skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean it's ridiculous to think about it, but there's this giant, many-billion-dollar online marketing industry that I essentially don't exist for. If it's gone tomorrow, I would indeed not notice, but it'd be the end of the world for some.

> and what always gets me is how trivial everything is

Whenever I read about corporations and how they work, I always inevitably ask myself the question "where the hell does enough work to keep this many people busy even come from". Everything is ridiculously overengineered to meet imaginary deadlines.
Maybe don’t worry too much. Create good content then share it. You can get seo traffic that way (plus natural traffic from the links you share)
One is a toy, the other is a tool.
There is fiber to thst building as well. I'm in Cumberland County right now and the towers are down. Wi-Fi calling only.

Also no 911 service, which astounds me until I remember it's the government running it.

Imagine an emergency response system so fragile cutting power to one building fucks it for half a state?

My one man company has better disaster tolerance than the 911 system? Insane.
It was probably plan #513 on how to kill Castro.

Notes: Put bomb in cute cat. Castro is known to pat strays three times. Use that as the trigger.

You can't prove I'm wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
Thanks--I learned some valuable vocabulary today! "Click-and-query data" was the phrase I did not have on hand.

I have never worked for a search engine company (or devoted much time to SEO), but I would suggest the click-and-query data advantage is invaluable to cementing Google's supremacy over any newcomers.
War is the natural state of mankind.

We've had peace between large countries for 75 years because there was one superpower, the US.

However:

- world population today is 4x that of 1945, so there is growing competition for resources

- China is in the process of damming and diverting the Himalayan headwaters, which will result in war with many of its neighbors, including India and Pakistan. All three of those countries are nuclear powers.

- China has built the world's largest navy in terms of number of ships, surpassing the US. Historically this has meant preparation for war. (See Japan and Germany pre-WW2.)

- European cities have had low-intensity incidents with Islam, but with more than 10% of populations being Muslim in some areas, there will be a call for Shariah (political Islam.) That means civil war. The only reason that's been delayed is the huge amount of welfare being paid to their families (regarded as jizyah by migrants), which is being used to rapidly increase their population.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/jizya

- regarding the post article, the US doesn't prepare for urban war because it doesn't want to engage in that. You end up with huge casualties and a destroyed city. I guess we'll see how that fantasy works out for the US military.
Agreed. In 2013, I was the introverted builder who hated spreadsheets and wine n' dine networking events. I met a co-founder who changed my life (for the better).
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That's a pretty appalling set of justifications. I don't know of any type systems with perfect type inference that are still useful for fully exploiting types.
Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play
That's right, the greedy approach would free a patent now to unlock a technology, but what do we do about not freezing creativity over the next decade?
I'd say if you need that much tylenol for your hangovers, the alcohol consumption is a far bigger worry than the side effects of the tylenol.
There was a shortage but it was only for very high time First Officers and Captains. The Middle East and Asia was poaching them for quite awhile with very lucrative packages.

The supply of low-time pilots is typically high, thus the need to slog it in the regionals for low pay while building time.
The ‘New’ Saudi Arabia, Where Taxes Triple and Benefits Get Cut
Strangely true in my experience. But it makes sense..
I am biased in my view. But if you have spare time you can check what was Macromedia Fireworks approach to UI design process.

I somewhat agree with preommr on this:

"Figma is an absolutely awful design tool that has great collaboration features.
For a UI/UX design tool it has terrible constraints, and basically no support for state changes. There's variances now, which came out really recently. Before that, it was even worse. People would have separate designs for each possible state.

Let alone how limited the possible actions are. It's just frames, boxes, and vector elements."
Is reflective technology really better for these? The main flaw I see in emissive technology is in situations where they are relatively dark in high ambient lighting. On the other hand, in poor lighting conditions, emissive technologies are easier for the eyes.

It seems to me that if the emissive technology is up to par and properly calibrated it shouldn't be worse.
i rocked a 286 with the Weitek? was it? FPU that was almost but not quite an 80287 and yet did some cool stuff nothing else did. That counted as worth it then, too. In the OP situation, all the more so.
> codegolfed vector graphics

IIRC the Haiku folks had a format for that[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Vector_Icon_Format
On-Premises Data Warehouses Are No Longer Working
This is a new and surprising take.
Which then brings up the painful question, with today’s mountain of recorded music and audio and AI techniques to make Joe Average sound like Heifitz, how many classical violinists do we, as a society, need?

If, in a population of 7B+, the children of top .1% in wealth can supply that, then they pay their own way. They can also more easily economically survive the ups and downs of a musician’s career.

Just doesn’t seem fair, though...reinforcing the natural elitist bent in classical music.
The telcos run the 911 system for the gov. But if the telco building is down then even if 911 was up they couldn't switch the calls through to it. But agree, sounds like a major fubar.

