skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an identical experience while on the coast of the Mid-Atlantic US several years ago: a giant fireball flew over me for around half a minute, give or take. I was indoors looking at the sea at night through a large window. There was no sound I could hear from inside the room. I was so mesmerized by the meteor that it didn't occur to me to take my eyes off from it, you know, to grab my phone and record the whole thing. It all looked like a special effect in a big-budget movie, but in real life.

Now, I'm almost certain that mythological figures like Helios, who rides a "chariot of fire" in the sky, must be interpretations of similar meteor sightings in antiquity: https://www.google.com/search?q=helios+chariot+of+fire&tbm=i... -- a "chariot of fire" is pretty apt description, IMHO.
Truly grateful, thanks a lot for all of this insight.

I have recurring daydreams of booting up a fiber ISP or WISP or (thanks to this post) a micro cell network, but peeking at the real-world implementation of those is a good way to remind myself that there's a ton of complexity that I shouldn't underestimate :-) i.e. it helps to keep those dreams "grounded".

I've built temporary 500-people ethernet + wifi networks and I'm always curious to read what it's like to do it at a larger scale. Thanks again!
Seems pretty terrible for a position that requires college and is not the cheapest of areas to live in... safely (he needed roommates and still lived in an area with crime, including a guy getting shot a couple houses down). That's $15/hr. You can earn that working at Lowe's or Walmart and not take on $60k of debt. At that wage, you're basically just paying interest.

He also said there's basically no mobility. A guy he knew was there for closet to 20 years, got good reviews, etc, and was still only making about $45k as a supervisor who also filled other roles.
> It's coming from a lot of different people and places.

I don't see that at all - all the proponents of UBI have the same political alignment. I don't see any cross-demographic support of UBI.
I'm talking about the whole of cycling, not just the Olympics, so the first point doesn't stand.

Do you really prefer the spectacle of the peloton letting a breakaway head off into the distance, knowing that in 95% of cases they can just reel it back in just enough not to have an effect on the GC? Today just showed how exciting it is when people can head off down the road far enough for the others not to know what's going on. I think on balance I prefer attrition followed by sprint, although I'd contend that's a micharacterisation of what would actually happen.

Besides, isn't that exactly what the TDF used to be and what turned it into the best cycling race in the world? This year's TDF at least gave us a glimpse of what it could be like when someone rips up the rule book and the Sky train doesn't optimise the entire race into irrelevance.

I also think that there are enough cameras around to stop unofficial channels. And who's to say whether the person on the roadside is someone who's for you and giving you good information or against you and feeding you lies?
Personally, I'm onboard with being equal-and-opposite to whatever race/gender caste systems are being used. But if there's not a correct counter-balance, all you end up with is an inverted race/gender caste system.

It's like fighting fire with flood rains, and not recognizing the difference between a forest-fire and camp-fire.
This is a study saying “people who say they’ve had C19 score lower on a cognitive ability test”, it does not have data on their performance prior. So there’s a ton of potential confounding factors.

The article buries this in the 12th paragraph, and even acknowledges that there is no known mechanism for such an intelligence drop. Those two facts should be in the title or subtitle of the article, not buried in the second-to-last paragraph.
I live in Oakland and it isn't 2.5 hours to go to a nursery for plants. Go to Broadway Terrace or even Ace Hardware on Grand.
Proteins are the only thing that keep me satieted for a long time.

Carbs are the least and with fat are mostly for taste.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
I disagree. As someone who has used PDO a lot it still makes it unnecessarily hard to use parametrized queries compared to the libraries available in most other languages, even C (at least for PostgreSQL). The pgsql library for PHP is also pretty good, better than PDO.
If I understand correctly, AssemblyScript has been building ahead of specs on Interface Types?

I sympathize with pain, but the bleeding edge of tech does...bleed.
:) i don't know about that theorem, don't remember having seen. Now i'm reading stuff about Brouwer!

Since it seems to be about topology so i'd guess homotopy type theory folks would have written something about it.

edit: You seem to know some stuff apparently?
Stocks are vastly superior to real-estate. Businesses with reliable growth and some pricing power.

The S&P500 has generated approximately a 266% return in the past 20 years (ex any dividends). The average home sale price has climbed by just under 100% in that time.

Real-estate will nail you annually on property taxes (although not in every state) and you have to maintain it (let's assume a best case and you own it without a mortgage).

You can sit on a stock you bought for a decade, not sell it, let it appreciate by a lot, and incur zero taxes on the holding the entire time.

The average US house incurs ~$2,500 in property taxes each year (a painful expense across a decade). And you have to out that cash every year. If for any reason you can't come up with the taxes, they seize your property; that doesn't happen with a stock holding. The government doesn't care if the real-estate is going up in value or not, they want their property taxes. At least if your equities don't go up, you owe nothing when you sell. Equity trades also have zero commission now in most cases - you can sell a million dollars worth of stock at zero commission; you can't do anything remotely like that in most cases with real-estate.

