skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggle with leaving plate on my food and I also struggle with my weight. Growing up we weren't allowed to leave food on the plate. To this day I still feel guilty for leaving food on a plate and yet I am overweight.

I know the answer is to dish out a little and get seconds if need be. Problem is I live with people who do more cooking than I do and because I am a fairly big guy they can't help but dish out massive quantities of food.
Honestly, as an American (California n almost all of my life), I find both “by accident” and “on accident” to generally sound stilted, though “by accident” seems natural in certain broader constructions, and “on accident” fits in the unique case of a direct contrast with “on purpose”. Generally, though, “accidentally” is the term that sounds right.
Have you considered editing it to remove the offending language?
"British spellings" are an affectation Brits developed to make their language look more French and therefore more prestigious; Americans, who know we're the equals of France, kept the older spellings as recorded by Webster.
Often there are implicit dependencies between (versions of) the many repos. E.g. where I work, it was decided to put test data in a separate from the code (to keep the latter repo small in size). But now, when you add a new test case, it will fail on older versions of the code.

With a monorepo, you can always check out a consistent version of all parts.
...except that NULL is still conflating the two concepts of "not known to exist" and "known to not exist" (I know some people who would argue for empty strings to be bad style).

Especially for (composite) unique indexes on NULLable foreign keys, where NULL signifies the non-existence of a different table entry (if you don't want to resort to a special "not existing" entry in that table), this behavior can be surprising and definitely got me a few times.
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When you install Gentoo, one of the steps is to put your keyboard code into a config file. I put uk instead of gb, without thinking. It took me ages to work out what was going on 8)
> I wonder which company successfully runs a monorepo in git.

Microsoft
Disagree. "Do you love programming" is as useless a question as "do you love digging". Loving to dig holes is not a good nor sufficient reason to dig holes all day every day. It just ends up being Sisyphean and pointless.

You need a reason to do things. A problem to solve, because people are problem solving machines. We make up problems if we don't have any at hand. Games are made up problems. But making things better in some way, is the best and most motivating kind of problems people can have.

So don't program for programming sake's, program to solve a problem that you care about.
Git subtree wouldn't preserve hashes of the existing history?
Adidas misses forecasts with 93% profit plunge, warns on sales
GDPR Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates
Turing awardee Geoff Hinton agrees that he didn't invent Back Propagation
People Were Leaving New York City Before the Coronavirus. Now What?
The r/__phobia subs are equivalent to r/__porn tbh
Oh man, I read a super cool article about that about a year ago. It provided an algorithm for automatic differentiation using an imaginary number such that it times itself equaled 0, but wasn't equal to zero itself. I'll try to find the link.

I don't know if this was it, but an explanation nonetheless
https://medium.com/@omaraflak/automatic-differentiation-4d26...
Start with the Null Object
My first thought after "how hard can it be? Since all the messages are from the monitoring systems I can just assign the labels based on the 'from' address and..." was to use that exact approach. It have never seen that many timeouts in my life.
It seems to me that the bit justifying government intervention is the fact that the onion market was flooded and a lot of onions had to be dumped. Had it not been for the market manipulations, that would have been marketable food that wouldn't have gone to waste. The futures trading is the only reason the hoard then dump scheme made sense. Without that system helping guarantee a payout, attempting to corner the market would have been more risky with less potential reward.

Banning onion futures trading does seem like a blunt solution, and unsatisfyingly incomplete. But it's a hell of a lot simpler than trying to preserve futures trading while also eliminating the perverse incentives that led to this. And it may be that it's simply not possible to have something like futures trading without this systemic vulnerability when the market is small enough for an individual to attempt such a scheme.
Ask HN: Anyone sets deadlines for side projects?
I noticed that never finish my side projects, I reach about 70% and then I start changing dumb small things, adding docs etc..

The question is kinda dumb, how can I set a deadline for myself and not delay it?
That's nice to hear. What did you add?
Maybe lay off of the meth. It’s coming in too fast and chaotic.
> Through clever use of concurrency, epoch (9) allows the safe use of protected data structures without acquiring a lock (either a mutex or a read/write lock) at all.
As a systems Erlang designer who worked for 2 of the biggest Erlang companies in the market, I can assure you that Erlang/OTP is not some magic pixie dust that suddenly makes all the distributed systems problems go away. Playing is one thing, making a reliable, fault-tolerant system is another.

