jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why aren't such dense polynomials used more often?

Is it that we trade off something in return for less short-term correlation (maybe more long-term correlation)?
Right, there are effectively only two levels of trust for a typical user: None at all, and Unlimited. Do you really like that model?

That model doesn't work too well for me, I'll give you an example. I want to be able to buy a fun USB gadget (like a fitness tracker) and not have to think about the security implications, but that is difficult right now. I have two choices, I can install the manufacturers sync software, giving it unlimited access to my computer or not use it at all. I trust the manufacturer to access the device they sold me...but I don't really want to give them access to my SSH keys, so my only option is to not use it.

The idea that WebUSB will allow me to visit gadgetvendor.com, grant access to one specific device, and not have to worry about any consequences is really appealing to me. They will have no access to my computer other than to the the device they sold me.

I think the concerns I've read mostly boil down to "what if a website tricks me into granting access to a device I shouldn't have?". It's certainly true we need security UX experts to make sure this is not confusing, but I don't really see how that is any different than a website tricking you into running an EXE.
Definitely. But notice he's not using the <picture> tag in this post for his image. "Just HTML+CSS" cannot possibly be connected to the 100 score conclusion (same for dismissing WordPress, which could have yielded that element as well.)
Donald J. Trump was impeached.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/trump-impeach...
I guess #3 explains my confusion, as whenever I use a screenreader it's for testing and I just tab through.

I suppose each screen reader then has its own hotkey shortcuts? Do you know of any resource that puts shortcuts of most popular screen readers together?
its more complicated than that depending on your life.

You will never look like a model by just lifting weights and running. You need a propper diet plan and a life that supports it.

Going on dinner with your friend? that will be a no for a year.

Having a bussiness lunch meeting with clients or bosses? Thats a no for a year.

Skipping a week or more of lifing because of unexpected life reasons? Thats a no for a year.

Guarantee a majority of your sleep to be of good quality for a whole year? Very few can do that.

Being on a caloric deficit and maintaining a high protein intake every day for a whole year? That is really hard and requires you to have no unplanned events for a whole year.

Getting in a situation where you have no real good options for your diet plan, you need to make sure never to get there for a year.

If your goal is "just" to loose weight its a bit easier but still a lot of hard work with no compromises for a year, and if you want to look like a model then you need hard work and good genetics to support that.

The time investment depends a whole lot on external factors and its never minimal.
This is to me a deeply weird article.

Thematically, it makes a case for complexity not being important to software development. I disagree, but stipulating that the author is correct, where does that slippery slope end? Virtually no formalized CS knowledge is required to make expert use of Microsoft Excel, which is itself an extremely important programming environment. What parts of CS does this analysis include in the requirements for development? Is it important to know how a hash function works if your language gives you a dictionary ADT? Is it important to understand the memory hierarchy if you're just shuttling things into and out of an SQL database? There's a rather large population of "Rails programmers" and "PHP programmers" that need know very little more than an "HTML programmer" does to get their job done.

But it's the specifics of the argument that really bug me. The author seems to be making a case that even if you understand complexity, it's hard to deploy it in a real application. That idea seems totally alien to me. I don't routinely analyze the complexity of a sort or a shortest-paths graph reduction, but I certainly feel like I benefit from understanding how the typical algorithms used to solve those problems scale with the size of their inputs. Simpler: any time you select a binary tree instead of a hash table for your lookup table because you realize you need range queries or sorted traversal, aren't you leaning on complexity theory?
You love extra typing for no reason? I see the point but jQuery is still much more concise.
All you can measure by plugging into a wall socket is (1) voltage; (2) power, but only for devices plugged into that outlet (by installing a meter like a kill-a-watt between the outlet and the device).

In order to determine power consumption for an entire circuit, or your entire house, you need to put a sensor around a wire in the breaker box. You can’t even do it in the walls because once power cabling leaves your breaker box, all the conductors for a given circuit are bundled, and if you put a current transformer around that bundle, it will show net zero power because it’s summing both halves of the AC wave.

You need to get a sensor around just the hot wire of the circuit, which is only accessible on its own inside the breaker box.
I've always had the ones with the dash, since they are what's mentioned in the official docs (
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection... ):

0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com

I'm not sure what googleanalytics.com is for, however; but I'll add it to my HOSTS, in any case.
You've just made me run outside to check my meter. What do you use to read it and are you happy with it?
I believe (something looks like permanent) ETH crash is enough to fix GPU demand including miners selling their GPUs as used. By introducing PoS or gov's regulation?
That’s not what an ad hominem is. An ad hominem means attacking the person making the argument instead of addressing the substance of the argument. If the argument involves issues that might reflect on a person’s character, it is not an ad hominem to discuss those issues.