A lot of the fiber from the cell towers to the cell switching offices is supplied by the local telco, in this case AT&T. I wonder if the other wireless carriers are effected?
I have found Lineage OS to be a wonderful solution to this, although I understand this doesn't work easily for the masses.
I live not far from where Columbia river comes out to US from Canada, in US portion of Selkirk Mountains. This is north of Coulee Dam.

It's good that salmon can come into this area but smelter from Trail, BC has been polluting upper Columbia river for about hundred years. With chemicals and smelter sludge. Fish is not edible, sand is black from sludge.

Salmon may have reached upper Columbia river, but water in that part of the river is heavily polluted.

And south of Coulee Dam, there is storage of nuclear waste, just north of Richmond, WA - Hanford site. Nuclear waste already leaks into Columbia river, north of Tri-Cities area.

So in my opinion, human created disasters in the Columbia river, rank in this order: nuclear waste at Hanford site > smelter at Trail, BC > Dams without passage for fish.

Sorry for typos, typing from phone.
As someone who's experienced something very similar, I've built a theory around why it happens:

1. The floating from task to task is almost always avoidant behavior. The experience is usually accompanied by a "slippery" thought -- something you don't want to think about, something that makes you feel sick or causes you stress, and so your thoughts are trying to latch onto something to distract them.

2. One solution is to eliminate distractions, rest calmly in yourself, and practice mindful attention. Meditate. Engage rationally with the slippery thought. Or just observe it, practice letting it happen without interrupting it. Teach yourself: that thought is not to be feared.

3. The long-term solution is to resolve the concerns that your slippery thoughts are related to. For example, In the case of the person you replied to, they mentioned this phrase: "thoughts that center around a perceived lack of meaning in my life." In that case, there might be actual life changes that you can make to introduce a greater sense of meaning. On the other hand, if the underlying thought is "I have a presentation tomorrow," that's a case where you may want to look at reducing your performance anxiety in general. And so forth.

Of course every case is different, but when this happens to you next I'd strongly recommend looking inward to see if there are any of those slippery, "hot potato" thoughts that you're subconsciously trying to avoid. If so -- I suggest addressing that. If not -- well, maybe you've got a dopamine addiction :)
I shied away from it because it didn’t seem to handle schema migrations well, but that was v1. Do you know if things have improved in v2?
OKC bomb was in a Ryder box truck. Not a van.
To be clear, this is a tech demo; we're long past the point where running anything useful on a system with graphics and 4MB (8MB with expansion) of RAM under Linux is reasonable. You can barely get the kernel itself that small. There's a reason why even cheapo consumer routers have at least 64MB of RAM.

So it's for fun; you won't be able to run any existing "normal" Linux emulators and you'd be better off porting stuff to run on bare metal than trying to squeeze it in under Linux on an N64. Cool project, fun, great that it's getting upstreamed... just keep in mind it's not really useful for end users for anything (unlike, say, Wii Linux, where with ~80MB of RAM you can actually get somewhere, though still with many limitations).

OTOH, as other people have mentioned, it makes a good test case for N64 emulators. If they can run this, that's good validation.
Former founder checking in. Guess I'm still interested in tech, even on holidays.
The last commit to this project was over 8 years ago. Any plans on getting this thing moving along again? Was there anything learned from this project that can aid development of similar projects?
Is the heat given off by burning fossil fuels significant compared to the amount of heat trapped by the released CO2 over it's lifetime in the atmosphere?
I thought it was a warm-ish area, but, its 20F there right now!

https://darksky.net/forecast/36.1041,-86.7758/us12/en
FL is great. Team and community that care about each other and are building an incredible product.
They released a tragically short gameplay trailer [1] that revealed two fractions: England and Mongols. The r/aoe4 has quite active community and the following thread [2] summarizes all known information about the game.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFlVNtGJVDU

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/hf1da1/1st_attempt_at...
Destroying property for political reasons is still terrorism (like blowing up a parking lot of SUVs).
You're missing the necessary information to make that assumption. Though the temptation to judge others is an inherent human trait of sanctimony.

I bought a massive sack of kosher salt because it was a good deal. It's a stupid amount. Doesn't mean I overdose on salt with every meal, it's going to last me a long, long time. Might become a family heirloom.

You'd be silly to lecture me about salt intake.
Is there a C->JVM compiler out there that's any good and actively maintained? What are the major problems that come up with this approach?
Naproxen isn't a direct replacement for ibuprofen, acetaminophen or aspirin.

It much stronger and has different interactions. For example you shouldn't use when taking cipro.

I've used it and found it works really well but uses a different method for reducing pain compared to the others.
The most recent understandable implementation of this is something called Word2Vec. It is not the state of the art (it's actually suboptimal now by a lot) but there's a LOT of explanations of it you can find that are great.

