skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ‘Prelude’ is the set of standard functions and types that you don't have to import to use. Python comes with a rich standard library, but most require imports to use.

I might not understand this about python.

$ python3
Python 3.7.6 (default, Dec 30 2019, 19:38:26)
[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.16)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> Counter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'Counter' is not defined

Should that have worked? Is there something wrong with my Python installation?

> but as something you're only going to use on occasion, so what? And d.setdefault(_, len(d)) is something you'll use maybe once a year.

If it takes that many keystrokes, you're definitely only going to use it once per year! This is the normal way you make enumerations in q/k.

The low number of source-code bytes is the major feature in k. I've written some on why this is valuable, but at the end of the day, I don't really have anything more compelling than try it you might like it, and it works for me. This is something I'm working on though.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476113

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10876975
> I built (on an ATX form factor) were 12VDC native

I want this! Mainly to run from batteries efficiently, transforming from DC to AC and then back to DC is so absurd. Can you give any photos/links/recommendations on how to start?
Are you buying bottom of the barrel PSUs? I've had the same Corsair unit in three machines over the last decade. Works perfectly fine.
Would denying remote work (if applicable) open up companies to lawsuits?
Would Google penalize you for showing microdata to everyone but googlebot without changing anything else?
Us Italians
I would very much recommend something like MountainDuck (mounting/syncing “cloud” storage as a local volume, a sister project to CyberDuck) as a better alternative to this “solution”
You are absolutely correct that each individual can choose, but it won't solve issues in society. What you want is groups of people to choose to have enough. First smaller, then larger. Eventually they change the culture.

It's important to change the structures of society so that it's easier to consume less.

Cost of making individual choices that go against the structures are often very hard. Cycling to your job in Netherlands versus LA are two very different decisions.
>Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over the past few years

The main issue, at least for me, is that everything social that is happening is arranged through Facebook. My kids school events, social events in the town i live in, hell even the good old paper adds from our local grocery store has been replaced with posts on Facebook. Everything is announced and coordinated through Facebook.

So going "cold turkey" is not really an option unless i want to be left out of everything that is going on. That doesn't mean i don't care. I don't have the app installed, and usually don't browse it on my phone. Instead i limit it to "checking todays news" on Firefox (with facebook container) on my PC at home.
Dropbox requires all of your data to be synchronized to the local computer, which an SMB gateway to the service would not require (and makes the idea of a service like Dropbox infinitely more interesting to me, not that I would ever want to use some random third-party hosted "gateway" unless it came from someone like Microsoft or Amazon).
Being a foundation does not entirely remove the incentives to do shady shit, it just reduces them a bit. Look at ISOC's sale of .org or for Mozilla when they gave Cliqz the browsing histories of a random sample of all German Firefox users.
Yes, it make sense.
The strange value is the one from Germany with more than 1000 cases and only 2 died. I suspect that the criteria for counting the death is not the same across different EU countries.
I know what you mean, that phrase 'from a friend' rings a few alarm bells.

However official statements widely reported in the media are essentally saying similar things:

Antonio Pesenti, head of the Lombardy regional crisis response unit, told the Corriere della Sera newspaper the health system in Lombardy was “a step away from collapse” as intensive care facilities came under growing strain from the new cases.

“We’re now being forced to set up intensive care treatment in corridors, in operating theaters, in recovery rooms. We’ve emptied entire hospital sections to make space for seriously sick people,” he said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy/...
What is the unique value proposition of anything? If Barry sells higher quality honey, what keeps someone else from coming in and sell even better quality honey, and for half the price? Oh, you say that it isn't simple to make good quality honey cheaply? Well all the same, it ain't easy to be profitable while providing all your bees with top notch health care too.
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> Here in Australia, "free range" hens must be kept at no more that 10,000 head/hectare

Australian "free range" eggs are a scam. When people imagine "free range", they're thinking of chickens walking free in a green meadow, which is nowhere near what actual "free range" chickens get to experience. 10,000 head/hectare is disgusting.

To get what you imagine you're getting with "free range", you need to buy pastured chickens and eggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=can8xFpZKRs
Interview with Heather Sullivan of Discord
Some of these things are a free lunch for your gut microbiome.

Then there's a party in your ass, but you're not invited.
This is the main content of the article, just in case the headline is a little misleading.

The City of Detroit announced on Monday that it will restore water to residents in the city who have had their service cut off due to unpaid bills ... for a $25 fee and then keep their water on during the crisis for $25 per month.

The state is assisting by paying the $25 fees for the first 30 days of the program.
I don't think stores want to facilitate price comparisons.
>Very few active fund managers can consistently beat their indexes.

