skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get an Atom feed of any Mastodon user's toots, if you know the right URL format to ask for or have a feed reader that can do autodiscovery. To demonstrate, here's mine:

https://octodon.social/users/jalefkowit.atom

This means that you can drop a Mastodon user into your feed reader and follow them the way you would follow any feed-enabled web site. No Mastodon account required; in fact, once you know the schema for feed URLs, all you need is their username and you don't need to touch a Mastodon site even once.
This is an interesting idea: online course + tutor. The tutor is what was missing from the original formulation. Just solving at online problems and quizzes doesn't work except for very few.

A person needs another person to see his/her efforts, to appreciate, in order to maintain motivation. That's the main role of the teachers in the brave new world of MOOCs - to witness. The actual teaching and testing is automated. So the teacher would be more like a coach. He would offer guidance, boost your confidence, and push you over the limits.
> all of China's pollution comes from? Comes from outsourced US production

All of China's pollution? Citation please.
Sure. Tomorrow morning you wake up and your country has mandated DNA testing for all citizens. Anyone who does not have approved genomes will be summarily sterilized 'for the good of the future of the citizenry'. Oh, and they also made it illegal to avoid the DNA testing, and to move out of your current location.

What then?
Cool, when deep mind originally joined google it was on the condition that google would be moral about its use of AI.
I think I'm cool! :-D (Or at least my mom used to say I was)

I'm jalefkowit@octodon.social, ping me anytime.
Yes. Being able to speak a language intuitively is not the same as understanding the mechanics of the grammar. For example, I don't believe that many native English people have any idea how "accusative and infitive" works, yet they use it every day.
Social protections have a cost. As US became poorer, this cost becomes too high here and there, naturally moving back to the situation of old. Poor for some workers, but maybe still better than mass layoffs due to businesses shutting down. If a US worker cannot be paid less, because the US cannot become cheaper (it plays the role of gold now), some other benefits will be cut.
Great recommendation! His book The Armchair Universe is pretty much what made me want to be a programmer. I enjoy books that keep the fun in programming.
Justin Kan raises $10.5M in funding for his legal tech startup Atrium LTS
While not intended to be used mathematically, the I Ching hexagrams developed around 1000AD represented the binary numbers from 0-63 (2^6), as discovered by Leibniz who was quite fond of binary himself.
Zero was introduced well after base ten was in use.
Oh interesting. I also recently came across Huey and TaskTiger that seem to be doing similar things. Have you looked into those?
I guess my point is more about the language difference employed when we talk unions vs companies. For example, I posted a thread earlier today about Wells Fargo abuses and there was no one in there saying: "see corporations are a bad idea and we should get rid of them." Yet there's a few people in here making that exact comment about unions. To me that's a contradiction.
> It's not a math equation, but rather the consensus of your peers.

Those two ideas aren't inherently contradictory. It's pretty easy to ground metaethics by asserting something like "human genetics encodes an instinctual preference function for social mores into human brains." Then, "morality" is an objective fact: an objective fact about what actions are acceptable to (neurotypical) humans.
> And even after accounting for paying both sides of Social Security taxes

Clearly you should probably continue doing what you're doing since you make way more. But there's more benefits to a higher end job than just not paying half the social security tax, right?

Ballparking but the extra SS tax is like $8K a year or so right? If you need to provide health insurance for more than yourself and want the sort of health insurance you'd get at the top end of SO jobs, the cost should dwarf the extra SS tax you pay. If it's just for yourself then the cost would probably still equal out to about as much as the extra SS tax, no? I know you might have a spouse that gets you covered under insurance. But that isn't the case for everyone. And there's other benefits like 401k matching.

I'm not sure exactly what else there can be. I've only worked for myself too. And I risk it and just get the cheapest catastrophe health insurance since I'm still young-ish. I probably write off a lot more than someone working at a top SO job though so there is that benefit. Hm maybe my post doesn't have too much of a point then, hah.
I have just tried Vivaldi for the first time and loved its features. Page tiling I tried with an extension in Chrome, but this one brings to a whole new level.

Taking notes related to pages is something I always wanted while browsing. This one is great because you are also able to attach screenshots/files.

Tab stacking: cool new way to group and organize my tabs by context.

And it comes with other useful extensions natively, like screenshots and adblocker. I'll try it for awhile and see how it goes.

If it was open-source, it would be perfect. I wouldn't want to be left in the cold if the project fails...
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No, they aren't legally or conceptually.

Legally, they're in a unique class. They're 501c5s. They have their own unique set of laws that apply to them. Conceptually, they're democratic institutions and not at all like corporations.

