skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a much deeper problem than sending a message. Teachers are systematically sexist: they give girls better test scores than boys and treat them differently. This effect is so strong it's been studied and shows up statistically:

https://mitili.mit.edu/sites/default/files/project-documents...

"I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade. This favoritism, estimated in the form of individual teacher effects, has long-term consequences: as measured by their national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading accounts for 21 percent of boys falling behind girls in math during middle school. On the other hand, girls who benefit from gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school"

It also shows up in more anecdotal stories like this one, in which a teacher banned boys from playing with Lego whilst letting girls do it:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/31/kindergarten-teache...

The problem is one of feminism. It's not that boys have somehow inexplicably got dumber over the past decades, it's that women have become radicalised and collectively concluded that it's OK to express explicit biases towards other women on the basis of gender, because progress.
Further... Beowulf was meant to be performed. In addition to the challenge of language change, there is also the challenge of crafting a performance. It's hard to get a feel for a movie just from the script. A good performance will be much more entertaining than just reading it, though it may inspire some to learn to read it as well.
A look at Rust tokio 1.0 API changes
> The origin of Afghan resistance was Soviet invasion

They also resisted the British quite well in 1842 [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_retreat_from_Kabul

[Edit] In fact I think I'm right in saying that the last person to successfully invade Afghanistan was Alexander the Great, and even he had to stop campaigning when his army mutinied rather than continue ops in the Indian subcontinent.
I hope governments, including EU, will realize that and help (commercially, diplomatically and of course militarily) Taiwan not being invaded by its greedy neighbor.
Corel Netwinder, single core Intel-made ARM, 2 ethernet ports (10 and 10/100), VGA, serial, and a 2.5" PATA disk; I think I splurged on the 64MB version and paid something like $800 for it.

My nostalgia for it is tempered by knowing that a Raspberry Pi 4B is better in basically every single way and ridiculously cheaper.
Um, Boris caved in completely and the EU got the trade deal they were hoping for. Politically, Boris may be stronger now within the Conservative Party. I don't expect that to last long.

2021 will be a year of the messy downsides of Brexit becoming ever more clear, plus the economic fallout from mismanaging Covid.

Boris will be history the moment challengers in the Cons Party judge he not they will be held accountable.
The sour grapes on HN is incredible regarding crypto. Never seen a group of tech people more hostile to a fundamental tech innovation!
That reminds me of Uncleftish Beholding: https://msburkeenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/uncleftis...
Not mentioned in the article, the ELL format is very efficient for banded matrices.
Story how a ship-eating clam helped bring about the Industrial Revolution
Link to original paper which is still a non-peer reviewed biorxiv article [0]. The crux of the paper is based on expressions of plasticity correlating with the percentage of sleep time spent in REM (fig.2). Apart from the high-level questions raised already in the comments there are several caveats in the data:

Data points are sparse i.e. the number of samples included are too few to strongly believe in correlations. Taking out extreme data points would make the correlations look independent.

The data values across 25 primate species are based on averages across previous studies and using proxies where some data was not available. I do not know how justifiable such approaches are but I am skeptical about them.

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.24.219089v1....
Cuttlefish Took Something Like a Marshmallow Test. Many Passed
Why does that bother you so much? Language changes to fit needs. Always has, always will.
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> Simon Winchester discusses how Cape Bojador [1] was impassible until 1443 (in his book Atlantic [2])

He also wrote Pacific. :)
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Try https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oN1RfHXEjg0
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How does it violate trademark law to say that “we will deliver food from restaurant X”? It seems clear to the customer who is providing the goods vs the service. What’s not clear is if there is an agreement, which is what this new law makes clear.
While I remember the point about recommendations to not wear masks early on, I do not recall any recommendations on not closing borders. Do you have a citation for this? I'm curious which institutions and departments were on that boat.
The point is the commenters here on this thread listen to too many youtube crypto channels for an accurate analysis of what bitcoin is and wants to be.
True, "The Graveyard of Empires" is an old metaphor.
I assume Apple has access to the source code of the app, so they probably are not comparing binary blobs for changes.
Aliens might want to say hi, if they exist. I don’t think the businesses with the power to standardise want to do so.
It's nice to run a common distro on such tiny resources, but things tend to pile very fast when you add packages because of long (and sometimes unneeded) dependencies chains. That's when more specialized solutions shine (like openwrt or buildroot). Kudos to the author.
documentary

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11015214/
Would be good to name them publicly and/or perhaps have some investigative journalists of your choice poke them a bit.

