skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Concluding that something was for ritual purposes always gets an eye roll from me. Some kids pet rock from 11k years ago? Definitely an idol. A snazzy knife? Used in religious rites. What the serious fuck is up with the obsession of attributing religious significance to everything belonging to an ancient?

Growing up I was taken aback that archeologists got to write the history on top of specializing in identifying and excavating sites. Just dig the shit up, record the facts and let everyone think for themselves.
It's so hard to believe this is a real joke I'm half wondering if they did it to cover up a hack or something.
I find those corporate April fools jokes unnecessary. It just hurts other businesses when communicating unpleasent news. Imagine getting an email that you got fired, and next day you appear at work thinking it was an April fools joke. Or that there was a security breach and you start mitigating it, only to find out that you wasted your time because of your manager being a joker.
do you think 100% of them get caught?
>> In 1969 in Leary v. United States, part of the Act was ruled to be unconstitutional as a violation of the Fifth Amendment, since a person seeking the tax stamp would have to incriminate him/herself

>Some states still have drug tax stamp laws enacted today.

I was reading about this last night, not knowing about Leary vs. United States. The modern state tax stamp laws seem to get around the court's ruling/interpretation by allowing for the anonymous purchase of the stamps. Before the ruling and the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act required dealers to register and implied their own self-incrimination.
It's not even an urban thing. I used to live in Woodinville, across the lake from Seattle, which for the uninitiated is one of those vast suburban sprawls with a Starbucks and a Mongolian Grill in the middle. Someone broke into my car and stole my wife's purse, and we tried contacting the police for hours to file a report. Their office was closed in the middle of the day, the person who answered their phone wouldn't connect us to anyone, and we finally ended up following a cop car to a sandwich shop and flagging the driver down when he got out.

Someone did eventually take it seriously when the thief stole thousands of dollars from a series of banks with my wife's checkbook. I guess cash is king.
Is there any need for the POTUS to travel about at supersonic speed?
I have had a lot of exposed colleagues and friends. (~100 total) It’s a bell curve ranging from nothing to death.

The hard part is unless you have diabetes or similar, it seems random to me. And I don’t see good accounting of long term symptoms.

The political bullshit is such that we won’t really know what’s up for a few years.
If any companies are looking for a more budget option, I offer my services for only half of what 0xTJ demands.
It must take you hours to read a paragraph, then.
this is one of the stupidest pranks I've ever seen.
I've been seeing this too all over the place. Why do we have to continue break out in this tribal behavior with our identities tied to what language we use. It matters less what language you use than what kind of algorithms and data structures you know, not to mention problem solving skills. And those things can translate to any language.
GPU on the web is unfortunately kind of fragmented at the moment. WebGL 1 has pretty broad support but has some technical limitations; WebGL 2 (which this uses) is supported in most things but not (stable) Safari or iOS-based browsers[1]. WebGPU is apparently around the corner but it will likely be years before it has broad support.

(I see reports here of it also not working on Firefox, which must be another reason, as FF does support WebGL2 and WebAssembly.)

[1] https://caniuse.com/webgl2
It’s an interesting question. One nice thing about transactions is they have a market clearing price attached. This keeps valuation grounded in reality.

Another “nice” thing is that it keeps the tax burden on the suckers who actually exchange goods and services, and away from the owners of capital. It is pretty sweet for Bill Gates types that tax policy thinks his senior engineers are “the rich” and pretty much ignores him.
Here's my usual rant about ML not doing it because we don't give it the right data. You can't learn causation from a table of floats. You can learn causation from a sufficiently annotated table of floats.

If I tell you that here's a column of people's weights and a column of their diets, no model can learn the causal connection between the two. If I tell you that here's a column of peoples weights and here's a column of their diets which were randomly assigned under intervention, then suddenly a model can do it.

All causal inference with observational data requires assumptions about conditional independence structure. It's so crucial that we always explain it all in prose in any writeup of any given causal investigation. We put none of that in tables themselves, despite it being entirely crucial. If we started making postgres tables that stopped looking like "height: float, weight: float" and started looking like "height: float, weight: do(float)" (as in pearl's do(...)) then we could start to automate causal inference much much more easily.

