skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's think about this.

Let's assume that when a river gets redirected, a scientist goes and investigates it (which seems reasonable), and is asked what is the chance that it happened by natural causes, or is due to global warming. Based on the analysis that @acover shared with us, we can see that out of a thousand such dispatches, 995 will be due to global warming and 5 will be due to natural variability. So it seems correct for that scientist to conclude "It's 99.5% due to global warming.". In fact, saying that it's .5% due to natural variability is equivalent.

You are probably thinking of the jelly bean situation, where a test is performed to detect something within a sample population. The test has a failure rate, and the population has a base rate of occurrence.

In this case (thanks @acover), they are directly calculating the base rate.

Now, you could also ask "How many times in a year will a scientist be dispatched and be wrong", which is a again a different question (and is closer to the scenario you described).
Maybe looking for the reason we sleep is the wrong way to look at it? What if being asleep is the default state for any organism?

Sleeping require much less energy. The only reason to be awake is to eat and reproduce. For any animal there is probably an optimal ratio between sleep and hunt/reproduction where sleep is the most favorable.
Birds can fall from the sky
I'm not sure how to make it more clear: that the state does a dis-service by claiming dominion over the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

If one needs to pay to transmit at convenient and reasonable frequencies, at reasonable levels of signal strength, then speech on the spectra in question is simply not free.

I am very much concerned that, outside the visible and audible spectra, along with slivers of 800Mhz, 2.4Ghz, and 5Ghz, that basic free speech is no longer the default.
The Von Neumann architecture is dead, IMHO future computing architectures involve many cores, all with local memory (not just a bit of cache), Tensor computing capabilities and very high bandwidth connecting these cores.

Intel has Xeon Phi, but what else are they doing? There is so much opportunity in new computing architectures but it seems like Intel has been taken by surprise. I hope this giant wakes up.
Exercise for Aging Muscles
Not that bad, actually.

Just tried converting the sound to 8 bit, compressing it as a monochrome image, then back.

You can't really hear much difference at higher quality settings, and as you turn it down it sound like there is more and more digital-ish noise. I had to turn the compression way up before the voice became almost illegible, but you can still hear that it's someone talking.
Part 2 of Zork featured exactly that scenario.

And you could render the room unreachable if you did things in the wrong sequence.
I have coworkers with whom we do share information about sideprojects. These are oss tools however and as far as I know we all see it as something done for fun and not monitary gain.

I don't see any issue with it. But of course a lot depends on your sideproject and the environment in which you work
There are two really big problems with this outlook. First if everyone achieves a high level education, the competition for high skilled jobs also goes up, making the higher education mean less and requiring further education to beat the crowd. This is something millennials are experiencing right now. Second, if employers take more risk and hire more people from underprivileged backgrounds, it just means that someone from a privileged background missed out on the job and just shifts the resentment from one group to the other. It doesn't really solve the fundamental problem.

Working hard will move you forward. How forward is hard to determine, and it varies. The reality is that some people in their lifetime won't achieve success but they lay the foundation for their children too...ex his mothers struggle to get from Africa to the UK laid the foundation for him to achieve his success. Their is little chance that he will become say the Prime Minister, but his children may...thanks to their dad being able to provide them with a privileged life.
Linear Regression Assumptions
We're at a crossroads.

Fifteen or so years ago I read someone mentioning that the ratio of processor state transitions per bit of program state was growing almost exponentially.

Anecdote: Starting in the early eighties I started using CAD programs. And they were painfully slow. Yet around 1995 suddenly they weren't 'slow'. That was huge. Since then improvements in processor speed and memory hasn't provided nearly as much functional improvement.

What I think is we're in a world were current processor designs are over kill of much of the programming tasks people need done. What people want is not more speed but better efficiency. That points towards using excess silicon to implement task specific coprocessors, not for more unneeded GPU performance gains.

