skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from outside US. I grew up watching American TV shows and movies and had a really positive impression about US and its people. I actually used to look down on my culture and its ways most of the time. The 4 years I spend on Reddit exposed me to so much racism and hatred that I have only negative feelings left now. I am leaving US next month, a good part of my decision was based on those feelings.
I don't think that would work, but correct me if I'm wrong.

As far as I know, git bisect does a binary search along the commits; `good` tells it to look at the latter half, `bad` to look at the former.

So suppose you have five commits (1,2,3,4,5), where 1 is the working state, and 3 is a conflict commit.
It will start by asking about the middle commit (3), automatically choose `good`, and determine that 3 was the latest working commit (after checking 4, which says `bad`).

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EDIT: Obviously this is simplified to explain the issue with marking "good" those commits.
> Microsoft still isn’t providing sales numbers, but the company claims “more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before.”

How bad does journalism have to get before it's indistinguishable from fake news? Surely MS knows how many people are switching from Macs to surface compared to a previous period? Surely a journalist can push for figures?
It's really not so much that I don't agree with him and to be sure, I don't agree with him. It's more like, really, do I have to listen/read/hear about Friedman one more time? Aren't there any new voices? Dunno where you live but they still play Car Talk on KQED on Saturday mornings and one of the guys is dead. MoDo has been awesome but she should move on as well. David Brooks same.
>The disadvantage is real. I've tried to hire professionals in a place that didn't offer benefits before. They wouldn't come aboard -- not a single one (and yes, IMO, parental leave is a standard benefit). I had to draw from a pool of college kids who needed a break into the industry.

So, to the higher ups, they were still able to hire. Did they eventually decide this was a disadvantage, and try to rectify it? Or did they not change?

>and free people will be free to act in their own best interests without burdensome constraints or regulation. That's how I define "freedom".

Having to pay rent and buy food are definitely huge burdensome constraints. Hence, most of this "If you don't like it, you don't have to work there!" is ignoring much of that, and reality. You said you had to hire college kids who didn't have any bargaining clout. But people out of college have kids too. Do you honestly think that this kind of benefit is something that should only be reserved for someone who is lucky enough to be in a good bargaining position?

>Whether you think every company should offer 20 weeks of parental leave (itself debatable from a business perspective, though obviously not a perk many employees would willfully decline) is different from whether you think they should be forced to do so.

Not to me. But then there are many things I don't believe should be dependent on where one works, or how good they are at bargaining.
Don't review for free.

Seriously. Every time you review for a journal and don't ask for a reasonable (say, $150/h) fee, you are enabling their predatory practices. Stop doing it.

Come to think about it, why not copy their pricing scheme? Sure, I'll review for this particular journal for $3000/h---or I agree to review for any of your journals, for a flat rate of $3000/week, even if there is nothing interesting to review...

But really, at the very least, stop doing it for free.

> otherwise I risk plagirizing my own writing.

No, you don't, because that's impossible. You might risk infringing the journal's copyright---but the journal only has a copyright on the final article, not on the words you submitted. Maybe that's what differentiates Biology from Physics: you guys thinks self-plagiarization (sp?) is a thing.
Not really; git bisect skip still works.

I agree I don't like it either.
I get this error in the video: "YouTube - Playback on Other Websites has Been Disabled by the Video Owner"
> Apple has limited resources

I keep seeing this written in various places and I don't understand it. Apple aren't short of a dollar and they haven't been short of a dollar for a good long time. How is it that they can find themselves with "limited resources"? What does that actually mean?
Complexity Garden
That's a shame, and also a quite lazy form of prejudice.

Yes, 4chan and it's analogues are full of worthless shit and the quality has gone to the drain, but they are also full of different & unique people, some of whom share similar ideas that those of the HN community (privacy, anti-mainstream, anti-corpo, etc; but you can also find the polar opposites in either).

It has in the past also acted as one of the few places with freedom of speech (is there anywhere left in the world now? I doubt it. People with that specific "absolute disgust" frame of mind have made them all disappear: "Let's stereotype a whole community based on a vocal negative minority").

It's also a place not only full of internet history, but also responsible for a big part of it.

In fact, there is no doubt you have enjoyed content, trends, breaking news, memes, etc. that were originally created/generated at 4chan. All other forums/communities have and will continue to pick up content from 4chan & others. Not only lazy, but also kinda hypocrite.

I guess that's the whole point of having these different communities. People quick to judge better stay at the mainstream, where everything is Safe. What you get is something like Reddit, which is now (just like 4chan) completely distorted from its original form and fully bought out, and you have admins (the CEO itself...) changing user's post on a personal grudge. Bravo.
Reminds me a little of the Blaster Beam, surprised that the article didn't mention it's very throaty BRAAAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_rIrjJuP4
VGER.
It's pretty small. The most in depth analysis, albeit from a single site, I could find... https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...

