skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-official answer:

Not all upvotes are considered equal. There is logic in the system to prevent voting rings. If people are suspected of having a groups of friends and they all upvote each others' submissions indiscriminately, then the votes aren't counted against the people, but are still counted for the article.

There's more to it, and I don't know all the details, but in short, you don't always get votes credited to you, hence the "roughly" in the FAQ.

You can email the mods and ask for more details, but the algorithms are not completely open, not least because they discourage really caring about karma. It's rough and ready and good enough to help rank items and comments.
Anti-solar panel can generate electricity at night, researches say
And if browsers did something sensible with I'm A Teapot it would "have quickly joined that list of top tier codes right behind 200". So? We have what we have.
Socialism isn't as narrow a term as you seem to think it is... It's quite a broad concept that can (and does) coexist with Capitalism.
The atmosphere is what blocks radiation, not the magnetosphere.
They say we need drastic changes based on the best evidence we have along with given the likely outcomes if change isn't introduced.

What you're saying is that you have established a prior that undermines all further evidence presented to you, because it has changed substantially in the past. However, that seems irrational to me.
There was a small midwestern airport I used to fly in and out of.

They had the "new" terminal, all of 3 gates. And then the baggage pickup area.

In between those areas was the "old terminal" it was this absolutely pristine 1960s ish airport waiting area that was hexagon shaped with this gorgeous black flooring also in a hexagon shape, a big brass compass in the middle, and everything in that area radiated out from that compas, the seats were lined up along the lines of the hexagon. Service desks, bar, etc. It had big tall windows (a few stories tall) so you could see out onto the runways.

Sadly it eventually was torn down when they renovated the entire structure for a new more modern boxy... thing.
I can't speak for other people but the only reason I still use Python is because of it's syntax (but the "one way to do it" is slowly changing). You get much better concurrency with Golang and even better parallelism with Julia.

It is dominant in data science but still some people use it for other things because the syntax is so simple (Scheme is a close second for me).
The trickiness is going to be two-fold.

The trickiest part is going to be that some previous GPS coordinates will have been "pinned" to the 1994 grid, and others will have been taken live over that time span.

See, surveyors have always known that you can't actually just write down the GPS coordinates of a boundary or intersection or bridge, because of this exact problem. So surveyors do the math (well, most likely their specialized surveying GPS equipment does the math) and write down the coordinates relative to the baseline for the continental plate in question.

If you have coordinates you know were LAT, LNG in the 1994 baseline, it's easy to apply the transform and get the LAT', LNG' in the new 2020 baseline.

But what happens if your coordinates weren't provided by a surveyor carefully surveying a location in the appropriate baseline? What if your coordinates were measured by a jerk walking to a place last year with a GPS and writing down whatever was displayed? Those coordinates don't need to be transformed, they were already basically correct for the 2020 baseline. If you add the correction to those numbers you're introducing a new error. And to make matters worse, people have been entering non-calibrated numbers into your data set for 25 years -- some numbers will have 5 years of drift, some 15 years. If you know when an uncalibrated measurement was made, you can kind-of interpolate the drift, but without that you're just SoL.

To make matters worse, a company like Google is using data from a wide variety of sources, some they gathered themselves, some they get from others. With your own data, you might at least know either whether it was calibrated to the previous baseline or at least when it was collected, but someone else's dataset might be messy in unknownable ways.

Say you previously got the location of a park entrance from a government parks department, in the 1994 coordinates. Now you go through your aggregated dataset and apply the transformation to the coordinates and get the new number in 2020 coordinates (which thankfully will match what a consumer GPS actually says, now). Next month, when you update your data from the government parks department, it gives you a different coordinate for the park entrance, which is neither the number you had previously for the entrance in 1994 coordinates nor the number you computed in 2020 coordinates.

Now, do you assume that new number is in the new coordinate system, or might it still have been measured in the old coordinate system, either having been measured prior to the changeover or just on old equipment that was not updated? Ideally your interchange format would include the time a GPS measurement was taken as well as any baseline it was calibrated to, but do you want to guess how often interchange formats are "ideal"?

So, long story short, it's going to be a long time before most of the old coordinates are flushed from the system, and you'll probably occasionally see a "wrong" coordinate that can be traced to this sort of thing every now and again for the rest of your life.
Yeah it seems like "the future".

With the exception of the planes that all seem to be careening out of control...
No I am tired of this WHERE (a = b) or (a IS NULL AND b IS NULL)

Null should equal null like in every other programming language even SQL group by do null equals null which is even more inconsistent.
The 6 months travel time are with current technology, and in a few decades we might be able to have better propulsion systems. It's like saying that keeping the MAD threat alive is expensive because you have to refuel those bombers that circle over the arctic... eventually you find better tech.

