skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it's working fine, but in a POSIWID sense.

As a former Quora Top Writer [1], I'd say Quora's Partner Program is a bad idea. They're substituting an extrinsic reward, money, for intrinsic rewards (like wanting to know the answer to a question). That is proven to reduce quality, originality, and learning. [2] Like all affiliate programs, spam is not a side effect of the program; it's built in. In the POSIWID sense, it's the purpose.

Assuming his screenshot is correct, Quora must have been making plenty of money from him if they were willing to pay him $2k for a month's work. And now they're making even more money, in that they're going to keep the $2k, and all the profitable questions he asked. Plus they also get the feeling of performative virtue that comes with banning the naughty spammer.

In reality, it was always a double bind. They were paying people to do a thing, but not wanting them to act like they were paid to do a thing. And whichever side you fall on, Quora wins and you lose.

But this sort of doublethink pervades Quora. From the get-go, it was supposed to be an elevated discussion, a coming-together of great minds and great writers. But they have been burning something like $20m/year for a decade. That bill was always going to come due. They were always going to have to act a lot more like the grubby, money-motivated properties from which they pretended to be different. Now that they're at the 10-year mark, presumably their many investors are eager for return, so I expect this is just the start of the shenanigans there. And given the number of good writers in the audience, I'm sure we'll hear about it in detail.

[1] Specifically a top writer in 2013 and 2014: https://www.quora.com/profile/William-Pietri

[2] See, e.g., Kohn's Punished by Rewards: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004MYFLDG/
The website is https://ncov2019.live/. Looks like he submitted it on HN a month ago [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280691
You're better off educating yourself.

I'm not saying they are all like this, but finance is one of those industries where you often don't get what you pay for...
I just have to think this through because now I’ve heard both positions!

...if you put $1,000 in the 401k and it’s matched up to to $2,000 and then it grows to $20,000 and you’re in a 25% tax bracket then you’ll pay $5,000 in taxes on the $20k, leaving you with $15k.

...in the Roth IRA you put $1,000 and it grows to $10,000. You only pay $250 in tax though, so you’re left with $9,750. But that’s far less than $15k.

So, seems like if there’s a match you should take it!

After the match is used up, the next $1,000 in the IRA grows to $10,000 and you pay $2,500 in taxes on that... 10x more than the Roth.

So it sounds like the rule is use the Roth after the match is used up. (Although that will depend on your tax bracket both at the time of investment and up it expected bracket for retirement)
I don't know if one unsourced article claiming it's a myth is enough to demonstrate that it is the case. It's true that briefly cooking tomatoes or tomato-based sauces is fine. Slow cooking them for three or four hours is a different question.
The Trump EPA Is Restricting EPA Science
> a new Lisp dialect written in itself called Bel (2019).

Is this accurate? I thought it was a spec for a new Lisp?
South Korea church leader apologises for spreading Coronavirus
Aside: this is one of the biggest lessons of my adult life. Just because I could make something doesn't mean I should make something. Learning to value your time is a very underdeveloped skill.
In my experience working as a consultant to probably 1000 lawyers over the last 10 years-- from solos to biglaw partners-- it's absolutely true. The most highly paid are not clustered at the far end of the skill/experience bell curve.
>but I'm sorry I think there is an upper bound of justifiable tax

I'm sorry, but I think there's an upper bound on necessary accumulated wealth.
Here is a link fyi : https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/no...

Here is the rel attribute desc : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...
where you will find an explanation :

"The rel attribute has no default value. If the attribute is omitted or if none of the values in the attribute are supported, then the document has no particular relationship with the destination resource other than there being a hyperlink between the two. In this case, on <link> and <form>, if the rel attribute is absent, has no keywords, or if not one or more of the space-separated keywords above, then the element does not create any links. <a> and <area> will still created links, but without a defined relationship."
Yes, exceptions affect optimizations. The crux is that anything that might throw is a barrier to any other statement with observable side effects before or after it. Neither can be moved to the other side of the potential thrower. However, explicit error handling adds a branch and explicit return inatead of a potentially throwing statement, so if the compiler is rightfully pessimistic, no performance is lost. In the other hand, you can make the compiler ignore the potential for exceptions by declaring functions and methods nothrow. This will make the compiler ignore all considerations for potential exceptions in callers and lead to better optimizations in some cases. But sticking nothrow onto things is hard because when a nothrow fuction does happen to throw, you're in UB land.
There was a link to googlemaps where you see endles rows of Abrams tanks sitting in the desert. Quite impressive. But say what you want, at least this keeps the industrial capacities and capabilites alive!

Still pretty pointless, so.
Those are often places that aren't really fully staffed.

