jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Fed officials are predicting 30% unemployment

One official said it may happen: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-22/fed-s-bul...
I have done this breathing exercise for a long time.... though addmitedly, much less recently. T.Hanx for the reminder...

I used to meditate an hour a day when I was in my 20s, and now, being in my 40s, I can measurably feel the difference of not meditating regularly. Its time to really get dedicated to it.
> "With so many people and students around the world working from home, we really need some easy to deploy shared whiteboard solution. This is especially important for pre-college students who may not have access to high end hardware."

Just add a new mode to videoconferencing, where both parties get a white screen and both can start drawing and the resulting image stays in sync on both clients? (I feel like this solution is so obvious, I'm about to fly out a window - what am I missing?)

Sounds like way less work for those already developing videoconferencing apps than to deploy stand-alone solutions in addition to that.

In fact, phones could do good just having a "scratchpad" as a "phone-variant" of Notepad and/or Paint. It helps to quickly draw something, a simple sketch, or communication with deaf people or those who don't share a common language.

It's sad to see the state of bloatware on phones and not seeing many useful things. It took ages for them to add the torch/flashlight feature as a standard into the OS, back in the day, we needed to use apps to get that done, so I think it's probably symptomatic of the entire industry.

Hell, it's no wonder Apple can get away selling their expensive stuff, the others aren't really setting the bar high enough...
I feel this. I’ve been working part-time from home while also being the main one caring for my kids for the past few years. Fortunately my work is amenable to the distractions – it’s very atomic and I’m able to do it with only one hand and half a brain. But I miss being able to let my brain loose on some complicated problem.
This is fair. Single point of failures denote a severity (loss of mission) but risk is defined as severity x probability. To extend your example to the extreme, everything on the JWST has a failure probability > 0, even the systems with redundancies.

What ends up happening is each failure is plotted on a severity x probability matrix with a resulting score. Depending on the requirements, the exact probability category thresholds may be defined quantitatively (e.g. 1/10,000 chance) or they may be more qualitative (e.g., ‘likely’ vs. ‘may happen’ vs. ‘improbable’). The resulting risk has to accepted by someone (usually a program or project manager). To your point, they have obviously found each to be an acceptable (but perhaps uncomfortable) risk. Some projects will define the acceptable level of risk at the requirements stage to drive design (e.g., no single points of failure that can result in loss of crew). With all that said, it is still an abnormally high number of single point failures in a complex system and reliability is generally not linearly related to complexity (just think about what happens to cyclomatic complexity as you add more variables and the resulting number of test cases you need for full coverage)

In my opinion, the real dangerous part of this process is that humans are notoriously poor at thinking in probabilistic terms. Challenger, Columbia, EVA 23 etc. are all attributable, in part, to bad assessments of probability. Human biases are all but guaranteed to affect these probabilities and thus affect our understanding of the associated risk.
You cannot start any non-Apple applications unless Apple explicitly allows them and keeps a list of what and when you are running. Looks totally fine...
Let's use Watt-Seconds to simplify things.

3000W * 0.63s = 1890 Ws

1.63W * 1200s = 1956 Ws

Near enough the same. Watt is unit of power, Watt-hour is unit of energy.
I’ve worked with many libraries and frameworks and I haven’t seen transactions by default. Given how easy it is to deadlock yourself this way, for instance by naively making batch reads in random order. I doubt many libraries would make transactions the default.

For instance in rails and django you need to explicitly specify a transaction. Can you give an example of a framework that turns off auto commit by default and instead runs it at the end of http requests?
What tutorials did you find helpful?
Definitely not true, IP blocks are available for all critical features and chip layout can be outsourced. ARM has a Cortex-X chip available for licensing for anyone that wants a high performance CPU core.

For example, HP (who also makes laptops) has custom ASICs running Linux in their printers.
Thanks!

> Here your personal time being lost with no compensation is simply not worth it. In fact if you don't respond in time it may reflect badly on you.

Yep, you're onto something there.

A particularly insidious effect is that although no one notices the pages you do get to, they definitely miss the ones you don't. I have something like a 99% hit rate, but I've been given a very hard time on the few that I've missed.

> There is an approach that can be taken to focus sprints on only improving oncall but it requires management buy in. How bad is it? Is it something out of your teams control or is it something if you spend an hour over you can fix for good?

One issue is that many pages tend to be bucketed in err-on-the-side-of-caution type alarms. Like they might not even be directly indicative of a problem, but often are, but basically just need to have a human take a look.

Another is that although it's bad, it's not that bad. I've seen teams at other places who've had it much worse and indeed we're not even the worst off at the company. We have the typical corporate problem of underwater-all-the-time, so improvements aren't super likely to be prioritized unless things move even further south.
The losses of transport are relatively small, smaller than would be expected: see http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-...
1) Killing your own civilians is an interesting retaliation move against a foreign power.

