skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have to remember that beach volleyball is clearly an essential part of the training for fighter pilots!
"Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons"

=)
I have noticed cows just not being happy about solar eclipse. They go crazy mooing around, stick together and are probably scared.
This is a hard problem. Unflowing text requires determining where the next line is and possibly removing optional hyphenation. PDF only deals with one line spans of text at best. Throw in super and subscripts or inline graphics and it becomes nontrivial.
The problem is that Scots and even More so Ulster Scots as a language is the sectarian issues
I think the parent was retorting that anti-Russia sentiment in the US spans multiple generations.
"i stopped for lunch halfway through my bike ride and i'm still here!"
Segment employee here. Our Kafka runbook looks 100X cleaner after this tool was rolled out by Ben and folks. One of my favorite parts is how it makes dangerous things harder :)
Cryptocurrency to the rescue! (sarcasm... kind of)

I've always loved the idea of being nimble, but I equally love the idea of having a family estate.

Hopefully my future children will be diversified with both options.
I'm with the professor on this one. This practice of shaming organizations because they received cash gifts seems odd to me. Seems like another kind of "first world" angst that I'll be struggling to explain to friends in other countries. It's not like they were naming a building after him.

As for always getting something in return, in economics you must always consider the alternative. The man had millions of dollars. For millions of dollars you can get "something" from all directions. Harvard's refusal to take his money would not have made him nine million dollars poorer. And as long as Harvard-donor-bragging-rights are just as available to anyone as a multi-million dollar beach house would be instead, I don't see why it matters.
Peanut butter would be nice in that though
Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Django Devs to Help Cure Cancer
PGO guides inlining and branch prediction IIRC. You can give static hints about each of these. But the hints aren't on a continuum like they are with PGO. So finding an optimal balance for these will be harder. Also you have to maintain these hints. So if you were somehow giving hints with a hotness ratio in the source it would be impossible to maintain and keep it accurate.
Give Sumatra a chance. At least under Windows. It requires a bit of love in terms of changing default color (e.g. single value in config file, from bright yellow to something toned down), but it super fast, lightweight and open wide range of formats (pdf, epub, mobi, djvu).
I hope, some day to actually understand CORS. What it does. Why it exists. What good does it do. It seems extremely weird to me that my web page cannot get a simple json file from my GCP VM which is just serving that file and nothing else.
+vk has the same effect
Surveillance Capitalism Valley
">55 mcg/day [B12] was associated with a 98% greater risk"
Wow, that is quite a staggering increase! Luckily it was men who smoke; "As for never-smokers, the paper states they “were excluded from the smoking-stratified analysis because of the low number of participants with incident lung cancer in that group.”

It's interesting how woman weren't affected, but I am all too aware of the link between smoking and lung cancer as the two go hand in hand. My father died of lung cancer and we didn't part on the best of terms as he had a bad cough for a over a decade before being diagnosed, I lacked sympathy as it was virtually a given. Seeing patients needing to go outside to smoke (often with an IV attached) as they are dying is something I'll never get my head. I would name it the Darwin ward, but that is probably insensitive... (ASD)

It makes me angry that medics won't even condon, let along recommend smokers switch to vaping due to politics. They could save 100,000's of lives per year in the US alone (480k smokers die per year).
No, the users do not include the bots. You have this backwards.
He had an office when he was a visiting fellow. Which is prior to his arrest.
Fineartamerica
It’s hard for an accountant to use their incoming tax returns to payoff their existing tax returns.
I use a late 2007 plastic MacBook with 4GB of RAM. Works quite well ;) (thanks Linux Mint)
I think it had more to do with contracts. I thought servers prices would go down but it is done in blocks of time as contracts. It's why itanium is still around. On scale it also applies to large entities not having much momentum
> Because it's actively being sabotaged.

I know this is the political line of the day, but the reality is USPS is, has been, and will be insanely inefficient for decades. Decades. That spans multiple presidents from both parties. Decades.

