skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I've changed my mind on public transit projects twice now.

I've always been very pro public transit, and always vote for anything related. Maybe 5 years ago, in the after math of our monorail project being sabotaged, with the rise of ride sharing and perhaps autonomous automobiles, I decided the era of Big Bang public transit projects was coming to a close.

Recently, our fledgling light rail, 20 years in the making, finally opened a station near the university, and now ridership along the whole system far exceeds all the projections. Woot!

So I get the "too little, too late" sentiment. But I think I was wrong for believing that.
Yes, and yes passwords are encrypted / salted. They’re not morons.
It would be swell if we didn't assume people are geniuses because they make, basically one terrific/diabolical business decision?

A business decision we all paid for. If Gates didn't make that one business move, he would be a footnote in history.

And fair is fair--Melinda must be a genius, along with all those Trump kids.

Let's stop calling them geniuses. They are good at business.
So we shouldn't start a family on 21k, but then you say that the median household income is 60k. That's because two married people making an income of 30k each before taxes gives 60k. So which is it don't start a family or do? Why should people with less opportunity not be allowed a family anyway? Even with your 60k median (basically a bit more than 21k each) is hardly enough to live on, saving for retirement is just out of the question. Your logic here is very flawed, without even getting into any other numbers/situations these theoretical people may go through. Take the average cost of health care, utilities, medical bills, dentist bills, rent, and food. Even if these people were to do no eating out and no entertainment, I think you would find that they would not have enough to save for retirement. Throwing the word lazy around is a "lazy" argument
That’s just false.
That would be true only if the “factual effects” were agreed upon.

Let me give you an example:
Pro immigration advocates claim immigration will increase US jobs. So do anti immigration activists.
In Arizona?
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The Quora link another poster submitted is a good starting place.

* Steve Yegge's advice (often cited when people ask how to prepare for Google interviews): https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goo...

* Buy "Cracking the Coding Interview" and go through as many problems in it. It also gives a good rundown of Algos, DS, Space & Time complexity.

* If you've never done a Google (or other big company) interview before, you could also consider looking on YouTube to see some example interviews (e.g. how people approach a problem, how they talk it out with the interviewer, etc.)

If you don't end up nailing the interview, it's really ok. You can try again in a year. :) There are people who've done 2 or 3 tries at interviews before they get in.
Would one mitigation against this attack be for exchanges and anyone doing irreversible transactions on the edge where bitcoin interfaces with the real world to wait for more confirmations? To the reverse the transaction would then require going back and creating a lot of blocks to have the longest chain again.
The bitcoinbros really have to get over their fixation on "the government".

Here's the real pocket guide for governments: "If they get annoying, make it illegal"

"Bitcoin enthusiasts" are completely delusional, holding both an inferiority complex (constant fear) as well as a superiority complex vis-a-vis "governments".

In reality, governments mostly just don't care. Then, of far lesser importance, they're mildly intrigued by the concept. Meanwhile, some interns are doing a few things to handle some stuff that came up. Like pensioners giving their savings to ICOs.
Tania: open source farming management system
> This experiments seems to make no attempt to eliminate
> the possibility that this is completely random.

Psychophysicists use two-alternate forced-choice experiments precisely to eliminate the possibility of the result being "completely random". Indeed, for this experimental design it---given sufficient trials---is quite easy to do hypothesis testing and compute confidence intervals for the hypothesis that the subjects can perform the task better than chance.

You are correct, of course, that this doesn't prove that they see the photons. Maybe the experimental apparatus was poorly made and accidentally a noise when the photons were flashed. Or maybe someone cheated and told them which trials the photons would be delivered. Or perhaps they simply have ESP. But the one thing that we can easily have confidence about is when an effect differs from random chance.
More destructive than, "oil companies can spill oil anywhere" (Nigeria) or "let's kill everyone from the 'wrong' ethnic group" (Rwanda) or "let's exploit orphans" (Ireland)?
I think the quickest way to learn about someone else to talk to them. We've moved so far away from really getting to know one another.
Not code but they do publish papers that contain decent detail.
I agree Google's revenue will not grow 20% annually forever, but I don't see any problem with my 10-year projection. When I watch YouTube I see about 30 seconds of ads for every 10 minutes of video content. I could easily see this rising to 60 seconds over the next decade.

