skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a case of the blub.
Gwern has a good summary of the research in this: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs

>In a 2003 experiment, Fetterly et al. discovered that about one link out of every 200 disappeared each week from the Internet. McCown et al 2005 discovered that half of the URLs cited in D-Lib Magazine articles were no longer accessible 10 years after publication [the irony!], and other studies have shown link rot in academic literature to be even worse (Spinellis, 2003, Lawrence et al., 2001). Nelson and Allen (2002) examined link rot in digital libraries and found that about 3% of the objects were no longer accessible after one year.
Bruce Schneier remarks that one friend experienced 50% linkrot in one of his pages over less than 9 years (not that the situation was any better in 1998), and that his own blog posts link to news articles that go dead in days2; Vitorio checks bookmarks from 1997, finding that hand-checking indicates a total link rot of 91% with only half of the dead available in sources like the Internet Archive; the Internet Archive itself has estimated the average lifespan of a Web page at 100 days. A Science study looked at articles in prestigious journals; they didn’t use many Internet links, but when they did, 2 years later ~13% were dead3. The French company Linterweb studied external links on the French Wikipedia before setting up their cache of French external links, and found - back in 2008 - already 5% were dead. (The English Wikipedia has seen a 2010-2011 spike from a few thousand dead links to ~110,000 out of ~17.5m live links.) The dismal studies just go on and on and on (and on). Even in a highly stable, funded, curated environment, link rot happens anyway. For example, about 11% of Arab Spring-related tweets were gone within a year (even though Twitter is - currently - still around).
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Someone was hoping for magic Internet points.
No, it's still a fallacy.

By providing "appropriate justification," it'd no longer be a fallacy.
Man, I must have been a real idiot to not get a VC to say yes in 2016. Worth noting that it seemed, at the time, like there was less interest in seed rounds (especially after Twitter's decline) and more in Series A,B, etc.
Köln created a website where people were able to buy pixels of an image of Podolski for €25 per 8x8 pixel square, in order to gather €1 million to reduce the cost of the transfer;[1][2] Formula One driver and Köln supporter Michael Schumacher bought several pixels for €875.[3]

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukas_Podolski

[1] http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2009/02/04/fc-koln-fin...

[2] http://pixel.fc-koeln.de/

[3] http://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/schumacher-helps-fund-podols...
Why is this css used to hide the title link?

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{ display: none !important; }
:root *[atm2xmk][hidden] { display: none !important; }

Edit: Never mind, it is my ad blocker.
Amen. People are very confused. Just because they think something is okay for then doesn't make it so.

In a short time we will pull our heads out of fats asses and realize that sugar is the nicotine of our era. It's not healthy. It has major health reprecussions. Etc.

Unfortunately, fat, literally, makes you stupid. So embracing the obvious might as chose as it should be.
Last I heard silicon based was getting close to 25% efficiency. So for the same amount of energy of a square meter of a traditional panel, you'd need 10 square meters. That's a huge solar panel for only a regular amount of energy. I assume they'll continue to get more efficient though, maybe in a few years it'll be worth it.
I'd sign up for that
It's mostly the connector that breaks, not the cable itself. I've tried all that reinforced stuff to no avail. One broke yesterday when I put my phone in my pocket while charging, and sat down on a chair. Seems like a pretty common use case to me.
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Are they? I ask, because they aren't the ones that are HEAVILY censoring /r/bitcoin

On /r/bitcoin there are shadow bans, outright bans, story deletion, selective enforcement of their cherry picked rules, different default comment reorganization when the conversation doesn't go the way they like and of course closed moderation logs.

/r/btc has none of this. So who is really doing the manipulation? Many of the posters who are lock step with the narratives /r/bitcoin pushes have post histories that are ONLY in /r/btc and /r/bitcoin and end up with -100 karma. Most the accounts that pop up like this are also only a few months old.

So who exactly is engaging in those practices? Because when real people meet up, or when votes are taken with signed bitcoin keys, or any sort of real verification is done there ends up being silence of the narratives /r/bitcoin pushes.
> It makes everyday front-end development like building a Lego castle while wearing oven mitts.

Favourite analogy of the month :D
The change-making problem is trivial in US currency.
> People say this, but it isn't really true- you could use the sort.Interface interface like everyone else. Consumer wants to use your custom map with their custom type? Make sure it supports Less.

1. So you have a map of sort.Interface, and that's just as absolutely-not-convenient-or-type-safe as a map of interface{}

2. TFA does not want a sorted map, they want an ordered map, so sort.Interface has no relevance whatsoever: the order of iteration of an ordered map is the order of insertion, not the sort order of the elements.

> Speaking of sort.Interface, people say they want generics, but I think there is an implicit ask for operator overloading, too. Or the code they are asking to not write is probably still going to be there.

