skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love London but man I feel bad for the folks who live there in the city. Same for NYC. It’s like the ultimate goal is to coat every surface in ads. Drive out the people who can afford to leave. Then force everyone else to work three or more jobs to be able to just barely get by.
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Completely agree - the vast differences in the Earth's species and their intelligence should be an indication of the enormous range of possibilities we should expect...Saying that, since "most intelligent" species on Earth are bipedal, it means it's most likely intelligent aliens would be too, does not only seem ignorant to the sheer number of factors and possibilities, but also to other species on Earth and ways intelligence can be manifested.
You should run a comparison. If you could wave a magic wand and erase the startup costs with mining space resources to produce our heavy industry, would the operational costs (transport costs/etc) be less than they are right now? I think it would be, it's just the startup costs are ridiculously high. So it's likely to be the case that you never make back the initial investment. However if someone's driven and has the capital, they could get that set up and then beat out the rest of the industry.

Now I'm not saying it's a foregone conclusion that it'd be cheaper, but just that it maybe can be.
I wrote an app in Django and React called Pass the Gerbil.

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It's just a silly app where you write 200 words and pass it on.

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How hard is it to affect the Earth's rotation?

It looks like it you would need to change the Earth's rotational energy by ~1.4*10^22 J to change the length of a mean solar day by 1/365 seconds (which would cause UTC to change by 1 second per year). If energy costs 1 cent per kilowatt hour, this is only around $40 trillion, which is much less than I was expecting.

If energy becomes a few orders of magnitude cheaper and someone knows a reasonable mechanism to put that energy into the earth's rotation, Google or someone similar might find it easier to keep days at 86400 seconds than to deal with leap seconds.
Throw it in a zip lock bag for an immediate +1 security layer
The lockdown works pretty well in other countries. It's just people in Sydney being ignorant. There are still house parties and carefree people. The anti-lockdown protest didn't help, but it wasn't totally unexpected considering the incompetence of the NSW gov. A lot of Aussies don't want to get vaccinated too, which is an important part to reduce infections. I got my Pfizer shot months ago, because people either didn't turn up or cancelled.
I am struggling to understand your double negative!
Just a reminder that we already have more than 800,000 police officers in this country, so that's probably not the problem. It must be something else.
Ironic that you're angry about the "Karen" meme but accept the blankface meme without hesitation.
NYC is more than Manhattan. The outer-boroughs and Harlem aren’t subject to the same level of issues as downtown and time square.
There was also a recent incident in Virginia: (Virginia Drops Advanced Math)[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/virginia-to-drop-adv...]

This disgusts me. Some kids are stupid (Apologies for blunt language, but it's true, life is unfair.) or have poor home lives, so let's remove education that can help them have better lives because some of the struggling kids are black. Counterintuitive, oversensitive, and directly hindering

Dragging everyone down because some diversity quotas aren't met is awful. Unless there's clear evidence that teaching advanced math directly contributes to racism, teach it, make it harder. Make our kids work and succeed and fail again.
My cynical take is that its really just there so there's less incentive for people at Facebook to push for actually functional general customer support, because Facebook would rather just ignore issues than spend money to make the user experience better.
I was shocked to find out in our state that 97% of the warrants served were served via "no knock" raids using SWAT.

If more than 10% of these were served this way, there should be serious push back and questioning by the legislature. 97% is completely uncalled for.
Usenet was a first approximation of a government-run social network.

I'm not suggesting that Usenet itself would serve as a model for a revived social discussion platform. But whilst it existed, it was supported in large part on the (publicy-funded) ARPANET, and through publicly-funded educational institutions (both public and private research universities relying strongly on government research funding, regardless of tuition income). In general parameters, it resembles the structure proposed in TFA: government funding, multiple independent institutions, many local and trusted serving their local communities. (Students, staff, and faculty rather than residents for the most part, but again, broadly, along the lines of what's being suggested.)
You've had burner accounts disabled, or you've had your oculus quest 2 disabled for using burner accounts multiple times over several years? Impressive considering it's been out for less than a year.
I work on an email forwarding app https://mailwip.com to scratch my own itch for email setting up every time I start a project and buy a domain.

