skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After getting burned in 2014 and then again in 2016, I'm sure Facebook has learned its lesson: never let social science researchers anywhere near the company. They don't actually do anything (effect size in this study is 0.1%, even though, as I personally checked in 2014, the filtering it used was the absolute crudest, strongest possible), but they can generate an infinite amount of bad press.
Similar situation exits in many orders of magnitude larger scale in China, but the government so successfully keep everyone not paying attention.
Honestly surprised a bunch of VCs haven't gotten together yet and built out their own compute for portfolio companies considering how much VC money gets shoveled into the AWS fire.
> We're moving toward a world in which you can be identified if you go out of public.

... I think you mean, "We're moving toward a world in which you can be identified by machines if you go out in public." (My friends can identify me pretty easily out there.)

We are choosing to move toward that world. We could choose something else. And just because other people are choosing it, doesn't mean you or I have to.

Personally I have gotten weary of every single company/organization I deal with collecting more information about me than they need to meet my needs... to such an extent that I now have started looking for opportunities to deny them that information (including simply avoiding them).
I have a hard time believing China actually has it under control when they've already been caught fiddling with their number of infected / dead constantly. That, and WHO has been spending all of their time trying to avoid offending China.
Wow, end of an era. I remember asking my mom to install it on her computer.
Yes, and so does the --help page or man pages of a CLI program, the more options you add. Soon, --help takes additional arguments for which category of options you want to list. Often, options are listed alphabetically, which means if you don't know exactly what you want to do, you have to read the entire list to find the option you actually wanted.

A GUI can much more easily emphasize the most common options, it can visually group related options, and it can use common GUI widgets to, for example, show that some options are mutually exclusive with each other.
In college you could always find a channel playing Simpsons, Seinfeld or MAS*H reruns.
Apache Druid: https://druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design/index.html
do the acoustics of the Hagia Sophia differ from that of the Pantheon/Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs in Rome?
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> barely-consented-to (successful) attempt to sway the emotional states of hundreds of thousands of people

If you read the newspaper, watch TV, or read articles online, I have some bad news for you.
> Even if it was, no known or currently theorized material could support this.

Which physical limits are most relevant to precluding the solid sphere? Tidal forces?
Currently powering thermostats across the nation.

They’re all set to be on and off at the same time!
You'd probably have to manually write a Builder in the Person record class. Then the callsite might look something like this:

val emily2 = emily1.newBuilder()
.lastName("Wells")
.age(26)
.build()

I think the inner Builder pattern is common enough in immutable java object implementations that they might want to include that fully in the Record class generation at some point. Most immutable object libraries that I've seen include a lot more functionality than Records, like builders.
I find it strange that people and historians are so fixated on the 4th Crusade as the be all end all of the Byzantine's and ignore or minimize as much as possible all that irrelevant side business of the centuries of fighting with the Muslims. You know, the guys that fought them far more often and more brutally and actually took away nearly all their territory and destroyed them? In addition to the above comment and a few others in this thread take this video for example.

https://youtu.be/Okph9wt8I0A
They're all elderly---another part of the vulnerable population.
Fun fact: they only drive diesels around the antenna dish because spark plugs cause interference.
The numbers don't add up to 100% so it must be non-exclusive (ie, people use VS.Code and Vim).

Worth noting that simply adding means that yes, Vim+Emacs ~= 30%, but VS.Code + VS ~= 80%
When taking notes in class, nothing beats pen & paper. That being said, digitalizing your notes forces you to think hard about which ones are really worth the effort. And the work will pay off in the long run.
Since you have mentioned Niklas Luhmann's System , you may want to take a look at: https://twinkle.app/intro.html
They have known for over 30 days and they didn't notify me until about 10 hours ago that several of my domains were affected.

That's not okay. That's serious negligence.

EDIT: My bad. They have known about this for maybe a week, and they did a blog post 4 days ago. I was basing my thought that they had known for 30 days based on the title of the post and in the URL: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2020-02-29-caa-recheckin...
Bugzilla isn't an option. You can just use an email address, you don't have to link it to another account.
You can use named parameters if you're worried:

val emily1 = Person(firstName="Emily", lastName="Maness", age=25)

Scala's approach to constructors is a good example of convention over configuration; in Java 99.9% of classes have a constructor like:

this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
this.age = age;

which is just ceremonial boilerplate that obscures the actual logic of what the class is doing (an IDE can generate the constructor for you, but the person maintaining your code still has to take the time to comprehend it). You can do the more complicated things in cases where you need to, but it's important to keep the simple case simple.
Building habitable structures on a planet's surface is not the same as making a planet's entire environment capable of supporting humans. That's the point of teraforming which was the point of the comment.
What's going on with this comment? Why did someone else post the exact same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChibaCity_ (https://imgur.com/a/XgSpxie)
"pencil written notes that bleed outside cell borders, curve around borders, etc.? Stamps and symbols (watermarks) across tables?"

