skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much time was really wasted.

Plenty, since there are full articles being written about it.

And my friend, your second paragraph is irrelevant. This topic is about the removing coins from circulation, and my point is that they aren't going far enough if the goal is what they say it is.
Bitcoin Financial Literacy and Crypto-Twitter
For further reading, Data Compression Explained ( http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html ) is a very good reference to data compression algorithms with a better explanation of the information theory behind it and the differences between Coding (Huffman/Arithmetic/ANS/...) and Transforms (LZ77/LZW/BWT/...).
> Many youtube videos you can look at on this, but the biggest issue that comes up is how Africans in Africa share little of the fervent anti-colonial attitude prominent in the American Black community here.

You have to blame a lot if not most of this on a lot of wholesale slaughter during colonialism of the elements who resisted it, and a lot of the elevation of particular ethnic groups into elite classes to serve as local middlemen for foreign business concerns (mostly extractive industries.) The elites of those countries are the people we see on youtube. Their families did pretty well under colonialism, and they think of the people who complain about it (in their home countries probably other ethnic groups, or non-Christians, or Sunnis) as Luddite terrorists who need to be killed.

Africa was a heavy source of anti-colonial radicalism during the cold war, and those sentiments still exist. Those are just not the elements we elevate. They, like black Americans, are usually the subject being discussed, not the people who get to be part of the conversation.

This isn't unique to Africa.
this is factually flawed -- most forest lands in California are owned and managed by Federal Department of Interior and/or large timber interests
The loss of merch was the writing on the wall. ;)

The appliance used to come with a T-shirt, but no longer includes one.
I personally really don’t like staring at text in VR. There’s less angular resolution and more visual artifacting in the HMD compared to a good 72dpi screen (or even better, a retina screen) at 2 feet.
Yes, I see what you mean! How about milk that is organic and UHT at the same time? It seems like they are marketing to two very different consumer segments. I've never seen organic UHT milk here in Australia. Is it common elsewhere?

PS I'm not saying that UHT is necessarily lower quality, I'm talking exclusively about average consumer's perception.
I would love to see everyone answering to a manager present at his performance review. Even if it is just that some are worthy of a standing ovation.
Probability and Statistics with Applications to Computing [pdf]
How about don't use excel in the first place?
San Diego is an especially bad area because of the network of canyons which bring the wilderness deeper into suburban areas. On top of that, you have coastal sage scrub which can burn intensely and also build up significant fuel loads in a few short years. The solution for coastal sage scrub fire management will likely be different than what makes sense for oak and evergreen forests elsewhere in CA.
Thanks.

I am asking a slightly different question, and I probably didn't make it clear enough, but I am asking if you should LEARN Redux. Not whether to use it on project X. Often in this fast moving world, it is worth learning some concepts so that you know when they would be useful, and because of job interviews and such like.

I'll update the article when I get a chance to include acemarke's advice on when to USE Redux though.
China Ramps Up War of Words, Warning U.S. of Its Red Lines
Apple fan-bois will drink anything. /sarc
It'll stick around. People still "drop a dime" on others, but payphones are largely a thing of the past and certainly aren't 10c anymore.
No, which is why I was hired to replace it.
No, I'm advocating fixing the problem with stronger measures if the really want to fix the problem.

> You can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good - that just keeps anything from happening.

Cool story, but they as well schedule the session to get rid of the nickel now.

> 100% solutions do not exist in the real world.

A little hyperbolic here. This is of course false.
Microsoft? Do something to meaningfully and significantly improve F# instead of leaving it in the corner and occasionally tossing it things? You must be joking.

I'm mostly convinced F# is there so MS can say "you can do functional things, yeah!" without needing to make a meaningful effort.
The Federal government manages 57% of California forests. Another 33% are under private control. Very little of the parts of CA that are ablaze are managed by the State.

Forest management alone at any level cannot prevent these massive fires from happening.

There is this deep, visceral resistance to acknowledging the impact of global climate change and humanity's role in causing it.

It certainly feels trite having to repeat it ad nauseam: global climate change is and will continue to cause extreme and unusual weather events including blizzards, hurricanes, droughts, floods, famines, and wildfires. And yes, it will still get "cold" in the winter -- that does not disprove global warming and the resulting climate changes.
Also I feel sorry for the noise and disturbance experienced by all of this person's neighbors, it looks like it was built in an apartment.
Hobbyists are usually more diligent than professionals because they care. If anyone cared about the product it wouldn't have been a spreadsheet.
Safari has absolutely ignored standards when it suits apple. That's why, for example, you can't rely on PWAs on Apple products.
But that's the system we've put in place, and people have to live within it. They have to provide for their families, and that may end up placing them or those around them at risk.