Also, once the nuke rocket is near mars, it takes only a signal at light speed to re-direct it at whatever settlement you want to target.
In fact, you pretty much had to...
Same in SQL Server.. this is documented behavior

Also a null is no equal to anything.. not even another null

This will print false in SQL Server

if null = null
print 'true'
else
print 'false'
I think the issue here is that SQL should have more "NULL variants" to express why there is no concrete value.

A NULL value technically means it's unknown. An unknown value might be 5, hence why it's not in the result set. Some abuse NULL to mean "value doesn't exist". But a value that doesn't exist can't be 3, or 42, or any other value that's different from 5, so in that regard shouldn't be part of the result set either.

Others again abuse NULL to mean "doesn't apply". And in that case I think it makes sense to include the row in the result set. For example, if I write a query to get all people who's middle name is not "William", I'd most likely want people without middle names included.

Maybe we should have introduced NEX (non-existing) and NAP (non-applicable) as possible values in addition to NULL?
I like the domain, haha! But cannot read the article because my eyes are bleeding from the yellow bright background color and huge fonts.
What you are saying is true; what I was keeping myself confined to are the codes that you have reasonable assurance that the client will actually do something with. A lot of those codes will not cause the client to do anything terribly specific, like "follow a redirect"; it'll just return the content as if it was a 200, and if it's an API, maybe return the request as failed, but that's about it. In the vast majority of cases, clients don't particularly care if they get 400, 401, 403, 404, or indeed, 4xx.

I wonder if there's even a single client in the world that will get a standards-compliant 412 Precondition Failed and try a second request with a different set of conditions. Or indeed do anything sensibly different at all vs. having received a 404. (I specify "standards-compliant" because I'm sure there's plenty of APIs that use 412 for something non-standard.)
watch the website: https://www.dealnews.com/Motile-AMD-Ryzen-3-14-Laptop-for-19...

Or Ebay has them for ~$220+
Agile software development is dead. Deal with it
Hmm, I thought that being against the onslaught of hellish forces, and finally victorious, should feel good. (My upbringing is different, can't compare.)

Maybe the Return to Castle Wolfenstein? Quake II? Or, well, Unreal?
is there any other examples of successful crowd equity platform (gaming or not?)
Oh, sure; I only meant to say, that normally the "evolutionary pressure" is for mutations to be less dangerous, rather than more dangerous. If anything, we should be hoping for those sorts of mutations.
people buying that car not because of Musk himself, but because finally there is a fun car being produced. And that is what other car manufacturers haven't gotten done in many years.
Not a catastrophe for whom is the obvious question here.
But it should make the scientists more circumspect about public policy recommendations. They're not making evidence-based policy, if yesterday's models are evidence and today's models are not.

> This is how science works — it is a process that strives to be as accurate as possible, not come up with a static answer and stick to it (that’s what religion does).

That's fine. Many public policy advocates throw around the term 'settled science'. But based on what you said, is there such a thing?
The mythos and meaning behind Pokémon’s most famous glitch (2019)
It doesn't answer your question exactly..but for many things you should find help instead of learning on your own.

For example, take shooting; if you try to learn on your own, all you will do is develop bad habits that have to be unlearned later.
There's not much point, because the data WHO has on the outbreak is being collated from Chinese sources who probably aren't telling the truth. WHO doesn't have a lot of people on the ground in Wuhan and the rest of China feeding them information.

I'm sure there's a database for this outbreak in there somewhere, but I'm also sure the data presently in it is useless. It's likely that at this point the Chinese government doesn't even have accurate data.
are thus an exercise in straight extrapolation based on very complex and interconnected inputs

If I throw a ball to you, your ability to put your hand approximately where it's going to be and catch it is "extrapolation based on very complex and interconnected inputs," and as it gets closer you're able to improve based on additional input.

Sure the models could all be wrong, we could be on the brink of a new ice age, and that ball could suddenly take a sharp right turn and accelerate. I wouldn't recommend putting all your money on either of those as a bet.
I think the best counterpoint to this is Houston. It's hot, humid, has inclement weather and wild temperature swings. The summers are brutal and no one likes the weather but it's the 4th most populated city in the US.

They live there because the city's economy is strong and that's where the jobs are. Sure, it would be nice to live in a place like Duluth but people follow jobs.
> Also a null is no equal to anything.

Wrong. It is equal to UNKNOWN:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/is-null-t...
Yes it would be terribly foolhardy for us to stop polluting the atmosphere prematurely.
deaths due to flu are overestimated in western world as those are mainly due to flu striking after patient is going through some other illness and flu was the final blow.