And the ads I do see are not very well tailored to me: I see cat food ads even though I don't have a cat. I see gambling ads even though I've never gambled in my life. I see ads for a sit-stand desk even though I already bought it. I never see MacBook Pro ads even though I put one in my shopping cart on Apple's website 6 months ago but did not purchase it. (Google has all my photos, all my emails and my location history for past 4 years, so Google should know all this).

Google has a long way to go to maximize the effectiveness of their ads.
Interesting Patterns in Baby Names
I am actively running this experiment. I will comment back 50 years later to share my experience. ;)
> We're taking existing scientific workflows and adding structure to them, but there are still plenty of details that are unstructured and performed manually by scientists, and there's a lot of variability across use cases.

That makes sense. It’s difficult to start adding structure to biological sciences. And to the fields credit I don’t think it’s out of lack of ability or effort but just the true complexity of dealing with biological systems. In contrast, even quantum mechanics is seemingly simple!

> Possibly we could do a simulation based approach on historical data like that, although modeling it would correctly certainly sounds tricky.

True, seems like you will have a very valuable historical dataset though. I’ve been pondering this type of problem for a few years since my (abortive) attempt at a PhD in material sciences. For my project I made some decent progress using various Bayesian and bootstrapping models to work with uncertainty in my models and tissue samples. Bayesian approaches, especially combined with MCMC type analysis can yield a lot of fruit dealing with biological systems with minimal need to understand the underlying models. But as you mention modeling the parameters correctly is challenging and there’s a lacunae in research broaching the topic. But at the least a system like yours could indicate items like conditional probability of failure given certain sequence sets or combinations of experimental procedures (e.g. cell lines A tend to do better when cultured in X media and tested with Y +/- Z hours). The article seems to indicate you’d have most of the data described in a format that’d be amendable to such data mining.
Is it going to spy on its citizens with all the 'smart' devices? Given Microsoft's record of protecting user privacy I guess I probably won't be wanting to move there very soon.
True Names figure prominently in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rule_of_Names
Jeez, that’s right near where my family lives, and I wouldn’t call it _that_ remote.
Tangential, but if you would like to learn more about her life, there is a movie entitled „Temple Grandin” (http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/). I found it inspiring.
Except a) the federal government actually doesn’t really interfere much with governance at all, and b) floating on seawater makes almost everything 10x harder.

Which means seasteading is pointless unless you are doing something the federal government really doesn’t like.

90% of problematic regulations are city rules, and another 9% are county level, which means most people can just move to a different city and be completely free to experiment with whatever governance they want, and another 9% will need to switch counties, but only 1% at most need to be on a boat. And frankly many of those are actually anti-social people who aren’t experimenting with governance, they’re incompatible with it.
google _is_ building a city:

https://www.wired.com/story/google-sidewalk-labs-toronto-qua...
>Then why do it in the middle of the desert?

Because land in the desert is cheap.

> They're called "city". Or "town". It's where people "live" and have fun, "with some acceptable margin".

Some people hate "cities" and don't think being forced to be in one is "living" or any kind of "fun".
Great thanks.

Bought Cracking the Coding interview already. Read the blog as well. Now watching YouTube videos.

Is the cool off period 1 year at Google? Seems long.
There's actually a relatively non-controversial theory in economics that such trade agreements will decrease low-skilled wages in the richer country, at least in the short term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_price_equalization. Economists generally consider this acceptable however as the models used suggest the benefit to the poor country and overall increase in global utility is greater than the loss faced by low-skilled workers in the richer country.
Companies do the least legally permissible in order to turn a profit?!

gasp

Congratulations kid, you’ve discovered capitalism
Coffee cartel at it again.
The Trent Affair: When the Union and Great Britain Nearly Went to War
The relative risk vs coffee consumption curve fist goes below 1.0 (no coffee = 1.0) and reaches minimum around 3-5 cups then starts to increase slowly again. cardiovascular
disease and stroke risk go above 1.0 after 9-10 cups per day.