Most real-estate struggles just to keep up with inflation. Average home sale prices haven't managed to outrun the cost inflation in average new car sales in the past 20 years. You're probably as well off sitting on gold ETFs like GLD or IAU as you are typical real-estate as an inflation hedge (IAU only has a 0.25% management fee, far lower than the typical real-estate property tax).

In most states your real-estate will also suffer a persistently climbing tax basis if you're lucky enough to see value gains; and local governments love to increase property taxes whenever they can.

And last but not least, in most cases you can click a button and liquidate your stock holdings in a matter of seconds or minutes with near zero hassle.

Obviously that equation changes if you're an experienced, competent property manager and you can get a healthy yield from your real-estate; however that's a serious job, with an enormous time/effort/labor/legal/mental burden, not a low-effort side task (much less a near zero effort task like sitting on the S&P index).
Kinda hilarious that anyone would consider this a reasonable way of closing the gap and not, say, raising the pay of the employees earning less, which was the whole point.
> How did HR get so much power?

I've always wondered that, too. I thought "The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions" had some interesting inputs on this question (https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3322830/Dobbin_S...).
This is false https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Really? As I was reading it, I thought that the last decade's music was considerably less dark than the music of my youth, circa 2000.

My follow up questions to this paper would be which books exhibit this depression-associated language? Does it vary by genera? What happens if you weight by sales/popularity. I'd also be curious to know if this is reflected in news media, either print or television. I feel that news was gotten more emotive and emphatic, but not really sure.
First time I hear about this service.
Based on studies of neolithic tribes, the "natural state of nature" is spending 2-3 hours a day hunting or gathering food, an hour preparing meals, and the rest of the time goofing off.

Is there somewhere in modern society this schedule is available?
yeah and increasing worldwide numbers of people with intestinal permeability thanks to gluten and now we are going to be saturating our guts with teflón, it may not be metabolizable but not everyhing that is non metabolizable is safe to use specialy if you are coating you intestines with it.
Or they think that what they're saying and thinking will come out similar to how it came out on the tv show...
It's not that your argument was incorrect. It's that it is tangential to the parent comment. hnarn was not making the point of something being rare, they were demonstrating that a developer can estimate the rarity based on the conditions that trigger it. The rarity itself is no matter.

Arguing over small semantic or circumstantial differences is often considered impolite
A fully owned business that could run with 0 employees (other than yourself and immediate family).
The grind isn't about training hard enough, it's about consistently training. Doesn't matter which mix of exercises someone decides to do (it does, but assuming the opposite is zero), consistency will eventually become a grind.

You're right the main enemy is quitting. When I tell people I workout nearly every day, people have this illusion that it's easy. It's not. I make time for it in my day, I make it a priority. That's what I mean by the grind. Everyone is different, but I find embracing the uncomfortableness easier than looking for ways around it.
And it doesn't even have to be that way! We have the power to choose something different. I've seen nice indirect lighting fixtures that aren't nearly as harsh, or lights that are warmer. They're just not the norm.

Or frankly just don't have street lights. I moved somewhere that doesn't have them, and I don't miss them at all. And I found out that I did miss darkness and was glad to reclaim it.

Illuminated billboards should just be illegal.
I do not even remotely believe this study. Myself and everyone else I know are not very optimistic about our economic prospects for the future and are scared of the direction the country is heading morally and socially.
I have nothing against running as a form of exercise, but let's not pretend it builds muscle optimally or is in any way, shape or form conductive to good joint health. It's a repetitive, low-ROM, impact-based sport. It's fun and rewarding and good for your circulation or burning massive amounts of calories, but that's it.

Bodybuilding (done properly) is about as close to perfect for maintaining a functioning body into old age as you can design an activity: It's easily scalable from zero to infinity, has regression and progression to your abilities built in, and huge benefits from even the smallest investment. It can be performed with basically no impact. It improves joint health. It helps you train to perform every day activities. It can easily be modified to cope with injuries, missing limbs, whatever limitation you have. It benefits you hormonally in a massive way. etc etc

I'm 36. I do about 14 hours of tennis/surf every week, plus maybe 2 hours of gym work and lots of moving around during the day for my construction work. I love my sports but my body would be a wreck if it weren't for the resistance exercise I do to prepare/rehabilitate it. I would do a lot more of it if I were smart.
It’s not really a latency effect - it’s more of a phase change, as you shift from one chaotic oscillation mode to another, and we’ve finally managed to get enough energy into the system to make it find a new mode.

What we have now is the previous mode faltering and wobbling out of its relatively stable phase, into… who knows.

