skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would ideally produce graduates imbued with a sense of government duty.

I'm not sure this is the best selling point to attract a young & diverse student body, given current world events.
I see people have proposed either Safari's or Firefox' Reader modes as a stop-gap.

I know at some point Firefox offered an ability to define custom CSS to use for all the pages, but I guess that's hidden underneath some about:config options today — I can only see the option to disallow use of custom fonts by a web page. I would like to see someone implement a bare-bones CSS for the modern web that's easy to customize using these browser features.

It seems what I am thinking about is userContent.css: http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserContent.css&pr...
I was referring to Europe. Right now Europe looks like a paradise compared to the US.
> "If this is you, you've made an error, and have fallen into the trap of thinking that banks 'lend out the water that I've put inside them'. This also means you've failed to make a distinction between the two forms of money in our society: state money ('water'), and bank money ('promise for water'). And both of these misunderstandings are facilitated by the linguistic glitch we are trying to deprogram."

I don't think this clarifies much. Talking about categories like "state money" and "bank money" doesn't make the problem clear.

I have come to the conclusion that the problem with fractionally reserved money isn't the fractional reservation mechanism at all. Rather, the problem is that banks effectively promise the same money to multiple people at the same time. There is one "piece" of money, but multiple people have claims on it.

If deposits were timed (like CDs) and the banks could only loan out the money for the time it was tied up, there would be no problem. In fact, there would be no need for a reserve ratio, just loss provisions. A "piece" of money could be loaned out an infinite number of times, in fact.
Every bank would just need to show a loanable amount curve over time as well as a loaned amount over time, and you could easily see if a bank was in trouble or not well in advance.

Demand deposits could not be loaned, of course. Basically, force banks to borrow long and lend short.

This is what I'd like to see tried.
This was originally done by IE way back in the day, for a variety of reasons - one being to not block IE. So, they just masqueraded the IE browser as Netscape. It's been a mess every since.
I would like to find it too. I just related this story to my wife and she doesn’t remember watching it. I said “you were enraptured, and watched the whole thing?”!

“Apparently it wasn’t that memorable“, she replied.

Edit: Might be this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_KghQP86Sw

If so he’s updated it since we watched.
And pithy one-liners are not arguments. OP is specifically asking for examples.
Is this on safari?
well, this is not predicting "quantum mechanics energies", it's just parametrizing the molecular bond interaction potential with a neural network instead of an analytic function (such as e.g. a Lennard-Jones potential).

It's nice, but not really quantum-mechanics level (which is maybe HF, DFT or coupled cluster), which takes a lot more cycles (but also allows to optimize geometries without knowing wether a bond exists)
Same here. If Emacs is your operating system, then it's such a natural extension. And if a site doesn't work in Eww, then I consider it shoddy craftsmanship and refuse to open it in Firefox - so it's an excellent tool to stop procrastination! Pity HN works fine.
So it's a forward contract...?
> an AI agent

And probably life itself.

Good article from Nassim Taleb [0] relating to rationality/irrationality and survival...

"survival comes first, truth, understanding and science later"

which would seem to relate to a the simpler model for AI centered around preventing disaster being more robust than trying to solve some form of maximization while risking ruin.

In some ways it is arguably better to be paranoid/"irrational" about risk than try to be perfectly sufficiently rational

"I have shown that, unless one has an overblown and a very unrealistic representation of some tail risks, one cannot survive –all it takes is a single event for the irreversible exit from among us. Is selective paranoia “irrational” if those individuals and populations who don’t have it end up dying or extinct, respectively?"

[0] https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-be-rational-about-rational...
No, we have merely found a new and slightly better way of interpolating between (slow and properly calculated) known data points.
They should. And they should release a new version of Rhapsody. The Rhapsody community (and it is a community) would love that.
Yeah, it's honestly insulting copy, and ignores other North American schools like Waterloo that make up a disproportionate part of big tech.
At my work folks always set off the alarm with the microwave. Usually popcorn. The FD said by law they have to show up and check out the building each time.

Maybe we change that law for starters.
The main mistake is thinking deposits are taken out of banks.

Once you realise that a bank note is a receipt for a deposit at the central bank it all becomes clear.

We just swap deposits between ourselves
> By the time you got to the upper level classes completely booked 200+ person lecture halls would have less than 50 students show up because everyone watched online.

I don't know whether to blame the professor or the students here--my gut feel is to blame the professor.

I taught at a far less "prestigious" university and that wasn't my experience. I used to record all my CS lectures and practically all my students showed up anyway. And I never took attendance.

Even when I had a "marketing and sales" guy come in to deliver a lecture for me (because, let's be fair--a significant fraction of CS students are going to wind up in non-tech roles so students need exposure to that side, too), practically the whole class showed up. It completely stunned the poor presenter flat who expected that maybe one or two students would show up and instead wound up with a full house.