Funds profit from managing more money. The more money you manage, the harder it is to find plays that use a significant amount of it. So it makes perfect sense that funds would increase in size until they perform at a rate similar to indexes.

>Why do you believe you would be better over a long period of time?

The fully loaded cost of even a junior analyst would be in the hundreds of thousands a year. Independent day traders can focus on strategies that leverage such a tiny amount of capital and result in such a tiny return that it's not profitable for a fund to be looking at. Keeping in mind that "too small for a fund to worry about" can still be "shitloads of money" for 99% of people.
> Is there a Haskell extension like Idris's totality checking?

There's LiquidHaskell https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell-blog/
Nuclear reactors have a heat efficiency of ~33% so you need to dump the remaining somewhere. That is 66% of the heat energy remain after the turbine has removed the possible mechanical energy. Just an annoying factor of Carnot's Law.

If you can do district heating or similar it's all good, but you still need a permanent source of cooling capacity with enough redundancy to cool the reactor in case of an unplanned shutdown.
Interesting rundown, thanks!

I'm a bit puzzled with the "not a dox" tweet, what is going on here? I know that this is probably the least interesting part of the article, but I'm confused and curious.
I love screwing around with NULL terminated strings, but doing it correctly is a lot harder. NULL and the delimiter might not be the same length if the string is UTF-8 encoded for example.

IMO: if it’s not a hobby project just use a library for slicing and manipulating strings. Really you should think twice before doing it at all.
>many people are prepared to pay a bit extra for ethical treatment of animals

More accurately, they pay extra for the perception of ethical treatment of animals. Chickens on "free range" farms suffer horribly too.
At Least 20 VPN and Ad-Blocking Apps Monitored Users' Phones
> there isn’t much you can do about it

1. Support advocacy groups that defend your rights (i.e. make a donation, become a member, participate in activities)
2. Send letters, e-mails to or call your representatives expressing your concerns.
3. Attend protests when those are organized.
4. Use your right to vote. Make an informed decision.
5. Educate those around you about viable options, such as they are.
6. Support technological efforts such as they are: document, give feedback, report bugs, inform yourself about alternatives, use them.
7. Inform others, those that are also concerned, about steps 1 to 6.

Your civil and human rights are never ever self-evident or to be taken for granted. They are not unmovable natural laws. Their existence hinges entirely on the willingness of society at large as well as individual responsibility to defend the basic principles and uphold the culture that underpin them.

So, when it comes to defending your rights, safeguarding them boils down to one brutally simple question: how hard are you willing to pull your weight?
I would argue that there are many incentives to use platforms/apps for both the client and the provider/host, instead of contracting off-platform/off-app. For the provider, the app gives them 1) a steady stream of new leads and 2) it allows them to build up a reputation on the platform for repeat business. Maybe it is sometimes a bad sign to contract off-platform, because it could signal that they are not trustworthy enough, or do not have a high enough service quality and so would not have a high rating if they were on the platform? Also as the other user said: platforms often offer mediation/dispute resolution and insurance.

Platforms offer a way for individuals or small businesses to get started in a new sector without doing a lot of marketing for themselves. It's a bit like being part of an alliance.

I am not arguing for the continued domination and rent-seeking practices of Silicon Valley middle-men corporations. I'm arguing that the existence of any online bazaar/marketplace and the ability to search and compare, makes for excellent dynamics.

To go even further, I advocate for an emerging alternative that has been termed 'Protocol Cooperativism':

Instead of monopolistic rent-seeking platforms, it focuses on open source economic protocols that allow full negotiation between peer to peer users. Check out Ceptr.org, MetaCurrency and Holochain. It provides the frame and framework for ever evolving protocols (comprehensive versioning tech).
The additional data can be used, for example, but neural nets pretrained to cleanup particular images. Similarly, the data could have vectorisation data for key features.
Maybe you're thinking about Volla Phone.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volla/volla-phone-desig...
Are you done yet flower?
So much for discussion.
Strikes and Attack Ads: The Hard Road Other Countries Took to Single-Payer
Building an outpost in Earth orbit that requires constant maintenance and supplies from the ground is just barely achievable right now and cost billions of dollars. We call it the ISS. The horizon to a self-sufficient orbital settlement is still decades off.

A self-sufficient colony on any other planet or moon is way beyond that capability. It's not about doing one thing or another, it's one thing is a fantasy in the short term and the other is a real practical concern.

