skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the point. Yes, she wanted a house cleaning service. But that’s not the gift she wanted. The gift she wanted was for her husband to magically divine that she wanted him to use her emotionally-laden approach (seeking recommendations via social) to solving the problem of hiring the service instead of his pragmatic approach of identifying the cost of the service, which he then used his prior training as a magical diviner of her expectations to arrive at the conclusion she wouldn’t budget for it. Perhaps incorrectly. But that’s the problem with expecting your spouse to be a mind reader, they will try to do it, often to an undesirable result.

While I get the idea that my wife allows certain things to drag her down emotionally, and the solution is to step up and surprise her by taking care of things (and recognizing her contribution to the drudgery), what I see in this article is much different. I see a narcissist who expects others to read her mind, and a codependent husband whom she declares as inept and sees no problem at all pillorying him in Vanity Fair. And a bit of dishonesty too. She claims she doesn’t want to micromanage her husband yet is obviously displeased because he chose a pragmatic approach to her gift as opposed to doing it her way.

PS my wife’s solution to this problem. She asked. Not to do the dishes or clean the toilets. She asked me to take care of some things that concern her, without her having to ask me. Things I would normally “step around” because they’re not priority for me.
>I want to comment that academics provide such an incredible amount to the world we live in.

So does water, but that doesn't make it valuable; relevant question is the value of one more teacher. Given the extreme oversupply, the answer is "not much". Markets are speaking; it's up to workers to listen.

To be sure, you can make the case that academia is underfunded for these roles; but I estimate that you'd have to spend like a fourth of GDP to get a reasonable salary for every qualified academic who wants to do that. See this previous HN discussion on the matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12566996
It completely depends on the supply of the particular city. SFBA has lots of split level houses that were meant for families a few generations ago and very few studios.

Many in this thread seem flabbergasted that a studio would be expensive or could ever be cheap, it's probably based on whatever market they're used to.
I think the comment was meant to draw attention to today's societal programming. It seems very likely that if a woman were to say the same thing one might be inclined to view it as an example her internalized misogyny and symptom of the systematic oppression of women in general, rather than a human being who derived satisfaction from keeping their living space tidy.
I’m on a 2G mobile connection right now, and that site refuses to load. I’m going to guess this has something to do with bundling all of Java, but surely there must be a better way to write UIs that doesn’t involve downloading the whole JDK to my browser cache.

This is not a joke - webpage size is a real issue. Even on this connection I can browse a lot of pages normally, but something like this Java UI toolkit just goes way over the edge. On this connection I can’t update any native apps because they’re all much too big - but the ones I have continue to work fine. But web apps generally don’t guarantee persistence in the same way. If an app I need is suddenly removed from cache at an inopportune time, I’m screwed. That’s why web apps really need to be leaner.
Completely agree, but I'm curious about why. Why is it that even embedded Youtube videos often fail to play in a browser, but if you click the "view in Youtube" button and go to the [desktop or mobile] Youtube site they work fine? What's Youtube's special sauce?
You have that backwards. You replied to a comment of mine in a manner that implies a great many negative things about me and my marriage. Those implications are entirely inaccurate, but given that this is an overwhelmingly male forum, it is a no win situation for me. Not rebutting them implies that you are correct. Rebutting them has resulted in my comment getting downvoted and now you acting like your feelings of offense vastly outweigh the importance of my feelings of offense.

And we do not agree: He was not a bad choice for me.
>The thing is, yes, maybe one doesn't need to plan all this out and this emotional labor isn't necessary. But you know what? I'm married to her and I love her and she's my best friend so it is my problem, because I don't plan on leaving her.

And perhaps I want to surprise my partner who wants a garden by planting them one when they have to spend a week traveling with their job. But looking at it as something that you do out of love for a partner is vastly different than how this article looks at it and vastly different from it being some gendered issue that I've seen emotional labor presented as in the past.

Imagine it a different way. Say I was a big dog person, by my partner was not. But we compromised and got a dog (and assume that compromises happen on many issues, which I think is a sign of a healthy relationship).

Now imagine if I wrote up an article like this. "Dog loving is the unpaid job women still don't understand." That would be absurd.
NYC installs $100M worth of DHS pylons, won't explain what they do
The MMU on the ARM 610 had features intended for Dylan, that were designed by one of my ex-cow-orkers; the sub-page protection system (1K granularity) was put there specifically to improve the garbage collection behavior of the system. (The sub-page protections allowed better than 4K granularity of physical page sharing, which helped a lot, since RAM on the newt was always precious).