The very fact that USPS receives funding by Tax Payers, but also still charges the same tax payers money to use services, and still manages to lose billions of dollars every year is a modern marvel all in it's own right.

The very fact it costs USPS more than $0.55 to deliver a letter to your mailbox (which only USPS is legally allowed to put mail into for whatever reason in 2020), is insane. Raise rates they'll say! To what end? To the point where UPS or FedEX rates start looking attractive for normal letter mail? What will happen then to the USPS?

For larger packages over a few pounds, it's already insanely cheaper to ship packages via UPS or FedEx. Sometimes over half the price in difference. Neither UPS nor FedEx are subsidized by Tax Payers + Still Charge for Services. Somehow, they make a profit and deliver packages on time.

The mismanagement of USPS is as criminal as it is resolute. It is not the current administration's doing - claiming so is not just intellectually dishonest, it's flatly wrong. No, the mismanagement of USPS has always been, and all signs seem to say it will always be.

EDIT: It's a myth that USPS isn't tax payer funded. Pay attention to the wording they use - "Not Tax Payer Funded". That says nothing about routine bailouts[1][2][3], which are so routine they might as well be scheduled. How is a bailout not tax payer funding? Run yourself into the ground then get bailed out by tax payers again, and again, and again, and again. It would probably be more efficient to actually just give them the money up front.

[1] https://justthenews.com/government/congress/congressman-says...

[2] https://keller.house.gov/media/in-the-news/usps-has-lost-78-...

[3] https://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/
Looks a bit better, lacks features compared to the previous one.

Now I can't share links to other devices without first opening it in Firefox. In the previous version it worked just fine.
Google forgets so much, and has a tendency to bias results, while DuckDuckGo is so incompetent at times. Add the walled gardens that can’t be searched unless you are part of them, and we have a worst search experience today than over a decade ago.

I am confident that the amount of data that needs to be indexed plays a huge factor too. It just isn’t as easy as it used to be.
Pay a micro transaction to perform an action. In the end it's more about cost.
Car crashes don't have viral properties. Better?
No.

The majority of fires are not started by arsonists. This time it was lightning. Two years ago, it was strong winds and power lines. There are the occasional accidents, like the case where a hot car pulled over and ignited some dry leaves.

Also, a lot of California is a chaparral. It's an ecosystem shaped by wildfires. They are expected. Those locations must burn regularly, as they have been doing for thousands of years.

This is completely unrelated to, say, a tropical forest. Which is not expected to have more than isolated, occasional fires.
When searching from France, there is only this single link to the wikipedia page for VK and nothing else... weird.
> A negative test can tell us:

> the person was unlikely to be infectious at the time of the test.

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...

Of course if you are testing proper samples from the airways and they come back negative, it’s not very likely these people can infect others through droplets from their airways at that moment. The problem is that they might be in the incubation period but that is irrelevant here.

And anyway PCR does not nearly have a 30% false negative rate, I’m not quite sure where you got these stats.
Google doesn't have any data on me and googling for local things works just fine if I put e.g. "plumber <my zip code>"
Israel is not in the 5 eyes it has a bilateral intelligence sharing agreement with the US that specifically forbids further dissemination, Israel is very weary about burning sources there has been a long term ban on sharing certain intelligence with other 5 eye members especially the UK due to multiple past leaks both for political reasons and due to compromise.
If they weren't mostly lost they couldn't be valued antiques in the first place as they would still be common. Of course scarcity does not guarantee value either. The rare also needs to be valued by a current generation essentially. Old and rare computers or tools may be more valued now by nerds than good China that nobody actually uses from the connection to history and the rise but give it a few generations and they may wonder why they paid so much for that old obsolete back then piece of junk.

Heirlooms are more about personal sentimental value than anything mass market. Nana's old worn out chair could be contended for in inheritance even though you would have to pay to get rid of it instead of selling it.
> I never understood the appeal of china or any of these antiques. I think they just look terrible.

