skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of the novel "Pandora's Star", where two eccentric physicists surprise the first astronauts to land on mars:

> Wilson was already moving, glide walking as fast as was safe in the low gravity, making for the rear of the Eagle II. He knew they were close, and he could see everything on this side of the spaceplane. As soon as he was past the bell-shaped rocket nozzles he forced himself to a halt. Someone else was standing there, arm held high in an almost apologetic wave. Someone in what looked like a home-made space suit.

> [...] Behind the interloper was a two-metre circle of another place. It hung above the Martian soil like some bizarre superimposed TV image, with a weird rim made up from seething diffraction patterns of light from a grey universe. An opening through space, a gateway into what looked like a rundown physics lab.

> The other side had been sealed off with thick glass. A college geek-type with a wild afro hairstyle was pressed against it, looking out at Mars, laughing and pointing at Wilson. Above him, bright Californian sunlight shone in through the physics lab’s open windows.
>Yet no matter where you look on this planet, no matter what the history of that location is, no matter how far back in history you go, the pattern (of violence such as murder and rape) stays the same - and even more so when those places are absent of the other races/groups.

I'm not sure I follow. What you mean by "the pattern (of violence such as murder and rape) stays the same"? The pattern of violence that black people do?

If so, that's absolutely wrong that it stays the same "no matter where you look on this planet, no matter what the history of that location is, no matter how far back in history you go".

In fact the amount of violence perpetuated by "white people", from the Crusades to the Holocaust, colonial wars, Cold War proxy wars, etc, and onwards, is so much higher, it's not even funny. And not even at their own house -- they pissed all over the world.
How does this compare to Matrix clients? http://matrix.org/
Would highly appreciate feedback from people who use both of these.
For extremely large CSVs I use Emeditor (windows / paid). It also works with JSON, but never had to handle large JSONs
From the same place and somewhat related: http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/DOOM-3-BFG-Tec...
That was my experience as well as a first-time buyer. Admittedly many years ago (pre-Web) and the price was such as to make any prospective Bay area buyer weep. That said, my realtor gave me what seemed good advice on offers and helped navigate through some tricky landscape related to agriculture liens and the like.

(Funny thing though was that it turned out I knew the seller so we both could have potentially saved some money.)
Bicycles are incredibly dangerous compared to cars, even for adults [1]. They are an absolute nightmare for transporting small children. An adult can fall from a bicycle and get a scratched knee, while an infant/toddler will break his neck.

Walking is much more dangerous as well, and is tiring even with one child.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Comparison_to_...
Depends what you want. I'd personally prefer to grow by developing a product rather than selling people's time. I imagine in most cases it is more scalable and profitable. Is there a common denominator to the work you do which you can turn into a SaaS?
I'm not really sure.

In a modern environment, never have I been asked to solve a business problem with:

No internet access,
No configured editor,
With massive time pressure,
In a room full of strangers,
In my chicken scratch with a fat marker.

It's not that whiteboard interviews are bad. They're just severely outdated.

They stem from a previous time before it was cheap and easy to interview engineers on actual hardware.

We know that whiteboards are a bad metric. Dozens of scientific studies show that the most effective hiring practice is a general intelligence test coupled with a work sample test.

It's easy enough to create a coding problem as a work sample.

Why do we test a proxy for the work, rather than the work itself?
Ask HN: Did Chatbots help your business grow
Today I was talking with a friend of mine about about facebooks chatbots and we were wondering if they're actually helping anyone with their business?

Do you use chatbots for your page and has it increased your revenue? This question isn't limited to facebook chatbots.

Do your clients ask for chatbots?
What can you usefully do with a nominal number, besides input/output and comparing two of them for equality? I don't think you need language support here, library support should suffice, unless I'm missing something.
It's well known that governments are trusted CAs themselves in addition to their having 'shadow certificates' (issued by CA's to impersonate other identities) as well as compromised CA certificates. There's no assumptions there.

With regard to corporations, most large ones configure employee browsers to trust corporate proxies which can see their traffic in plaintext. That's not unusual at all.

Certificate pinning very partially mitigates these issues. It should be done, but pinning certificates (as fragile as that process is to begin with) isn't enough when you can't trust what you're pinning to begin with.

In short it's a good idea to use certificate pinning but in no way should be thought of as a fix for fundamental problems that exist in PKI.

I might add Moxie's concept of "trust-mobility" to the list of things in the list up the comment stack.
There is already kind of a parallel to this - you can't see the raw data that the apps on your phone are storing unless you root the phone. It's all protected under the app's userid that you can't access. The only exception that I know of is for apps built in debug mode.
>We exist as we do because of the pressures our environment exhibits on us (e.g. gravity)- outside of hubris I can't imagine why folks would think weightlessness would have zero impact.

