skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a weakly specified / trick question. Do you get to keep your knowledge of the world as it is today ? if not how are you different than people 200 years ago ? So you can just ask what your ancestor’s position would have been. Which we already know the answer to.
I thought the same thing. These kind of analysis will point you towards already flooded markets (how many fitness apps there are already? My local gym has one..), when you’d be way more interested in going after markets unknown to most people.
Update: it won't load the weather anymore either. I'm fairly sick of the 'cloud' in general nowadays
Is 15 the version that generics are going to be implemented in? Or are generics still in the proposal stage?
Right, I’m not worried about optimizing the language for “hello world” at the expense of real code.
I think the main difference is the pricing structure. Usually "cloud" refers to the auto-scaling servers with the pay-as-you go pricing, while VPSs are usually manually instantiated and have a fixed monthly cost. Also, sometimes with VPSs you get more control over the server's settings than with "cloud" services.

So "cloud" is like renting a dynamically changing number of VPSs each month and which are usually more costly if your consumption is not spiky (eg. when a cheap VPS rented 24/7 is enough).
Alas I am living that. I did my homework I have worked out what I want to do next and I am being told no. The tests I want they can't order as they are apparently too specialist for general practice and the drugs to find the issue via treatment are too far too off label for them to justify despite studies and clinical efficicacy from other countries. I just view that as a refusal to diagnose and treat me, no point putting it on me if you aren't then going to let me treat myself.

It is frankly absurd to put this onto the patient. It is all about their perceived Physchological basis of the disease, they will humour you on tests and some low harm drugs until you run out of stuff and hope you will finally see the light that CBT will help you.
I supposed they'd be using something like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometre
Why the surprise here. This "scam" (or theft) is as old as stores taking "no questions asked" returns. I knew someone who did this a time or two back in the mid-90's to Circuit City and/or CompUSA. I warned them that this could be traced back to them if the stores became interested enough to do so, that did not deter them much.
Is that just being able to slide a piece of thick paper into the gap?
I played Gris recently. An absolutely artistic, captivating platformer. But it was still deterministic along several dimensions. I feel that it is a counterexample to the all-encompassing claims made by the article. Why can't parts of self improvement be like a software upgrade?
I guess the box looked unopened so the returns worker didn't look inside.
--The government can send their version IRS every other day to find something wrong in applying loosely defined laws. Crippling fines.

--No government advertising, your competitors can make millions from them.

--Frozen out of any government contracts for businesses owned by the media owner.

--Pressure for companies not to advertise on your media. Might not even need a wink and a nod, "smart" companies know it.

So next time a smart-ass says but "USA too" they need to look at these examples. Of course they are worse cases, you can get jailed or killed by a state-sanctioned mobster.
Mostly, I find it horrifying that we would elect an official whose grasp of diplomacy is so poor as to continually use completely unfiltered channels, with little grasp of the effect of such communications.

The ultimate check on the behavior of elected officials is supposed to be the voters. You shouldn't have to have laws to prevent them from making bad choices. In this case, the voters like their speech to be "tell it like it is", which mostly means hating the same people they hate. They're getting what they asked for, and are likely to ask for it again.
>The question begs itself: can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?

Yes but likely only for a short time. Every government has people outside of journalism that makes democracy happen.
If someone finds it helpful, here is a list of 25 free Machine Learning books available online : https://blog.paralleldots.com/data-science/24-best-and-free-... and another list of over 50 free Data Science books : https://blog.paralleldots.com/data-science/50-must-read-free... we compiled. Pick your poison.
This is a privately owned property by an early-stage investment firm. Either it is a property of whim or it is a property of business, or perhaps a combination thereof.

Also, politics is the negotiation of power. I'm not sure why people wouldn't want to discuss that, especially given the potency of tech to insert itself into democratic politics. People who aren't in tech are certainly using tech to discuss the intersection between tech in politics.
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... the invading Anglo-Saxons were mostly pagans invading a Christian (thanks to Rome) country.
I'm pretty sure cold showers have been a thing to show your ability to live without comforts ever since hot showers became a possibility.

And the term fits here, I believe: cold showers do very much wake you up and bring you into reality quickly. There's no dreaming about hypes when you're under a cold shower.
you mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometer ?
Absolutely you get out what you put in. My company has thousands of programmers. I was in charge of helping a group of programmers self learn a new framework/language. It started off with 30. It ended up with me alone in a room. This was easily 3k worth of free classes. It was not even that hard you just had to watch some videos and maybe do some simple coding, maybe 1-2 hours a week, 9 sessions over 3 months. Most just did not do it, which means they would not show up to the sessions. By the last 2 sessions I just did not bother to try to get them to come. There were 3 I could kind of coach along and get them to sometimes engage. But mostly they just were not interested in helping themselves. They wanted me to sit in front of the 'class' and teach it. Now that I think about it this could be a good way to filter for people who are motivated to do work. But it would bias against people who have a full schedule.
0.1 mm is a pocket calipers grade tool. Of course they have better ones but nothing extraordinary I think
"Python has better static typing than go."
What?