Do read past the short answer of 1.1% though.
To be fair, one of the annoying things about how PRs work is that they don't test the merge, they test the commit relative to its original base. Your tests may pass in the PR, but fail once applied to later changes in the main line.
This seems like a pretty short-sighted view of the issue. Take a look outside the US for many ways this can be and is done
Only someone who has never had kids would suggest such a thing. Newborns are a LOT of work. This time isn't going to be a leisurely vacation.
It certainly doesn't help that our only subway covers 1/6th of the city. It seems like most other major cities are constantly investing in transportation infrastructure, and in SF the only large project I can think of is the new Transbay Terminal (which will probably make traffic congestion even worse).

Why does it feel like SF is so tragically mismanaged as a city? Is there something about the location that makes city planning more difficult, or is it just bad governance?
`git bisect skip`
> Many countries which do not use FPTP nonetheless end up with stable long-lived de facto two-party systems

No, they don't. Heck, even many systems that do use FPTP (e.g., the UK) support more parties with representation in the main national legislative body than the US.

A two-party system isn't one where merely there are two stronger parties that tend to form governments or executive administrations.
It's certainly a PR piece. The story may even be apocryphal. But there is a rational reason for him to take such a small action.

Promoting such a story within the company spreads the word that a good way to impress the boss is to question processes and look for improvements. Especially if he asked similar questions frequently.

People could start to think, what if the boss comes by, is there anything inefficient in my task that I can improve before that happens.
I think you'd want to skip, not mark as good?
I think the main problem is of scale. The Earth's field isn't too strong, but it is huge in expanse. That's a lot of distance to deflect and decelerate. Going from a million meter diameter to a billionth likely requires a honking big*large field strength to deflect as hard.

Also while space has a very low temperature, it's an impressively terrible conductor of heat and thus a garbage cold sink. To keep things cool you either have to wait for the heat to radiate out or to off gas your coolant. You could generate radiative fins for the chips, but I don't know how effective that is in space; I would assume they would be so gossamer it would be hard to keep them from corroding in the solar wind.

But maybe that's just an engineering problem.
Just tried in windows and compare it to cmder by opening a small json file in vim. cmder is much quicker rendering the next page of code. I guess is still much more good looking than cmder though.
Alternatively: he's depressed but work provides sufficient distraction.
Except that the CCCP/RF actually has recently invaded two of its neighboring states (Georgia, Ukraine) and non-trivially menaced 2 others (Moldova, Estonia). And, according to a preponderance of evidence, succeeded in doing a bit more than tweaking the nose of the electoral process within the U.S. itself.

So maybe it's not just a "scare".
As a somewhat unrelated aside, as a Logic Pro user I thought it was odd to read Logic described as "memory hungry". For my small projects (16-32 tracks) logic uses just under 1G.
For me it's Logic's CPU hunger that turns my MBP into a noisy space heater that I'd like to see tamed, although it's actually somewhat nice when recording in my car in winter.
It's been a year and so far no success...

while unfortunately we have not yet succeeded in undoing all aspects of aging just yet, we have gathered tantalizing human data for the first time in history

http://bioviva-science.com/blog/one-year-anniversary-of-biov...
No, that isn't true.

If your site is AJAX everywhere then adding fallbacks for regular forms is possible, yet a waste of development time. So I don't hold it against developers.

In contrast there is almost never a reason to render text with Javascript (with certain exceptions).
Wikipedia does not provide news outside of the 'In the news' section (it does provide encyclopedic entries on current events, but that's not quite the same thing).

The 'In the news' section lists already existing articles, which must contain references. User generated websites are usually not considered reliable sources for Wikipedia, so Wikinews shouldn't normally be used as a reference in Wikipedia articles.
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Journey into the machine: an Optimistic Killer
I wonder if movie depictions of movie-making are accurate?
What happens if the wrong cable/adapter are combined? I'm just curious as a non-Apple user. I mix-and-match USB-B chargers and cables between my various devices all the time, and never experience a problem (except maybe slower than maximum charging sometimes). I assume the issue here would also simply be sub-optimal charging; but I have heard that some USB-C situations can actually be dangerous to the device since more power logic is in the USB cable ends?
The second author of this paper was unable to replicate the results.

He was merely advising the first author, who actually wrote the code. Source: (requires Google login) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/word2vec-toolkit/XC7... and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/word2vec-toolkit/Q49FI....

