skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nifty. Some thoughts...

General UX: "What will/did this button-with-no-tooltip do?" was a theme for me.

Tour UX: I felt trapped in chains of modal windows.

Perhaps add "clicking outside modal windows bails out of chain"; and in Overview, "clicking on numbered topic jumps to that step". These are perhaps low hanging fruit for restoring some user control of navigation?

I wonder if "tours" is the right objective. Perhaps topical examples? Eg https://threejs.org/examples/ ? However... many use youtube videos to learn code far more than I would, so perhaps I'm just not the target audience for a video-like tour. Perhaps a label change to set expectations "Take a video-like tour"? But I expect to be able to jump around in videos. Screencast the tours for youtube?

Language: I wish the type system was richer. I'd happily accept "projections have structured comments describing unrepresentable semantics" for that. If I could express the type "thing with a partial order < and a +", then I'd have looked to sign up, intending to upload a bunch of algorithm code.

Functions are nice, but to win big, we need a better type system than is currently available. ADT's don't scale. Witness haskell's half-decade of heroic effort... just to insert Applicative. Anyone wants to make something like this with a type system that's a pushout lattice of theories, I am your slave. Figuratively.

Randomness: Projective editing might help with the Unicode!/Ascii! Agda/Idris rift, but the semantics would be a challenge, and the market small. Though its maybe a good population to attract if the type system were more of a focus. Fortress-style "projected to look like math" might appeal to Julia-is-the-new-FORTRAN folks? Using kate.com-style emacs/vi/etc plugins with a "sidebar" website window for value-add, might separate out the "switch to us as your editor" aspect from the "here's analysis and ecosystem" aspect.

XR changes the UX constraint space for this kind of thing. Perhaps startlingly soon and rapidly. So something to keep an eye on. The bite-sized functions, sidebar analysis, refactoring, fine-grain ecosystem, and type directed development and search, seem good matches for an XR UI.
Yes, but the discussion is about service providers using Facebook's platform, not Facebook's end users.
Immunotherapy – An overview of translating research into patient outcomes
No, that's not junior engineer territory, even at the BigCos.
[1] Yes, it was a mistake. Has been corrected.

[2] We have many modules running inside our ecosystem in different languages. Front-end is primarily bootstrap and templating is done in PHP. Tech stacks are important for folks who primarily want to work with given technology, however, our culture promotes using the best one for a given job and thus we don't want to restrict ourselves to a specific tech stack.

[3] We are working on adding sample codes for all the mentioned languages.
I don't think everyone is paid as highly as everyone claims. Sure, top engineers make enough to make it work but many only get marginal pay increases. I really don't think it balances out for most.
It seems the whole index is kept in RAM. Thus the index size is limited by the amount of RAM available. This explains the impressive indexing and search performance (1M blog 500M data 28 seconds index finished, 1.65 ms search response time, 19K search QPS)
The Persistent storage data is stored to the hard disk solely when the program closes. The data is then restored from the hard disk when the program restarts ( https://github.com/go-ego/riot/blob/master/docs/zh/persisten... ). This is a limited approach compared to Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch LSM
which handle high-volume inserts to its indexes with a log-structured merge-tree (LSM) and where the index size is only limited by the available hard disk space.
Definitely aware of the trade offs, doing the means test indicates I should own, I digress. There is an emotional component, which is the kids. I grew up moving from one continent to another with no sense of security. I don't want the same for my kids, they deserve stability in their lives, and I've convinced myself that as a provider I need to make that happen for them.
It's the other way in California: compared to elsewhere, excessive amounts of retail and non-residential development because of prop 13. Local governments are very dependent on sales tax since the aggregate property tax rate can't support local services, and retail throws off that sales tax revenue.
You also have to factor in the astronomical rent. How are you supposed to save that 100k when so much is going to rent?

I know a non-tech dual-earner couple who managed to save a down payment like that in the Bay Area, but they were living rent-free in a house owned by one of their parents well into their 30s.
I like the idea on some level, but could consciousness be separated from biological motivations like pleasure and pain?

