skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! The Olson Database is the Right Thing™. Timezones are a weird human artefact, but ordinary humans have no idea what ZQMT or whatever actually "is" and will make loads of egregious mistakes if exposed to these zones directly even if your UX isn't terrible (which it probably will be).

But humans do understand what a city is, and if they live in or near one they understand what the time is in that city, adjusting for any weird local political rules like "Daylight saving" because those rules affect their life.

It's the right granularity practically too. Can politicians decide that Dublin and Belfast are in different timezones? Yeah, it'd be difficult but I think they could make that happen. How about Queens and Brooklyn? Ahahaha No. The residents will defy any pretence that clocks change between one city block and the next, it would never stick.
White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines
GDP growth is a questionable metric even for wealth.

For example, if two housewives join the workforce by cleaning each other’s now unattended houses, GDP shows a large increase even though the situation is (arugably) a net loss for everyone involved.
No grenades in Doom. Rocket launcher or BFG, though...
Fascinating.

I guess you have to find a low weight VR set though.

I completely get it because of how easy it is to get lost in the VR experience and forget about the outside worlds. Seems great for productivity. Might have to try it out sometime.
I have the same feelings about Americans living in a geographic area called "tornado alley".
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Seems seems there were at least a couple of problems here. Why were financial professionals using Yahoo as a source of exchange rates?
Netflix disagrees: https://help.netflix.com/en/is-netflix-down
The alternative is to stop using your house wrench to fix the pipes and call a real plumber.
Would love it if my manager would validate bugs in the code base, grasp the technical requirements and the assign it properly
We weren't talking about merely being drowsy. We were talking about having a pattern of falling asleep at the wheel, and knowingly continuing to drive while unfit for that reason. It's right there in the top comment that started the thread.
>It's basically goods stolen from people, at the moment of shutting down - they should be first in line

No its not. You've only agreed to RENT a book for an unspecified amount of time. You never owned a thing, and thus nothing was stolen from you.

Ownership doesn't exist in the digital marketplace; if you really wanted to do something so stupid as to OWN a good, you'd pirate it.

Note that for goods like DVDs you're still only purchasing the right to access the data.. you didn't actually take ownership of anything more than the physical disk.

Hence, the OP has lost nothing they had... because they had nothing to begin with !
It lets you do things like `functools.singledispatchmethod`.
...or simulating the world every 16 ms as is typical in a "real" game.

You can bridge that gap by taking periodic snapshots of the reduced state, which is a useful pattern in distributed game development where you sometimes have to back-track and re-simulate when input arrives over the network.
Brownian motion dominates at the scale of a protein. In other words, the energy imparted by the ambient temperature is orders of magnitude greater than that that could be established through momentum of objects with that little mass. So everything bumps into everything, and the only distinguishing factor between various bumps is how long they stay stuck together. Most things just bounce right off. Sometimes they are repulsed, and in rare cases (when they've been selected for), multiple proteins can meet in just the right orientation that they stay stuck for a while (now scale this so that 3 or 4 objects must meet at the same time, and now you get into the 'regulation' of a cell at perception-relevant time-scales). This measurement of stickiness is called the "dissociation constant (Kd)" and is a measurement of what concentration of component A you need alongside component B such that half of component A is bound to component B. It is one of the primary drivers of most biochemical processes in a cell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_constant
Historically, houses in California had been burning rather rarely, even in very fire prone area, so fire insurance is a good business as long as you set your rates appropriatey.
Show HN: World Does Not Exist
Check out my new generative world map! It uses an iterated resolution-doubling conditional GAN currently trained on Van Gogh's collective works. Each zoom level takes 5-10 seconds to generate if not already cached so please be patient. You can go all the way to zoom level 2^30 making total number of pixels equal to about 1/8 of Avogadro's number.
> and have multiple independent implementations

At these levels of complexity, it’s impossible for these multiple independent implementations to be 100% compatible. As a programmer consuming an API, last thing I want is multiple incompatible implementations of that API.

> Web pages from 30 years ago still load just fine - that's plenty stable.

HTML as a document format is not an API, and is indeed pretty stable even over decades.

Modern SPA web apps don’t view HTML as a document markup language, instead they view HTML+CSS+JS as an API. Unlike HTML as a markup language, I don’t believe that API is stable.

> Third-party dependencies are an issue for all apps, not just the web.

With the exceptions of malware, anti-malware, and other questionable use cases, apps don’t usually download their third-party dependencies from third-party web sites each time they launch. Many web apps do.

> Can't recall the last time I had a misbehaving browser tab kill my phone's battery

Try a page that uses WebGL + web assembly.

