skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you seeing this in Portland in a way that’s different than any other city? Mixed use ground floor with residential above isn’t that revolutionary.
I'm sure there are open-source versions you can self-host
And me Markdown Monster.

https://github.com/RickStrahl/MarkdownMonster
It seems that there is a movement that values "sensitivity" more than understanding. How does this so-called progress lead to greater understanding?
Counter-Strike was played as an esport well before 1.6

Starcraft broodwar is basically nonexistent besides south korea. Other titels are orders of magnitude more popular.

And while 22 years very little compared to the rich history of other sports, I'd like to remind you that the olympics already contains many 'odd' disciplines. Many of which have a small competitive history.

So the question is really if it matters how long the discipline will be around. And I'm not quite sure it would matter. There are many disciplines that were retired after only a few competitions. And it not like additional change would hurt the olympics much. It's already quite different compared to the original concept. Why not adjust it for the digital sports?
Princeton companion regular and applied version 100% is the one book I wished I got in HS. Shows how big the world is which is very useful at that age.

That's education wise. Story wise I like "love and math" despite the corny title.

Puzzle/mystery wise "the Scottish book" would have seemed like alien speak to me in HS, aspirational but probably too tough.

Inside interesting integrals is cool if you want to go on a computation spree.

My fave academic book from HS was General Chemistry by Pauling.

IMO the best calculus/real analysis book is by Benedetto & Czaja. But HS age much better is Advanced Calculus by Fitzpatrick.

Introduction to statistical learning is very readable at that age.

CS wise I think Skienas algorithm design manual is the best.
The article is (confusingly, and a bit confusedly) discussing a type of fuel, not a reactor design. The type of fuel in question can withstand very high temperatures, whether from fission or from decay products, without letting the fuel out of its little protective shells.
I'm on ep 10 (of 43). Fascinating. Thank you!
> Modern critical thinking definitely owes a lot to critical theory.

Critical thinking is a permanent abstract concept of a competence, not a field or theory. There is no more ‘modern critical thinking’ than there is ‘modern food chewing’ or ‘modern dog humping’.

Critical theory is something of a trademark for a specific framework.

> ...the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory

This is not the subtlest way to frame yourself out of an uncomfortable inquiry.
Thanks, this is interesting. I checked a few spots and it doesn't seem to be quite helpful for what I'm looking for (seeing if a road has had brush grow back in over it making it impassable) but this would be quite useful for other things.
Those (including 400K employment) are just different names for what is essentially a business deal between two parties - as long as you provide the value satisfying the second party, and as long as the second party pays the agreed amount - it shouldn't matter whether any of you live in Thailand or rent a duplex on Manhattan.
Indiana Jones is just as ahistorical, but it's fine because no one thinks it's anything but fiction. The problem I have with Hancock isn't over whether it's entertaining, it's about the fact that he pretends his fictions aren't.
Climate. We know from ice cores that the climate prior to the current interglacial period wasn’t very conducive to crops. It was dryer and had less CO2. 180ppm be 260ppm pre-industrial area.

Lower CO2 levels meant that plants lost more moisture opening their pores and growth would be stunted.
Around that age, I read "The Heart of Mathematics", by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird. It's a really fun book which introduces a wide variety of math concepts while being amusing to read.

https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Mathematics-invitation-effectiv...
Firefly Semantics Time Series Sales Forecasting
That's impossible, I've played Counter-Strike 1.6 since 2004 approximately. That's likely a beta for something else. I know Valve made a bunch of games playable on Linux overtime.

Going by Wikipedia it was released in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike_(video_game)
I think many words are polysemic (that's how it's called in english right?) and you shouldn't be offended by them, but who I am to judge, I'm not a black developer at Twitter.
I try to keep proper posture, but I don't think the correct chair for me exists. I need a headrest (doctor recommended) and some amount of recline. However, I cannot find an office chair that will actually recline properly. Yes, it is theoretically possible to recline, but perhaps due to my (lack of) weight, I cannot push these spring-loaded backs back without exerting some force beyond gravity, usually by pushing my feet into the ground. What I really need is something like a car seat, which has adjustable set recline. Does anyone know of an office chair like this?

Even if I solve that problem, it also seems that all office and car chairs are designed for people a little shorter than me, so everything is a few inches off.
Most of the US (including most US cities) dont have strict separation. Every US city has multiple dozens of buildings of mixed live/work spaces. (These are inherently expensive to build and operate, and therefore expensive to rent, so there aren't lots more of them, only because there aren't enough wealthy residents to justify it)

And even many affordable neighborhoods of 1960's-looking-suburbs and such, have lots of dental offices / daycare centers / insurance offices / chiropractors / photography studios / private tutors / etc in them. Most people never notice, because they look like any other random ranch house. But they exist, and are permitted by zoning.

