skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And ain't that a treat when clients send us PDFs to sort, print, and mail, but the address extraction fails completely.
"The current interpretations of Section 230 have enabled online platforms to hide behind the immunity to censor lawful speech in bad faith and is inconsistent with their own terms of service. To remedy this, the department’s legislative proposal revises and clarifies the existing language of Section 230 and replaces vague terms that may be used to shield arbitrary content moderation decisions with more concrete language that gives greater guidance to platforms, users, and courts.

The legislative proposal also adds language to the definition of “information content provider” to clarify when platforms should be responsible for speech that they affirmatively and substantively contribute to or modify."

Can someone competently defend this not being used directly as a tool by Trump to prevent his deeply deeply harmful misinformation about the virus and other things from being censored?
How much I made as a data scientist
We recently started building small function based REST endpoints for Lambda in Java using Quarkus.

Spring Boot with JVM was slow to cold boot and its native image generation is still way behind. Quarkus provides like 60% of Spring Boot’s features and ease of doing things with bundled option to generate native image which was a win-win for us.

I’m actually jumping the gun here as none of our apps are in production now but it has been a good experience to work with Quarkus so far.

But one might raise a question whether you need to go through all this pain for Java in Lambda and instead use something faster already - NodeJS or Python or even Go.
If you want a small, fast and one file, cloud native experience with familiarity to modern OOP languages like C++/C#/Java, why don't we start evaluating D?
I've always heard aggression defined as roughly:

Initiating or threatening any forceful action against an individual or their property

Is your complaint that the boundaries of "threatening" are too squishy?
> Puritanism

Owen, Flavel, Sibbes, Manton, Perkins -- it would be amazing if these guys were the cement of our society!
Hydrogen leaking is an issue for longer term storage, not particularly an issue for liquid hydrogen that is going to run an airplane for a very specific number of hours.
CIA Team of Four Operators Died on Spy Mission Targeting China
Your sass is unwelcome. Books are a different, more constrained format.

If I had a book with 12" wide pages and only 6" centered were used for content, it would be uncomfortable.
Same here, I hate it. Here's a userscript that expands the language sidebar: https://github.com/ayyrx/userscripts/raw/master/wpfix/wpfix....

Edit `const enableLanguageSidebarAltView = true` to `const enableLanguageSidebarAltView = false` to make it look exactly like it used to do before that dumb button was implemented
Defensive assets such as fully owning a place to live and means to travel, you mean? Or perhaps tools of the trade?

Bonds are not defensive enough. The about only way to lose a place to live you actually own is to live in a warzone or get very deep in debt...

The old adage is to not gamble your life on being able to pay a debt. This is rather hard in the USA due to completely broken economics of medicine, education and real estate, but in other places, much more available.
The court that turned "Shall not be infringed" into "No really, it's okay to infringe on this particular combination of parts because it wasn't an arm at the time" should not in any way be underestimated for capacity to torture language.
I agree, I also don't see fairly short reversal either, but I do see a future possibility.

I think I get your point now, you're saying that the current inequality existed since humans started accumulating resources (age of kings and pharaohs) and the strive for more economically equal societies is a very recent goal.

Where I think we differ though, and correct me if I'm wrong, that you seem to implicitly imply that the current inequality is the natural order of things, given it's prevalence in modern human history. However I think it is the opposite, in that it is a recent trend, yes, 10k years is recent relative to 300K+ years of humanity, and there is nothing really natural about it, it is a byproduct of an aging human created socioeconomic systems, and not some physical law of nature, and it could and should be improved, that I think is the critical task of modern economists (and I'd love to read some books on that topic if any).

I'll start reading the suggested books, I enjoyed the argument you presented because it puts the current inequality in the larger historical context.
I see no way there could possibly be any unintended consequences. /s
The one thing I hope is fixed is that for mobile browser, when I'm clocking a link in a wiki article to another link, and then I want to hit the back button to go to the article I was originally reading, the back button doesn't scroll to where I was on the page and I have to scroll down to resume where I was reading.
> I think the challenge with the language icon is 1) there are not many multilingual sites and 2) the other icons there potentially cause the user to ignore them entirely.

Multilingual sites aren't rare at all. There is a conventional way to display a language selector: it's a button (usually a dropdown menu, if you click on it) with a national flag and the name of the language.

The big problem on mobile wikipedia is that wikipedia already has a well-established way to select the language you want to see the article in, and the mobile site completely removes it.
this has nothing to do with squareup.com, right?
There's companies in America where you can take a month-long vacation while getting paid a lot more than you would in Europe. Lots of companies with flexible PTO out there in the states, and many of them even allow remote work now.
Depends on your hosting provider with Outlook still right? I run a mail server on Linode and I had thought that Microsoft was still blocking all their IPs.
Oh lul :) thx
Batteries are one I happen to know something about, a startup I worked for hosted $major-university's monthly battery lecture series, we were doing a SaaS business targeted at the vertical. I met a dozen or so grad students doing exactly this.