> or harvest my contacts without consent

Very unfortunate indeed. I think that was an oversight of platform vendors. Instead of requiring user’s permissions to install apps, they should have given user choice to install the app but fake the APIs with dummy data: black frame for camera when denied, empty contact list for contacts when denied, and so on.
>And will it be easier to make those ends meet when you are dead, or paralysed, or locked up because you left someone else dead or paralysed?

Oftentimes for people forced to work 2, 3, 4 or more jobs just to survive, these are also acceptable "solutions" to the problem. The risk analysis comes down to [low chance of dying now driving impaired] versus [medium chance of dying later, homeless/starving after losing job(s)].

I once arrived at work with blood all over my face, neck, and hands from biting my lips to stay awake.

Autopilot is so far, far, far out of reach for most people working multiple jobs that it's really a non-issue not worth debating for a long time, but the technology behind it would be a literal lifesaver if it were more widely available to the unfortunately large population of people that are forced to drive regardless of mental state in order to survive and/or provide for their families and/or other circumstances "out of their control".
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a7213/pa...
"Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee" is an eye opening view into his world and the history of the McAfee corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_...
This kind of thing is what makes me love the hacker community so much. There is probably no conceivable practical use for this (at least from what I can see right now), but it’s fun, and was a challenge, and someone just went ahead and did it.
No, the start of the thread was:

One of the reasons I would love to have autopilot is because I have a history of dozing off at the wheel. Never so much where I've had an accident, but bad enough where I've scared myself badly.

This was followed by arguing for the safety feature in case it happened again.
I've come around to not being annoyed at the repeated push for this idiotic idea.

Good for you. But you haven't explained why it's a broken idea, let alone an "idiotic" one.
Nature at least used to publish a single-page science fiction story at the back of every issue. They still publish online, though they've dropped it from the print edition.

edit: https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures
John McAfee Arrested for Tax Evasion
> no one goes to see their doctor when they’re asymptomatic with their unhealthy life choices

People outside America do.
Definitely irresponsible. These homeowners should know about defensible space. [1]

I agree with you - I think a lot of these areas aren't proactively managing this due to the blowback.

[1] https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-re...
That’s great experience raising $500k and going through the incubator experience. The (I’m guessing late) 2000s was willing to gamble on consumer plays like this, you don’t see that often at all today. HN used to have more stuff like this.

I think the closest real world (as in wide scale commercialization or deployment) of your original idea was Facebook’s automated video they made for each account (assuming they had enough content) playing back your history via photos, friends, events etc. Cant remember the name of that video feature just now.

There’s always a core idea in each product that has some practical value somewhere.
Menger Sponge
For more of this, please look at: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Fire burning through grass and vineyards has been a feature of the latest fire season in northern CA. Given how dry and hot the climate is, only dirt is a sure thing. However with high enough winds, embers can carry long distances and cross fire breaks. For example in 2017, the Tubbs fire crossed highway 101. But I still agree that living close to trees is worse.
The difference is they have to pay tax on what they earn, so they are technically contributing to the society.
Thank you.

Years of homelessness atrophied my social skills. I feel like I don't thank my Patrons enough. It's made a huge difference in my life.
As others have stated, functools.lru_cache has existed for quite some time.
> Orleans doesn't have any ordering guarantees. While this is not a firm requirement of the Actor model itself, both Erlang and Akka guarantee ordering between a given Sender-receiver pair (i.e. messages sent from A to C will be sent in order)

Ordering has a performance cost. It needs to either be maintained at all levels, or reconstructed from unordered messages at a later point. Even something simple like an m:n thread pool scheduler can ruin ordering guarantees. My view (Orleans core developer) is this: if you want ordering, await your calls. That way, you are guaranteed ordering regardless of any message reordering that can occur in the scheduling or networking layers, or due to failure and recovery of a host. So you can choose when to pay that cost and when to reap the performance benefits of not paying it (by firing off multiple calls in parallel).

> A stable and properly configured Akka Shard cluster will never have more than one of the same entity actor alive at a time.

Likewise for Orleans, but the caveat of a "stable cluster" doesn't do much for users. "Stable cluster" falls apart frequently in real scenarios, which can be as simple as a single machine being abruptly restarted. Developers must account for the error scenarios.

> Akka and Erlang have the concept of Supervision.