In Python you don't know what you receive and someone could have modified something in an object somewhere in the code that will break down the line in unexpected ways.

Python does not have any type checking those are just annotation it does not enforce anything.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

"Note The Python runtime does not enforce function and variable type annotations. They can be used by third party tools such as type checkers, IDEs, linters, etc."
To clarify my point on the slavery example-

Slavery was present for hundreds or thousands of years. It was also obviously morally wrong for the entirety of it's existence. It's decline in the western world was relatively quick compared to the duration of it's existence. This decline came about as the western world became rich enough that eliminating the suffering of slaves was worth the inconvenience of replacing their labor. This change of material conditions gave enough cultural leeway for passive conformists to embrace legislative change.

It is not obvious that the Stanford prison experiment is a complete fraud. Even with it's flaws it suggests that people are much much more likely to engage in immoral behavior when an authority figure endorses it. Historical atrocities confirm this.

I don't think there's a productive way to argue about the cancel culture point. Data supporting which side is "winning" the cancel culture war is too cherry-pickable. The only ground I can stand on is that people such as Stephen Pinker getting cancelled is obviously ridiculous.

I do not think that the personality traits discussed are superficial. Other posters have provided more evidence, especially regarding openness and conscientiousness, that I speculated on earlier. I do not think that the purpose of PG's essay is to flatter himself.
Because the dirty secret is that "new" does not mean you are the first customer to open the item.
"optics" - also known as "reality according to idiots".
A forced off-airport landing is not a necessarily crash. It’s an action taken, usually because of engine failure or imminent engine failure, to mitigate risk to the occupants of the craft. The pilot acts with intention and glides or flys the craft to the ground. They slow the craft down enough to touch down safely. The incident could still be considered an accident if there’s damage to the structure of the plane or injury to passengers.

In contrast, a crash could be a lot of things: two planes colliding on the tarmac, loss of wings, or a controlled flight into terrain (such as flying into the side of a mountain).
Yes it’s stuck on #randommenu

Sometimes it works though, needs some „clicking“ (touching), eventually it will (might) work.
AUS did not seem to have a crazy bad alcohol problem to this US person. I've not seen the summerys though(? when all the HS grads go to the Surf Coast, etc?). We'd go out on Fridays to the pubs near Melbourne and it seemed pretty ok. There was a guy with a ram though, that was strange.

However, my basis of 'bad' is something more like State Street in Madison after a winning home game where hundreds of people literally cannot stand up straight.
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I am not clear what point you are making
Permanent Telecommuting: Necessity, Trend, or Opportunity?
David Simon (creator of The Wire) has what I think is a good take[1] on why an organized, professional media is important:

> "But democratized and independent though they may be, you do not — in my city — run into bloggers or so-called citizen journalists at City Hall, or in the courthouse hallways or at the bars and union halls where police officers gather. You do not see them consistently nurturing and then pressing sources. You do not see them holding institutions accountable on a daily basis...I'm offended to think that anyone, anywhere believes American monoliths as insulated, self-preserving, and self-justifying as police departments, school systems, legislatures, and chief executives can be held to gather facts by amateurs pursuing the task without compensation, training, or, for that matter, sufficient standing to make public officials even care who it is they're lying to or who they're withholding information from."

There are, of course, very smart and well-qualified bloggers and indie journalists, but they're relatively few and far between. The institutions of journalism matter more than most people realize, if for no other reason than people have to be paid to put in the time to do the job.

1. https://votesmart.org/public-statement/422651/hearing-of-the...
Give me a fulcrum
> I’m sure that the NC A&T event was just so Hooli could check some “diversity recruitment” box.

Amusingly, that's exactly what the "interactive" ADA process is at my workplace - just a check box. I submitted a request with medical diagnosis and links to several third party expert recommended accommodations for it, an HR rep booked a meeting with me, told me in the first sentence that I'm requesting an accommodation I didn't request, and that she's denying it, then the meeting ends, and she writes up an email lying saying I requested something I did't and that they rejected it. All appeals are just met with the claim that I didn't state what accommodation I want clearly, even though I sent links ahead of time to reputable sites listing them.

