jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you are an employee in France, your salary is pre-populated in the website of the fiscal administration. My gains from my savings are pre-filed by my bank. During the year, I record my charity donations in a spreadsheet so I don't forget them, and I double-check with the declaration of the previous year to be sure I don't forget anything. Sometimes some categories are changed, but it's not that often. It's more complicated if you are a landlord.
The same thing happens at private enterprise because free market incentives don't apply internally; i.e. if I double my productivity it won't actually affect my income at all.
I use an English keyboard for development.
"No, I much prefer that Mozilla just go away and die."

If you're going to try to split hairs over "kill them" versus "go away and die", you're going to have trouble convincing people.
Today's BTC price has nothing to do with 2013. Lockdown has. Nothing to do no travel, no sport clubs and spaces like restaurants, coffe, bars, cinemas are closed to spent daily money.
Companies are investing too. There is no way back machine to the past.
How much do you need to retire? $500K? $1M? $10M?
Great point. Seen some of the things you describe, in places where I worked.
Feels like a rant about health care bias that was updated to include some mention of ML, but is still mostly about issues that existed previously.
This whole argument ignores the massive shifts in infrastructure that happened between dial up, adsl and fibre (and all the things in between). If you will pay for it, someone will build it.

I agree there is a practical limitation but

1. We're nowhere close to it, but it turns out a few large entities running the show is not efficient and slows it all down.

2. Information Technology is one of (if not the) the most rapidly changing fields

3. The cost of bandwidth will abide by Moore's Law, which means the price of producing it should as well. Couple that with the fact we're referring to an immensely wealthy sector and the cost argument loses merit pretty quickly
def day1_1(nums):
"Find 2 distinct numbers that sum to 2020, and return their product."
return first(x * y
for x in nums
for y in nums & {2020 - x}
if x != y)

`nums` is a set of integers
`nums & {2020 - x}` Finds all the numbers that are in the set of `nums` and the set of `{2020 - x}` - this basically extracts a number, `y`, for which `x+y = 2020`.

So for each x in nums, he extracts a number from nums that, added to x, equals 2020. If there is such a number y, he checks if it is the same as x, and only if it is different, does he yield in his generator, as the product of y and x.

It's succint, but not exactly readable, imho.
I don't know about this. My resume would fall into the category of some of the bad examples, but I've never had a problem getting contacted by companies or recruiters. In fact, I can count on one hand the amount of times I have not heard back from a company when reaching out to them.
Was this just flagged off? It seemed popular until an hour in.
Typically, older teachers who sleep with a lot of students do abuse their position and authority in order to be able to do it. Whether by giving favorable/unfavorable grades, by visibly preferring some students or by more direct threats.

> moralist, religious-derived, US-centric concern

Then again, if teacher touches you inappropriately in US or is trying to manipulate you into that, you can actually complain. It is not easy and you may not be believed, but you are is still in better compared to less moralist places.

It is not exactly US-centric concern to think that any of above happen. The same happen everywhere. It is that complaining about it in US is not a taboo.
Is the goal to make the process more efficient/fair, or to give advantage to the users?
Doesn't work for me in Chrome 39:

> main.js:129 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token var
Don't follow you and your logic at all nor understand how you came with it.
TBH there are also global effects here - the infection rate cratered here too and we're only at 15% in California, but it was cratering already and new infections have been flat since the end of February / early March.

There's a lot going on right now and I'm suspicious of any ad-hoc math given there are so many variables at play.
Honestly, we're lucky there aren't 2M podcasts.

I used to work in radio, and for many years of that part of my job was to listen to all of the resume tapes that potential talk show hosts and documentarians sent in. (A couple of times forcibly, barging past the receptionist and insisting everyone listen to their tape before being escorted out.)

The bottom line is that while almost everyone thinks they have an important story to tell, very few people really do have anything compelling to say. It's important to them, but isn't all that interesting to the rest of the world.

And for those few people in the world with something truly interesting or important to say, even fewer are actually good storytellers. They'd be better off writing their compelling stories for other people to voice, which is what a lot of professional podcasts do.

The internet made it easier for everyone to have an equal voice. But all that did was teach us that not everyone is worth listening to, so we mostly just hear the loudest voices.
Only 8% of the UK’s population is fully vaccinated with the second dose.
The vast majority of my communication is verbal, and that includes technical communication. "Only" isn't really "only."
If we were doing this in Peano Arithmetic using Gödel numberings, then ◻P would be expression by taking the Gödel number encoding P and applying a predicate that expresses provability to that number.
This might be written as like, Provable«P» with the quotes indicating taking the Gödel number of the proposition P, in order to encode it in a way that Peano arithmetic can talk about. (Usually one uses the right angle brackets on the upper corners for the quoting, but my phone doesn’t have that on the keyboard, which is why I’m using “«“ and “»”). Statements like this are statements in the same formal system as P.

