skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting blog post on the subject: https://blog.jaibot.com/foes-without-faces/
So I know that reddit has always been a bit more crass than your average community, and this could totally be me. But the last time I pulled up reddit to waste some time, I seemed to notice that more pseudo porn, wtf and generally nsfw stuff was on the front page. I personally don't care that is the case per se, but its utility as something to introduce me to something new/interesting seems to be vastly reduced. Maybe I should just yell get off of my lawn and move on.
My first thought was the likelihood of dying from something that was misdiagnosed or not caught in time. That could be considered medical error but is a whole different ballgame from, "they accidentally prescribed cyanide."
For a second I thought they were going to start sequencing genomes of engineers and start screening via DNA...
Did you read the article?

> Then I excluded history subreddits
Thinking about CSV
That may be true that the "average" actively dollar will underperform but it should be easy (or at least possible) to identify the "above average" actively managed dollar.
Just stop, seriously. The majority of scheduled C-sections are for health reasons.
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I really doubt that... I'm pretty sure the reason for lack of uptake is organizational and social in nature. A checklist is the simplest thing in the world. I can make a checklist right now!

- Write comment (Check!)
- Check grammar and spelling (Check!)
- Scrub abusive language (Check!)
- Click "reply"
I was wandering what happened to those HP employees from SICP lecture videos. Where are they now, what careers they had, etc...
I am!
Computer gleans chemical insight from lab notebook failures
That's just over four miles of track (21,346 ft.) for the run length of the railcars down that slope. (Thanks, trigonometry!)

Now I wonder how fast these railcars move.
That's a shame because the theoretical grounding that comes from SICP is enough of a clue to tell you why black box library X is crashing, runs too slow, lacks feature Y, etc. and maybe even enough of a clue to help you modify/hack it to get feature Z as a workaround.
I turned on IPv6 on my router two years ago and found that my PlayStation 4 did not support it. I promptly switched back to IPv4. Sony has not implemented IPv6 in the PS4 since, and my home Internet use has not suffered for it. I don't really have any incentive to switch, and while I'm aware there are hybrid solutions that might allow me to use IPv6 and still keep my PS4 online, I definitely don't have any incentive to go to that trouble.

And I'm a forward-thinking user who enjoys fiddling with my devices and trying things out! Imagine how it is for all the other people whose personal devices still don't support IPv6 and who have far less patience for this stuff.
Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy encoding (2013)
If you haven't watched the SICP video lectures [1], they are really great.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY
Malia Obama going to Harvard proves school's name matters more than anything
> "I'm guessing criminals (current and former), drug addicts, and the willfully unemployed wouldn't be eligible."

I believe "criminals (current and former), drug addicts, and the willfully unemployed" are all eligible under most proposed schemes, although the income level may differ for current prisoners.

Edit: according to the RSA blog introducing their proposal: "Prisoners would not receive it."

https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rs...

> "These are the vulnerable, marginalized and (sometimes) disenfranchised groups that America loves to shit on when it comes to social programs and basic rights."

The RSA (publisher of this report) is British.
It's called a Computer Engineering degree, sometimes called EECS (as at MIT). I did it and you can too.

And by your own admission you didn't learn all the stack elements I listed above. And that was not in any way, shape, form, or fashion an exhaustive list!

Sure, if you finish a four year degree in CS/EE/EECS you learn a lot of stuff... and if you spend a big chunk of that four years on the really low level stuff, you have to tradeoff time spent on higher levels of the stack. You can only pour so much water in a 1 gallon bucket.

And even then, you only get the fundamentals are a certain level of depth. At some point, one has to ask "how important is it that I be able to go out, buy an 8088 chip, a memory controller chip, a floppy drive controller chip, etc., solder a motherboard together, code an OS in assembly, write my own text editor, etc, etc., etc."

Don't get me wrong. I'm not against teaching the fundamentals, and I'm not even sure I agree with MIT's decision on this. But I will say I can understand it and cede that it has some merit.

And all of that said, I'll go back to what I said earlier.. to me, the important thing is to continue learning even after college, including going back to fundamentals like building circuits from individual transistors and what-not. That stuff has value, you there's no reason to think you can't be productive even without that.

I mean, if you think about it, every field eventually segments into layers where certain practitioners treat some things as a black box. Does an engineer building a car also need to be a metallurgist or materials scientist? No, he/she just grabs a book, and looks up the parameters for the correct material for the application at hand. Etc.
This would of course be incredibly inefficient. Maybe you were joking.
How can you be sure that an ad hominem attack or other inappropriate invocation of the Nazis doesn't take place in a history subreddit that is also chock full of legitimate references?
How close are we to actually manufacturing molecular springs? My understanding is our materials science and engineering is not up for making macroscopic molecular springs yet, and what I can Google up seems to indicate we nowhere near macroscopic scale springs.
(2013). Already in practical use.
In a lot of cultures, realized or not, having tons of children is a form of retirement insurance. Having basic income eliminates this uncertainty.