The original MessagePad might not have had enough memory to run a serious Dylan environment. But unshipped versions of the tablet newt ("Senior") did have enough, and my understanding is that they did, at least for a while.
oops, thanks. I meant to disclose my affiliation, not disclaim it.
This link[0] has an example; so basically almost anything in a game where it has to lookup massive amounts of data (e.g. logs), the example in the article is to quickly check if the user has already seen an item (in a game with thousands of items [e.g because those were pseudo-randomly generated, think RPGs]). But it's easy to think further applications: quickly check if the player already played this chess game before (all pieces where in the same position) to make sure the enemy does something smarter this time (because that time the enemy lost), and such.

[0] https://blog.demofox.org/2015/02/08/estimating-set-membershi...
HN has a fair amount of international readership, so I'll ask:

It's my impression that the US government is fairly incompetent by first-world standards. I'm not just talking about the presidency, but about the total overall governance. Is that accurate? Or is it just that US news reports US problems more than they report problems in, say, Netherlands or Switzerland, so I hear about our problems and don't hear about theirs?
I would disagree that's a market.
Very useful app ! And so easy to use !
I don't think it has no value - I'm just saying it has more in common with art (like Shakespeare, as you mentioned) than Theory. Perhaps it's a confusion of terms on my part.

I disagree that it's an academic/layperson divide, because I have a background in liberal arts at the academic level. When I was at school, I was writing papers where I REALLY needed to make sure my points were concrete, well-expressed, and well-cited. It was all about transforming a hypothesis into a theory. A lot of new critical theory seems to meander into oblivion in contrast to the strict expression of other academic fields.

Maybe, like you said, I'm just not up on the academics of it.
It isn't binary: value is created by all parties involved. It's just, in my opinion, that if we normalize the value created to be 1 for the product team, then engineering's value is less than 1, and sales and marketing is (more often) greater than or equal to 1, most of the time. Exceptions exist. But they're not normal, by definition.
Enabling Programming Languages to Learn from the Crowd [pdf]
What if the family hates SF or Seattle? That doesn't seem to enter the equation when recruiting people in the other direction.

The job-is-terrible concerns can be addressed other ways. Like putting the candidate up in temporary digs for a month or three while they decide on a longer-term deal. A reverse contract-to-hire, if you will. That sounds complicated, but it's not more complicated than a normal contract-to-hire.
Apple‘s insularity is a problem for AppleTV
I have a very good friend in Amazon recruiting that says this has to be Photoshopped because Amazon doesn’t do that.

No, that’s not true. But I’ve got a ton of karma on HN, I post frequently, and there’s contact info in my profile. Who are people going to believe if I didn’t put a disclaimer here? Not that I don’t believe you, but I’m not inclined to believe some random person on the internet who has posted to this forum for the first time. IOW, many of us are waiting for something better than, “it’s true, really”.
They call these "Affinity Groups" but it all looks like segregation to me: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/diversity

They can easily weather the storm with the "diversity of thought" shtick.
Thank you for sharing. Yes I can see what you mean. I use the word irrational to describe behaviour and decision-making that has no logical founding. I'm not trying to suggest irrational equals wrong or invalid. How my wife or I feel about something is valid regardless of its rationality.
Why did they fix the bit-width for the mantissa and exponent? It would be nice to have more bits for the mantissa when you are near 1, and then ignore the mantissa entirely when you're dealing with enormous exponents, and very far from one. Granted, there would be some overhead (e.g. a 3-bit field describing the exponent length, or something) but it would be a useful data-structure.
Where exactly can you retrieve the actual bill of lading document in pdf or image format? Enigma's dataset seems to have it all broken down into rows and columns.

What I'm looking for is the actual source documents like this example:

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/f2784648ff26fccf187f9371f...
Protecting youth from failures of justice is a more palatable political stance than protecting adults (which is no longer "hard on crime")?
This seems great, especially since having a criminal record early can destabilize you so much long term.

Also keep in mind that just yesterday there was an editorial in the Washington Post blasting Seattle’s city council for losing their marbles (like establishing a city income tax of 2.5% even though income tax is down like 30% from 30 years ago).

Seattle’s City Council, while definitely kind of weird, has been doing some really innovative and awesome stuff, they are trying to learn hard from the mistakes of San Francisco. For instance they’ve established a number of groups to support “renters rights” to counter NIMBY-esque homeowners for instance.
No, polynomial time. For reference, see these Wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial-time_reduction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karp%27s_21_NP-complete_proble...
Same background here. China, not Moscow or Crimea

I worry about the next generation. They say that wealth skips every other generation, because if a child grows up in a well-to-do family, they will not value hard work as much.
>If you do want to talk to me, I can tell the juvenile court judge or adult court judge and Probation Officer what you tell me.

Only if it hurts your case [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE (sorry, don't remember the exact time, but the video is great, watch it in full anyway)
I don't want to argue with you, because I admire those that consider the needs of others and put that consideration into practice, but I can see BearGoesChirp's point too.