If good students regularly aren't showing up for lectures, the person delivering the lecture needs to do some serious soul searching and fix the content of the lecture.
"A total of 78 patients with similar demographic and disease characteristics were enrolled.
There was a significant reduction in ICU admissions (2 out of 39 vs. 11 out of 39, P=0.006),
intubation (1 out of 39 vs. 9 out of 39, P=0.007) and death (0 vs. 5, P=0.027) in the bromhexine
treated group compared to the standard group. No patients were withdrawn from the study because
of adverse effects."
The memory controller should support 4 DIMMs of 32 GB each, but in practice the motherboard implementation may limit to 4 x 16GB. How much can be allocated to the GPU part, no idea.
I can’t tell whether this is debunking a myth I didn’t believe to begin with, or if I do believe the myth but am too dumb to recognize that it’s what this article is about. This is bizarrely opaque for so many words about a fairly small (I think?) scope of knowledge.
Holy sites like Mecca only have tons of pilgrims during the Hajj. The rest of the year there could be a small maintenance population living on site.
This also means you've failed to make a distinction between the two forms of money in our society: state money ('water'), and bank money ('promise for water').

Technically the "state money" is also just a promise. In years long past, it was a promise of a particular quantity of precious metal. More recently, it's not a promise of that, but they strongly imply that one who possesses state money can use it to pay taxes to the state.
SmartyStreets[1] offers a geocoding API as a part of their address validation services. They have a program for startups to give 1 year of free Unlimited US service[2]:

[1] https://smartystreets.com/

[2] https://smartystreets.com/pricing/startup
Islam is what made the Middle East a violent and reactionary place, driven in the first instances by Mohammed himself, a warlord who spread his ideology by the sword: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Muhammad
It's kind of a pain in the ass with regards to homebrew at the moment, yeah.
Yes, we need more medical schools for example. We have way more students interested in medicine than available spots in school/residencies.
Isn't this a bit too much historical/wishful thinking perspective? I don't think people in Europe see UK as some kind of helper agent in maintaining balance of power/order in continental and northern Europe. UK is simply not relevant now. Those threats from close neighbors are largely gone. The questions that concern people today are different - too much power of EU bodies and bureaucrats, which UK can't help with, some external threats (migrants, terrorists) which UK can't help with, economic recession in whole West which UK can't help with, China influence which UK can't help with. For the eastern countries, Russia is a concern which UK can't help with. Also, nobody in their right mind would rely on UK in this respect (remember Chamberlain and Munich 1938). If any invasion happens in Europe, the relevant factors will be local forces and Americans, UK may choose to help but probably not a substantial factor.
Why Some Apps Are Intentionally Slow
Don't get me excited now...
The Links site they link to has screenshots under Features [1]. It looks like something from the mid to late 90s.

[1] http://links.twibright.com/features.php
It seems a little unfair to single out Europe or the EU for this. If the EU didn't exist, then the situation wouldn't be any better (of course, you can hope that the EU would make the situation better than it is, but that requires greater harmonisation which is non-trivial and some may find unpalatable). And it's not just countries in Europe that require businesses to charge taxes according to the rules of the various countries -- many countries around the world do exactly the same. And as I understand it, differing sales tax across states in the USA can also create headaches. So it doesn't seem to me that this issue is specific to either Europe or the EU.

As for the behemoths being able to solve the problem, there are options for smaller players as well, like using a specialist who handles all the tax issues for you worldwide -- for example Paddle (I'm unaffiliated and have never used them; I'm just aware of their existence).
Hi HCaptcha-er here. You don't lose all your privacy with our accessibility option. Also we always abide by DNT style protections even for accessibility. That being said our privacy pass solution is totally private and safe.
The 95% as good version of this, for most people, is just to disable JavaScript, then set the same colors & font for every website.
That does sound good. The only risk I guess is if you go on an off-the-grid vacation or end up in a coma or get kidnapped, now an attacker (who might also be the hypothetical kidnapper) just needs to get their hands on an emergency token from one of the relatives you sent it to.

It might be a good case for requiring consensus among multiple trusted people.
Not entirely, there's also a debug directory embedded inside executables that gets stripped.
Read better, I'm not replying to him. I agree with him.
The point is that the customer is likely using a dozen other sites that have also been hit by cloudflare outage, so they care less that your one specific site is knocked down. The customer immediately knows the blame is not on you when they notice how widespread the outage is.
Switching to using exclusively reader mode on sites made surfing the web a much more consistent experience for me.
That's more steps than using InfluxDB and Telegraf.