The modal logic known as “provability logic” is a nice abstracted system which captures how these things work, and allows for dealing with them in a general case.

◻◻P is perfectly sensible, and if the system is able to describe itself sufficiently well (which is not a high bar; Peano arithmetic satisfies this requirement.) then if you can derive P within the system (without additional assumptions), then, simply by including a proof that the proof of P is a proof of P, one can produce a proof in the system of ◻P,
And so, if one can derive ◻P, so too can one derive ◻◻P .

(ProfHewitt’s post also uses basically the same thing as ◻◻P , though he writes it using the turnstile symbol rather than the square symbol, and I prefer the square symbol for it, and the turnstile for something slightly different. Not saying the use of the turnstile for it is wrong though.)
> > in the US, the number of people with Parkinson’s has increased 35% the last 10 years

> 10 years ago, the oldest U.S. baby boomers were reaching 65. Now, they are reaching 75[1].

The numbers do match up rather well. The US population over the age of 65 has grown around 33% in the last 10 years.

I see conflicting information regarding the average/median age at diagnosis, but it seems to be around there.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POPTOTUSA647NWDB

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPPOP65UPTOZSUSA
While the design is nice, it doesn't seem -that- earthshattering that it was done in four days. Once you make the realiziation that 'wait, ascii only needs the lower 7 bits, let's work off that', it's all just details past that.

Don't get me wrong, I love UTF-8 and it is well thought out and designed. But the end result is not so complicated, so much so that pretty much anyone reading the rules could understand it.

I think there was just a lot of low hanging fruit in the 90s that doesn't exist today, as they are solved problems. Today's 'amazing' things would involve image recognition or processing, self driving cars, better ML/AI algos. Things that are hard to impossible to be done by a guy or two over the weekend.

Sadly, as a result, I think we'll have fewer 'programming heroes' than existed in previous decades.
And again, you're citing a single study (and now a media piece) showing the lack of superspreader events and trying to generalize to "kids don't get covid", and that's simply wrong. Children get covid. Children spread covid. This is documented, and it happens. That SCHOOLS specifically seem not to be superspreader vectors is interesting, but not particularly informative about anything other than school policy.

As far as this odd celebration of a clearly failed national policy, just remember:

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

The fact that Sweden guessed right on schools and wrong on everyone else really should be guiding you to the opposite intuition here.
> If God really cared, we would be living in a utopia, free of suffering.

The Christian position is that God made a utopia. The world we are currently living is is abnormal - it has changed.

Well, who changed it? God? No, man did.

But if God really cared, wouldn't He have undone it? He could. The price would be that what we choose and what we do has no effect. That meaninglessness is a pretty high price for utopia.

But does He actually care enough to do anything? Yes. His "fixing" process involved His Son dying on the cross.

That's the Christian position. You may disagree with it. But "If God really cared, we would be living in a utopia, free of suffering" (and therefore either God doesn't exist or He doesn't care) is not the only consistent view of our present situation.
Yeah, I must have imagined the 1-2? computer science professors at MIT who had active data flow research programs when I showed up in 1979. The general opinion on campus was "this looks very interesting" but no one had yet figured out how to make it really work and be comprehendable.
The more appropriate time window is from 2008 to now, since that has been when Gates was absent from the company and when Ballmer truly ran the show on his own. Over that time the stock went from roughly $28.5 to roughly $34.5, while giving out a total of $3.51 in dividends per share. Inflation has a slight but non-trivial effect (adjusting that $28.5 stock price to about $30.9 in today's dollars). Overall you get a total rate of return on MSFT stock of about 23.5% over that 5 year period (even adjusting for inflation of the value of the dividends).

That works out to an annualized return of about 4.3%. That's better than a punch in the face but it's not that great compared to any other similarly sized tech company in any related industry.
About time. I hope that he picks someone that can take MSFT from the boring and problematic company that we have no choice but to deal with, to a company that is producing products that actually make it easier to use things and more powerful (Windows 8 was a huge step back).

They need someone who will innovate and continue to innovate.
Tim Cook has an MBA and a BS (earned in 1982) in industrial engineering. I was in college in the years leading up to 1982 and I socialized with industrial engineers. It is likely that Cook took only one course that involved programming (excluding programmable calculators). And the descriptions of his jobs ("chief operating officer (COO) of the computer reseller division of Intelligent Electronics", "12 years in IBM's personal computer business as the director of North American Fulfillment") suggest strongly that he did not do any programming once he left school.
TIL: You can have a Mohawk and tattoos and still work for the NSA.
Is anybody here working on an Apple Watch app? Feedback on the (v1) APIs?
“Red Hat”
Tough situation for Twitter to be in, since they are now effectively making a judgement that every other world leaders tweets are OK. IMO they should have banned him on Wednesday, and justified it by saying he incited the riot. Banning him because the latest tweets can be interpreted as inciting violence in the future is a lot harder to consistently apply, especially since my reading of the latest tweets doesn't really seem like they are inciting violence at all.