OTP doesn't give you _state of art_ distributed consensus algorithms out of the box.
> @s̮̦̩e̝͓c̮͔̞ṛ̖̖e̬̣̦t̸͉̥̳̼ It's been a while since I wrote this answer. My views have changed since I wrote it. Now, I believe that inheritance, both classical and prototypal, are bad and should be avoided at all costs. There's never a good reason to use inheritance. If you're writing object-oriented code then you should always prefer composition over inheritance. Even better, don't write object-oriented code. Embrace functional programming.

Author finally opened his eyes.
> Quite means something different

Brits often understate, so it's arguable if "quite" means something different (as words are defined by usage) - or if the words mean the same, but are commonly used in understated terms in Britain.
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same here. Is this a bug or can't ssh be used at all?
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>Amusingly, "vertical" is actually mentioned, but how a hero got that in, I don't know. Probably killed or captured.

But then the discussion becomes between "left" or "right"...definitely don't want to go there!
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You can preserve history. You can also squash it.
Reminds me kanbanmail.app was in Hackers News 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17576024
I'm not endorsing keybase, in fact I have much of the same criticisms as you probably do.

The fact is unlike many PGP replacements most don't attempt to solve similar ideas as the "web of trust". For those that I know do, the cryptocurrency/tokens one's don't even consider backwards compatability. As far as I know keybase are the only ones that embrace PGP and are therefore backwards compatible with git, fossil, etc's commit signing.

It may be ignorance but I don't see linux, git or any other software project that "needs" both version control and verifiable commits moving from PGP signing to something else, but rather PGP signing dying out with the rise of git platforms like github, gitlab, etc. If you squint you can see that keybase provides some form of alternative.
>> .. the ultimate challenge: to (ethically) hack a satellite.

.. which will be used to coordinate drone attacks on foreign targets. So much for ethics ..
I am no cryptographer so take this with 2 bits of salt. AFAIK Keybase uses static-static DH for sending messages which actually can be worse than PGP since one peer's exposed private key automatically leads to compromise of all messages between the 2 peers, even if the other peer's private key is totally safe.

So even if NaCl/libsodium AEAD is much more secure than PGP but when used in asynchronous messaging like in Keybase send messages can be more catastrophic when any of the peers has their key compromised.
Thanks very much for the information, I appreciate you taking the time to reply!
National level works, as proven by other countries (Hong Kong, Korea, and most notably, Taiwan.)
Not sure I'd class it as a science, but here's my take... though I'm no expert and certainly agree this stuff could be better explained!

> Macroeconomics. Central banks are "creating" a trillion here, a trillion there, like nobody's business. But what are the consequences?

Nobody quite knows; it's still hotly contested between left wing lovers of Keynes and right wing believers in austerity.

> What is the thought process that central bankers have gone through to make these decisions?

Probably largely a political one. Central banks may be trying to fulfill a remit set by law (e.g. bank of england: keep inflation below x%) and are trying to deliver on that. (why? too much or too little inflation both cause problems, I guess we somehow reached consensus on a "sane" amount that keeps pace with genuine growth of wealth within the economy)

> Also why, exactly, are they buying the exact assets that they are buying (govt. debt, high-yield bonds, etc..) and why not others (e.g. stocks or put money into startups)?

I think this is about distributed decision making. The central bank does not have the expertise to decide which stocks or startups represent the best investments. The examples here involve lending money to government, presumably the idea being the latter is better placed to decide what to do with the money. Another example is buying assets from other banks, which are again better placed to decide which businesses/homeowners/etc represent a more sound investment as they do it on a daily basis (from a profit/loss point of view ... of course we debate whether or not that's the case on a societal level).

> What would happen if a country defaults on a loan given by a central bank?

Internally it would depend on laws/balance of political power within the country. Between countries, depending on the currency the country could do crazy stuff like print excessive amounts of money to repay the loan (Germany did this in the 1930s leading to hyperinflation) or they could just as you say, default. The country's credit rating would then be downgraded, making it harder for them to raise credit in future.

> Would the central bank then go ahead and seize and liquidate assets of the country under a bankruptcy procedure to pay off the debt (like it would be standard procedure for individuals and companies)?