Not to say the types would be nearly so simple. You'd need a full DAG for your database, and even then, it's not that simple: our AB testing platform (v3.1) intervened here according to this 1k line python script (git commit 191284794) that took in these columns and employed a model trained on this other entire table as of date X, before we migrated the db. Also this one column's meaning changed in november when we removed a button from the home page.

But without some structured encoding of the structure that an analyst is going to need (structure they're absolutely going to be encoding in natural language in their writeup), we're trying to do it with one arm tied behind our backs.
> but I don't see ImmutableList, etc. Why

.NET doesn't have an ImmutableList either (the ImmutableBag type is an unordered collection). This is because unlike with hash-tables you always need to lock the entire structure when mutating a List/Vector (with hashtables you only need to lock the specific bin/bucket).
Oops. I did know that, but my fingers did not. Thanks, I edited the original.
As a joke in college, I came up with the idea of a language that used fuzzy-matching to find the variable/function name with the closest match to the identifier used if an exact match wasn't found. This has the "fun" property where as long as a single variable is in scope, there are no undefined variable errors :)
I would pay $$$ to have a glimpse in the Zoom meeting that decided this April Fools.
Three reasons:

1. Because it's more important to know what words mean than it is to know how they sound.

My daughter reads a ton and learns a lot of words from reading. Fairly often, she mispronounces them, and that's OK. What's more valuable is that she can often infer the correct meaning of the word both from the surrounding context and from the parts that the word is made of. If we normalize spelling to match pronunciation, much of the latter gets lost.

It's easier to see that "mean" and "meant" are related than "meen" and "ment". "History" and "story" versus "histery" and "story".

2. Because pronunciation changes over time. If we continuously change spelling to match, it means older printed works get harder to read. In the worst case, they can appear to be saying different words than they intended.

3. Because pronunciation isn't uniform across regions.

Should "lawyer" be spelled "loyer" or "lawyer"? Is "crayon" spelled "crayon", "crayawn", "cran", or "crown"? Is it "caramel" or "carmel"?
I guess it could fit in 5.25"?
Yeah, but if people don't like it, what are they gonna do? Complain? That'll just draw the attention of the nuclear-powered space lasers :)
No. Make the argument in court. The law really should be struck down if you can't have a copy of it. The court could hold that the law is unenforceable until the copyright expires.
I recommend Sciter.JS as a lightweight alternative to Electron. It's less than 10mb.

If you visit the repo here: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk

There's a database demo in samples/sqlite.
How could this possibly be helpful for victims of domestic violence? I mean obviously that's not the real reason, but I don't even understand what the "reason" is.
While non-hydroelectric renewables have gone up, fossil fuel usage remains largely flat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...

Germany's CO2 intensity of electricity isn't actually very good. It's worse than the UK, and 7 times more than France.
We don't know anything of humans from that time period. All the settlements are under water. Sea levels rose 400ft over just the last 20k years alone.
For a start, 2 thirds of the Earth’s surface are oceans. Then, fields and other agricultural land is about 40% of the land surface area. And we are supposed to grow forests as carbon sinks. Then, you have mountains ranges, which might or might not be good places to put solar panels depending on a whole bunch of factors. Similarly, some deserts can be used to put solar panels, at the cost of long-range transport for the produced electricity, but a lot of them aren’t nice places for this type of installations (either very cold or with wide temperature fluctuations, harsh environment).

That’s a lot of places where we can’t. And we need to be careful where we can put them. We are causing a mass extinction event just because of how we destroy ecosystems and degrade our environment, and crop fields of pastures are much less disruptive than covering massive areas with panels.

I am not saying we don’t or should not use solar panels where it makes sense, just that using the total energy received by the Earth as a measure is not really relevant, because the land we can allocate to that will always be insignificant compared to the surface of the Earth. If you factor land use, it is clear that solar panels by themselves cannot be all of the answer.
PDF has had a zillion vulnerabilities over the years. And Apple doesn’t guarantee in Safari that Preview.app is the default handler, so that expands the scope of potential vulnerabilities to Acrobat, which is notorious for its history of vulnerabilities.
5000 people in a fake festival ( april fool's joke) and a lot not wearing masks.

