skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's nothing wrong with that, and these people have made a lot of money (dollars) so far,

They have only made a lot of dollars when they sell their crypto currency. Until then it is all fantasy, which is something a lot of .com millionaires would agree with, especially the ones that sold their solid companies for stock in less solid companies.
I have a Tesla with this and i LOVE it.. everyone I know on the teslaforums etc. loves it aswell. Please do yourself a favor, and try it out for a roadtrip duration or similar. Its a gamechanger.
> _A_ device free dinner? Why aren't all of them? These weird little "small gestures" make me feel like people have lost control of their homes.

Why should all dinners be distraction[1] free? I understand dinner is a social event for many cultures/families, but not every person wants this nor am I convinced it must be this way. I'm efficient with my eating and when the family wants to socialize we play Catan or sit around the couch and talk. Besides that, when the dinner conversation reaches an impasse, Alexa has occasionally been helpful in resolving it.

It's fine if people enjoy socializing over dinner, but let's not arbitrarily assume it's morally superior. Nor should we mistakenly compare it to our own childhoods, when devices weren't as ubiquitous. We should question old habits/traditions especially when the environment has changed.

[1] I'm subbing in "distraction" for "device", my kids have brought non-powered distractions to the table before.
I'd blame your source code more than Jenkins. Our jenkins instance runs our CI in a couple of minutes.
Thanks for the answer! I'm looking forward to Otto.
The (well, a) problem lies in treating "is it really blue" as some definite, knowable thing. But that's never directly observable. We only use that question as a "intermediate step" in answering other observables:

1) "Will [x% of] people emit 'that's blue' when asked about its color?"

2) "Does it reflect light within [specified spectrum] under [specified condition]?

3) "Will Scanner model X emit True or False when it scans this?"

Depending on what question you're asking, it may or may not be blue in that sense. As in my other comment [1], 10% saying "green" may be enough for you to consider it green for the purposes of "does the guy at Lost and Found who's asking for a green object possibly own this item?" But a 10% green response may be false for "is this blue enough to meet this UX standard?"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15092345
I guess it's worth mentioning that the original was also in the active voice. I agree the edit improved it; it's just not a change of voice.
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Find some solid and trustworthy people you can work with and start a company and then pay yourself
That's a good way of stating it actually, something to think about.
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I find antinatalist views to be small-minded, selfish and cowardly. In a vast universe of dead matter which tends toward equilibrium and decay there exists a process that tends toward complexity and order.

Life exists in this universe, it's a part it's nature and so is consciousness. Whether by design or by some random chance, it is self-evident that it exists. Not only that, you can find it adapted to the extremes of every environment it encounters.

Suffering is the engine of adaptation and everything we consider valuable has only come about through the immense suffering and sacrifice of those that have lived.

We, as conscious life, are the only known species which have the possibility to adapt to an environment outside of Earth. I believe, without any external spiritual input, that our responsibility is quite clear.

How much suffering is a function of the zero-sum game that is played in our (mostly) closed environment? Yes, expanding into space may increase the overall number of individuals suffering, but isn't it really suffering per capita that should be the measure?

Suffering isn't to be ignored and I believe seeking to reduce when possible is admirable and morally right... but to abdicate our responsibility to the process of life and allow it halt (which it will eventually on this planet)? Simply because some people feel bad about things sometimes? No, I'm not buying it for a second.
Sure: CPython doesn't know statically that anything is "not an object", so your proposal adds an extra test to every incref and every decref. This is perceived as probably worse for performance. In 2002, a hacked CPython interpreter (source code long since lost, sorry!) saw a 5% performance decrease on pystone but a 14% performance increase on an integer-heavy workload. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-August/027...
There are three players in the game right now all of whom can push updates to the vast majority of their user base very quickly. This isn't a problem like it was back in the day. Now it's pure stubbornness.
Humans are pretty bad at driving though, so I'm not sure that basing self driving technology on us is a good idea.
You're right you can also do this through ITFF!

We think it's easer through Life Bot though as at no stage do you have to create an account. Setup is all through voice and SMS!
I think the plan here is to be hyperfocused on private/secure Comms and Browser and do that well. Many more apps can come from the wider Linux ecosystem as time goes on, but this is a very different proposition to another me-too FOSS alternative to iOS or Android.
I do not think that is the reason. The web in its original form, long before commerce came along was already a watered down version of Xanadu.
i read the article but couldn't actually find source for the claim (I mean,a scientist says it, but it doesn't seem true). The argument seems to be that because they used a base number system that permits even division by 2, 3, and 5 (base 30 or base 60), their table doesn't contain any decimals or fractions. Not clear why that would be superior to what we have today. Anybody could produce such a table today without any additional or superior trig.
Thanks! We've seen your mentions, and we appreciate your enthusiasm. We clearly have similar visions for next generation development stacks.