2) In my family, the death of Qasem Soleimani was, and I don't mean to be insensitive, the death of a imperialist tyrant supporter.

Iran does not deserve the sympathy you give them.
Of course I can use it if "the situation calls for it". But that's almost never the case.

"This" causes hidden coupling. The difficulty isn't remembering how "this" works (that's an annoyance), it's figuring out how a program that uses it heavily works when all the action-at-a-distance kicks in.

There is no intrinsic value in being "complete as a JS coder". JS isn't scripture.
It seems unnecessary features is in the eye of the beholder.
When I posted this, the status history showed a big green OK-symbol for April 23... Now it's updated to show the red error-symbol, so this posting make no sense.
Indeed, AIXI is the algorithm I was referring to, and Monte Carlo AIXI is the approximation.

As hugh3 mentioned in a sibling comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479211), 'making "optimal decisions" in some defined state space where the quality of various options is evaluable is a really different problem to general intelligence'. While I definitely agree with this statement to some extent (namely, a powerful MCAIXI setup is not necessarily going to display any intelligence that's remotely human, at least without a lot of other stuff going on in the system), the concerning thing is that it should almost certainly be enough to get a system reasoning about its own design, since its code is a well defined state space where quality is evaluable (depending how the programmer decides to have it evaluate quality).

To end up with a dangerous runaway "AI" on our hands, we don't need AI that we'd consider intelligent or useful. All it takes for a runaway is an AI that is good at improving itself, working effectively at optimizing a metric that approximates "get better at improving yourself". AIXI approximations should be plenty powerful to do this with the amount of computing power we'll have in ~20 or 30 years (at the very least, there's a big enough chance that we really have to take it seriously).

This is one of the reasons Eliezer Yudkowsky is so keen on extending decision theory, so that we can get some idea what we should be actually be trying to approximate in order to have a decent shot at doing self-improvement safely.

The best way to sum up my concern is that (unboundedly) self-improving programs make up a tiny fraction of program-space that we can't quite hit with today's technology. Of that sliver of program space, there's a much smaller sliver that contains "programs that won't kill us." There's another sliver that contains "programs that have useful side effects". We need to make sure that the first "AI" that we create lies in the miniscule intersection, "self improving programs that do something useful [1] and won't kill us", and that's a terrifyingly small target to shoot at, so we had better work strenuously to make sure that when once it's feasible to create any of these programs our aim is good enough to hit the safe and useful ones.

[1] We need to find self improving programs that are useful early on because we'll need to use them as our "shield" against any malicious self-improvers that will inevitably be developed later. There's a significant first-mover advantage in AI, and even a small head start would probably make it difficult or impossible for a second AI to become a global threat if the first AI didn't want to allow it.
Almost all of Blenders development has been as FOSS software. It was open sourced in 2002.
All these product shots look fake and I don't see any specifications, just vague claims. I'm curious in what way it seems superior.
I wrote a number of posts pertaining to that log n trick:

http://jspha.com/posts/mutable_algorithms_in_immutable_langu...
>Not because of the technical accomplishments but because of the ideas. It should judged as that.

It should be judged by whatever criteria the judge deems important, just like everything else.
Yeah, I've seen the fire. If you can't tame it like a land-based well blowout and let it burn, how does it sink the platform? The fire's hot enough to melt the metal and lose water-tightness?

Why not let it burn while trying to figure out how to clinch the pipe from below?
Two (fairly bad) versions aren't enough? They need to trash it again?
It doesn't work for this kind of site. Why? It's an answer-based website. You want more exposure for your answer, so you want to put it in a populated area. Reddit is a link submission site, so it doesn't really matter who looks at the links that are being submitted. It's a terrible idea, and one of the reasons I really dislike Stack Exchange.

"I have a question but I see it could fit equally within 3 different sub-communities. Which one do I pick? Obviously the one with more people in it." - Me.
agreed. scanning through it was obvious most of it was agency work, much with that distinct corporate design style. The agency sites themselves are usually mis-representative anyway because of the shear amount of effort and polish that gets put into them. Most clients won't be willing to pay for that much work, and often won't get the cherry picked staff assigned to them.
Portugal also apparently saw statistically significant increases in both homicide and drug mortality, relative to rates across Europe.