It’s kind of funny, because ad hominem is exactly what you yourself are doing. You aren’t objecting to the substance of any of my points—you’re just complaining that I wasn’t considerate enough of everyone’s feelings in my delivery and that it makes me a jerk. Even a narcissistic jerk apparently—pulling out the big guns!

I also never said that people who do sleep training “don’t care about their children” and it’s rather dishonest for you to keep repeating it. I think there is often a self-absorption issue which is encouraged by our culture, but it’s not the same thing.
Does it include any features that aren't present in ThinkOrSwim? Could be an advantageous tool for those who don't want to give their private information to TD-Ameritrade.
I used to do business development work at Sony bringing content services onto the TVs although this is a few years ago now. It is complicated and messy and there are many aspects both technical and commercial[0] that can cause services not to be available.

Lovefilm were one of the most flexible and adaptable service providers although I don't know the extent to which this still applies with Amazon.

I don't blame Panasonic for not supporting Flash/Silverlight in the TV. Adopting either of these is likely to require unpleasant licensing terms AND opaque binary blobs into the TV software.

On the service provider side they cannot just drop the security measures (DRM or other security measures) as that would likely be breaching their own licenses from the content owners (film companies). If not supporting a major recognised DRM approach it can be a real sticking block.

[0] Including placement, branding, design and obviously any revenue share arrangements.
Why then embed tweet as an image if you're going to copy its text anyway?
Not all start-ups are simple crud web apps
>Publishers online and offline have almost never made money without ads.

Mozilla can't help with that, even if they break up with Big G.

Mozilla deserves our support for other reasons though.
Does the last paragraph still holds? Today a lot of public talk is about the manipulation (as opposed to genuinely convincing, i.e. presenting the actual argument and not the most effective and machiavellistic argument ) of public opinion, and when we have masses of people specializing in this sort of manipulation, with help from social (psychology etc) scientists, and automated ('machine learning') optimization. In this climate, I'm not sure if it does.

That's bad, because we lost the basic trust in human communication to say what you mean.
Of course this is not meant to be nostalgic, deception was always present, but never so normalized, natural and _not_ a social taboo as it is today.
The rotary dials are a pretty horrible user interface: You have to turn the dial all the way to the stop and release it there. If you don't do that properly, you dial a wrong number. You need to know that you have to let the dial return to its original position before you can dial the next number. If you don't, you dial a wrong number. There is no feedback regarding the digits you already dialed. If you're trying to dial a long number and forget which digit you're at in the process, you have to hang up and restart. I remember that I struggled with all of these things as a child. The whole thing was a brilliant invention in its time, but I'm glad that it's obsolete.
Warning: shameless-self-promotion. For those that wish to go a bit beyond this article, I gave a presentation on the topic at EuroPython. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGROOUO_wY
It explains how to build models that can make use of temporal variations and learn the feature representations based on the (Mel) spectrogram. Especially suited if you are already familiar with image-classification using Convolutional Neural Networks.
Skilled programmers are able to generate incredible economic value, and companies having difficulty hiring should consider whether they are undervaluing programmers when they set salary ranges.

It's possible to quickly test this by simply adjusting the salary ranges upwards until good candidates start accepting job offers. Believe me... it works.
Why can't this argument be flipped on its side, if 95% of the best programmers are outside the US then why aren't the venture capitalists investing in and building companies outside the US? Surely we should see 95% of their portfolio companies are outside the US too...
I do some pro bono work for local teams related to my hobby. I'm afraid I would grow to hate the job and the hobby itself if it became real work.
> How about if they get woken up each night for an alarm that turns out to not be a big deal?

Write a post-mortem on this "crying wolf" fact. It is definitely a bug in your alerting rules, so actions have to be taken, otherwise others will routinely ignore important alerts.
Modern Java is a language I'd be happy to program in, but doesn't have the language constructs you need if what you're loving FP in Scala (easily chainable monad-things). Kotlin is a nice improvement on modern Java, but feels closer to Java than Scala. Arrow is interesting in this space: https://arrow-kt.io/
But it's not like they get a whole lot more money from someone being 'in the ecosystem'. The main thing would be an iphone, but even counting that I think that they'd make more selling the hardware with a little flexibility than hoping to lure people in. The fact of the matter is that the M1 isn't just a good laptop, it is the best, and the next round will be better. That's enough of a sales pitch that honestly the software might be holding them back.
Omsk (Russia) cancelled subway length is 4.7 miles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk_Metro

This article claims Cincinnati subway is 2.2 miles.
Speaking of freelancers as others did, basically they all went through acquaintances or shell companies in Russia in order to receive funds from the West. Which doesn't sound like what the US wanted, to me.
Discussion of the CEO's medium.com blog post 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632811
You won't get fired for no reason, but you do get compared with your colleagues.

