skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's something schools should do but the logistics of doing it is difficult. You don't want to do it for a whole gym class and you want more instructors available than schools have staff to provide so they have to work with some other group to get enough people to work individually with the kids.
> State government documents put the final price tag at $958,600,000 for the property, building construction and equipment. The cost for the equipment alone is close to $300 million.

What a staggering number. How does our government get away with wasting so much money without any accountability?
> What financial advisor is going to be able to make a living telling people to buy and hold a target date retirement fund from Vanguard/Fidelity/Schwab?

The kind you pay for by the hour and for whom it would be a criminal violation of fiduciary duty sell you an expensive whole life insurance that they get a commission for.
I'm slightly confused; is the story that the state of New York bought equipment for Tesla worth $300 million dollars, and a sixth of it is currently unused (meaning five sixths of it is being used currently)?
Even better, use more interim variables.

You'll thank me when you're printf debugging.
I think also the flyswatter works because it does not displace air the same way that your hand does when you're trying to smack a fly with it. Flies can tell when something is headed their way because they feel the air move.
Are Macs More Secure?
doing an audit of the DoD still cost over $400M

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2018/11/15/heres-what-t...
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Yeah, it's better with HTML than with PDF, but it's still pretty terrible... Use some actually structured data format like XML (XHTML would be good), because you don't want to include a complete browser just to search for text
You can always fork and maintain the Python2 runtime yourself. Or pay somebody to do it. Or wait and see if a community fork of a maintained Python 2 emerges (or maybe it already has, I haven't really been paying attention to the issue).

But otherwise, I don't have a ton of sympathy here... Python 3 was announced in 2008... people have known that they needed to start moving away from Python 2 for around 12 years. If you're panicking now because Python 2 is about to go away, it's hard not to ask "What were you waiting for?"
Seconded. If you're a pro or plan on using a tool a lot it makes great sense, but if you're just getting your feet wet or a dilettante then go with something cheaper until you KNOW you need something more.

Source: my collection of high end crap I never use.
Correct, and developing trust is a fundamental tool in every salesman's pocket.
Convert an array of key-value tuples into an object
It took me a while to understand what you're saying. Please consider not using the condescending question marks.
Just that the Intel modems had a reputation for being more trouble-prone than Qualcomm.

Now that I look back, however, I think I was wrong. I was probably on Verizon on the iPhone X, which would have been Qualcomm.
Google is filled with so many garbage results.

In this case I would just replace 'Google' with 'the internet'. Switching search providers isn't going to make a marked difference the vast majority of the time, as at the end of the day, if the vast majority of the internet is filled with 'garbage' a search engine can only do so much to avoid it.
The Netherlands has this issue as well, points of income where your marginal gain is negative, ergo losing net money when making more gross money due to losing benefits. There are also indirect problems such as losing access to certain services (cheaper housing being one).
Obviously, this shouldn't be the case. Making more money gross should result in equal-or-more money net, without disadvantages, otherwise the incentive is gone.
> The fact that Robinhood is telling people anything about the outage is only because they are the company they are, operating in the startup world/mentaity.

Yep. Intercontinental Exchange and Eurex, two huge capital markets exchanges, routinely have multi-hour outages and don't even acknowledge that they've happened, let alone explain them.
> You should always have 18 months of expenses saved

The r/personalfinance "Common Topics" page suggests 3-6 months for most people and 9-12 for those with variable income.
It isn't that black and white. For example, in Canada, I can contribute a certain amount into a tax-free savings account each year.

TFSAs can be created to hold ETFs, Mutual Funds and other types of investments. I can contribute $6k for 2020, and the total I can hold in TFSA is $69,500. I can contribute more annually as long as my total is under $69.5k.

With a raise, I can accelerate my contributions and continue to enjoy tax-free gains on it. My personal average income tax rate might go up, but that's offset to an extent by whatever returns I'm making through my portfolio.
Mine worked great for about 25 uses then got clogged internally. I can’t unclog it with destroying it. Expensive novelty
> and added some very hazardous electrical traps that will be hell to remove without my notes (which I have conveniently misplaced).

I'm pretty sure laying traps like that is illegal, like felony illegal.
> I’m comforted this shows that while money is necessary to win; the candidate has to be intrinsically viable.

Trump won, among other reasons, because he was the least viable candidate in the Republican field to a degree that made him very entertaining (and thus got him far more media coverage) and appealing to the anti status-quo zeitgeist of the moment.