Orleans does not have supervision, since each grain stands on its own (no hierarchy) and have an eternal nature (managed lifecycle). Grains are not destroyed when a method throws an exception: the exception is propagated back to the caller and the caller can use try/catch to handle the exception. This is similar to what .NET developers are used to, since regular objects are also not destroyed when a method throws an exception, and the caller is able to handle the exception. My belief is that this kind of exception handling is usually appropriate, since the caller has context which can be useful in handling the error. The developer can also write per-grain or global call filters which can operate on all calls and handle any exception, so if that's preferred, then it's available.
> a West-Texas-oil-country Federal judge

Not that it's really relevant to the story, but "West-Texas-oil-country" is actually in the Northern District of Texas, based in Dallas. The "Western" District is mostly central Texas, then extending west along the US-Mexico border.
Context:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/b4bbef90e8c60138513c002590d8e...
Their first success hire was a job to do exactly what their product is about?!

"Buy our awesome car! ...and our first hire was this person who drives us around on his own car"
Nobody said it was safe. They merely pointed out that some people have to choose between safety and feeding their families.
> Hypothetically, what would the net change to the GDP year over year be if we killed all people over a threshold age when they were diagnosed with a terminal disease?

That depends on how profitable it is to provide the treatment for terminal illnesses.
Let's see:

- best in class IDE
- best in class debugger
- excellent cross platform support
- very fast compilers
- a robust library ecosystem
- no arguments over how to publish or import those libraries
- a build system that just works
- and all without having to install tons of third-party, fly-by-night projects.

I've worked in lots of different environments. .NET is the only one I've been able to leave, come back to after some time, and get back running in minutes. JavaScript, Python, and Ruby were all rickety houses of cards in comparison. C++ is just inscrutable. And Java might get the closest, but it still feels like being perpetually 5 years behind .NET.
I wish there were a wider variety of fauna. I imagine if they made them as a moddable component you'd see the mod community add a bunch.

It's actually one of the aspects of Don't Starve that I love. Practically everything in the game is some sprites, sounds, and Lua. That makes it fairly easy to extend the game.
> why the hell are Americans so litigious

Because the government doesn't proactively enforce civil/corporate law, instead waiting for a law suit.

Because we don't have social healthcare, so suing for liability is the main way to pay for injuries.

Because USA culture is that individuals have rights that should not be trampled upon by the State or other people.

Because the US Constitution created a judiciary system independent of the executive, where individuals can seek justice even when the executive ignores them.
Did you see any evidence of slavery, as some documentaries mention or seem to show?
TiL that Digg still exists, https://digg.com/video/nickelbot-turns-nickelback-lyrics-int...
Because excel couldn't authenticate into our internal server and it was good enough.
I recommend Skoods (https://www.skoods.org/)
For me it seemed like it fleshed out a lot of ideas about what makes good UX. I didn't think it was earth shattering but I think back to it often when I interact with the various items in my life. It's nice for someone to explicitly explain something you intuitively grasp but can't clearly explain.
What about LibreOffice’s spreadsheets?
Not according to Mrs McAfee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theemrsmcafee/status/1313238348438401024
It's really accelerated in the last 10-15 years here. A ton of new housing has been built in South Orange County which is right against the Cleveland National Forest. I believe the same thing has gone on in San Diego County, which also burned pretty badly back in 2007.
Even if you don't have a high net worth it triggers a 5 year tax audit and fees. My mate just handed in his passport even though he's been doing his W2's annually and he still had to pay $2k to renounce.
Easier to grow in the cupboard :)
"Against all odds, it worked"

No, they employed actual engineers and a sizable budget. There was no guesswork on whether it is going to work. The physics is very strong and the water flows and level changes have been monitored precisely for decades giving engineers enough data to build robust protection.
As a Canadian it baffles me that other countries are still messing with pennies. We stopped minting ours in 2012 and haven't looked back. I'm a proponent of cash, but the penny is obsolete. So too is any change smaller than a quarter, IMO.
What other options possibly are there?

That's kind of the whole problem with the epidemic of Bullshit Jobs -- there just aren't all that many jobs out there which don't fall into one of 3 categories:

(1) Abusive

(2) Low-paying / unstable / insecure

(3) Bullshit

or all of the above.
> they are the gatekeepers to your advancement while you aren't on a critical path to theirs,

That's not true. In organizations that have these kinds of parallel tracks, advancement for managers is DIRECTLY tied to their ability to promote engineers on their team.

It's an aggregate effort. If you can't promote engineers that report to you either have
* Limited soft skills
* Inability to attract quality engineers
* Inability to take ownership of projects of significant complexity

In any of those cases, how can you promote a manager like this?

Managers are ABSOLUTELY incentivized to advance the careers of their reports (the good ones at least, but should this not be merit-based?)
So I'm wrong because I'm right? Have you looked at Stockholm syndrome?
Wha......

What??

What school or book did he read that made him think that was a good idea?
Exactly...

> "But you wouldn't use XLS. Nobody would start with that."

Actually almost every non-technical person I know that wants something "database like" ends up in google sheets or excel first.
> Eventually we'll have an a-ha moment...

