skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking the same question myself right now.. I was playing around with Gamemaker Studio yesterday and it seemed ok at first for something simple, but suddenly realized just how stupidly simple it is.. seems like it will be a pain to have any real control and do anything even a little bit complicated.
I don’t think anyone expects that to be done atomically. Most of the advocacy I have seen is directed at individual police departments, with some organization between the efforts and some advocacy for nationwide criminal justice and policing reform.
If you think antifa is targeting “normal everyday views” I’m concerned about what sort of views you think those are. Do you think that neonazi and alt right organizations hold “everyday normal views”? That’s what antifa targets
> An EC2 instance with 2 virtual cores, 4GB RAM and a storage of 80GB costs roughly 37$ a month and a Lightsail instance with the exact same configuration costs 20$ a month which is almost half the cost!

In general I'm not sure you can really compare instances from different service by just look at cores, RAM, and disk.

I used to have my small website and email server at Rackspace, on the smallest, cheapest instance. I ended up getting out of mail hosting (moved that to Fastmail), and putting the small website on Lightsail.

The Lightsail instance and the old Rackspace instance have the same nominal specs for virtual cores, RAM, and disk. (Actually, Lightsail may be better on disk--I don't recall if the Rackspace one was SSD like Lightsail).

The main thing the website actually does is host some graphs showing the temperature in my house. An ESP8266 temperature monitor I made uploads a sample once a minute. A script was running once a minute on the server that using gnuplot to make graphs of temperature over the last hour, 3 hours, 12 hours, 48 hours, and over all samples.

At Rackspace it ran that fine, while at the same time gathering my mail from several services via fetchmail, receiving mail for my domain on its smtp server, and running spam filtering.

On Lightsail just handling the website it was locking up every few hours. I managed to catch one pre-lockup and found the load average was something like 300.

What was happening was sometimes that once a minute graph generation task was taking longer than a minute, and that would slow down the next one, and so on. Oddly, it didn't seem to be gnuplot that was taking too long, but rather the script that took the file containing all the samples, and extracted just the samples newer than a specific threshold. At least, running everything by hand that was the only step I ever saw take unusually long.

I changed it to every 5 minutes to temporarily stop the frequent hanging, and then added a check to my script to skip regenerating the graphs if a previous instance of the script was still running to fix things permanently. I also changed it from storing the data in just a big file of samples sorted by time to an sqlite DB.
While I applaude and admire his effort, I am somewhat concerned with the result. Can anybody elaborate why his movies are considered great? (This is not a rhetorical question, I am curious what other see that I do not.)
It looks like archive.is finally resolves correctly via Cloudflare DNS servers.
liver tastes horrible. any preparation methods? or could you avoid this with vitC supplementation?
You don't have to use GDScript, C# support is very strong at this point.
The statement is the most interesting part, in my opinion:

https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement

>In a strange way, this sort of became an anti-statement against what we’d all seen on tech Twitter. We’re a diverse, ragtag group of young technologists tired of the status quo tech industry, and thought that we could make the industry think a bit more about its actions. Despite calls-to-action like that “It’s Time to Build” essay we’ve all read, most of the industry (from product teams to VC) still stays obsessed with exclusive social apps that regularly ignore — or even silence — real needs faced by marginalized people all over the world, and exclude these folks from the building process. As an industry, we need to do better.
My comment wasn't meant to disparage federally driven innovation in general. I am referring more specifically to the software and information technology industry.
Roomba. Saved my marriage.
Yes, after being promoted to the head of the division with several people speculating that they were being groomed for even higher posts. And it took a scandal to get rid of them. Person should never had been a PM in the first place.

You never hear people say "it's proof that Congress works because they ejected that pedophile (sending lewd messages to the pages) from their seat".
I would love to try this, but I don't believe they are available in the US. Are they custom made?
It seems that this would be a much better way of funding research in a general sense, since that seems to be the general process of their problem solving. The only thing is that to apply this to other fields, the barrier for getting people that are equally motivated and intelligent about analyzing if the research is 'going' somewhere is high
Illustrated RL Examples from Sutton and Barto
I'm pretty sure Google, Mozilla, and Apple are who they meant in the first place, not CA/B.
I've been frustrated by many of the same things, and have recently been playing with Memex.

The solution outlined here leaves me with a couple of questions, though.

1. Since there's a local app acting as a service, it's not clear to me how this would run on a mobile device.

2. Once it is running on my mobile device (and home computer, and work computer, and chromebook, and various other machines I use), how do I aggregate all of the data? I'd like to be doing work-related research at home in the evening, and be able to see the fruits of it from the office.

I suspect that the answer to this is the same thing: that rather than a locally-running server, I could put something on my home server or on a cloud-based server, and direct all my various devices to communicate with that rather than localhost?
Oh yes, good point about the Web. I know there’s a lot of cutting edge research on storage and computing distributed across the world to handle the sheer amount of data coming out of the LHC. It’s not implausible that this could help improve the Internet’s architecture.