It depends. Surely some styles are not wonderful, but others are quite beautiful. Some styles are very of their time (and look horrible later), while others are timeless.

I like the timeless stuff. Lenox Federal china will never, ever look bad. Chantilly, Fairfax or Strasbourg silverware will always have a place at a table. A good Baccarat or Waterford crystal will always sparkle. Sure, one could go for 2020-trendy, but in 2025 or 2030 it will look old & crusty — but the classic never grow stale.
You're not exaggerating.

There's definitely some suggestive underage content in there. Some of it looks like random photos gathered from the web but there's also some pedo / ephebo shit that was purposely made.
So this is a complete tangent, but one of the images was some photograph off a geocities archive site. The woman had red eyes. I realized I haven't seen that in years. Cameras sure have improved.
It's not. See the other comments.
They were pretty heavily optimized for 1990, with high speed sorting machines for letters. I expect we actually can decommission some of the sorting machines, but since Postmaster deJoy decided to be openly political on ballot delays it will be impossible to tell for a while.
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nae_true_Scotsman
One was an extensive report done by Harvard that was based on first hand interviews of the people involved. This post is some guy on the internet who claims to have done no original research who has an opinion from reading 2nd and 3rd hand sources. (which were probably based on the harvard report)
I was browsing through the list of popular matrix rooms and I stumbled across one for "teen feet".
>Why didn't FedEx, UPS, and USPS cut/drop prices in order to be competitive?

Amazon retail operates at basically 0 margin. It is very difficult to compete with them given their scale and willingness to forgo profit. The writing was on the wall once Amazon decided they wanted to handle their own shipping. No way Fed Ex et.al. could be competitive on price and make money.
In this case the SDK was ripping off the developer, by attributing watched ads to its own network by pinging the ad provider after it detected a ping from a different ad SDK in the running app.

For the end user they were still watching ads just the same
I've set it as my default and I have to say I didn't realize hw often I search for silly stuff it can nail. Like the url of a blog I know the exact name of. If I start to get into detailed programming issues or deeper searches I revert to google. It only seems to be 2-3x a week for me.
Humanity United: David Livingstone Smith Interview
I think you're right in theory but wrong wrong in practice. While there probably exists a form and degree of surveillance that is very beneficial at the expense of minimal freedom, it's far more difficult to hold the line there than it is to hold the line at "surveillance is wrong." Rallying points like that are essential in politics and in personal moral integrity.

There are likely forms of eugenics that have the same cost/benefit characteristics as the forms of surveillance to which we've alluded. We know that the legalization of abortion has the long-term effect of reducing crime, so what about laws that make abortions easier to access when the fetus has certain genetic characteristics associated with disabilities? Or with psychopathy? "NO!" is the resounding response. "THAT'S EVIL!" And a good thing too, because it's probably the only reliably way to hold the line against policies that really are murderously bad. We don't debate practical eugenics. We muse about it in fiction and hypothetical scenarios, but we don't debate it in politics. We reject it because it's wrong. It's wrong because it is.

Surveillance policy should be met with this same sort of rallied opposing force. Write books about it, discuss it in an academic space, try to imagine ways in which it could do more good than bad; fine. But propose surveillance policy in the real world, and the response should be: "NO! THAT'S EVIL!"