Never realized that's what it must feel like as a minority to get brushed off and ignored due to who you are.
I don't think scientific papers are the only place that should be expected to, when purporting something as fact, be well... factual.

Funny enough, all throughout my many years in academia I had to provide sources for anything I stated as a fact in an essay (including opinion pieces).

I should of just let my professors know that I wasn't providing them a scientific paper -- I was just attempting/trying to provide a brief rundown of ideas and they were wrong to expect empirical evidence of anything I claimed as fact.
How much would you attribute that to the fact that you rewrote the code? I know my second pass is always better.
Screw motivation what you need is discipline
Or a "feeler gauge" meaning basically a 0.004in thick piece of spring steel.
Maybe sausage is the wrong analogy, since I love them and I find nothing wrong with the ingredients.

I'd say it is closer to a fast food meal. Yes they can be very tasty and satiating for a moment but the nutritional value is extremely low. If consumed too much it is pretty bad for you

Working in a office complex where about a dozen different news papers and sites were made, just made me realize that the "news" section is pretty much purely about relatively cheap traffic generation, nothing else. They license a bunch of wire agencies like Reuters, AP, etc. pick out and often blow up the stories that the target audience will likely click on. The site that is regularly the fastest in publishing something, will gain visitors.

So its not that there is per se something nefarious happening within any particular story, but the news feed is there to make you consume more and boost the numbers advertisement pricing is based on, not to inform you.

Related Article from The Guardian "News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier"
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...
This is true of anything SQL.

I've been so many solutions that would be easily and reliably implemented on a single or small SQL database cluster of various types that turn into these complex systems to avoid the costs of scaling up the RDBMS.
I'm glad that the major languages all have the ability to be OOP or "functional", depending on your definition of functional (state mutation? lambdas?)

For me, learning a programming language's syntax and important API calls is already a big time investment, so I am really not in the mood to use Elm if I can accomplish most of what I personally need to do in Java and Javascript.
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Depending on the relevant law and contracts, that may be as bad or worse than removing the attribution: the artist may consider the “uninteresting” parts of the image to be vital to its overall composition and object to the tampering— Even something as simple as traditional cropping can be controversial in this regard.
Being an asshole apparently works out great, at scale.

A mom and pop shop would be hit much harder by a scam like this, I think.
I agree with your description. The devil on my other shoulder tries to argue with me about being knowledgeable about the world so that I can do something about it. Support my causes by protesting, donating etc Instead I get into snark warfare on twitter :-(
> ... can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?

Expanding this question: can a country where the government lies to its citizens, and withholds information from the press, and actively seeks to discredit news sources critical of it be considered a democracy?

If citizens cannot be informed they cannot make rational, democratic decisions.
Svelte is technically "interface as a function of state"

But I do agree, custom template syntax is a non-starter.
Peaceful protestors being brutalised by police has been documented in almost countless cases by now.
I find it hard to believe that you're asking this is good faith, but if you you are then you can:

* Watch any one of the hundreds of videos documenting what I'm referring to.

* Read pretty much any major news source in the US documenting these cases.

I'm sorry that I don't have a specific source to point you to, but it's genuinely because there is just so much evidence for the statement that it's hard to pick out one thing.

As to the secret police question, that's really down to your definition of secret police.
A similar thing has happened to me in the past. Brought a phone dock from amazon, and when it arrived, it didn't fit my phone, looking at the serial number on the dock itself, it was for the previous model of phone but the packaging was for the latest.

So someone had decided to upgrade for free.
Yeah, back in the days when tech didn't move so fast, it wasn't uncommon for some of the circle I moved in to go grab a 160G drive from Best Buy and swap out a 20/40G drive that had died and claim it didn't work out of the box. Free upgrade!

Same scam, different day.
Twitter and FB could be replaced quickly, because their technology is not their primary asset. Their primary asset is their hundreds of millions of users who are there mainly because of the other hundreds of millions of users.

Not surprisingly, network effects are pervasive on the network, and with everything moving to the network, network effects will dominate almost everything unless something is done to deal explicitly with network-effect-based monopolies. Just imagine email if you couldn't email anyone who didn't have an email address at the same company you have yours. Almost all email would begin to consolidate in the winning company, which would then begin telling people what could and couldn't be said in email. They could cut you off from email and destroy businesses for violating whatever "terms of service" they felt like imposing or even accidentally. Too bad for you.

I think the answer to network-effects monopolies is to force them to switch to an open protocol once they crossed a threshold of a certain number of users. They could then continue to offer services, but other companies and agencies could also put you on "the network". Companies could stay small and retain full control or grow and be forced to open so their competitors and users couldn't be locked out (or in).
What if someone who never thought about the issue and doesn't talk about it in his circles find this article, start thinking about it and end up finding your "solutions" ?