Irrevocable? Getting rid of them is the exact same process as starting one! You have to convince your coworkers and win a vote.
Of course, we all know what they would have used if they were real pros:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_number_system
For many simplicity is defined by ease of use though.
Absolutely, and I have no problem with legitimate criticism of the US. What bugged me was Bitwize (and Nihonde) apparently refusing to believe that any country but the US could abuse crime suspects. We can't use America's sins to cover for other nations'.
I can't, or rather, I don't want to use lambda because my functions need access to both the DB and the open internet. The only way I can get that working is to add a NAT Gateway to my VPC which has a relatively high fixed monthly cost. :/
I hate these people who defend America. How dare they!
I don't want your union negotiation benefits, though. I don't want to be covered by the union contract.

You should be able to negotiate with your own group of people to get certain benefits, and I should be able to negotiate on my own. And then we could see who really gets the better deal.

Personally I am confident that my own deal would be better, but I have no problem with other people deciding for themselves that they would prefer whatever deal that a union was able to negotiate.
> $400k pays for 3 people

Yes, but it is three full time people. Don't underestimate the difference being able to focus on a codebase for an extended period makes...

Also, knowing that you will be able to continue that focus carries it's own benefit.
But they grow the pines for paper and then regrow them? Is the whole operation sustainable? According to Penn and Teller's "Bullshit", it is.
Yeah and a century ago social mores said interracial marriage was immoral and neurotypical humans of the time believed it because society. Ain't nothing objective there.
I work with a bunch of scientists and engineers(the non software type) I've seen some very 'ugly' code written by very smart people who they were never taught CS concepts so they often don't know about efficient algorithms or anything like that but they crank out tonnes of code that does useful work.

I kind of fall into this janitor role. I often get people stopping by my desk how can I speed this up. Can you help me fix this bug etc. I think it's because I fall into the sweet spot where I have the domain knowledge (I have engineering degree) so that I can understand the problem they are trying to solve.

It's also amusing that no matter the language (C, C++, Java, Basic etc) a large subset churn out code that looks a lot like Fortran 77.
Well an equation is certainly the more precise way of describing something, but not really the simplest. My most vivid memory of this is my Automata class; the instructor led with the equations before describing in plain language. Take push down automata as an example [1]. The equations are found in the formal definition, but the informal definition is much clearer.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushdown_automaton
Not sure, but we've removed that anchor from the link.
This Feynman quote from the article is put in the wrong context:

> I really can’t do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else you’re more familiar with, because I don’t understand it in terms of anything else you’re more familiar with.

The article implies this is a case of the scientist expressing that he didn't understand a thing. But watching the video in full[1], one realizes he is saying something different:

"It's a force which is present all the time and very common and is a basic force.

[...]

I can't explain that attraction in terms of anything else that's familiar to you. For example if we say that magnets attract like as if they are connected by rubber bands I would be cheating you because they're not connected by rubber bands-- I should be in trouble if you soon ask me about the nature of the band. And secondly, if you were curious enough you would ask me why rubber bands tend to pull back together again, and I would end up explaining that in terms of electrical forces which are the very things that I'm trying to use the rubber bands to explain. So I have cheated very badly, you see."

In other words, for some phenomena the only simple examples are themselves instances of that same phenomena. So the only possible analogies are themselves merely tautologies.

I've noticed something less sweeping though similarly absurd with the internet. As more and more of people's daily lives depend on internet technologies, it becomes more difficult to find modern, simple examples for analogies that don't rely on similar internet technologies. So someone who wants to explain the wonders of packet switching compares it to long-distance telephone calls, but they then spend the bulk of that time explaining long-distance phone calls to people who have never used a wired phone.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
Can you share just one incredible thing with people here who never worked out in nature? I'm very curious.
Order and chaos are just abstractions. They moment you get down to root cause analysis- There is generally some definition of good and evil you have to settle to understand why things like order and chaos exist.
"He says it’s the answer to concerns over deforestation and water shortages, with world demand for paper set to double by 2030."

I'm very curious as to what is expected to be driving this increase in demand. If anything, I would expect electronics to make paper more and more obsolete. But what am I missing?
And mountains, not to forget. Though the coverage up in the mountains is not always great if you are away from populated areas.
you can count from zero to three :)
Unless you are a skilled labor lawyer you will not be able to bargain better than the union. In my union there is a tremendous amount of institutional memory and they know the consequences of management proposals.

If you really think that individuals can bargain better on their own than collectively then why do companies want to get rid of collective bargaining?
Why hemp paper?
Social mores in one particular culture said that. We don't look at what particular cultures think when trying to figure out what morality is. Instead, we look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal s — beliefs shared by every culture across every time period, even ones completely disconnected from outside contact for millenia.
There's a study that found Polynesian DNA markers in indigenous Brazilian remains. It's probably what you are referring to by the some evidence. https://www.nature.com/news/dna-study-links-indigenous-brazi...