"Decriminalization" generally implies deregulation of the demand side of drugs, but not the supply side (deregulation of both is generally "legalization"). That's problematic; it takes a burden off the criminal justice system, but many of the externalities of drug prohibition are closely tied to the supply side.
Perhaps it only appeared effective in shifting the center in support of the war. It didn't have much effect on myself or those around me. But I think that there has to be a social function to be able to call out the people who are doing this work, or who are supporting this work. It's people who are doing this - not some nameless bureaucracy or some autonomous machine. People are responsible for this, and we need to find ways of holding them accountable. Socially or otherwise.
It seems like there is an opportunity here for a mosquito net that won't work as a fishing net. Could a finer mesh be air-permeable enough but not water-permeable? Or a fabric which degrades in strength when saturated with water?
It's not outrageous if the margin of error is 2-3%.
In the UK this is commonplace as a way to 'cheat' when displaying nutritional information.

For example; displaying the fat, sugar, etc contained in half a bag of crisps prominently on the front, and claiming this is a serving size.

I find the practice completely ridiculous and misleading, practically worse than simply not having the information at all (the stats per 100g, etc are still displayed on the back).

Who eats half a chocolate bar? Half a bag of crisps? Half a microwave meal? Drinks half or a third of a can of coke? Even if they did, almost without fail the other fraction would be consumed within the same day anyway.
I've heard public health people talk about the problem of giving away nets for free before, and that charging some amount of money seems to improve usage. It may be more than just the decision between starving and malaria, but also some psychology involved with getting free things.
First: looks great, well done.

The problem with other food databases I've seen is the amount of duplicate or incorrect information. Are y'all actively taking steps to curtail this?
I'm not sure of that, because I'm not sure it is possible to generalize about postmodernism. While most postmodern theorists would agree on doing away with the high-modern rejection of any classical, traditional or historical vernacular, there isn't a coherent positive direction they would recommend, and many post-modernisms would be as embarrassed by an earnestly traditional work as a high-modernist.

Perhaps I'm seeing what I'm looking for, but, in hipsterdom, I see an aggressive undercurrent of unabashed classicism and traditionalism, taken forward in meaning, but not necessarily in formalism, underlying a very shallow ironic shield that preserves just enough ambiguity to allow bailing out on full classicism when pressed by modernists and postmodernists.

It's a continuum, of course, but I would expect a postmodernist to make a logo with obviously absurd historical references, juxtaposed in a surprising manner, whereas a hipster would put the cool shit he or she likes today in a straight-forward reference to a historical style, letting the meaning supply the irony, rather than the form.
i dont know how they enforce it but its a law. Spanish law works different from most countrys. They have laws to say what you can do rather than what you cant. The law is you need a licence.
Roge, you are a 100% right. It all begs the question, why are we so obsessed with working at big box companies? The reason this inefficiency in hiring exists is because Google can get away with it. If the short-term survival of G's business depended on hiring, they would have to do a better job.
If that day comes, I'll might celebrate, because YouTube comments are mostly worthless, full of sexism, racism, insults, and sheer idiocy. I rarely come across a YouTube comment that imparted useful information.

G+ doesn't really need propping up, most of the people I enjoy reading are on it, I get more engagement than I ever did on Twitter or FB with the people I'm interested in (note, not friends, but interests), and with a less infuriating comment system. I'd personally rather not have G+ turn into FB.

In fact, I take back my first sentence, now that I think about it, I'm somewhat fearful of YouTube adopting G+ comments, because rather than improving the civility and intelligence of YouTube's comment audience, it might destroy the civility and intelligence of the G+ community.
softer ruling
The header animation is the obvious treat... but the thing that sent me completely over the top is is how we camera-pan past the 3D illustration of the disc-based occlusion model during scrolling. <3 <3 <3 I'm currently making CGI-squee-noises worthy of the glory days of the SGI Magic Bus!
Yeah, I still don't like the sound of the dispersants. Hiding the problem apparently makes it go away?
Do you know what sarcasm is? If not, read up on that, then reread the post you replied to.

Hint: you are agreeing with the post you are replying to.
I'd rather eat hot coals than use Windows but at the same time, I am awed by their business sense, and it seems rich to suggest that Ballmer is driving Microsoft into the ground when the profits show the opposite picture.

The share price might not have rocketed, but MSFT's net income is up from $5.355bn in 2002, hit $17.68bn in 2008, and even in 2009 was still $14.569bn. For 2000, pre-crash, it was ~$9bn when he took the reins. A 62% increase in net profits from a peak to today's trough is nothing to poo-poo.

Call Ballmer whatever you like, but the company, under his direction, is producing giant piles of cash even in these rough times.
I grew up hearing my mother say, "My cell phone is for my convenience, not yours," and "If it's important, they can leave a message." Do not let constant connection tyrannize your attention. Do not let trivia distract you from important things. Let it ring. If you're doing something cool, they'll understand.