Doing nothing and just giving up doesn't make corruption go away.
What I am saying is that mobile networks don't share any of this data with telcos. To do so would require overhauling the landline networks to support this. No such technical capabilities exist today. The business decision you are suggesting could not be implemented even if they wanted to. Mobile networks are another implementation of SS7 and the only thing common between them and landline networks is the routing. I am not deciding anything and I am just basing my opinions on my long past experience.
I love this kind of projects!

We are still missing a Vista.css: the most beautiful Windows ever made.
Episodes 6 and 7 are about ship hulls and steam engines.
EU funds for improving infrastructure is the only money that actually is not mostly money down the drain. Unfortunately programmes that don’t have such concrete outcomes (like this one) are entirely different.
It means there will be one single dominant Linux Desktop Environment.
> Information control is no different from border control.

Well, no, it's quite different.

A border can be controlled, information cannot. East Germany could stop people crossing the border to West Germany (at least, those who weren't willing to take the risk of being shot at). They couldn't stop West German radio stations being broadcast back across the border.

Information control isn't anything like border control, because information is permeable to your physical border. You can shoot-to-kill people crossing your borders, but good luck doing that with electromagnetic radiation.

At best you can jam it or attempt to control the flow domestically (by, for example, banning radios), but in both cases it's easily circumvented.
Can you link to some of your "hard won experience" comments? Now I'm curious about them.
Being in LA I've been forced to be a temp since 1998, no security and low pay and massive bullying here.
Or maybe if money is no object spin up a bunch of VMs in the cloud to compile.
What are some examples of great marketing?
Let There Be Light, and Art, in the Moynihan (Penn Station) Train Hall
It's sobering, to put it mildly.

It has been hilarious and scary to read comments from people
who don't work at the company say completely inaccurate things
like they are facts.

In the early days of the Internet, there was this widespread naivete that the truth would win. People generally wanted the truth, right? And this "global information superhighway" would act as sort of a de facto peer review. We wouldn't always get things right, but overall it would surely be a win for "the truth" or at least, for reasoned opinions.

Or so we thought. How naive we were.
Borrowed plural forms are most likely to happen with French, Latin, and Greek loans, and also those from languages that don't change words to make them plural, e.g. Japanese and Maori.

Sometimes it happens with other languages, like the use of Hebrew plural rules for cherub/cherubim, but there's the best approximation.
A lot of people are just chasing that notification-high. Like the top youtube commenter mentioned in the OP.

It's scary how addicitive it can be to receive little notifications of confirmation that you exist.
> I assume Apple has access to the source code of the app

No, Apple doesn't get our source code. Why would you assume that?
The problem is how to allow the former while preventing the latter, in a way that is reasonable for small businesses.
Technology is a tool, with a hammer you can smash people's heads or build houses. You never know what ideas can emerge, what creative energy can be formed in the context of blockchain.
What comes to my mind is to find a more sustainable and ethical business model than advertisement.
That's ~$.66/g. A car at that price would be around $1M.
That makes sense, if you've got a laptop and you never reboot it then you're creating an impossible situation for the updater. I still don't understand the constant whinging in that case, though. Of course it's going to update while you're using it if, from its perspective, you are always using it.
Python given it's eco-system of packages is quick to write functioning code in. It's dynamic nature allows for quick prototyping and re-factoring without requiring massive pre-planning and cognitive overhead.
And when the massive corporation that rose to dominance by ignoring local laws also ignores your DIY cease & desist letter, you're out $300. Heck, they'd ignore it if a lawyer wrote it too. Filing a lawsuit would be required, which they'd also ignore and delay as much as possible, far more than the local pizzeria can afford, until there was a class action.
Reporting corruption only works if there's someone to report it to who has both the power and the political will to actually do something about it. That simply does not exist within the EU as an institution. I don't think it's possible to easily explain exactly what's wrong with the EU's accountability and anti-corruption structures; endless column inches have been spent on the problems, mostly in somewhat niche publications and read mainly by people deeply interested in EU politics. (Which may also be part of the problem. Even before Brexit, few cared, and the political polarization around Brexit has pushed the idea that the EU has structural problems outside the realm of mainstream discourse. Take a look at the comments in this HN discussion for example!)
I had an old roommate try to sue in-n-out after getting severe food poisoning. It actually went to court - the in-n-out attorney completely destroyed him, he was outgunned. They showed receipts for thousands of people who ate there that day and that there weren't any other cases reported.