It may not be justified, but it's reality.
I guess there's a lot to be said in regards to the rest of the .NET changes since 2001. There's no more blocking and spinning forever on a sync called from A to B and perhaps fail over is thought of better. Also it seems to architecture is basically forcing the "good path" of every service being instance based and throw away whereas .NET Remoting offered dark, unscaling singleton paths of dark doom.
Sure, but any high spots on either surface should do that, right? I'm still missing why it matters which surface is doing the moving.
I know Mill Valley is probably helped a bit by the fog, etc. but visiting there for hiking etc. feels more uneasy with every passing year. The amount of brush in the hills/on those back roads in the canyons is enormous.
Yep. One of my personal favorites was "We make your dreams come true!"[0] which was a local thing where I come from, but is truly iconic!

Not to mention the "Lullabuy of old Broadway."[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uosIpj-CRs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwlvkUMsDgI
Excel is an excellent hammer. A spreadsheet is a system to develop pure functional graphs and to interact with them in real time. I spent lots of time on finance spreadsheets myself and also thought it was Stockholm syndrome, but when I transitioned to working on software I came to see exactly why spreadsheets are entrenched the way they are, enjoy seeing them used creatively, and would never wish bespoke software on finance people. And good for them, they seem to know better, themselves!
Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs
I believe that was misreported. Someone wrote "columns" when they meant "rows".
I see this all around me. People are fixated on careers, hobbies (FOMO), spread thin by family obligations and errands. The truth is, happiness does not derive from these things. This "busyness" is an invention. Life is simple, and happiness actually derives from having cats.
That is not where the context of this thread is. My comment clearly changed it to how sometimes it can be hard to know, and how experiencing it once can be useful to knowing what that feeling it. You responded to it. The context at this point is not about repeating that, you're mixing your threads, and likely arguing against points people are not making but you think they are because of that mistake.
Cool but work performance will take a hit because less blood flow will go to the front of the brain. You need a lay down desk with your front facing at the ground.
I probably missed a joke here.. why does this have anything with law to begin with?
I think a lot of games already do this. Minigames that are glorified button presses for example. The fortnite pinata lootbox as a notable example. But lockpicking minigames in skyrim could be seen as the same. Even quicktime events to an extent.
Not yet, because we do not save articles via url but via our extension which snapshots html. That way, we can offer our service to user's paid content as well.

Having said that, and based on the feedback we read tonight in this thread, integrating with pocket and similar sources in some way, shape or form seems like a top priority!
A black and white for or against extradition is too simple when you consider some countries like the US (or China) have extremely expansive views of their jurisdiction to enforce political or compliance violation crimes.
Your point is incredibly good, and made me laugh too. It illustrates precisely why people, both technical and non-technical, frequently avoid choosing the massive scalable hammer factory system architecture that takes five people three weeks just to get rev 1, over the little tapper that gets the job done today with one junior developer.

From the technical standpoint of a decent (and probably only decent) coder, I think Excel is an amazingly sensible choice for technical projects for a bunch of reasons. I think decent coders reach for the database solution far too often, and waste ungodly amounts of time setting it up. Excel coming bundled with an amazing front end UI you don't have to write code for shouldn't be ignored. Sure it's error prone, sure it's a nightmare for data validation, sure it doesn't scale to Amazon sizes, but this little project will never get that big. (Yes, until, of course, it does.)

I used Excel as the frontend for artists to author and enter small databases for a game engine, for example, and it was leaps and bounds better, and cheaper, and easier to use, than the unmaintainable SQL nightmare, with a bunch of frontend and backend dev on top of it, that the decent code who proceeded me left behind. Excel even scaled better, up to the size of our studio (hundreds of people), compared to the other system that needed technical artists to know how to use it. No question whether it would crumble if we were talking thousands of people or more. Which is why it happens so often. :P
An annotation is when you write some information and it doesn't directly impact the evaluation of that which it annotates. It's a "note", essentially. Type annotations in Python do not actually affect any aspect of runtime and are ignored during evaluation. This is why you need a third-party tool to look at them. You can actually stick any arbitrary code you like after that colon — it's all ignored just the same.

What you're referring to are called type ascriptions, and they are often seen in what are sometimes called manifest type systems, where you must explicitly write out your types within a static type system. C and Java are common examples of this. These are not annotations because they have real meaning (either used for declaration or for type conversion).