So, nope, bad example. Taking an existing process and giving it a few tweaks will push it around in parameter space, improving something we care about (number of cycles before 80%, let's say), often at the expense of something else, like you can't apply as many coulombs. Congratulations, you've got a thesis. And there are dozens of basic battery processes.
So you're admitting the problem exists, which is my entire point.

It's hardly a theoretical-only problem, either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_span_replacement_of_th...
> Seeing these results touted as being pretty good makes me wonder why we haven't fully adopted microkernels yet. Their singular disadvantage, which is the need for two IPC calls vs one for a monolithic kernel, is completely irrelevant in comparison to these numbers.

And that's even the worst case of synchronous/blocking calls. With different API design - e.g. asynchronous interactions as done with io_uring or IOCP - the latency becomes less important as long as the overall efficiency and thereby throughput is high.
Ask HN: Why has YouTube degraded so quickly so suddenly?
In the past week or two, the quantity and frequency of ads has increased to near intolerable levels (probably at least as bad as TV, if not worse), and today my logged-out recommendations seemed to revert to a generic list of trending videos (e.g. garbage). What's going on?
I thought they had stopped making them. The used market is flooded with 380s.
This is a great concept, especially the link tracking.

One of my early research papers was about a tab reorganisation UI that tracked the links you clicked to reorganise your tabs to follow your train of thought. In most cases, the flat organisation is the worst, whereas if you follow my pattern of clicking links and moving to different tabs over time, you're halfway to describing (in a way that I can pick back up) my stream of consciousness.

Didn't get too far, for something like this to work it would have to be well integrated with the browser - and with new privacy restrictions, you'd have to end up recompiling a new browser to actually provide enough functionality.

Have you thought about ease of resuming where you left off? Biggest problem for me with Memexes isn't administration (even though it is huge and exponential as you say), it's that the longer it's been since I documented something, the harder it is for me to get back into the same mindset as I did then, with all the pieces still intact and connected.

Seems to me that finding a good representation of the internal mental model will help get over this.
SIP/sandboxing is quite terrible for developers in many ways too - this is why we don’t see the kind of great apps we used to have on the Mac platform anymore. All of these security features and artificial limitations effectively dumb down just about all applications and make many more unfeasible.
Sad. A380 flights were always the smoothest in my experience.
I'm not sure what's done for Cap-and-Trade, when actual money might be at stake.

Here's a link, which you may have seen, about how individual facility monitoring can work, when you need quantitative flux estimates:

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/methane/ab1496-rese...

See at the bottom -- a third-party will fly a plane in circles around the site to measure all concentrations in a surface enclosing the site. The concentrations, plus wind speed, give the site emissions. (I think that's intuitive, but it's also the divergence theorem from vector calculus.)

That's a lot of work to get just one day's emissions. And there are technical issues already because you want to get the whole surface concentrations+windspeed at the same time, but you can't, because the plane has to circle the site over many hours.

Despite those cautionary footnotes, this approach is used in calibration/validation of the concentration/emission relationship. Getting it all quantitatively right, as opposed to just seeing a plume, is a complex problem. People are still exploring how it can all work together (space, airborne, in situ, plus modeling).
Not necessarily bad either - some companies may want distinct experience in their app across all platforms l. Any UI is fine as long as it is fast and efficient.
More than bleeding edge tech issues, which also exist, the article describes the classic solution-in-search-of-a-problem situation.
> They really need to start treating content creators with more respect and assume innocence until proven otherwise.

Doesn't DMCA and similar law strongly bias them in the opposite direction of having to assume guilt?

In any case, transparency seems like a good idea from the point of view of the outside world.
Fortunately, Mozilla has been doing #1 for years, as they mention in their public financial statements.

#2 is a matter of opinion in a couple ways. Work on the browser for the betterment of users has never stopped. Intent has always been there, but we can debate quality of plan and execution.

Worth mentioning is how hard it is to rate performance given lack of counterfactuals. Is there even any golden path of success in all of the solution space? All we know is that what was tried hasn't worked.
Maybe "the internet" was a bit too generic. But it destroyed a lot of tech worker productivity for the day at least.

Slack, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Docker, etc all had issues.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/aws-is-investigating-s3-i...
IIRC, Java interfaces are subtype polymorphism. Ad hoc polymorphism would be, for example, overloading.
It was not national, but some cities and states had it for awhile.