You won't find a more powerful force than moral outrage. It doesn't need to be worked around, it needs to be channeled. On the one side, you will have people channeling their outrage towards criminals and terrorists. On the other side, you must have people channeling their outrage towards the idea of using espionage against civilians. A compromise involving "only the good kinds" of surveillance is unacceptable, because it allows the side that's rallying against criminals and terrorists to continue using moral arguments, while the side opposing them is neutered and can only make comparatively weak arguments. It's nearly impossible to successfully argue that something is morally wrong if it's already the status quo. Why is it so easy to say slavery is wrong now when it was so hotly debated in the 17th century? Same question applies to eugenics, once a topic of much political discussion. We're in that boat with surveillance right now. It feels normal to be spied on, and the uncompromising argument that surveillance is totally morally abhorrent in all its forms sounds extreme, and you'd never hear it made by a sitting politician.
I (not OP) believe I have. It’s nice, but Zathura can use the same engine (MuPDF, which is responsible for the speed and format support, although Zathura also supports Poppler, which Sumatra has removed support for), and is beautifully vi-like. And what advantages does Sumatra have over pure MuPDF? DRM?
to maximize battery, disable media in the browser, and when you want to watch the content, just right click (or long press on android) and open on the non-drm native player such as VLC. It will always be better than a browser.
Apparently you can do the conversion with Calibre.[1]

1: https://epubor.com/how-to-convert-kindle-kfx-to-epubpdfmobi-...
Yeah that's my main point. Where I live too is very competitive with most homes getting 4-5 offers after a week or 2 of showing. So of course buyers are encouraged to do everything to make their offer appear as good as possible. Waiving repairs, going far above ask, etc. But waiving the finance contingency is always the best thing you can do and allows you to either pretty much guarantee your offer will be accepted without waiving other things like repairs, etc.
I'm sure that some hedge funds know what they're doing, but it's impossible to tell which are the good ones. Investing in a hedge fund still is functionally equivalent to asking a monkey to throw darts at stocks.
> Do you mind explaining why?

I want full blown segregated browser experiences, a la Chrome's profiles. Firefox's containers are great for what I use them for (sandboxing Twitter and Facebook), but I'd really like an entirely different profile for "work" vs. "personal"--with separate browsing history, favorites, cookies, extensions, etc.

I know Firefox offers that functionality (via about:profiles), but as far as I know, it's not as simple to access in Chrome (clicking an icon and choosing your new profile).

That being said, I still use Firefox day to day, but I sorely miss the ease of access of Chrome's.
Thanks. Can I ask you what line of business your company is? Is it financial by any chance? Thanks
The Scots, forever in conflict with their mortal enemies, the Scots.
They do a lot better than a hypothetical Facebook store, which Epic suit would make possible.
I loved that after seeing the comparisons, you can notice that the article was writing in Signifier. Did not love the CPU usage of the page (at lease for me, it rocketed up. macOS, Safari)
History definitely played a factor in the US's ascendance, but the current state of the US economy isn't just something which happened by accident. We could have implemented an economic policy designed to optimize the benefit to the middle-class, and to protect strategic interests (like the capacity to produce PPE for example) but that's not what we did.
If the habitat is segmented and connected with non rotating couplers then you could mount solar on each coupler. The design would then be multiple identical potentially self sufficient modules that can be assembled into a large colony and expand as needed. Wouldn’t have much of a horizon though so it would feel a bit claustrophobic.
how would anyone know if their methods worked or they were just making results up then?
It struggles on longer documents for me. You'll scroll and things will be blurry for a second or two before popping in. Personally I'm a big fan of Drawboard PDF on Windows.
IME PreSales is not typically based on your direct sales. Your variable comp typically comes from the overall sales performance of the sales org.

I was at a job where I was the reason we closed a $2M deal. I'm not bragging - even the customer said it. I got no bonus or raise that year because overall the sales org didn't hit their target.

On the plus side, the base comp for PreSales tends to be quite good. So even some basic variable comp on top can give you a nice income. Plus, you can live in a low COL area and work for a company that pays higher COL salaries.
> I have a set of both - China and Silverware. I've never used either … I want the practical stuff they used every day.

Many china patterns may be used every day (not all: some are not dishwasher safe), and almost all silverware is usable every day (there are a few tricks, like not leaving it in contact with water and iron). Seriously, give it a shot!
One really good reason not to use antiques are that many of them were made with substances like lead paint or toxic glues. Your precious artifact might actually be giving you cancer.
If anticompetitive factors are at play that simultaneously increase costs while reducing competition then removing those means it would be cheaper. Spectrum auctions for mobile or exclusive rights of way for wireline are examples of this. The massive duopoly providers don’t care about the exorbitant cost of those because they just pass it along to the customer who has to accept it because there’s no competition.