That feels more like the idea of universe-as-computer than in the examples of conscious, living celestial bodies.
Wow, this is an interesting point! I can see how difficult it could be to convince people that they need help with a problem they might not even realize they have.

May I ask you, how did you find out about the mental health issues?
If you need to ask... you definitely can’t afford it.
The Parker SoC that comes with the Jetson TX2 came to mind immediately, since I've got one:

https://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc28...
https://elinux.org/Jetson_TX2#Processing_Components

Six different ARM CPUs (two different kinds!) on the same silicon as a fairly powerful GPU.
In the same way a room becomes conscious the moment a person walks into it.
Maybe you should ask your self why are you thinking about sex while looking at underage girl? Cause otherwise - how does it matter if she is underage or not?
You should be able to scroll it.
Foreign company needs to setup an India entity to avail that service. We don't support cross-border transfers currently.
> - SFO is one of the worst airports to arrive from abroad

Interesting - I find it a lot better than a number of other large US airports. While the immigration queues aren't great they're better than JFK, EWR, IAD, LAX, DFW, ORD and much better than YYZ. And you usually can just hurry past a lot of the other flyers, to get at the front of the queue. And departing the security queues are less bad than a lot of other airports too.

These days I've global entry, making this less painful...
Ah good point. But that would still mean the adversary has to put an address on the stack that already exists. Much harder target, no?
Option A, save to buy elsewhere. Option B, housing market correction, though unclear if that'll happen, so probably A. Option C, continue renting, save for kids college and retirement if I can't make it happen in the next 3-5 years, and realizing I'm being aggressively pessimistic.
Is your boss expecting you to do the programming? Or do you do it because you enjoy it or don't want to delegate?
> There are lots of cheap places to live in the US that are still very nice

For example?

> you just don't want to live there.

Obviously, it's not just me. If lots of people wanted to live in these supposed cheap, nice places they'd all be moving there instead of norcal.
"ventspace" indeed, but I agree--it's an interesting perspective.
Yeah, I'm also one of those "brown people". Based on affordable housing and acceptance of diversity of thought, it's much friendlier in Arizona than California.

As far as the political views you highlighted, my guess is you're part of the vast majority of the electorate that's socially liberal and financially conservative.

Question is, can that vast majority ever organize?
>You can use a public key in the dns record and also activate dnssec.

then you dont even need certificates, just use DANE.
Matthew Green also wrote a blog post about this https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/23/attack-o...
I think nothing will change as long as economic growth is understood as economic Good.

Current economy can't work if there's no economic growth.

Banks are among the biggest culprits. If banks lend money at a 5% interest rate, their customers must grow their businesses by 5%.

A new, sustainable economy is needed. I think about it each time I see the Race for the Galaxy card. I've seen a radical example of this among African tribes, in a documentary Africa serries by Basil Davidson. He argued the tribe (sorry I don't remember its name) can fully sustain itself by taking things from nature around it. All their wealth is external. They possess little, but whenever they have a need for something - food, medicine, water, paint, clothes, containers(...) they go to a forest, harvest a specific plant and get it. They have recipes for everything they need.
Oh yeah, great point. I have similar experiences. Humans are mewling, disorganized, and miserably analogous :-).
People losing their jobs is the most sure fire ways to lower housing costs. This title makes no sense.
a "dominant" theory of consciousness is a bit of a misnomer

that is to say,

- most scientists would hesitate to say they have a clue

- philosophers have all kinds of ideas but all with epistemological issues

- your average joe would probably equate consciousness with the "soul"
"As I have argued there and elsewhere, naturalism cannot in fact be salvaged. It either collapses into Rosenberg-style eliminativism, which is (hard as Rosenberg tries to make it work) ultimately incoherent; or, in order to do justice to the aspects of reality that even many of Nagel’s critics acknowledge to be irreducible, is either transformed into the panpsychism of Whitehead, Chalmers, and Strawson, or entails a return to an essentially Aristotelian-Scholastic philosophy of nature [...]"