This leaves Intel in a bad spot. Especially since everyone and their dog is loath to design in Intel parts if they can help it.
Wow crazy, I don't understand plasma-fy tho...some device on the edge of the windmill blade would change the nature of the air to reduce friction?
Git even has a wonderful autocorrect feature that you can enable with
"git config --global help.autocorrect 1"
This fixes commands like git pish or git ermote
> There are also plenty of companies where the employees only work a few hours per day but are in the office for 8-10 hours.

I think that pretty much describes every company that's primarily composed of white-collar jobs. Realistically, a company is only going to get ~4 hours a day of actual productivity from an employee at the office.
I understand that AirBnB is now collecting an Transient Occupancy Tax on a county by county or city by city basis. I'm not arguing that whether AirBnB should be required to charge it. But when you stay in a hotel you as a guest get hit with both an occupancy tax and a sales tax.

The PDF here is a few years old but its a good overview of the tax regimes:

https://www.hvs.com/article/6856/the-2013-hvs-us-lodging-tax...
I came back to delete my post, but I think I'll leave it up. You make good points.

My point was 1) the government has a role in product definition moreso than regulation, and that one regulation might do the work of 10,000 other ones.

I'll stand by that, but congrats on calling me out. If I were suggesting an _additional_ regulation, you would have nailed it.

But I was not. I was suggesting replacing about 5,000 pages with two sentences. Different thing entirely. I liked and sympathized with the rant, though.

Be careful you don't accidentally sound like the guy the OP was talking about: the person who just wants to tear it all down with some kind of blind faith that no structure at all is needed. Ever since the first markets were set up, there has been structure, provided for either by the traders or some external party. Product definition allows the maximum amount of freedom with the fewest rules. People can trade any way they want, but they deserve a simple and clear label for the thing they're trading -- which is not the current situation. I'd argue 99.9% of the people flying have no idea at all of the trade they made when they gave up their money for a ride somewhere. That complexity and obfuscation is an even bigger enemy than overregulation.

ADD: If I don't know what the hell I'm doing when I participate in a market, how could you possibly argue that regulations were either good or bad? They're impenetrable. No matter what side you come down on politically, that's way fucked up.
Not exactly what you were asking for, but made me think of these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr4zb-HHZs4

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5evlN8Bbs

and if you go down the rabbit hole, you end up here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI
> then, as often prophesied, Google’s deep nets achieve sentience and plot to take over the entire observable universe … and they would, if not for one fortuitous bug, which will cause the AIs to tip their hand to humanity an hour before they’d planned.

Their hand might be tipped even before that, when the AIs connect with weapons suppliers on LinkedIn during the planning stages.
>Those daily decisions are usually far removed from their externalities. Yes, people will choose the $5 shirt over the $10, but it's hardly a sign that people in our society endorse the child slave labor that's happening behind the scenes. Government regulation happens a lot when individual small decisions eventually lead to things society as a whole doesn't like.

If people knowingly help that child labour scene to flourish, by what metric do we decide that "society" doesn't, in fact, like it, despite its actions? Election results? Pulling a lever or filling in a ballot every X years, by comparison, doesn't involve anything remotely close to that level of engagement and activity. Even writing the occasional letter to a legislator is a paltry amount of effort, by comparison.

I'm not intending to be glib here, I'm quite familiar with the arguments that equate society with representative government. I'm just interested in how representative such systems really are of said socieity.
It's a perfect idea for package managers. And they could expand on it, like forcing clients to download a certain number of random pieces depending on the amount of seeds to make sure at least a few other clients have each piece, keeping the whole dataset healthy and reachable. And if the dataset points to other packages - all packages from those random pieces could also be downloaded and distributed.
> Optimized for frequent fliers

Rather, frequent fliers out of necessity soon learn these things, and start to speak the language(s) that the airlines use instead of language that muggles understand. Even frequent flyers don't always instantly know why I don't fly in row 1, though I do fly first class.