If the place is fully staffed and well managed the beach vehicles shouldn't be needed cause the lifeguards should be close enough to not need them. Most places I've seen ATVs in use the ATVs were being used by volunteers who were not lifeguards but watch the beach and call the coast guard/lifeguards on the phone if there is an emergency. The main beach I see this at is ultra dangerous with cold water, dangerous undertows, thousands of harbor seals in the water, and now has occasional great white sharks hunting the seals!

Making a beach safe enough requires a lot of well trained lifeguards. Not many beaches are ever staffed like that.

If it's dangerous enough some of the guards might need to be in the water on personal watercraft. Usually I've only seen this in super dangerous surfing locations though.

A full lifeguard training program also typically contains training on using a rescue board which is basically like a surfboard and can be super useful in ocean surf.

Baywatch was always super funny.. they carried Rescue Buoys which were near obsolete in favor of Rescue Tubes by the 90s. (The rescue tube is flexible and can be clipped into a circle once you reach the victim.) But the scenes on Baywatch would have realistically often have been done with both a rescue buoy + a rescue board.

Ocean surf is super dangerous, water temps can be dangerous at the ocean. Then in some places you've got sharks, jellyfish, coral reefs.

It's super intimidating compared to working a pool.
https://www.govliquidation.com/

Looks like the site moved to https://www.go-dove.com/
What I said was silly if you take the 0th approximation in logic. Companies run growth/marketing tests all the time. It's not unreasonable to assume this is one of them. If they can make the case that prodding with dollars will incite users to come back to the platform to get their genuine questions answered, then this is worth it.

What the author is doing is gaming the system and taking away the full intent of the hypothetical test/growth strategy. He is doing the equivalent of opening up a merchant account to collect 5% credit card reward cash back and paying 3% in merchant fees to net a 2% difference. Obviously the intent of the credit card company wasn't to get their raw transaction numbers up- it was to incite new and genuine transactions onto their card.

Similarly, Quora, while may want to get their raw numbers of questions up, they wanted to get this goal achieved while preserving the integrity of their platform via genuine content.

What's silly about that?
Prime example: the NRO donated two unused spy satellites to NASA, each more powerful than the Hubble Telescope.

https://www.space.com/16000-spy-satellites-space-telescopes-...
> One of these stations will not give me cancer while a typical nuclear reactor very much might. The laws of physics sure are harsh. Such as there is no safe level of radiation, radiation releases usually happen around fission reactors and any fission nuclear reactor will make life more dangerous for people around it.

Is this the real truth as to why nuclear hasn't caught on?
I never got to properly thank the 15-yo lifeguard who saved my 7-yo from certain drowning in a crowded artificial lake pool.

We turned away for what only seemed a minute and he was going under. He was slightly blue in the face when the life guard brought him out.

The weird thing is he didn't fight or flail. He just sort of faded away into the water, and it struck me as especially weird that he didn't seemed scared at all after.

It has haunted me ever since just how easy it can be for a child to drown. Many swim lessons for my child later, I still watch him like a hawk and insist on life jackets in any moving water conditions.

Bondi Rescue, a series on Netflix about a team of Australian lifeguards, is instructive and entertaining.
This looks very similar to appear.in . We used to use appear.in about 7 years ago, when it was open like this. Unfortunately, all of these type of services require some kind of revenue model, and it usually requires them to limit or completely close their "open" versions.
Turkey’s Killer Drone Swarm Poses Syria Air Challenge to Putin
Slide: First algorithm for training deep neural nets faster on CPUs than GPUs
This was making the rounds a few days ago in my low carb FB group. I haven't looked into it too much, but it sounded intriguing.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191115190327.h...
IECC and UNSCEAR disagree with you.
I’ll chime in here to say we use both at work.
In a NOC at a medium-sized ISP, we are getting hammered with alerts 24/7. Some are not urgent, while others need to be actioned much faster - I mean 100G transit link down is no good.

We’d receive an automatic email about a large circuit going down, we’d also receive a ticket about it; sometimes people dont look at the tickets closely enough, other times people get distracted with other topics, issues, etc. Having a large screen with interface status monitoring has proven to be effective enough; for example, someone walks by the monitor and says “why is this thing red, is it supposed to be?... and we immediately know one of the larger interfaces is down.

In an ideal world, we would not need it because every ticket will be diligently dealt with.... however in a real world, having a big red part of the screen flashing had proved quite effective.
Whataboutism is a lazy response.
> It can be harder to tell how accurate any answer is on Reddit, and any advice should initially be taken with a big grain of salt.

> a little skepticism is your friend [...] further investigate on your own

> always try to reference the true source material [...] don’t assume [...] cross-check [...] double check.

> scrutinize the details, lead with skepticism, and, when appropriate, consult with professionals

The article says almost the same things as you and even ends with your recommendation.

