skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was incredibly easy to find your first and last name. I'm not going to post them. I strongly recommend that you undo the changes to this website, delete this post, and stop bragging about behaving this way.

Did you have a right to feel insulted? Definitely!

But by doing something like this, you're dragging your own name through the mud. I already know I'd never want to work with someone like you because you aren't able to behave like an adult.

If you believe so strongly that you don't need business people, stop doing free work for them at hackathons and work for yourself. Your success will say everything that you were attempting to say with this prank.

(I'll also point out that if Archive.org picks up this page, your name is going to be archived with this version of the site forever. The Web is more like a tattoo than a dry-erase board.)
It worked out well for the South Koreans
> ...I've seen plenty of job ads that were more or less "we have job, come work here". It's like they don't even try and then proceed to step 2: complain about the labor supply.

This kabuki theater by business political advocacy groups is a perverse form of the old Soviet joke "they pretend to pay us; we pretend to work", except the pretend on the part of labor hasn't taken hold yet at large scales. Perhaps a perverse form of a Potemkin village is a more fitting picture.
Hmm that's interesting, in my view the capital view is the exact opposite. Namely, that people pursuing their own self-interest (in the form of profit) will generate socially beneficial activities as a side effect (because society is in the long run not willing to pay for harmful activities).

I agree though that the financial sector has grown more influential than it should be and that society as a whole seems to greatly prefer short term than long term gains.
Frasier is a monkey-nigger.
Fascinating! Seems to have some commonality with dependency injection, which is one of my interests (https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme)

Can you point me at any Lua docs where I can read more about overriding IO in Lua?
Google actually does this in their Seattle location.
To me, that's a proud day. Also scary. :)
> The amount of people who I've seen, online and in person, citing the absolutely insufferable, constant politicization of ESPN ...

How many?
You're a Human. Terminal wanderlust is a hereditary condition.

https://vimeo.com/108650530
> Can you open Wikipedia and read articles that challenge the political views of your leadership?

You can actually do that in China, if you know English. Only the Chinese Wikipedia is blocked.

> Can you go to a library and buy a book about opposing political systems?

If you mean a book that explains the political system of e.g. the United States, sure, you can read that. If you mean a book that proposes an alternative political system for China, probably not.

> Can you vote and pick a guy from another party? Do other parties exist at all?

There are no other parties, but in theory, you can write in any name you want on your vote sheet. It's just that one of the "recommended" guys always wins.

> So no, it's not the same.

Agreed. I just wanted to point out that it's not exactly as bad in China as you think it is.
> What does PG need to improve, then?

There's some things (better replication out of the box , higher performance).

> but not much discussion on how PG will come to parity

That's because this subthread started with "No one ever chooses Oracle or Sybase on technical merits." - neither Postgres' strengths and needed/planned improvements are relevant to refute that position.

> on how PG will come to parity and how we'll know when it's finally good enough to use.

Just because Oracle has some features that postgres doesn't match doesn't mean it's not good enough. There's a lot of features where postgres is further along than Oracle, too. For a good number of OLTPish workloads postgres is faster.

We're talking about large and complex products here - it's seldomly the case that one project/product is going to be better than all others in all respects. Postgres has been good enough to use for a long time.

If you're interested in which areas postgres needs to improve, I'm happy to talk about that too.
NSA is working relentless trying to figure out how to get one of these in the western market ;-)
Why does full employment indicate a shortage, in your opinion?

If 2.8% of the iron we dig out of the ground remains unused, is there a shortage of iron? In my world this would indicate abundance.
It's much cheaper than self-hosting for us because it requires nearly zero human intervention.
I didn't realize it when I posted, but I looked back at Mukherjee's book The Gene: an Intimate History and realized that this article is an excerpt from two parts of that book. Awhile ago I gave up on it a quarter of the way through, bogged down in an interminable section on fruit fly genetics, but have picked it up again now and am enjoying it.

