skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key thing about life is it has a strong exponential tendency that overwhelms the ordinary processes of decay.
The amount of hardcoded stuff that was specific to the machine. All the domain addresses, firewall rules, etc. There was no git or ci/CD to keep everything in sync (easily).
to be fair, how large should a field be?

specializing in physics as a whole is way to broad. but is specializing in front end software development to broad?

Once you have learned the fundementals of computer science and its assosicated fields (networking and systems engineering mainly), the difference between doing back/front end works is not that large.
Normally they do, but when you shut it down you need something to get rid of the decay heat. That's why nuclear power plants have these emergency generators. Those failed at Fukushima, leading to the meltdown.

Some newer designs opt for passive decay heat removal, eg through convection.
That is so interesting. I hate going to malls because there are so many people there. But that seems to have been part of Gruen’s original intent - to bring people in close proximity to each other. No thank you.
A particularly large area of magic is all about the art of illusion. But there are other branches for which illusions are only used as "icing on the top." Mentalism is an example of one that, while it does use illusion, it also adds in real effects that aren't commonly known by the targeted audiences.

Hellstromism is a pretty good example, as it has been used in several forms with The Amazing Kreskin and Derren Brown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_reading Needless to say, Hellstromism lends itself well to illusions (like mind reading), so it is easily confused unless you know the difference. But both names mentioned have had lots of success demonstrating it without disguising it as something else and turning it into an illusion.

Hellstromism is a great example of something that is presented as magic, and came about through "occult" knowledge and experimentation.
Wouldn't the picture be necessary if you want to make sure that the people who actually showed up are the same as the profile you OK'd to stay in the first place?
As an aside, apparently some birds have evolved to be less killed by highways
You're not wrong. These are two separate issues and they should both be improved. It's not like we can only do one without the other, and the first steps to bigger change will almost always start with small steps that many feel are too small.
They have to shut down during the earthquake to ensure they maintain coolable geometries. Cooling is easier at lower power.

Some Fukushima reactors did have some self-powered safety features, like a little steam turbine that comes from the boiling coolant and is hooked to a coolant pump. These features are at least a little related to why some reactors failed at different times than others in Fukushima.

But seriously, there is enough decay heat to do more of this so it's a pretty good point.
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It's mostly hope. But hope is not a strategy and never was. The time to really fix this was early February at the latest. Acting too late in order to protect 'the market' did more damage to the market than would have ever been the case if the initial response had been on point. The difference between the countries that acted immediately, a bit later and much too late is stark.
Not sure what you are talking about. Malaria discourages investment: http://ftp.iza.org/dp2997.pdf
I remember reading this book in 11th grade and I absolutely loved it. It made me appreciate math much more and showed me the beauty of mathematics. It helped me overcome my math anxiety.
Are we still pretending GDPR did more than add another layer of inconvenience to the web? Users don't care and when they do it's because they bought into the fear mongering the privacy crowd keeps perpetuating. No products of value are made by these regulations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23726882
In probabilistic risk assessments, almost all pathways that lead to radiological release in modern reactors is related to decay heat cooling failures.

That's the singular safety selling point of Gen IV reactors that have passive cooling features.

It was demonstrated in April, 1986 at EBR-II in Idaho, weeks before Chernobyl. Very few people have heard of this awesome capability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I...
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On Sharing Vulnerability
This is creative, and for "malls" built into tall midrises with strong materials like the one in the video shown, it makes sense.

However, most malls look something more like this - https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/scenery-shopping-... or https://live.staticflickr.com/4500/23555440258_4bdf03a818_b....

I wonder what the plan would be for adapting a "regular" mall to residential use.
I don’t think they’re offended, per se — I just think they don’t want intermittent reminders of the atrocities committed against their ancestors at their workplace.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716451
>Why not "because it was a convenient way for their developer to include it"?

In the end, they would still be using IA as a CDN, no matter the verbiage. We can make a reasonable guess as to why, considering it's a really bad idea for many reasons; someone made a mistake. Intentional or not, it's a mistake all the same.
Whites were slaves long before blacks were
Not to mention we can just drop it all into Yucca Mountain and never think about it again.

I'm surprised given this project was abandoned by the Obama administration, Trump hasn't reversed it on principle.
Yep. It enables me to receive email notifications and IM notifications.
Just wanted to chime in regarding Concepts of modern mathematics.

Really enjoyed reading it when I was in college. It's not a textbook, just a prose book for enjoyable reading, but it's inspirational and a very interesting overview of the field of mathematics.
One thing that' slightly worrying:

> But during the INL tests, Demkowicz demonstrated that triso could withstand reactor temperatures over 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit.