If you don't want to read it you don't have to, I really don't see the issue here. Doing something, even as small as that, is still better than doing nothing or actively trying to shut down people talking about it...
FWIW, UF is planning to be carbon neutral by 2025. I don't know how the supercomputer factors into the equation, but I am sure someone has it in mind.

https://sustainable.ufl.edu/campus-initiatives/neutral-uf-co...
Mentioned this a while ago but I try to skip all the CNNs and just subscribe to a couple of newsletters for Zeitgeistish stuff. the hustle, briefingday.com, etc.
The issue was closed with a commit adding the MIT license to the repo.
Hollywood's lost summer
How is being arrested kidnapping?
You're celebrating a number that means nothing. It's saying "we only had 50 casualties!" the first day of world war 2 and assuming that's a victory and indicative of how the rest will go.
So you have to take the bad with the good? Can't you say "money is good, but being forced to be leeched on by refugees of NATO wars is unsavoury and doesn't help anybody"
Historically Black Colleges and Universities came out of the very interesting history of the US. Where black people were paying taxes to universities they were legally discriminated from attending. Rather than treating people of all races as equal those states created vocational colleges (anything with Ag in the name was a vocation school) exclusively for black students. And even then they were given a pittance of funding compared to other public universities (referred to as PWIs, predominantly white institutions).
A lot of people don't seem to get the new revenue model of producing content for the web. These lists are written because they generate revenue from Amazon. Books are there that make the most money.

ANYTIME you see ANY list of products online at least some of the objects on that list are there to generate income. There are tons of services to find the best revenue generating product in a category.
Obviously, you stole the switch and are trying to game the system.

/s
Is that your blog? Thanks for sharing your perspective
I believe that earth has finite resources.
They've had calipers for literally thousands of years.

I used to be involved in some intermediate gunsmithing work, and we had these tools called 'dial calipers' which have a little gauge you read and you can measure extremely precise things. We used it for getting cylinder diameters or clearances that needed that degree of precision.

I can only imagine that in aviation, there are even more advanced tools, especially with a well-respected corp like Boeing.

I would think also, that when there are these clearance issues in parts, part of the concern that makes it worth raising flags over is the fact that it's consistently off amongst different aircraft. If someone were to bring me a rifle that had some important gas clearance off, I wouldn't be that concerned, just do the work and get it back in the field, but if guys are bringing me the same rifle with the same issue over and over, it makes me really uneasy because it's inefficient for my shop, and it points to carelessness from the vendor, which raises suspicion when dealing with orthogonal issues from the same vendor.

If these flapper bushings are bad consistently, and they had a spec and didn't meet it, what other corners did they cut?

Just my two cents. I don't know shit about aviation, but I can appreciate the systemic concern.
There is a post about it every week on /r/datahoarder
So you are suggested that the police get a pass because we already accept that some are bad but protesters shouldn’t because some people don’t realize that rioters like to hang out and cause mayhem at protests?
My favorite logging trick that walks the line between “not too much” and “not too little”: a ring buffer.

Put highly detailed log messages into an in-memory ring buffer, and when you encounter an error, log out the entire contents of the ring buffer. That way you get detailed information when things go wrong, an inspectable-while-debugging record of actions, all while not overwhelming your log aggregation system with useless information.
https://oceanmind.global/careers/
Agreed. Recently read Born Red by Yuan Gao. Harrowing, both in what happened and how plausible it sounds today
OK, that also seems possible.

You this kind of thing in San Francisco, where decades of regulations banning and mandating everything anyone has ever thought of, makes doing nothing with a building sometimes the only remaining strategy.
This does somewhat come off as cod philosophy. There have been ample studies in group psychology and minority influence dating back to the mid 20th century, and the fact is that independent thinkers have massive influence wherever they go. See here for a reasonable primer, key thinkers are Asch and Moscovici:

https://www.simplypsychology.org/minority-influence.html

So, the whole "rules to restrain the conformist sheeple" thing doesn't really apply. The author has created a category, put himself in it, then heaped praise on it. Neither edifying nor tasteful. Sorry.
Stop posting about this online, get a lawyer, and sue. Discrimination against medical conditions is against the FMLA. Otherwise what kind of accommodation did you need?

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla
Interesting. MIS5e [1] would be a parallel to our current interglacial period. I think the evidence for 50-60 kya out-of-africa event for Homo sapiens is solid so I'm assuming this site would support the global reach of another Homo species like Neanderthals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Isotope_Stage_5