It's easier to know what you're getting when you buy a TV than it is to do so when buying an airline ticket, even if you buy the TV on impulse, and even though TV vendors are looking to extract as much as they can from TV buyers.
The comparison is valid with the 3DS, though, because the "New 3DS" models do play original-3DS games. It's much more like a iPhone revision than it is like a new console.
This depends on a great many factors, including how well you know when/about what to shut up, what your specific co-workers are like, the nature of the project, and where you work.
a lot of people still fly Spirit Airlines - despite their constant low ratings - because it's costs $50 bucks.

"If [Spirit] asked people what they wanted they would have said 'more legroom'." --apologies to Henry Ford
> officials have released an image of an object found in the suitcase of an American man as he attempted to board a flight from Toronto to Chicago

> Galaska's wife, Maria Silva, said the object is a novelty alarm clock purchased while on vacation in Brazil.

How did they get it from Brazil to Toronto !?
I've actually done this for a couple commands I screw up often enough -- I have this in my bashrc:

alias dumbtypo="echo 'LEARN TO TYPE, MORON'"
alias sl="dumbtypo; ls"
alias rbuy="dumbtypo; ruby"
alias pytohn="dumbtypo; python"
alias brwe="dumbtypo; brew"
alias arhcey="dumbtypo; archey"
Privacy isn't binary, and there's a large difference between "Amazon could potentially read this, but they'd be breaking their own ToS and some laws to do so" and "Public on the internet".
This is the scariest one: http://www.xn--80a6aa.com/ & http://www.app.com/
gitolite has amazingly powerful access control, not just per-repo but per-branch or per-directory within a repo. It has very flexible self-service features, if you are OK with remote commands over ssh. Lots of nice scripting hooks.

Gitolite home page: http://gitolite.com/gitolite/

I run a multi-tenant gitolite setup for the University of Cambridge: https://git.csx.cam.ac.uk/
Interesting, if only for historical purposes. Is there nowhere this film can be seen?
Most versions of the "castle doctrine" while they have lower bars than is generally the case for self-defense outside of the home still require more than simple trespass (the term can apply to anything from merely eliminating the duty to retreat when in the home, to doing that plus presuming justification on a lower bar than would otherwise be the case.)

"Stand your ground" laws eliminate the duty to retreat outside the home for self-defense, but don't generally lower the justification threshold.
Amen.

My bashrc has so many of these, and they're probably among the most common commands I use daily!:

alias gs="git status"
alias gb="git branch"
alias grh="git reset --hard"
alias gcdf="git clean -df"
alias gf="git fetch"
alias gp="git pull"
alias gdom="git diff origin/master"
alias gdomn="git diff --name-status origin/master"
alias gd="git diff"
alias gl="git log"
alias glm="git log --author <my_name>"
alias gc="git checkout"
alias gcm="git checkout master"
I keep reading 'alphabet soup'
the point is that it's all of the above, and when doing housekeeping, can be referenced in a single grep/search.

it condenses the efficiency of action.

always be lazy.
That's a good point. I would also add that reliance on tips rewards drivers for targeting affluent neighborhoods in hopes of high tips. Not to mention relying on tipping stereotypes to discriminate against passengers
Apparently they don't think they're high enough.
In Spain, obviously. After years of "I will not permit to add new blood with hybrids with wild goat, because is a unique trophy that nobody will have except us".

Even today the idea of add new blood to the remaining (and very inbreed) populations of wild goats is often mission imposible blocked by hunter's lobbies.
Did you read the article? It's about his life where he worked hard and got lucky to escape poverty and attend Oxford. He criticizes the system because it is inherently biased to the privileged so he argues that we need to do better.
Or how about git commit with a dummy message? :)
Complete installation guide for LEMP stack with PHP 7 in Debian 8 “Jessie”
There's a relevant discussion about his arrest from five days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14096625
I didn't look into the transmission, but it looks like those engines tend to be about 2600 lb. For comparison, the model S 85kwhr battery​ is just below half that.

