jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> A better default behavior would have been to use a default radix (base 10) and have an option for auto-detected radix (e.g. strings that begin with 0x).

Note that the option exists (provide `0` as radix). It's just stupid that the default radix is `0` (or `undefined`) and not `10`.

Not to mention, that would put parseInt in line with Number.toString(radix), which (sensibly) defaults to base 10 (side note: I was surprised and impressed to see that Number.toString can handle any base from 2 to 36 included)
The whole system needs to shrink. Less undergrad students, less Phds, less research (most of it is useless crap anyway). Everything needs to be more efficient.

I say this as a Phd student who is "on leave" and instead doing a startup. I spent about a year as a Phd student and I thought the whole system is mind bogglingly inefficient, I felt like I'm wasting my time. This was in E.Europe, so not at a top US school --- I'm sure doing a Phd there is great.

Coupled with low pay and the lack of a payoff at the end just made it a very easy decision to do a startup instead: ultra efficient mode of operation, equally low pay, but at least there is the slim chance of a payoff.
Hey,

Mike here from CONTRAST. Would love to hear your thoughts on the post, and if theres any tools you use that are worth checking out.

Cheers,
I'll never understand why the stream cannot just default to logic like this or [my follows]+[non-rt/replies]+[desc by time]

Best I can come up with is it'd make promoted comment more apparent?
Company investment and banking accounts aren't protected by FDIC, so that alone could wipe out a lot of companies.

Credit would go from "hard" to "near-impossible". Investment banks finance all sorts of things you would never think about. For example the kitchen equipment in your local fast food chain (The pizza chain Dominos ended up buying the leasing arm of an investment bank which financed it's kitchens to ensure it's own stability).

Larger companies rely on their investment banks for all sorts of things, from FX to protecting against counter-party risk (i.e. providing insurance against your main customers or suppliers going bankrupt).
Although a lot of listings say "no pets allowed" in the UK, many will let you have a pet if you ask (if it's a large pet they're likely to ask for a higher deposit fee, but that seems fair enough).
> if you can't walk away from a negotiation, it's not really a negotiation.

Reminds me of a quote from a G.K. Chesterton book:

> "But surely it is a very old principle of law that a leonine contract is not a free contract. And it is hypocrisy to pretend that a bargain between a starving man and a man with all the food is anything but a leonine contract."

> He glanced up at the fire-escape, a ladder leading up to the balcony of a very high attic above. "I live in that garret; or rather on that balcony. If I fell off the balcony and hung on a spike, so far from the steps that somebody with a ladder could offer to rescue me if I gave him a hundred million francs, I should be quite morally justified in using his ladder and then telling him to go to hell for his hundred million. Hell, indeed, is not out of the picture; for it is a sin of injustice to force an advantage against the desperate [...]"

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500421.txt
> The key point here is that the government forces businesses to accommodate Emotional Support Animals through the Fair Housing Act, the Air Carrier Access Act and the Americans with Disability Act

I thought the key point here is that the government _doesn't_ force people to accommodate Emotional Support Animals at all, but many businesses don't know the difference between a Service Animal and an ESA.
> I already have a rather long list of worthy whitepapers now

So why do you not share them with us? :)
Nice spot! Sounds like the problem is with the automatic attachment of the VAT to the UK though, not the address system per-se.
Hey vgrocha, we're realists and sceptics ourselves, so we appreciate the feedback and we'll try to answer your concerns.

1.) The reason for this is very simple. You need bitcoins to make arbitrage happen. Bitcoin fluctuates so much that it carries a large currency risk. This is why none of us has more than a few bitcoins on their accounts - we're not wealthy or reckless people. In order to exploit arbitrage opportunities ourselves, we'd have to buy large quantities of bitcoins to arbitrage them and make profit. Some people on the other hand already have large amounts of bitcoins and don't have much to do with them except watch the price fluctuate. We offer them a better use of it ;)

2. Profit is not made for free - there are risks involved. One simple risk is that one of the bitcoin markets we trade on goes bust. We list all risks on our website.

3.) This is true - there are plenty of people arbitraging the market which is why price differences among markets are already minimal. However when you have a large enough volume of users you get lower fees. It also depends on how good the algorithm you use is. You can check arbitrage opportunities currently out there right here: http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/arbitrage

4.) Yes, we of course do that. Our profits are calculated by subtracting all the fees associated with trading.
> Why use a loaded word like 'force'?

Because a lot of us would always pick alternatives when there's a choice. In fact, some of us won't take jobs where we have to develop on Windows.
Finally, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men. Indeed, it appeared that it was not “diversity” (having equal numbers of men and women) that mattered for a team’s intelligence, but simply having more women. This last effect, however, was partly explained by the fact that women, on average, were better at “mindreading” than men.