Really I'm starting to suspect that entertainment value is the primary factor needed for political success at that level, with vast monetary resources being secondary, and that this has been the case since the famous televised debate between JFK and Nixon. Actual political experience and domain knowledge in matters of law, finance, and diplomacy are not only dead last in importance but to many Americans serve as reasons not to support a candidate. Americans hate politicians for the most part, but they love cowboys and scoundrels.

I'm worried that, if it comes down to Biden/Clinton vs Trump, all Trump has to do is make a joke about "Crazy Joe" and "Crooked Hillary" and he'll have another four years in the bag.
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some smaller ones focused more on professional work/discussion:

/r/museum
/r/contemporaryart
/r/BackgroundArt
/r/ArtsHub
/r/artsphere
/r/CulinaryPlating (for chefs, but some of their creations are quite artistic)
https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/
An automated email is ok but seeing visually a graph flat line or a monitor turn red is much more likely to get noticed.
I'm completely ignorant in the legal texts/contracts area, but they don't use parenthesis and lists? That seems hard to believe - or is it that they just don't use it to indicate precedence and order?
I don't mind leaving my child unattended for a short period in a safe area. But not near a pool.

Of course luxury homes with their own pool in the backyard put rather a big strain on safety around your own home. Put a good fence around it, I guess.
5 MW is the total sum of rated power output of all stations. If we take into account the actual power output, that's actually much lower (from 1.5x to 5-10x).

See loads for wind and solar.
I'd imagine you get used to it after a while.

When it's 50 degrees in September, people here in upstate NY put on gloves. When it's 50 degrees in April, they wear shorts.
What is the bottleneck your you?
Interesting, They block the Wayback Machine's Scraper
One way to grow a dating app? Pay people to go on a date
And an even scarier way of looking at it—or at least, one that should be scarier to you, as the API provider: if you charge a customer less than they’re willing to pay, then an “enterprise services” middleman will come along, and resell your product for what it’s actually worth to these customers, and capture all the profit.

It’s analogous to selling tickets: if you charge less than the market will bear, scalpers will come along and buy them all up, and then make all the profit you could have made reselling the tickets for what they’re “actually worth.”
OH I GET IT!

Bug Assault => bug-a-salt

That took too long, I need my morning coffee
How can I configure image to speed up mobile website?
The fact common language is inaccurate does not excuse it from being wrong. Example: the phrase "begging the question" is often misused when "raising the question" is meant.

Identities and data can be copied, not stolen. All examples you mentioned are "theft <X>" or "theft of <Y>" At the very least the term "theft of copyright" is somewhat descriptive, and does not equal it to theft, but that was not the descriptive term which was used.
IIRC the SLA for FPS is 2 hours. So if a bank stops processing them for an hour, that's within tolerance, and they don't need to tell anyone.

I think your point is that it's a very different mindset to the native internet world, and that is certainly true!
Builders are really only useful for small programs or classes that aren’t broadly used.

Otherwise, at some point you need to add a field to Person, and then the compiler can’t tell you about all the places where your code fails to initialize the field.

Worse, some people pass builders around.

At that point, the problem of checking that you’ve passed a legal set of arguments when constructing objects is as hard as the halting problem.

You can write tests to make sure your program is typesafe, but that takes time away from writing more useful tests.
Child marriage in Canada: A systematic review
Via auction site?
Show HN: Automated code security assistant for developers
Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead
I've heard you need to use it or lose when it comes to gov budgets. Anecdotes of jets dumping fuel into the ocean just to come back and refill to keep a budget.
“Beautiful React Hooks” – collection of useful hooks
This is about killing flies. No qualms here.
The best way to search on reddit is to use the "site:reddit.com/r/subreddit" method on Google, quickly gets you relevant results and is not that much of an effort either.
Raspberry Pi: SD Card Speed Test
Papa John's Reaches 25% Conversion Rate with AR Campaign
Accountability is boring. Voters want entertainment. So they listen to the far more interesting stories on talk radio and elect celebrities.
60m could have helped alot of people. Insane way to waste so much money imho.
Google Play hides search results for ‘coronavirus’ Android apps
I use it (Anki), but this is the 3rd time I got started using it (I dropped off twice).

For me, personally, these are the reasons:

- It was kind of annoying to do Anki every day at first. Cards always seemed either blindingly obvious (and seemingly a waste of time), or I just didn't know the content (in which case, it was frustrating knowing I'd have to memorize it right there since I knew it'd pop up again in a few cards). Not knowing the content tended to be caused by having too much info on the Anki card.

