skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW the one opportunity he got to execute on his ideas on a city scale (Chandigarh), it turned out fine.

> Le Corbusier dreamed of "cleaning and purging cities of disorder" with "calm and powerful architecture." (his words) His plan for Paris was never realized

I can't help but point out that today's Paris is very much the product of a 19th C. rationalisation with broadly similar motivations and goals (including a desire for abundant parkland)
Well, I have some bad news. It’s looking like they’re going to ape Game of Thrones, nudity and all.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/lor...
Characters That Could Bring Down Your Rails App
Not so hypothetical.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/politics/vaccine-cyber...

That's from December. Still going on.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccin...
I'm reminded of Joe Hellerstein's (and Oz Nova's summation of it, You Are Not Google [1] [2]) about even actual Big Data people getting their scale wrong and thinking they're Google:

The thing is there’s like 5 companies in the world that run jobs that big. For everybody else… you’re doing all this I/O for fault tolerance that you didn’t really need. People got kinda Google mania in the 2000s: “we’ll do everything the way Google does because we also run the world’s largest internet data service” [tilts head sideways and waits for laughter].

[1] https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092
In my city, my wife and I got phone notifications telling us to sign up. I've had my second one for 2.5 months, but my wife signed up immediately (SAHM, 27yo, no risk factors), and was able to get a next day appointment. The operation was big enough that the queue involved continuous walking. Apparently the whole thing was being done by military.
Peter Jackson got in ONLY at the last moment as Guillermo del Toro bailed out. He simply didn't have the time he had when he did the original trilogy. Preproduction alone took years for that.
RIGHT? Too soon, y'all. Too soon.
If anyone has ever read the Malazan Book of the Fallen books, adapting that into a series would be incredible, though it would be a serious undertaking. My dream adaptation would be an animated version in the style of the Castlevania and DOTA shows on Netflix--I don't think live-action with CGI could do it justice.
Totaly off topic but this made my day: "Elastic lad balancing"
I was going to wait until I could just schedule an appointment at the drugstore in my neighborhood. Right now, they are still doing vaccines en masse at far away spots that would require significant commuting, and anyways, they just opened up eligibility a couple of days ago in my state.
America is definitely different from most countries I would not say exceptional though. They still have no healthcare for people who aren't rich, daily mass shootings, and the politicians are just plain corrupt (and retarded).

It is awesome if you are rich, which I am now, but man it sucked when I was poor.
Really nice! When I was in college we had all sorts of online systems that automatically graded assignments based on how close to the correct answer your supplied answer was. I think it'd be nice if in the future there was more of an overlap between science classes and programming classes (almost like a freshman / junior level scientific computation class) where instead of approaching problems from a pure theoretical perspective, we involved these types of computational approaches in parallel. Personally I have found that while I often know how to perform various theoretical computations, it's faster for me to just throw together a quick script to approximate the result (e.g. what's the expected value of the product of two gaussians?)
Here's an example:

"The following comparison will illustrate my meaning. During the campaigns of the Revolution the French introduced a new system of tactics into the art of war, which perplexed the oldest generals, and very nearly destroyed the most ancient monarchies in Europe. They undertook (what had never before been attempted) to make shift without a number of things which had always been held to be indispensable in warfare; they required novel exertions on the part of their troops which no civilized nations had ever thought of; they achieved great actions in an incredibly short space of time; and they risked human life without hesitation to obtain the object in view. The French had less money and fewer men than their enemies; their resources were infinitely inferior; nevertheless they were constantly victorious, until their adversaries chose to imitate their example.

"The Americans have introduced a similar system into their commercial speculations; and they do for cheapness what the French did for conquest. The European sailor navigates with prudence; he only sets sail when the weather is favorable; if an unforseen accident befalls him, he puts into port; at night he furls a portion of his canvas; and when the whitening billows intimate the vicinity of land, he checks his way, and takes an observation of the sun. But the American neglects these precautions and braves these dangers. He weighs anchor in the midst of tempestuous gales; by night and by day he spreads his sheets to the wind; he repairs as he goes along such damage as his vessel may have sustained from the storm; and when he at last approaches the term of his voyage, he darts onward to the shore as if he already descried a port. The Americans are often shipwrecked, but no trader crosses the seas so rapidly. And as they perform the same distance in a shorter time, they can perform it at a cheaper rate.

"The European touches several times at different ports in the course of a long voyage; he loses a good deal of precious time in making the harbor, or in waiting for a favorable wind to leave it; and he pays daily dues to be allowed to remain there. The American starts from Boston to go to purchase tea in China; he arrives at Canton, stays there a few days, and then returns. In less than two years he has sailed as far as the entire circumference of the globe, and he has seen land but once. It is true that during a voyage of eight or ten months he has drunk brackish water and lived upon salt meat; that he has been in a continual contest with the sea, with disease, and with a tedious existence; but upon his return he can sell a pound of his tea for a half-penny less than the English merchant, and his purpose is accomplished."

--Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America"

http://resources.utulsa.edu/law/classes/rice/Jurisprudence/E...
I've read that Tolkien shunned allegory, but the books and movies do have strong undercurrents in my opinion at least in their overall plots though they're far less overt than your average CS Lewis work of fiction.
There's at least three ways you could ask the question.

There's ontologically, in the manner of pedants, where you're really asking "in this defined ontology of financial phenomena, schemes and frauds, where does Bitcoin fit in?"

There's descriptively, where you are asking if it is useful to model or think of Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme, regardless of whether it is a fully accurate categorization.

And there's rhetorically, where you are really just using "Ponzi scheme" as a concise way to tell people, "Don't invest in it, people are trying to take advantage of you."
Sorry but of course Optional can be null because of Java’s type system. Objects can be null, Optionals are objects. I’d rather it have been different from the beginning but now that it’s here it’s really not something that should change. Just never let anyone get away with returning a null for an optional... though I can imagine the scenario where in. A framework that might cause it to happen. To have special rules for Optional in Java is the wrong answer for a blue collar language at this level of adoption and age. They said they never want to make a change as big as generics again.
What is your point exactly? Yes, the same house is no longer affordable, but “housing” is affordable because you can now buy an apartment at a reasonable price.

The areas where housing is no longer affordable are the areas where you can’t buy any housing with the median income, not where the fanciest housing is inaccessible to the median income.

What form that housing takes (detached house, apartment in a duplex, then 4-pled, then larger apt building) will change over time as density increases.
This is an extremely entitled viewpoint. I'm not sure which "Apple" you are talking about, but as far as my experience has been for the last 20 years of Apple computers, Apple is the king of forcing consumers to compromise.

Do you want 256G ssd size or do you want the upgraded processor or memory size? Do you want 2 usb-c ports or 4 usb-c ports? do you want touchbar or no touchbar?

Apple has market segmentation and compromise down to a science. Apple computers have been forcing people into a compromise for their entire history. Want more features? Give more money. need that money for rent? ok buy the 256G version instead that you can't upgrade because everything is soldered in.... you have more money? pay for 512G version.

And in the dock's case - that's always been the case where apple will happily charge you more money to get certain accessories to work properly. (want this accessory to work? you gotta get the right adapter! oh that old adapter won't work, you gotta get a new one for 80$! oh sorry even with an adapter that old dock won't work anymore, you gotta get the right interface! usb-c vs thunderbolt vs firewire vs usb-c 4!)
Right yeah it's a good question.

I think the reason we did it is so that we could visualize user output/solutions. You can learn new things by looking at your solutions to various test cases!

One example would be if you submit a solution (or just the code stub) to the Exponential growth problem, then your solution gets plotted and compared with the analytic solution and the correct solution: https://projectlovelace.net/problems/exponential-growth/

Also, unlike Project Euler where every solution is a number, a lot of scientific problems have solutions that are multi-dimensional arrays or multiple objects. So in this case, copy pasting your output becomes quite messy.

It's not trivial to add support new languages since the engine app that runs user-submitted code needs to be able to run arbitrary code in your chosen language and needs a way to communicate with Python (either directly or through JSON passing).

So far we've just been adding support for languages we know and use.

But indeed there are hundreds of languages out there that would be nice to support in some way. It might be neat to add a new submission mode where you're given a couple of test cases that you run manually then submit your solution manually.
That's fair, I just thought the proximity of the words to the video was mildly humorous
That's fair, although, if it could be said that Tolkien's book Lord of the Rings is a bit inspired by the heroism of Christ, the best analogy for the story of Numenor is it's the fall of man, Noah's Ark, and Atlantis combined, and it will inevitably be dark.
Doesn't explain why the US was equally adamant that western telcos with the know how shouldnt buy "dumb" Huawei equipment, vet it and install it themselves.

This is what made me think that this is at its heart not about security at all and more about just isolating Huawei.
I think it's kind of pointless to fight for an exact meaning for these buzzwords. "Big Data", "Webscale", "Web 2.0", "NoSQL" and whatever other trendy hashtag du jour have lost most of their meaning because they hardly had any to begin with. They're marking drivel, not technical terms. And since everybody wants to look cool we all find ways to say that we're doing it, one way or the other.
Oh, and since on the subject. Physically it is quite easy change the network interface on many computers. What often happens though however is that the BIOS has a whitelist containing certain device IDs. This means that the BIOS will restrict usage to one or two different devices.