If you haven't read it yet, I recommend the book more for his personal narrative (the one that the article hones in on) than for the rehashing of Mendel or the Watson/Crick/Rosalind Franklin story, and in some ways it feels like a bit of a Frankenstein's monster a result of stitching together so many different stories. But he really is a beautiful writer. I'm starting to think of him as the successor to Oliver Sacks (RIP).
Germany has had democratic elements for half a millenium - the Holy Roman Empire was a sort-of democracy of nobles. But however you carve it, the current democracy in Germany is functioning very well, better and more representative than any of its forebears.
Back many years ago when I had to make a choice between these two I took a very practical approach. I learned both of them to a level adequate enough to implement a few small test projects and then I made my decisions.

How?

As a solo founder CEO/CTO/Electrical, Mechanical, Software and FPGA Engineer and, let's not forget, Janitor at the time there was one thing I valued far above anything else: Time.

VHDL, I found, is very verbose. Verilog not so. To me this meant having to type twice as much to say the same thing. This didn't sit well with me and that was the primary driver in deciding in favor of Verilog.

Another driver was familiarity with C. I had a need to switch contexts with some frequency. I was using C and C++ for embedded and workstation code development. As a mental exercise, switching to VHDL felt, for lack of a better word, violent. Switching between those languages and Verilog felt natural. Again, a time saver.

It also seemed far easier to find and hire a good Verilog engineer when the time came for me to let go of that title and focus on being a better Janitor. To me Verilog was the clear winner on all fronts. At the time it lacked a few constructs that were later added into the language yet I never found that to be a problem and managed to successfully design and manufacture many successful products.
Nicey-nicey pick and place job
Why do we even bother discussing the unemployment rate any more? It is now common knowledge that it does not include people who have given up on finding a job, people who are underemployed, people who went on disability as a replacement for unemployment subsidies, etc.

I think at this point we can just move on. I will state it explicitly: the notion of "expected unemployment rate at full employment" is meaningless. Whatever the supposed number is, it tells us nothing and deserves no discussion.
My Cousin Lenny: Remembering Leonard Bernstein
I'm not sure what's the problem with setters? In my eyes, they are just a convenient shorthand for a common message. For example, Objective-C before version 2.0 didn't have setters; so the libraries had lots of methods like "setTitle:", "setDelegate:" etc. Setters are just a convenient shorthand. And in ObjC and in Swift (I don't know Java/C#/C++ so well) you can override setters to do whatever you like, so there really isn't much of a difference between using a setter and sending a message -- it's just syntactic sugar that makes code more readable.
No! Flexural strength of 50MPa!!! And rammed earth only has a compressive strength of 4.3MPa! Concrete has a flexural strength of around 30MPa, and I don't know math so I don't know what the reinforced concrete is like, but this is still stronger than even cooked bricks.

Here's the source publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01157-w

It looks like because of the composition of the martian soil they figured this would never work without a bonding agent and that it would require heating, and then somebody tried it anyway, and it worked. But here's the neat takeaway: The method they used to form it, along with particle size, and whacking it versus slowly loading it, significantly strengthened the resulting bricks. Nobody expected these things to happen, it seems.

From article:

"Loading rates were either quasi-static [..] or impact [..]. The lateral boundary condition of compaction loading was either rigid (confined by a steel wall), free, or flexible (confined by an elastomeric wall)"

"Compacted Mars-1a solids were cut into beams and subjected to three-point bending tests"

"It is remarkable that the lateral boundary condition of compaction loading significantly influences the strength and the shape of the compacted solid, specifically, the thickness-to-diameter ratio. Compared with the boundary condition, the effect of loading rate is secondary."

"With the rigid boundary condition, the compacted Mars-1a samples are structurally integral but the flexural strength is relatively low, comparable with ordinary clay bricks. When the lateral boundary is free or flexible, R is nearly 3 times higher than that of rigid boundary condition.