As to the time frame: remember that Australia has had it for 100+ years. They are dominated (>80%) by 2 parties (even though they have the MAJOR advantage of proportional representation through their parliament). One can say similar things about Ireland, though the domination isn't nearly the same and there are 3 strong parties (they use a variant of IRV called STV).

But remember that neither the math nor the 100+ year experiment has shown that IRV won't collapse into a two party system. You'll find plenty of references through this thread and sources as to why if you search for "approval" (and "monotonicity criterion"). The thing is that the problem is rather complex. We don't just want it so you don't waste your vote, we don't want that to happen with ANY candidate (favorite betrayer criterion). We want other parties to rise up with no disadvantage. We want our voting to be expressive (STAR and score are substantially more expressive that IRV). We want high voter satisfaction efficiency (VSE) -- IRV doesn't do much better than FPTP. We want the system to be resistant to strategic voting. And we want the voting system to be dead simple. Frankly IRV doesn't fit these criteria. Approval fills every category but isn't extremely expressive. Score and STAR are at worst approval voting and at best much more expressive than ordinal (ranked) systems.

But basically everything you're pointing out is well acknowledged and I won't challenge it. More what I'm suggesting is that Hasan and CGP Grey didn't do their research but drove the hype. There is no optimal system for voting, unfortunately, but there are pretty dang good ones. When the experts say cardinal, I'm going with that.
I think conjuring that book is hyperbole. I don't think making people responsible for the legality of content they host is some crazy oppressive overreach of government power. The laws about what content is legal or illegal are pre-existing, these rules just shift the burden of enforcement in recognition that the government being the sole source of rule on massive distributed platforms isn't feasible. We tried, we failed. The bad guys ruined a good thing like usual.
When Google arbitrarily locks their developer account, discontinues a service, or places features behind a paywall, those customers will vacillate.
Gaining insights into winning football strategies using machine learning
I'm of a similar opinion but I'll say the format is quite good, but the many and varied implementations are often not.

A common case is clients who use utilities that generate single customer documents then merge them into a bigger file for bulk print and mail (bills and statements, not identical copy). Without fail that results in thousands of similar but different subset fonts whereupon most printers I've encountered eventually fail due to memory issues.

Typically this leads to a discussion about "I can open it on my computer fine" and bending over backwards to find a workaround. Merging and consolidating these fonts doesn't seem to be a simple task, although some tools claim to work some of the time.

Something that scopes object resources for disposal could be nice in the PDF spec (maybe it exists), but something like a LRU caching mechanism on the printer would potentially resolve this too.
"To promote free and open discourse online and encourage greater transparency between platforms and users." That seems legitimate to me; the mechanisms of democratic government rely on free speech and the marketplace of ideas existing in practice as well as in theory. If undesirables were not only kept out of the town square, but kept out by a secret system that not even they were told about, that would be obviously damaging to democracy; yet that's what's happening online.
You could still wait 10 seconds, and have a 'fake' undo button that aborts. (You can even put up a progress bar to pretend you are doing work during those 10 seconds.)

That's purely a UI element and is completely independent of how the actual destructive operation is implemented in the backend nor how hard it would be to reverse.
Expo 2020 Dubai and Jetman achieve world first for human flight
I'm now imagining a newly emergent dark pattern, where when you try to delete some expensive cloud resource, but before it'll stop charging you you get into one of those insane recaptcha loops that keeps saying "Click on all the Lovecraftian Gods that drive you insane just by looking at them!" or "type the text" where the displayed text is all in Druidic runes or something...
We made the same argument about system extensions in the MacOS 9 days. The trend has long been towards stability and security over access and customization.
Async style is not incompatible with storing the trace context in thread-local storage. You just capture the trace context when you create the callback. That's how Dapper works, in C++ and Java. See section 2.2 of the Dapper paper.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
Liquid mode doesn't work with PDFs above 200 pages, the whole point was to be able to read books without zooming & scrolling within every page & this arbitrary limit!
It states:

> f Residence time = accumulated H2O divided by emitted H2O (days). Corresponding values for the stratosphere only are given in parenthesis.

That seems like it is in days. Unless there's something that I missed, I'm not seeing the part that claims water vapor lasts for years in the stratosphere.
I'm using vultr for my vps and it has been fine.
The average person is not buying a new vehicle.
The internal behavior can trivially be made different just by operating on the value:

fn foo<T>() -> usize {
let x = std::mem::size_of::<T>();
if x % 2 == 0 {
panic!();
}
}

foo::<u8>(); // 1
foo::<u16>(); // panic

That the body is the same isn't necessarily the issue at hand (though of course it's still a useful property in its own right), what matters is that reasoning about what this function will do requires knowing which specific types it is used with.