Historically, some places in the US have family-housing-only zoning laws, not to enforce a "strict separation", but to protect housing affordability or protect public transportation. If you could put 'anything' on that land, it would cost more, preventing people from being able to afford to live there. And if you could put 'anything' there, you might build a superstore or a theme park or similar (which would block other residential residents from using the public transportation network)

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Berlin has strong renter protections, rent control (freeze + cap), more widespread alternative forms of public transit, and substantial public housing. So the threat of private equity breaking the whole town is a little bit less pressing. The vast majority of America has nothing even remotely close to that. Zoning protections like these are basically the only thing preventing housing prices and transportation availability from being even worse in the US.
100% agree. I have been really exasperated how every goddamn thing in this pandemic, whether it's HCQ or masks or lockdowns has to have one team come out in favor, and then the other team reflexively comes out against it.

HCQ is one of those "scissor" issues, in that the data makes it almost maximally divisive. It is just very unclear whether it works or not.

There have been numerous retrospective associational studies that have largely shown some benefit. There have been two RCTs, one of which was for serious patients, and one was as prophylaxis. Both returned negative results. The WHO is also running the Solidarity RCT, and the HCQ arm was dropped early due to non-efficacy.

HCQ's proponents are now saying that you have to take it early in the disease process, augmented with either Azithromicyn or Zinc. No one has run this RCT and released data.

My personal feeling at this point is that it probably doesn't work. Given that they've terminated the HCQ arm of the Solidarity trial, I wish they'd release the data and resolve the question.
Unfortunately the ubiquitous cookie consent warnings reek of design-by-government-committe suffers greatly for it.

In theory, what could possibly be wrong with explicitly warning users that they're being tracked with a hidden piece of data stored on their machines? However, in practice this has just led to a proliferation of popups on every website on earth. I'd bet that pretty much everyone just annoyingly clicks through whatever button gets them to the content. I wonder how many could even describe what a cookie is, let alone how it affects their privacy. And at the end of a day, people are perfectly willing to give up a little bit of their privacy in exchange for all the services available for free to the general consumer on the web.

I wish that the powers that be could see that the law has not had its intended effect and has instead just led to a degraded web experience for everyone.
Moon's Mark Down (2016)
> I'm looking for recommendations for a maths book for a bright, self-motivated child in their late teens who is into maths (mainly analysis) at upper high-school / early undergrad level.

> It would be a birthday gift, so ideally something that is more than a plain textbook, but which also has depth, and maybe broadens their view of maths beyond analysis. I'm thinking something along the lines of The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Spivak's Calculus, or Moor & Mertens The Nature of Computation.

> What would you have appreciated having been given at that age?

Common Sense Mathematics by Ethan D. Bolker and Maura B. Mast

My friend was assigned this book for a quantitative reasoning class in college and I was so impressed by how approachable it was. It's got sections on things like climate change and Red Sox ticket prices.

Excerpt from preface:

"""
One of the most important questions we ask ourselves as teachers is "what do we want our students to remember about this course ten years from now?"

Our answer is sobering. From a ten year perspective most thoughts about the syllabus -- "what should be covered" -- seem irrelevant. What matters more is our wish to change the way we approach the world.
"""
Me neither, I had three settings I needed to "update" to prevent my image from being circulated without my approval.

Bad form, Airbnb.
"zero researchers have tried to improve on top of XLnet" I question this assertion.

In particular at least the Roberta model by Facebook is already improving significantly upon XLNet.
Tbh Hearthstone would probably not be chosen considering the amount of RNG and the fact that it's not very popular compared to other games.

But I agree, it's more comparable to chess and could be played as a tabletop game with little if any adjustments.
> It's good to be aware of _high-risk_ situations - such as shouting in a mob (you assume Texas spike was due to bars opening).

It seems you're incorrectly assuming that protesting was the reason behind the spike in infections. The reality is that we've seen multiple studies come out now [1] [2] [3] which indicate that outdoor spread of the coronavirus is much harder than indoors. You can stop spreading that lie, because all evidence points towards our attempt to rapidly reopen and people packing into enclosed locations.

> What's your goal? to keep everyone perfectly safe all the time? Padded rooms for everyone!

My goal was to dismantle your terrible arguments because it's the same tired nonsense of 'we all take risks every day' and 'we need to reopen the economy'. By your own argument we should remove speed limits, remove laws against drunk driving and anything of the sort because we're all taking inherent risks by being on the road and it doesn't make sense to to keep people safe.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/494348-new-study-finds...

[2] https://apnews.com/a288340b3bd3fbc62e564b3d0adfaa2e

[3] https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408.pdf
Yeah it's complicated.

Scanning is useful to automate a "thing" but your audit is multifaceted and should probably require peer review (pull/merge requests).

In simple terms, scanning should _hopefully_ help a dev who wants to do the right thing, but it won't help a malicious dev, so you're gonna need something else.