Reporting food poisoning if it ever happens to you (even if minor) could be the difference between someone else being believed of being shut down.
Frankly I do not consider nurses to be experts on anything besides nursing (patient care). Whereas the experts on vaccines are toxicologists and pharmacologists, who do not appear to be the ones rejecting the vaccines. Physicians aren't even experts in these areas, as the information they use in deciding treatment is provided by expert researchers in the field.
Rust is "left-pad" all the way down.
The question is who would they sue. I mean, the process seems to've been roughly

- Apple decided not to support Flash on mobile

- Everybody else decided to try and deprecate Flash as a browser plugin

- Adobe EOLed Flash

- Facebook EOLed support for Flash games

- Zynga EOLed FarmVille

"Whose fault this actually is" seems tricky enough to determine morally, let alone legally.
Perhaps a better example would be America's operation TPAJAX, that removed Iran's democracy and delivered its modern day Islamic theocracy. America certainly did not invent Islamic fundamentalism, but it had no issue using it to further its own cause.
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They don't: you submit a compiled binary for review
digitizing agriculture
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Zeiss does a lot of work for microchip industry.(lithography)
It does seem messed up that we see a bad behavior, create a law to ban that behavior, and the law's biggest beneficiary is the company doing the bad behavior.
To me the most peculiar aspect of dreams is how vivid the universe you're in is. It feels as emotionally impactful as the best moments of your life. Super weird
One dream project I have is to build a CM-5 like machine from hundreds of cheap units like this. Unfortunately this one seems to lack fast I/O. Could probably do something with the I2C connections but they would be very slow.

(Before anyone jumps in with "why don't you use a desktop machine, it'll be faster", this is for fun, not a practical project.)
Default Social Media Settings for Mindfulness
On the other hand, without the printing press your reach as a novel autor was severely limited - to the point there were no novel authors basically.
Having worked in a school district, I feel like this is true. The number of administrators, many of whom didn't seem to do anything, was staggering.
Reminds me of me of the Green Kayle skin I bought in League of Legends almost a decade ago. Pricks changed the base design of the model and did so for the paid skin as well.
Why enforce existing law, we can you use this opportunity to create ever more complex laws to ensure stake holders that already abused to the condition the law is purporting to address can maintain their advantage and ensure no new entrants to the market

That is all this does, it protect GrubHub, DoorDash and other large players from competition
LOL at the deliberate push for btc bullshit surrounded by common-sense and very popular points.
One example would be other kernel modules that require it as a dependency. So if you disable loading the ipv6 module, you can no longer load any module that references it, even if you would not have been using ipv6 in that module. The first one that pops into mind is the sctp kernel module. This also used to prevent loading the bonding module but I am not sure if that is still the case. You might try testing that.

Newer kernels have the ipv6 code built into the kernel, so the kernel boot option to disable ipv6 won't do anything regardless. The supported way to disable it is sysctl and the networking scripts.
I’m not saying B+ tree is the best structure for them. Just another one to consider. Which one is the best depends on use case.

I used these trees in the code that builds large sparse matrices from something else. The domain was CAM/CAE, it was finite elements. As a nice side effect, with one tree per row I was able to parallelize the construction of that matrix, as different CPU cores can update different rows of the matrix in parallel.
Automated tools will probably check private api usage and maybe some basic technical stuff, but they won't be able to catch a feature change.

And even if you were right, changing some text or url would pass your test as only a few characters change, but that could make a big difference regarding the feature.
I think JIRA is just too complex. Same goes for Confluence...
Fred Hampton and Martin Luther King would probably disagree with this statement.
Exactly. If I'm in California and I want to challenge the incumbents with my cool new idea about how to do delivery better, now I can't. There's no way to effectively scale a sales team in the beginning to reach out to all these restaurants. And as you said, all the successful incumbent players already used this strategy to become big, now this won't materially affect them. They already have sales agreements in place with all the biggest sellers on their platforms.
To play devil’s advocate: addiction fills a void in an unfulfilling life. Arguably computer games are better than drugs and the root cause of the sad life is not the addictive substance.

All that said, I shed no tears for any comeuppance that gets delivered to those who willfully profit off of the misfortune of others.
I agree with you, it's overwritten. Would be interesting for a Wikipedia editor to explain how this tourist-history style differs from the accepted Wikipedia style.
How I made $43K in 2020 with my Flutter courses: Udemy and YouTube income report
I might be spilling some secret sauce here but...

Control theory is mostly based on physical devices and analog variables, so it does not often fit with software systems.

However you are right nonetheless. Large networks contain a lot of caching of different kinds and other forms of data replication.

Caches warm up by transferring data and the available bandwidth to do so is never infinite. Especially when flipping traffic between whole datacenters.

Most load balancing systems are simply unaware of this.
My grandfather was manager of the spinning mill in a one-industry town called Asbestos, Quebec (guess what that industry was). I have a picture of him modelling a tailored asbestos-fibre suit standing in front of the spinning mules, white dust coating everything. Makes you skin crawl, but when he died it was more likely due to exposure to carcinogens during his time on the front in the Great War.