I'll reply to the implied point in a second post.
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There is already an large arbitrage opportunity. The difference between peak and baseload pricing is pretty high.

If it was clearly economical, someone like Exelon (who owns nuke plants) would probably be doing it.

Then again, at lest several utilities claims they were going to buy Telsa powerwalls to do it. So maybe the pricing is getting to the point where it's profitable.
The Graduate, 2016: "I just want to say one word to you. Flywheels."
I agree.

Going by a more general version of Moore's Law (cost of equivalent processing power being halved about every 18 months) then I don't see any end in sight, though we might need to change paradigms on what processing power means every now and then.
I think a thread being godwin'd on reddit, is like any programming thread on HN getting dragged down into "but, you should use Rust."

Annoying, very annoying, and a hard problem to solve.
The Census had been abused in the past with Japanese Internment camps. Why should I be forced to disclose very personal information like my religion under penalty of law?

It was never about the money.
Which assumes scientists are utterly incapable of communicating with anyone other than other scientists.
I would also guess that pain management during labor and birth leads to reduced maternal stress which leads to reduced fetal stress, healthier fetus, less odds of complications, healthier baby and healthier mother. Just a guess though.
How about getting a BD founder that doesn't just want to shove a new idea down your throat.
What most of these cases get wrong is that they confuse UBI as yet another way to deal with unemployment as the market corrects itself and new jobs are created.

I.e. it's seen as this temporary state that we might or might not be in for a limited amount of time.

The truth is that UBI is meant to deal with the fact that we will more or less all be unemployed and have no jobs and thus no income.

It's not meant to solve an isolated problem with the labour market, it's meant to solve the realization that there wont be any.
So no facts or counterpoint, then? And you continue to fail to grasp even the basics of my original comment, yet are scatter-commenting throughout this thread, seemingly boastful about your own misunderstandings.

I'll let that speak for itself.
Finding the right company to join is hard, you have to find which companies are doing interesting things that match your interests and then narrow down to the ones where you'll be both a technical and cultural fit. Failed interviews are a big time suck and we see that most people only have the stamina to interview with a few companies and they'll often accept one of the first offers they get, rather than optimizing for the companies they're most excited about. We have the data to match you with companies you'll be a strong technical fit, which saves you wasting time speaking to companies who don't value your particular engineering skills. The end result is a more efficient job search process, giving you more options by speaking with less companies.

We do also reduce the total amount of time engineers have to spend in technical interviews. Triplebyte candidates skip the technical phone screens, usually an hour per company at least. If you're speaking with at least 3 companies (which everyone working with us is), you've already saved time as our technical interview is 2.5 hours.

Happy to talk more about this, harj AT triplebyte.
I won't buy an android phone if it's not a Nexus. This isn't because I love Nexus phones, they're just serviceable. I really want an external SD card, but have to make due. I mainly want timely updates for security's sake. AOSP and a rooted OMNIRom/CyanogenMod/Replicant Nexus is the closest you can get to a mainstream, supported FOSS phone these days with the fastest security updates.

One of the real problems is carriers. They have no material incentive to push software updates and are often in hot water about security updates. They actually have a disincentive to push updates. If Samsung doesn't update the Note X to Android Y, you buy a new Note X2 phone from them with fresh Android Y. It's a broken system with misaligned interests all over. So, to contradict the OP, customers, carriers and manufacturers want yearly android releases.

Another problem is the difficulty in updating between releases. I can install Windows or Linux on any junker motherboard and get it to run, but I have to pray to the manufacturer/carrier tag-team to allow my $800 phone to get the next version a year later. Why can't we remove them from the equation, easily? I'm sure this point is full of naivety on my part. It just smells like planned obsolescence.

Another problem is the shift from AOSP to Google Play Services. The deprecated Android browser even had unpatched security holes as 'wontfix, switch to Chrome' last I checked. So many apps rely on GAPPS for anything and everything now, what's the point of an open OS when everything is behind a blackbox service?

Another problem is the centrality of the Play store. F-Droid is a life-saver, but how can I get my Brother Printer Service driver? I can't download it from Brother. I have to get it from Google Play. I've been spinning up a Genymotion emulator with GAPPS just to download, repackage the apks I need and then move it to my Nexus. Then I get hit with 'this app is not available for your device/version/location' and it's spoofing the build.prop file to let me download the damn apk. The whole ecosystem is DRM'd lockin at every turn.

