jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the meeting time is defined in terms of the "wall time" in Chile.

So if you store the time in terms of UTC, then you are going to have problems when the relation between UTC and the Santiago/Chile timezone changes.

The computer in the example has the time wrong because it stored the time in UTC.
> Basically neural networks and many other machine learning methods are highly linear

No they're not! You introduce non-linearities like the sigmoid or tanh to make them highly non-linear.
Thanks! How are you associated with this project?
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But that isn't the only option. You could do that and use Google or systemd could have done the right thing and fallen back on its own recursive resolver. This is basically that worst possible option. I guess it is because it would require more work for systemd.
Good question. I have a CVT on a 2011 Subaru with ~100k miles, and never had an issue with it.

It still has a manual mode, even paddle shifters, but in regular drive, the lack of hard shift is really pleasant.
The problem is that basic controls got moved into touch screen interfaces.

Before I could turn my fan speed knob by feel. It was "stepped" so I knew what level it was at when I moved it, if it was min/max. Same with heat and cool. Knob to adjust what vents. All could be done with eyes on the road.

Now? OK you can change climate control, go into touch screen, open up controls, tap to change 5 times to different vents, some crap slider to control fan speed, all requiring to look in order to see where to touch. The lack of tactile feedback just sucks.

On a phone yea sure it's great because I'm looking at it when I use it - it's function is to look at it. Not in a car.
Chrome has an option to send DNT, but Google's sites do not honor DNT:

> Most websites and web services, including Google's, don't change their behavior when they receive a Do Not Track request. Chrome doesn't provide details of which websites and web services respect Do Not Track requests and how websites interpret them.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761
I disagree that HDD manufacturers are screwing anybody over by selling in power of ten units, and bits are actually a more natural unit than bytes (the 8-bit byte is arbitrary and there have been computers with 6-bit bytes for example), but your list is fun so here are more examples:

* ISPs selling “up to” speeds.

* Screen sizes measured in inches-diagonal, without reference to aspect ratio.

* Cost of US products advertised without sales tax.

* Lots of things that “only cost X per day” to make the amount look small compared to the consumer’s monthly income.

* Supermarkets purposefully showing you price-per-unit for one product and price-per-weight for another allegedly comparable product.

* “Miles per gallon” still being used in countries where fuel is sold by the litre.

* Purposefully hard to multiply numbers used in monthly instalments. “Only 27 payments of $79!”

* Use of 9’s. “Only $999.99!”

* Food and drink manufacturers which are legally allowed to describe the quantity of an ingredient as zero if it is below a certain very small amount.

* CPUs sold as “up to X GHz” where that speed can only be sustained in specific and unmentioned thermal scenarios.

* Any product where the price is kept the same over time by decreasing the size over time, without mentioning it.

* Misdirection away from an important metric, like how AWS shouts about the great per-GB storage cost of S3 but doesn’t shout so loudly about the egress data transfer rate.

* Getting really basic now: simply putting a number in the product name to imply superiority. This is why Microsoft had to call the second Xbox the 360: because “Xbox 2” would sound less than its main competitor, the PlayStation 3.

Some of these probably go beyond the theme of misleading measurements and into the realm of my general hatred for the marketing profession.
I recall an AI playing a game that, just before losing, would press the "menu" button to pause the game and then stop doing anything. It fulfilled it's goal (not lose). That behavior should set expectations when it comes to AI.

Also, am-I the only one that thinks this whole "chat bot having a natural conversation to book an appointment" is useless when a simple date-picker would do?
I'm inclined to not like changes like this .. but this is close enough to the old Logo that it feels new, but fits the identity.
Same here. I've worked at a few companies like that, and it's always a ton of office politics with senior employees never being held accountable because they're not technically in charge. It's a prime example of "some are more equal than others".
Can also make a licensing system for housesitters too then
The author acknowledges themselves: "The patch that I made was only good for the current Steam version of CK3, on my operating system, with my cpu architecture."

Not counting the fact that a change like that would need to be more thoroughly QA-ed to make sure it doesn't break something at some point.
That just means someone in charge made a bad choice during planning and either no dev or designer ever dared to speak up against it or many of them supported said bad choice.
This is it right here.

The magic of these horrible ERP systems is that auditors like them because they've dealt with them before.

I've had a similar conversation about such with the owner of a company who wanted to go public on the horizon. Switching to SAP or Oracle is for this reason and this reason alone. It's such a shame that they are so awful and yet this somewhat tiny thing is the deciding factor.