Peer review, least privileged access, protective monitoring, etc.
Glad to see some classic SciFi paperback artwork there. "The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Copied" as it were.
I don't read corporate newsletters from services I use twice a year, do you?
I saw that yesterday and it spawned a thought process for me. It seems the current approach is very effective in developing a language model, but not always effective developing an interaction model. I wonder if it would be possible to build a graph of interactions between users/personas on various social media platforms and forums, and use that to help develop a more effective communicator.

Of course you could add things like date, community (e.g. avforums, /r/blacksmithing, etc) to the graph to help with the contextual cues.

After you have all of that, I didn’t wondered if we could visualize the latent space of human personas and see what that looks like. Does it map to the four quadrants of that political spectrum survey, left and right, old/young, etc.
The NHS guidance[1] on this has been helpful, but I think a key factor is being aware of your posture slouching, which is where taking breaks is vital so you can re-adjust.

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/how-to-sit-correct...
How can we connect this subjective entropy back to things like Gibbs/Helmholtz free energy, or temperature (du/ds)?
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23714875 (Wikimedia put a redirect from the June version to the July version)
2+1=4, by quinoa
Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction by Edward R. Scheinerman:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Mathematics_A_Discrete_...

I bought this book when I was ~16 because I wanted to learn some discrete maths, but it actually touches many different interesting topics that you don't see in secondary school (including some cryptography!).
There's nothing requiring the use of GitHub, you can 100% use your own Git repo for syncing purposes. Definitely a big plus of Foam and similar approaches of assembling open primitives into a useful package =)
If you have no liability / jurisdiction then contracts with you are unenforceable. And if a customer can't get a valid contract with you, that means no customers.
Right, seeing a user's previous reviews by hosts makes sense. I would guess that having a name & face makes hosts more comfortable, although it does allow for discrimination?
Don't forget that they chiseled a doorway into it too, in order to save a bit of time walking around the long way to lunch.
Worked at one. Ate Cinnabons for lunch when I forgot to bring one. I wouldn't want to make a regular thing of it, but they remained pretty good once every week or two.

The one I worked at changed from baking the rolls from things that bore some resemblance to things you could buy at the supermarket to pre-made frozen stuff two years after I graduated high school. I sort of lost interest after that.

I reckon if you don't see a mixer, a sheeter, or anybody rolling out rolls, it's probably a safe bet that their product comes in pre-made. Note that it's a strong possibility that nobody will be making rolls at a slow time like a weekday afternoon. Still, there should be signs of loose brown sugar/cinnamon mix somewhere in the cooking area if they aren't using pre-made.

Disclaimer: I don't know how this works at e.g. airports, where the food service stuff is much tighter for frontage. Also, it's been almost 20 years now since I've been on that side of the counter.
It should produce amounts of waste similar to other once-through uranium fuel cycles, e.g. most reactors in use today.
100% in the same boat. I have historically used notes products for hours and then quit; I am days into Foam and I love it more all the time.
I can tell you the topics but I can’t recommend any resources. You can acquire and read the source for all the following. Also, reading the JDK source for classes that you use all the time is very educational.

Spring (core, testing, web (classic, reactive), data, security)
Hibernate: sucks but learn it.
Basic app container: Tomcat setup.
Building with Gradle and Maven

If you have your own toy SPA toy product, use it as a vehicle to apply coursework.

Modern Java is perfectly fine. Try to learn idiomatic 9 or 11, most employers will still be on 8 but know they need to upgrade eventually.
What’s amazing to me is that the kind of graphite used in nuclear reactors doesn’t burn until it’s white hot, somewhere around 1650°C.
Just go all the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
It's the most absurd waste of human energy. Nothing is being solved, it's energy which goes directly into amplifying whatever actual racial tensions there already were.

Nobody who is actually racist goes "oh. I guess I shouldn't be racist anymore because they changed the name of the default Git branch" -- I refuse to pretend this is anything other than complete totalitarian Marxist nonsense.
“It’s never been about reactor safety” - except that was the excuse during the 90s and 00s when we should have been building.

Storage is still an imaginary pile of what-if “issues” while the world fucking burns. The scale of the issue of nuclear waste storage orders of magnitude smaller than climate change. Yet we still talk about it while burning nat gas and goal.
Covid 19 – The most logical explanation is that it comes from a laboratory
Yeah, not sure how the cruise lines deal with this... I know some of them have offices in the US, some major ones pick Miami but the ships are owned and registered to off-shore nations. One of the reasons they didn't get a bailout due to COVID, they pay little taxes and then also can avoid more stricter US labor laws.
Reuters GDPR prompt on every scroll event
> ziggurats are just an inevitable step in the development of urban architecture (this is definitely untrue).