That's a bad precedent to "let go" during covid-19 after similar real gatherings, events still need approval. It's still the law here, no matter what you think of it.
More like David Brent in this case
Japan, in general, does not like to highlight individuals; instead, focusing on the team.

My boss wrote a book about color management, featuring the devices we made, and they made him remove his name. He did 100% of the work.
Giant solar arrays coupled with space elevators (anyone watch Gundam 00?), please make it true, I'll pay my 3.50 for it.

Funny how I find this on the front page when I made a similar comment a few minutes ago.
That might be difficult with languages that are practically dead, like latin: if you are self studying there is no opportunity to speak it or hear it used in conversation, there are no movies, no radio, no tv in it, etc..
That's not what's called a thinking error, it's a personal opinion. Just like yours
Removing the public schema and not allowing users to connect to all databases by default is also a good idea.
> Even the metric "amount of radioactive material that ended up in the atmosphere per watt of energy."

My old man worked at TMI. We moved to a new house and one day he set off the radiation monitors going into work. Turns out we had a radon problem. This part of PA isn't exactly coal country, but close enough.

My bro was an auxiliary operator at TMI until a few months ago... shut down.
This was close to the way my high school chose to deal with process gaps. Luckily, the two IT guys were more than happy to help me out - I could get off scot-free if I just showed them how I'd done it.

They blocked executables on floppies, but if you copied something to a floppy as a .txt file to My Documents and renamed it, it was runnable.

They then blocked executables in My Documents, but if you put in a batch file, that'd still run.

They then blocked batch files, but if you created a shortcut to "cmd.exe" and ran that off a floppy, you got a shell prompt, from which you could run whatever you want.

They then blocked executing "cmd.exe", but the initial response didn't also include "command.com"...

_Unfortunately_, at that time, I'd already discussed the "cmd.exe" loophole with them, and the "command.com" loophole was basically the same thing that I'd already been told not to do... so I got detention for this one, and promptly stopped.
Yeah, I didn't know the specifics of this sim, I just wanted to clarify the advantages of WebGL for even 2D stuff.

The OffscreenCanvas thing sounds awesome! I still think it might be slower because you can't utilize shaders... but I'm sure we'll get there.
At least Googlers can dissent and protest. Not one big company comes close to the amount of times Googlers can and have affected change. No company is perfect. Look inside yours before always finding flaws in one.
Your use of that graph is misleading. It's not a graph of CO2 emissions.
> Any economic policy that changes prices can be seen as inflationary if you pick the right index. The CPI is not what matters. What matters (to workers) is the ratio of the CPI to wages.

Since UBI isn’t likely to drive wages up (and, if as often proposed it replaces or offsets minimum wage, it may drive them down at the low end), I don’t see any real difference there, even if it was correct (I agree that what matters to workers qua workers is real [that is, CPI-adjusted] wages, and to consumers qua consumers real income; but that doesn’t alter the definition of inflation, just notes the inflation per se is not the concern for those groups in those roles.)

UBI is likely to lead to inflation, is unlikely to lead to general real wage increases (though that’s complicated), but will lead to real income increases in the low end of the distribution unless cranked too high high too fast (and there are negative feedback controls that should avoid that problem unless deliberately subverted, say by indexing UBI to inflation.)
You are not the only person. I would be super happy if we just stopped this thing once and for all. It was kind of funny 20 years ago. It's not anymore.
Corporate takeover of April Fools' Day is such a stupid fucking aspect of modern society.

Pranks are at their best when they punch up, subversively point out the irrationality of existing power structures, or when they have no larger agenda or point. When they give you a moment to remember how absurd everything really is when you think about it.

Treating 4/1 as an excuse for PR departments to find a clever way to push their message just makes me sad.
TL;DR: Stab it in the surface tension.
We serve at the pleasure of the president.
What do you do if you're a high profile criminal with state-level enemies and can't file tax returns under your real name and address? Can you ask IRS to send you a tax return via a mediator accounting firm (an outlaw entity with headquarters on ships in international waters)?
> Are C# promises/whatever cancellable?