I'm sure many companies have fucked up their entire internal systems and, potentially, lost out on moving forward simply because they went with these beasts. Tech turnover has got to be huge when you move to something like this. It's probably not worth it in the end, really.

Let the auditors bitch.
Would love to hear examples of other platforms.
It seems strange to have a tax that is based on the subjective motivations of a property owner. How would you even know why someone wasn't renting out a given property at a given moment in time?
Why isn't there sound on the Rick Astley song? "I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand."
The ADA does not apply to independent contractors - Uber does not have to accommodate driver disabilities AFAIK.
16 hours makes quite a difference, evidently ...

Now Google's entire first page is results about the Samuru search engine, starting with a press release by Stremor announcing their new search engine and touting its use of "language heuristics".
Really cool Dalia ! I hope you become a great coder and find your purpose :)

If after Google you're interested in sustainability and want to come work at a cool startup in France, let me know haha!
Have you had the pleasure of meeting Terry A. Davis?
> [Icon Fonts] Treated like text
> [SVGs] They are semantically image elements

Sometimes that's exactly the opposite of what I want. What's next, "Stop using emoji, use SVG instead"?
> if you're living there you aren't going to have it taken away for a property tax lien.

I don't know if that is true for CA, but in some localities, you most certainly will, eventually, be evicted from your own property for a property tax lien. It will take quite some time for the court case to wind its way to completion, but eventually the Sheriff will show up one day with an eviction notice and forcibly remove you from the property.
I've been thinking about this, only using Etherium contracts.
Yes, that's probably part of the reason - apart from a fad-of-the-month kind of thing, and also due to genuine interest in the topics.
> non-white stakeholders (homeowners) aspire to the same kind of skin-in-the-game cooperation with their neighbors.

What about the rampant housing discrimination in home-buying (without any enforcement) [0]? What about massive racial wealth disparates?

I think it is pretty naïve to suggest that the current backlash against having "renters" has nothing to do with race. Not more naïve than suggesting it only has to do with race, but close.

[0]: https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-...
Any monitor? Not mine. HDMI required.
Yeah, definitely. Also, thanks to you and mkuhn for defining the possible dates and location during our first meeting. Let's just hope I find the entrance this time :)
I'm of the opinion that programming is more an art than a science, so to me asking the objective metric of programmer productivity is like asking the objective metric of painter productivity.

In my experience, if you're technical you just kind of know if a programmer is good or not. If you're not technical, you find a technical person you trust and ask them.
Call me skeptical, but I think the underlying explanation most likely is a change in counting methods (or, more probably, an error). With the rise of China, the demand for tiger bones has only increased. For a local villager, one tiger's bones are more than what he'd earn in several years, so it provides a tremendous economic incentive to kill tigers. The easiest (for the killer) methods are to poison them or electrocute them at the watering hole. It is really sad.
It is in their wheelhouse, but this information is probably deemed to be part of the "secret sauce" which would be hard for any "information economy" company to part with.
Problem isn't with kids but more with teens.
Instead of trying to ban it, just talk about it.

Banning it would only make it slightly harder to find and would make parents believe their child/teen is "safe" and will never see porn... WRONG. Kids have plenty of time to find what they want.

Sex education is the only solution.
I was actually watching him do that and I was thinking the same thing. I don't know anything about developing but I was thinking that if the casing has even a tiny crack then the camera flash would ruin at least one photo.
The nice thing to do would be to send him a friendly email and tell him about it. Maybe he just doesn't realize it.
>> "SO is useful for the first 5 years of a software engineer's life. After that, it's occasionally useful when you need to pick up a new technology."

That's what I find in my use and I don't think that's a problem. I think the harder to answer questions should be on their own Stack Exchange system. Moderation on that system would have different rules. I think if you keep it separate the second type of moderation you describe could work, however mixing the two types of moderation with Stack Overflow would lead to more problems imo.
I grew up on the beaches of Australia, and had my share of fishing time, casting the long shores endlessly, catching and releasing, never eating much fish but having a good time wasting nothing but time with my grandfather, who bought me my first - and only - beach fishing rod. I learned to set my own rigs depending on conditions - the long trailer for the surf, the sinker spoon for the sand, and so on. Whenever I ran out of tackle, I'd don my snorkel and go out and do a collection, retrieving all the competing fishermens' stuff right off the reefs they'd left it. I learned that you don't need much to catch some stupid fish - just a few centimeters of an old white plastic straw and a small hook is enough to get yourself the surface dwellers.