I entirely agree with your second point. I’ll add that it is also important to keep these people (from highly specialised technicians and physicists to diplomats and support staff) employed in positions where they can keep their skills sharp. Some of them then go back to their countries of origin to apply this experience and knowledge to help improve research and policy at home, whilst retaining personal links with their counterparts abroad.

In the grand scheme of things, the expenditure is a rounding error anyway.
Someone with a more detailed knowledge of RISC OS may correct me, but to the best of my knowledge there _was_ virtual memory protection between applications (the article carefully says "worthwhile memory protection")

Virtual memory was undermined by large portions of the OS being implemented as, effectively kernel modules. That is because this was the provided mechanism for 'shared' libraries; there's no dynamic linker, as such, just syscalls. So perhaps it can be attributed more not to lack of virtual memory, but lack of a mechanism for shared libraries (and IPC)

It is certainly true that as features from multi-user systems began to make an appearance on PC desktops, RISC OS starts to get left behind in this area.

But also recall that wasn't the focus (for a self-selected user base, of course.) An OS geared to productivity, with features like consistent widgets (and style guide), drag and drop between apps, consistent filesystem interaction throughout and standardised anti-aliased font and vector graphic rendering as part of the OS. It's 2020 and it doesn't feel like any of the OSes I use today have anything like the same cohesion (let alone web apps)

They were, however, the early victories of RISC OS. It does look like in the latter years 'easy' stuff was worked on; things like new window decor and textured backgrounds; perhaps diverting attention (either the RISC OS developers, or users) from the core.

I'm rather interested what Acorn's take was on the porting of NetBSD to Acorn hardware (which I first saw at a show in about 1995). With the benefit of hindsight, perhaps RISC OS could have been layered atop of this. A BSD kernel with a RISC OS syscall interface, windowing system and BASIC interpreter to provide compatibility for the wealth of existing software, and a transition to a 'modern' OS. Was this considered at the time? Was anyone at Acorn paying attention to BSD? Was there enough people-power to make it feasible? Was Acorn already in trouble by then? The world could have been a very different place.
tada https://boards.kenforthewin.com/b/news
> there is a subreddit for all things.

1. It needs to position itself as something other than not-reddit

2. There are a lot of issues Reddit really doesn't solve. Reddit encourages short, pithy, drive-by posts without much in the way of engagement at all. Compare old newsgroups, old forums, or even the average post here, compared to the average post (even in a niche sub) on reddit. Reddit:??Mysteryreplacement::Twitter:Blogs. I don't know what ??Mysteryreplacement will be, but there's certainly room for it.
You’re saying they can’t send emails or save files because they are behind on updates? I’ve never once encountered these issues and they frankly sound like problems that people have when they aren’t used to using computers.

I don’t use Adobe and Microsoft on Mac much. Chrome is obviously a huge memory hog due to tab sandboxing but realistically you just need to shut down the browser and/or most of your tabs once in a while. Updating the OS (or even restarting) sounds like overkill when the same result is likely obtained from restarting the browser with no tabs open or switching to Safari which is more RAM efficient
Demographic Differences in Sentencing [pdf]
Yes please I have always wondered why is this not a thing
How would you classify Frances Kesley who prevented thalidomide from being sold in the USA. And how would you rank the German authorities who allowed it to be sold over the counter?
It makes sense. f(n) depends on f(n-1) and f(n-2). So if the cache is able to produce these 2 values, you basically get the linear algorithm from the article. I assume the running f(n) also takes up a cache slot, hence 3 instead of 2.

If this theory is correct, every recursive function f(n) requiring access to f(n-x) should have x+1 as maximum usefull cache size.
Facebooks building 8 was run by a former darpa chief and went up in smoke. Also anecdata but it was enough to make me question how good their process really is
On COBOL
BLM has been creeping towards Asia where I am, and some of those activists are absurdly trying to redefine some Asian views of aesthetics as White admirations that the noble White must responsibly educate to eliminate.

To me these ungrounded imaginations are clearly stemming from the idea that some people are objectively not colored and others are colored. I’ve never come across this “POC” term but if it’s not racist I don’t know what racism means by dictionary.
It does not! It fails very early (I tested it once in Python, and it failed on something like F(70) or something) and should not ever be used for practical calculation of Fibonacci numbers.