But you also won't get promoted just because of seniority, most of what people say about being hard to get promoted is true. However, there are only 3 SDE levels if you don't count Principal, so SDE II has a very large range of pay rates, and you don't need to get promoted to get a higher pay. Higher levels are all about being a better leader and influencing more people. There are people who spend 10 years as SDE II and are happy with it, because they don't care about leading others, they just care about doing their job, and this is fine.
I think it's just a difference in culture. The majority of people I went to high school with had their tuition paid for by parents as well. I'm from southern California if you're curious
Sure, that'd rock. Drop me an email. :)
This seems like the Best. Language. Ever. Obviously not for everything, but the readability of code is off the chart, and IDE and the integration of the documentation with the IDE is really...neat.

I've been looking at this for a few hours, and I am floored.

Am I missing something in existing IDE's?
Yeah, absolutely. You'd want to run your full test suite (which probably includes heavier integration tests as well) before deploying, but I think in a lot of cases it's valuable to provide, say, 95% accurate feedback quickly.
I once worked in an optics lab that had been really well planned. Each bench had network connections and optical fiber connections that go to each bench in each room of the lab. The idea was that you could build something in one room and send it's output to another room just by using the right fiber port on your bench. No need to string fiber optics along the floor and through doors!

Planning was undone by execution unfortunately. The installers claimed they had worked with fiber optics before and could do a great job. They installed the cat5 cables with such tight turns that only half of them work. The fiber optic cables had the same tight turns, and fiber is more sensitive to bends. The loss between benches just 4 meters apart is in excess of 30 dB! Totally unusable for practically all experiments.
From an evolutionary perspective, meaning is simply a tool that worked well enough to carry the genes that created it into subsequent generations (the same can be said for joy and happiness). Pondering our obsession with meaning and points might be more useful than trying to find them.
Yap. Remember my first digital camera was a Kodak. It wasn't very good compared to others during that time.
My family was making about $150k/yr when I was in school. We didn't get any assistance.

It's great that children from lower income families are getting subsidized, but with these kinds of policies there's always a hard cutoff point, and the people just above that cutoff point are the ones who get screwed.

Money shouldn't be in education period. If whether or not you can study is even partly determined by the finances of your parents, then the system is wrong.
And ironically they pay way more in taxes building excessively large public transit systems.
ImageMagick?:

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=...
If you look at the source code of React vs Mercury you might agree with him. Sucks is a strong word, however.

He's passionate about this stuff because there is a very simple mathematics to frontend development (both declarative UI and immutable state as a function of mutational events) that has been hiding in academic papers and haskell minds that is now coming to the forefront.

There is a better way, and it can reasoned about much better than other approaches.
We already have materials that can achieve 75% efficiency [1] and probably more(it's just a rough search), so the 90% figure is much less impressive . But they also claim low cost and low maintenance over other methods, which are highly valuable.

[1]http://www.mit.edu/~soljacic/cermet_solar-thermal_OE.pdf
Same on Chromium dev channel on Linux.
http://i.imgur.com/qFPBu1g.png
I've been following the "virtual-dom movement" since I started using React, which is a few months by now, including Mercury, Mithril and it's not the first time I run into Cycle. I agree they are taking these ideas further and actually am excited about the progress they are making, but the approach of "Don't Use This" and "Actually you are wrong", and "Those days are over" does not serve their cause.
I'll start off by saying that this type of research is very interesting, and in this case well done. However, the issue to me in "all optical neural nets" has always been the non-linearity.

The non-lineartiy (or activation function) is crucial to the high performance we see with deep neural networks. For example, on the task of interest here (MNIST, a classic hand-written digit classification task), a old-school linear classifier can get between 88% and 92.4% accuracy [1]. Whereas non-linear neural networks easily achieve 95%+ [1].

So until they figure out a way to represent a nice non-linearity (unless I missed something), these all optical techniques are at a permanant disadvantage.

[1] http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
Probably human error because the input widget did not allow that many digits.
My phone number is my username. It’s not a password. It’s public.
The derivative work has to be literally derived from the original "such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted." (per 17 USC 101). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101

The merger and scenes a faire doctrine permit lots of overlap in terms of themes, tropes and set dressing. You could certainly write a coming-of-age story set in a magical boarding school; indeed, Harry Potter is neither the first nor the last such novel. One of the classic cases is Walker v. Time Life. The two works, which were found to be non-infringing, both start with a double murder of two cops (one Black, one white) in the South Bronx, both feature demoralized Irish-American cops, and both have similar tropes (rats, cop-talk, etc). A reviewer might reasonably describe it as derivative (and a few did, I think), but not legally so.