Fun thing about chaotic systems - they’re chaotic. You can’t just put the parameters back to where they were and expect the same system you had to reestablish. There’s no “undo”, and modelling rapidly runs out of ideas - our best forecasts are so-so at best.

Layer atop that the chaotic systems of humanity, and you’ve got… an interesting interaction. You don’t need the entire world to burn for systems to collapse - you just need to watch the underwriters collapse, as you spend more and more of your GDP on cleaning up the mess and security, and run out of money for anything else. Meanwhile, crops fail, and food becomes increasingly erratic in supply. We’ll turn on each other long before the climate kills us directly.

I for one do not expect to die of old age.
It's a MAD Information War
There's a limit to what path string you can make the kernel interpret. That does not limit total path length. Keep looping on mkdirat/openat and you can make very very deep trees. As opposed to your syscall that is relative to an arbitrary directory, /proc/self/mountinfo has to contain the whole absolute path to be useful.
Decoded Openttd
In Python you can do (and people do do) this

import a.b.c
sys.path.insert(0, 'some/other/path')
import x.y.z

Or

env PYTHONPATH="foo/bar:$PYTHONPATH" python ...

There is no way in general for Python tooling to figure out where an import points. All it can do is guess. It's a very regrettable situation.

Yes in Java it's fine because Java has a build stage. So tooling can figure out where imports point to from your static configuration.

However from the tool's perspective there is nothing better than a relative path. Relative paths require no messing about with configuration files at all to resolve. It's just a path to another file or directory on disk.

When a tool sees

import c from "./a/b/c"

It can resolve it immediately.

So what is the advantage of absolute imports really? If import lines are mainly written and maintained by tooling then shouldn't we pick the representation that is easiest for the tooling? Then we can have more and better tools and the tools will be more reliable.

And it turns out that, relative paths are easy for humans to understand too. The same configuration-free resolution algorithm also works in your head when you are reading code! At least when the language doesn't overcomplicate them too much (JS is guilty of this to a certain extent, although nowhere as bad as Python)
Last I looked, it was to leverage the $mysqli->real_escape_string method.
It's a really good strategy, in fact. I think it's extremely clever, though possibly not wise.

It's just warfare. Nothing so unusual about it, and historically not reserved to just Russians. Maybe that 'whataboutism' factor will sway them to permit me to suggest, here, that this is a window into a well-established Russian tactic, and it's the clarity of that window which has led to their mad scramble to suppress this information: including but not limited to the manipulation of Hacker News information management systems.

This is directly beneficial to them: the manipulation of COVID opinion not only turns enemy citizens against each other, but directly keeps a deadly and damaging virus alive and mutating in the wild. That is an immediate dividend when you're doing it on the territory of your geopolitical enemy.

Nothing new about this. And nothing 'without dividend' about it, either. It's pretty direct warfare through nontraditional methods, understandable if war is what you're waging. The traditional Russian way to handle this sort of thing is to get your message out across the widest possible range of mouthpieces. You are not taking sides, you are heightening the chaos and setting everybody up to mistrust everybody else. It's called the 'Zone' and is a well documented technique. Harmful to anything but an authoritarian system (and, I think, prone to worsen conditions even for that) but obviously effective.
> Most of the ways

> a small percentage

What's your source for this? I'm very interested to see it, because this is an issue that I've been following for a few years and I haven't yet seen any data that supports this claim.
What's a definition of "simulation"?

Bostrom's original paper (which proposed the "simulation hypothesis") doesn't define it properly that I can see.

It's a very late C20 / early C21 computer technology phrase - because we make models and simulations, and nest things in our computers, we think it is a meaningful concept about our universe.

How would we know our reality is a simulation, vs. e.g. an "alternate dimension"? Or something much subtler that we have no understanding of?

It won't be a "computer" simulation, and I doubt it'll be running on top of a turing machine. There'll be something more interesting and complex going on - perhaps metaphorically analogous to a simulation, but a richer, more alien thing than that.
Is Covid going to calm down, what comes after Delta?
First you have to decide whether AssemblyScript is a language, or a compiler for an existing language.

If it's a language, then it gets to decide what ```let foo: string = "whatever"``` means.

If it's a compiler for an existing language, then semantics have already been decided, and the compiler has to implement it.

But none of the precludes abstraction to reduce data type conversions.
> If UBI were in a form such as "free room and board and spending money as long as one is in school, thru a PhD if one wants", I might think differently.

Yes, you'll have a society filled with gender studies[1] graduates.

[1] Or any other coaster program.
clearly the success of .ml is only because of marxism-leninism's strive to acquire domains
Put ZeroTier on it and you can stream from your house while on the road. Works great.
Is it actually remarkable? We had hosepipe bans at various times decades ago and hot sunny weather is frequently followed by thunderstorms. There has always been between years with some being hotter or wetter or colder or snowier or drier. I don’t think there is much of a trend to be observed by one day of 2021 and a portion of the weather of 2012.