A decent video covering it from a programmers perspective (where I'm coming from) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSS_bos_TPI

From a math perspective there's also good materials.

Essentially Apple + Tree != Apple + Computers allowing you to differentiate search like this.
Sending a warning before a bombing isn't that uncommon. It's less common (although not entirely unheard of) if the bombing is a terrorist attack. But if, as you suggest, that target is infrastructure, the only real reason to not give a warning is tactical. WIthout knowing who is responsible for it, it is possible they wanted to inflict whatever damage they had in mind, without causing any loss of life or human injuries.
“segmented sleep” is a 100% made up meme.

What's more interesting is people, like this article, now speak of it as true.

Even though we all sleep, we can go visit places without electricity, and a billion people still live without modern lighting.

We chose 'interesting' over logical.
Ok, I'll bite. If a dam isn't being used for hydro power, nor for flood control, what is it being used for? I'm assuming a dam that creates a reservoir for water storage is considered flood control but perhaps you are not.
In a way, Saudi Arabia and other oil producing Gulf states have had the longest running and most generous UBI scheme for decades when the state handed money to the citizens, had no taxation and created a system of sharing the Kingdom’s commons/resources. In return for a restrictive monarchy.

My two take aways:

1. It would behoove other UBI aspiring countries to study and examine the success and the cautionary tale Saudi Arabia(et al) turned out to be.
2. They have an almost unlimited(turns out it is still limited) natural resource that could be nationalized to hand dividends to the public/citizenry.(Alaska does this on a smaller scale)

Perhaps UBI shouldn’t be about redistribution of wealth money through taxation but nationalization of commons or resources to create a stream of revenue to fund UBI, negative taxation or covering the expenses of governing/running the country.

NASA is a public sector enterprise. We have national parks that can be tourist magnets and nationalization of basic foods. A promising area is automation of Ag and vat/fermentation tank ‘meat’, our intellectual property that can be converted into a valuable commodity for international trade. Etc.

From the article:

[..] For Saudis used to a one-way flow of cash – from the state treasury to their wallets – these changes must feel strange.

Since the 1970s oil boom, the kingdom has asked its citizens for little or no financial help. Saudis may not have enjoyed the right to elect their kings, but the monarchs sought legitimacy by channeling generous oil profits to provide juicy social benefits and tax-free salaries.[..]

[..] It would seem that market-based reforms are inevitable. A researcher at a Riyadh investment bank told one of us that the kingdom wants to convert most of its $350 billion in yearly social welfare spending to cash stipends under the Citizens Account program.[..]

Citizen Account Program of Saudi Arabia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_Account_Program_...
Just make a search that excludes all the domains you despise. Don't include any search terms or just a dummy one.

Then save it as a bookmark.

e.g.

"-site:foo.* -site:bar.* ..."

Use that bookmark as your search engine: click on it, then fill in search terms.
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I think Google collects clickthorughs on the search result page and thus knows how people react to its responses. It also knows when the user is quickly returning to search after checking out a link. Pinterest is probably appreciated by people, probably of a different demographic than you.
They were deliberately destroying a cargo of tea that they didn't own...
Does Nashville use Shotspotter? I wonder what the frequency range of their sensors is (I would guess a real gunshot would have pretty different spectral range from a speaker).
Defined agree that this was a heinous act.

But it seems this person or group of people took multiple measures (Christmas morning, gun shot sounds, verbal notice of intention) to make sure civilians had notice and time to get to a safe distance.

Just seems a bit odd and unprecedented that an act like this was carried out with explicit intent to minimize civilian harm and casualties.

Will be interesting to hear more about what actually happened, by whom, and their motives, if any of this ever becomes known.
How nuclear waste leaves power plant? I always was under impression the core is heavily isolated and water is just cooling or used for turbines.
I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong. Furthermore, I'm not talking about the history of hardware/software in Hollywood - your original statement was about the use of software by audio professionals. I was an "audio professional". I trained as a Sound Engineer (City & Guilds 1820 Sound Engineering, and BTEC ND Music Technology), and was there, right around the time period in question. I also worked in London's West End for years, which is the equivalent of New Yorks's Broadway.

I want to be charitable, and hope you're getting confused about the "Apple" versions - in that, you're conflating when Apple (the company) bought Emagic Logic, for when Logic (the software) was available on Apple Mac OS?! Either way, doesn't make your former statements any less incorrect.
Yeah it really depends on how the numbers match up and how much risks you are willing to take given the degree of confidence in those numbers.

By current accounts the vaccines will still work against this variant. So the last thing you want to happen is for the virus to catch the vulnerables in the last moment before they are vaccinated and essentially renders the whole vaccination program ineffective.

