jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No - complexity theory deals with the "hardness" of problems not of algorithms, and yes, then the bounds on what algorithms we can write to solve them.

By that metric (and even by your own argument "the inability for algorithms"), the undecidability of the halting problem definitely fits within the complexity definition.
I repeat: Can you point to the specific instances of violence you are talking about and the speech that inspired them?
People wrongly predicted the end of the tech industry (and by tech industry i mostly mean ad-tech like google, since that is the subject of the thread) because they don't understand it, and there was even more reason to misunderstand it when it was in its infancy.

Now, we can see the amount of anti-trust cases against them, the amount of regulation popping up, the overabundance of young compsci students. There are reasons to expect it to burst one day, but I never said that day was soon.
> tell me how the right could possibly believe anything else.

On the one hand we have only the word of a known liar and his band of sycophants. On the other we have the sworn testimony and/or judgments of literally thousands of election officials and judges, including from states with Republican legislatures (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona). Maybe the "right" should get out of their bubble and join everyone else.
Ah yes, the "free world" that is the USA. Sorry, as a German with "plenty" of limitations on free speech (from denying the holocaust, to "insulting") I can't empathize too much.
If curious see also

a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25254648

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23747133

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20287486

Lots in 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8243452

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109265

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7214783

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7145219

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463471

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141699
> Many vegetables and some fruits can still be consumed (though not necessarily much fruit) and maintain a low-carb diet.

The other thing people don't always realize is that the longer you've been on a low carb diet, the more carbs you can eat and stay ketosis.

After 6 months or so, even an entire medium sized apple (19g of sugar) isn't likely to be a problem.

This is even more true for people who work out, heck 40g of sugar from fruit followed by 1 hour of high intensity workout, probably not an issue.

Starting out strict is needed to get on the keto train, but, but a low sugar ice cream with 10g a serving twice a week isn't going to kick most people out of Ketosis if they've been there for awhile.
The Haskell's record/struct syntax is probably the worst of any language.

C style:

a.b.c = 1;

Haskell:

let b' = b a
c' = 1 + c b'
b'' = b' { c = c' }
in c' { b = b'' }
You can also use C++, Java, Kotlin, C#, or almost any popular language. Compiling to JS is not an innovation its a hack and a testament to how terrible the language and ecosystem is.
I suspect they're relying on the confusion. A fully educated software engineer likely has a long and remunerative career ahead of them. A web developer may not, and one trained this way almost certainly lacks the breadth of skills required for said career as a software engineer.
What is that supposed to mean? Software is software, and a great deal of GPL software is currently in the hands of consumers.
More to the point, developers think that pointer events obviate the need for separate codepaths that accomplish the same thing.
Maybe a dumb question, but how would you use this at work? Do you mix it up at home in the morning and bring it in? Or just mix it at your desk?
Might be me, but I'd be surprised if they hadn't. They hacked so many countries including China[1], Mexico[1], Belgium[1], Syria[3], Iran[4], etc. (after saying that a digital attack is an act of war[2]). I don't remember each and every leak and I don't feel like looking up everything, but they seem to have targeted loads of people in various countries. I doubt North Korea (which is not even an ally) is the exception.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations#Kno...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_in_the_United_Sta...

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/13/5998237/nsa-responsible-fo...

[4] Stuxnet http://rt.com/news/snowden-nsa-interview-surveillance-831/
Thanks, our dev team is on it :)
The title had me excited for a second there... guess I’ll have to go back to my diesel powered crystal ball..
You've probably missed it, it's on the 24. place for me
Watching the PBS NOVA series “Finding life on Mars” I am so proud to see such an astounding diversity of ethnicities involved in the Mars 2020 projects. I can’t phantom any other countries would have inclusively included other ethnicities in such a high profile project. Despite so many set backs in 2020, the US is still the most inclusive country at least in science and research.
Great, grain boundaries are really what it gets down to.

I only have two things to say:
1.) Good luck testing and gathering data on these ideas. You'll need it.
2.) Are you hiring mechanical engineers?
You can't beat code reading for learning these things .. it really helps and its a lot fun as you get into it and your understanding gets wider.
The mother also admits she knew nothing about porn at all, and thought that he was looking at still pictures.

I don't think it's a distinction between photo and video. A person who doesn't watch porn imagines it is unusually large breasted women having sex on camera. They assume "extreme porn" refers to maybe the piledriver position or women dressed up as schoolgirls.

They have no idea that the kind of sex you learned about in sex ed is actually a niche category.
A friend of mine has a great line for whenever something unexpected happens in a demo: "I'm glad this happened and I'll tell you why..."
I don't really feel like Metro is going towards OS X at all, they seem to be strongly going their own way.