Not the bank, but the country making the loan, may first negotiate some debt relief with strings attached e.g. preferential trade agreements. Beyond that, I have no idea what precedent exists.
No, a normal laptop from a local brand.
I'm glad it isn't, that would effectively price me out. The current price point is quite steep just for being able to check on my private server on the go (I don't earn a penny from it, it's just for fun and toying around), a subscription would be a dealbreaker. A dozen apps for the price of a coffee a month ends up being real money over the long run, and not everyone who buys this sort of thing has company money to spend.
As non-native speaker I think I'd intuitively go with “Metallica is” and “Nirvana is”, but “The Beatles are”. I guess my brain is more wired towards whether the name itself is plural or not.
Thank you. I do get the idea. And now I can go back and finish High School chemistry. I appreciate you help in understanding this.
Is it healthier to live in the countryside? (2018)
MBTI is pseudoscience without any empirical backing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

Really the only personality test with any strong empirical backing is the Big Five test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

All other personality tests reduce down to the Big Five when you try to test for co variance.
After a lot of trial and error I have been successful at doing a limit fetch and limit delete with a limit of 9000 in 5 minute intervals using scripting API with a registering a timed trigger.

1. Get current time, increase the time by 5 minutes and find the 5 minute mark after that.

2. Register itself to run the time determined in (1).

3. Fetch a batch of 9000 ids matching the filter.

4. Delete the batch

This script would comfortably run for days cleaning out the inbox until it would hit some weird message that looked nearly identical to the messages around it and bomb(!?). Running it by hand would bomb at which point script won't be able to continue to execute. Deleting a message by hand would work. Running the script again after the manual deletion would work.
Well the demo I saw showed it was just a matter of taking a picture of a printed template and the software would figure out the distortion.

It shouldn't take too much effort to implement the correction data in the camera software.
Like probability distributions, but they don't just sum when you combine them, they interfere (probability is the square of amplitude, which can be negative).

Quantum computing is all about finding ways to hack the interference process to compute more than you otherwise would have.
The simplest answer is that events that happen further apart in space than in time can be observed in different orders depending on the frame of reference. If an effect can happen before its cause, causality is violated.

The three-reference frame example is the easiest, because you can start with a frame where two events, A and B, happen simulateously. A reference frame (say, a spaceship), flying along a line in the A to B direction will observe A happen, then B. A ship flying the opposite direction will experience the opposite, B then A.

So whose observations were correct? All them are perfectly valid. The problem is if we allow A to cause B, in which case the B then A frame has the effect happen before the cause.
I didn't suggest it was pejorative, and I know what it is. There are not two school of thought, that's a false dichotomy. That is like saying "there are two schools of thought, catholic and protestant". You can want to prevent the decline of language without insisting on trying to bring back already lost definitions like a prescriptivist.
I love how creative this analogy is!
While it looks nice, the video seems unprofessional to me. Not sure if a video like that is the standard for cs:go server hosts?

Also, I saw the password field had a placeholder that said: your strong password. But then the requirements are just 6 characters, nothing else. That doesn't seem very strong to me.
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I loved the first dishonered. I found the story quite boring in the second one.
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It's complicated:

> City residents tend to suffer from higher levels of asthma,[1] allergies [2] and depression.[3] But they also tend to be less obese,[4] at a lower risk[5] of suicide and are less likely to get killed in an accident.[6] They lead happier lives as seniors[7] and live longer[8] in general.
>Yes. Censorship is worse than any falsehood that might circulate.

That was not the question. The question was, are people losing their lives worth having no censorship of a specific topic.
This doesn't solve the issue of metamerism, though.
Try any automotive company. It's Matlab or bust as all the hardware ECU and calibration tools only support Matlab/Simulink.

The vendor lock-in is so strong in this industry that octave could be 10x better and it wouldn't dent Matlab's market.
I don’t see this work in typical office buildings without significantly reducing the number of people working in a building.

I would think elevators will be a choking point, certainly around lunchtime. Let’s say you’re one of the first to go for lunch. If you return, how do you get out of the elevator while others are still waiting to go down?

Paternoster lifts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift) might help, but even if you can retrofit them into existing buildings, that won’t happen overnight.
/. From this day 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20050326092609/http://slashdot.o...
The part where the Starfleet cruises around space in giant militarized weapon platforms with phase cannons and torpedos, engaging in de facto military conflicts?
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Conciousness.
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It's unbelievable how effective the west's disinformation, FUD and propaganda, lead by the US, against China has been. It's pretty much on par with the narrative leading up the the Iraq war.

There's even documents describing this blame China strategy as a way to deflect Trump's failures:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/25/senate-go...

Despite not having any concrete evidence, you don't trust China's numbers and that they have coronavirus contained. Have you considered that you might be thinking this way because of a coordinated propaganda campaign?

Objectively looking at the situation on the ground in China right now, life is going back to normal and there hasn't been massive outbreaks of covid19 and rushes to the hospital. You can't hide exponential growth if the virus was not contained.
Fossile fuels
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Yeah but the counterpoint to your position is making $40k a year is some peoples busting their ass, peak of career earning, wage.