Between the free and flexible boundary conditions, the flexible boundary condition reached high R at much lower Pmax and the resultant solid thickness was only slightly smaller than that of the rigid boundary condition, much larger than that of the free boundary condition. The strength-wise efficacy of forming inside a flexible boundary is ~150–200% greater than the free boundary for R ~30 MPa, taking into consideration the flexible boundary’s larger sample sizes."

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Concrete alone has a shitty tensile strength, compared to its compressive strength. If you add steel cables to the concrete, the hybrid material's tensile strength increases.

Similarly, Cod is what you get when you add natural fibers and other material to rammed earth. Its tensile strength is also significantly higher due to the addition of the fibers.

So then my next question is: could they bring along some cheap fibers (like mylar?) to strengthen these Mars-1a bricks even more? Maybe the way the materials are forming now, they don't need added tensile strength, or the fibers could interrupt the formation somehow. But it's worth trying...
I'm paying bench.co to handle bookkeeping. They assign you a real live accountant, and a pretty saas interface that you can hookup your accounts to. With this combination, I'm able to learn and ask questions, as well as have one place for all my business transactions.
In this case it'd be like losing the index of the tape, but still needing to recover data off it.
Does anyone use a small treadmill with slow speed at a standing desk?

I saw a video a year ago, looks like a good idea, I am planing to buy a small one
Yeah and if North Korea can do stuff like this, it means anyone can do stuff like this. It's trivial enough to do at this point.
> Then when I learned that they were just bundles of existing data types, though 'oh is that all?'

You don't have to use existing data types when defining your own if you really don't want to. It's not 'just' that, it's about setting up your own behavior.
Depends on the format, for example PNG has checksums per segment which make it extremely easy to find if the segment has been correctly rebuilt. Same goes for ZIP and RAR, and JPEGs can be matched against the Huffman tables for invalid byte sequences.

Also for JPEG there was a (sort of experimental) carver that validated the image against the thumbnail, and then decided if it was correctly reconstructed or not (and maybe it also helped to choose the correct block when there was an error). Still, most of this tools never left the alpha stage, and ended as curiositys presented in a conference and then left to rot.
Right, but all programming language constructs are eventually reduced to assembly code. So, strictly speaking, as long you understand assembly, you don't need any language constructs at all.

This fact doesn't offer us any insight into the nature of language constructs, though.
Install, Update, Repair Any Windows Version From USB?
It was no treat for anyone involved:

Number of Americans killed in the Korean War: 36,000

Number of Americans wounded in the Korean War: 105,000

Number of South Koreans killed in the Korean War: 415,000

Number of South Koreans wounded in the Korean War: 429,000

Estimated number of Chinese and North Koreans killed in the Korean War: 1,500,00013

I would like to hear more from historians as to what would have happened had the war never occurred. My guess is a united Korea would be in line as a periphery of China with their level of technology... with Kim Il Sung and his family long gone and irrelevant.

I would also like to add that Americans know nothing of modern war never actually having had to live through it or having to deal with its consequences on their livelihoods, economy, or psychology. War for Americans is stuff that happens to other people... where they send oblivious young men to fight who are usually forgotten as soon as they are sent off to protect "freedom".
> It took a motivated Austrian less than ten years to undo them and turn Germany into a totalitarian state.

I agree, that the Weimar republic was weak. Main problem was a missing election threshold, resulting in a divided, weak parliament. But some other minor things happened, too. For example several militaristic regimes packed on a small continent were competing to divide the world resulting in a world war, for which Germany was made solely accountable for and had to give up territory and pay huge reparations.
To be honest, I shared the LaTeX documentation of ShareLaTeX with you because it is plain excellent.

Right now, I'm finishing my doctoral thesis and compiling locally, because I'm without internet for long times due to travelling. Therefore, I scraped the docs to have a local copy.