> ...

> Sell says. “It is physically impossible—as in, against the laws of physics—for triso to melt in a reactor,”

3200 F = 1760 C

> The first phase lasted only several seconds, with temperatures locally exceeding 2,600 °C, when a zirconium-uranium-oxide melt formed from no more than 30% of the core.[1]

It seems like it's yet to be demonstrated that Triso fuel can withstand the highest recorded temperature inside a nuclear reactor. I get that the physically impossible quote is probably partially puffery, but IMO puffery is not appropriate when it comes to nuclear reactors.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)#Chern...
If you want products where you give the company money and they give you stuff - buy Apple.

The "stuff" tends to come with artificial limitations so that in order to use it effectively I have to give Apple even more money.
To some extent we have that now, and have had it. Everyone has something in their past that they're not proud of. Extend the scope to family and friends and the muck gets thicker.

No one reasonable is going to run for office knowing there's a great chance their dirty laundry will be used to fuel the news cycle. It's not worth the risk; the possible damage to their family; and so on.

This is why so many of today's elected officials are as inspiring as the colour beige. No offense to beige of course ;)

Yes, Trump is an exception. But I said reasonable people ;)
It's unfortunate that so much about COVID-19 has been politicized. The truth about many elements of this pandemic I'm sure won't be truly uncovered after at least century has passed, if not more (when most of us will be long gone). From death rates, to infection rates, to effectiveness of masks, to its original source: everything about the virus has become a conversational third rail.
You should really meet someone from the former Communist block, it would probably change your mind. The father of a good friend of mine still remembers the time when the military police used to stop by his village and get the new prisoners they needed to fulfill the gulag quota.
Seems like a solid plan if they focus on opening restaurants, pharmacies, grocery stores, banks, registries, etc in the commercial lots.

Every neighborhood strip mall seems to succeed by proximity to the people.

If you put a good restaurant near a neighborhood with a school, it gets a steady traffic of regulars. Same goes for a little bank, pharmacy, gas station, etc.
Ya I am split on the issue myself. The USA has min wage, but it’s pretty low and it there is more inequality than just that. It just feels like execs get more than their fair share. Like when the US is compared to Japan, Japanese execs have less extreme inequality among employees in the same company. I wish there were ways to incentivize that. No individual human needs to be worth a billion dollars.
And while it’s true that the execs have earned something, studies show that there is more luck and randomness to their performance than personality-cults will acknowledge. It’s annoying that they are entitled so much wealth when studies shows that performance of their companies is much more Influenced by other factors than that one execs work alone.
Interestingly, malls in Australia are alive and well, and do include libraries, supermarkets, medical care, and so on.
Show HN: Norm, A Simple Python SQL generation library
I created this to provide a simple way to generate SQL after becoming frustrated with other libraries.

Things that distinguish this library from other SQL generation libraries:

- (N)ot an (ORM), so there are no schemas or table definitions to maintain in code.

- is really dumb. It is just doing string concatenation internally, so whatever you type into it will appear as is in the query.

- lets you build up queries safely, like most other SQL generation libraries.

- provides a simple, consistent wrapper for Python DB-API libraries, while still directly exposing all the functionality of those libraries

- code looks almost identical to the generated SQL

- the generated SQL is very nicely formatted for humans to read (either for debugging or in database logs).

- makes it possible to safely generate multiple row inserts in a single INSERT statement, even with heterogeneous columns in each row.
Honest question.

I never updated stock Droid OS on my 2017 phone. I disabled most google incl Google Play, Gmail, yet the system does not let me disable PLAY Services

How do you disable play services?
All the insecurity of js, but with the opaqueness of assembly.
Oh, so you mean like most of Europe and NYC? Ya, I guess that's a thing people are into.

(Disclaimer: I'm from NYC where this is just so bloody obvious.)
Instead a mall became any store that can pay the highest rent. The never ending quest for the highest rent per square inch.
Making Presto resilient to network data corruption in AWS
Ah good memories. Once BASIC got rid of requiring line numbers and supporting function calls it really wasn't too bad of a language from what I remember.

I started out with TRS-80 BASIC, then assembly language on the TRS-80, then using BASIC on the PC, and then assembly language on the PC. After that was C.

But I still have fond memories of BASIC as my first programming language.
Hey now I didn’t say I was offended, just that it seems out of place in such a context :)
Examples abound, but I’d say my favourite is the electron g-factor which is an example of one of the most precise agreements between theory and experiment ever achieved by humans and it’s calculation relies heavily on the quantum mechanics of the electromagnetic field.