> this seems pedantic

The first code example is merely the simplest demonstration, in the wild I would expect lots of `size_of` in generic contexts to result in type-dependent behavior somehow.

I'm not saying this is necessarily a very bad thing, nor do I have strong opinions on the usefulness of strict parametricity (which AFAIK Haskell doesn't have either). But in discussions relevant to parametricity, it's useful to know the ways a given language can subvert it (and Rust will further encourage it to be subverted, once the specialization feature is developed).
That's a distinction that makes no difference. Agriculture uses only about 1% of our energy, so if we can move industrial society off fossil fuels, we can easily move farming off fossil fuels. Alluding to the specter of famine is just scaremongering.
I'm not sure understand what you're saying with mod arithmetic.

Can you provide an example?
I mean paying for its existence; most of the content people consume is paid-for content whether by advertising (in one form or another) or direct support via Patreon and similar. And the reasons for this are ones I know firsthand; I am a video producer as well as a software developer. I could not afford to do the former without being the latter. Building a

A reasonable-quality single-camera A/V rig that a video producer would actually want to work with is comfortably in the middle four digits. Three cameras, low five. That money must come from somewhere, as must the rationalization for the time in a world as productized and generally fucked as ours, and "that's OK, art and media can just be done by wildly wealthy dilettantes in their spare time" is a shitty world.
There's actually quite a few enterprise client of S3. Lots in finance, too.
> If something goes terribly south, I'd rather have someone managing that who does it daily.

This depends heavily on what "it" refers to. If something goes terribly south, I really don't want to be handled by an anesthesiologist who handles terrible anesthesia-related screwups every day. He's almost certainly causing those screwups.
Unlike the other comments so far, I have a link that is in my opinion NOT generally useful for most programmers. I figured it is worth a share for the programmer who knows all of the math in this post and wants to learn yet more:

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

Other people can debate category theory's utility: I have no expert insight of my own to lend.
Only until you actually need to haul anything.
One of the issues that has made it difficult to discuss labor in games generally is a lack of any role standardization. This has calmed down somewhat as more and more games turn towards standardized content creation systems, but the whole endeavor historically has been completely upended on four year cycles, with games made by solo teenagers usurped by those made by teams, and then by teams with marketing and sales backing, and then by teams with increasingly higher specialization, with new waves of hardware at each turn.

The people in these high profile roles that gather as "founding core members" often found themselves in the position of right-place-right-time and afterwards just tried to keep up with the changes, and so, to some extent, they end up branded as creative and business talents, when the thing being tested most often in their career was their ability to sufficiently manage and delegate to get the project over the finish line.

So every time I see a story of a AAA vet starting something new I think to myself "prepare for some hard knocks", cause they are now being retested on their scrappy start-up abilities, but often get burdened by the expectations of an established studio, and entrenched in a particular approach. They can raise a lot but very often it means they fail big, too.
That's what we called 'promotion oriented programming'.
> but I believe there could be legitimate issues with the legality of publicly posting guitar covers as this person is doing on their channel.

In a legal sense, it is illegal unless they've paid the compulsory licensing fees.

That said, Youtube was once a place to find new stars who did covers, and many of them got famous. And now people who got famous like KHS do covers without any kind of issue.

https://www.youtube.com/user/KurtHugoSchneider

I just see it as the music industry locking the door behind the people who've already made it.
You could just approve A, or A & B. People will set different criteria. The reason equality is a feature is because you can't be infinitely expressive. Let's say that we're using a 5 point scale. If A is 4.9 and B is 4.8 and C is 2, some voters will express both A and B as 5 while some will split. They will do this because they are strategizing (one thing STAR handles well). But the key here, like said before, is that you can express how much more you like A and B over C. This can have major results on the election (also, this ability makes practicality simpler. Less prone to errors because you are scoring candidates and not ranking. So you can have an infinite number of candidates with no added complexity. You can make "mistakes" like scoring or "ranking" the candidates the same value. There are a lot of advantages to the reduced complexity. And you're not making any trades in features, only upgrades).
Based on some tweets, it does appear to be from Square.
You can use an electric motor to run the hydraulics but batteries are a poor way to power those motors. A diesel generator has far better energy density for a given volume. So I'm saying a diesel hybrid power train is better suited for construction vehicles than a straight battery electric.
Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%
The HQ2 farce hurt bars and restaurants? Are you sure you aren’t just listing all the axes you like to grind?
First time I saw one of those in person (SFO) I could not believe a plane that large could fly and be reliably controlled in adverse situations. Maybe it wasn't a huge commercial success but it reminded me that sometimes huge and insanely complicated projects can still be successfully executed. We could use a reminder of that these days from time to time. RIP A380.