheaper and easier.
Outer Wilds is definitely up there as one of my favourite games recently, I have no idea it was borne from Fig!
> I wept for the state of public education, basic addition is lost skill it seems

What does this have to do with "public education"?

They could have been taught it in elementary school, but if they were in their mid-20s, then it would probably have been over a decade since they were tested on it even in secondary/high school.

And that skill would have atrophied with non-use on a day-to-day basis.
British English? Which part of the UK is that from.

I speak English English.
The Zoning Strait-Jacket: Freezing American Neighborhoods of Single-Family Homes
For getting shit done you need to market your ideas well to right people who work and who give out the capital. If you don't inspire them, you won't get anything done.
Apart from Humble Monthly, I think maybe all but one game I've bought this year was Epic exclusive. Unless Valve decides to get off it's monopoly laurels, I would expect that to be the new default in PC game launches going forward. Epic's offer is just so much more compelling than Valve's. And it sounds like they should have the tools to roll out onboarding a lot more games ready this year, so they'll probably have a large wave of non-exclusives as well.

I would always assume anything you crowdfund will disappoint you in some way. Plans change. When you crowdfund, expect the general direction, not the exact outcome.
How do you know people think lesser of you? Have you asked people that? Is it really true? Why is what other people think important to you?
Technically maybe.
The comment I replied to said: 'There was _never_ anything wrong with PHP, really.' (Emphasis mine.)

Btw, I do agree with most of the changes Facebook's Hack made to PHP.
If there are indeed zero consequences to harming the relationship, sure, you 'win'. In practically all real situations, there are consequences: You personally become inured to harming relationships, if it's a business transaction your coworkers get used to that as well. If your victim talks to other people you might do business with (either through networks you're unaware of - trinket vendor happens to have a beer with your hotel concierge, say - or just by leaving a negative comment on your business' social media, that has consequences. Or if previous people like you have played hardball with them in the past you might be starting out from a far worse perspective than if they thought people like you were generous and kind.

I personally can't stand it when rich foreigners try to get a souvenir for a few dollars less than the list price. That infinitesimal fraction of your wealth doesn't matter to you; but it could make a big difference to them. And similarly, I hate when I have to treat business deals as if I'm negotiating with a hostile enemy, when we can both benefit.
:D

Very cool to see one of my internet homes here. I'm one of the mods/devs here and would love to highlight some of our recent datasets as well try my best to answer any questions! We're very active in the r/DataHoarders community on Reddit and regularly help out in the efforts to save large sites from disappearing offline as well as helping ease the distribution of hot content.

- https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/exdka0// The Coronavirus Papers

- https://old.reddit.com/r/HofellerDocuments/comments/enj8f0// The Hofeller Files

- https://old.reddit.com/r/opendirectories/comments/cy8jry// eXoDOS v4.0

- https://the-eye.eu/public/Games/Flashpoint_7.1_Ultimate.7z Mirror of https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

- https://searchin.the-eye.eu/ Full-text search of a few of datasets

- https://discord.gg/the-eye Our wonderful community on Discord
> To fix this, all Australian states and territories have agreed to update their coordinates by June. However, they are all doing it at their own speeds.

> Official government road maps and property boundaries will now line up perfectly with GPS location data.

> It will take some time for companies like Google to pick up and implement the new data. But when they do, you will enjoy slightly more accurate satellite navigation.

I don't get it. Does Google have to wait for government? Why couldn't Google incrementally add 1.8 meter to its maps on its own schedule, years ago?
Sorry but I think I don't understand your question.
Founder’s Guide: How to Outsource Software Development in 2020
In his experience with anything health related. He’s 100 years old.
Does anybody know how what3words is dealing with this?
Do locations suddenly have a new 3 word location, or have the words stayed the same and the location they refer to (in GPS co-ordinates) changed?
Discussed by Alex Tabarrok at the Marginal Revolution blog https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/02/th... .
Note that these are only the confirmed deaths, which is a lower bound. We know that the true number is much larger.
My third hand information frmo a coworker who is friends with people on the maps team is that some percentage of people will get routed into the traffic, and some percentage will get routed to alternate routes, of which there may be a few. Google appears to take a rather active stance on increasing total traffic flow, even at the expense of giving some number of drivers suboptimal routes.
The article isn't very precise, but my understanding was that the run some kind of machine learning based on past data. Adding in the more recent data changed the predictions dramatically.