Also, your mental appetites are like your physical appetites: you crave what you eat. If you eat a lot of chocolate, you'll crave chocolate; soda and soda; tomatoes and tomatoes. The more you check your Facebook, the more you'll want to. Do it hourly and you'll follow every link, tag every photo, reply to every comment. Go without it for a couple days, and when you return your visit will be quick and non-compulsive, skimming the good stuff and going back to other things.
... though WebKit's nightly outperforms both.

Chrome updates far more frequently than Safari, is it any surprise it's ahead slightly?
I'll have to agree with you here. Banning physical exports may make sense - if North Korea can't import plutionum it's not very likely they'll get it. Or at least it's posssible to police the ban.

If the North Korean regime really wants to download notepad++ it's as good as impossible for anyone to stop them. All they need is a proxy in another country. Or someone travelling with a USB stick, or just two people using dropbox on either side of the border. Code is very different from physical good in this regard.
"step" to step, "backtrace" to get a backtrace, ...? Yeah, that's confusing.
It's weird right, because the experience _is_ something everyone goes through but for adhd individuals it is more difficult in a way that's quantifiably describable but difficult to quantitatively convey
Except the author adjusted the timelines to match them up. The skirt widths are shifted by 21 years.
Thing is we can change 'the economy', as in the way we choose to support or hamper people's living conditions, at will, not without huge efforts, but it is under our control.

We can not change the spread of the virus or how our bodies respond to it at will.
You ignored this part, which I do find worrisome: “ And he's telling us about chipping and digital tattoos?”.
Thank you kindly! The structural design aspects of programming was one of my favorite parts. I may've gone a bit too far in the final releases of higan with the reference-counted tree to describe system states (specifically serializing the tree is quite involved), but I'm still really happy with the result ^-^;

Hopefully a respite from coding in my spare time will help my hands recover a bit.
They aren't going fire their entire workforce now
Hotels are designed for short-term stays, and are regulated and taxed on that basis. (This includes such things as zoning, building code compliance, etc.)

Units converted to AirBnBs were not designed for short-term stays or taxed on that basis, and generally AirBnB only exists because it leveraged regulatory arbitrage quickly enough to grow to the point it could lobby for changes to the law. But after multiple studies in multiple cities confirmed that only a handful of investors benefited from loose unregulated short-term rentals, the pendulum began swinging back towards regulating them like the hotels they are.
Interesting that HN will generally regard rail travel as a public good that should be subsidized, not during a crisis but every year, by tax payers.

Well, in America, air travel is our rail.

If you go hardline libertarian about this and let them fail, the federal debt might be a bit smaller, at a time when our government can borrow for 0% — but after the crisis your tickets will be much more expensive as competition will have dropped back down to two major carriers that won’t compete on price.
Good to see people are awake.
True words!

In-fact, you have 'letter-spacing' and 'text-transform' with CSS. That in itself is enough to create so many variations of same type.
I like your version better.
SuperGenPass (http://supergenpass.com/) does that in a way that is more likely to generate strong passwords honored by sites (e.g., multiple cases, punctuation, etc.). It comes both as a bookmarklet, and, if you don't want to use that, a mobile version (http://supergenpass.com/mobile/) that you can store somewhere safe so it doesn't even hit the internet (e.g., I store it on my Dropbox account so I can use it on my phone). Works great.
Who am I going to listen to, the man who taught me more than I ever could ever imagine (and is now retired and giving away his millions) or some stranger who thinks he knows better?

If he is stranger and you don't know him, how did you know that your mentor is wiser then? See, you have already made two mistakes: The first, by not accepting an alternative opinion; and second, by thinking that what you know (or you got from your mentor) is doomed to be the best.
That cheating occurs is no surprise and is closely related to the question of assessing a programmer's output. Every time you instigate a method of measurement, the programmer (or teacher) finds some way to increase the result without achieving the actual aim.

In the case of a programmer, the number of lines of code output, or the number of functions written, or the number of bugs detected and fixed, can all be achieved with less "true value output" (whatever that means). The measurement can be gamed.

Teachers in the UK have been accused of "teaching to the test" rather than "teaching for understanding" - but what more can be expected? When exams test for understanding rather than rote skills, only then will understanding be the aim of the teachers looking for the easy way out.

Let me add that I know many dedicated teachers who do the right thing regardless of the threats posed. They encourage and enthuse their students, ranging widely over their subject to get the students engaged and interested. They know that this serves them better, and will, mostly, improve the test scores, even if not as much as "teaching to the test" would. They know they're doing the right thing, but come under enormous pressure to work more obviously towards improving test scores.

I'm not surprised that many of them buckle under the strain and take less honorable courses.

That's part of the tragedy - the destruction of otherwise excellent teachers.