Are you sure? I'm not strongly in one camp or another, but it seems relatively intuitive that if you are stone age people and want to build something tall, a square-based step-pyramid is the most stable form that can rise relatively fast wrt to the amount of material used and work needed

Of course this only pushes back the question of _why_ did all these people want to build tall things roughly at the same time, but still
If it is just 1%, you are doing a great job. If those numbers start climbing, at least your content isn't time sensitive so you have the option to adjust your schedule accordingly.

One suggestion: place the email and RSS subscription links in the area adjacent to the video. Perhaps not the whole "want to become a stronger programmer" message, since that would bury your description and show notes, but it the subscription options should be more prominent. The part about the RSS feed is particularly important since some people will not subscribe to any mailing list no matter how much you want them to subscribe to your list.

Otherwise I like your choice of content and mostly enjoy your presentation. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, I think a critical part of their success was that they were fun.

Look at photos of malls from the 80s and 90s. People were there to hang out, even to see and be seen, and of course they shopped while they were there.
Actually that has happened in my country.

The movie theater of an old mall was repurpused as a call center for a canadian company.

It brought new life to the mall.
The Zipf Mystery [video] (2015)
10 years ago pirates complained about cable packages that forced them to buy a whole bunch of channels they didn't want. Instead they wanted a la carte choices.

Now pirates complain about "convenience and fragmentation." Saying they want a service with everything all in one place.

The truth is that pirates want content for free. Which is fine. I get that. But don't try to package up this belief as some kind of principled "civil disobedience."

You want to watch other people's stuff for free. Own it.
My thoughts exactly: refusal is the whole point.
So apparently Fukishima's power failed and the generators were damaged by the tsumami.

Why can't nuclear reactors at least have the option to power themselves?
In the city I used to live, the state government bought up many such dead malls and turned them into office space for various agencies.
He builds a lot on top of Robert Schoch's Sphinx erosion controversy. Ie that the egyptian sphinx must be much older than currently estimated because of geological findings of erosion around it is water based, not wind based.

These "cranks" provide an explanation. How do "non-crank" tradition archeologist explain this?

Just because somebody exaggerates means that he is a crank? In a world of ignorants perhaps the only option to be heard is to develop a fan base and exaggerate. That doesn't invalidate the few hypotheses presented by "cranks" which seem closer to be believable than mainstream explanations.

https://www.robertschoch.com/sphinx.html

https://youtu.be/zSjnvlDWwrE
It's not Bloomberg it's Citylab, which only recently got bought by Bloomberg and has always rated well.

No idea why Facebook's technical blog is included in the list since it's exactly what HN is.

And the Economist I'd hardly call Mass Media.

And complaining about paywals has been explained many times before. And should be downvoted since it's explicitly against the rules.
Wait, how? Is Bloomberg so desperate for views to profit from spamming here? Do people get a commission for spamming it here?
> the meltdown at Fukushima was caused by lack of decay heat removal after shutdown

This was also the problem at three mile island.
It's been like this from the beginning, just perverted:

> Gruen had meant well. He wanted to import the pedestrian experience of modernist, European cities like Vienna and Paris into America, where the automobile was king. By creating places for community in the deserts of suburbia, he hoped to lure people from their cars and into contact with one another. The malls would be for shopping, yes, but also offer food, relaxation, and green space. In his original conception, malls would also connect to residential and commercial space, medical care, libraries, and other public spaces. Even though unrealized, this idea was not that different from today’s New Urbanists, who advocate denser, more walkable mixed-use development in cities broken up by the dominance of the automobile.

> Gruen would eventually disavow his creation, expressing disgust for how malls had exacerbated rather than ameliorated urban sprawl—not to mention exporting it globally, infecting the Old World with this land-use virus of the New.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/when-...
triple charging the consumer

Not really. Licensing fees end up being (more or less) tied to actual number of views. When a piece of content is licensed more broadly the views on any given platform will go down, so the fees will as well.
If a computer prints on the screen "I'm in pain", is it actually in pain?

If you tell me "I'm in pain", are you actually in pain?

If you are sedated with a memory blocker, and are then hurt, but you don't remember it afterward, were you actually in pain? (This isn't an academic question - many medical procedures simply paralyze the patient and add a memory blocker, but don't provide much analgesia. The patient can not express pain, and does not remember it. So does the pain they felt matter?)

You want an explanation of the wrong "ground reality", you are discussing the wrong question, it's not "is pain" real.

It's all about the subjective experience of pain, and can a robot share in that? Can a person in a coma share in that? Can an animal?
Worm-like creatures may be first ever amphibians with venomous saliva
I visited Göbekli Tepe back in 2011 during a road trip through Turkey.

Apart from some locals and a group of archaeologist, there was a filming crew from National Geographic.

I always wondered what happened with the footage they were recording.

It looked like one of those documentaries that feature an actor that moves around while a narrator in the background describes the scene, but can't really recall much more.