Yes, but it's opt-in (it requires the author of the async method to add a `CancellationToken` parameter and to respect `IsCancellationRequested`).
Wouldn't need an energy beam if it could be routed through cables on a space elevator, which is another thing proposed by many people to make space exploration easier.
In a similar vein is "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirem...)
There has to be another way of showing an appliance is receiving power which is both visible at night and in broad daylight. The super-bright LED is overkill in anything but the brightest lighting scenario, and makes any room immediately ugly and unpleasant after 6pm.
Archaeologists are very good at dating finds based on a range of different testing methods. In this case they used strata and an examination of the crystal's surface...at the very least.
Hey cool, glad I could help...though I'm not sure how. (:
A paper by Oxford academics influenced AWS bias and explainability software
I'm pretty sure this is how many of those scam refund emails start...
50% of german electric energy production is from high availability sources (nuclear+fossil fuels) and Germany's network is connected to the continental network, so of course the network is stable. It will be hard to get these sources down and maintain that stability. Maybe it can be done with energy storage, but so far it is not built.
All R source code can be represented as built-in R data structures, and you can capture unevaluated expressions in arbitrary places at runtime.
I'd love for languages to be win/win scenarios, but it does seem they are a bit of a zero sum game. The team you're on will need to pick a language, if it's not the language you prefer you lose, so it's natural to want to influence others.

If you prefer Go, and are on a Java team, you'll want to convince others that Go is far superior, and vice versa.
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I'm not familiar with this concept. What you will do with a simple HTTP server? IOT applications?
> it is the ... duty of the country - i.e. the people

No, there is no such duty. If we look at the Soviet dissidents, plenty of them neither wanted to support the Soviet regime nor challenge it, so instead they retreated into their own private world, and that was a totally legitimate choice.

Also, you suggest that the people naturally want a free country ruled by the people. Yet support among Americans for the 18th-century Lockean ideals that informed the Founding Fathers (radically free speech, division of powers, decisionmaking by the popular will instead of some recognized experts, etc.) seems to be falling on both sides of the political spectrum. In many countries, those ideals were never there in the first place.
I believe so, I'm not sure.

Customers, in general, don't abuse such right, and I've never come across cases of extremely evident mistakes like these.

However, in case a customer demanded such "premium", I believe you would have to take the matter to court showing that your mistake wasn't in bad faith.

Edit: but in general, yes, companies have to be really cautious. Such law applies to enterprise customers as well. I worked for a small telecom provider which hired services from a bigger one. They started a whole new department responsible for detecting unduly charges and, within some months, the department was not only recovering money, but also generating revenue.
I recall someone in /r/java saying that I should stick with Java for the new project because project loom is just around the corner. The system has been in production for 3 or 4 years by now.
I'd prefer it to fail rather than overload the `+` operator for unrelated types. VB gets few things right, but of the things it does get right: using the `&` operator for string concatenation makes far more sense than overloading `+`.
Haha, I guess I'm a minority. Other commenters thought it was "morally reprehensible", "fraud", and are "livid". I'll try to do a better job of seeing how evil those around me really are.
Fantastic, thank you for the response (I also found out where Luke was headed and it seems like a much more positive development overall)! Looking forward to the announcement with additional detail.
But after 1988, everyone knew.
This is a joke right?

Why in the world would anyone consider putting solar panels in space when there are still terrestrial rooftops without them?

> “The UK is growing its status as a global player in space...

Post-Brexit UK can't even launch a satellite.
Was there a failed response? Yup.

But were people ready to incarcerate people in quarantine centers for not complying? Because that's what it was going to take.

And while I will blame one particular political party of seditionists quite loudly for a huge part of the failure, I also remember the videos of the police calmly walking down the street breaking up a "birthday party" (har har) of a couple dozen people while being called all manner of racist slurs.

Stupid is sadly universal.
> we learn these inferences by acting on the world and observing the results, and arguably they are simply not learnable by pure observation alone.

Also crucially, we learn these inferences by acting on the world and knowing something about why we acted. "I was playing with it" is a conditional independence statement that we use all the time while learning how things work, we just usually don't use the mathy language to describe it. We're running randomized controlled trials constantly, but implicitly.

Coincidentally, it's a common anecdote that people who seem to learn things quickly and deeply have this curiosity and will play with a thing/twiddle the knobs while they're learning how it works. When you're playing a video game and someone says "hang on, let me figure out the controls for a sec" they're changing the conditional independence structure of their observations and running an RCT.