Not sure how you can ban Trump, and then allow leaders like Khamenei to stay on the platform.
Yes, long before. /r/t_d was pretty much dead at the point it was banned and the ban was pretty meaningless. Reddit gave them plenty of warnings that made it easy for them to figure out what was going to happen, since they've decided to ignore those warnings.

Not the case with /r/donaldtrump, which was banned a day or two ago.
After reading the reasoning, I'm afraid to tweet how I really feel about things now. (seriously.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
You are twisting yourself into a logical pretzel to avoid answering.

And no, harmful content does not get you deplatformed if it harms the right people: https://twitter.com/chineseembinus/status/134724760209453465...
So the has the term sketchy fallen out of use as a slang-term for untrustworthy?
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
For sake of argument, is there any evidence that people voted differently before catastrophist framing? It seems to me that Republicans have always voted against addressing climate change.

I guess what I'm saying is that I agree with you that the discourse of many activists isn't great, but I think that's because they have lost confidence that the other side will argue in good faith or even can be reached.
Halting the change that we've caused that is outside the scope of normal changes is obviously what they mean. Why are you pretending to not understand
That would be the NSA, which I guess is the same thing.
don't be such a buzzkill! :D
There have been numerous posts on HN showing why Google will collapse: information search on Google just isn't very good any more--results for information search (not talking about product search) are dominated by shopping results, blogspam, membership required/pay sites...

Someone will build a better mousetrap.
We are using QuickWeb VPS, cheap yet excellent uptime and support. i'm running my site with them for 6 months now and going great.

site is www.quickweb.co.nz/wht for promos packages! they have server at softlayer so very stable network.
And so was their iGoggles, which were apparently started, and cancelled at least 3 times internally.

Apple is so rich it can comission RnD on really whimsical things like transparent, and flexible smartphones. And things completely random on a whim like their furniture project.

I don't see iCoffeeTable coming as much as I don't see iCar. People are reading in too much into every random leak.
So... the attack on this would be to take over the local nameserver (or even just system DNS resolution) of the clients trying to get to a domain and then serve your own public key?
You need extra newlines. Reformatted:

Bink 2 - video codec

Oodle - data compression suite

Telemetry - profiling toolkit

Granny 3D - toolkit for building 3d games

Miles Sound System 10 - sound authoring toolset in 2D and 3D
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong about the biophysics of perception, but it seems to me that I register surprising sounds with less latency than unusual sights.

Computers definitely have less latency for audio than video, what with audio waves having many thousands of hertz while for video anything over 120fps is high speed.
I think self-driving taxis need to be in a separate category. No need to park them in the city core, but they provide the range and comfort people seek.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/banknovo.com
What's wrong with writing only JSX tho?
I love OpenBoard but their development has been very slow in the time that I've been using it. It's really solid for the most part but there's just a couple of features (like swipe-typing, and emoji search) that I wish it had. Still though, better than GBoard spying on me.
It's immoral because to be hired for a 40/hr full time job by 2 companies at the same time, you'll need to lie to both companies, representing to both that you're working full time, while in fact you aren't.

And presumably the lies aren't limited to the interview process. You'll probably have to lie on a daily/weekly basis to keep up the ruse (for example, what will you say when both companies want you in a meeting at the same time?)
Nope my behaviour was specifically related to office politics, I left the job. I never liked to fake it.

currently I am openly searching for some good remote part-time job so I can work with full productivity without office politics.
I had the pleasure of meeting these folks while they were building out this program - It was incredible to see the work they put in to truly scale out threat modeling by enabling dev teams to understand security risk.

Kudos to them on helping push us to a more secure future!
re 3 Restic is pretty good as you get your data encrypted locally, so it can be used over untrusted storage facilities.
Yes, groovy + @CompileStatic is comprehensively better than java with little to no performance loss.
You'd love this story from a law lecture I went to where the CTO of a $Big_pharma_corp came to speak. It was about privacy in biotech.

The CTO said they lobby for high regulation in privacy specifically to stifle startups so they can get them cheaper.

Generally politions work with the biggest industry players to craft regulation and it ends up like you described.
I use gmail too but I also have an email from my cheap hosting as a backup. The big problem with gmail is not that Google is reading my email but that this giants can lock you out without a reason and without a right to appeal.

I am super salty that Sony banned my PlayStation account(used by my son) for 2 months (I have a Plus subscription paid for 1 year too) without no way for me to see the exact reason (was it a text message, or a screenshot that was shared, or just a report from an troll) and no way to contest this. I made my decision and fuck consoles my son will have to learn to use a medium spec PC for gaming.
I have read a huge swathe of academic literature on classifying and recognizing emotions.