I wonder how this article would have been received if it stated : 'Teams with more men performed better. This can be explained by the fact that men, on average, are better at solving certain problems than women'. I almost never hear about a scientific study where they discover that men are better than women at something.
Nice idea. I probably do so after I fix the first batch of issues.
Yep, SPAs and loading screens are not synonymous and the implication that any SPA can be replaced with a traditional multi-page app with no loading concerns and comparable UX is purposely obtuse.
A more detailed paper can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8_BGWWMS8QhaUtOeXJGVU9vVmM...

The research team that wrote these papers is working on bringing the wires to the commercial market through electric cars and other devices.
Magnetizable? Awesome!
Isn't a bingo sheet supposed to be 5 x 5?
Back in the day (maybe it is still this way) your landline was default "listed" and you had to pay a monthly fee to be an unlisted number. So AT&T most likely listed his number in some kind of phone book / directory.
how does a downvote imply that one is not allowed to have written something? Comments and votes are both open.
On the bright side, for me, this is a product I never used. Not even once.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:267008

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:171474

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:175073

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:241055

https://www.youmagine.com/designs/drone-race-w4-drw4
> When a charge comes in for that expense

Do you categorize the expense or is it automatically categorized to the correct spending envelope?

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Treasury is B2B focused at the moment but there must be another way to do this...
Thanks for your question. I'm not overly familiar with Alpine but yes, the syntax is very different. Alpine appears to freely mix JS and HTML whereas Synergy minimises this in favour of a clearer separation of concerns.
I was listening to an interview with AMD's CEO Dr. Lisa Su, and I was surprised at how casually she was using technical terminology while explaining complex industrial process optimization techniques her company was working on.

I was just so used to the top three or four tiers of corporate management having literally no idea what their company's engineering department actually does day to day. Hearing a CEO knowledgeable about their main product line was a bit of a shock.

But it shouldn't be a shock! It should be the norm.

I work for a small IT-only company. If I start using "technical" terms like "IP address" with our CEO, his eyes glaze over...
> the dump was 99-100% Biden, that's the suspicious part

Do you have any extraordinary evidence to back this extraordinary claim?

I kept a spreadsheet of the votes in Michigan as they came in and I don't see any dumps that were 99-100% Biden.

Also, the "Red Mirage" also was a big thing in states that weren't allowed by law to start counting the mail-in ballots until the day of the election (MI, PA were two of these states.) So they ended up prioritizing counting the in-person ballots on election day, and got to the backlog of mail ballots after the polls closed.

This was all a very easily predictable, simple result of the election laws in the states, and it was predicted. None of this was surprising to anyone who paid attention prior to election day.
I'm not sure if the years of poor and failing keyboards on the MacBook or the ongoing stage light screen failures due to the poor decision to permanently connect the ribbon to the screen (turning a $5 repair into a $500 repair) bare this out.
Thank you! I've frequently read articles and forum posts describing the feature like the parent does, and I've never succeeded in getting it to work. I just assumed it wasn't supported on my old phone. Now I know.
Thanks - rendering error in conversion from GDoc. Fixed.
The problem with 3 and 4 isn’t that it’s hard but that it may not be a good idea at all. It’s a system you should monitor at all times but kind of works when you don’t? No security conscious manufacturer should make those.
> As previously stated, the MP3 codec was refined using listening tests designed by european audio engineers and featuring the music they chose. In a sense, each of these songs acts as a resonant filter for every file encoded in the MP3 format

Was thinking in the shower just the other day about genre-specific compression schemes. Could you get significant improvement if you knew something like the BPM or the spectral profile of common instruments ahead of time? Or is production too inherently complex for this to be worthwhile? Obviously no two hurdy gurdy recordings will sound the same, even though your algorithm knows wtf a hurdy gurdy is.
Sometimes, but usually not. When I do, they are usually various Amiga music files.
I knew a senior software engineer who was in his 60s, who was short, fat (pot bellied), completely bald (or shaven), and had a large white beard.

He also used to ruffle the feathers of HR. Once, when a woman from the talent acquisition team tried to give him generic instructions about conducting interviews, he told her “Lady, I don’t need all this, I’ve been doing this since before you were born”. (She was born in the mid-80s.) She reported him to HR, and obviously they didn’t do anything, since he was one of the most valuable engineers at the company.

He had a great breadth of knowledge and experience, and was really good at what he did.

So what you’re stating doesn’t necessarily always hold true.
Truly a dystopian world we are entering. Now more than ever is the time for funding and developing alternative tools that utilize decentralization.