What you probably couldn't do is publish the (non-parodic) story of Perry Hotter and his substantially-similar adventures at Pigworts, though that's also absolutely spoiling for a trademark fight.

Music gets weird because it a) seems like there are a lot of possible note sequences but b) there aren't really.
But that's marked to market value.

The shareholder still has to receive a dividend or sell that higher priced stock, which are both taxable events.

So I still don't get it.
So this is literally a website dedicated to defending the character of a major figure in the open-source world, and it gets flagged.

This is HN - people should be able to make their own judgement on the content of the site and discuss it here.
those are people that he trained, they were following his policies, risking their lives arresting violent criminals, they were doing their job.

Given all the evidence so far this was a highly difficult, dynamic situation with many moving parts, with cause of death is unclear and far from being determined.

To go on a witness stand and bash his subordinate to please prosecution and the mobs outside, to deflect the blame from himself, is pure cowardice, lowest of the low.
Were there any Breyer counterfactuals?
The name "archive" isn't reserved for the Internet Archive. ArchiveTeam is not an organisation, just a group of volunteers.
Can't resist, forgive me:

"FEC suspends [nothing] due to questionable social media activity"
Not GP. I don’t want to link to one or two specific sources, but you can find many reports by searching for “Facebook buying offline data”.
But that’s a doge, not a fox.

They got rid of the fox!!
Also, in adverse circumstances, harm can pile up faster and higher if you have your bills set to auto-pay. In the US, banks typically charge an overdraft fee for every transaction that overdraws an account, so unless you keep a generous liquid cushion in your checking account, one mistake on anyone's part (perhaps yours, or ACH, or your payee's autopay sytem, or your employer's payroll, or your other bank, or the person who stole your debit card) could put you hundreds of dollars in the hole.

To avoid this, you need to know that you have enough at the correct time in the correct place, and if you're doing that, you might as well click through each payment yourself.

If you're in a tough spot, this also gives you the option to make partial payments against credit cards and incur some interest, which is almost universally a smarter choice than incurring an overdraft charge against your bank account.
Using MB and MiB is more consistent than using 2 meanings of MB. But it's less consistent than using SI units for everything.
> be comfortable signing a 12 month lease where i agree to pay the landlord a fixed amount of btc.

...would you be more comfortable with that arrangement if your salary was in in fixed btc?
There’s me, a frequent traveller who uses UberLUX 4+ times a day, spending more than 5000GBP/mo.

Then there are 100 guys with outdated devices who use UberX once or twice a month to get back home from the pub, probably splitting the ride with their friends.

I bring in more money than the latter group of people.
Being on private property does not imply you can break the law, however, many road vehicle/traffic regulations explicitly apply only to roads open to public traffic (which may include some private property e.g. parking lots).

If the law says "it's forbidden to do X on public roads", you're not breaking the law if you do that thing on a private track. Details vary between locations, but seatbelts, roadworthiness, insurance, speed limits, etc generally are things that you are allowed to ignore outside of public traffic.

In your example of construction workers, other regulations (e.g. OSHA) would cover your concerns; but, for example, a truck driving up the ramp in a strip-mine would generally not be bound by traffic laws; construction sometimes uses various vehicles that simply can't ever legally participate in road traffic, they just get delivered as "cargo" or assembled/disassembled on-site.
Haha I was thinking that too. Maybe that's the best we have.
What I would've loved to have seen in some of the later levels is a very clear "you now need to use this new API call to accomplish the goal. Here's how that call works."

For example: in level 2, what if people only ever came to the second floor trying to go to the third floor, so you had to look at where buttons were being pushed and where they wanted to go?
My first thought was to make a hard rule that it must obey the laws in the location it's in. In the US, that would be federal, state, and the various local laws of your city or township or whatever.

And then I laughed at the mental image of a robot stuck in a deadlock due to all the mutually exclusive laws we have. (Of course, in Hollywood, replace "deadlock" with "exterminating all humans".)
> No it wouldn't. If a program has memory that it doesn't need and can live without it ought to just release it. Otherwise that is called a memory leak.

I disagree. A process could usefully cache the results of computation in RAM (e.g. a large lookup table). This RAM is useful to the process (will increase performance) but if it is discarded due to a spike in memory pressure it could be rebuilt.

> What happens when the kernel yanks a page of memory from über a running process?

There is a madvise() flag for this, MADV_DONTNEED - http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html

You get zero pages. Which is fine - you can detect that with a canary value and then you know you need to rebuild your cache.