It's originally call https://hanami.run but the name is conflict with hanamirb.org so I'm in process of changing name.
The refutation that occurs to me (and has been raised before) is thus: if your belief in a god is wholly predicated on self preservation (avoiding eternal damnation/suffering/etc), and not motivated by the moral tenets of the religion, does that not defeat the purpose of being a believer? More to the point, if a god is all-powerful and all-knowing (or at the very least has some supernatural insight into human drives and motivations), there is little chance of deceiving the deity into accepting you as a true believer.

I would say a better reading of pascal's wager is to live your life morally and compassionately (relative to social norms), and accept that any god that may exist will judge you based on the character of your actions and decisions, and not on adherance to strict dogma.
OCaml is more than just a badly-taught CS course, it's an industrial-strength general-purpose language that's being mined for ideas by basically every modern language.
You can get good ones in supermarkets in the UK, you just have to spend more and know what you’re looking for.

Recently I tried Bull’s Heart, which were stupid expensive but delicious. But you can get San Marzano in a bunch of places, and various other plum and cherry varieties with good flavours.

It’s just the average “salad tomato” that tastes like crunchy water.
Have you tried connecting two computers with just a patch cable? With the auto-sensing Ethernet ports, it works as if the cable were a crossover cable.
This article does a pretty good job of explaining the overall plan.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/inside-elon-musks-pl...
Haven't been single for a while - is OK cupid still a thing? I thought everyone used Tinder now.
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To show an etymological connection requires more than just a superficial resemblance. You would need to explain where the "o" in o-keanos came from and why "-ua-" would change to "-ea-" in that environment but not in other environments. It looks like most sources guess that it's a loanword but there are a few other speculations given on Wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BD%A8%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%B1%C...
There may be some overhead with networking if your application uses a very large amount of bandwidth. See:

https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit/tree/v0.1...

Otherwise for general dockerized applications, you won't notice any difference.

You may find some quirks, but these can all be worked around easily as described on the rootless docker page.

We run it in production with no issues so far.
Yes, of course I read your comment. I have read it again now. I still don't see how it is about mathematics being an end unto itself.

What I mean by mathematics being an end unto itself is that mathematical results have intrinsic value. That is, they have value in and of themselves, regardless of how they may or may not be used.

Perhaps you thought I meant that mathematical results could be used to discover more mathematical results? No, that is not what I meant.
If Markov processes won’t cut it, a Turing machine will. And an ANN can approximate a Turing machine.

To boil it down, if you really want to argue that the behaviour of a neuron can’t be simulated by an ANN, you’re arguing that a neuron is doing something non-computable. At which point you might as well argue it’s magical.
I don't see why you are surprised. Guido invented the slowest programming language that is reasonably popular nowadays.
I believe this is only true for gigabit - though almost any device today should be?
It's 70% adult vaccination at one shot or more (I specified adult in my comment). That's all over US news today. The US is at 165m fully vaccinated (or 50%), most of which are of course in the adult segment.

A very large number of those adults also aren't going to need two doses to reach high levels of protection (against severe outcomes), due to prior infections. One mRNA vaccine dose + prior infection will get you there.

Combined with the recent surge in vaccinations due to Delta concerns, the US will probably see the same drop-off that Britain has by late August - early September.
Does Amazon have anything like Facebooks oops?
There were people like this before digital cameras. My father was one of them with his Canon A-1 SLR.
It was considered [1]:

> Svelte, Inferno, and Preact are aggressively optimized for performance but have much smaller communities of users (Preact suffers from this issue to a lesser extent, but only as long as it maintains a very high level of compatibility with mainstream React, which may not be the case forever).

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241180
Telecoms are protected sectors in the same way that Banking and Entertainment are, they are strategic industries, and 'wire tapping' while somewhere on the list of issues, is down the list.

Canada's position on foreign ownership and trade is fairly consistent with norms in advanced countries, and fairly liberal, probably more so than most nations.

Non-market forces also play a huge role in this, for example, irrespective of what the auto-trade policies actually are between the US and Japan ... the Japanese would simply never allow US firms to compete on equal terms there.