Am glad to see the praise for ShareLaTeX here, though. Especially due to their solutions with ridiculous error messages and their general approach. When I encounter a cryptic problem I switch from vim+vimtex to texstudio -- which usually helps a lot by providing an overview, syncing the logs to the occurrence, organizing them by severity and enhancing understanding by unfolding the log.

The only difference between ShareLaTeX and overleaf I see, is SLs over-the-tops documentation. Kudos again and thanks.

For general interest, my current LaTeX workflow is:

* Write in vim + vimtex.
* Switch on continuous compiling (that's like ShareLaTeX).
* Using synctex to preview with zathura (lightweight pdf).
+ This is really nice, you can configure vimtex to it.
+ CTRL-Click into the (zathura) pdf focuses vim to the
corresponding position
+ <leader>lv in vim jumps to the position in the
pdf being open side-by-side in zathura.
* In case of complex errors open texstudio
* Save battery, use vimagic and be happy.
I don't see ESPN's content as politicized. Politicized content would be to support a candidate or political policy (e.g., for or against national health care).

I see ESPN addressing social issues, such as abuse of women, but I don't call that political. Of course, any person can say: X is against my politics; but on that basis everything is politics.

The reality is that there's a segment of the public that's part of an ideological political movement. Consistent with such movements, everything and everyone that doesn't share the political ideology are viewed as political enemies; the goal is to wipe out all apostates and non-believers. If ESPN doesn't share their ideology, they are portrayed as political enemies. In the end, that group is a small minority (per surveys, not per online volume or representation on cable news); we can't be intimidated into silence on important social issues.

> I've seen anecdotes online

As a basis of knowledge, that has been so misleading for so long, especially regarding politicized issues like this one, that IMHO repeating it mostly magnifies misinformation.
Wow. I get 110+ megabits in Melbourne and 10+ in Canberra.
The argument about what "a real and physical wavefunction" means boils down to this question:

"Is there a science of the wavefunction beyond QM?"

Can you ask more questions about it, break it down into constituent processes, maybe re-engineer it?

Or is it opaque and closed and there is no possible way to do further science on it?

My money is on option 1, because it's hard to imagine an organising principle you can't possibly do any science on.

Wavefunction science may be weird and like nothing ever seen before - especially given non-locality and possibly non-realism. But it's a good rule of thumb in science that when nature becomes counterintuitive you're on the right track. If the answer was obvious and familiar you wouldn't need original and creative thinking to find it.

Option 2 seems like an admission of total defeat. It would be the first time in science where we hit a wall and didn't even try to understand what it was made of.

That doesn't mean it can't be correct. But it does mean we shouldn't give up without trying for quite a while longer. And if we do give up, it should only be after discovering some kind of meta-Bell theorem which proves there's no way to go further.
Prices are quite high there but it's not a superbly highly trafficked place. Revenues do not seem super high, though the place is seemingly never empty (unlike PA, VdT seems to be the only good cafe in downtown Los altos; Satura doesn't make the cut esp after ownership change).

They seem to be experimenting with their offerings, which is either the proprietors satisfying their whims or searching for a winning formula.

Also I imagine they bought the land from Maria's Antiques so it'll take forever to recoup costs there (though I guess the land will just appreciate).

In any case I'm happy they're around. Sad that they changed their macaroon recipe.

The real question is how Area 151 in downtown Los altos possibly turns a profit. Is that one of Sergey's toys?
> Hyper-determinism

How does "hyper-determinism" differ from "determinism"?

I find that when people use adjectives like "hyper" or "ultra" for some theoretical view (like people who talk about 'ultra-darwinism') they are trying to make something appear "extreme" without making any real argument for that position.

> You end up going into hyper-determinism, which is almost all about negating free will.

That phrasing implies that people come up with, or want, "hyper-deterministic" views because they want to negate the idea of free will. Is that what you mean? If not, what are you trying to say?
I struggle with this a lot. It's like I have to make appearances for me. Forget pointy haired bosses and managers who like to see you work. Nothing is harder on yourself than yourself. You have a very clear insight into just how much you procrastinate and slack off and everything feels like too much.