There's far more practical places on Earth to colonize before even thinking of bootstrapping an industrial civilization on another planet. Because that's what it would take. None of the technology needed to do the bootstrapping currently exists. You can't download MarsColony.stl from Thingiverse to load into a giant 3D printer.
> I haven't assembled a PC since the pentium 200 days [...] had their own power connections but not the CPU or GPU of the time

That hasn't been true for a long time. Nearly every motherboard for many years has a separate "ATX12V" plug dedicated exclusively to the CPU voltage regulator input. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX12V), the first CPU which needed it was the Pentium 4 from the early 2000s.

As for the GPU, the PCI Express slot can only go up to 66W in the 12V rail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Power), and that's a software-enabled special case for GPUs (the normal limit being 25W for long slots and 6W for the short x1 slots), so higher-power GPUs need one or even two separate power plugs.
I interpreted all of the things you listed as indications that statistics and scientific analysis have limitations and can't predict success or failure, not as indications that he would fail and die in the end. This is perhaps the main theme of the film: "There is no gene for the human spirit."

You seem to have a thesis that the film is a tragedy and are working backwards from there. This goes against essentially everything in the film: its uplifting soundtrack, its message of overcoming the obstacles that society places in our way, and its argument that sometimes our true purpose is not to excel individually, but as a help and teammate to others.

> But there's the rub, Vincent didn't become an astronaut, "Jerome" did. Even when Vincent succeeded, he didn't.

Jerome is just his name and saying he didn't succeed because his achievements weren't listed under his own name seems a bit shallow, as if the only definition of success is fame. And again, a major theme of the story is that the two men are more capable of achieving great things together than apart. Remember that neither Vincent nor Eugene (Jerome) were in a good place prior to meeting each other. Jerome, the astronaut, is the successful identity created from the merging of both men, not simply one man using another's name.
More here in this [Flagged] Thread, including original message.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22518370

He seems totally in the right.
Twitter has used its new “manipulated media” tag
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You may be thinking of Ice Station Zebra (1968). The Wikipedia page mentions Project COLDFEET as one of the inspirations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra
The ability to shop around between cloud providers.
It is being funded by the pentagon. It isn't for civilian use.

When considering "battlefield conditions" think along the lines of people with heat seeking missiles and infrared goggles who can easily spot a hot nuclear reactor, and who really want to bring down a base.

Not to mention how complicated it is to operate and maintain a nuclear reactor even if conditions are ideal. The additional training and personnel required to support one of these things... would it really be worthwhile in the end?
This kind of thinking is exactly the mistake China and Italy did.
Please, I beg you to learn from our errors.
China? At no point we're we arresting people for spreading the word about it?
Credit risk in finance e.g. forecasting bad debt.
I wrote the InfoQ piece. Some further thoughts on my blog - http://blog.thestateofme.com/2020/03/10/further-thoughts-on-...
I don't think we're actually slow. Yes, the risk was clear from the beginning, but the government had to take care of the economic situation too, which was (and is) rapidly collapsing. Some choices are maybe arguable, but when compared to other EU countries Italians were quite fast to converge to some decisions.
Because due to network effects they effectively have to use it.
extraordinary claims
Well, the introductory section implies that the author (a) knows Walker's aim in his book, (b) receives direct emails about the book, (c) "very much appreciates" learning about errors in the book, and (d) knows what is planned in future editions of the book. The author's name is "sleepdiplomat"—it's odd that he doesn't explicitly give his name—but it turns out that (1) sleepdiplomat.com claims to be Matthew Walker's web site, and (2) @sleepdiplomat appears to be Walker's Twitter handle. Either someone has faked up an entire online presence for Walker, or the Wordpress post is indeed Walker himself.

For those watching, there's also discussion of Walker's (alleged) response at Gelman's blog: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/26/whassup-wi...
> you might be nearer to some customers

> have slightly better marketing

These two parts are not trivial, and would justify the success of one over the other. Being near customers for a bee keeper requires a decent effort, in particular if the production itself is done near the selling shop. You just don't move your hive in a busy street corner like you'd open a Starbucks.

Marketing honey is also the main premise of this piece: what value proposition do you push forward. It will be a world of difference between someone pushing for 'local honey' on TV and someone else pushing for a healthy lifetstyle and building a customer community around that.

Overall I feel that the person writing this piece doesn't really like honey much, but I get that it was just some analogy. I wish she took a field she is more interested in.
The key to resource and financial planning in scaled agile
SpaceX's new Starship uses methane, which can be created from CO2 and energy. That's how they're going to refuel them on Mars; there is no reason they can't do that on Earth too. If it is made from atmospheric CO2 and clean energy it is carbon neutral.
Yeah, on my first read it seemed pretty clear Mark is Uber and Barry is Lyft.
I am very much interested in this, using DC power sources is the future. How do I go around adding a 12V DC power supply to the ordinary ATX computer? Can you find some links for this?
> Panic is was caused the toilet paper craze.