Of course there's the debate of this whole pandemic about the harm to economy and people's lives etc. To me the majority of the damage has already been done and can't be undone. So I'd like the measures to be taken to end this ASAP, even if they are even stricter, and to mitigate the harm as much as possible. But I highly doubt that's what's going to happen. The actual policy effects may be neither here nor there.
It's just a low effort rhetorical device where the speaker hopes to boost their signal. Much like "I don't normally say this but."
> You don’t use wood for light

Not for reading light, perhaps, but this starts with the contention that people had to go to bed when the sun set because you couldn’t see anything. Huddling around a fire into the night on the other hand is probably a human activity as old as fire itself.
How long were your games taking? From what I saw, pro games took less than half an hour because they knew how to press their advantage but amateurs would play it safe and build up a lead before their final attack. I have seen this pattern in other games too.
Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media
In the US there’s a LOT of overlap.
Probably Google would do good to give up total control and obscurity and put people in the driving seat of search customization. Maybe that would even save them from the anti-trust push (one indexing and retrieval back end + multiple ranking, filtering and UI front ends).

But I'm wondering if this would not be better implemented at browser level. Can we have the white/black list run locally in the browser, re-ranking results on web pages and hiding what we don't want to see? Not just on Google, but also on the rest of the web, like ad blocking extensions.
People say this about many beings, and even about other humans. What they all have in common is a lack of exposure to those they denigrate and reduce in their mind to dumb automatons. I don't think you are smart to say that about anyone you haven't spent much time around or bonded with in any significant way.
What nobody says about binary search is that it is very, very slow on modern hardware.

The reasons it is slow are interesting and useful to understand.

On modern equipment, to get decent performance, everything needs to pipeline, so you start an operation and get the answer out 3, 5, sometimes 12 cycles later. In the meantime, you're pushing new operations into the pipeline so that useful answers will come out the cycle after. To keep pipelines (plural; there are lots) full, we have "branch prediction": the CPU doesn't know which way an upcoming conditional branch will go, so it guesses. It has a neural network to remember how this branch went other times, that is quite clever. When it guesses right, all is good, and the pipeline stays full. When it guesses wrong, it has gone off doing lots of wrong computations that have to be thrown away, and the pipeline restarted at the correct spot.

Binary search presents the worst case for prediction. At each stage, any prediction is 50% likely to be wrong. You hardly get two steps into your pipeline before it turns out you were wrong, and have been doing the wrong thing.

There are ways to reduce the worst effects, but they make the algorithm much less pleasant to read, and even trickier to get right. One is to use clever arithmetic to arrange that the same instruction sequence runs whichever way the choice goes. Another is to split the range into more than two subranges, so the choice is made less often--log base 3 or -base 4 iterations, instead of two. Maybe you pre-fetch values you expect to look at soon: half of them will be ones you won't actually need, and you won't know which until later, but you didn't need to wait for the right one.

Once a range gets small enough, you do better searching sequentially, because CPUs are tuned to do that very fast.

Hash tables avoid all this foolishness, and (so) can be very fast.

To write good, fast code for things like binary search, intuition is entirely inadequate. You really need to pay a lot of attention to "performance counter" registers modern chips have, that can tell you about prediction failures and cache misses that slow you to a crawl. It is humbling to discover how wrong all we learned in school, about algorithm performance, is.

When you home in on a code sequence that minimizes pipeline bubbles, you have to expect that the next generation of CPU chips will have completely different details, and that what was fast is now slow.

The deep lesson is that we never know if our code is fast until we find code that is faster; what seemed fast becomes slow in an instant. All the other old faithful algorithms, like Quicksort, can be easily 2x faster or slower according to obscure details that are hard to reason about.

It makes some people decide that 2x, 4x, 100x, or 1000 times slower than necessary ought to be considered fast enough.
Aspirin. Nobody sane takes that in 2020. It thins your blood out and can cause major havoc also in healthy individuals.
Here is some background on this:

Recently, it has been revealed that Pinterest reverse-image searches Google for uploaded images and adds the Google query result to the Pinterest image page for SEO:
https://www.rankscience.com/blog/pinterest-image-seo-growth-...

This degrades quality of Google image search, for example this Reddit post on removing Pinterest got 77k upvotes:

Reddit r/LifeProTips to remove Pinterest from Google searches:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/hejbl0/lpt_whe...

Earlier Reddit petition to Google to remove Pinterest from search results (66k upvotes):
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/85atho/pinterest_ne...

Hacker News discussion of Pinterest's Google scraping:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701998

Earlier discussion on HackerNews (1.1k upvotes):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613996

"Unpinterested" Chrome extension to combat Pinterest spam (10k+ downloads):
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
Wireguard [sic]: great protocol, but skip the Mac app
That was the life plan the boomers took for granted, except the college part was largely optional. Now it's our fault that we don't live the same magical charmed lives they did.
I feel like an article on the NCBI site needs a little more work to dismiss than simply declaring it a “100% made up meme”?