Skylab 2, 3 and 4 specifically tried to study the effects of space habitation on the human body. I seem to remember reading that the later Skylab crews were considered to be in better health when they came back than when they left. Even though it was early, it could explain the dismissiveness. The data at the time might have made it seem that we'd figured it out already.
I dont believe Lake Cheko is the impact site. its connected to a long river in both directions

https://www.google.com/maps/place/60%C2%B055'00.0%22N+101%C2...
This is definitely a classic. A more recent but no less seminal presentation is David Aldridge's overview of Bungie's networking approach (and more broadly all modern FPSs): http://downloads.bungie.net/presentations/David_Aldridge_Pro...
Sure, but when all is said and done, what's the cost? There are plenty of Rust benchmarks by now, possibly some of them are part of the test suite. How much do they slow down?
Two skylabs and a really long rope seems pretty achievable. The full wheel from 60's sci fi looks very cool, but two weights on opposite sides of a string seems so much simpler.
Not Atom.

;)

[1] https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/8864
[2] https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/979
This is a "reprint" from http://www.city-journal.org/html/chicago-brink-14605.html
Yeah. I read that too. Uber does the same thing with drivers, When a driver gets a bad rating he gets less calls therefore makes less money. CX is a natural part of the sales process. You only get feedback on the deals you close therefore the more deals you close the more ratings you get. You don't close the deals with bad CX. It is in the best interest of the agent to provide a killer CX. IMO: You can be a nice guy and get great ratings, but if you don't close, you'll be canned quick fast.
Which is exactly why people still work on things like Bohmian Mechanics/Pilot Wave theory[0, 1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave

There's a lot of really strange stuff going on with QM and ST, even tho Brian Greene works primarily on ST he did somewhat coined the concept of the "giant leap" that to some extent theoretical physics has run off way too far from anything that can be proven using experimentation.

>Physics has been stuck on this problem for almost a century now. Philosophy won't help.

Philosophy does help, infact it might be the only thing that would help in it's essence philosophy is about how you approach and solve problems, and more importantly how you think about them.
It might need be that we do need a major philosophical change in the world of theoretical physics and start thinking about QM and the universe in general in completely different matter.

There is a lot of natural bias that pushes your thinking into a very predictable path and this plagues theoretical physics just like any other field if not more.
The bleeding edge of theoretical physics, especially in the past 60-70 years has really shifted towards almost the metaphysical regardless of how much elegant math there is behind it.
Does anybody know the reason why MOOCs impose these artificial schedule?s

Aren't these MOOCs just largely loss leaders for the schools?
I don't understand. Why has educational attainment gone up and age at menarche gone down if there is selection pressure in the other direction?
I suppose this is answer of Google for all governments that forces people to install Government CAs on their phones.
Where someone lives is as personal a decision as who they marry or what career they pursuit.
>The tricky bit is being able to launch enough mass to build something safe and comfortable to spin;

Is it? I might have a completely busted mental model, but I thought you only need a module-sized mass on one end of a rod the length of things we've already assembled in space (e.g. an ISS truss) and a motor to spin it.
> This would be a hardfork event where all clients must switch simultaneously to the new block format and rules.

Indeed, but a hard fork is possible (cf. debate about block size). There actually just good "social-economic" reasons not to do a hard fork, but nothing in the Bitcoin technology prevents them.
I meant HTTP but I have to admit it was not clear. What I had in my mind when I wrote that was there needs to be something that forces people to provide semantics of web pages. By which I mean HTTP is too liberal, allowing any kind of document including documents without semantic annotations to be transferred. Therefore I thought people would provide page semantics if HTTP required documents be annotated with semantics just like HTTP requires Content-Type be given.
The GDP of the US is 16.77 trillion USD. I severely doubt your estimation unless it is integrated over the entire history of the US.
So what I'm hearing is that we should send myopic people into space to fix their vision!
Ember looks really bad.
This is like Fermat's last theorem. A whole lot of smart mathematicians spent their time solving this theorem instead of finding better things to solve that can benefit humanity.
I agree Seattle has a lot going for it, but the weather is simply unbearable for me. Yes, the outdoor activities are fantastic, but it's kind of pointless when it's cold and wet nine months out of the year.