Let's take food as an example. Having a well stocked kitchen is something that requires planning, but how much planning is required for each meal? Sometimes when you have something particular in mind that takes extra preparation time, but it's often possible to improvise an evening meal and still come out with something that's just as satisfying/healthy. Is it irresponsible to not plan every part of how a household runs?

Another example is holidays. People's ideas of what constitutes a good holiday vary wildly. I'm guessing you've found what works for you and your partner, but let's imagine a scenario with a different couple. One person wants to plan everything they'll do before the holiday starts. Their partner wants to just turn up and see how things unfold. Both are valid (I have my own preference, but I'm not going to muddy the waters with that). How are these two people meant to resolve these different preferences for how they like to organise their holidays?
The argument is usually that it inflates house prices to consume most of the deduction. See also: federal guarantees on student loans have just made tuitions rise to consume the loans.

Even if you don't go for that argument...

- It disproportionally helps richer people (you get a bigger benefit if you have a $1m house than a $100k house).

- It encourages riskier borrowing.
The actor comparison is pretty insightful, as a lot of the same dynamics apply:

- There are far more qualified people than could ever be eaten up by the demand for them.

- In practice, most workers of this type can't make it their only job.

- Though a small fraction at the top are extremely well compensated.

- Unionization can allow workers to capture more of the surplus (and has, for actors), but the oversupply is so extreme that it still wouldn't make the job a viable career path for the typical qualified applicant.

My previous HN exchange on this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964421
The man who steals houses in Seattle
Hmm, the parent said:

>"Famine is caused by poor [food] distribution, not poor production."<

The thread was specifically about food surplus, the GP & parent comments both specify it.

There's no reason to think either had the definition you use in mind. Surely that's "allocation"; I don't find your definition apparent -- unqualified "distribution" primarily in economics sources (I checked Economist, Investopedia, couple of other s) refers to "income distribution".

Given how blunt and lacking in nuance you found my post it's interesting you deliberately miscast "politics" as limited in scope to the actions of rich capitalists.

Saying "it's political" means it's down to motive and not ability. We can distribute food to everyone, people at some level "choose" not to. Do you disagree?
>> Usually when that pattern starts to emerge it fits the profile of the kind of cypher called a one-time pad

By pattern, I assume they mean the numbers are indistinguishable from uniformly random bits. If the data is publicly available it would be interesting to test this hypothesis.
Inspired by a Cat, Techie Turns Roomba into Impressive Telepresence Robot
The 'P' in 'PFS' has always stretched the truth, which is why a lot of practitioners elide it.

Even if you never rotate STEKs and never reset systems to get a new STEK accidentally, the DH handshake is still providing forward secrecy value for clients who don't do session tickets.
I'm a grown man and I have in the past few years developed an understanding I didn't know about, but is definitely deeply rooted in my childhood: very busy places like farmer's markets, theme parks, etc. really stress me out and make me anxious. I know it's irrational. But being irrational doesn't invalidate my feelings. My feelings are valid by definition.

And my solution isn't, "be more rational." But acknowledging that they're not rational is important in investigating the issue.
> Appears the tech behind this "cheerpj" a java transpiled to javascript[1] system that appears to contain all of openjdk including swing(!?!).

IANAL, but what about copyright here? AFAIU, you create a derivative work of JDK.
https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/04/11/floating-point-...
I see it another way... It's actually a Holy Grail in a way.

OS makers have made things intentionally incompatible since the beginning of time. Developers are finally finding effective ways to fight back.

We could have had Java/whatever everywhere ages ago if the OS makers were not purposely segmenting the market.

We might finally have a way out of the tyranny of OS makers taking 30% of the revenue in apps stores for example.

WASM will change everything. Every platforms will be compatible somewhat against the will of OS creators. Expect some kind of backlash or walled gardening to commence shortly...
Update: Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, and Misinformation
What “Worse is Better vs. The Right Thing” is really about
> Also at current rate it sounds like it’s going to take years to phase out TLS 1.1.

It's already more or less phased out. On my webservers, TLS 1.1 accounts for 0.1% of traffic, and about half of that is junk requests like exploit attempts.

Check out SSL Pulse, specifically the Protocol Support graph:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/

This used to show 100% support for TLS 1.0, which is now at 92.6% as some sites are now going 1.2-only. That's just webserver support, not usage. Huge real-world difference. Like my car supports not wearing a seal-belt but I always use it. The vast majority of usage is 1.2, and a large percentage of 1.0/1.1 traffic is unwanted garbage traffic. Hence why some people are disabling 1.0/1.1 in their webservers. It also exposes more code for questionable benefit.