http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2013/06/mind-and-cosmos-roun...
Nearly all software engineers in San Francisco will be able to afford $2k a month, even if it's tight. They'll be doing close to that anyway in rent. I'm not arguing it's not insane rent/mortgage in absolute terms, but relative to software engineer salaries, it's doable.
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The scheduling policies listed on the man page I linked share some generic kernel code, but I wouldn't classify them as the same scheduler. If you look inside the kernel/sched/ directory in the source, you'll find that an instance of `struct sched_class` is defined for each scheduler class. There are dl_sched_class, rt_sched_class, fair_sched_class, and idle_sched_class. You can see in `pick_next_task` in core.c that these class structs are iterated over, calling into each scheduler's own `pick_next_task`: http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.13.9/source/kernel...
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs raised their kids tech free
What kind of attack could take out ICBMs but would be unable to take out bombers? You say that bombers on alert could launch in less time than it takes for an incoming weapon to destroy the base, but surely the same is true of ICBMs.

Adding bomber bases to the list of targets the enemy must destroy makes their life more difficult, but it seems like the difference would be small. There are, what, half a dozen or so bomber bases you'd have to destroy? One warhead each should do it. My understanding is that ICBM silos are sturdy enough to require a nearly direct hit to destroy them, so you'd need hundreds of warheads to destroy those.

The ability to launch bombers and then change (or cancel) their mission en route is super useful, but that seems separate from the alert role. If you want to put nuclear bombers in the air to put the fear of God into your adversary, you don't need them to be on a five-minute alert (or whatever the actual time will be).
Expected a fork of a popular and venerable text editor, instead got a web page with broken scrolling and teen-aged, scantily-clad anime girl mascot. It might very well be a fine product, but the packaging leaves something to be desired.
Yes, absolutely. I would guess at least 90% of the users are simply there by defaulting to it. The tech community is not the target market for Gmail. I never said they had bad security, simply that they were not advertising and trying to attract users from it.
This is talking about all jobs not tech jobs - there are any number of people that live in the bay area that don't work in tech. This is much more about them than tech workers...
Re: scrolling, in vim you have CTRL-E and CTRL-Y and there must be a way to adjust the scroll step (usually 1) to the scroll step of your mouse wheel (usually like 3) is bound. Can a mouse do 30 scrollings per second (my keyboard input rate)?

Where the scroll wheel makes a difference is when you want to fine tune the scrolling speed, which you can't do with a keyboard. I don't think I have a usecase for that (but YMMV), and my impression is it often gets me out of text mode and into FPS mode.

What would be really nice for larger scroll steps (like CTRL-D) is smooth scrolling. I suppose there is no terminal support for this? Also gvim doesn't seem to have it.

Anyway I usually don't scroll by fixed amounts, but do * (identifier search), / (regex search), { and }, and maybe more.

EDIT: just added this to my vimrc. I don't think my mouse scrolling ever was this good

" Triple scrolling "speed"
nnoremap <C-e> 3<C-e>
nnoremap <C-y> 3<C-y>
In the US, they are (very) generally less affluent, so they are less able to absorb cost increases. This is particularly the case in areas that are rapidly gentrifying.

It's a visible issue in some neighborhoods in DC. Blocks that were nearly 100% minority 15 years ago are predominantly young, white, and affluent. But, the corner church is still run by a minority pastor, with a largely minority congregation, all of whom want weekend parking on the street (as they now "commute" to church from the outer suburbs).
Well, I had more free time than I'll probably ever have again and I frittered away a lot of it on bad TV, lame forums, etc.
But HTM (the learning rule mentioned in this article) isn't biologically plausible, despite trying to be Hebbian. See this discussion on my lab's forum: https://forum.nengo.ai/t/hierarchical-temporal-memory-vs-nef...