Check out: https://github.com/influxdata/community-templates/tree/maste...
Overall I liked the Build Stuff article, but the idea that there's a lack of capacity is incredibly silly. It's not difficult to get into a Cal State school, UC Merced or my alma mater for instance.
The MathSeer Project
Last week he corrected people on this 'payday' usage, I think this is the same misusage.

He is allowed to buy the stock for this price, he does not have the right to sell it for 5 years, though.

So he pays taxes based on todays stock-price, but if it plummets he goes down with it getting nothing since he can't sell for 5 years.

So, sure, he's already rich and this will make his valuation much better. Over which he should pay taxes. But its not a payday in my view of the world when you can't actually buy anything for it since he can't sell those for 5 years.
"the rule of law" is different from "one
world government".

"Foreign government" means "different laws".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53262767
Using Conway's Game of Life to Simulate Covid-19
Nokia used to be the biggest phone manufacturer in the world. Aol used to rule the internet. IBM ruled the pcs. People would move to bing or ddg or whatever new search engine and move on.
To me free usage of the software means I can use a piece of software in any fashion I use for any purpose I use it. I cannot understand how the requirement to share your modifications prevents any lawful or reasonable use.

Most end users don't modify their software after all.

The sole and only wrinkle is that a requirement to share your code may in some instances keep you from adding some secret sauce to the software, using it to derive profit, and not sharing it with the party that created 99% of the value by providing you the software in the first place. Which seems to be literally complaining that it works as intended.

If we accept the premise of copyright and licensing software in the first place I'm not sure where you derive the justification for complaining that they are merely interested in giving you some rights to their efforts and not others. After all they could give you none. Regarding existing free software you already can't take GPL software and make it part of your AGPL software. The kind of software that can be incorporated in AGPL software is software that is allowed by license to be incorporated with software that adds additional restrictions like BSD licensed software.

Many would term that "more free" but would somehow manage to differentiate between taking "more free" software and using it to build proprietary software that gives downstream no privileges and taking "more free" software and using it to build software with restrictions that gives some privileges and somehow find the latter wanting.
It's not read-mode-level, but I've always liked Dillo (https://www.dillo.org/) for its sheer speed with acceptable design. It's only rendering HTML with CSS, and that is enough for a vast majority of cases.
1800 lbs of pulling force should be well within the ability of most all vehicles on the road, I think. As long as they have enough weight to keep traction.
Making a checklist is hard work!

My first and second drafts of process documents are always way too long. It's easy to be verbose. It's hard to be concise.

It's very hard to be concise and to accurately convey the whole process.

One strategy that helps is imagining a tiny flashcard checklist you'd carry around while executing the process.

Another strategy I've seen help in some contexts is tutorial videos -- if you watch someone follow a checklist, you might get to see an obvious implicit part of a step which a novice doesn't know. Watching someone's screen as they actually use a system according to the published steps can be really valuable.
Very odd statement indeed. I have never heard anything even remotely corroborating this. In fact (highly anecdotally, take it as entertainment at best), I have read that public opinion holds NSA's technical capabilities in high esteem but in reality, the talent is vastly below that of the top consumer tech companies because most tech employees would never contribute to the type of work the government does.
How do you not snap the phone with one of those on it?
Jail and prison are not the same thing. Jail is for light crimes - most people in jail leave every day to go to work, and then return to jail when work is over. It is easy to run, but odds are they will catch you (they know your family, job and friends...). It isn't uncommon for the windows to open without triggering even an alarm.

Prison is a level higher. You start out in a more secure setting where it is harder to do anything without getting caught. (if you only get 1cm of tunnel built it doesn't do you any good). If they suspect you are going to pull anything they move you to more secure prisons where you are watched closer.

You might be smart, but there have been lots of smart people in prison before you with nothing better to do than dream up every possible escape plan. They are gotten good at detecting and preventing them over the years. In short odds are against you getting out successfully, and the attempt will earn you more time in prison.
A little offtopic, but interesting nontheless

Surfraw (Shell Users Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web) is a free public domain POSIX-compliant (i.e. meant for Linux, FreeBSD etc.) command-line shell program for interfacing with a number of web-based search engines. It was created in July 2000 by Julian Assange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw
Interesting, thanks for the info! I think the statement could still apply even with videos available, but of course it is also in MIT's best interest to say this.

Honestly I really like the idea of using OCW materials to run a course, I'd have loved something like that instead of the AP program in high school. It's too bad the original intended use didn't catch on (or at least I've never seen it used that way).
Thanks for the shout-out <3 (I made AppMockUp). Be sure to check out the latest beta at https://beta.app-mockup.com where there are loads of new features available.

Best of luck with the app, you did a great job!
Not necessarily (although it often is, possibly because it's the rockstars who can afford the time and have the interest to play around with the MOOC thing).