"The Worst Image" is a close match to that, except it is a print.

Regarding increasing degradation - as stated above, the OCR engine is not proprietary - we confined ourselves to detect the structure at this moment, and started with the most common problems.
There is evidence of undetected transmission in Washington State: https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/
Given the need to access /dev/uinput as a, user doesn't this require negating the supposed security gains of wayland?

Also not exactly maintained

>Since Jun, 2019, I have little time to maintain this project because I'm striving to start an undertaking (instead of working 996).
You make the case that political issues haven’t changed much isn’t he past 2400 years, but then go on to say you’d like to see us manage things here at home before expanding into space?

Those seem to be in conflict to me. I do agree that human engineering has developed far faster than human politics, but I think we need to just accept that this trend will continue.
This is not true. Please stop spreading misinformation.
First time stumbling upon learnobit. Congrats for building something cool looking :-)

"like Anki & WorkFlowy in one"

Great idea. The thing that drove me away from WorkFlowy though is the lack of constraints. I think it provides too much freedom, I want something that forces me to provide a certain structure to the material.

I can tell you put a lot of care to lovingly craft the UI, looks pretty nice! But for a product that provides structured note taking, the data model and serialization format should be equally important. I'd like to be able to export my content, query it in interesting ways (ex: datalog!), maybe use the content to build an app, print slides, put a book together, tweet snippets, or build a different UI altogether around my notes, etc, etc.
It has an impact if singular events (of which there are millions each day) can severely affect social cohesion and stability. Regardless of what you call it, the inevitability of emotionally triggering events each of which has the potential to reach everyone in real time and impact them will lead to extreme social instability.

Similarly, too many unregulated synaptic connections or overexcited neurons in the brain can cause seizures.

How does it bode for society if, for example, every single instance of racial animosity between people is broadcast for the whole world to see? Even if the rate of occurrence of these sorts of interactions is incredibly small, there will be many per day, driving entire segments of our society apart and causing even more such negative interactions in the future which are just fuel for the fire.
My K6-233 got so hot it demagnetized its CPU fan. I noticed after the floating point unit fried the first time I tried to play some post-quake FPS.

After that, it would boot, but the antivirus software I was running said it had a virus. I guess that was the only msdos program in the boot sequence that performed floating point.
TIL it was Steve Bannon that killed off Biosphere 2.
Hello hn

Our DB will run on 2005 or later but we recommend grabbing 2017 and 2019 as they have some useful functionality for our other services like iW8 or Backup.
We typically do the server transfers at $120 per hour. Normally, we finish the transfer in one to two hours. iW8 and Backup customers are free if done during our open hours. After hours support for iW8 and Backup will be billed at the same rate. You can do the transfer yourself if you’d like to. Below are steps to transfer the server:
Locate database files and copy the following two files - WeighingSystem.mdf & WeighingSystem_Log.ldf
Install SQL, allow TCP/IP on static port and named pipe connections. Attach DB.
Install software on new PC, choose Advanced Installation, select your DB.
Copy the following directories over:
i. Recipts (resides in the executable’s directory),

ii. Media files (path in Settings -> Parameters -> General)

iii. Scales (if using scale on new PC, resides in the executable’s directory)

iv. Cameras (if using, resides in the executable’s directory)

v. Moisture Reader (if using, resides in the executable’s directory)

vi. Invoices (if using, resides in the executable’s directory)

vii. Law Export Path (if using, path in Settings -> Parameters -> Exporting

Update connection strings for ALL PCs to new server on login screen.
i. Click Options, press insert key on drop down menu that appears to get access to SQL connection settings.

Update ALL PCs Media Path and Law Export Path if applicable.
If you have devices to use on new server, we can install drivers needed to get them to work with new PCs.
See step ‘E’ and ‘F’ above to point the client PCs to the new server
You don't have to use $800+ attorneys. Most people use _no_ lawyers at all, and sign shit without reading. You aren't getting three times the lawyering for three times the price.
Does Kotlin have anything to let you treat data classes in a generic way like you can do with Shapeless in Scala? That's where the real power comes IME - e.g. look at Circe where you can derive JSON encoders/decoders for arbitrarily nested case classes at compile time, so you have zero boilerplate but still get compile-time type safety that stops you from accidentally trying to serialise a file handle or semaphore.
While I'm sure the authors poured in a lot of effort, I found this tutorial difficult to follow despite the neat "notebook"-style webpage.

This was remarkably more intuitive and clear and I breezed through

https://alignedleft.com/tutorials/d3
Unfortunately you have no idea what you are talking about.
> Of course the way to implement GROUP BY is with a hash table but little tricks make all the difference and a lot of love went into the clickhouse implementation.