Not everyone with technical skills to make something lives in the USA and pulls the high wage (yes $40k is a very very high wage) that you have.

If you have not broken $15k a year for the last decade, and had spent that decade busting your ass, working nights, weekends, etc and had managed to pull yourself into the, by comparison, fabulously paid world of $35k (myself but not USA based) would you now be considering working nights?

Another decade of not having a life, working 10-14 hours a day, for ???

maybe you might make something someone will use?

I don't understand this.

I would expect petty crime to have a better risk/reward profile than this.

What you describe is complete and utter insanity.
> so by extension everything is just great, right?

I never said this.

> let's all eat each other while we ponder these great questions.

Let's make sure no being is ever born again who might suffer. Seems totally good and just, therefore it must be true, right?

What arrogance...
I used to contribute a lot to wikipedia in its early days in the 2000' and faced the same frustrating experience. I think this just happens to everybody, from what I heard from other editors. I would expect it to be even worse now that wp is well established and editors do not have to make a common front against academics' denigration.

Still, wp is in my view easily the biggest achievement of the web, and I still care for it. I would often fix small issues, like you mention, this does not trigger any hostile response. Something else I found to work quite well to contribute without risking annoying conflicts : to translate articles from en.wp to other languages if their pages don't exist yet on the localized one. And of course, there always need help to revert vandalisms.

Also, I would recommend against having an account. Being IP based editor makes you more subject to scrutiny, but this prevents people deciding they don't like you based on your history. That's an advice I would give for any public discussion on the web, though (by always using fresh accounts).
Even if R_t is at or just above 1, that still lets us have a slow upwards curve with repeated short lockdowns.

The Oxford paper found that given the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2, 60% of people leaving the house would need to use an app like this (not 60% of the whole population).

But that is an evaluation of a single measure: phone contact tracing followed by prompt isolation of contacts. If you combine that with other potential measures such as continued closure of high risk environments, potentially public mask wearing, etc. you might be able to get away with less than 60%.
Microsoft doesn't really use a monorepo.

This leaves companies like Google and Facebook that made a decision fairly early in their existence, set constraints, and then spent several hundreds engineer-years into developing their own infrastructure and tools to support that decision.

Does it work? Yes. Is it more efficient than what other companies of similar scale are doing? I don't believe anyone knows.
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I am tired of wasm hype. Can someone explain what it does so well than existing cross platform solutions like CLR / JVM? It doesn't yet have a GC nor is most efficient for that matter. And JIT is not efficient in terms of memory and power compared to native code.
Larry Sanger (wikipedia creator) is working on the encyclophere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Esw3gXK82Y
Description from that video:
Shorter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrWG...
The Encyclosphere will be a decentralized, leaderless, centerless network of encyclopedic content, which does for encyclopedias what the Blogosphere did for blogs. But to make such a network, we need encyclopedia format standards. Wikipedia ex-founder Larry Sanger is starting the Knowledge Standards Foundation to convene a discussion and coding efforts to creating such standards.
Keep making these things for me. :)
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20-page paper is what you would need to write up at University of Leeds, UK; so I am not sure what daunting here means, given the fact that you at one of the most prestigious universities of the world?
> "a full, relatively pain free life" is not at all an accurate description of anything related to factory farming.

You understand that I'm not saying relative to your life, right, but to some other life in some other universe?

> Also, karma is not about judgment. It's about each individual's own state of consciousness.

It seems to be about your individual biases and judgement, actually.
Well there's a thing: There are two types of vampire hunter here in the UKoGB&NI!

"two opposing factions of British vampire hunters (the "orthodox" Vampire Research Society and the "revisionist" Highgate Vampire Society, "
There's a rich standard library, you don't need a package to left-pad.
Yeah, the effectiveness of wide area water collection is why your suggestion is 'stupid'. That's ok. Where it's possibly not stupid is in the comment you linked to "...as energy is linear with height"

Sure potential energy is linear with height, but energy conversion efficiency is I think non-linear. You can I think collect more than 10x useful energy from an object that is 10x as hot. Equally I suspect you can get more than 10x useful energy from a column of water 10 miles high than from a column of water 1 mile high.

I'm pretty sure your idea won't work but that doesn't mean it can't possibly work. It's more likely harvesting wind energy via kites (as has been proposed) is more realistic, but still, I don't like dismissing dumb ideas. Sometimes they can be made useful.
Do you use an ad blocker like UBlock Origin? That speeds up web by significant margin. I also used that to disable JS by default and enable only when needed, works well for me.