We had knit asbestos gloves at our house when I was young, and chunks of chrysotile you could just peel for hours as a distraction. It had many wonderful uses.
The problem here is not the addiction to the game itself, but rather to the fact that sometimes they become a gambling addiction issue, with all the issues it brings. It ends up being a money pit for some people, with the worst offenders spending thousands of dollars a month on pay-to-play mobile games.

Gambling addiction is also something that's normally hidden from the partner, and mobile games are great at allowing that, so there's also this difference. The partner won't see the issue until it's too late.
Morphogenesis is an interesting area of study, this is a beautiful example
This is what Class Actions, and Business organizations are suppose to be for

Also nothing is stopping the AG of the state from forming a Fraud case agaist the major players.

The excuse of "well the courts cost too much money" is not abated by creating even more complex laws that will still require an expensive lawyer to enforce

in reality this law is designed to protect those companies that already made billions on abusing trademark laws by making it seem like what they did was legal, a "loophole" in the law that is now "closed" for new competitors
Note that while this applies to the UK [edit: not US, thanks boomboomsubban] (and some other life+70 countries), the copyright on his work has already expired in some countries.

In Canada, the copyright term is life + 50 rather than life + 70, the minimum under the Berne Convention. In Australia, only authors who died after 1955 (Orwell died in 1950) get life + 70; authors such as Orwell are "grandfathered in" to life + 50.

IIRC (although I can't find a source now), this confusing patchwork of copyright was the root cause behind the infamous deletion of some copies of 1984 from Kindles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
IDK, this seems more like a mixed-bag to me on account of being opt-in instead of opt-out. Absolutely I agree that businesses should be able to easily opt out of being listed on a given delivery platform if/when it causes problems for them.

But on the flip side, I've observed a lot of restaurant owners not having the time, energy, or know-how to set up even basic online things that could really boost their business.

I would expect that many restaurants really benefited from Doordash adding their menu to their website without their knowledge (even if some have, in net, suffered).

Going straight to opt-in seems like it could hurt some businesses.

Not to mention, of course, any new entrants! This law will make it much harder to compete with "the next Doordash".
You could always

emacs --eval '(dired ".")'

to immediately start emacs-dired in this directory :-)
Quote where I’m wrong or don't start it. Just saying “a TON of things” without a single example is ridiculous.
And of course the market. The supply contract for the ISS gave SpaceX the necessary money to grow, without public money no ISS, and as a consequence, no supply contract.
FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM
> Lost about 800 a few weeks ago from Safari crash again

Sounds like someone taking a corner at 200 mph and rolling their eyes when they hit the crash barrier. Not often is the following true, but - you're using that tool wrong.
> The problem is not how much tax we collect. It's how the money is spent.

Thank you. I clearly didn't know enough about the problem space.

For others like me:

> MAY 11, 2020 —The amount spent per pupil for public elementary and secondary education (pre-K through 12th grade) for all 50 states and the District of Columbia increased by 3.4% to $12,612 per pupil during the 2018 fiscal year, compared to $12,201 per pupil in 2017, according to new tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

> The increase in spending was due in part to an overall increase in revenue. In 2018, public elementary and secondary schools received $720.9 billion from all revenue sources, up 3.8% from $694.3 billion in 2017.

> New York ($24,040), the District of Columbia ($22,759), Connecticut ($20,635), New Jersey ($20,021) and Vermont ($19,340) spent the most per pupil in FY 2018.

> Public school systems in Alaska (15.8%), Mississippi (13.8%), South Dakota (13.6%), New Mexico (13.4%) and Arizona (13.2%) received the highest percentage of their revenue from the federal government while public school systems in Massachusetts (3.9%), New Jersey (4.0%), Connecticut (4.2%), New York (4.3%) and Minnesota (5.1%) received the lowest.

> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/school-s...

I've always been skeptical of New York (City?) policy requiring advanced degrees and certification for public school teachers as well as how involved New York Police Department is with the whole business.

How much of the USD 24,040 figure of New York goes to New York Police Department?

and then there are the football stadiums: how is this legal?

> Eagle Stadium is a football stadium in Allen, Texas. It is owned and operated by the Allen Independent School District and is home of the Allen High School Eagles.

> Construction cost $ 60 million

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Stadium_(Allen,_Texas)

How does this money break down? Would it be better to have a permanent school from home instead? I know I for one would not miss middle school. But yeah, the goal has to be clear: what do we want to achieve? If it is simply a place to park children, we can do that for a lot cheaper. If we actually want to educate, we need to spend better.
HN is so strangely anti tech and anti startup at this point. I'm not sure exactly who's on the platform at this point. Unemployed OSS devs bitter that everyone else in the valley is making more money than them?
How do you know it will not sustain itself further down the road.