Edit: linked to specific post in forum thread instead of the whole thread
The catch behavior mirrors try {} catch {} blocks. If you don't need a catch, don't catch, and let it bubble up. Try to keep the things you catch to a bare minimum. The rethrow decision is largely the same for Promises as try {} catch {} blocks, too.

(It's more apparent too in the async/await space where catch is even literally try {} catch {}.)
A room and a person in it can be considered separate. But nothing in existence can be considered separate from the universe, since the universe is everything in existence.

So, to use your example, a room with a conscious person in it, considered as one whole, is at the very least partially conscious, since the person in it is conscious. Whether the room itself is conscious we don't quite know.

But this leads to the question: does the notion of "partially conscious" make sense?
I did a similar analysis with more relevant (for me) numbers for BA recruiters that wanted me to move.

Their responses were ... well ... sad. I don't blame them. Or the companies.

I was amused by the offered salaries, after I explained the basic economics to them. Pointing out that the net income after taxes/expenses is so low as to effectively put me and my family into poverty.

The smart ones responded positively to "keep me where I am, have me hop a plane N times per month."

The dumb ones said "but BA real estate only goes up." Which, is a large part (but not the root cause) of the problem. If this were true, then BA real estate would be little more than a barely concealed Ponzi scheme. Which, maybe, it is. I dunno.

What is interesting to me is that the rest of the country has been wising up for a while. So now you can get the benefits of BA salary/comps working locally. This is a welcome development, though rent seeking behavior seems to follow this, so it is only good for a while.
>> Latency...

That shouldn't be a problem if the quantum particles are entangled. right?

>> which reassures us that the answer to such a question would inevitably be "no

The Universe doesn't care about such laws ;)
Your company is interesting, found it from your submissions history
I've read through this several times and I'm still confused. How does this relate to the Payment Request API? Or Google Wallet or Android Pay?
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Or you may end up with obscure bugs, when you expect a sync method or worse, when a sync method changes to async in the next api version(happened in real world!)
The best places to live are the best in no small measure because they are underpopulated. The SF peninsula is one of the most desirable (and expensive) areas in the greater bay area in no small measure because very few people live there, so we have less traffic, hiking trails, horse properties, peace and quiet.
This is a good point.

Note only will that time become productive time, but it might reduce traffic on the roads and reduce congestion.
Going to reply to myself as it's too long so I can't edit: Installed Termux and the API package and widget, and the API package (paid) has me tremendously excited. Not because it's all that advanced, but between the ability to open quick little dialog boxes to collect text, and the widgets ability to spawn them from a button, it just looks amazingly useful to automate quick little tasks without going down the particularly hellish route that is full app development for mobile...
This is a potentially lucrative sales channel for Apple if it takes off. It could mean for Apple Watch what AT&T meant for the iPhone
>Why would you expect an email provider to also provide a calendar?

Because calendar has become a key part of a productivity suite and Email is the keystone. We use Protonmail right now to avoid Google or Fastmail or someone serving up all our emails in a warrant. We keep sensitive stuff off Protonmail of course but every bit helps LE build their case against us.

Protonmail should have calendaring, wiki, and on and on. An encrypted replacement for Exchange eventually. We disable all audiovideo hardware for core members but I can see even secure voice being useful for our contractors to use.
> As sad as this is, the reality is that nobody cares.

More precisely, too few care, and only a fraction of them are really doing something about it.

I think in many ways the apparent environmental crisis we've been experiencing is a profound moral failure, on the part of individuals, governments and whole societies.
Great platform for hosting Node.js and MongoDB
In all three cases I find the original PDFs more pleasant to read. HTML typography is not up to snuff. I read them on a laptop, however, and I can see that this would be useful if one is forced to read on a phone.

(One thing that is very ugly in the PDFs, and most scholarly papers, is the use of different-colored boxes for hyperlinks. Authors, please consider putting

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

in your LaTeX preambles.)
What they do is have multiple family members per household. It's not that unusual to see two or more families living in what would normally be a single family dwelling.