- I didn't see the benefit clearly until after a few weeks of doing it, when stuff EVENTUALLY sunk in.

- About 70% of the time, I discovered that the card I created was inadequate in some way.

* Some I just deleted because they were discovered to be redundant (i.e. covered by another card)

* Some I discovered to have to much info (so I had to break it into more cards)

* Some were just awkwardly phrased

* Some were good cards but displayed weirdly in the Anki mobile app.

I'd say the #1 thing that kept me from fully adopting it:

Not making cards as atomized as possible made things a pain.

I was lazy and made cards contain more info with the justification that I needed to see everything at once in context. This resulted in bloated cards and frustration.

Trust me: Every card should contain one idea. It will result in you making tons of cards, but it will make your daily Anki a lot less frustrating (and you'll be more likely to do it).
The vast majority of people don't have enough money to go past this flow chart from /r/personalfinance:

https://i.imgur.com/lSoUQr2.png

It would be the opposite of financial advice to pay someone to walk you through that flow chart and click a few buttons to invest it in the lowest cost index funds. I also don't recommend people hire a plumber to fix their toilet. Just youtube it. Do a few simple searches online, and you will find that you don't need to pay an "advisor", as much of their role has been obviated.
Alas that still doesn't solve intermittency. Even offshore is intermittent. 60% is very high, all the figures I saw where closer to 25%.

Also, nuclear reactors are deployed (Taishan 1 & 2, Hinkley Point, Flamanville...).

It is true, however, that nuclear has a glass ceiling. IMHO for the wrong reasons.
In principle this is what investors are for.

There is known demand among farmers for repairable tractors, but it costs a moderate amount (more than an individual farmer has) to develop one. So you go raise some investment money to develop the software and then make it back by selling repairable tractors at a profit.

Maybe if you succeed you'll get copycats using your software on their own tractors, but by that point you've already succeeded. It may even help you by growing your ecosystem and making you more competitive against the closed incumbents.
You're both right.

Instrumentation and alerts are vital - they leverage inhuman persistence, patience and low cost. But alerts do not substitute for a deep understanding of how your systems work.

A number of the more useful "pre-crime" alerts we have derived from that - if I hadn't been elbow-deep in our systems long enough to notice certain behaviors have non-obvious second- and third-order effects downstream, we wouldn't have the alerts at all.
Considering that Tesla will longer make solar cells in that factory (Panasonic is ending the relationship and withdrawing by September) I’d guess that it will all be unused shortly; this is just what has obviously been relocated so far.
> Somehow, it ends up with the same performance despite all of this constant branching error-checking and better performance when re-throwing exceptions.

SJLJ exceptions were also deterministic and slow.

The author's recorded a 2-4% slowdown in the case that exceptions weren't thrown (relative to zero-cost DWARF EH), and a 1-2% slowdown in the case that exceptions were thrown (again, relative to DWARF EH).

That's not an improvement, that's a regression.
The DoD budget is ~$700B, so that's <0.1%
Ask HN: How widespread are these VC shenanigans?
I'm a co-founder at a small NYC startup and, as is usual, sometimes random VCs reach out to chat or ask questions. Most of the time I either ignore or have a short conversation.

A few months ago, a relatively well known (though not huge) west coast firm reached out and based on their brand I answered and had a short and cordial chat. They seemed pretty helpful and at the end asked if there were any types of customers we were interested in connecting with. They followed up with an introduction to a (real, well known) company that fit our profile and I had a decent, though, in retrospect somewhat peculiar, conversation with someone who worked there (verified through LinkedIn and company email address) and was looking to address a problem that our product solves. Nothing came out of that lead and I quickly forgot about it.

A few days ago I realized that the potential customer I was speaking with was actually a buddy of someone at the VC firm and left their job to start a company that's pretty much doing the same thing we are. Not only that, but in retrospect, their questions now seem clearly designed to try and understand some of the unique propositions of our product.

Now I know that VCs will often take meetings just to ask lots of probing questions for their portfolio companies.

My question is, how widespread is this extreme tactic of going as far as offering a fake customer intro just to get deeper information on your product? Do other folks have even worse stories than that?
I kind of went the other way, I prefer the discussions on HN. Any subreddit that gets over 100K (and arguably fewer) subscribers just becomes a cesspit.