The study mentions that results may not apply to unfiltered coffee (eg,
French press, Scandinavian boiled, or Turkish/Greek coffee). Other studies have shown that cholesterol-raising factor in coffee does not pass a paper filter.
>Except a) the federal government actually doesn’t really interfere much with governance at all

You’re not serious are you.
5 cups/day isn't exactly breaking the bank, as long you're not drinking hipster sour watery stuff at $4.50/cup. I just drank instant coffee throughout college. At my high school, you could drop $10 into a jar for the "coffee club" and have unlimited coffee throughout the year (drip brew, pretty weak stuff).
The constant overselling of AI is a negative indicator.
I'm often surprised these kinds of issues aren't fixed quicker. There are so many issues in browsers related to non Roman based letters (assuming that's the correct term for it)

on the one hand I get that most browser (and OS?) dev happens in the West by people unaffected by these issues. One the other hand with > 1 billion people using non Roman based languages I'd expect this kind of stuff to be more of a priority.

maybe this particular issue isn't that important? the one that bites me the most is pressing ESC to cancel IME editing and having it exit some dialog because the browser/os passed the ESC all the down to the app when it was meant only for the IME. I get there are probably no easy solutions tho

this is also a place where VSCode fails because VSCode and any other is based text editing in html needs more IME info than current broswer APIs provide
No longer[1].

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Omniprocessor-From-Po...
No mention of CYP1A2 genotype which affects caffeine metabolism rate. From a different study (2006):

Intake of coffee was associated with an increased risk of nonfatal MI only among individuals with slow caffeine metabolism, suggesting that caffeine plays a role in this association. ... The purpose of this study was to determine whether CYP1A2 genotype modifies the association between intake of caffeinated coffee and risk of nonfatal MI.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/202502

A more recent (2015) report has this conclusion w/r/t CVD:

Consistent observational evidence indicates that moderate coffee consumption is associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in healthy adults. In addition, consistent observational evidence indicates that regular consumption of coffee is associated with reduced risk of cancer of the liver and endometrium, and slightly inverse or null associations are observed for other cancer sites.

https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015-scientific-report/...

This NYT article summarizes and links to a bunch of studies:

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/for-coffee-drinker...

BTW, if you've used 23andme, it should have your CYP1A2 genotype.
That's not a solution as long as "popular" videos still get higher ranking in searches.
What sucks is how hard it is to do anything when you're on the inside and know just how dangerous the systems are, and management has no interest in fixing things.

A former employer of mine is a government agency with millions of accounts, with SSN and every kind of PII imaginable, they have actually been breached (millions of SSNs lost) ... and they still don't hash passwords.

Would love to out them, but the management is vindictive as hell so I can't come up with a good way to out the place without great risk to myself.

I'm sure many have been in this situation - we need a safe way for people like us to speak up before breaches happen.
Oh wow, thanks for this. That subreddit was at least an hour of fun.
Interesting - are you stating that not many people experience the snow, or not many people don’t go for weeks without noticing?

I’ve always experienced it, and remember playing as a kid squinting my eyes really hard to make random colors and patterns appear (the latter often looking like a grey 3D grid deforming over time)
Yeah, it's kinda tricky -- costs could be much higher. Wire bonders aren't exactly hot ticket items; very few people are using manual machines. A cheap Chinese made one from Taobao/Alibaba costs around $250, but add in shipping, and you're close to $500 already. Something made in the USA from eBay will be of similar price, just two decades older.

If you're lucky enough to already be in China, I can't imagine it would be to difficult to get a small run made for a much lower cost, although I've never done so. Lots of factories making high volume, low end products use wire bonders to attach bare die to a PCB -- think calculators, gift cards, etc.