Actually, for low cardinality columns, _not_ using a hash table will speed up things.

For example, a dictionary-encoded column for states might have a few values in its dictionary (1 => CA, 2 => FL, 3 => NY) and the data looks like an array of numbers (eg. [1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2]). The fastest way to aggregate is to actually use an array, as the dictionary index conveniently maps to an array index.

Then, when it comes to merging several of those arrays, they're turned into hash tables.

Combine enough of those optimizations and proper data layouts, and you end up with several orders of magnitude of performance differences between engines.
You don't need a "top partner" for contract review.
The Consequences of Being Left-Handed in Fiddler Crabs
Agreed it has its ups! I’m glad it works so well for you. I’ve found having an office to go into allows me to better separate work and life, letting me “shut off” at the end of the day.

Note: I live in a 1br apartment. That might also be part of my struggle.
Are you saying the paper itself is interesting, or that what the paper says about Facebook is interesting?

The actual result (people who see positive or negative messages are more likely to post the same) seems so obvious and uninteresting as not to be worth mentioning at all, though the fact that Facebook was willing to run the experiment and publish the result is perhaps more notable.
Does Music Boost Your Cognitive Performance?
It’s as simple as it gets like C is simple. True for some of us, but not for most.
> At least in the usa, the elderly are a severely under served community.

A statement that requires qualification to be meaningful. Medicare, Medicare HMOs, and Medicare/Medicaid dual coverage add up to giving elders better healthcare coverage than any other demographic in the US.
This goes against the very idea of method signatures in Java an overloads based on them. An attempt to add it will likely bring in way, way more backwards-compatibility pain than any benefits are worth.

Writing simple methods with few arguments helps.
This is based on the current knowledge of physics that we have. We know that it is fairly incomplete.

~5% of the universe is made of the stuff that you, I, a cloud, and the sun are made of. We understand this stuff very well, in terms of cosmic scale stuff.

~20% of the universe if made of dark matter. We know that this stuff falls down and really doesn't do anything else. Does it interact with itself, with us, can we make sandwiches out of it? No clue.

~75% of the universe is made out of dark energy. We know that this stuff makes other things ... fall up (?). Well, kinda, maybe? We're totally at a loss as to what the super-majority of the universe is, let alone what it is doing, or what we can do with it.

Presumably, if there are other intelligences out there, they may know if they can do anything with the other ~95% of the universe and they may be making it into burritos or something. We're a long way away from concluding anything about anything.
Meanwhile I hate the look of tightly manicured lawns. You should definitely grow long grasses.

Without a more rigorous set of criteria we are arguing opinion. While my opinion is the same on static types there are people with their own experience on the other side of the argument.

They too have lived it.
Think about the hundreds of engineers they’d need to hire, purchases for hardware and software, security approvals, etc. that would all need to be spent up front with no guarantee that it’d actually be cheaper. Beating the major cloud providers requires some combination of large scale and/or cutting corners and most companies are not at the point where the infrastructure costs beat the staff time needed.
Why would you assume it's a solved problem? Basically every compositor has to implement this feature.
Lombok solves this for Java.
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I don't follow.

Pretend we have 5 tonnes of co2 in the air. If I have an emitter, say someone wanting to burn a forest. That would emit 1 tonne. Or I have a sequestration process that would remove 1 tonne.

I can pay $X to either #1 or #2. In #1 case I stop the addition, e.g. 5 tonnes total. In #2 the forest gets burned so I'm up to 6 tonnes, but I've pulled down 1 tonnes so back to 5 tonnes.

As mentioned by other posters, there are a _ton_ of side benefits of the different approaches (burn forest for agriculture) vs other benefits of forests. But it seems like from a pure CO2 in atmosphere the two approaches should be similar?
I have no faith that Java will ever solve the problem after their bungled introduction of the Option type. Step 1 to migrating away from null would be to introduce a working Option type - one that could contain any valid Java value (which includes null for the time being) and where chaining behaviour worked the way you expect (i.e. that doesn't violate the monad laws, even when nulls are being thrown around). People from languages that have solved the problem told the Java folks about these issues, and were ignored, with the result that it's impossible to migrate an existing Java codebase to use Option, and I can't imagine the Java community having the appetite to introduce a non-broken Option that would allow moving off null.
Short explainer video covering Hoare's original paper:

https://youtu.be/eY8AyCZ5uUg
Yeah. Can confirm our Cosmo still works fine (iOS). The kids love him.

Pretty cool tech too. Wish someone would have taken it over.
That's high-end. Most of the time, all you need is a mid-level/independent lawyer that charges less than $400/hr or even bills on per-project basis.