So it's not an issue of versioning (I assume they could reproduce the old results using the old data).
You are not the only one. I get that there are some exotic and theoretical corner cases where nulls actually are problematic, but for the vast, vast majority of practical cases, nulls and three state logic are very useful. In my humble opinion.
Rules for Remote Work
This brought a smile :)

'Lovelock: You see, when I passed 100, I thought, "What is there to do now? What is there to look forward to?" I don't have any more duties. I enjoy life now... When I wake up in the morning I often think: "Oh, it’s a nice world!" I live here with my wife, we are still in love, what more do I want?'
The 27-model average referenced in this article is 3.86 degrees C.
Then it intuitively seems there already are many people infected all over the world and we can't really prevent the infection from spreading, the measures being taken are futile. Brace yourself, buy grocery supplies and prepare your immune systems - start sleeping enough, eating healthy etc now.
So, holistically, it would seem like warming (a fever) or Coronavirus (anti-bodies) is part of the planets immune system, but humans are too advanced.
They do this in Tijuana too (in this case honk when the red is about to turn green). They clearly are not giving you a chance, you are always just presumed to be sleeping.
Again, there's nothing accusatory about it. Stop moving the goal posts. People didn't like it. Instead of blaming me, and pretending "Cris wrote something bad", they need to face how they felt about it.

But to learn more about what you mean, how would you rewrite that in a way that sounds sympathetic/didactic to you?

In addition, what's wrong with suggesting you read the comments I just wrote? Maybe you'll learn something is not saying you are ignorant at all. Just saying I have something to offer that maybe you didn't think of. I think that's a totally valid and healthy way to think about my own contribution. If I wanted to call you an ignorant idiot, I just would have said it. So... I think that's you totally misinterpreting based on, probably, precisely the triggering issue I identify with eng culture. So thanks for proving my point. Because what's wrong with learning something? That's a good thing. Learning is a strength. Admitting "I don't know" is a pre-requisite, and acknowledging, "heck, someone else probably does know" is a corollary.

It's a theory about engineers but it fits a lot of the data I see. It's not a matter of being convinced otherwise, because it's not binary. There's not only one truth. It can be true for some people and not true for others. I think it's a useful theory that highlights how an aspect of the job/predilection affects/correlates with people socially. I'm comfortable believing it and also not believing every person with engineering skills needs to be like that.

I think your interpretation of bad intent is based on an overly inflexible reading of what my response to that question. It sounds like you want to find something bad there. It's not that hard to "presume good faith" and work to find that, rather than (as it looks like you did here) doubling down trying to "prove" I'm somehow doing something wrong.

Anyway, have a good one. Hopefully this was instructive somehow, if you're flexible enough to hear it. Just a different point of view, doesn't have to threaten your world view, just can be "something in addition" you add to your own perspective. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tried that with a fully specced out machine. It doesn't matter if VNC, X11 XDMCP, Teamviewer, Anydesk or some of the more obscure things I tried out. The latency kills all the fun.
I’ve read a few times that clouds are a big problem for climate modelers as they are far more complex in their implications for the climate than my grade school planet heats > evaporation > cloud forms > rain falls understanding of them suggests.

There’s a nice article here on the issue and frustration of clouds for climate modelers by the head of the Royal Meteorological Society here: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-clouds-hold-key-b...
Our work works in parallel the Internet Archive. Preservation is all about storing content in multiple locations and we regularly hand off content to IA, as well as host it ourselves, when saving and sharing content.
The title seems like clickbait, and the last part of the article does explain that the scientists actually know that new cloud models are mostly responsible for the change.

The big question is then of course whether the new cloud model is wrong and the temperature increase therefore as well, or whether the new cloud model is more accurate than previous ones and the temperature increase is a real effect.

I found another article that looks at this in a bit more detail:

https://news.ucar.edu/132678/ncars-new-climate-model-running...

The linked paper this is based on has the following as the last sentence:

> What scares us is not that the CESM2ECS is wrong (all models are wrong, [Box, 1976]) but that it might be right.
A "classic" is timeless (cf. Reflections on trusting trust, published in 1984). This essay used to be spot on; with age, it didn't become classic, it went the other route and became obsolete (as it was rightfully critiquing PHP 5.3).
> How did the phone break?

It could have as simply as not paying the bill because "why do we need this? we never use it".
Using Twilio and Interzoid for Global Monitoring and Alerting
Probably true of SARS as well though, right?
Only some software is that flexible, and then that flexibility will end with the end of support time.

Ultimately all software becomes very inflexible if you cannot get the source code or especially flash firmware.
Roughly 4 million people left Wuhan over the new year. The stringent measures they are now taking are too little too late. See for example the very slow rate at which border crossing points in Hong Kong are being closed.
The EU already told the industry to come up with a common standard, before that. This is the result of that call to action.
Assuming you are interested in technology, I would say Web Development. It's one of the growing careers out there and as a freelancer, it is good to learn new technologies as the . field is constantly evolving. Learning JavaScript and HTML might be a good start for you.
There are just so, so many problems with these benchmarks. (This comment from the author of Servant, a Haskell framework, nicely sums up a lot of the criticism: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6b3dlt/techempower...) But cherry picking the single query benchmark in particular makes the issue worse. Like... how many web apps do you stand up where you have one client you want to serve? At least the "multiple requests" benchmark is sort of plausible for the kind of workload you'd want to handle.