Cultural factors, some more systematic and institutionalized than others, provide enough impetus that they represent at least as much of an issue as anything agreed upon formally by trade representatives.
Australia definitely doesn't have or has ever had herd immunity and our total cases since the beginning are only 30k. Which represents only 0.12% of our countries population.

We've faced strict lockdowns and limited access to vaccines to which makes us a ticking time bomb if we were to let current cases go rampant.
No, they are not measurement error. The moment of inertia of the earth changes over time in irregular ways (e.g, melting glaciers, etc). Even a major earthquake can show up in the earth’s rotation.

Leap seconds account for the accumulated difference in the rotational period from time to time.
The "cloud" can be far more energy efficient than personal computing devices, and geographically distributed computation has costs as well, if you're doing computation that requires a lot of data that isn't all in one place.

I think keeping one's own data on one's own local hardware has other significant privacy/security/control benefits, but energy efficiency is probably not among them.
I would be quite curious what would be possible at some companies if things could be considered beyond 3-6 months or if you could even keep the same team for that period.

I’m intrigued at all the stuff that falls off the wagon just because it isn’t a three month initiative or would need to cross a quarter to be done.
Do you know if Twitter has something similar? It would be very helpful.
And all these animal/alien minds swim through time like a fish swims through water. Reminds me of that David Foster Wallace joke.

> There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/this-is-water
Ivermectin (Still) Lacks Scientific Support as a Covid-19 Drug
>"Heavy" industry, pretty much by definition, means it's way cheaper to do it on Earth than in space

There are things that you just can't do on Earth because of gravity. And if price of putting things into orbit goes down it will open door to a lot of innovations in space manufacturing and within a decade it will have it's first "killer app". I can bet on it.

> no amount of rocket development will ever overcome those physics

This is simply not true. Your saying sounds like "Heavier than air flying machines are impossible". There's way more resources outside of our gravity well than inside of it and moving things from space to earth is cheaper than other way around. Yes, moving all heavy industry to space is complicated and very expensive, but it will be eventually done.
She has not, but she's living with someone. I have not met him, but I can tell he's falling for the manipulation because I'm picking up my daughter from HIM most days instead of her (meaning, he's doing her dirtywork like driving our daughter places).

She was the kind of person, if you weren't doing exactly what she wanted you to, you were a piece of shit. Once I realized what was going on (our early relationship was much, much different, I would have never married someone like this) I stopped paying this game and it infuriated her to not have power over me.

Could I throw something at you-- I am sorry to be rude-- could it be your wife thinks you are cheating or is cheating herself? This was what I think was driving my ex-wife's behavior. One, to verify that I was at work and not cheating, and to make sure I was at work so she could cheat herself.
Can't speak for that particular example, but sometimes you might write a < x so that later you can naturally && it with x < b.
Processes are a core fundamental concept in Elixir - I wouldn't call them advanced. But they certainly have been shoved to the background for a lot of developers due to things like the Phoenix framework where you might not have to make your own.
I agree completely and this was a looonngggg time ago (2009?).
I only wish Costco would sell and install these for folks (using their purchase power and distribution network to soften the cost). Cheap insurance in areas where this sort of activity is endemic.
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That is a stellar point, thank you for this.
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Possible solution. Don't allow wrecking yards to buy them unless they are attached to a car. At that point they are worthless because the thieves will have no where to sell them. Now if the thieves decide to cut them open and take out the platinum, palladium or rhodium, don't allow the wrecker to buy it without taking the persons identification and contact information which will be sent to law enforcement.
I haven’t worked for a company that didn’t leave easy money on the table or waste money because of disorganization, except for the government which just wouldn’t spend any money except employee time.
Children are more or less defined by the short duration of their lives to date. They are, in general, absolutely awful at judging "actual utility" on timescales literally longer than their whole lives, and most people don't usually expect them to be any good at it either. Basing your assessment of the value of a language on the implicit decisions of children at age of language acquisition doesn't seem very convincing.
I always have a bad feeling in my stomach when the Karen meme comes up. Compared to blankface, it seems misogynistic to me.

I agree that blank face is problematic, dehumanizing. Yet, Karen seems worse
Definitely both.

I would install it if it meant free paid holiday from work but I'm not employed and if I were I could probably work from home.
Would that retro phone be dial-tone or pulse? Any models you'd recommend if I wanted to scan fast?
I know the demographics of who were socializing. It’s very skewed. Friends and acquaintances of mine.