Pure flu deaths are very low.
Which is a shame because the author has great ideas about communal workflow
Sounds like a disaster when trying to correlate Ids/keys between tables.
Not even joking I quit drinking and started eating healthier as I followed this. I have been watching and reading since it was a few hundred confirmed cases and I think it will become a very large outbreak.
The part about cancer was where I stopped reading. I got cancer they just cut it out it isn't that bad! Middle class people don't die of cancer?
Just to be clear, undefined is not valid in JSON. The only types in JSON are nulls, strings, numbers, arrays, booleans and objects.
Total wars are not known to increase the quality of life. If a transition to a green economy guaranteed such massive economic gains (and no pains) don't you think that politicians of all colours would scramble to implement it? The first step to solving issues is to acknowledge all the difficulties that lie ahead: otherwise you end up in a delusional state in which solutions are obvious and easy and the only reason they're not adopted is that everyone else is evil.
Elect a government that will ban imports from polluting countries.
That will have no effect on the query.
I still maintain that the only (not the "best", but the only) way to really learn something - even something technical - is to understand its history and understand how it got to be the way it is. Everything starts out about as simple as you expect it would be - probably the way you or I or anybody else would put it together if we didn't have any guidelines to work off of, and ends up being refined a bit at a time as more surprises are discovered. The problem is, what you end up with - like modern CSS - just don't make a lot of sense unless you understand what problems the current versions were refined to work around.
Archivists Are Bypassing Paywalls to Share Studies About Coronaviruses
> could mutate and change it's behavior(sic)

We could also get hit by an asteroid tomorrow and most life on Earth wiped out, guess that isn't newsworthy though. Hope people are worried about that danger, despite all the effort put in we routinely can't detect dangerous objects that come near Earth. Scary stuff.

How many people have died outside China from this virus again? Is it zero? Last I looked it was zero human beings have died outside of China, perhaps I'm wrong.
"But if a single non-accredited investor lands on their website as the result of clicking an ad, the law has been broken." + invests. Right? Otherwise, AVG which is all over social media would be at fault.
My "dystopian future prediction" is it's about to get a whole lot worse.

Browser makers can stop JS shenanigans, but they are also integrating web assembly: the perfect tool for creating user-hostile, proprietary, unblockable features.

Sites will deploy stupid things like "a browser inside a browser". Soon OCR/"analog holes" will be the only way around them.
Humans have hardware operating on Mars right now.
LendingClub, Prosper are ones that come to mind
The American Concordes That Never Flew – BBC Future
This is a completely surreal comment. "One side"? When we're on Mars you'd hope that there would be two sides: Earth and Mars, from the perspective of someone on Mars their buddies next door are a lot more important than any kind of allegiance to Earth based bits such as nations.
Giving first-line managers the freedom to hire and fire would be a stupid way to manage an organization. Most of those managers lack the experience, competence, and perspective to make that type of decision effectively. Which is why competent organizations support them with a surrounding structure of corporate policies, senior management, and human resources to (hopefully) prevent first-line managers from making too many mistakes.
That's fine, unless we have something better to do. If it takes 10,000 years or 100,000 years, it doesn't matter, unless the work being done is detracting from more important work. Many people, myself included, would struggle to think of more impactful goals for humanity to accomplish. Feeding, clothing, and housing everyone would be nice, but those things are still far more personal than any project that aims to prolong our very existence as a species.
The earth masses about 8.7 * 10^24kg. The crust itself is about 2.8 * 10^19kg. The crust is about 0.0003% of the mass of earth. So if we moved the entire crust of earth to the moon it would barely touch the orbital revolution of the moon unless we also transferred energy along with those 28 quadrillion metric tons of mass.
For customers: Free games all the time.

For developers: A huge lump sum of cash (although this certainly won't continue forever)
Yes it includes all those examples. Humans could endeavor to build many vast underground or undersea habitats (mineshaft gap!) that serve as a protective function for, I dunno 1 millionth(?) the cost of sending a terraform crew Mars with probably a million X more capacity to support humanity, plus the ability to use it and iterate on it right now.

Doesn't sound very sexy though right? Kind of like all the data engineering, infrastructure plumbing I do to help our data scientists and ML folks do the sexy inference work.

I'll do a little pre-buttal here about what kind of science we're "losing out on" by not pursuing more space: Building for underground or undersea habitats has significantly less research put into it than space habitation, so you'd see an equivalent boom in research/technology development that has dual use as we did in the 1950s likely.
Live BBC weather report by a photo-realistic AI-avatar
Somehow other regions manage to handle traffic congestion without creating 85db of noise pollution.
James Woods is among my least favorite writers. His previous book "How Fiction Works" was condescending and pretentious. This essay collection is no different.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Kirn-t.html
I live in a small, old apartment in the EU, without proper AC. I'm pretty worried about the next summer. I can crash at a friend where the temperature never went above 26C last summer, despite a heatwave.

I always hope that if heatwaves keep coming summer after summer, governments/the UN will take tough decisions.