This of course does not lead to more productivity. It leads to a lot of "productivity" where you work late into the night or early into morning, but know a surprising lot about all the latest memes and goings on du jour of the internet.

What I found works for me is exercise. Can't convince yourself that you can sit still and stare at the ceiling for an hour? Going for a run has the same effect and it feels productive.

Added bonus: you don't look idle to others either. Saying "I wanna read for an hour" is often met with "Ok but can you do the dishes and the laundry while you're not doing anything anyway?". Going for a run or hopping to the gym is met with "Ok."

Both from your subconscious and the people around you.
Nope. That robot will find another place to go and optimize another variable.
Why is it an app and not a website?

Does it have visuals/image/animations/videos to help understand?

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EDIT: Okay I saw there is a website as well. And also that there are no images etc.
9 new features in Java 9
simplicity, for one - write a quick query to retrieve all recipes that contain all of any number of ingredients.

SELECT * FROM recipes r
INNER JOIN ingredients i ON (r.id = i.recipe_id)
WHERE i.ingredient IN ('mushrooms', 'sour cream')

load up some data and run explain analyze on both schemas/queries.
That's why the Swiss system is better. Only locals get to vote on local issues (building an airport, as opposed to giving Erdogan superpowers which affects the whole country and maybe even those around it).
Great article. If I could request an additional section, it would be "Business Ethics and the Design of Social Networking Services" or something like that. The article focuses on impact of consumption, which is important. We should also talk about how to construct these systems.

We know that design encourages behavior. Twitter's design, for example, incentivizes attainment/maintenance of status over truth-seeking/fairness[1]. If you were to design a site to promote argumentative virtues, you would design it quite differently[2].

But how much should any site care about the virtues/vices that users tend to practice when using the site - assuming for argument's sake such care would have no impact on user "delight" or profitability? My view is "a lot" but I don't expect everyone would agree.

If you do think that social sites (or any business) should be serious about user betterment - not only user delight - then I think that has significant implications for how to run/grow the site. It should be grow slowly, watchfully; and it would need to prioritize considerations that might not maximize shareholder return. Both seem inconsistent w/ a venture-backed startup, especially where the user is the product. Users paying membership fees into a cooperative would be an interesting model. Nonprofit also of course possible.

[1] See e.g., this paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1410/1410.0610.pdf

[2] An impressive bibliography of research on argumentative virtues: http://my.fit.edu/~aberdein/VirtueBiblio.pdf
Of course a design centered around structs equipped with function pointers is, in fact, an object system.
Student in Chinese iPhone factory: why manufacturing jobs not returning to U.S
How many servings are in a pound?
> Granted, there's no local deterministic theory... but what's the value of determinism if the non-locality extends to the universe?

This implies that "value" (some sort of utility to us) has some say in how the universe is.

It's basically saying the theory could not be correct because it has less value to us.
Greater than 3mg caffiene per kg of body weight can increase anxiety [2000][pdf]
By “setter”, I mean a mechanism by which code that is external to an object can gain unmediated access to one or more of the object’s mutable instance variables.

The big idea is that the sender should not be able to assume that the message, `setFoo`, will have any particular effect with respect to the reciever’s state.
What now causes a problem for me is working on code without ligatures, that's after only a few months of working with them. I also find Fira Code extremely legible as a dyslexic.
For many years now I have been using mainly Altera and VHDL. Lately I started a new job and returned to Xilinx which I have not used for long. Part of my job is integrating three major IPs, and guess what? One of them is VHDL and two others are Verilog. So yes, sure, you can wrap a Verilog code with VHDL and forget it... but, the Verilog IPs come also with their Verilog testbenches, etc. So for me it will be a bilingual reality for some time to come.
Linus Torvalds seems to use a treadmill with his standing desk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuS-3HSnpq4