F-droid allows private repos with closed source APKs, I wish a decentralized system like that, like the web, would gain adoption.
I think you're right that there would be a natural balancing. If too many passive dollars went into certain companies, they should become more clearly over-valued than a peer not in the index.
"Breeding for welfare" is a myth. Children are a major economic burden, even with welfare subsidies.

That said, there's no reason offhand to provide basic income to minors. Parents can choose to have as many children as they want, at their own expense. One of the key advantages of basic income is getting rid of the complexities and irregularities of the current welfare model. Subsidies for children are one of those complexities.
Can you expand on the last sentence. I'm not sure I understand what you were trying to express. (not trolling, genuinely curious)
I'd recommend to watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0hyqzR6hIY

He goes into detail about how these types of libraries are particularly difficult or impossible to fuzz. He uses OpenSSL as an example but I would imagine an http library being similar.
The current system in America provides a disincentive to work.

Social programs generally are not considered as income and do not preclude you from being eligible for other social programs (i.e. the benefits stack). This creates the unfortunate situation that some people that don't work at all receive more annual income (in kind) from the government than their working neighbors. It works out to nearly $60k per year in benefits.

I support the idea of a basic income that strives to create an equitable situation for the working class.
The emails james.peters@ellitic.co and james.peters@ellitic.com is not working
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I don't disagree with this at all. The implementation was imperfect. It had the signature of political meddling (of the "we know better" type). It seemed poorly defined and inconsistent.

It should have been done in a very different way. It should have been more cooperative (e.g. "clarity officers" who have a masters in English or French, and who pour over statements and responses to ensure that it cannot be misinterpreted or misrepresented, without changing the core meaning).

The purpose of federally funded scientific research is not and cannot be to support the policy objectives of the currently sitting government.

There hasn't been a single example that had anything to do with the sitting government's policies or agenda. The government had no particular agenda regarding factory farming salmon or rock snot. Though from an overall government perspective for the health of an industry such as salmon (a cross-party industry), they want the message coherent.
If a purchaser is really price conscious then they'll turn to price comparison websites, everyone else will go directly to their favourite store, where 'favourite' is driven by services like Amazon Prime that add value rather than being anything to do with brand loyalty[1]. Either way, Google is not part of the equation.

[1] I have a Prime account because having it for Amazon Video and Amazon Music is far cheaper than paying for Netflix and Spotify. The fact I now go to Amazon by default to buy things because I get free, quick delivery is a bonus for me, and a big win for them if I'm paying more than other places for things I guess.
> and they only upgrade when the device no longer meets their needs.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. My HTC M7 GPE is only just beginning to show its age in terms of performance. My SO's Samsung S4, however, has been literally unusable for months now: battery performance issues, only able to run ~3 apps at once (low RAM), unable to update any apps because there's no free space despite having around 50 less apps than me and also despite having an SD card, overall performance is laggy & slow, certain apps won't even run now, the list goes on.

These phones came out within months of each other in 2013, and in spite several hardware advantages the Samsung is no longer meeting its users needs compared to my M7. Of course, my SO has no idea why this is, like you said she barely knew what kind of phone she has (lol), but the end result is that she's having to upgrade the phone (early, I might add), and the differences can largely be boiled down to software and updates.
I 100% agree with you about the difficulty of raising rates. But I don't think they'll continue to drop like they have over the past 30 years.

I have a hard time imagining a world of -5% to -10% rates!
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Except the biggest index by far is only 500 of the companies, not even remotely "the entire market".
The issue is that medicine is not air travel. For example, if an airplane doesn't pass safety checks that plane doesn't fly. What is the equivalent in the ER? Furthermore, because of the way planes are engineered, (and because of the stringent safety standards), it is rarely the case that a mechanic has to make repairs on an already compromised vehicle, and even in that scenario most systems are designed to fail independently of other systems (i.e the fact that the electrical system is on the fritz doesn't change the way you inspect the propeller). In the medical realm, all of the systems interact. Reducing blood pressure may put undue stress on the kidneys, etc, so any hypothetical flow-chart is going to get really complicated really fast. The issue is partially pride, but it's also that it's not obvious that blindly adding checklists makes sense in every scenario.
He solved it by inspection. It's the best way to fix a bug: it requires understanding the code (which you should anyway), and is fast and easy. Using a debugger requires a lot of overhead: recompiling with debugging symbols enabled, starting up the debugger, isolating where in the code the error happens, stepping through the code line-by-line around that point, etc. It's a pain in the ass. If you can skip all that and just look at the code and see "oh, this is obviously causing the problem", fix it and test it, that's a far superior method.