Maybe it is still remarkable but it is also surely typical.
Installation instructions vary based on your web server. Please see https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/Installation
Nonsense. How can the last digit of n^5 be n if n has more than one digit?
This is not new to 5G. I believe it was HAR2009 that ran its own GSM network. Not sure if it included 3G, but probably not. So use was limited, but still cool that it was possible.
what are the non-crappy project management tools youve used ?
Their actions in Wikileaks' case and subsequently show they are not acting in the public interest, therefore this public appeal is false and deliberately misleading, and this is known to and actively supported by Katherine Viner.
It seems to me (based on reported behavior), that Linux is special casing the loopback interface: when you add an address with a netmask to the loopback interface, it considers all of those addresses as local addresses.

As opposed to a normal interface where only the specific address is a local address, but the rest of the network specified are accessible through that interface.

Maybe one /8 wasn't enough addresses for you, so you added more? Doesn't seem like an unreasonable way to behave, even if it's different than BSD behavior; it certainly makes it easier to use lots of loopback addresses.
The problem seems to me to be if you hire newb developers and don't have any mentor-ship or code review. Any non-newb dev will know that you ALWAYS have to sanitize strings for SQL. file names or whatever. Most SQL ORMs or libraries will let the developer run raw SQL so you better have some competent person writing teh code or at least review it.
If you experienced "incredible privilege" it is not because you are white male, it is because you were privileged in one way or another. There are many white males who are born into dire situations and got no incredible privilege overall. Each person in this world got their own situation in life.
The Guardian promoted everything Assange said / did.

Then all of a sudden The Guardian forget all about Julian.

Their coverage has been pathetic.

Why?

Because the UK Govt will have told them to Shut Up.

And it's not just The Guardian.

It's the Telegraph, Times, Independent, Sun, Mail and more.

So when Katherine Viner spouts forth that:

"the Guardian remains open to all and fiercely independent, and can continue chasing the truth"

That is bollocks.

"Because of our independence, we are able to investigate boldly, putting the truth ahead of the agenda of an owner, investors or shareholders."

Also bollocks.

Viner lies.
Or, here me out, roll your own crypto, and put it on a webservers that GPT-2 generated messages back and forth. That should give an intern at the NSA/KGB a really annoying summer.
I find the whole 25 year old playing a 15 year old more problematic.

Especially for girls, this gives a tremendously powerful incorrect body image signal.

However, even for guys, it's starting to get ridiculous--the actors always have their shirt off, are completely cut and have <5% bodyfat. The only boys who look like that at 15 are short, currently miserable as hell and cutting weight for a tournament (and probably on steroids, to boot).
Note that the Pinephone only supports 2.4GHz, not 5GHz.
Not only is it false as has already been pointed out, it doesn't matter at all. There is nothing stopping them from silently running a fork.
You'll keep looking for a while... Treasury coffers are empty after a year of covid subsidies, borrowing is out of control, and tax intakes will be meager for a while.

They'll simply continue pushing on the electric-car-switch plan - since it costs nothing.
>Not that the work they do isn't needed. In an paperwork submitted to the SEC on Wednesday, Rackspace disclosed that 85 per cent of the positions being cut will be backfilled by workers in "offshore service centers."
> Case and point

"Case in point".
I think they mean less private for-profit companies, and more NGOs, little municipal-government projects, and the like. The types of things where it's natural to get your city's or state's official registry to nest your project under their namespace.

In Canada, all our federal-government stuff is under .gov.ca, and all our provincial-government stuff is under .gov.[province].ca. But those .[province].ca domains can also be used by any org located in the province, that asks the province nicely. (Examples: http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/, https://spca.bc.ca/)

This same pattern is, AFAIK, followed by pretty much every other country. .gov.[province/state/region].[country] reserved for the regional governments; .[province/state/region].[country] available upon request to orgs that make sense to be nested there.

I understand that the US uses .gov for its federal-government stuff; but why is e.g. the Legislature of Idaho at https://legislature.idaho.gov/ rather than being at e.g. legislature.gov.id.us ? Why weren't swathes of the .us ccTLD reserved for this use, to mirror what basically every other country does with its ccTLD?
Windsocks
Just imagine if we could have spent all that free money on human needs instead of stupid unnecessary wars...
All top frameworks support parameter binding. Same for PHP standard library like PDO or mysqli which also provide parameter binding.

These eliminate SQL injection. But you have to use them and not just concatenate user input to SQL queries.
As far as I understand sentiment analysis is more of a pragmatic pursuit, and the prototypical use case is reviews of things or creations. It's a business tool and not science. As general language/literature has no set object, I don't see how we could even interpret long term "analyses" of it.

It's good that the authors are at least trying to create some generally interpretable categories mapped into language, even if they may not be (yet) fully convincing, as other commenters point out.