Since I moved away from it all, and haven't picked up a fishing rod in decades, it all still stays with me - but I put that old passion into programming now.
Burn's Selkirk Grace is about the only thing I've tried to memorise; I'll check afterwards how far away I was:

Some hae meat and cannae eat,
And some wid eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit
Common Lisp, which supports the widest variety of programming paradigms in one language that I can think of

Allow me to introduce you to Mozart/Oz and AliceML. Seriously, those two twin languages are the most epic out there.

You would have to hack CL extensively, and bundle various libraries to make it on par with Oz or Alice. Maybe CL + Screamer + FSet + Heresy + pcall + cl-store would be a pale, distant imitation.

For the last 50 years, PL research has been done with minimal kernel languages, implementing few features. Don't know what mental mutation caused the Oz team to go the opposite way and implement "everything imaginable" in a tiny language, but I like it. The core of Oz is no larger than Scheme, btw.
The book needs a section on the IDE & plugin system.
And the logic programming stuff too.
(you said you wanted suggestions)
makes no difference to us :)
$200M is still a quarter of their capital expenditure in 2009 not including the other parts of the machines. And before 2009 flash was much more expensive and not as fast as it is now. It would surprise me greatly to hear that they had gone this route.
I can't wait to compile Hamlet with it. I've been wondering for years what that script does.
Stephen Hawking wasn't "wrong", it was a theory. Theories aren't nessacarily what's actually going on, it's just a way of viewing a problem in a way that helps you predict outcomes. People who say things like "this theory is wrong" are the same typ of people who say "scientists say" or "science says". Susskind simply came up with a theory that is less wrong, and that will spark new conversations and one day someone will come up with a theory that's less wrong than his.
The problem is that the Windows commandline, legacy Windows programs and modern Unix systems all use different encodings, so any particular string of bytes (representing non-ASCII text) will only be correct on one of them.

For example, let's say our Other Country is a Western European country. The encoding for non-Unicode Win32 programs will be Windows-1251 (more or less ISO 8859-1) and the encoding for MS-DOS programs and the commandline will be codepage 850.

In this scenario, this Python 2 program (saved as UTF-8):

#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print "ångström"

will print the wrong thing – "├Ñngstr├Âm" if you run it from the commandline, and "Ã¥ngstrÃ¶m" in a more Windowsy context (e.g. if you're writing it to a file and reading it in Notepad).

To make it correct, you can apply the Unicode sandwich approach:

1) Know the input encoding and decode from that to Unicode.

2) Process the text as Unicode.

3) Know the output encoding and encode into that encoding on output.

In other words, making it a Unicode string will transform the text from whatever encoding you chose to write the file in to whatever encoding your terminal happens to use, so this program will always (if the system is correctly configured) print the right thing:

#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print u"ångström"

In Python 3, UTF-8 source encoding and Unicode strings are the default, so the correct program becomes simply:

print("ångström")
Maybe the Australian tourist board could adopt the slogan, "Australia, not as bad as North Korea".

Or maybe the Australian people could aim a little higher?
Reg A+ (what was just voted on) is probably not going to be a good fit for you, since you're required to get approval from the SEC and need to periodically file audited financial statements. But the other part of the JOBS Act (commonly referred to as Title III) should be here by the end of the year. You should check out Wefunder (disclaimer: my startup), we'll be supporting the JOBS Act.
We love AppEngine for many of the reasons which he gives. Because of its limitations, the platform makes you think and write code with proper design patterns in mind. If you just start to write code without thinking about it beforehand, yes you won't like AppEngine and it's not for you. It'll cost you LOTS of money and won't perform very well. On the other hand, by writing code designed for AppEngine we've been able to reduce our costs by several thousand $$ a month. Also a side benefit is that we migrated one of our IT roles to a development role, which means that we're able to iterate faster.

Granted we don't have a need for SSL and not being able to use C libraries in python has caused us many hours "pain", but compared to the alternative for a small company like we have, it's well worth it.

My biggest issue with AppEngine is that there's no full-text index functionality, and there's no way to create your own. We've tried everything, and nothing works if you have millions of documents like we have. Our search is still external to AppEngine but we're hoping that Google will do something about it sooner or later.
The best evidence for the existence of the g factor are IQ tests, and IQ tests are optimized to measure the g factor.