In most cases, though, you care a lot more about the 95th or even 99th percentile response times than you do the mean; I'd trade quite a bit percentage-wise off my mean response time if it brought the 95th percentile way down.

(This isn't to hate on PHP; PHP is fine. But you shouldn't choose it because the "single query" benchmark says it's fast.)
> 3. Don't try to win. (The extra 1-5% you might gain in most cases is outweighed by the negativity of the event. If you're negotiating with a future employer, vendor, or potential client, then the value of having them actually want to talk to you is greater than the difference most of the time.)

This one is useful when the two parties are equals, but it is horribly wrong in negotiating with a future employer.

Once they've identified you as someone they want, and they've made you an initial offer, nothing you can say* will make them walk. And if you negotiate well, you'll be identified as higher value than someone who didn't.

*Within reason - if they offer $120k and you ask $150k, that's fine. If they offer $120k and you ask $500k, you might run into problems.
I stopped reading when he said, “eh, cancer’s not so bad” and “rich people don’t die from cancer anymore, so we shouldn’t worry about.”
Could it be a selection bias?
For some winning is crushing the opponent. But this mentality works short term only.. I prefer to find the middle ground if possible
It's not machine learning, it's a physical model. Computers solve a big differential equation that takes in all of the physical things we know about the Earth's climate system and runs them forward in time. The increase in thermal predictions are due to changes in the cloud and aerosol models which were made due to an improved understanding of the physics involved.
"You are in private mode. Subscribe to continue reading." Ok, that's one more I will not open anymore; seems Bloomberg started using similar "privacy mode" detection as NYT.
Coronavirus is far more infectious than sars. Numbers infected are likely 100k or more. This will become a pandemic. I can’t see how they can contain this. What we don’t know yet, is the mortality rate. Yes, we know the Chinese are hiding the deaths.
How Hackers Crack WPA2 Networks Using the Pmkid Hashcat Attack
> you got everything to get plants to grow. Nothing can grow on the moon unless you import carbon.

Nothing is going to be growing on Mars either, outside of pressurized chambers, which, in the event of a loss of pressure, will kill everyone inside. The atmosphere is so thin that you really aren't gaining anything by not just bringing the carbon with you.

Frankly, the idea of colonizing the Moon or Mars, except in the sense of a temporary science post like the ISS, is a sci-fi fantasy that will never make practical or economic sense. Why am I going to want to build an industrial base on Mars? Why is it economically feasible? How many people are going to want to live in a cramped cage their entire life, never able to go outside, afflicted by low-gravity diseases? What can be produced or gotten on Mars that can't be on Earth for 1% of the effort and cost?

People don't want to live in Antarctica or the bottom of the ocean right now, and these environments are much more survivable than the Moon or Mars, and more economically feasible to boot. Why is anything going to change?
> where you plan to build the "factory" that can ramp a dedicated pipeline of hypercasual games with in-game monetization

Please don't. The human race needs exactly zero additional buzzword moneygrab games.

> But I am not sure what if it went anywhere

The first market will come online this quarter, IIRC tied to the Stock Exchange of Thailand. The company getting it off the ground (they were awarded the first license) is using Tezos to distribute tokens.
> I don't see it as anything more than what JFK did. Tickling the never-ending exploration/expansion desires of humanity.

I would agree. This is what fuels SpaceX. Aspiration. He's generated excitement and interest in space that rivals what JFK did, it doesn't have to be more. People in my life with no previous interest in the subject now want to hear all about it.
> Is the argument that it would be easy enough to build on Earth places to survive such events rather than going to Mars?

I'd say the argument is that Mars is currently a (much) less hospitable place for life as we know it than the Earth in any nuclear winter scenario that I know of.
Yes, but it is the same for total number infected. Outside estimates are that there are more than 100k infected. That would put the mortality rate ~= the flu.
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Also I think thos release will make UEFI installations easier on AMD64.
It's not like they put words in his mouth...
I think one of the examples this perhaps is most intriguing is when a crowdfund is so successful the company ends up turning around and bringing in a ton of cash after. In that scenario, one could see these early backers actually getting their investment back out... and still getting the game/end product.

I think it's a nice potential outcome. And in the case of failure, you still didn't get your video game and are out your investment... the same as a normal crowdfund.

Of course, if I recall, actual "investment" via Fig sits an order of magnitude above what most backers would even consider, which is why Fig still does normal crowdfunding too.
I'll be honest here. I can't tell if this is satire or not.
If you want some details from a more rigorous point of view, check out

https://www.icsm.gov.au/gda2020/what-changing-and-why

Similar efforts are going on elsewhere, e.g.

https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/datums/newdatums/TrackOurProgress.s...