For small values, the iterative version works just fine. For larger values, there are other methods: one obvious one is using the matrix form of the Fibonacci numbers, which just requires you to take an exponent of a 2x2 matrix (which you can do quickly because of exponentiation by squaring).
Because of Electron.
why carnivore instead of vegetarian/veganism?

have you considered that you feel better because you’re avoiding an allergen, not because of the all-meat diet?
> Conservation biologists are taking a closer look at the natural riches of the Southeastern United States, and they describe it as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, in many ways on par with tropical forests

I often hear that the southeastern U.S. has some of the highest biodiversity of anywhere on earth, but as someone who grew up there, I'm not sure that it's really that apparent, at least visually. The vegetation all the way from Atlanta up to Maine tends to look like this (https://static.rootsrated.com/image/upload/s--nsRlDT5Y--/t_r...). If you dropped me in the woods in any state along the east coast, I wouldn't be able to identify which state I was in. Perhaps there is diversity in the number of species, but the trees and plants themselves don't look that different from each other. I moved to the west coast two years ago, and at least in appearances, it seems like there is more biodiversity (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Od2CTO9JsJw/Wq7QDGEtQ6I/AAAAAAAAD...). Does anyone know what might explain the discrepancy? Just north of SF, there are redwood trees and cypress trees, which look strikingly different from each other.

Also, for those of you that grew up on the west coast, I'm curious what was your subjective impression of the vegetation in the southeast the first time you visited?
If you don't know Golden Cheetah yet, https://goldencheetah.org/

All the Garmin Edge devices can be used without connecting them to the internet, the data is available as USB mass storage.
Hate to break it to you, but "an incompetent person rising through the ranks quickly before crashing and burning" is something that happens in pretty literally every large org.

Any 60 year old organization with a large budget is going to have multiple instances of this happening.
Cat sitting on keyboard crashes lightdm (2015)
Glad to see that this exists and is under such promising development -- the tool looks like a perfect fit for my needs! I like working in the VSCode environment and I've been looking for the right tool for my Zettelkasten. Will definitely give this a shot once the subfolder linking gets added, that's a must for me given the structure of my Zettelkasten.
To prevent a man in the middle attack. There's a possibility that a hacker could inject malicious scripts into the payload, or even completely change the content of the website that you think you are viewing.
Any private company in China is by default a business partner with the state. If you believe that the government doesn't coerce companies to comply with their wishes you are mistaken.
I haven't read the article but when I left the field 5 years ago it seemed like we were not going to find anything. By then most of the parameter space for SUSY had been excluded, dark matter didn't look promising, my area of expertise, strong gravity signatures was strongly excluded. So the margin for discovery and career advancement in the field was not great.

Moreover if you didn't find anything around ~10 TeV you could make convincing theoretical arguments based on the Hierarchy problem you wouldn't find anything at 100 TeV or even 1000 TeV, the next energy regime where you might think you could find things would be something like 10^9 TeV where microscopic gravitational effects would become visible.

Of course you are already near the limits of human engineering building a ~10-100 TeV collider. The only way you can probe higher energy would be in astrophysical processes or maybe cosmic rays.

The other option is instead of going for higher center of mass energy you go for rates and try to channel high luminosity beams and do ultra precise measurements of physical parameters and try to deduce significant deviations from theory. That's the idea behind the ILC, electron beams are clean and with a linear collider you don't have synchrotron radiation background to worry about. Another way is the any number of fixed target neutrino experiments. Basically you setup an extremely sensitive detector somewhere with low background, like the bottom of a nickel mine and you wait to detect a once in a blue moon neutrino that interacts with the nucleus of an atom. But they too haven't found significant deviations from expectation to the best of my knowledge in recent years.

All in all, I think high energy physics is in kind of a funk. Don't get me wrong, the technology of the modern world, including much of the big data techniques, what is used in the Big N tech companies was pioneered in particle physics but as a scientific field we are in kind of a funk.

The LHC was supposed to guide the direction of theoretical research by excluding some and supporting other ideas but in the absence of any new discoveries the field is kind of without a clear direction. You have to have a strong theoretical argument for why you want to build a bigger collider.
Yes, it was a conscious choice for me. I’d always believed that becoming a parent was important to me, even when I was too young to really understand what that meant.

Parenting also aligns toward an important personal belief of mine that things that make you happy often make you feel fulfilled or content, and things that make you fulfilled or content don’t necessarily make you feel happy. Of the two, I believe feeling fulfilled and content is more important. Parenting doesn’t always make you happy (although there are moments of profound joy that I doubt happen elsewhere), but it certainly seems to often make people feel fulfilled and content.

Child rearing/parenthood can be a difficult thing to describe, its full of conflicting descriptions. The negative ones are easier to see from the outside- the exhaustion of new parents, the amount of time it takes, watching a kid have a meltdown.

The benefits are profound, but harder to describe if you haven’t experienced them. The best I can say is that I haven’t felt ennui since my first child was born, I haven’t felt bored (except on business travel), when I feel saddened or upset about something being around my kids pulls me out of faster then even my spouse, and being around kids unlocks a part of my self that I’d forgotten about since I was a kid myself.