But there’s lot of other, more pedestrian examples. For example, you can (and people have) generated entangled pairs of photons and then performed measurements on this entangled pairs that violate the Bell inequalities, meaning that their correlation is not classical.
It’s not obvious how your final statement relates to the rest of what you said. Care to elaborate about incentives?
So a person wanting to promote a cause through their FB profile is "virtue signalling" even if they do it regardless of recent events (let's imagine someone putting up a "stop racism" banner there 5 years ago), but a company doing that when the public eye is on it is not "virtue signalling".

Mhkay.

While I believe one can be genuine in either case, I find it more likely to be "virtue signalling" when it's a company doing something on a hot topic right now.
Is etymology more important to you than the people who are telling you they find something offensive, unwelcoming, and a factor (regardless of size) in racial equality?

Do you believe that there is limited space on the internet? Or that in the absence of this discussion every person here would instead be doing something highly productive?
I'm not downvoting you. I just don't see an argument against sanity or coherence. These are things are objectively good. Don't hear a lot of "hey, that's awfully coherent, how about maybe walk that back a little..."

I'm good with the rest of it. I have no need to call anything master/slave. I worry about analysis paralysis though. Primary/secondary has caste connotations, if you ask me...
Are there any products in the pipeline that you're planning to ship? Asking for prospective candidates.
Url changed from https://twitter.com/janellecshane/status/1279151512879423488, which points to this.
Refactoring is different from rewriting.
Libertarians are usually talking about markets when they refer to that and the people who disagree with them usually aren't economists. Germany is no more impressive than Singapore or Korea, you can accomplish a lot of impressive looking feats when you're operating at a miniscule scale and your culture is mostly homogenous. I'll be more impressed when they start surpassing modernized SEA region nations or when they manage the same feats under an atmosphere of diversity.
I've wondered this too. It seems like there is a solid argument that they could act as a harmful invasive species and damage or destroy ecosystems which they are introduced to. There is precedent for this in hippos which were introduced to South America.

However, these rare and unique megafauna are so valuable (imo), that the potential damage they could cause ecosystems we introduce them to may be outweighed by their increased resilience. The death of all wild elephant populations would be a massive blow to biology, animal psychology, and natural beauty; I wonder if we should think more about prioritizing their survival over other ecological considerations.

I'm absolutely not an expert in this area at all, just thoughts of a layman.
There's definitely the need for some 10x change here. Reducing CO2 output or plastic trash by 30% might of course help a lot but to actually solve things, these numbers need to be reduced by 99% or so. People manage to hyperoptimize everything when it comes to production lines, logistics or finance. I think this is also the ultimate reason why the environment must become strongly coupled with the finance system.
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I remember supermarkets in malls back in the 80s. People smoked in malls back then and grocery stores, doctor offices.
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My guess is phone number matching. Your friends use Facebook on their phone and added your contact information recently. That’s enough for Facebook to figure out that it’s a potential match, given that you already have some friends in common.
I think that your example is not correct.

Tinder and a lot of others apps share information with Facebook about what you do by using their SDK.
Submitted title was just "Tench". That's a cool word so I consed it onto the article title when changing it.
Your question is answered in (the very beginning of) the HN guidelines [0].

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Not really. The Vikings pulled it off, but it was hardly a walk in the park and required a network of bases in Iceland, Greenland and elsewhere to support venturing further.
Isn't it weird that so many error and configuration screens still look like Windows 3.1, complete with that turn-of-the-century bold pixellated font? It always catches me off guard because it's so jarring compared to everything else in the UI.
Anecdotally, asking questions has become as "offensive" as making statements. People are so wrapped up in their echo chambers that _anything_ not in line with those "norms" is considered unacceptable. _Everything_ is binary. There's little grey area. Do deviate from the poles is seen as a complete switch to the other side.

Free speech? Free thought isn't PC any more.
"If you express nuance ... There is no room for thought or reason in this movement unless it points to a narrative that white men are evil oppressors."