Not really. Java does OK without operator overloading. Having to use methods instead of operators can be annoying in some cases (mostly when working with non-built-in numerics e.g. decimals or infinite-precision integrals) but it doesn't limit you much if it does at all.
In practice you might have tension on a team between those who favor speed vs stability, but I resent the characterization that it is an inherent trait of the programmer.

If you want to be a great startup engineer you have to exercise judgement; knowing when to do something quick and dirty, what to polish, what code is likely to live a long time, when and how to address various aspects of scalability, etc. Someone who just has one mode of operation and does not consider the context is always a liability unless their role is very rigidly defined and management knows what they're doing.
There's a good (old) talk where Stanford's Christopher Gardner researched different diet books with 311 women.

The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREuZEdMAVo

The study was announced at

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2007/03/stanford-diet...
A company I used to work for are right up in the top left, Cartridge Save.
>Not saying drinking sugary drinks is good, but your justification is bad

Parent isn't rejecting the questioning of sugar.

He's pointing out how the reasoning used is spurious.
In 3rd world countries the scarcity is not artificial unfortunately.
European officials probe claims of huge German car cartel
Children drinking alcohol?
If you are asking whether or not you should somehow accelerate lunar regolith upward and use it to decelerate an incoming lander, then yes you probably could. Although it would no doubt cause damage to the landing craft much as an atmosphere braked entry 'burns up' the heat shield of a landing craft. Further the dust contains a lot of aluminum silica and that is essentially sand paper so you would get a lot of abrasion.
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Ok, I believe you, but what's your point? The only objective way to express a "skills gap" is the premium those skills command on the market. Meanwhile, it's obviously possible for there to be an outsized premium for a job you yourself wouldn't take.

We don't have to wade into the unproductive swamp of "how much it really costs a family to live in the Bay Area taking all quality of life factors into account".
Probably wise. I live in Daly City and my current cash salary pre-tax is just a bit south of $200k (ignoring nonsensical dollar-for-dollar comparisons to income like ISOs, performance grants and bonuses). I'm not struggling to make ends meet, but I am glad I have a big balance from prior my prior payouts, as I'm not saving much (it's even possible to go in the red for the month if I need to buy a non-trivial purchase over a few hundred dollars, like say replacement computer hardware or a major baby related purpose).

I know friends making 30-50% less who actually save more per month than I do, in Colorado. Now, the downside is they live in Colorado (compared to the weather and allergy situation on the coast, I prefer this life), but unless I do yet another startup they'll retire with more money saved on average per month than I have.

It's pretty fucked up that the entirety of SF life is basically priced around the few post-exit people who set the tone of the market. That is actually only a tiny number of people. Most younger devs I know save 0 money and just hope their wages will grow fast enough to offset that in the long run.

Oh and ironically I am certain I could get a job as a Haskell developer, though that's not my job. :)
Sorry - I meant: videos 9 & 10.
I assumed that was the case, but it doesn't alter the impression I get about the situation. That still sounds to me like, "we can only apply this fix when instances of the problem follow certain strict criteria".
Just make sure to read /r/btc and either ignore /r/bitcoin or know that both /r/bitcoin and bitcoin talk are heavily censored and manipulated. Hacker News has some of the same absurdities that pop up, but it isn't as bad. The big question is, do you think 13KB/s AT MOST is too much for your internet connection and computer to handle? Right now it is 1/8th of that, and the /r/bitcoin and 'small blocker' narrative is that anything more is a disaster. Simple math and even slight experience with bitcoin shows that it is exceptionally more likely that this is to create a problem that the company, blockstream, that pays all the gate keepers to the 'core' implementation, can then solve.
Yes, but did that include federal and state subsidies? With Fed tax incentives (as most people quote) on a 5kw installation in CA it's $15-20k depending on who and where. So that would be in the $3-4 range... a lot of that is labor (almost half) so other parts of the country are lower. Rural places tend to be higher though.

My real point was that labor price variations can easily be larger than the total actual panel cost.
Ask HN: What has your experience been like with Indian developers?
I hear a lot of negative opinions on Indian developers in general on reddit and other forums, not sure what percentage of it is the vocal minority and what is reality. So asking the most sane group of people I know, what has your experience been with Indian developers ?
> Channels, maps, and arrays are generic in Go.

Pointers and slices as well, and of course the various builtin operators or functions used to work on them (make, range, len, close, …).
Possible due to social mobility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Gatsby_Curve.pn...
Fat makes you stupid?
I think it is a really interesting idea to expose the metrics to end users together with a benchmark for that number of users on a server.
Yes it doesn't directly cover ML much. It does assume some basic linear algebra, but provides links for where to learn that quickly.
Tritium is rare enough that it seems like they'd be better off trying to harvest it than dump it. You can't extract tritium form water like you can deuterium since tritium is rare in nature. Typically you need a breeder reactor (like Watts Bar Nuclear) where you bombard lithium in order to generate tritium.
Look at the OP news article, they took a picture - so they have already a transparent material (type of glass or plastic). There you go. My comment was about a low tech bigger scale endoscope instead of error prone high-tech robotics.