Additionally, there are plenty of statically typed languages which do not require ascription. These languages feature type inference, which is a process that allows the programmer to leave the deduction of the actual types to the compiler. Haskell, Swift, OCaml, Scala, and I think now C++ to some degree (with `auto`) allow for this (to name but a few).
A Common Plant Virus Is an Unlikely Ally in the War on Cancer
I believe it was a mercury mine back then (not a paragon on responsibility) and it was much denser than it is now. We got rid of the heavy metal runoff; there is no reason to simply defer to precedent.
That's a neat feature!
That definitely comes down to the simple fact that those changes being made to address climate change fears are new. Building all the communities was done a while ago.
> I suspect the blowback from people living in these towns will effectively kill the enforcement.

If insurers won't insure, that might change attitudes pretty quickly.
Cool. But I wouldn't expect import-macros-from-lisp to work with many existing CL macros. Parenscript is quite mechanical in its transpiling to JS.
How is this a waste of time? Treasuries are constantly phasing out, destroying and minting new coinage. Deciding to not make new coins in a denomination and destroying the ones that come in is pretty much a single switch for them. And of course on the upside you save people tons of time not dealing with smaller coins.

The alternative here is to not have inflation and I don't see that happening (especially just to avoid phasing out denominations).
This internal camera warning[0]. It specifically says Cabin Camera.

0: https://i.judge.sh/elated/Fleet/chrome_cg336vF03X.png
Yes, both families face an increased tax burden.

However, there’s no new income: each family is paying $20 and making $15 for net -$5.

Increasing costs for decreased benefit (eg, neither family is cared for during transit times) is why I referred to it as a net loss.
Sometimes I lay down and play games all day. I always feel like a lazy braindead slug afterwards.

I imagine this desk setup slows you down a bit, at least.
There are developers using Orleans with F#, so it does work. It is not as nice of an experience as it ought to be, though. For example, it requires a dummy C# project to hold the generated RPC/serialization code. PRs to improve the experience for F# developers are greatly appreciated.
Missing the important qualifier "like a native" in the title
Not sure this will happen given Node/Typescript/VSCode (also Microsoft, fun how they’ve taken over Node right?) but the dotnet platform sure is rich. I had the opportunity to work with it this year and I found it to be very nice! Not surprised to see it gaining more and more momentum with libraries like this.
Correct. The reality is it doesn't matter who 'owns' land if you're not allowed to manage it for fire prevention because of endless legal challenges.
'major disinfo with an agenda' is not appropriate language on HN. i live in Cal, I am extremely interested in solving the fire crisis and I have no business or political beliefs associated with the timber industry.
I don't have any experience with extended release, and honestly since I'm in college my doctor grills me more and more every time I go in to renew the prescription. I keep thinking I'm gonna go off of it and then I still need it and objectively that might look sketchy, since I some students sell their meds. I'm scared that if I bring up any other type that might look worse? Anyway, this thread has taught me more about extended release and I'll likely look into that when I start working after graduation.
Taunting the Happy Fun Ball never ends well.

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M
Because "We are still learning about how the virus spreads and the severity of illness it causes"
There are millions of acres of fuel and the longer it sits the worse it will be. Controlled burns across the state is the only way to go.
Because generally people will only read whole number and omit the cents, making the price appear lower then it is.
> The problem is that PHE's own developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.

> As a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of.

Why would they even use XLS in the first place? CSV files have no such limitation, you can have CSV files that hold billions of records.
I try to bring this up whenever people are surprised that CA is being CA, but it's just not at sexy as stories of impending doom brought on by AGW.

I'm not denying the seriousness of AGW, I just don't think it's the reason my clothes are wrinkled or my dog ran away.

The standard CA marketing package doesn't really talk about our normal climatic variations. I think newcomers to the state are surprised at some of the slightly unusual but not unheard of weather and disasters and seek to blame some new, ominous force.
Yes, it is so close to 7 that describing it as 6 is dishonest (we are not talking about 6.50 or 6.51). The brain is lazy and doesn't process it as 7 whereas the relevant part (7) is left out to deceive the customer into buying the product (marketing trick is probably straight out of book of Edward Bernays).

Instead, the product should be good on its own merit; so for me its an orange flag (or rather: proper, informative rounding is a green flag).

We see it elsewhere too. 199 instead of 200. 999 instead of 1000. Etc.
All of them!?
What would be the agenda? Profits for the death prevention industry?
> Type annotations in Python do not actually affect any aspect of runtime and are ignored during evaluation.

This is equally true in Java. Types are erased at runtime. They don't exist in the bytecode.

Just because the type checking and evaluation are done using one tool, "javac" doesn't really mean anything.

Again, what's the difference between a bash script that runs mypy prior to invoking python and a bash script that compiles and runs a java program, from the perspective of type safety, assuming you know nothing about the two programs?

There is no difference. Neither provides any more guarantees than the other. Put another way, by enforcing use of mypy prior to invocation, you convert the annotation to an ascription.