Cost also doesn't guarantee quality. You're paying for resources, specialization, general counsel that can delegate, and insurance against mistakes. Useful but only when you really need it.
Yup, dual 450 celery was my gaaaangster setup at my silly startup :)
It came true for thesaurus.com– onelook.com/thesaurus is much better but few people have heard of it.
How KitchenAid and Le Creuset Took over Kitchens
You need a language that isn't prone to foot bullets in long lived code that will pass through many developers with varying degrees of experience. Ada, Rust, Java would be suitable. I'm not a huge fan of any of these but they are better than winging it on duck typing for mission critical code.
Why would anyone suppose that containers on Linux which are designed to keep applications isolated enough not to interfere with each other ends up being perfectly secure when it's not really designed to be secure at all?
Rediculous and clearly ignorant, anyone who has experienced a high needs elderly person is going to be aware of the high cost to achieve a comfortable standard of living. There are articles in mainstream newspapers every year about mistreatment of elderly patients in convalescent homes, instances of abuse from family members are common and also known to be under reported as well and the list goes on. What you're arguing relates to cost while entirely sidestepping the topic of if those costs actually produce acceptable outcomes. Lowering costs further empowers the elderly to act in a more agentic fashion.
Looks like a bicycle accident, not a motorbike accident.
Panicing is the right thing to do: fail-fast is much better than silently continuing in an invalid state. If the None state is valid then don't call unwrap() (which you should almost never use, because if None was not a valid state then why were you using an Option in the first place?), call a function that lets you handle both cases, e.g. unwrap_or.
Grow lights are pretty notorious.

http://www.arrl.org/grow-light-rfi

"even under the best of circumstances, the importance of diplomacy cannot be overemphasized during these discussions"
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The end of the first paragraph says: "The separate Atrium law firm will continue to operate." The legal talent already did spin-off with the last pivot.
I haven't tested if this works for Reddit for some sites, if you use Opera, somehow they show you an 'old' version of the site that doesn't have auto-scrolling. I'm not sure why - perhaps it's because there's some kink in Opera that doesn't support it, but it's worth a try?
Top of my head, so I may be off, but:
The Arecibo message was easily the easiest to detect by far.
Its signal will become indistinguishable from background radiation at a distance of slightly over 625 light years.

The converse: any life out there trying their best to communicate with us, beyond 600 ly... we wouldn't realize it even if we happened to catch (what's left of) the signal.
Starting to seem like Coronavirus has been in Seattle for much longer than they thought.

Keep an eye on Seattle to see what’s coming for other American cities!
Amazon employee in Seattle office tests positive for coronavirus
I suspect in the very early days of cooperative computing, one could genuinely argue that there were "idle cycles" that were going to waste if a computer was powered on and not computing something. But this became more and more inaccurate throughout the 1990s as new power management technologies became a part of computer designs, and is completely wrong now. Phenomena like Bitcoin mining and feeling your laptop get warmer depending on what it's doing show that easily, as does your room-heating experience.

I'm still curious about the extent to which the claim of idle compute power going to waste was true when various projects were set up. For example, the press release about the Cooperative Computing Awards (I've forgotten whether this was 1998 or 1999) says

> However, the computer industry produces millions of new computers each year, which sit idle much of the time, running screen savers or waiting for the user to do something.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-offers-cooperative-co...

The main thing I can think of that would have supported the concept of idle cycles going to waste was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLT_(x86_instruction)

> [the CPU-idle instruction] was not specifically designed to reduce power consumption until the release of the Intel DX4 processor in 1994.

I participated in DESChall and distributed.net's RC5 challenge and I remember being told, and telling others, that we were only using resources that would otherwise have gone to waste. Were we already greatly mistaken about that in 1997?
I know several including housecall which is now housecall pro
It's the first time I've seen it on HN, and a cursory search shows only a few submissions with significant discussion. Nonetheless, as other commenters have said the SQL-based query language and low external dependencies made it easy for me to integrate it into my workflow.
They laid off a bunch of lawyers so no idea who is still working there
That may not last much longer either. Transponders are more effective/useful for civilian purposes and the military needs to be stealthy. Big radar installations have a sign painted on them that says "take me out first".
I didn’t get the sense it was class strife. The main family was a bunch of scumbags. They lied and cheated constantly. I didn’t get the sense that they represented the lower class because the others around them weren’t like that. It makes it harder to argue this represents class struggle when the main family is so deceitful and undeserving of benefits.
Last year, I made about $4,000 using about 5k account selling credit put spreads. Mostly weeklies around earnings.

I stopped because it was too stressful. And I was risking only 5k, cannot imagine risking more money to make it worth the stress.
The movie reviews well in most countries, because we mostly live in the same country, capitalism. (This is me paraphrasing a quote I saw the director give in an interview.)
Judge acquits former MRU hockey captain who assaulted prof. while on mushrooms
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