What's coming cannot be stopped but it can be broken.
[Edit: no longer relevant, see replies] No it doesn't? This is the only part of the post relevant to the headline:

> The second and most complex problem is that certain kinds of people, like new entrepreneurs, innovators and many informal workers might not have enough hard data available. Even a well-paid expatriate moving to the United States can be caught in the conundrum of not getting a credit card for lack of credit record, and not having a credit record for lack of credit cards.

> Fintech resolves the dilemma by tapping various nonfinancial data: the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases. Recent research documents that, once powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these alternative data sources are often superior than traditional credit assessment methods, and can advance financial inclusion, by, for example, enabling more credit to informal workers and households and firms in rural areas.
Is this an article or a novel? I lost patience before getting to the point.
Not necessarily. Attempting to force a sea change in the proportion of capital ownership is undoubtedly class warfare, and further, perusal of WSB will find most GME posters expressing some variation of an intent to hold their shares until they're either absolutely worthless or are in a position to force the aforementioned sea change (e.g., mass sells as prices that would ruin not only the hedge funds, but also brokerages and possibly banks).

A popular (and not altogether unbelievable) narrative is that the DTCC forced the shutdown of share buys through its "margin call" on brokerages' collateral requirements (a sudden shift despite a week of unprecedented volatility in GME et al.) on the precipice of just such an "infinite short" scenario.

The priorities of each group on the other side of a victory are clearly different: entrenched money will continue on as always. WSB would have paid off their consumer debt, donated to worthy causes, or invested directly in themselves or new ventures, without the limitation of interest-bearing loans or the judgment of denial-happy lenders.

I think your entire comment is inaccurate in this context.
People who have broad interests with no depth of knowledge have not identified (for themselves) where their value lies.

I would imagine that this type of engineer needs to be carefully managed to stay on tasks that add business-value.

As such, it's not unfair that they are seen as juniors. They are juniors.
I believe orcas should be at the top of the list in terms of being granted human level species rights. They should be removed from tanks ASAP and placed in sanctuaries, such as the one being built in Nova Scotia.

I also have a suspicion that orca intelligence possibly matches that of humans.
When I moved my open source project to GitHub, contributions skyrocketed by roughly 10x. I attribute that to three things:
- contributors need to learn a single workflow to submit patches to any open-source project:fork and submit PR
- contributors already have a github account, so a significant barrier is removed for flyby contributions (no need to register a new user account to a mailing list / bugtracker / or both for each trivial or non-trivial fix.)
- network effects and improved visibility

Each of those may appear small by itself, but they combine into a significantly better experience for contributors.
Most ads are managed and sold by other agencies. Google redirects all but the largest accounts to its channel partners. And selling media is nothing like enterprise infrastructure.
It also seems that during development, we pass through various stages, as if the organs of higher order life forms are a series of hacks added on top of the prior ones.
Ah, quantum teleportation is the promising one to overcome current propagation delay.
The amount of work he put in to the 'transaction' described in the article hardly seems worth it.
This guy wrote a whole news story because he finds hitting TAB and then ENTER too difficult as compared to simply hitting ENTER, and he would like a team of google engineers to roll out a new product with a new name to solve his problem?

And this is supposed to be in the name of efficiency?
A HN clone. Is it really going live ?
Well, it's going to have to be something other than "Keep doing the same thing but throw more money at it."

What about scrapping about 80% of the curriculum and returning to an apprentice system as a serious career path? Does teaching "item A" in the curriculum really matter if the resulting system still churns out 90% of its graduates who don't know or can't do A? What about really deeply integrating computers, in a way that isn't just "Keep doing what we're doing, but throw more computers at it?" What about any of these things but different for different children?

I don't really know what the answer is, but I observe that it simply can't be "keep doing what we're doing". The entire world has changed a lot in the past few decades and schools are starting to look distinctly 19th century. Not a typo. And I don't mean that the answer is "add lots of shiny technology" necessarily, but this factory mentality has got to go and I don't know that we can get there by incremental change.

"How far am I going to atomize the students?" Why, until they are what they actually are again: Individuals.
The way I think about it: our brains create perception by combining raw observations with expectations derived from a mental model built on experience, in a process similar to a Kalman filter. Most of the time, the correction based on the mental model helps, such as when an object is partially obscured. Cases like the concave face are false positives for normal people, where experience overrides percpetion. Schizophrenics weight the observations more heavily than the predictions, so they are less likely to experience false positives, but I would expect them to be consequently more likely to experience false negatives (ie. perceiving things too literally, in spite of logic).
At their own pace, sure, but I'm in favor of required general education for children, even if they don't care about it. These are kids, not college students, and as for high school, how many care about learning at all?