And the fact is that humans can't reliably identify emotions from photographs, so there's zero chance for AI.

While I don't agree with much of what she writes, the psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett gives an excellent overview of why at the start of her book "How Emotions are Made".

But a short explanation is that 1) emotions are expressed not just with the face but with the whole body, 2) the expression of emotion is a sequence of changes over time that can't be captured in a single frame, 3) there is extreme overlap in the expression of emotions (e.g. a seemingly grimaced look could either be painful anguish or ecstatic surprise) and 4) while we do have instinctual expressions for emotions (smile/frown/etc.), we learn culturally how and when to hide, show, fake, or otherwise modify these by habit, as well as consciously do so for our immediate purposes.

So we humans obviously do recognize emotions in others, but we do so with a huge variety of cues, we still frequently get it wrong, and we do a far better job when we share the same culture, and also know the individual person well. (Think how some people express anger with aggressive shouting, others by silently withdrawing.)

Most evidence for the idea that emotions can be identified (and cross-culturally) comes from the research of Paul Ekman, but this was limited to 6 "basic" emotions with photographs of highly exaggerated/stylized faces performed by actors. It has no relevance to whether real-life, non-"staged" emotions can be reliably detected.

So any AI products designed to supposedly recognize emotions are necessarily snake oil. I assume they are reliably measuring facial expressions, but facial expressions simply cannot be mapped to actual emotions in any kind of reliable way in the real world.
All of that complexity has been replaced by sync (e.g., collaborative editing as one example of). Sync is the problem of our era and it branches out in many directions (e.g., infinitely restorable, branching, searchable history).
Isn't there hardware support for JPEG decoding on most mobile devices?
If so, I imagine it couldn't compete performance and battery life wise.
I remember Mozilla did a software video decoder once in JavaScript.

Still, it is quite amazing.
It is not even that, just some people like the "errors" in the playback. They say it makes it sound warmer.
Super powers

Sign Language -> communicate with someone in a noisy room (across the room even)

Braille -> A friend of mine learned braille so he could "read" books after his parents said lights out. What a rebel.
That's why erlang has file:consult from the start. It just reads whatever data is in file, that data can be any valid erlang terms. That format is also used for typical system configuration files. Of course, you could make execution based on that configuration file, it happens that erlang already has "standardised" way of storing this as {M,F,A} (module, function, args), which you could send directly to apply:

{ok,Commands}=file:consult("functions.txt"),
[ apply(M,F,A) || {M,F,A} <- Commands ].

With contents of functions.txt:

{io,format,["Hello World!~n"]}.
I don't know how to phrase this without it sounding unnecessarily mean, but maybe you're just talking to shallow people?

Other than platforms with character count limits like Twitter, I don't see why the platform itself should have much affect on the depth or meaningfulness of conversations.
And on that note, is there any entity that has power that does not have a history of psychopathic behavior?

Psychopathic behavior just comes with power, it seems.
Roughly 10% of Americans are hard of hearing. Unfortunately far fewer have learned sign language.
Oh yeah, it's certainly a spectrum.

That being said, political influence on markets (e.g. via fiscal policy) is indirect and can take years to manifest.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-bill-clinton-does-no...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-let-trump-or-any-p...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/why-the...

Monetary policy, on the other hand, is immediate. Interest rates and treasury yields cause immediate movement in the economy because capital can be made liquid. It also has the potential to get really bad really fast, as we've seen with hyperinflation in Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

And specifically speaking to the merits of assets that are free from Fed/Treasury policy; if you had held a little bit of gold throughout the 2000s as a safety net, it'd have been much easier to weather the storm of the financial crisis than if you hadn't. People flock to safe haven assets to seek refuge from their country's policies when required:

https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuela-bitcoin-use-hyperinflatio...

https://www.coindesk.com/nigeria-bitcoin-adoption

Gold (and other comparable deflationary assets) are considered a hedge against fiat. Whether Bitcoin can also be seen as a comparable asset is the central question, but looking at the last 12 years, the ship has mostly sailed there.
And it looks like the parent went with a hosted solution which explains everything. Having to manage all the underlying services that k8s glues together is a huge PITA.
Now you reminded me of a book that my grand father has, where the title is something like:

Яцssiди Сдяs

And it’s just so horrible to make a title using Cyrillic characters according to what looks like Latin and not according to their actual sounds XD
There is an entire genre of fiction called cyberpunk which is mostly about why this is a bad idea. It's like if they announced that they managed to clone a dinosaur all of us would be like "did you watch movie"
Short selling is necessary to counteract hype. Only naked short selling is a problem.
very interesting. i know for a fact i am influenced by scarcity messages. i can feel my pulse quicken a bit when i'm shopping and it says there's 1 or 2 products left in stock.