Did you read it?
> from strangers on the internet

... who lean pretty heavily toward socialism.
unlike solar, geographic diversity in wind goes a long way toward addressing intermittency. anyone who's ever build a server cluster or a DR plan knows the solution to higher availability is to just leave some spare capacity on the table. when wind costs 1/3rd of nuclear, and has half the capacity factor, well the math is not hard.

nuclear reactors are mainframes. gas plants are ibm/hp/sun. on-shore and off-shore wind are windows and linux on intel. solar is cell phones.

we never got rid of mainframes. they are still built and sold today. but no amount of arguing about their technical superiority in the 80s would have put you on the right side of that bet.
I've recently become enamored with micro-hydro generation, having seen ways in which it can be totally non-destructive to local wildlife and/or fish going through the generator, and while I completely agree with everything you've said regarding nuclear vs micro-anything, for personal power generation on a farmstead, nuclear is pretty inaccessible.

On the other hand, this guy's[1] manufactured a micro-hydro 2km drop generator capable of producing 5-12kWh per day for ~$50 in parts (turbine 3D printed). That's of course limited to drop power (meaning you have a high body of water and a low body of water and generate power, like a dam, by capturing energy from passing the falling water between them through a turbine) but for relatively level bodies of running water (read: creeks, streams, etc) a small, non-destructive weir dam can capture 100kWh per day from a single diverted turbine if conditions are good.[2]

Of course, conditions aren't always, and not everywhere has access to any immediate water supply from which to generate power, but it seems to me that for those places that do, capturing their own power via micro-hydro frees up other generated power for the folks that don't -- but that might be a naive view.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw&t=2s

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61lZn1sUkzE&list=PLtTypVpmDd...
>most importantly, take a break from smoking which is know to increase ACE2

Not going to lie, I'm very very glad I quit smoking before this coronavirus business. I was down to just a vape by June last year and I quit that in December.
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If my 3yo goes into the bathroom and gets quiet, 9/10 he is making toothpaste/shampoo/toilet paper art all over the floor.
While the OP's statement is factually untrue, fear of nuclear is one of the biggest reason indeed.
PHP, at least, is (or used to be, I've been out of that world for... oh wow, a long time now) a really thin layer over C, so that's its excuse.
I think the key is: learn swimming in an early age and then regularly go swimming. Swimming, not using floating toys. Children, who regularly play in the water - we did all kind of water-wrestling :) - can get extremely proficient at it.
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There are special benefits provided for those under low incomes in many jurisdictions. If you go from $24,999 to $25,000 you may see some supplemental food income benefits go from $400 a month to $200 a month (not an actual example- but you get the idea). Generally though, these cases are not common and are really overstated as a problem IMHO. They also tend to overlook that its far more beneficial to take the raise and whatever temporary setback that might come with it to move yourself up the wage scales.

Why it comes up in these discussions as something meaningful always confuses me. To me its akin to explaining to someone that squirrels are not harmful to humans and we should not walk around terrified of them and having someone come by and say "but actually, they could have rabies...." I mean, you aren't wrong, but you are essentially spreading misinformation by implying that this is common instead of exceedingly rare and something people should be wary of as they walk down the street every day. Its the exact type of misinformation that politicians use to make disingenuous arguments to steer people into supporting their policies, and the HN crowd should be above that IMHO.
> Get a fence.

killjoywashere obviously just blocks the pool entrance with their enormous trophy case
One of the best posts on why cloud native architecture matters to real people
I didn't have to repeat any words for my kids - they'd figure out words like Gaurus and spoiler, sometimes even faster than their parents.

Kids pick up language differently though. Look at feral kids - the ones who have never picked up a language as a child often don't pick any languages up even later in life.
Tyson Fury Finally Opens Up on When He Will Retire
Is it PEMDAS or PEDMAS ?
You're right, I scrolled through and then did a word search. Must've made a typo. Anyhow, the title is not what the submission title is.
Because complaining about RH being a low quality trading platform is like being angry at the burger quality at McDonald's. You get what you pay for.
I don't dispute it has niches where it does well, or at least "works". The implication often given is general purpose productivity superiority.
This kind of "appeal to authority" argument reminds me of the recent interview with an industry "veteran" (60 years experience in developing combustion engines) and professor where he condemned electric cars and claimed they will not help the climate.

Being experienced doesn't mean you can't be foolish/dogmatic or simply wrong. And it doesn't always take an even more experienced researcher to prove someone wrong.

I wish we would discuss more about the actual issues instead of belittling users' qualifications to speak about them.
Definition POSIWID: The purpose of a system is what it does
Postgres is great but it's totally unsuitable for the kinds of queries I need to run. They'd be horribly inefficient even with indices significantly larger than the data tables themselves.
While there may be several things missing for many productive use cases (especially inserts/updates), I think QLever (https://github.com/ad-freiburg/QLever) fits that description very well. There's also a public endpoint linked there.
I love this story. Reminds me of Contact, one of my favorite movie quotes of all time:

'First rule of government spending: why build one when you can have two for twice the price?'
> And then there are of course people who just disable exceptions. Some disable exceptions but still use the standard library and just kind of hope that everything will still work?