If that's the extent of the damage caused by panic, then we are going to be fine.
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I much prefer living in a place that errs on the side of too much caution when it comes to privacy. You say "easily manipulated", I say that they have social memory of the horrors of the Stasi. After the fall of the Berlin wall, the Stasi archives were disclosed. The awareness of the amount of information hoarded on so many citizens with the help of friends, family & neighbors was deeply traumatic. Some people even decided they didn't want to know, so that they wouldn't find something about someone close that was hard to forgive.

In my view, this cultural and social memory makes the Germans less insane on the topic of privacy, not more. We can see very well how in most of the modern world how insidious the process is. We make small concessions, little by little, and soon we live under total surveillance. It doesn't seem like that long ago that using your real identity on the internet was considered unwise. Now people are voluntarily giving deeply personal information to shady operations such as FB.

I hope the Germans are not convinced by people like you, and that they remain healthily paranoid about privacy. It's one of the things I appreciate the most about living here. I feel the laws actually protect me against the bad guys on this topic.
> I feel like I am prepared by life.

You're not magic, you were lucky.

Don't depend too strongly on being lucky again.
Dropbox offers Smart Sync.
Thank you. :)
You are welcome to add it to the wrappers section of the readme.
More we talk, more acts gets lost.
That's one of these broad "sounds good, but isn't logical" statements.

We don't need "every clean" tech. If we have tech a and tech b and tech a is cheaper and can be scaled up faster, while tech b has a lot of challenges and is clearly more expensive in every situation then we don't need tech b. And I think there's a lot of evidence that in most situations nuclear (particularly new nuclear) is tech b.
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन

Transliteration:

karmaṇy-evādhikāras te mā phaleṣhu kadāchana

You can read more here: https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/2/verse/47
I'm no expert but I think your words are rhetorical.
I know that opening line as "there are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors"
No matter how mild, the majority of cases need to be locked in a room for 2-4 weeks (because they're too flippant to be trusted to do it themselves) to prevent spreading to the other 20%+ who face permanent organ damage or worse. This isn't something that will simply kill a few hundred thousand at a cost of a couple hundred billion dollars like the flu if it's allowed to run its course through the population.
battle conditions same spec for navy reactors on ships as ships generally face combat
Combination lopinavir and ritonavir is used to treat COVID-19 in India/Thailand
https://www.telegraphindia.com/health/anti-hiv-drugs-given-t...
You don't necessarily need a pump. If you sink your reactor into a body of water, it may use the water as both cooling and the mechanism that powers the turbine. Pumpless cycling of heated fluids is the basis for several non-nuclear thermal energy systems such as OTEC.

To quote MIT on the subject:

“It’s very close to the ocean, which is essentially an infinite heat sink, so it’s possible to do cooling passively, with no intervention. The reactor containment itself is essentially underwater.”

http://news.mit.edu/2014/floating-nuclear-plants-could-ride-...

Using the water as a limitless heatsink is also the cooling mechanism for the currently operational Akademik Lomonosov, which is the world's northernmost nuclear power plant. Russia is currently working on far more of them for its arctic drilling operations, and China is currently working on its first.
Being backwards compatible is JPEG XT's tentpole feature.
>It's important to change the structures of society so that it's easier to consume less.

Unfortunately, radical change like your idea requires upheaval and disruption and often ends up with unintended consequences.
From Brazil, Beholder: https://beholder.tech/en/

Although not yet doing automatic checkout, but most of the technology needed for it is there.
Are these claims of O(1) behavior accurate? They might not be O(n), where n is the length of the string, but they sound likely to be O(v), where v is the number of 'iovec chunks' that the string is using (which could get large, depending upon how you are building up your strings)
Breaches are just part of the problem. You can have no breaches and no privacy at the same time
Payments on mortgages to be suspended across Italy after coronavirus outbreak
Birds have fragile high performance lungs.

Using teflon cookware around a pet parrot is a well-known way to kill the pet.

Teflon frying pans are supposed to be safe if you never let them overheat, but in practice they're not safe if you have birds in the house.

PTFE is toxic for humans too, but human lungs are more robust than bird lungs.
Many DC-DC supplies have auto-standby/idle modes that take care of this problem in an automatic way.
I came here for this, too. You're not mistaken.