When I was a student at UW, there was a really nice hiking trail that started literally outside my house. I must have utilized it three, maybe four times over the six years I was there. It's like you wake up in the morning, look out the window and see its overcast (again) and lose all motivation to go outside.
The computer, the network and the economy
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I was imagining that you could do everything with nominals that you normally do with integers. Arithmetic saving results in nominal numbers would just disable overflow checking. This would allow all operations involving regular numbers to double down and perform extremely strict overflow checking.
I don't think that a schedule is counter-productive because for most people, if you don't accomplish the course in a certain schedule, you would have to start over because you would forget most things... but of course all material should stay available forever in an ideal world.
He explained that stats are susceptible to bias.

You can see whatever pattern or proof you want if you look at the numbers long enough, to serve any narrative, to rationalize any opinon.
Avalon was the original codename for WPF. It is a great example of what you get when people vote on codenames.
World-over, the degree conferred for significant contribution through original work in Science (and Engineering) has principally been Doctor of Philosophy. I doubt if it will ever change.
Both you and the parent comment are saying "if you know where to look". I'm sure those positions exist for specialized needs, where they'll pay anything. I'm not talking experts in middle-out compression here but rather up the middle developers. The kind who will interview for below market in exchange for equity, or at best, get market rates even though their living will cost 3x what it would cost in Houston.
> There are no positions, unless you are a devop - in which case, there are tons of positions.

What are devops salaries over there? Not interested in leaving my current gig, but I'm always curious (in the US, its between $80K-130K/year USD).
Apartment rent and house prices are a lot lower in San Jose than in SF. The average is probably skewed by certain areas. I pay less than $2000 for a decent one-bedroom with reserved parking and onsite laundry, in a low-crime area, a few blocks from a train station. Try finding that in SF.
Agreed. Hopefully one of the mods can change it
Original Publication by same author: http://www.city-journal.org/html/chicago-brink-14605.html
I agree but I think there are important philosophic[1] questions raised by quantum mechanics and, to a lesser extent, special relativity. One hundred years ago the founders of the new physics had the same questions but could not resolve them to everyone's satisfaction. One of the founders of modern physics (I forget who) said (I am paraphrasing) that all the different views on the "meaning" of the new physics amounted to where you want to hide the contradictions. The Copenhagen "interpretation" was not a definitive win but a truce.

These brilliant men argued for a decade and could not resolve it so they decided to bury the questions. It was not unreasonable in that context to accept that they did not know the answers but the theories work so let's use it and see where it leads. I am sure the hope was that the answers to the philosophic questions would become clear as our understanding of the new physics grew. There was a lot of work to do aside from the philosophic questions. Fast forward 100 years and here we are, the philosophic questions are still unanswered, and the Copenhagen interpretation has hardened into dogma banning any discussion of fundamental questions in physics. I have respect for Smolin for at least trying to re-raise these important questions.

[1] I am of the view that philosophy is distinct from physics in that it studies the nature of reality and knowledge, thus it applies to ALL fields not just physics. WHAT do we know and HOW we know is the more (or the most) fundamental science. The physicists are throwing out the baby with the bath water when they reject philosophy en masse instead of rejecting bad philosophy.
Only one world of many is experimentally verifiable.
Thank you. I couldn't edit the link so I added the link to the original source.
It is difficult to judge Phil Katz's case. Phil was very very attached to his father. His fathers' passing destroyed him. His father was probably his best friend. I think that is more important that anything else in Phil's case.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. "Startup" is now synonymous with "Tech company that isn't Google, Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon."

PALANTIR IS NO LONGER A STARTUP THANK YOU
http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-employee-stock-buyba...
I confess a certain fondness for the steep ravine -> dipsea loop.
Free Expression in Contemporary Poland by Matthew Tyrmand
James Comey chickened out on changing America's future
It was a fentanyl analogue, and it killed several people, including hostages IIRC.
I probably misused the term culture - I'm meaning more the culture of the people: red state with all the attitudes you'd associate, and many of the stereotypes that people associate with Texas aren't far off. A transplant who thinks those mindsets are wrong rather than different would probably experience alot of angst living in Houston.
Was that you who flagged me for quoting your expletives? Or are you flagging me for quoting AIC 2015 data on 10 years on NHMP and case notes?
You mean the Gozer incursion. “Zuul was a minion of Gozer.”
Java needs to be mentioned too, it is/has been front end for enterprise databases, all around sound
Offtopic, but thank you for not saying "begs the question" incorrectly.
We achieve change incrementally. If you think corporate firewalls and inflexible admins should define the architecture of the internet, you have already lost. In practice, they adapt. Believe me they are already having to, with the change of wire format and connection behaviours due to HTTP/2 requests.

Actually nothing persuades a stick-in-the-mud sysadmin quite like a ratified standards document: that is something they can relate to. I say this with confidence because I am a stick-in-the-mud sysadmin.

The major immediate utility of SRV records is one we haven't mentioned: they can be aliases at apex records, because they are not A/AAAA records.