I've visited Mangareva. It's a lovely island and a step in the journey to get to Pitcairn Island.
> Can you really quantify nonlinearities from a sin sweep of any sort? Not that I'd expect a decent set of headphones to have material nonlinearities unless seriously overdriven.

You can using a properly structured log sine sweep but not with a linear sine sweep. This is why the paper mentions "Log sine sweeps rather than linear sine sweeps were employed to allow verification that non-linear distortion components were virtually absent."

You can read up more on why here:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/abc8/3f1297e5c033b8322f3d90...
>seniority trumps performance

At least people can actually measure seniority.
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A strong enough union can force all kinds of things, for better or worse. Whatever a company may gain by harassing a few ex-employees is nothing compared to the damage done by your entire workforce walking off the job.
Food for thought, if software engineers unionized, you would be out of a job as a contractor because any employer that uses your service would get inflatable ratted.

Then you would be forced to join a union and take the same low pay as every other engineer. And your income would be based on seniority instead of skill, so there is very little chance that you would make even half of your contracting rate.
> Odds are they reached South America even if we never find direct evidence (there is some).

Isn't sweet potatoes in Polynesia (which originated from South America) pretty much a proof?
Even more brutal, hey added stories to all four of their cornerstone mobile apps, right? There's:

- Instagram Stories

- WhatsApp Status

- Facebook Stories

- Messenger [My] Day.

Though anecdotally for myself and asking some people, it seems IG Stories is used more than all others combined (plus FB released the stats that it is more popular than Snapchat). After a huge drop off, it's either WhatsApp Statuses or Facebook Stories depending on who you are. I don't know if anyone uses Messenger Day.
Check easyengine! Had the same issue, solved it with it!
One wonders if one could train a neural network to look at the mix of junk in the blood and predict what a person will have died of in five years. At this point I'm sure the idea is science fiction. But seeing how DeepMind's AlphaGo played that game, teasing out moves that are beyond human conception routinely, one begins to suspect that there must be some signal that a sufficiently intelligent device could suss out.

I suspect that one decade we will consider this idea almost impossible, and by the end of the next, it will seem old hat. I just wonder which decade that will end up being.
i guess you've never watched the real housewives of anything
They find that the former Mangarevans combined base-10 representation with a binary system. They had number words for 1 to 10, and then for 10 multiplied by several powers of 2.

Interesting. Perhaps this is the very first use of binary-coded-decimal?
Ok, so what out of that link isn't incredibly abstract?

Special speech for special occasions

You want to define that?

* Toys, playthings

* Death rituals, mourning

* Feasting

* Body adornment

* Hairstyles

* Art

It's a good thing toys and art are culturally universal, but they don't say a thing about morals. It's just that it's hard to think of many things that are actually universally accepted as moral. Even lying is acceptable in various religions in different contexts. We as societies can't even agree on what is and isn't murder or if it's acceptable.
Not necessarily. You don't have enough information to make that claim.

If you're smart and have assets (not living on the edge), then you put as little down as possible because your return will be higher than the PMI or general debt service.

As an example: I bought an investment property about 2 years ago with 10% down and was able to do it because I took a HELOC with a higher rate.

I could have put way more down but my goal was cash on cash return. The higher rate for the HELOC is kind of like having PMI. The rate can adjust upwards too.

The property does 80K/yr and cash flows. After I bought it I used cash to do some upgrades. I refinanced a year later (low fixed mortgage, no more HELOC) and they did a new appraisal at that time. It has ~22% equity now.

I just put an offer out to buy a second property. 10% down again and I'll put cash in to get it ready to rent.

I was approved for the first property as a second home actually so I can afford it with no income. Now that it has income, I got approved for another home.

Point is - leverage is a great idea if you know what you're doing. Don't fear the PMI; there's plenty of ways to beat it. Example: you can do state muni bond funds with the preserved cash - it's tax free income if you buy funds from your state and it's easy to get out if you need the cash back for anything.
i believe he was talking about the contractors who oversell their skills and end up leaving the overall codebase worse than they found it
That is almost true. However, transferring value between cryptos is trivial and at least Monero and zcash allow you to tumble your transactions and essentially completely disguise the inputs and outputs from anyone trying to search the public ledger.
Hi, Peter. Welcome to Hacker News!

If you get downvoted, it's because HN community takes a somewhat strict approach when moderating comments that contribute noise to the conversation. "Nice article!" comments are routinely downvoted. As is sarcasm, witticisms, memes, references and other styles of comments that occur frequently but do not contribute to the discussion. It's a knowingly doomed attempt to hold back the flood of noise that covers Reddit.
> After all how many of you have had to write of a perfectly good pair of headphones as you dropped them and one of the over-ear connections broke.