So the idea may have more merit for short- and medium- range trucking than I suspected.
Happens quite often in Germany and I've also run across it in Spain.
How did ratings replace tips in an actionable way as a consumer?
Since you own the disk you could extract the ROM and probably before 2018 comes play BotW in much higher quality than the Switch can do, on your PC. ;) Emulation sure has come a long way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg0h-ZgVLAI
Nice!

I haven't used a travel agent in ages. What's the experience like these days? Are they something that would be good for the average Joe like myself to use, or is it more of a specialized niche now? I understand you may be biased, but I'd still be interested in the inside perspective.
Robots.txt – O que é e como configurar
I think of regulations as capital projects. There's an up-front political cost to passing them, an up-front cost to establishing them and then an ongoing cost to feeding the bureaucracy. Minimising that ongoing cost, or at least ensuring it's paid out of the gains from the regulation, would appear to be a dividing line.
Integrate air travel into a wider experience
The way the quantization matrix is set up is that most non-zero values end up in a corner, so the zig-zagging actually manages to be pretty good since the data is already suitably aligned.
Because cash, for better or worse, is how our society determines "need". It's by no means perfect since the wealthy have an advantage but what's the other option? A panel analysts to review who really "needs" that seat?

Demand pricing (plus full fare flexible tickets and first/business class) is what helps less affluent people being able to afford a ticket at all. So instead of everyone having to pay a flat $600 for a seat, people with flexible travel dates can buy early and pay $300. They'll lose some amenities (like legroom, food, "free" baggage, etc), but for some people, that can make the difference between being able to afford a ticket at all or not.

If the plane is so full that the airline can triple the price over what they cost 2 weeks ago, it's likely that there would have been no seats at any price when I wanted one if they kept prices steady at $400.

I'm by no means wealthy and $1300 was painful, yet still I was thankful that I could get a seat at all for a very time sensitive trip.
"Startups have basically become free market validation for the tech kings."

This is not a new thing..
Now for big time shits-and-grins, add a deep learning GAN to generate a more refined signal during the decompression / upsampling stage.

That's something your Turbo Pascal code never attempted.
I'm confused. Where are the sleeping habits of the people in the list you linked?

Oh, right, there are none.
In theory, I know the solution to every puzzle in the Hitchhiker's game. In practice, I've solved every one of them that you can solve while missing others (there's a gate right at the end of the game you have to have all of the items you can possibly get to get past)... but I have never strung all these solutions together into one winning game, despite several attempts.

It's a nasty little game, really.

I guess if I were doing it again nowadays I'd be going for a tool-assisted... umm... speedrun isn't really right here, so win-at-all-run.
Most of my comments while I'm developing aren't FIXMEs or TODOs - sometimes just state, sometimes just tracing, ...

Trying to figure out semantics for all those scenarios seems like a waste of brain cells - I'll stick to XXX since it is both grep-able and easy to see.

I'm a big believer in Developer autonomy - so I hope everybody can do whatever works for them.
Experimenting in VR: Getting Lost in a Daydream
The novels Going Postal and Making Money by Terry Pratchett actually use this as a plot device; they're comic Fantasy books that roughly parallel the invention of fiat currency.

It goes from people starting to use stamps instead of coins because they were lightweight and "backed by the government" for postage, to people slowly accepting notes of credit which are backed by gold in a vault, to people realizing that the notes aren't really backed by the gold, so much as they are by the city-state's entire economy and potential to do useful work.

"What is the value of a coin compared to that of the hand that holds it?"
Most have "Do Not Disturb" / "Do Not Service" signs you can hang from the door to indicate that you're not interested in your room service being performed; often makes housekeeping's life that much easier.
A number of hotel chains will actually give you points if you decline cleaning these days--which I usually do.

And there are also "serviced apartments" that only clean once a week.