>Outside of the "real" shell the entire UI doesn't seem to be designed for software professionals

Interesting, any specific examples? I'm genuinely curious. For me, the more I use OSX, the more I'm frustrated with Windows. The one thing I do miss from Windows is better full screen support. Yosemite kinda helped with that (but it's still kinda clunky).

Other than that, I feel like there's a little more logic behind OSX with common operations, off the top of my head:

Option/alt to modify existing commands. The keyboard kungfu on OSX seems easier on the hands, too, since the combos typically rely on thumb keys vs a Windows pinky reach of Ctrl. Especially noticeable because the thumbs seem pretty underutilized vs pinkies, which already have plenty of keyboard duties.

File renaming: "Enter" to rename a file vs "F2" (something I happily accepted as random dogma, but now it's "??")

Folder/file nav: unified drill down in the file browser (cmd+up/down to navigate levels, with the file level simply opening the file, vs arrow keys, then enter to open)

Window management: being able to close all windows without exiting the app itself (handy when I'm clearing clutter but I don't want to pay a cost for restarting a big application, or if I simply just didn't realize it was the last window when I closed it, and now I have to relaunch the application)

*Scrolling: Being able to scroll any window whether or not it's the active application, so long as the mouse cursor is hovering over content.

Not to say everything is more logical, just common things I do. The screen capture shortcut is totally bizarre to me, I have to google it every time.
CB: Are you a real person?

User: No.

CB: Who are you?

User: I am the smartest bot on the Internet.

CB: I'm the smartest one.

User: No, you haven't even passed a Turing test.

CB: What is a turing test?

User: If you don't know, then you are NOT the smartest bot on the Internet.

CB: Touche.
That's a fallacy that I'm frankly tired of hearing. Unix was designed from the start to run multi-user environments, whereas Windows grew out of DOS, which was initially built for single-user, non-networked environments. The difference in their initial goals led to wildly different security models.

The average Unix user runs without superuser privileges most of the time. Typically, the less experienced a user is, the less privileges he has in a Unix environment [1].

At least as recently as Windows XP [2], the average Windows user ran his computer with an administrator account on a daily basis, which opens the user to much greater damages from malware. When I used Windows on my own computers, I always setup a non-administrator account for daily use, but I'm experienced enough to know (1) how to do that and (2) that it's a good idea. This suggests that Windows has an inversion of privileges compared to Unix. That is, the most experienced users grant their daily account the fewest privileges, whereas the least experienced users operate with administrator privileges.

[1] http://librenix.com/?inode=21

[2] Windows XP is the latest version of Windows that I've had enough experience with to say what the average user's setup is like. I hear that the situation has improved a bit with Windows 7, but when I was an intern at Microsoft, every one seemed to run as an administrator on their Windows 7 machines, so I'm not convinced that it's any better.
What if prime numbers can actually plotted as a fractal, i.e. they have fractal geometry? I bet they do, since fractals showing up in more and more unexpected places in nature, physics, and math.
Someone donated one of these to my high school in the early 70's: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-0672.jpg

I wrote (in assembler) a terminal-based football simulation based on what I remembered of a program I had played on an ASR-33 terminal during a tour of Bell Labs with a friend's father a year or two before. I was 15 or so.
Another idea that's been stuck in my head for a long time: A photo app which allows people to add speech bubbles.

Please make this and you will be a hit.
I think Wired will get burned by the Manning case..

When a writer gets involved in the story we call it Gonzo Journalism..but usually when that is the case..its claimed upfront...

In this case Wired wants to hide the fact of a writer being fully involved in the story and claim its due to personal privacy..
"Tipping points" are so-named because, after you've crossed them, you can magically disappear all of the CO2 in the atmosphere away instantly, and it's still too late to reverse the thermodynamic momentum of the bad stuff happening. If we don't stop racing to those tipping points, we'd better get fusion working pretty fast.
> expensive train systems

I think you meant "expansive"?
I'm real stuck on what possible value Apple can bring to building a car. The entertainment and technology packages are an important customer facing experience, but at the end of the day it needs to get you from A to B while being shielded from the weather.

Basically all the bits which make a car valuable are outside any of Apple's competencies - transmission, suspension, air conditioning, heck even passenger seating and ergonomics.