This highlights something people on HN don't appreciate about machine learning: how hard it is to actually trust results, and how likely it is that the results were affected by bugs in the code or how the dataset was handled. In this case the second author was only able to replicate if he didn't shuffle the dataset. Graduate students almost never write tests for their code.
I find it very, very hard to believe that a company with two hundred billion dollars in cash would have a problem hiring any amount of people at any level. Everyone has a price.

In other words, if you need to hire super engineers at a staggering million bucks a year, well, didn't Apple make 45B last year? That's enough for 45 000 such super people while I bet a few dozens would make big changes.
I love how github fosters discovery and remote collaboration, though one of its liabilities is when great git command-line features are effectively lost unless github re-implements or exposes them, because some conventions incentivize only doing what github itself can do.
http://ferd.ca/handling-overload.html

This is a good article about overload and back pressure. It also lists some tools in Erlang to solve these sorts of issues. It also mentions genstage (very) briefly.
This guy used to run Barclays tax evasion division, which while apparently completely legal, gave the wrong impression as Barclays accepted taxpayer money...
Have you tried replacing the batteries yourself? A cheap battery I got off of eBay for a 2012 model registered over 100% of the stock battery capacity for at least six months. It looks like they only run $30 for your model.

To make the charging cables more durable you might try liquid electrical tape[1] which you can find at almost every hardware store. The trick to making this custom cable boot adhere the best is painting all the way around the cable and connector back to where you started before it sets. That way the material bonds to itself rather than only the cord and connector.

[1] - http://www.gardnerbender.com/en/ltw-400
This hasn't been thought through enough, with nuclear reactors not maintained by people they will melt-down and pour out lots of radiation on top of that produced by the bombs. A lot of life will be destroyed.
How do they slow down?
Disney IT workers claim discrimination against Americans
From the film, even the crazies theories of a nuclear winter weren't close.

Nuclear war doesn't do much.

I think a meteor or supervolcano is also impossible from the scenes in the film, not having lots of things growing within a month doesn't fit really, but it'd be an interesting discussion.

Obviously this is why it's not mentioned, so people don't get wrapped up in the details about how it happen but the story.
Not sure why are you getting downvoted, I came here to make the same comment.

QPM is a useless metric. When talking about distributed systems from engineering point of view, you always want to use QPS. QPM is simply not fined-grained enough to show whether the traffic is bursty or not. For example in this particular case, when you say 1M QPM that can mean anything - they might be idle for 50s and then get 100k QPS for the next ten seconds, or they might be getting 15k QPS all the time (like it's visible on the graph). Distributed systems are designed for the peak workload, not for the average one. Using misleading numbers like QPM leads to bad design and sizing decisions.

The only case where you would use QPM, QPD and similar metrics is when you want to artificially show your numbers bigger than they are (10M transactions a day sounds better than 115 transactions a second). But those should be used by sales, not by engineers.
> the saddest thing is that even buying used pebbles on ebay won't help me much with their servers going offline :(

Thankfully, the community is stepping up to fill that gap: http://rebble.io/
If you have industry experience at big firms already, then targeting those firms and similar firms is the place to start.
So are you complaining that Perl 6 allows Math majors to use the Unicode operators that they are used to, and that work the way they would expect?

Also all of the Set/Bag/Mix ASCII equivalents are fairly easy to remember or to guess once you know that they all have parens around them. ( as in guess how to spell it, and guess what it does )

(elem) left value is an element of the right value
(cont) left value contains the right value ( dual of previous )
(|) returns a superset of both sides ( or )
(&) returns a set of values that are on both sides ( and )
(-) set that contains the values that are on the left but not the right ( minus )
(^) set that contains the values that are only on one side ( xor )

(<=) left value is a subset or equal to right value ( less than or equal to )
(<) left value is only a subset of right value ( less than )
(>=) (>) duals of previous two

(.) multiset multiplication ( looks a bit like the Unicode version )

(+) Bag/Mix addition

(<+) left value has fewer or equal numbers than right value ( Bag less than or equal )
(>+) left value has more or equal numbers than right value ( Bag greater than or equal )

< a B > (<+) <a B B c> # True
< a B B > (<+) <a B B c> # True
< a B B B > (<+) <a B B c> # False
< a d > (<+) <a B B c> # False

The ones with + all can be thought of as counting variations of the or equal operators.

The only one I would really complain about is the multiplication one, and there is nothing stopping someone from doing this:

my &infix:< (*) > := &infix:< (.) >;

If you really don't like them, don't use them.
I mean they are mostly wrappers around other functionality anyway https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/src/core/set_opera...

proto sub infix:<(elem)>($, $ --> Bool) is pure {*}
multi sub infix:<(elem)>($a, Any $b --> Bool) {
$a (elem) $b.Set(:view);
}
multi sub infix:<(elem)>($a, Set $b --> Bool) {
$b.EXISTS-KEY($a); # internal method for implementing $b{ $a } :exists
}
Let's say that one box is down (don't care why, boxes die all the time).