Do you see a problem there?

The g factor—or more descriptively—the theory of general intelligence has little support outside of the field of psychometrics. And the field of psychometrics is not known for it’s scientific rigor. Needless to say, there is little reason to believe that the theory of general intelligence has any grounds in reality, nor that the g factor exists outside of an operationally defined concept that might not hold any descriptive power for human behavior outside of a narrow setting of pen and paper tests.
If I might offer a different view, he did read Chaos, understood it well, and wrote a masterpiece that connects different strands of science to each other and to broader themes of culture and history. There’s no accounting for taste, and if you don’t like the play, no one can make you, but on the science he is always correct. If you’re interested in knowing more, I recommend Hermione Lee’s deep take on Arcadia in her new biography, Tom Stoppard: A Life.
Whilst I am willing to concede that his approach and ideas might not be novel, it is his fantastic delivery of lectures and connecting different phenomena in a network to explain/support a concept is what draws me to his stuff. As a counterpoint, I really like Campbell's a Hero with a Thousand Faces, but darn if his book isn't hard to read.

I think it's a fair argument against him, but it is not Campbell or Evola who managed to get into the spotlight and spread those ideas to millions, but Peterson. Perhaps it could be argued that it's his captivating presentational style or ability to package things well are his USP?

Thank you for the reading list, I do want to delve deeper into this stuff.
I've used this, and it works nicely: https://github.com/numericalalgorithmsgroup/pybobyqa. I'd be happy if it were added to your project, then I could just use yours and have access to a bunch of alternatives with the same API.
I totally agree. That's the only big drawback I currently see with signal.

I would even be satisfied if i can regularly backup messages to plaintext.

I like to keep my messages and be able to look up stuff later. If I don't want to keep the log i switch on self deleting messages, which is quite cool.
So down from the 2 billion peak?
Whoops, that was a transposition. Thanks, fixed.
Even in NYC hailing a taxi was a terrible experience if you were a minority or were traveling outside of Manhattan or North of 125th.
yeah, it's a bad lesson. We should teach kids to be smart with money, not doing something just because.
Git doesn't really have changesets as first order objects; it has snapshots. Each commit is the hash of a snapshot of the tree at that point, together with the commit message and the hash of any (at least one) parent commits. This is pretty much the entire data model. The rest just pops out, which is why it is so elegant.
I debated whether to add the comment criticizing it. I gave a compliment first of what I liked about the essay. Then, I realize some might take the essay another way, so I said it wouldn't hurt to put in my 2 cent of this.
No conspiracy.
Lots of electric vehicles too, downtown Vienna is thankfully pretty hipster as well as cowboy.
Seems weird to accept that "quality of life" is a straightforward measure, but insists nothing of the like can be created for social studies.
The distribution of content might be quite different - but remember that ads aren't free - they're just another middleman that has to be paid, priced in in the cost of goods, a net drain from the point of view of the consumers (on first approximation at least).
You got it right. I read the announcement in Chinese on WeChat before any reports were available in English, and had to check other sources to make sure I was not misreading the facts. I attended all YC events in Beijing (May 2018, May 2019, June 2019) and certainly noticed some changes in marketing messages and a declining role of US partners, but never expected this sudden "rebranding" to happen. After leveraging the YC brand to gather resources and attract applicants, this just feels like a shameless takeover.
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Wow, this is incredible. Can't thank you enough!

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Joel dictating my lunch choices

I'm pretty sure Joel isn't going to freak if you go out for lunch to meet some other friends, go somewhere different, or just to go for a walk, or to an appointment.
I guess my initial question would be how many hours did you work for him? If it wasn't a lot of time, just accept that you aren't getting paid.

If you did put a lot time into it, then I would push more but make sure you understand why you are trying to get the $$. You won't convince him you were valuable or get a recommendation or reference (I have seen others think they can convert a bad client into a good one).

Finally, understand that bad collections are a fact of life. Everyone has it, and regardless of whether you have a contract or not, you are going to have to expect some amount of losers.
The lawsuit's a bit aggressive, but taking a meeting with a VC when you're not fundraising in order to mess with someone else's raise is fairly common.
Not paying Apple or Google a cut of every product sold via mobile was the revenue plan. If I pay Apple 30% of my profits every time someone orders something via my mobile app, that's a lot of money I can sink into a competing product before it becomes a net loss (assuming I get any traction at all).