No, there are features in most of the standard library that allow you to confirm that an object is in a state where it won't throw an exception, and you use those. For example, with std::map you can check the return of find() against end() to determine whether you can safely access the second element of the tuple. So you would do that before you access the tuple.

And you would generally write your own classes to either crash the process quickly or fail gracefully on construction. Basically you have to manage the shutdown of your process when you encounter exceptional situations in the constructor.

You can also count on any "exception" that is thrown with no-exceptions to result in an immediate crash.
Waste in government is a huge problem, there's no need to conflate it with military readiness to make it look larger.
I agree that SPARQL must be considered, and so must Datalog and Prolog. Idk but I'm starting to believe that new-fangled standardization efforts (if you want to call those that) are starting over from scratch and actively avoid looking at prior art as a generation thing. I mean I don't know the people behind gql but I can get that younger devs think there's absolutely no reason that 1985-2010ers had all the fun.

Though I could see why someone wouldn't like SPARQL and RDF, with its bulk reuse of other W3C and TBL concepts such as URLs, resulting in atom and predicate names verbosely and pointlessly beginning with "http://".
Unless "the good" (Android) is funded by the "evil" (Google).
> I don't mind leaving my child unattended for a short period in a safe area.

...and safety is relative to this child's capability. My parents put me through extensive swimming lessons from a young age precisely so they could let me play unsupervised in the ocean. I'd been a half mile out to sea alone by the time I was 10. Turns out I wasn't as unsupervised as I thought; my mum was freaking out but, unable to swim, couldn't do anything about it!

But if the child can't swim, no alone pool time for them.
waves in former Top Writer

Yeah, Quora was useful to me in dark times; it was nice to be able to feel like I could sincerely help a single person. And sometimes those answers helped a lot more than one person. I wrote some things I'm really proud of there. But eventually I felt used and a bit addicted, so I got out.

In retrospect, I'm glad I did. Every time I look it seems sadder, farther from what drew me to it.
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
They count on a few things:

* you don't hear about all the millions of times this happens

* You will still hear about thousands of times that it happens, and it happens so often you feel that can't possibly fight it all

* you don't have alternative options to vote for

* any alternative option is crushed with voter suppression and/or the massive campaign chests of the incumbents
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Here are three negative results (all randomized controlled trials) for Vitamin D supplementation during the winter:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.0006...

failed to show any effect on wintertime supplementation of D (using pre-registered criteria)

http://www.vitaminedelft.org/files/art/ling2009.pdf
"no benefit"

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/fo/c4fo0...
"did not lower incidence of influenza"
GitHub Repo with nothing on it and a ton of likes and stars
Most comments seemed to be responding to the title, which misses the point. The title is quite editorialized.

The real point of the article is that there's no drug or vaccine in the works that will be able to prevent the impending U.S. epidemic, so don't pin your hopes on them.

I'd go so far as to suggest a new title of "Get Real - Drugs and Vaccines won't Prevent a U.S. Epidemic".
Here is a recent article about the project with a little more detail about the deal that was made between NY and Tesla.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-gigafactory-2-new-y...
Good job chasing Amazon out of NYC though!
It is latency sensitive as the transmission protocol
might substract from the usefullness. But this serves for future optimization. The title was not taken from the paper but from the nature article where the paper was initially cited.
Yesterday one friend's mom had respiratory failure and got hard - locked jaws.

This was Coronavirus

She was administered intravenous antibiotics and Cortisol

After that she got bit better
As usual, Tesla's involvement in the original deal is reported incorrectly. Tesla had no involvement in the original deal. Nor did Solar City. In fact, Silevo did the deal, was then acquired by Solar City which was then acquired by Tesla.
Coronavirus: Chinese app WeChat censored virus content since 1 Jan
Yes, I also was pretty oblivious to this until Walther Bright mentioned it in the D forums a few months back. I went back and did some simple tests with the compiler explorer and sure enough, I got some extra overhead in the generated code with exceptions enabled as soon as the compiler could not prove the absence of exceptions.
Check out the readme. There are many erros that can only be catched by validation and not by parsing.
The Wing’s Audrey Gelman confronts the realities of rapid growth
Is time broken? Physicists filmed a quantum measurement but ‘moment’ was blurry
I don't have a picture, but most of Motorola phones have a mix of greys on it's menu, making it super hard to identify when it's activated or deactivated. IIRC activated is light grey and it really looks like it's deactivated.
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