BTW I'd love to know what sites support TLS 1.0 but not 1.2. What's the breakdown of the Alexa Top 1000 or so? I suspect it's mostly banks and unknown sites.
Obligatory: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About
Floating-Point Arithmetic [1] (pdf)

[1]: http://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf
> Women generally do that thinking

Funny how the stereotype reverses after marriage.

While dating, the trope (especially with platforms like OkCupid) is that the man has to perform all the emotional labor:

He has to write tons of messages just to get a first date, pick a good restaurant (and pay for it!), be witty and entertaining all evening, and be just the right amount of seductive (but not come on too strong) in order to "win" a second date.
It is likely that not all operatives are deployed in environments with ubiquitous internet (or other infrastructure..). And even if they had internet access now, the situation might be very volatile and operatives lose access the moment they need it the most.

Even in western world the ubiquitousness of internet is relatively recent phenomenon; I would expect most of the number stations to be much older than that. And (para-)military like every other large organization changes slowly, especially when turning away from working, tested and true, solution.
Agreed, the logistics company IKEA uses - North American Logistics Group is the worst.

A table top got damaged so they had to get me a new one and they said I should call them to reschedule. It was impossible to reach anyone. Even talking to IKEA CS on the phone was clueless as to what to do.

I finally just sent a DM to IKEA customer service on Twitter and they got everything sorted out. So if you need help just message them on Twitter.
> A good measure of where the best engineers are is where the best engineers migrate to.

I would say that is only a good measure of where more money is being spent.
It's relevant in terms of pfs. Say, you happen to have ciphertext of all traffic to a domain for the past three years (whitepower.forum.example.ru), and you get an urgent need to read that ciphertext. Now, if you could get physical access to any one cloudflare server, and perhaps dump the ram, or do a cold boot attack - that might have been enough to read all that data. Assume for the sake of argument, that the servers hosting the site is (physically) out of reach.
So the question is: if you feel like you don't get the math formula, but you get the windows-and-buckets explanation of it, is it still possible that your understanding doesn't match the true underlying concept? Because that is the pitfall with a lot of intuitive explanations, that unless you are sure that the explanations are equivalent to the true thing, you might end up understanding an idea that is close but slightly off.

So a puzzle: if two positive numbers in exactly the same window are subtracted, what is the worst-case rounding error you can get in the result?
Yes! I've been working really hard to accept this and just go with it: sometimes it's perfectly okay to accept an irrational situation and move forward with it. This week it's to stop trying to fight the concept that we're grown adults and it shouldn't matter how our family judges the quality of our yard. Instead, it's to go out there and do what I deem to be an unnecessary mow and trim. The absolute bottom line is that I got more exercise, enjoyed the waning summer weather, and my wife feels happier.
That's my gut feeling, yes.
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There is a reason for the “Open” in the name of “OpenJDK”.
England and the Aeroplane: An Interview with Historian David Edgerton
Did you read the article?

>But brain scientists say young people often lack the perspective and judgment, especially in the moment, to know what’s in their best interest.

This is why they made a version that goes into more detail.
I was under the impression continents were roughly defined by the underlying continental plates.
It does? Why? Neither OP nor your reply contain any reasoning to help the rest of us understand :(
I was around the AI Lab at the time (working for the EECS department sysop'ing their undergrad Lisp Machines and DEC-20), and the dream was to incarnate Lisp in hardware and surpass the slow, multi-user PDP-10's/DEC-20's in use at the time. Plus, the sheer temptation of running Lisp "all the way down" (well, not in microcode, though that was written in a Lispy assembler) was just too great to resist. Plus it was early in the workstation era (Sun, Apollo, etc) and people were hooked on the idea of personal graphics-based workstations.

Within a few years, though, desktop machines running optimized Lisp compilers were surpassing the raw performance of the Lisp Machines, though of course there was nothing like the whole system (Genera).

In the end, "worse is better", plus "AI winter" happened, which put the Symbolics/LMI/TI LispMs out of business.

But something real was lost--I don't think the world has ever seen a more powerful development environment.

One step forward, and four steps back...
I can't help but giggle like a schoolchild because of those keyboard sounds.
That's what I'm thinking. Suffice to say after a bit more poking around today, I no longer use the service.
Gradual Packaging, with python – Part two
> Instead of Exponent, think of a Window between two consecutive power of two integers.

I know what an exponent is, or if you want "order of magnitude". Sorry, but "A window between two consecutive power of two integers" doesn't make it easier to think about.
Yes, health insurance is an unavoidable PITA, but I'd argue that contracting actually better insulates you from major market corrections if you have multiple client relationships. While a major dot.com type bust may wipe out most of them, you have a better chance of at least one making it through alive vs putting all of your eggs in one basket as a W-2 employee.