Those kinds of barriers to entry are a huge benefit to the awful incumbents we have to tolerate.
I have the same experience. I started to notice about 6 months ago. It's happening a lot more often that i'm frustrated with results even when looking for trivial stuff. My last search frustration was: 'bitmitigate'. I had to make a benchmark of CDN services and their company site isn't on the first page like other products i'm searching for. I suspect it's because this company had business with alt-right imageboards, but it scares the shit of me if this kind of political controversies are incorporated now in google's algorythm.

By contrast, searching 'bitmitigate' on DDG produces the expected outcome: the first result is the official .com site of the company.

(Edit: added the last paragraph comparing to duckduckgo)
Does licensing of doctors and nurses really add much? Don't hospitals have sufficient incentive even without licensing to ensure that their doctors and nurses have the necessary skills?

Uber/Lyft have their problems, but one takeaway is that a simple rating system works better than complex licensing and medallions.
No wonder I have seen severe degradation in delivery times. It is a minimum of 5 days now to get anything.
> as much innovation

War. Wartime has always been a fantastic generator of innovation. It unfortunately destroys mass amounts of capital and kills and wounds many people in the process.

> wealth, and prosperity

Charity and taxpayer-funded government investment. The Marhshall Plan dramatically improved the prosperity and efficiency of much of Europe and was paid for by US taxes. The Green Revolution was funded by the US, UN, and Rockefeller Foundation.

Capitalism is a valuable tool, but too many accolades are laid at its feet these days.
Is this related to the amplituhedron? At the level of the article it could even be the same thing.
Never sell a product or a service. Always sell a big idea
While we are on the topic, did any get the new FF on their Android phones last week? What happened? It completely breaks my flow of opening a page, reading, going back to my favorite sites and opening a new page <repeat>.. The only way to find your favorites now is opening a new tap, you'll find that when hitting the small tab counter and then the +. You will gather piles of tabs and they are still there after you close the browser (no more setting to forget them upon close). I like the bar at the bottom but that is the only nice thing. Am I missing something? Play store reviews are also pretty negative...
Regardless of all that, this was the logical step for Amazon.

The world's most sophisticated logistics company is WalMart.

Not because they wanted to be a logistics company, but because by doing their own logistics, they can cut costs.

Same thing with Amazon. At some point, shipping all those packages is your last remaining major cost (outside of personnel). The more you can do in-house, the cheaper you can do it.

And that's not the only space where they've done this. AWS is basically Amazon selling their infrastructure. Infrastructure they built because at some point it was their biggest cost. Then they reduced that cost by bringing it in-house. Then they turned it into a profit center by selling it.

So I don't think this is going to stop at Amazon doing their own deliveries. Soon enough, you will be able to ship items via Amazon. (This is already kind of the case with third party sellers on Amazon, but instead imagine treating Amazon as FedEx or UPS).
On the internet no one knows you're a (Scots-)illiterate teenager.

This kid apparently didn't even understand that 1:1 dictionary look-ups aren't a form of translation, and definitely did not understand/anticipate the immense damage he was doing. There's plenty of blame to go around, but someone should've stepped in and stopped this before it went so far.

The striking thing is that this person became a main administrator of the Scots wikipedia without vetting. Anonymous/Pseudonymous online discussion/contribution is and always has been an important part of internet culture. But I've never been part of a forum or website where the moderators/administrators retain their anonymity. In the rare cases where they did, there was a good reason (e.g., avoiding embarrassment or sensitive post history), and the admins at least knew each other's real identities. Maybe Wikipedia needs to have a "divulge your real identity at least to other admins" policy for at least the language-level main administrators of the wiki.