We'd love to get your feedback and discuss in more detail! We think that even beyond the non-plaintext representation, an IDE married with storage can enable a lot of powerful analytical features and services.

Do you have any recommendations for where else we can find a good audience for this? Any other communities talking about this direction for dev tools?
>While I would absolutely hate being 'doxxed', if it were to happen I think the consequences would be good and educational regardless, so I'm kind of okay and safe just being this 'better me' online.

I am happy you apparently hold views that large swathes of society agree with. You are lucky, dare I say privileged, that you are fairly certain that nothing you have said would provoke a violent response from somebody. I fear that this is not the case for most people.
Most people don't care that much.

Especially people that aren't confused about where toilet paper comes from.
Yes! Fortunately, I did have my name in the back. But I never anticipated that someone would so adamantly think it was some other color. I could understand someone calling it blue, but not "definitely not green".
Awesome - thanks! Yes, it's my own little work-in-progress. I have a script set to re-scan all of the links on a regular basis. If one is no longer active then the credit for that backlink is removed. It's all based on ratios. If you want your webpages to be featured to receive backlinks, you must maintain your ratio by giving others links, too.
I wonder why Elon Musk is so obsessed with Mars. Why not allocate the resources that would be spent on covering that massive distance into colonizing a much closer Moon.

Bonus points because we get to look at it from Earth. Imagine being able to capture the attention of every moon gazer on earth. Google Adwords for Moon!
It's great seeing that more and more data is being collected about this all the time. I'm a huge proponent of this tech.

What I wonder when I see these statistics, though, is whether all miles are really equal? For example, are Tesla drivers more comfortable using Autopilot in "easy" driving situations? Is there really a one-to-one correspondence in the distribution of the kinds of miles driven with Autopilot on vs. normal cars?

Furthermore, the metric commonly cited is "fatalities ever N miles." Are there fewer fatalities because Autopilot is great, or because Teslas are safer in general? Has there been a comparison between fatalities with/without Autopilot strictly on Teslas? Even then, it seems to me we are subject to this potentially biased notion of "miles" I mentioned previously. The Wikipedia article you mentioned cites a 50% reduction in accidents with Autopilot, but the citation is to an Elon Musk interview. I haven't yet seen anything official to back this up, but if anyone has any information on this, I'd love to see it!
Private security, bouncers, etc. do not have the legitimization of the force of state behind them. Police are "allowed" to be violent because it is the state being violent, not a privately employed individual. That changes the ballgame significantly.

Should it? A totally different question. Does it? Incontrovertible.
Its been a while since I wrote and Java, but when I did you needed a page of code just to open a file.
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Humans are bad at driving because they can get distracted and can only look in one direction at a time. A computer system based on visual processing shouldn't have either of those issues.

I agree fundamentally though that it's a weak argument to say a certain approach should be taken just because it's how humans do it.
According the ECB[1] data on 24 Jan 2017 the exchange rate was 1 EUR = 1.0514 USD and today is 1 EUR = 1.1806 USD so we have:

(1.1806-1.0748)/1.0748 = 0.0984 => 0.0984 * 100 = 9.84%

How exactly did you manage to lose 30%?

[1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/eu...
My ISP supports it natively up to my router, but then my shiny new eero Wi-Fi network fails to support it.
I can't specifically speak to this, but I would like to chime in with one thing:

A lot of your post reminds me of the common traits of Imposter Syndrome [1]. Even if you are actually below the norm, you may be exaggerating the gap through Imposter Syndrome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Hmm, what if I 100 links, people then backlink me 100 times, and then I remove the 100 links?
SO just went through a school like one you mention. Yes, it was really bad, and yes, admin had a lot to do with it. Yes, funding was an issue, a big one, but not the main one.

Want to fix it?

Go to your next PTA meeting, become a coach on a team there, volunteer with the local school, get involved, today. Do you even know where your kids would go to school from the place you live (speaking to HN in general)?

This is a democracy, you must participate for it to function at all. Sitting there screaming at the internet and the Moldavian troll-bots isn't fixing anything. Yes, it stinks. Yes, the admins and the superintendant are complete and total idiots. Guess who gets to fix it?

You do.

It's likely near the beginning of the school year near you. Now, today, is the best time of the entire year.
> But -- and this is the crucial point -- that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to be better than we are now.