Just for the record, I had a nice pair of headphones break at a very awkward location, and a packet of Sugru (https://sugru.com/) fixed it up perfectly. I was really impressed.
>Launch is an ugly business, you have big fixed costs but very lumpy revenues since you get paid when the rocket leaves the ground (which can be delayed for years due to late payloads, political roadblocks etc), and Delta and Atlas weren't competitive in the commercial market so they couldn't smooth things out.

Add to that the real money is in the satellites themselves. If you were a big company like Lockheed it made far more sense to stick to building sats and buying launch services from someone else.

>Obviously, that changes with SpaceX around, but what hasn't changed is that if Congress pulls that contract, they'll just kill ULA and the Delta and Atlas will be gone.

Congress will probably allow Delta to die, but they're not going to be 100% dependent on Falcon. All it takes is a failed launch and nothing goes up for six months while investigators figure out what happened.
Fully extended is one set over none extended: base ten.

It makes sense if you think of all of them extended as a set, rather than one less than a set. And so by the time positional notation came around, it was cemented that all of them extended was a set. (It took us a while to get 0 and positional notation.)

Just look at Roman numerals:

A finger. A hand. Both hands. A hand representing both hands. Both hands representing both hands. Etc.
> Crime rate is also extremely low in Japan. I don't have evidence that the legal system is the reason, but I believe it's a significant contributing factor.

My money is on the high degree of integration of the Japanese society. They are homogenous and everyone is well kept in place by their social network. That's why they don't become criminals as much, compared to US where crime correlates with disenfranchisement. The more a population feels the game is stacked against it, the more it will do crime, but an integrated society feels much more fair.
Ok, so, what you are saying is, that we as privileged first world countries, should remove their ability to choose to feed their family?

If they really prefer that, then why should we decide for them, or take away their option to do that?
> No, they aren't [corporations] legally or conceptually. Legally, they're in a unique class. They're 501c5s.

What do you think a 501(c)5 corporation is?

> Getting rid of them is the exact same process as starting one! You have to convince your coworkers and win a vote.

Sort of. Companies are strictly prohibited from taking retaliatory action against employees who attempt to organize their workplace. In extreme cases, this can even result in mandatory recognition of a union without a vote.

Unions, on the other hand, have great leeway to terminate membership association with members who speak out publicly against the union, which is de facto termination. They are also legally permitted to suppress counter-organizational activities in many other ways which companies cannot do legally to prevent the formation of a union.

In practice, deunionizing a workplace is many orders of magnitude more difficult than unionizing it, because you have to obtain the written permission of 30% of the bargaining unit without attracting the attention of the union leadership.

There's a reason that only 10% of union members in the US ever had the opportunity to vote (for or against) union representation - unions are not legally required to undergo periodic re-certification votes, and they are given great latitude to prevent themselves from ever having to face a vote.
It's been speculated that prior to base ten (or maybe alongside it) people used base twelve (using knuckles) hence anachronisms like dozens (inches, hours), 60 (minutes) and 360 (degrees), etc.
Using two hands you can represent up to 1024.
This is not an argument.
Similar to the idea that the downsides of globalism intermixed with potent capitalism, say ecological damage, will be outweighed by the sorts of technologically imbued powers that will take our civilization far beyond Earth.
I am genuinely baffled (but I don't think I'm right and you're wrong... I trust HN people to be smart and capable). Can you please explain to me how using tabs vs spaces would encourage people to indent their code differently? I mean, if I have an "if" statement, then I indent my code -- but why would people indent their code for reasons other than what the flow of the code suggests? And if these hypothetical "indenting just because I can and not because I should" people exist, how would their inconsiderate behavior be any different whether they are using tabs or spaces?
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Linkedin was mostly scala and then they did some stuff with node.js >___>

Walmart also moved to node.js.

Hype was real.
What on earth was the justification for that? "We hate collective bargaining but want the benefits of collective bargaining"?
Why It Took 27 Years for This Japanese Delivery Giant to Hike Prices
The Sumerians counted the individual finger bones on one hand to count to twelve, but adopted base sixty. I guess they combined it with five fingers on the other hand?
The best ones can, but by far, most can't.
Looking at some of the pictures supplied in the article, it looks like they're probably expecting packaging and food service consumption to go up, which you can't digitise.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/875511888049778688
Or on freeway overpasses in the middle of nowhere.
the 140m is the government's estimate based on previous missions. So it's not clear if that includes these overruns or not.

The launch would have used an Atlas V which costs $100m.

In any case, I'm sure it's not $282m in overruns on a $140m contract.