The proposal is functionally Apple trying to buy from the ground up a whole new industrial function with near zero overlap to things they're actually good at.
This resonates with me being a product manager. In product work, honing your craft over time is what propels you and your career forward. There's no faster way to do that than working at a startup, or on a product with a burgeoning business around it.
Do you want a bit of perspective from someone who's been living under a very thick pall of coal-produced smog for many years? 100-500 µg/m³ of PM2.5 at day time (depends on wind speed mostly, right now it's 550 µg), twice or thrice that at night. I don't think my body can tolerate this much longer. If we were to switch the coal power plants to nuclear energy, I'd jump up and down like a little girl. A small risk of second Chernobyl seems just fine in comparison to this. I'd be fine with a risk of nuclear explosion with no chance to escape, honestly.
I’ve been trying to avoid using WhatsApp since it became Facebook but sadly almost everyone (no it’s everyone) I commmunicate with uses it and doesn’t care what happens to their data. I await the day when something significant occurs that gives the masses that push they need to switch to alternative privacy focused communication.
I think Sahil brought up a great point with talent hiring in a competitive space (tech) that I found to be repeatedly true - flexibility. Autonomy is a helluva drug.
>"While Gumroad was no longer on track to become a billion-dollar company, I acquired a new asset: time. I used that time to take classes on writing and painting.

Because I was burned out and didn’t want to think about working any more than I needed to, I instituted a no-meeting, no-deadline culture.

For me, it was no longer about growth at all costs, but “freedom at all costs.”

This way, Gumroad stayed profitable, I could take a much-needed break to explore my hobbies, and the product continued to improve over time."

[...]

>"Today, working at Gumroad resembles working on an open source project like Rails. Except it’s neither open source, nor unpaid.

Instead of having meetings, people “talk” to each other via GitHub, Notion, and (occasionally) Slack, expecting responses within 24 hours. Because there are no standups or “syncs” and some projects can involve expensive feedback loops to collaborate, working this way requires clear and thoughtful communication.

Everyone writes well, and writes a lot.

There are no deadlines either. We ship incrementally, and launch things whenever the stuff in development is better than what’s currently in production. The occasional exception does exist, such as a tax deadline, but as a rule, I try not to tell anyone what to do or how fast to do it. When someone new joins the company, they do what everyone else does: go into our Notion queue, pick a task, and get to work, asking for clarification when needed.

Instead of setting quarterly goals or using OKRs, we move towards a single north star: maximizing how much money creators earn. It’s simple and measurable, allowing anyone in the company to do the math on how much a feature or bug-fix might be worth.

But we don’t prioritize ruthlessly.

People can work on what’s fun or rely on their intuition, because as long as we remain profitable and keep shipping, we tend to get to the important stuff eventually. Our public roadmap helps Gumroad's creators hold us accountable."
I've done my fair share of WCF development, and I can tell you without reservation that it just BLOWS!

I'm glad MSFT is moving away from that.
I was a Griddy customer in Houston, for 2+ years (until the Monday of the ice storm). They communicated what was coming, and even sent out emails on the 13th encouraging everyone to leave. Their app had the granularity like you said (updated every 5 minutes). Switching off their service took about 5 minutes (though there is timing as to when you exactly switch to the new provider)
Aren't most discussions on HN an ideological debate of one form or another? I think my error is being on the wrong side of the popular view here. Oh well, you cannot please everyone all the time :). In parting I thank you for the great, and not appreciated enough, work you do as HN mod. My best to you, sir.
IMO SystemTime should be avoided in its current state. The API is extremely limited and annoying to use for no good reason. And what's worse is that both precision and range depend on the platform.
Can you elaborate on the cascading s-parameters bit?
Barrier for entry for new developers.

I think JavaScript's huge success in the last decade is primarily attributed to the plug-and-play dependency ecosystem and dynamic typing

Beyond that, not much
> Let’s just think for a minute about what a 68ft hominin with a fairly large brain, possibly erectus-derived, with stone tools, that fought its way to Java from AfrAsia would have been doing with those insane crocodile jaws.

A 68 ft human sure is scary!
I'm not sure what timeline Gabe believes in but attempting to pour his time and money into something doesn't really matter, does it? It doesn't have to pay off tomorrow for it to be a worthy endeavor.

Also, it's important to understand that our understanding of interfacing with the human nervous system is not as in the gutters as most people think. Right now you can find labs interfacing computers with nerves:

A recent, of many, example: https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/health-tech/its-like-you-have...

Going back slightly further, this is a company interfacing with your retina: https://secondsight.com/discover-argus/#

Going back even further, this is a person interfacing with your visual cortex: http://web.archive.org/web/20050404225434/http://www.artific...

Here are some videos of the original prototypes in one of the first patients: http://web.archive.org/web/20050312143129/http://www.artific...

What's very interesting is there's a breakdown of the costs/components of this system on this page: http://web.archive.org/web/20050312145543/http://www.artific...

1 miniature camera mounted on eyeglasses
1 frame grabber
1 microcomputer
1 stimulus generation module
2 implanted electrode arrays with percutaneous pedestals
3 sets of rechargeable batteries and 1 charger (customer is responsible for replacement batteries as needed)

It's essentially a phone + signal generator connected to 16 spots on the surface of the brain. This is from early 2000s computing so I don't think it's outrageous to say with a mix of FPGAs and modern signal generation chips something like this is more practical.
Show me please.
We don't have to ban self driving cars. We just set the success criteria at zero deaths. If companies want to spend money pursuing it believing they can hit that goal that's on them.
> With a 6-12 tax brackets with crazy amount of deductions, I need to [list of 5 steps]

None of your steps are made more complicated by more brackets or less complicated by fewer brackets. You determine your taxable income (the complicated part), then lookup that taxable income in the tax tables (simple).