So if you where to buy a state of the art laptop today, and would want to change the wifi when there is a new wifi standard. So hypothetically speaking, what if there is a new WPA3 that requires hardware support. Then you wouldn't be able to change it without rewriting and flashing the BIOS. Something that might be next to impossible if the BIOS is signed.
I'm not saying you're wrong but the feeling about being a guinea pig feels to me like it must be rooted in either ignorance or disinformation because while this whole thing is definitely sped up (pipelining), there have been trials with a lot of people that were the actual guinea pigs.
On 5:4 I would only have two lanes, but I could split vertically as well so I usually still had 3-4 windows at once. On 16:9 I find splitting into 3 lanes makes them slightly too narrow, but it's workable.

As for fonts, I always make my text size as small as possible on every device I own (well, the ones primarily used by me at least).
Depends on the company, obviously. I don't care if employees do whatever on work computers, I care about protecting my network and my users.

In practice, all of this attempt to bypass middleboxes does not help my users browse securely. It makes it harder to block ads, it makes it harder to detect phishing sites and other threats, and that's about it.
> The actual phrase "American exceptionalism" was originally coined by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1929 as a critique of a revisionist faction of American communists that argued that the American political climate was unique and made it an "exception" to certain elements of Marxist theory.

Note that broad usage of the term itself didn't actually take off until the 1980's: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=American+excep...

I think the term is much too loaded, so most discussion around it is really about something else (eg, is actually about relative decline or ascendancy of the US or another place, most of which does not necessarily speak to the exceptional nature of either). Exceptional meaning both "too different to compare" and "excellent" make it more difficult.
I live in a major city and I'm having to drive an hour away to get one. I have also discovered a lot of people I know are cautious about getting it. That isn't isolated to conservatives either.
someones in Massachusetts....
That's fantastic, thank you.
Sure but it's trivial to split funds across accounts to mitigate that (even dynamically), unlike with cards where getting/activating a new one is a major hassle.
There’s been a lot of inflation in the past 20 years.
> maybe if enough of these anti-vax Republicans die off to change the voting profiles

How is this not flagged? HN MODS?? @dang This is not even politics it is just calling for mass death.

Is this Hitler News or Hacker News? That is not sarcasm.
> the lack of compelling Christian art in general the past 50 or 60 years

What about all those Mel Gibson movies that you guys have?
My understanding was that they shoot a series about Aragorn or? The world of Middleearth spans multiple thousand years. Check out the Silmarillion which tells most of the creation story and more. The Story about the Ring which only spans about 80 years if you count the hobbit is a very small part of this world. There is a lot of untold parts that would be worth telling. I would like to see the story of Númenor and it’s aftermath up until the Ring gets lost.
Nah, still see too many low effort jokes on HN.
Many people buy real estate and let it sit empty, to sell at a later date when the price increases. This is actually a destruction of value as the house is no longer being utilized for it's intended purpose.
The irony here is that when blue cities in red states pass liberal laws at the local level, the state legislatures aggressively work to countermand the cities.
I work in water management in the Netherlands and it feels the same.

A human domain expert knows what kind of thing to look for. Custom tools can help to get an overview (eg we visualize water velocities of a whole regional system on a map), but generic machine learning can't add much even though we record basically everything everywhere at five minute intervals.

The value of ML is perhaps in things that give little value in the individual case but can be used a huge number of times, like image classification.
What makes you think this limitation is related to Excel? 4GiB is a very common limit due to it being the max size you can fit on a 32bit integer. It's the max file size on FAT32 as well for instance.
I guess the key word is ”compelling”.
Substack OP here: thanks for sharing!

Would love any ideas of feedback y'all have on this first post. I'm super excited to explore this idea space.
Just to counter the knee jerk “but it’s actually digital gold!” reaction of Bitcoin holders: One big reason Bitcoin can’t be “digital gold” is because humans don’t control the natural supply of gold. Humans, however, control the supply of Bitcoin. The “21 million limit” is just a meme that’s currently implemented in the code that the network has consensus on, but that limit can change if the influencers in the space see fit to it and the herd follows along.
it's be free -> work remotely
not just work...
If you are eligible your provider should be able to give you the shot. They likely have a sign up on there website or health portal for you and you wife. Here in NorCal, PAMF has a simple sign up. Not going to link to it has I do not want it to get hugged to death :)
Order-Independent Transparency
Well, in Israel, where there has been a highly effective vaccination campaign with a head start on most other places, and orderly distribution by the "sick funds" (= healthcare provider non-profit organizations; there are only about 4 of these) - the 2nd-dose vaccination rate is only 57.3%:

https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/general

(sorry - linked dashboard is in Hebrew, they haven't translated it)

Among seniors it is well over 90%, but younger people have gotten vaccinated at much lower rates; and of course, nobody under 16 is vaccinated.

(Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza are, unfortunately, not counted among those to be vaccinated.)
I'm not trolling, I'm serious. Reposting because it was flagged for presenting dissent:

Hi, I'm under 40 and a Republican. Less than 15,000[1] Americans in my age group have died with COVID and they almost all had comorbities, most commonly obesity. I have none. I'm a healthy weight. I live in an urban area. COVID is in no way an existential threat to me. I will not be getting vaccinated, especially with a vaccine that the FDA has NOT approved[0], only authorized, and recommends only for emergency use for high risk individuals, one of which I am not. I will not be dying, and I do vote. Have a nice fuck you

0: https://www.fda.gov/media/144414/download

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

Oh yeah and by the way, the pandemic has made me WAY more Republican, because of comments like yours and the reaction of Democrats and the media to use this pandemic for unending [3] control so just keep calling us yokels you fucking racist, see how that goes

3 https://reason.com/2021/04/16/michigan-moving-to-make-emerge...

It's okay though, the Democrats are focused on important things like abolishing policing[4], that and being shamed into taking an experimental vaccine for a disease that is not dangerous will definitely win us over. Unity and healing!!!!

4. https://mobile.twitter.com/rashidatlaib/status/1381745303997...
Please be careful with your terminology. Virulence refers to damage caused to the host, not how quickly the virus spreads or how quickly it infects the host.
Also Nazi Germany. German universities just tanked while many American universities became the home of Jews fleeing Nazism.
No downvotes here, but boy are you as much part of the problem as the people who grow your food and you so despise. Can you blame people in country-side from not believing the same health authorities that so cynically lied at every stage of the pandemic? Or the politicians that mismanaged the lock downs, grievously injuring the economy for all but the people who have the luxury of working from home? Can you blame anyone if they believe Fox News over say CNN, MSNBC or the NYT? Come on man, have some intellectual honesty. The enemy is extremism, lack of perspective, lack of humility, the god awful media we are stuck with, not your rural countryman. Like you they just want to raise their kids safely and pursue happiness. You would probably like them if you got to know them. And they might like you as well.
Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?
This is just a lack of knowledge about the ecosystem. Merchants who are setting up Lightning Network channels or Liquid Network payments on Bitcoin can utilize instant transactions for 1 penny, or as little as one satoshi fee.
There's a very particular "nursing home smell" and oddly an old family car would produce it if you ran the heat. My best guess was a dead animal in there somewhere.
Did you try googling?

http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/04/16/how-to-book-coro...
The internet tells me glycerin is a component of oils but is, itself, miscible with water. The internet further tells me this means that, unlike oil, it mixes just fine with water. (People who know more chemistry than me: Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.) The problem with oils is it blocks air flow into the lungs, kind of like how you oil a leather canteen so it doesn't leak.

I've had a nebulizer. They are hard as all hell to keep adequately clean to be safe to use and some people have made themselves sick using an inadequately clean nebulizer. (This is similar to vaping.)

I've known a couple of people who had lipid pneumonia, one of whom had a serious respiratory condition, was hanging out on email lists where we were discussing home remedies and they got the bright idea that breathing in some oil or other would be totes a good idea for some damn reason. Yeah, that wasn't such a hot idea after all.
It's staggering to think that this TV show might cost well over $2 billion. We are approaching numbers typically used only of events like the Manhattan Project or Apollo.

Considering that movies and shows still get made about those and the apparently exponential growth of budgets, it seems likely that at some point, there will have been more money spent cumulatively on shows about the MP or Apollo than on the actual historical event. And at some point afterwards, there will be more spent on a single show about them than the actual event.
Weird to have to explain this here, but: China is a country with a border. Chinese is the nationality of this border. There are over a billion people there, the only people who think China is full of Han alone are ignorant Westerners because we get this extremely reductive view of Chinese culture. You should go visit and you'll see for yourself :)
Whoop already do this... https://www.whoop.com/thelocker/predict-covid-19-risk/
That moment when you realize how long ago LoTR trilogy was....
The OP-1
It can be useful for time ordered content where you can binary search for the appropriate time. Of course it would be nice if sites let you directly go to a time period but that seems to be nonexistent.
The Scorpion and the Frog
Check out vaccine spotter. https://www.vaccinespotter.org/

It scrapes pharmacy websites for availability
Ok, this is dumb, I meant to say there is connection between insulin and inflammatory processes (hence it is definitely connected to metabolism), insulin itself has anti-inflammatory effect, but insulin resistance and chronic inflammation are also linked. And I managed to say something completely opposite. Sorry.
Departure Letter from Katherine Maher, Executive Director of Wikimedia
These problems look like a lot of fun! Unfortunately, I'm currently learning Rust and would prefer to use it to solve these problems.

It would be nice to support uploading a binary or solution (like project Euler) or a CSV of test cases next to solutions. Maybe I'll try compiling rust to c and upload the c file