A deeper analysis would suggest that "ascriptions" are actually the things you use to disambiguate when type inference is not powerful enough (https://docs.scala-lang.org/style/types.html).

Scala, for example, calls its type declarations "annotations", except when they are needed to disambiguate, when they are "ascriptions". So under the scala definition, python's annotations are exactly the same as scalas as long as they are used for type checking, which, if you use mypy, they are.
U.S. indicts anti-virus software creator John McAfee for tax evasion
According to the article they're stopping expansion of their very first generation of ADSL, which I know is partly forced because the hardware has not been manufactured for a very long time. No doubt they've run out of scavenging they're willing to do, like upgrading a location to "ADSL/VDSL" marketed as "AT&T Internet."

Which they are still offering with speeds that can go higher than 6Mbps up and all have 1TiB monthly caps. Or since they have historical data, maybe the future scavenging is dedicated to maintaining their existing customers, covering the usual old age failures, and nastier ones like DSLAMs getting destroyed by accidents, lightening, and natural disasters.

I'm not sure how exactly how they do their "ASDL/VDSL" which I now use, but their old school ADSL in my home town when I and my family started using it a decade and a half ago was ASDL to the DSLAM, then ATM to a monster Cisco box 70 miles away.
Dude writes faux Penthouse Forum letters as a hobby, apparently.

“We had not left the city more than ten minutes behind us when she began to caress my crotch, eventually freeing my dick from its confinement.”

https://loggiaonfire.com/magazine/'the_woman_in_nepal,_chapt...
I'm not "concerned" at all. It's just a personal philosophy. Especially as the pop-up was a waving cartoon character. Bad memories of Bonzi Buddy.
In my experience they will insure anything for the right price
This hints at the greater tension between employees wanting to get a better life for themselves and corporations wanting to maximize profits.

Companies are probably vomiting at the idea that individuals could set up a scenario where they are well paid, have a low COL and save for an early retirement, when that value could be captured for the company. Ironically the employee might own a tiny slice of that company through their index investments!

At the same time they haven't sussed out how to get anyone any where in the world to do the work. Finding good people is still hard.

There is no "should" in the question, the real questions are:

As an employee: "Will your employer try to pay you based on where you live, and if so, how can you avoid this."

As an employer: "How do we take the remote working revolution and use it to minimize staff costs while still getting the same value from staff"
Eh, it's not that much worse. With a green card, you're still subject to the 5-year tax thing after you leave.

IMO the green card isn't worth it.
How coal-loving Australia became the leader in rooftop solar
Regardless, 6.99 is so close to 7, that simply making it 7 is more honest. I'll pay the extra cent for the increased honesty/clarity.

And yes with 1 product it is still relatively easy (provided you put effort) but the more you buy in the grocery store the less oversight you get.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24692676
Oswald Spengler – an intellectual life
the 2012 crisis was 100% the reason i did my masters degree.

it was the same for nearly 90% of my class.

a lot of my peers decided to take a second major the moment their job offers at the bulge brackets got cancelled. a handful of seniors also went back to school after they got retrenched at the banks.
Okay, but have you tried? Did you read of anyone else who tried and found that to be the case?

I'm sure it'd take getting used to for proficient speakers like you and me, perhaps not dissimilar from learning a dialect, but is it inferior?
The coup de grace is functioning and sane server side rendering of ReactJS apps by c# applications. If Microsoft can make that easy and simple it will lead to a huge churn as many software companies replace less efficient nodeJS applications for that use case. Typescript will always have its placed client-side but there will be huge user benefits if we can have more and better server side rendering.
I just wanted to chime in and say that you’re right. Lots of people have no experience outside of big cities, so they don’t know how bad it is. Cars are a necessity in many places in the US; perhaps even most.

Uber didn’t come to the St Louis “surrounding area” for some time, and even when they did, it was hard to find a driver.
The effort/reward ratio here is terrible, unless you're reading extremely long content or an extremely high volume of longish articles. The problem with the latter is that collecting links to articles you want to read is easy, but half the time you get a short way through the article and realize you don't want to read it.
> The alternative here is to not have inflation and I don't see that happening (especially just to avoid phasing out denominations).

Clearly not true, nor am I advocating that.

It's a waste of time because there are stronger, more lasting measures that can be taken to solve this problem. This whole question reduces to the cost of minting coins.
I'm pretty sure net core will remain for a long time in the enterprise world before making anything in the more open source / general public.

It's 2020 I can't name a single server side known application built in net core.
> Thats why noone uses C++ or javascript in safety critical devices

Ooh, no that's fairly incorrect. Javascript for sure is less common because it's the web browser language, but C and C++ are used all the time in embedded safety critical designs.