The savings aren't big but I do take advantage of tem.
I use Notepad++ since forever ago, and this has literally never happened to me. I don't know how Scintilla stores its data, but I doubt it's anything that fancy.
Never heard of this before but it makes a lot of sense. I have been debating over something for a few days and using this principle, I think I know the answer now. :)
Agreed it is not for WASM to solve. I'm just stating the ecosystem issue because everyone thinks compiling their favorite language to WASM provides immediate interoperability.
Mostly because it has an "ignore comments" mode. A lot of non-English speaking programmers write code using English keywords and identifiers but use their native language in the comments.

With some work, it could be made language-agnostic, but that's more than I have time for right now. If comments aren't an issue, you can just grep through all your source files for the offending characters, which shouldn't take more than a simple bash script.
Giant uncloseable pop-up obscures entire article.
I'm sorry, i'm just laughing.

I appreciate your response, and I'm struggling to take it seriously, but I think you just admonished me for being one of those knee-jerk deregulationists while in the same breath suggesting that you can replace 5000 pages of regulation with two sentences.

I'll do my best to add a serious comment though:

The government has no business defining products. The government doesn't know what the market wants or what companies can offer, and it has no idea what the appropriate supply and demand curves look like or what features people value or not.

Again, we just witnessed a situation in which an unregulated part of the market bit United in the ass and cost them a few million dollars, and now are they are rushing to fix it, along with all of the other airlines. No intervention from the government was needed, and now the problem no longer exists. I don't understand why you think the government stepping in and "defining" a product is going to help.

There are many reasons why, but I'll just pull one out of my head: Governments have no idea what's coming. Any regulations or definitions for service unavoidably make it harder for new entrants to offer unique services and products.

Maybe one of the airlines wants to move to your two-tiered system. If the government mandates it, then we have one choice, whether it is the best or not.

I struggle to lay out my argument any more clearly, but I feel like you still, deep down, believe that the government has this secret cabal of smart people who are going to step in and, for example, sensibly define all of our products for us. Who are these people?

/edit In the spirit of trying to agree on something, I will agree that regulations are too complex across the board. It's one of my personal causes. That said, calling for "smarter" regulation is not going to help.
It's really what you pay for.
> I buy the need for the gitlabs of the world when multiple users show up, if only because managing credentials is a pain.

gitolite has worked well for small multiuser teams for me. No difficulty with managing credentials and no need for a heavy solution.
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http://tuml.co/

http://canny.io
Even embedded exponential problems can be fine, since existing solvers in the SAT/SMT/ASP/etc. family working on finite domains like these can usually heuristically solve them in reasonable time.

I did some work on formally modeling game mechanics in answer-set programming [1] for a prototyping system a few years ago [2], and in my case model size rather than complexity was almost always the bottleneck. And the biggest model-size culprit was just numerical stuff. If you have a game with a lot of numerical state variables (e.g. health of units), you get big explosions in the size of the state space, which even when the queries are trivial, end up taking the solver longer just to construct the space than solving complex problems in smaller state spaces does. By contrast very discrete-type games (that don't involve a lot of numerical status meters) worked great, even if they have a complex logical structure and you have complex questions to ask about their possibility space. However if you do have a numerically heavy game, SMT solvers can handle that too (the "modulo" part of satisfiability modulo theories can factor out things like the "theory of integers"). In my case I used ASP, specifically the Potassco suite [3], because imo the modeling language is friendlier, especially for incremental modeling, and I was more interested in investigating expressivity than scaling at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming

[2] Some papers: http://www.kmjn.org/publications/Mechanics_AIIDE08-abstract...., http://www.kmjn.org/publications/Playtesting_AIIDE09-abstrac..., http://www.kmjn.org/publications/Ludocore_CIG10-abstract.htm...

[3] https://potassco.org/
Smallpox could return as Siberia's melting permafrost exposes ancient graves