Agreed! And I also agree that we are really making progress. But we're far from a world where people can crank out provably correct code (let alone the proofs).

> I'm not sure why these mundane observations receive such attention in computer science. Maybe because with software the model and the system look so similar.

Excellent point, and yes, I think that is the problem. Modeling the world in code is not much different from... er... modeling the world in code :-)
API along with a service to correct dumb people who misuse the term API to
mean an RPC service over HTTP.
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So the question that I don't know the answer to: would those couples have engaged each other in meaningful conversation (meaningful to them) had cellphones not existed? Or does the presence of cellphones reveal that a large number of people were never particularly interested in engaging meaningfully with others but would only feign interest when the alibi of the cellphone isn't available?
This is actually a great way to bring attention to a very near future problem. People always seem to act like issues like this won't affect them anytime soon, so they need not do anything about it. AI is taking jobs every day, and we have very little to no net to help those that will soon be not needed in the labor force.
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I used to live in the bay area.
"Mars' atmosphere is in the perfect goldilocks zone of being a total headache"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2nqgKL2JQU
I never said it was a good deal. Just that cost of living is lower. No need to snark.
Free and reduced breakfast and lunch will do that to any budget.
how do you know they're horrible to their drivers? AFAIK, they actually have more driver friendly features than Lyft
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> A bag* or child running into a street is not an usual event, also a car is not going to 'evade' into another car

Opting to drive around a (stationary, visible from a distance) bag in an unpredictable manner is literally how Waymo's first "at fault" accident occurred...

The point is that a human has a concept of a "ball" linked to the concept of "children play football" and an understanding that if one sees the former, one should be prepared for the latter to bursts onto the road from behind the partially-obscured roadside. Appropriate action probably involves easing off the accelerator and lightly tapping the brake so the car behind gets a hint that you might have to stop suddenly on if a child emerges from behind a bush. An autonomous car which fails to anticipate even though it's lightning fast at slamming the brakes on is going to get rear ended a lot more.

The neural network of a self driving car might be able to classify small coloured spheres in the vicinity of the roadway as balls, and the AI will certainly have been taught the concept of a human-shaped obstacle moving across the roadway being a "need to stop" situation, but is unlikely to "learn" the association between the two through a few tens of million miles of regular driving, because only a very small proportion of "need to stop" events involve balls (and only a very small number of sightings of spheres moving in the vicinity of the roadway result in "need to stop" events). Of course, you can hard code a machine to respond to ball-shaped objects moving near roads by slowing down and you can construct a huge number of artificial test scenarios involving balls to teach the AI the association between balls and small children, but either of these options involves engineers envisaging the low frequency hazard and teaching it enough permutations of the sensory input for that hazard for it to be able to anticipate it (and there's a balance to be struck, because nobody wants a paranoid AI which drives through the city braking every time it sees something its neural network identifies as a pedestrian or the front of a parked car protruding from a driveway) Suffice to say, we take for granted our ability to know how to react to things like children chasing balls, staggering 4am drunks, tiny puddles the car in front just drove through versus a raging torrents of water through the usually safely navigable ford, sandbags versus shopping bags, vehicles laden down with loads which look like things which are not vehicles, and people frantically gesturing to stop.
Took the course. A lot of it is cruft and motivation for the underlying core ideas. The techniques suggested are things many people are already familiar with: recall, deliberate practice, interleaving, spaced repetition, Einstellung, Pomodoro, Feynman Method, Cornell notes or similar (to force recall), exercise regularly, sleep well, focus on concepts not facts (chunking), etc. A composite of these dramatically enhances the learning process.

I can post some of the notes I took on the course if anyone is genuinely curious. The key premise of the course is that the brute force approach people usually take to learning is highly inefficient and ultimately ineffective (you'll forget).

EDIT: Notes https://pastebin.com/JNbGxvpQ
> I call BS. v8 is one of the fastest dynamic runtimes, at 2x of C or so for lots of tasks, and it totally obliterates Python, PHP, Ruby, and co in speed.

Any proof for this?

EDIT:

According to "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game"

JavaScript fares pretty well against Python [1] or Ruby [2] but not really that great against C [3] or Java [4] in the CPU intensive benchmarks.