You have 3 boxes, they're all running at 100%, or worse if the load is not perfectly balanced (it never is). You've got bad latency and you're up for cascading failures. Your system is in bad shape.

Now, supposing you have to deploy your application. Gotta take a server offline temporarily, the load will be 100% on the last 2 servers left... that can only take 66%. Booya! You're down :p

That's what happen when people are cheap on servers, in high performance systems.
IoT, from a business perspective, is generally about analyzing IoT-collected data. To do that, you need access to the data. There's no reason to make an IoT device if it's not going to collect data for you to analyze.
Hi, I work at a manufacturing startup on pretty much the same exact problem (reducing scrape rates and downtime). I'd love to pick your brain if you have a moment to chat :) my email is mykola@oden.io
He is more like a political figure than an economist theorist. I have yet to read the books but have seen many of his lectures and its so opinion-based that its hard to be critical. I think he is more of a communicator than a novel intellectual.
> Why aren't you all protesting about being tied into such oligopolies?

To be fair, you've just replaced a oligopoly with a monopoly.

Openreach is a government-controlled monopoly, but US telecom is heavily regulated too. Both charge what the government lets them.

As you point out, rural support is a lot less if no one can recoupe infrastructure expenses. The UK has 5x the population density of the US.

So...you might be right, but it's not a clear-cut answer from basic principles.
I'm considering writing a web analytics for developers course/e-book. Out of the box GA is good and quite simple to implement but getting anything non-trivial out of it can be very cumbersome - if anyone is interested would love to hear your enthusiasm.
Are you seriously trying to say that seniors don't function in a civil society simply because they are uncomfortable with new technology?

The GP was (rightly) calling out the over-the-top assertion that anyone who isn't on the internet is of no value. If that's not condescending and hyperbolic, I don't know what is.
ah! I missed the p.a. = per annum. Thanks.
Enlightenment's Terminology[1] supports a few fancy things including image previews, animated cursors (nyancat is a builtin theme...) and local file links. More impressively, it actually works really well, it's native, and it's fast (even hardware-accelerated). With all of that fanciness, it renders text even faster than suckless' st with a GPU.

[1]: https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology
Off the cuff social theory, FWIW (not too much, but interesting to consider more generally): My guess is that the real issue and discussion is a subtext, that Apple has lost its cache, and that people are testing and exploring the shape and boundaries of the new social dynamic/norm around Apple.

How far has their social position slipped? If I say X will I get a strong response, or is it going too and will it receive a negative response, or does it go not far enough and will it seem bland and be ignored.

It's like gossip - or it is actually gossip. It's the currency (or securities market) of social status.

I used to follow a sports team where the head coach and one chief assistant were beloved. I said that if they don't play well then the other chief assistant is in trouble, because he had little reputation with the fans and would be blamed by process of elimination, whether or not it was his fault. Sure enough, despite undeniable, simple evidence that his area of responsibility was performing well (points are a very easy metric), he got the blame and then the shaft.

If Jobs was still around, unconventional decisions would be seen much more positively; Cook and Apple no longer have that cache and now their position will be tested until their new social position is established.
And absolutely needlessly so. You can ship a fully compliant USB-C 3.1 cable for probably 40 cents more than a cheap version. It makes no sense to start a rollout this way, especially from a company like Apple.
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If you want free speech go yell about UFOs and gays on the public square where it's protected. Free speech doesn't mean people have to give you a platform. Your version of free speech would actually coerce other people into using their resources to propagate your speech, which doesn't sound free to me.

Arguing 4chan is a positive valuable place because they are good at making memes and organizing raids and harassment campaigns is also pretty funny.
Everett's many-worlds interpretation is nothing to do with fine-tuning, but as you point out, eternal inflation might be worth looking at. I found this paper, which looks interesting: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0407213v3.pdf

My interest in the subject predates this - when actively researching the subject I developed a scalar-tensor theory consistent with Dirac's Large Number Hypothesis, and preferred the idea that there's only one possible set of physical laws. I was never happy with the Anthropic Principle.
This short book by Fred is also a great read about Erlang production systems in general https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
The other side of this is it is likely if the engineers are optimising for a metric that is important enough to be tied to compensation, the companies' non-engineers are likely to place a high value on that metric too, exacerbating the issue.

This is a situation where I feel gaming the system is not an inherently adversarial relationship.
Funny this comes out today, I was looking for a good terminal that would look decent when used with bash on ubuntu on windows. I tried xming and urxvt but fonts and colors were a nightmare, maybe this will be better.