If nothing is done and summers are too hot, I clearly see people protesting/striking/blocking roads/etc until governments concede. My biggest fear are consumers that will refuse to adapt their consumption because they will see this as unfair rich-vs-poor restrictions. People addicted to consumerism would easily riot to denounce how capitalism ruined their living standard.
I build tooling for a team in a Fintech company that does exactly this, but on an Enterprise level. Right now, there's too many issues, I'd say, to make this a viable alternative to just developing on a local client or self-hosted desktop. There's tons of cost-saving potential though, and I definitely think it'll be the norm in the future.
CES 2020 – Journalists Recap
Get GMDX.
I'll grant you that "perfect" is not a very useful term in this case. Perfect means many different things to different people.

But, I'd absolutely disagree that nostalgia is the only thing that makes classic Doom fun. And, it's the crux of what I meant when I said "games don't age." There is a style of gameplay there which I believe is fun at any period in time. There's a lot I could say here, but I'd argue that if a game is only interesting when it's novel and it's cutting edge, then the core gameplay was never good to begin with. (for example, Chess is pretty archaic, but the idea that Chess was only fun back when it was really first popularized is similarly false.)
The problem is that those tools, while solving some problems in the development stage, create a host of other problems at other points in time: first install, building, deployment, maintenance...
Having access to that store on multiple computers and mobile devices is definitely a useful feature.

Set a super long generated password on your bank account and then need to log in on your phone? That's a pain if you're just using KeepPass on your desktop.

That said using an encrypted storage file and an existing file sync service (Dropbox, Box.net, Onedrive, GDrive) and a client that supports using such a file would solve the problem, and I think 1Password at least supports this.
Pretty much everybody: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/20/climate-change-to-slow-globa...

> In other words, if global GDP doubles or halves by 2100, the results suggest real GDP per capita would still be 7.22% below where it would be otherwise.

For most of the world, an RCP8.5 scenario is equivalent to knocking out 3-4 years of GDP growth. Bad, but not catastrophic, and probably less bad than the impact of "WWII-style mobilization" and shifting the economy into command-and-control mode.
Citi suspends senior bond trader over alleged theft from canteen
I saw the John Cleese video about creativity years ago, and it completely changed my perspective for the better about how to actually achieve creative results reliably. In particular, I found very valuable the insight that you need to screw around in a focused way for a somewhat long period of time to really start the process. A 15 minute brainstorming session doesn't cut it.
I suppose my immediate question is - is there any way for an non-professional with a pair of eyes and a smartphone to contribute in a crowd-sourcy way?
BeOS users can still use that if they want. Nothing stopping them at all.
I'd be happy to report maps issues for Apple, Google or any other corporation with a market cap of over $100 billion, at my consulting rate of $800/hour.

Of course, I contribute to OpenStreetMaps pro bono.
What? My 9700 pro was legendary...
88/12 revenue split vs Steam's 70/30. But you also get more visibility from being on a less crowded, less junky storefront.

And although it's unlikely to continue too much longer, Epic has set an interesting precedent with funding $10-off coupons during sales out of their own pocket. If you're at the classic $15-25 indie game price point, there's a nice possibility there for your customer to get $10 off and you to still get your full cut.
Publicly Shareable Temp URL with AWS S3 (Go and CLI)
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Soliciting investment from non-accredited investors is illegal. I learned this from an attorney who specializes in securitization when I was exploring doing a crypto business. It was also explained to me that local angel investing groups exist pretty much for this reason. They create a semi-private network of accredited investors which can be used by the local community to solicit capital in a legal way.
Cheap beer and cigarettes are not provided for by tax dollars though.

BP and Facebook probably don't pay much tax in Australia either, where beer and cigarettes are not particularly cheap (mostly due to sin taxes)
The sum total of human activity in the last 100 years also eclipses the sum total of all human activity prior (300k years worth). Humanity didn't do a lot for a long time.

But yes, Mars would be a mega project. Isaac Arthur does great stuff on Youtube which gives an idea of the magnitude of the works necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFOBoy2MZ8
> basic addition is not a skill that atrophies.

The evidence you provided suggests otherwise. :)

I'm sure the person can still add, but it's a bit slow(er) without practice, they got frustrated, and so handed back the change.
You should get an AC unit. A window one if you have the right kind of window, or a larger, mobile one.
> The title seems like clickbait

Not to diverge, but I'd be extremely wary of editorial bias/spin from this particular publication until November or so.. which is not to say that the topic itself is suspect - as you point out, the big question is if the updated model is actually worse than previous models or if it is better
Dedicated frequencies for emergency services is not something new that 5G brings to the table. See FirstNet for an example of LTE running on dedicated public safety frequencies.
I’d say that if I had the CLT installed before upgrading, the OS updater should make sure I have the new version after upgrade.