It may be worthwhile to teach high level math and science to kids wanting to be astronauts, and a solid Statistics base for kids who like sports, though.
I will concede that, but they're a very roundabout way to building a classifier. An SVM, for example, is really much simpler and works much, much better than a neural network. I'm not familiar with RBMs and DBNs, so I can't comment on that, sadly...
World of Warcraft.
I meant pundits and politicians not ordinary citizens. I chose republicans because waste is usually one of their favorite talking points. So chances are if a voice arises it will be from their side.

My opinion is that it was impossible to pull that thing off. And it showed a cultural problem in NASA. But that is another story.
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You forgot €20 choose a seat - it's €0 if you want a randomly assigned seat but somehow the website mislead me in to clicking it, it took me 20 minutes to get this far in the booking, I'm scared to press the browser back button and I'm so frustrated now I'm blind to the clear and easy method of modifying the my previous selection, if there even is one, because the page changed as soon as I clicked. Maybe the site has a bug, but who wouldn't know it's not like I'm going to call the airline for support on their website. But it's only €20 and this flight is now costing me €400 anyway so it's not even worth my time to sit here for another half hour trying to purchase a ticket- fee.
The problem should be to attract more users in general, be they men, women, or otherwise.
That's not how Hulu, Netflix and Amazon handle it. The subscribe thing is unnecessary.
You should use the scenario of a pair of strong, well trained soldiers physically holding you or otherwise preventing you from performing actions. So anything requiring being aware that you're being raised then doing something like triple click might not be feasible.

I think a system would need to highly tend towards false positives, giving you a short ~5 second grace period to perform some positive challenge that things are OK.

And if this means that every day you end up accidentally having to reboot and start up Tor, well small price for physical security. But really, you should be far more focused on getting your online opsec right so you don't have to worry about thugs. If they're physically grabbing you it's very likely game over.

One countermeasure would be to find people and pay them anonymously to look like you. That is, proxy through their laptop, maybe even have them do some lightweight writing or chatting. Use their life details to leak things, like about weather or other local goings on. Essentially using them as a canary. If they get tackled, you know it's time to burn everything and hide.
This is hilarious and incredibly impractical. Unless the mouse part itself is stellar, there's almost no way this could supplant using a real computer/mouse - using a bad mouse makes using a computer awful IMO, and the likelihood of the actual mouse being very good is incredibly slim (not to mention how heavy it'll land up being)
Maybe in a few years, WASM is going to be retconned or backronymed to "World Assembly".
Every fighting game is designed for offline play, and has been for 25+ years. But that doesn't mean that's where the majority of players are, and that's the point the author is making.
Given the limit of extension of IDEAL's spring is a 100 magnitudes its length, it would be an interesting exercise to calculate how many universes we'd have to cross to reach its maximum extension assuming all universes are the same size as ours.

Another would be to determine the minimum number of atoms the spring would need to remain structurally coherent across this distance. Methinks it would be many.

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Afterthought: I forgot to add, the second item for sale necessitates that corrections be made to Maxwell's eqn/Gauss's Law of Magnetism. There's a few textbooks to correct I'd reckon.
Congress passed legislation preferring the metric system.[1]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/205b
> None of them work.

Except when some humans which at the time were more backwards than the leaders of the world tried, they were simply shut down using propaganda and force. So as to deem what they were attempting to do completely feeble... mostly due to them being against this secular religion. It was in many ways a religious war in idealized secular terms. Therefore I would argue that no actual attempt has been made, because the power structure likes it this way. Their secular religious clergy does well for themselves in it and they don't want revolutions to change it. Not that it can't be done. No one has been allowed to actually try in good faith.
The animals are interesting, but I'm fascinated by the accompanying symbols. Is there any good research on the geometric patterns and what looks like a writing system?
If your game state is entirely immutable, you're actually most of the way there.

I built a rollback multiplayer system in C#, and most of work goes towards having classes that are mutable, but remember their previous state so they can be rewound to any frame in the past second or so.

This involves enforcing invariants, persistent collection types, generating code to efficiently walk your entire game state, etc.

In Haskell, you just have a list of game states at the end of every frame, pick what you want and go.

Of course, you're not going to get C# performance this way, but you should still be able to build something pretty advanced if you give it a dedicated CPU core.

There are over a thousand people at this moment playing my indie web games built with rollback networking - if anybody has any questions, happy to answer them!
Data leaks like this are positive in that regard because we can prove they haven’t complied with GDPR quite easily if our deleted data comes up.