1 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

2 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

3 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

4 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
this is evidence USA is still pretty much a very.racist.country
Highly dependent on state. In CA, all money goes to Sacramento and then gets re-distributed to schools.
No, it's really good. They back up their statements with neuroscience research and give you practical implementation tips.
Simply not true. A good contemporary example is the governor of California, Jerry Brown, who has been vigorously defending the accumulation of surplus in the name of fiscal rectitude for the last several years.
I agree but some of these things sound like moral panics about black rectangles. I don't remember people shaking their heads at parents reading a paperback book at the park, or commuters reading broadsheet newspapers on the train.
A big publisher would likely be pushing its books onto the NYT list in order to sell books. I'm not entirely sure this book exists at all, outside of press releases.
I like doing data science courses for fun. These days I am reading CS 229 mathematics and a book Python Machine Learning. Once in a while I get tired of coding in JS, or adding things to side projects; and then I like doing simple learning, just for the sake of learning and trying to understand (no strings attached). I like the maths part of data-science and maybe would pursue it as a theoretical endeavor. Or just repeat what people have posted on GitHub and see the results - like kids soldiering circuits. It would be fun to take part in some Kaggle competitions next year, around healthcare. Back in 2014, I spent some time working on an SVM classifier for news.
This is a zero-bullshit course. I completed it in about a week an a half (definitely not a lot of work) and it's drastically changed the way I look at learning and my perspective about the difficulty of earning new skills.

My pace on reading programming books for instance has gone down such that it takes about 2-3 times it would normally take to go through the material, however the difference is unmistakable with respect to how much I know the material. It took me 2-3 years of additional work experience to be at a comparable level in other topics.
Another problem is that if you are doing your trading/speculation in the modern "bucket shops" you run into the very same problem Jesse Livermore had in the 1890s, you get banned from the premises and your profits taken away.

There are hundreds of stories of people actually getting lucky/good in modern FX bucket shops and not getting all of the money.
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The paper isn't cited, but I was able to find it in less than 5 minutes.

Cite: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017...

I think the reason they're calling it superior, is because it uses fractions/ratios instead of decimal numbers. Ours are rounded (usually to to 4-7 digits), but if they didn't have to round it and could resolve division afterward it may have been more accurate.

> Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry uses exact ratios and square ratios instead of approximation and angles.

But I'm not a mathematician and cannot verify these claims.
I'm happy to see this excellent paper mentioned. Fritz Henglein (the author) was my thesis supervisor last year, and I worked on developing some of his ideas further.

In particular, I generalised discrimination (and added a touch of linear algebra) to devise a simple multi-way join algorithm that computes the join of any number of relations in optimal time (in a specific technical sense). Such results have been obtained recently, but only with far more complicated algorithms.

Alas, the fully general proof of optimality eludes us, so nothing has been published yet.
I believe NYT has a bookstore list for reporting orders. This is how the best selling books make it on this list. The buyer (someone tied to the book) probably knew the store was on the NYT list and made a massive order. The NYT will need to tweak things going forward. Any store telling people they are on the NYT Best Seller reporting list should be removed from the list.
> there is no real reason for the police not to use lethal force once the situation has got even slightly violent

Also interesting to note that even private citizens who are armed and are using it in self defense, are instructed to shoot to kill only. Obviously they are first told that it should only happen if their or others lives are in danger, but once the firearm comes up basically just empty the magazine as fast possible without hesitation.

The logic is a bit like above. Shooting to wound, brandishing the weapon to scare, threatening, all those things end up "not working out" legally as well as killing the person as quickly as possible.

Basically hesitating or wounding or scaring all can be later reinterpreted in court as "your life wasn't really in danger if you hesitated and just shot to maim, so you shouldn't have even pulled the deadly weapon out to begin with". Also I can see that even the perpetrator (say the burglar) might be justified in suing the owner if the owner pull the weapon out and wounds him. The burglar might even be justified in pulling his/her own weapon and shooting back because now the situation is threatening their lives. So to avoid that mess, just empty the magazine.
Not everyone is working on projects that are little more than CRUD webapps. I've worked on code that took hours to compile even on beefy machines.
That'd be the fairing, the 'nosecone' that covers the payload during launch. It wasn't shown in the webcast because it has a low probability of success (they've made several attempts so far with varying degrees of accuracy and damage) and because there's no live feed from the fairing as it descends.

The aim is to get it to land in a predetermined spot in the ocean with steerable parafoils, then eventually to stick a 'bouncy castle' at that spot to soften the landing.
I'll probably eat my own words, but generally I believe CPython is meant to be easy to reason about, easy to read the code for and understand the implementation, and not to try to be meaningfully performant. I would bet the decision to refcount everything is to keep it simple.
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The occasional check of your phone is very different than staring at your glowing rectangle through the entire dinner, ignoring those you are with entirely.
Boring.

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Which is why it's beautiful, despite the less than brilliant connection :)

Like passenger planes leaving airports, I'll never not find this amazing.