The broader case is that all protocols should be using SRV because overloading address records for service discovery has so many misbehaviours. Allocating multiple IPv6 addresses doesn't fix the problem of overloaded symbolic names. Using address records hurts the adoption of DNS for federation.
I understand what you mean, but calling it an accident of history is a pretty strong minimization of what amounts to applied philosophy towards genuine innovation.

When I talk about information theory, I'm talking more about the more generalized forms of it (Shannon, etc), not necessarily something that could generally be described as 'information' in a more classical definition. Specifically, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Commu....

(this is a subject I'm actively learning over time, so please correct me if I'm wrong!)
> All, like Jobs, are considered to be "assholes" by some, and absolutely loved by others.

I think the results are appreciated by-and-large by the people who haven't worked with them. For people who have, they might add the "...but he is an asshole" postscript/disclaimer.
It's basically (pardon the pun) the BASIC of today. The early microcomputers almost all came with a free BASIC interpreter, and a lot of programmers got their start that way. Nowadays many people get their start with a simple text editor and a JS interpreter running in a web browser.
Rustls: new, modern TLS library written in Rust
there is many people that acted on this but I'm glad that http://archive.org exist and hope that they never disappear or get forced to delete content...
Of course I won’t be offended — that’s why I wrote, if that mattered to you, to reach out to them. Although, as someone pointed out, that feature was developed by a team mostly in London.
Because there's no easy way of telling if they are fake. What if they bought a bunch at the Apple store and are selling them at a lower price to get rid of the inventory?
I used the term "app" but I really meant company. But the important term in the question is "blockbuster". If people are undervaluing and overlooking what's happening elsewhere it's because those things aren't blockbusters. Biotech/pharma companies have been pretty disappointing in terms of blockbuster discoveries. Maybe CRISPR will change that.
Who is doing this? What "large data centers"? Who are they doing it for? Most colo facilities just sell transit if anything. What is "distributed network routing code"? Traffic splitter?
>>My experience is that you can easily just as well not know what your coworkers are doing when they sit right next to you.

Not in my experience. I mean, if you never, ever talk to them despite sitting next to them, sure. But most people aren't that anti-social.

Even if you don't make an effort to talk to people around you, general office chatter (e.g. water cooler talk, conversations in the lunch room, etc.) should be sufficient for you to keep a finger on the pulse of everything, so to speak.
Because these have non-genetic factors working in the opposite direction.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
>It's never been observed in any other capacity,

The Casimir effect and Lamb shift are strong experimental evidence of vacuum energy, which is mathematically equivalent to Einstein's "cosmological constant".
> Philosophy does help, infact it might be the only thing that would help in it's essence philosophy is about how you approach and solve problems, and more importantly how you think about them.

I'm genuinely curious to know how you think any post Frege philosophy helps. At best philosophy can help prevent research/effort being expended in plausible non-sense; but certainly not in the sense of providing a positive result or foundation for one (which is to my understanding what those doing ST are ultimately seeking).

I'll also take the time here to gripe about post-wittgenstein philosophy which went willy-nilly with formal constructions and basically managed to ignore PI entirely (or otherwise remain mum about it) as well as the his remarks on the foundations of mathematics which set up a lot of problematic for the later.
"Southern Canada" i.e. southern Ontario or even Quebec is a mild midwest climate with extremely fertile rich farming soils and abundant fresh water. It has high growing degree days, high fertility, and can grow everything from peaches and apples and grapes to corn, tobacco, soy, wheat, garden vegetables, tomatoes. It sits at the same lattitude as southern Oregon.

Argentina, while it has some fertile regions, is pretty arid.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with the comparison.
I usually come away from things like this with the distinct impression that they're pretty much all "fast enough" for my needs. Admittedly, I'm not asking a lot of JavaScript, and my skill level with JavaScript tends to lead me to take the path of least resistance, or at least the path of best documentation and most examples.

That said, this kind of third-party benchmarking is probably useful, because so many frameworks have benchmark charts on their own site which indicate they're all faster than everything else. (Which may not even be inaccurate...for the things they benchmark, they may be the fastest. Which again maybe indicates they're all "fast enough" and unless your use case exactly matches that of the specific benchmarks in question, the benchmarks might be misleading you about which one will be fastest for your app.)

Also, I had no idea there were so many JavaScript frameworks that I hadn't heard of (and there's at least a few that I have heard of that aren't on the chart). Every time I turn around, there's two or three more JavaScript frameworks. Surely, this will calm down at some point, and a couple of leaders will emerge and folks will kinda settle into moving those leaders forward rather than reinventing everything?
Samsung phone not actually water-resistant