I even suspect that being a parent has made me better at my job- the disruption and fresh perspective managing kids actually seems to have spurred my creativity, I’ve become a more patient and better teacher/coach to others, and I’ve become a better public speaker after deliberately practicing voice control while reading to my kids every night. I don’t want to oversell the job benefits (I believe the overall data suggests a net benefit for men and a net deficit for women. In our case, both of us have been successful) but that has been my experience.

Also, agree with dr_dshiv- the fire does get lit like nothing else. It's amazing what operating under constraints gets you to do.

A final thought- it is rare to find someone with kids who thinks their kids aren't worth it. I can hardly think of anyone in my upper-middle class existence. The one exception I can think of is the parent who expects thier children to be clones of themselves, to be easy, or cannot accept tradeoffs. If you go into parenthood wide eyed and open hearted you'll be, perhaps not necessarily happy, but content and fulfilled.
There's a lot of functionality that a general purpose UI library has that Godot will likely never approach, like support for input methods in text editing.

Productive applications require extremely robust text editing, something that game engines don't spend a lot of time with. Stuff like selection, text input for non-English keyboards, IME popups, that sort of thing. Even RTL text display is usually minimally unsupported.

I also don't know of any game engine that supports multi-window display in any coherent way.
Yes. Also extremely good native support for outline fonts and vector graphics.
Fair warning... this guys dumpsters on a group of people who I assume are a large part of the HN demographic, often via unflattering caricatures.

Agree or disagree with his opinions, this is a fairly high level of writing, and I recommend reading it for entertainment value if not for actual stimulating thought.
I'm pretty sure that emoji combination was in use for quite a while before this happened. Actually, when I saw it around Twitter I assumed it was people just referencing that or using it for its slightly surreality…
100x this. And given how most people approach news like this ("...but WHO says mask don't work!") it will cause much harm.

Mindbogglingly stupid on WHO's part.
I use neo as the hostname of my Matrix server.
I never understood how to do this. You just drag and drop a document, and after that only one consistent copy is maintained?

Also how do you have documents with inline images? Is it possible to cite other documents from zotero -- let us say you are creating a literature review?
Surely those 10K construction jobs could be used to build things with much more relevance, maybe things to reduce / mitigate climate change.
unlikely doesn't mean it's less good of a theory. it means the bar for verification/falsification is so much higher.
It's interesting. Can you easily deploy a Godot ui to the web?
Someone sitting between you and the site (Wifi router? ISP?) could potentially inject their own scripts.
The drag-to-save feature is incredibly under appreciated today. You could even drag the "file" from a save dialog into another app, rather than into a directory, resulting in a graphical way to do pipes.
Fair point.

Unfortunately for me anyway, I'm using the Steam version which doesn't support C#.
There is a fair chance I maybe an idiot but I've rarely worked on a problem where I could:

"thoroughly understand the requirements and truly define the solution approach, leaving the time estimate to be just a matter of counting the generated tasks"

The problems I've been paid to solve are problems that haven't been solved yet or at least I have never solved them before so I would have difficulty making a estimate.

(This isn't meant as a criticism. It's just my experience.)
> Why should Governments force people into lockdown for a virus with a CFR of 0.26%

Do you have a source for that--not something like "The Dental Tribune," but a link to the CDC page, or scientific study. I haven't seen anything in studies below 0.4%. You're leaving out long term consequences in your calculation, which we're seeing but haven't quantified yet.

You're also leaving out the explosive speed of spread, which can overwhelm ICUs.

Mask wearing is cheap and easy and seems to be associated with a region bringing it under control, so perhaps you can make your case about lock down, but the "open up without masks" seems foolhardy given those other facts.
There's no cert because there's no need for one in the first place. Mentioning that is pretty silly - it's obvious that there's nothing wrong with a static site with now cert, and no one is arguing against that.
Perhaps I have a flair for the dramatic, but consider my statement that I haven't met a competent pm in the division I was in (n~5). The incentives are not that well-aligned. Think about it this way. If you're really smart, why do you become a DARPA PM, and not a PI?

Yes there are a few good reasons, but the population it applies to have largely been selected out by the postdoc phase (where I would say you have had sufficient experience with crushing scientific and engineering failure onself and watching others to be effective) and the pool of candidates therefore is vanishing.
I'm from Jordan so we grew up eating liver raw and cooked so I'm okay with the taste. Chicken liver is a lot milder. And I know some people prefer liver pate.

I don't know if you can supplement, I've never used them.
I recommend trying one more time with a simple branching model, e.g. Github Flow:

- https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/

- https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/

- https://try.github.io

Everything else (Mercurial, Subversion) is out of date.
HTTPS stops the content being modified on its way to you. Some less than scrupulous ISPs have injected their own ads into pages, which would be prevented with SSL.