And glass and probably types of plastics can be quite hardened against negative effects of radiation. Think of transparent windows where you can look at the reactor core of research reactors, NASA space missions with high precision optics that last for decades, etc.

The issue in Japan is their culture, their problem with "loss of face" which inevitably caused problems in the hours when the worst case scenario unleashed - and the whole world watched 24h live while they did little and USA proposed (and had them ready on the nearby ship) to send in helicopters with backup generators but Japan made no official request for help - lesson learned, in the end US should have crossed their border and fixed the generators because Japan hasn't acted rational at all. Even the years later, they could have learned from Russia how to fix it quickly by sending in human people. But again false bride, and "loss of face" gets in their way. They keep going on with business as usual, and the leaks aren't fixed or anything worth mentioning. Chinese and Japanese have a related culture, yet Chinese know what they are doing and are very successful.

"All optical fibers undergo some darkening depending on a number of factors that include: ionization type, optical fiber core glass composition, operating wavelength, dose rate, total accumulated dose, temperature and power propagating through the core. Since attenuation is composition dependent, it is observed that fibers having pure silica cores and fluorine down doped claddings are amongst the most radiation hard fibers. To minimize damage consequences, it is better to use a pure silica core fiber at higher operating wavelength, higher temperature (accelerated recovery) and higher signal power (photo-bleaching)." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_on_optical_f... -- (shortened snip)
How does fat make you stupid? I've only seen claims to the contrary, that keto diets are good for the brain.
I mostly disagree with the article.

> Is the code readable?

Readable code may not be good code. More readable code almost always means less efficient code. Readability is a trade off.

> Is it easy to extend?

Changing requirements are a thing for sure. But in almost every cases I came across, planning for shifting requirements always misses the point. It is much better to stick to your current requirements and keep your code simple, than introduce things that complicate your code for requirements that may or may not happen. Extending simple code is simpler than undoing code and replace.

> Is your code efficient?

It's very hard to self determine whether one own's code is efficient. Almost every one will think their code is efficient.

> can you write it quickly?

Again people tend to think that they are fast at writing code whatever their actual speed.

-- the reality is that it's really hard to qualify good or bad code. Self assession is particularly useless.
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I'm looking forward to the day when we can get over our collective need to shore up our personal confidence. Reading through these comments might leave someone thinking that everyone is a good programmer, that just by wanting to learn code you're entitled to receive a participation trophy. We don't really need to handhold people.

Did you get a computer science degree? Did you land a job at a good company to write code after an extensive interview? Have you been able to keep that job for a few years? Have you written code other people find valuable? Do other engineers you respect commend you on your contributions?

If you've answered yes to all of the above or at least some then congratulations you're a good enough programmer. If not then there's room to grow and you can become one. Either way I laud you in your choice of career. It's a good one, and there's no reason to be handwringing about where you fit in the spectrum of engineering skills.

Just always be learning.
What if all these "enterprise customers" are just black hats/the NSA trying to get weak cipher suites into TLS 1.3, because it opens up for cipher suite downgrading attacks?
How do you explain temperatures dropping from 1940-1975 during the same time that CO2 in the atmosphere was increasing faster than ever before?
Thank you; it's very interesting to hear the details on this. One question:

>she wants to build up the software revenue, but the culture around her (south-eastern city) is so strongly opposed to it, that the execution has been impossible

Do you mean the existing company culture, e.g. employees only having service-oriented skills, or the southeastern city culture, somehow being inhospitable for developing software?

I'm curious because I currently live in a southeastern city (Nashville), am about to move to another (Atlanta), and am in the beginning stages of building a B2B SAAS startup.
Like all others, some are good, some are ok, and some are not-good at all.
I'm not sold on the artificial sweeteners, so I try to minimize. For me I just bring 2 scoops of whey pro in a blender bottle and add water after the workout. It's pretty easy. Doesn't taste great but it is manageable.
Interesting, I'll have to look deeper at what has been done in this space. As I understand it, saddle points are handled by SGD-based methods because they are a bit more "noisy" in their steps through the problem space. In short, are the Krylov methods (or perhaps other approaches) a bit too precise in their attraction to critical points?
The Bay Area turns green and brown every year. It has nothing to do with droughts. In the winter, the grass on the hills is green. In the summer, it is brown or "golden." That color is what the phrase "Golden Hills of California" is referring to.
For a recent view that covers this troubling period, see:

America Aflame - How the Civil War Created a Nation,
by David Goldfield
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You are assuming just because it's Pittsburgh pay from companies like Google, Apple, Amazon and Uber will not be competitive. If there is any discount on salary it's on the 10-15% range, not 50%.
I was referring to the "fats are bad for us" part.
The solution for that problem is addressed by the author, volume sharing of the app directory:

Docker command line: -v $(pwd):/app

Docker Compose:

app:

volumes:

./:/app
The hate of Muslims today is due to a segment of people in Muslim countries who chop people's heads off or blow them off with explosives and see everybody who doesn't join their beliefs as disposable. A smaller proportion of Muslims in the US (86%) find terrorism or violence against civilians as rarely justified, compared to 91% in Iraq or 92% in Indonesia.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...

So this reaction is out of fear of something that could kill you.

Catholics were not feared during the 1800s, they were seen as less civilized, and therefore the reaction against them was due to not wanting to be "watered down".

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/when-america-...

I don't think they are the same thing.
Tattoos and piercings have been mainstream on and off for thousands of years in cultures all over he world.
The derivative of carbon dioxide concentration isn't the derivative of global temperature??
Cryptocurrencies: It’s all about incentive
Is the embedded video supposed to be an example of their stellar reputation for making videos go viral? I'm not saying it's bad, but definitely not "viral material"
It's solid and improving. We're a one car family (two working parents and a young child). We put maybe 2500 miles per year on our car, much of that on longer trips out of the city. Between walking, biking, and public transit, it's good. Having some kind of car available is still more useful than I wish it was, though.
It is unlikely to go the way of cursive writing though given that cursive writing is no longer taught in a large number of schools in the United States.
I think it’s consistently choosing the harder more correct path. You know you need to refactor a piece here or name a variable consistently there, but I’m tired, I’ll just slack off this one time... unfortunately, as I’ve proven a few times, compound interest is a bitch.
The efficiency of modern steam turbines is not too bad. And considering that a lot of energy is used for water heating anyway, the overall efficiency (term: co-generation) is even higher.
Not all regulation is done by governments.
What era was it when you are learning?

Now we have excellent community-developed free and open resources like https://www.theodinproject.com .
Great to hear you like the change. This new navigation has been extensively UI tested. It has been in the works for a couple of months now.
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Never ceases to amaze me how some scientists can embrace a bunch of 2000+ year old nonsense.
> Strangely finding a job is also quite challenging for senior people....

Are we talking about senior experience or X years in profession? I often see seniors (and mid, but less pronounced) who learned a job and did basically the same job for many years. When it's time to find a new job, they are barely beyond junior skill wise.

Senior people who kept learning through their career are incredibly valuable and rarely seem to ever hit the open market. They end up recruited/poached from existing jobs.
I don't know of any books, but my favorite online resource is examine.com. They do an excellent job of presenting real research in an understandable but cited way.
O(1) means the number of operations is bounded. f = O(g) measures growth in the sense that f/g = O(1), ie. g grows quickly enough to cancel out any tendency of f to go to infinity.
>Don't get me wrong, most of the skills gap is for capable engineers, and if you understand data structures, algorithms, architecture, memory management, etc. you'll get a job very quickly. We're talking within a week.

Empirically, that's totally false. The people I knew who went to the same bootcamp (App Academy) as me and had the strongest skills took longer, not shorter, to get jobs. The average was around 9 months.
"More readable code almost always means less efficient code."

Can you give examples? I'm not sold that the "low hanging fruit" of readability improvement (empty lines to break up "paragraphs", breaking up unintelligible one-liners into several lines, etc.) degrades performance. My intuition is that the compiler/interpreter ends up producing almost identical runtime code and therefore similar performance.

Unless you mean more along the lines of expressivity (i.e Python and Ruby can get a lot done with fewer statements compared to C), but to me this effect is in a different category than readability.
You've made a lot of assertions like this but you aren't backing them up with any numbers.

8MB every 10 minutes is 13KB/s. Do Australians not look at youtube either, because when I was there well over a decade ago it worked pretty well. Even a full node syncing multiple people -while the blocks are full at 8MB- is no problem. Also there are many orders of magnitude left before running a full node exceeds the capacity of a $15/month VPS and many orders of magnitude before a person at home could no longer sync with a full node off a basic internet connection. That is also ignoring the fact that most people don't need or want to sync with the full chain, but to be clear, hundreds of millions can and would still be able to.

I see arguments like this from time to time, usually from the same small group of people, but there is nothing but crickets when I show them basic numbers and ask for how they came to this conclusion.
Also see the lyrics to "Walkin' on the Sun".
Why is Google weather so inaccurate?
Several apps are better at predicting rain. Why doesn't Google invest in better data for this?