Will we? How can we ever verify that our intervention produces this or that sort of qualia?

(For the record, I'm a fan of theories like IIT [0] that aim to answer questions in the neighborhood of these -- but we should be sober about what is even, in principle, knowable to us. We can verify that intervention X gives behavior Y, but I don't see how we could ever verify that intervention X gives qualitative experience Z (intervening on ourselves aside, which in any case will only tell us about our sort of conscious experience).)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
If you have done those things, then you've accepted some increased risk of falling asleep, just like most of us have at one time or another.

Comments like this are side-tracking the discussion. The original premise wasn't that sometimes everyone is a bit more alert or tired than others. It was someone who knew very well that they had a history of falling asleep at the wheel and wanted to continue driving apparently knowing it was likely to happen again.

We're human and can't say for certain that falling asleep is impossible (or some other medical event won't happen).

Of course not. But normal people with a healthy lifestyle don't just randomly fall asleep at the wheel in the absence of a serious (but perhaps undiagnosed) medical condition. The way a lot of the comments in this thread are defending driving while tired, you'd think millions of people could all just doze off without any warning or awareness that they were at unusually high risk.

You know they let some people drive who have extremely bad eyesight--bad enough that that they can't read road signs?

In my country, such poor vision would (if not properly corrected) immediately disqualify you from holding a driving licence. This is a policy that I entirely agree with, so we apparently come from very different perspectives here.
Been thinking about this too.

I think this might open up new ways of interacting with systems that are more accessible than they are today. Currently, system diagrams are limited by how much info you can cram into 2 dimensions; without some kind of abstraction it becomes mostly too information dense to be useful.

What could we do with 3D? What if we could build and lay out different systems/ system designs in a 3D space? What if I could point to our MySQL cluster, our kubernetes cluster, our applications etc?

Only half formed thoughts but I am super excited by what avenues VR will open up for developers.
Tracking sea turtle egg traffickers with GPS-enabled decoy eggs
And with debit/credit transactions, it's still calculated to the penny, so there's no issues with rounding there.
Coinbase outage and trading was halted temporarily
Two's a crowd: Nuclear and renewables don't mix
Harmony:order. Of course it depends on how this tech is used- if it is CCP’s hands then it will be different
> There is no way you are tired enough to be actually falling asleep without realising you're far too tired to be driving safely.

Except I was, and I did. And now I can recognize the signs that weren't obvious before, so I don't anymore. You're saying there's no way, and I'm giving you a concrete example of an instance.

> It's not as if it's a close thing where one minute you're alert and driving responsibly and the next minute you're out.

There's a huge range between "alert" and "asleep". I'm tired after a long day, yet I can drive responsibly. Even a the point where I could lay down and easily go to sleep if I chose to, I'm fine to drive for quite a while after that (preferred sleep time is not necessarily the same as responsible driving time, there are many factors that go into it).

> Anyone who can't make that determination reliably is demonstrably unfit to be in charge of a vehicle and should hand in their licence.

So, have you been in that situation? Or just always stopped before you got to that point? Or not even driven over a long enough period to be in that situation? You haven't even presented any anecdotal evidence, you've just made assertions that what I said I personally experienced can't be how I described it (and implied I was demonstrably unfit to drive at the point I said this happened to me).
> through sheer chance

It wasn't sheer chance. It was Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell subverting the Constitution with a coup, refusing to even let the Senate consider whether to approve Presidemt Obama's nominations. And now that Mcconnell has eliminated the principle of upholding the Constitution, we can expect the same from every Senate for at least a generation, and judges will only be appointed when the President and the Senate are the same party.
Pay-for-Play Was Banned from Radio – But Texts Reveal It May Still Be Thriving
This article explains k and r0 quite well, and is fairly short: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680036/

See also:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094981/

There is a summary of a lot of this article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superspreader

This Wikipedia article covers what the article means when describing the distribution of v as 'overdispersed': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdispersion#Poisson

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002251931...

* https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I wonder if there's a limit on how many URLs it can search and if I can import a list of URLs rather than inputting them one by one.

EDIT: It appears that you can import URLs by pasting in a list once you've made a simple search engine. But supposedly there is a limit of 5000 URLs: https://support.google.com/programmable-search/thread/200713...
Search space for the first billion or so years was likely around atoms/chemistry. Search space for the next billion or so years was likely around mutations in well-defined genetic space (4 nucleic acids as building blocks, 20 amino acids as building blocks). Search space for the past 700M years has included 'recombination' (copy/swap/paste) of larger chunks of (existing) genetic code (in addition to the prior two mechanics). There are probably many such abstraction layers, including like you mention, copying/pasting of entire organisms, environments, biospheres...