Across the street from my old house in San Mateo (Silicon Valley mid-peninsula), there were what appeared to be a husband and wife, the wife's sister, a cousin, three or four children, the sister or cousin's live in boyfriend, and a renter, all in a two bedroom, one bath house that was about 1200 square feet. Oh and a couple of dogs as well. It was notable because there were six or seven cars for the household, and there were only a couple of parking spots in front of each house, so they ended up parking their cars in front of our house often, forcing us to park down the street somewhere.

If you have four or five adult wage earners at low wages you can make it work. Otherwise you have to live very far away from your job.
> Am I crazy for thinking that might be the case?

I don’t know; but I wish they would be able to adapt so rapidly. Think how after thousands of years they still don’t understand they can’t fly through transparent glass.
Yeah, I am, there's a lot to this. As for destroying the subs, Russia is doing a lot of new attack sub development, and we only have 6 Ohios on patrol at any one time. There's been a lot of development since the end of the cold war on alternate submarine detection methods, and Russia has been quite active in the field. Two interesting ones are blue-green laser detection (certain wavelengths of light can penetrate the water), and antineutrino detection (nuclear reactors emit antineutrinos as part of their operation, and these can now be detected and localized from long range) Russia also continues to carry nuclear armed torpedoes on their subs. Even with an approximate sub contact, a nuclear torpedo can destroy it. There are a number of other techniques from the past such as bioluminescence and wake detection that hadn't been feasible in the past, but may be with the extreme increase in signal processing power now available.

Even if some SSBNs did survive undetected, since the end of the cold war, the PAL codes for the warheads on the U.S. subs are not stored on the sub, they have to be received in the EAM. This means that the captain is no longer capable of acting independently. In the UK case, the captain does have the codes, and he is supposed to read a "letter of last resort" to tell him what to do. Given the circumstances that this letter is written under, it's unlikely that it says "nuke the bastards." Furthermore, if, perhaps hours or days after an attack, communication was restored, if the Russian attack were purely counterforce, it's likely that there would be single digit millions of casualties in the U.S. With a nearly defanged U.S., the Russians would presumably issue an ultimatum to surrender any remaining nuclear weapons or they would launch a follow-on countervalue attack. It's hard to imagine a U.S. president proceeding with a strike against Russia under these circumstances, given that effective counterforce would be impossible, and the Russian leadership would have in any case not be in a vulnerable spot anymore.

This all sounds very hypothetical, except that there is a worrying pattern of actions and development programs that suggest that Russia is pursuing this capability. They've recently (failed to) launch what appears to be a submarine detecting satellite, their subs are patrolling much closer to the U.S. than they ever have since the cold war, they have this new anti-satellite capability, they've been running sonar ships past Kings Bay, they appear to have a new DT capability, they're upgrading the Moscow ABM system, they're improving their civil defense capabilities, and supposedly digging new bunkers for the leadership, and they appear to have been behind a propaganda campaign to discredit the UK Trident system so that the UK would decommission its deterrent.

BTW I have never head a clearance and all of my info comes from open sources. You can piece a lot together if you go looking deeply though.
DNS-over-TLS and DNSCrypt are more about authentication than privacy. They are useful against the guy sitting behind you at Starbucks doing DNS injection.

They don't replace a VPN.
I didn’t say that it wasn’t possible, for some trailers. Fifth wheels by the nature of their design will not be pulled with a car. Even something as “simple” as my dad’s ski boat wasn’t possible to be pulled behind anything but a decently beefy truck (dry weight was ~6k lbs).

Where and when I grew up, setups like this[0] were very commonly seen on the road all the time, so maybe my experience is a little different than some of you.

[0] http://forums.wakeboarder.com/files/s_rig.jpg
Don't be addicted to losers
This is pretty offensive to be honest. Attributing the OP's success and optimism on being young and 'pretty'. What about skill, or determination?
I think what you are describing is the difference between being positive and optimistic rather than.. as you said jaded.