The irony of this juxtaposition - bemoaning lack of nuance, then immediately following it with an utterly un-nuanced broad-brush statement - is quite impressive.
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Wirecard’s No. 2 Was Key to the Firm’s Rapid Rise. Then He Disappeared
What do you mean by new residents? Is the number of net residents increasing? Parking minimums just mean that developers aren't forced to include parking, which raises prices. Developers can still add them if they want
not sure if I agree with some of these. For example TF is listed as mage mage, when he is built as a marksman not so rarely, and Maokai seems more of a tank tank than a tank mage.
I'm not sure if I'm more impressed by the solid understanding of the concept of death, the coherent dialog with people interacting with each other, or the use of "anypony" instead of anyone.
I’m doing a distance data science degree at a fraction of the cost and I would imagine I’m getting much more out of it than this September intake will. There’s been a revolution in remote working, will education follow?
This seems like it is casting uncertainty when there is really good evidence that wearing masks is effective.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/04/why-we...
Same here. I've tried many different Markdown tools along the way. However, keeping everything in Sublime (files in Dropbox) is specially nice because I'm always one `cmd ~` away from having my notes, and one `CMD SHIFT F` from finding exactly what I need.
Surely this kind of topic came up in its corpus. I would expect it to have sufficient generalization to "understand" and talk about the topic itself. If all instances of this topic in its training data were replaced with the emotions clowns undergo when throwing ripe tomatoes, it would've written about that.
And it’s regulatory actions like this that ensure that air travel is safe.
You forgot the bit where you also have to guess what your options are. Doubleplusungood if it's a voice chatbot that fails at recognizing your accent.
HN is for sure used to gain a specific audience. It takes about 10-20 managed accounts to get a thing on the frontpage if you distribute the votes right.
This is why I in 2016 made the "no noise hacker news" chrome plugin. I could link directly but I think its bad practice - so search on your preferred search engine. From the description:

This extension will filter stories from domains that - per november 2015 - had more than than 2500 submitted stories but less than 40% had more than 3 votes. Domains with usergenerated content (as github.com or youtube.com) are not included.

Is this censoring?
- No, this is a way of limiting domains with a high amount of noise.
thanks for your comment and suggestion. unfortunately we ate it all, but I'll try to add such a picture next time. The truth is that they aren't exactly spherical, but squished in on one side.
Sunshine City in Tokyo, Ikebukuro started out like this around 1978.

https://sunshinecity.jp/en/information/about/

The Sunshine City building is about 60 stories. The lower floors are mall. I considered renting there around 1988, but the apartments in my price range were shabby. Nearby conventional apartments were much less expensive. It appears to be very successful, but I haven't been there for 18 years. Has anyone else seen it recently?
I've started down the road of language design recently and have committed to roughly these goals:

1. Making "Algol 2020" is only interesting if you also throw person-decades of effort into making it competitive in production. I want to do other things with my time, therefore anything I attempt should not lead to that, which produces these other requirements to create a small yet useful language:

2. The implementation must leverage existing languages in a way that is uncomplicated to the user. Which means that it either compiles to some form of interpreter or to generated source code.

3. The language must focus on fully leveraging a specific data structure or family of data structures. What is and has long been fashionable in PL discussion is to elaborate upon symbolic expression. You do need some symbol definition to have a language, but the preferred orientation we use for many data structures is spatial: "top of stack", "bottom of tree", "traverse the graph", "loop over the array". Engaging with the vocabulary of the data in its context, and simply working to generalize upon that vocabulary and the bookkeeping it needs(iteration counters, selection markers, error cases etc.), rather than the generalities of algorithm definition, leads directly towards a tighter language. We can define many algorithms very well, and we're paying more attention to concurrency lately, but the software we're writing still mostly isn't about algorithms themselves. You don't end up writing one million lines of code because you have a mega-algorithm that's just really hard to express.

Consider regular expressions: a little string matching language, which can be usefully explained in a page or two. The idea of them has been around since the 50's, yet all the hip, popular languages today have implemented some syntax for them, making regex defacto one of the most common and long-lived programming languages in existence, outdoing "big" languages by many measures.

And ideally I'd like to engage in those terms: a language so small you don't really notice except to think "gee, that's handy."
Big box stores dominate us more than ever. Walmarts everywhere. I consider amazon to be an online big box store.
Or:

People are interested in possible hypotheses and explanations of phenomena and would love if the somebody could either provide more evidence or refute them.

Definitely more interesting than the mainstream "We don't really know very much" together with " and we don't care, we are too busy doing real archeology".
Although the book claims to be up-to-date, the way it registers items/blocks is already outdated. Please use DeferredRegister as oppose to RegistryEvent.

DeferredRegister: https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge/blob/1.16.x...

Also, I find Cadiboo's Example Mod super helpful: https://github.com/Cadiboo/Example-Mod
One could probably poison the cookie jar by having a revolving list of nonsense copied to the clipboard that is disabled for a time when the user purposely copies something to it.
Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the psychology of authoritarianism
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