I have some doubts about how generalizable the results are. A circuit party is not a produce aisle.
It is fair to say that funder bias is a significant concern in the not-for-profit world, including in public broadcasting.

There's been open mainstream speculation of that "PBS sold its soul" to the Koch Brothers:

As David Sirota, the author of the PandoDaily expose, wrote in its aftermath, PBS doesn’t stand for “Public Broadcasting Service” anymore. As it becomes more addicted to big-bucks donors, it risks becoming the Plutocrat Broadcasting Service.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-xpm-2014-feb-17-...

Tiny Spark is the podcast of Nonprofits Quarterly, and has dedicated numerous episodes to the question of funder influence.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/podcasts/

Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, and Robert W. McChesney are voices on the left who have called out corporate / fundraiser bias on the part of PBS, NPR, CPB, and other public broadcasters in the US. McChesney notes:

Public broadcasting today is really a system of nonprofit commercial broadcasting, serving a sliver of the population. What we need is a system of real public broadcasting, with no advertising, one that accepts no grants from corporations or private bodies, one that serves the entire population, not merely those who have high-brow tastes and disposable income to contribute during pledge drives.

https://www.lehigh.edu/~jl0d/J246-02/oligopoly.html
birds love apple seeds and pepper seeds, though.
> Yeah, that's what got me about the announcement, like how could they totally "misread the room" so to speak?

I don’t get what is so wrong here.

> What I don't get is why they have never just simply taken the 5K display from the iMac and made it a standalone display, Displayport has been able to handle the bandwidth for years now, HDMI can handle it now as well.

I don’t understand why people want this. You can get a 5K display from other vendors, why do you want one from Apple, specifically?
Those are all good points, but the rest of the world turns out, pound for pound, Engineers that are just as good and crazy.

But have access to fewer resources, networks, capital, markets etc..

Also, the % of US immigrants that are on the 'high end' is relatively smaller.

Migration to the US, when you include off the books migration, is a little bit towards the low skilled end.

But definitely the smaller relative portion of 'hardcore talent' is still actually quite large in real terms, and yes, they do disproportionately contribute. It frankly doesn't take a large quantity.
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The real moral is to not build your company without any modicum of user support.

The users who have any clue what 2FA is are not the ones getting their account hacked. They are the 60+ year olds who use Facebook as their only contact with friend and family, unfortunately.
I wonder why Google doesn’t just offer a premium support tier.
The problem is poverty and a general lack of opportunity.
There is no problem. Just pay your ever inflating insurance premiums quietly. Justice is being served.
I am curious what is your take on Davidovits geopolymer based carbon capture. I believe he was using kaolinite as the starting point with alkali activation. A second approach was using fly ash and silica flume/slag, byproducts of power plants and steel production.
How does anyone even approach these kinds of things? I mean I don't even know how to approach the much more legit business of say Windows Driver Development or Kernel programming which I'm pretty sure can lead to a fruitful malware re career. I mean there are definitely books out there such as "Windows System Programming" but it looks like a huge leap from your average programming job and even from the average Computer Science undergraduate education.

I'm getting into a Graduate Diploma of Computer Science in my late 30s so it's more as a hobby than a career. While the department is out of top 200 of global ranking, I did get A+ on Comp Arch and am going into Advanced Programming which is based on C++. From the few malware reports that I read and can understand a bit, malwares in general don't deal with sophiscated algorithms,unlike in the business of Database Engine development. I only have a shallow deeling but they seem to care a lot more about hidden entries, side-channel attacks or even upstream attacks (Solarwind). And there are a LOT of vectors to approach.

This further confused me so I figured it's better for me to concerntrate on the fundementals a.k.a. general programming (problem solving in general but not really focused on leetcode style questions), computer architecture and assembly language, compiler theory and operating system. How the operating system load and execute code and how does virtual memory and processes work, these kind of things.

It feels very much like a detective job in which one needs to reverse engineer the motives and etc. In the meantime, although the detectives are not suppose to commit crimes (positive engineering a malware), he/she must learn all those tricks to fight the criminals.