Of course, solving bugs by inspection isn't always viable. At some point, it takes less time to go through the overhead of using the debugger, because it lets you step line-by-line and lets you inspect memory etc., then just staring at the code. If you're highly competent, you know when each approach is the best choice.

It sounds like this stupid company came up with an idiotic example case of a trivial bug to use as an interview exercise, and then rules out people who don't go through the unnecessary step of using the debugger when the bug is obvious to a competent coder just by looking at it.

If they're testing for the ability to use a debugger, they should just come out and say so: "you can probably spot the bug here just by looking at the code, but we're looking for someone who can use a debugger for solving much harder bugs, so please take that approach here and show us how you'd go about finding a bug using a debugger."
It doesn't have to be open source, private repos, private gitlab etc all fine.
As a thirty year sufferer of PTSD, I think I have a lot to contribute here.

As someone who, for a very long time, had to worry greatly about the possibility of being triggered as it could result in hours of lost time or days of emotional turmoil seemingly without cause or apparent reason, the current concept of avoiding triggering others is utterly and completely useless.

What triggers me as a PTSD sufferer is not the same as what triggers others. It could be a phrase or a seemingly benign picture, anything which may be associated with the cause of PTSD and doesn't actually have to have anything to do with violence or suffering.

In my experience I've found that standard NSFW or NSFL markings are sufficient for most as they typically classify things which would cause the kind of mental & emotional echoes that torment PTSD sufferers beyond the little things which cannot be accounted for. Ultimately there is no knowing what can do it for any particular individual.

Last but not least, I find the trigger marking epidemic somewhat offensive. We are not children for you to care for. I am already very isolated in my ability to tell people about these experiences since they are so far outside the common reality as to be incomprehensible and quickly becomes the abnormality to avoid or curse. I do not need to be further maligned by an ignorant society's attempt to fix the world for me. Fix the world for the children who are getting PTSD today and leave me the hell alone.
Why? The definition isn't relative to these in any way. It doesn't say that Nazi mentions are more frequent than Bieber mentions. Just that it's more likely to occur in longer threads relative to shorter threads.
It's not so much that there won't be a labor market, but rather than radical changes to the labor market are accelerating.

Two centuries ago, well over 90% of income earners were farmers. Today, it's like 2% and dropping. But unemployment didn't become a more massive problem than it was then. Labor became available for other purposes, enabling the industrial revolution.
Preserving “community character” is impossible
This also goes into how the bug was found by a student who managed to contact the lead architect and the process of quietly patching the building. The repair happened under a deadline of an approaching tropical storm for added suspense.
I don't understand the notion that as a mobile developer you have to do the front end and the backend...

I just wrote the back-end for an iOS app, I had nothing to do with the front-end and the sole front-end developer had nothing to do with the back-end.

We used a simple Rest API. Where is the problem?
When I had my ACL fixed, the nurse doing the IV asked if I was worried about the surgery. I told her the only thing I was worried about was catching some hospital bound staff infection or being given the wrong medicine while I was under. She seemed a bit taken back, since it was not about my knee (I had already done the "This leg!!!" in sharpie), or her currently sticking me with an IV.

She continued to chuckle a bit until she realized I was serious.
Yes, learning the fundamentals is a huge lever. I absolutely agree. But I still stand by the assertion that "no one has time to learn everything" - especially at the beginning of their career.

As the old saying goes "if I had 3 days to cut down a tree, I'd spend the first 2.5 days sharpening my axe". Sure, but at some point you have to actually start chopping. By analogy, at some point you have to quit worrying about fundamentals and learn the "stuff" you need to actually build systems in the real world.

By and large I'm in favor of spending a lot of time on fundamentals, and being able to reason things out from first principles. And when I was younger, I thought that was enough. But the longer I do this stuff, and the larger the field grows, the more I have to concede that, for some people, some of the time, it's a smart tradeoff to spend more of their time on the "get stuff done" stuff.
> The idea of basic income is commendable, but do we really want a system that incentivizes large families?

In Europe and Japan, yes. Birthrates are down and that leads to a number of bad social and economic consequences.
it's not based on the search, it's based on the your visit to their web site.
Wind and geothermal is good options as well. The biggest problem is storage.
There is absolutely nothing that indicates that people would want large families just because they have more money. Having a kid is expensive both money wise and timewise.

So I think it's kind of a pseudo problem.

You could solve most of that by making sure that people use condoms and that it isn't religiously wrong.
Study suggests humans are only capable of having 5 people in closest circle
Why High-Performance Buildings?