Early on with MOOCs, there was a Harvard literature course I was very excited about taking on Greek myth or something like that. I think I made it through about the first half of the first lecture. The whole thing felt incredibly pretentious and generally awful. (And, yes, I have taken literature courses at good colleges that were much more interesting.)
You can look at what we use in our benchmarking tool https://github.com/timescale/tsbs (results described here https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-...).

Pretty much it's a table with time, value, tags_id. Where the tags table is id, jsonb
I think it's really worth noting the sort of stupid science behind this. Yes, deaths will decrease during a strike - because extra other staff will be made available to cover the strike whilst non-essential work will be delayed until after the strike. To make a real judgement you need to look at the statistics across both a lead and lag period - the extra patients who died in the lead up due to over-worked staff, the extra patients who died in the routine operations that were displaced etc.

The exact same issues are at the core of the source of the UK strikes mentioned in the article:

> He said: ‘…three times less medical cover at weekends as they (doctors) do in weeks and that means that there's a 15% greater chance of you dying if you are admitted on a Sunday, compared to being admitted on a Wednesday.’

Because no one gets admitted to hospital for routine reasons on Sunday, so if you're admitted to hospital on a Sunday it';s because your case is more serious. If you make doctors do routine work on weekends you achieve 3 things:

1. Doctors leave the UK to work for employees who aren't moronic psychopaths. Driving down the level of care in the UK causing extra deaths.

2. The exact same people who are routinely being admitted on wendesday are being admitted on weekends too - so the death rate on wednesday admissions go up whilst death rate of sunday admissions go down. With no net benefit.

3. The government pretends it has reformed the NHS whilst dramatically reducing its efficacy.

Note how, initially we talked about the total deaths going down during strikes? Becuase routine operations are cancelled? And then we talk about death rate in relation to the weekend shifts? They are literally just two sides of the same coin, want to complain about it being bad? Cite the rate! Want to claim it's good? Well quote the total number! Perfect!
I recently built a Celeron J4105 system for a NAS/server/HTPC, in a compact Fractal Node 304 case.

The ASRock J4105-ITX has four SATA 3 ports and a PCIe slot, to which I added a 2-port SATA 3.0 controller. Total six disks, which fits in the very compact case.

I run a 120GB SSD for the system, and a random assortment of 2-3TB disks for storage, in a Btrfs RAID1 pool.

All in, about 2/3rds the price I would have paid for a 4-disk Synology NAS.

You can get micro-ATX boards with 6-10 SATA 3 ports, and PCIe board with basically as many SATA ports as you're willing to pay for.
Moving away like a meteor escaping the solar system in a hyperbolic trajectory.
This exists, though not exactly as you describe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASmallWorld
Snap grows its daily user base and keeps advertiser money coming in
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted, but this does not change the fact that yes, licenses can be changed. You disliking it does not make it wrong.
Do you also consider Carbon sequestering an "offset"?

> Apple has protected and restored forests, wetlands, and grasslands since 2015. Through our work with The Conservation Fund and the World Wildlife Fund, we have protected and improved the management of over 1 million acres of forests in China and the U.S.

> Starting in 2020, we plan to scale up our ambition to remove atmospheric CO2 by creating a first -of -its-kind fund that will invest in the restoration and protection of forests and natural ecosystems globally. By investing in nature-based carbon removal projects, this fund aims to cover residual emissions that we believe are not otherwise avoidable.
How does this link show in your opinion that it's not a joke?
You can also use state money to settle debts established by the courts. Money is not an illusion.
https://www.deccanherald.com/content/238699/yoga-can-cure-ev...

Just pointing out that some of them claim they can cure diseases.
How does it limit what code you are allowed to integrate with? Do you think that running someone else's code on your machine obliges you to somehow acquire the code to the module that you loaded and share it somehow?
I’m also not quite sure what the point of this was. It’s seems a long winded way to say that the money you deposit is not physically there regarding absolute ownership.

That or I too am completely missing the point.
The fence is to keep 5 year olds out. As the parent of a 5 year old I'm not sure this is strong enough to do the job.
The features may have limited scope but if they have an entire team dedicated to them they usually deal with large enough scale that it's worth it.

When you're dealing with distributed systems at large scale you can no longer have services be down for longer periods of time because it's a lot of money you're losing.

The business decision for employing an engineer or engineering team should be made at the margin -- that is, if the marginal revenue increase is higher than the cost of employing that team you should definitely employ them.

At large scale, a sub 1% increase in revenue or decrease in revenue lost can be multiple $M, so it would be worth having a team that only increases productivity across the company by an average of <1%.
Then again how does this differ from the mostly incremental updates 2 through 9? They had a naming strategy, changed it, and now seemingly reverted to the old one. I don't understand your reasoning.