If the taxable income is low enough, there is a table with a large number of entries that each cover a small enough range that you don't even have to do any computation. You just find the line that covers your taxable income and the table tells you the tax.

If your income is too high for that table you have to use a smaller table with entries that cover larger ranges. That table currently has 4 entries. You find the row whose range includes your taxable income, and calculating your tax involves a multiplication and a subtraction--which is just as much work as calculating your tax under your proposed two bracket system for people whose income is high enough to be in the second bracket.
Except it is: literally none of this is illegal. And it's not clear how it could be illegal: what's the distinction between cruise control and lane keeping and these systems? Very little - nothing you can codify.

It's also very likely that this system can pass a standard driving test: AIs are really good at handling fixed test cases. So any regulation you do pass has a complicated assurance problem: how does it prove the system is safe?

Pretend Tesla just knocked "beta" off the name and said "this is a limited self driving system, Tesla exclusive" - then you wind up in the same bucket with the same "it's the drivers responsibility problem".

People see this footage and assume Tesla self drive does this all the time - but it wouldn't. It probably passes this scenario in testing 100% of the time: but the issue of course is the test is not quite whatever this circumstance is, and the system has a dramatic failure.

There is absolutely a regulation problem.
> My experience is that flour is quite expensive

My mom loves making baked goods. At some point, she switched to buying 5+ lbs. bags of flour. It turns out that flour bags from 1-25 lbs. are priced way closer than you'd expect.
Maybe you should read the NYT article I sent. That is the death rate of Wuhan, where “care” meant being forcible quarantined on a stadium floor.

1.4% figure is the death rate with terrible care. Compare that to the non-corona USA death rate of of 0.8%

In other words, even with terrible care the death rate of people with corona is only twice the death rate of people without corona. That’s not very alarming to me. And hardly worth these totalitarian economy stopping measures.
Can you "nudge" the system without collapsing the entanglement? And if so, could you do so in a way that predictably impacts the value of the entangled property?

I find it hard to grasp that there's no clever way to impart information over entanglement (without relying on classical messaging).

Is the state of entanglement fragile beyond our limits to record or alter? What about an ensemble of thousands of entangled particles - could we statistically sample some of them and force how they resolve?

What are the different properties that can be entangled? Angular momentum (spin, orbital) ...? Surely there's something we can clock and predict in the real world without requiring us to collapse the wave function to know what the state would be.
I think signaling that you've donated money towards something is the best way to get others to donate, virtue be damned.
I read an interesting article describing how cultural factors are affecting virus spreading.
Among many things, the family configuration is radically different in Germany than in Italy or Spain and this is one of the key factors (besides Germany being able to buy and execute tests to confine who needed to be confined in time).
It looks like many Italians (also many Spaniards but not so many) live with their parents even when they are 30-40 years old. In addition, many grandparents take care of children in daily or regular basis.
This means that very socially active slices of society are in constant contact with the the population which is most at risk.
You should be looking at borrowing from a bank. The Fed does not lend to individuals.
Density is a function of taxes, zoning, jobs, commute costs and probably much more. It can be changed given enough time.
It seems probable that the inability to close down critical infrastructure (ie medical, utilities, food) and the exceptional contageousness of the virus will likely thwart any attempt to eliminate it via isolation. It lowers the burden on the medical system for sure, but it just delays the eventual spread. Consider that 50 to 95% of Native Americans died from infectious disease after Europeans arrived, while the fastest method of transport at the time was a horse and most food was locally grown.

It's commonly stated that the average US citizen lives paycheck to paycheck, and it's fair to guess a large fraction of those would be laid off during this period.

If you're optimizing for strain on the healthcare system, then I suppose a 5 week lockdown makes sense. That said, unless a plan addresses providing for the millions of people who can no longer afford food and rent during said lockdown, it seems likely we'd encounter an entirely different set of problems. I don't know what the effect of a 10% contraction in GDP would be, but I think that's what you would need to weigh slowing the spread of the virus against. I'd be interested if someone knowledgable could do the math on lost years of life from 14% of the elderly dying vs such a severe economic contraction.
Good points, and Vaccination itself has a lag effect as well, If i understand it correctly.
I've heard that someone vaccinated with 2nd dose today will not have the protection percentage for 10days+ or so - Which needs to taken into account with these figures.

The vaccination also does no good if you are already infected, and with the spike in infections in Israel coinciding with vaccination ramp up, those will be tricky to separate out.