Take /r/ukpolitics for example, back in the day an anarcho-syndicalist could have a debate with a die-hard Thatcherite and while it'd be fairly heated, people tended to know their shit and I'd generally come away feeling like I learned something after reading the board for an hour or so. After 2015 (and even more so after the EU referendum) the subscriber count exploded and now it's a complete echo chamber. Try making an argument that the EU isn't some sort of Star Trekkian utopia or that Scottish independence might cause a lot of economic problems on that board and you'll get downvoted out of sight within maybe half an hour. It's very, very black and white now, the board is so fast that it's all about quick, karma-farming content rather than actual political debate.

I don't know why this seems to be a problem unique to Reddit. HN doesn't seem to have the same issue (at least not to the point it dominates the character of the platform), despite it being essentially a clone of old-school Reddit. It's a problem I'd be interested in knowing more about because I'm working on a platform with user-generated content. It's currently using a very naive "rank by votes, exclude old or heavily downvoted posts" approach but I fear this approach could lead to the same problem as Reddit.
Ctrl+F "remdesivir". No results in the article. Epic fail. There's really no cure for the Trump Derangement Syndrome, though.
as someone on low-carb I find this interresting, but any studies behind it?
Fellow 90's kid-pyro checking in. I remember when my father finally found my stash of black powder, metal tubing, various makeshift cannons, and flammable chemicals. Didn't really get in trouble--he was relieved it wasn't something as dangerous as weed.
> C++, Java, JavaScript, C#, PHP and who knows how many other languages largely copied the operator precedence rules of C

Ok, that's understandable for C++, but for all the other languages I really wonder what the reasoning behind this (if any) was - "our language looks similar to C, so we have to copy as many of its warts as possible so C developers feel at home" ?
This paper is truly interesting. People have been fighting the performance cost between exceptions and returning error codes for years, So the paper just designs an instruction level mapping of generating code as if exceptions would be returning error codes.

The approach is somewhat simple and really not that clever, yet the outcome looks impressive enough. This surprises me as it's just a mechanism of what people have been arguing over years.

Nicely done!
We compost everything else in California. Why not dead bodies?
> Mathematics is discovered, not created by humans.

That's conjecture. Some philosophies of mathematics in fact disagrees with this claim, which is exactly my point. This debate we're having cannot be settled by any sort of scientific or mathematical argument, it's a purely philosophical debate about the meaning of scientific and mathematical arguments and what should or should not qualify.
Marginal tax brackets yes, but there are also benefits that you lose access to based on income. The linked article is about food stamps, but imagine something like subsidized health insurance for people making under $50,000. Going from $49,999 to $50,0000 is much more costly than the taxes you paid on that dollar.
> I have been deploying it to apps for years, and have had zero problems/complaints with it.

Which means nothing. I would never bother complaining to developers of an application I use because they employed MD, even though it actively annoys me (although I certainly would stop using such apps immediately if I found an equivalent app that didn't use it). The reason is because it's sadly become expected, so complaining would be pointless.

> Personally I think Development is becoming too idealistic. Ideally everything works for everyone all the time.

I'm not a UX dev, so my criticisms of MD are not from a development point of view. They're from a user point of view. And as a user, I don't care if something works for everyone all the time. I care if it works for me, and MD really doesn't.
Oh yeah that can definitely be from Google Ads too, but I remember some question quite surprising. I forgot to install it on my new phone that I got in December, so I don't remember much theses questions, but it's now installed, so I'll see. I know that they asked me for receipts a few time.
I agree with the main point of the article, but I think that it misses the bigger picture.

> The computer can’t think

I completely agree that our current software cannot think, at least in a complex way like humans do. But, our computers can execute Turing Complete programs. Is human logic beyond that? That will be an incredible discovery if we could assure that 'Human intelligence' > 'Turing Complete'. My bet is that such a thing does not exist.

If you take all computers, phones, etc. and you were able to run on them just one shared program. Is that not enough computing power to be able to think? My bet is that probably it is. Human brains are NOT infinitely complex.

> When they succeed, we will be back in the situation so lamented by Pollack: that of seeing an AI “breakthrough” or “major advance” as just more software, which is what it will be.

Or, we are going to discover that humans can't "think" either. That you can print, in a very big book, all the logic that makes us tick. And this makes sense. We have already discovered quite a lot of tricks that our visual system uses to identify images. And it is full of shortcuts and assumptions. And we cannot change that, if the illusion makes you think that a line is longer than the other, there is no mental power that allows us to see the truth even when we have the knowledge.

Machines are not magical, I agree with the main point of the article. It is just that humans are either. We are matter that can think, and that is a great thing but not magical.

I think therefore matter can think. I always liked this truism, as it removes quite a lot of magic from the idea of "thinking".