The simple fact is there's no comparable level of electronics manufacturing in the US, making it hard to get the parts and machinery necessary.
what do you mean if there is a difference? My question was not to speculate on what causes the difference, but whether or not it actually exists.
This comment is much better than the article, because it tells that some of the complex relations between conceptual entities in physic, could be presented in a simplified but equivalent way. So it hints that the "problem" presented in the article is only an artifact.

Henry Poincaré wrote exactly this in 1902 in "the science and hypothesis"
Nous sommes acculés à la définition suivante, qui n'est qu'un aveu d'impuissance : les masses sont des coefficients qu'il est commode d'introduire dans les calculs.[0]

I am also happy for the reference to the excellent blog of Matt Strassler

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Hypothesis
I use messenger and groups. It's fine. Any troll gets blocked immediately so the experience isn't too bad but I don't use it like I did at the start any more. No sharing with family (all on whatsapp) or friends (also whatsapp, signal or telegram). Sometimes I share images on instagram too and tend to keep up to date with my friends lives (in a superficial way) there.
Much of how I think involves a pretend version of my body and a manipulation of virtual objects or better yet sets of those objects in some kind of physical space, to understand, manipulate, test hypotheses, and reach conclusions (I can feel my muscles twitch often as I do this). Also, there are shadowy visuals with edges, colors, and I move around those objects to get different viewpoints. This is most concrete when contemplating how to navigate or manipulate the physical world, but even quite concrete when contemplating how I build and understand software -- hypothetical data structures, functions, objects, etc., they take on some almost tangible form, and I might give them a verbal tag, but they're very much not verbal.

Even when dealing with people, social situations, my feelings for them, about them, situations I am in or might be in, or things I'm contemplating in the past -- so little of that is verbal. I flash to prior experience, prior situations, I posit new ones, I wonder how a person might sound, what their voice might show. I had a very hard time completing sentences and constructing verbal arguments before I was around 25. I was different, and my senior classmates in high school in Brazil, I don't think maliciously, voted me "most likely to go insane".

The stream-of-consciousness self-dialog in some literature is a necessarily limited mapping of this mode of thinking to words. It's a hint of how I feel most people really think. Words and phrases are but one element of inner thought, and become paramount only when laying out written or verbal communications with others ... and even then, in live or recorded conversation, can be overshadowed by vocal quality and intonation, and non-verbal body-language.

EDIT: added high-school superlative ... and also, I'm INFP, if there's anything to that.
Truecaller does this for android
Stress and Health: From Molecules to Societies
That's not a very useful solution if I have to do it once for each spammer. You wouldn't accept that for e-mail.
Despite what other people think Snap suffers from, I see their stock as a great investment. It has the ability to gain quite well over the short term, regardless on how they turn out in the long term. Also, there is no denying they have a good grasp on the younger generation who doesn’t like fb or Instagram.
Pretty sad what you have to do to have a chance at getting a job these days. Is there any proof that this gets better employees? I haven't seen a shred of real scientific evidence. Is it anything more than corporate hazing?

You have to think that for each person hired probably 100 others spent months of their life preparing for the interview. What a massive waste of human effort.
A cup is 8 fl oz, so a typical mug is 1.5 to 2 cups.
A cup in the study is defined as 8oz of brewed coffee I believe.

If you are an espresso drinker, it’s worth mentioning that a cup of brewed coffee contains almost 50% more caffeine than a single shot espresso. So we are talking about roughly 2-4 double shot espresso coffees per day.
This is at Fidelity, right? You can still use the exact same investment options as when you were a Microsoft employee, you just can't add to the account. The Microsoft 401k has some of the lowest fee investment options out there, so when I left MS and analyzed my options, I decided to leave my money in there instead of rolling it over. Do you have a NetBenefits account for the website? If not, you'll have to call Fidelity, but they should be able to sort you out pretty easily.
Disney was never really interested in democracy. His admiration for fascism is pretty well-documented. He even escorted the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl around Hollywood:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/walt-the-quas...

Epcot was to be organized around more or less the same principles as European fascism.

Holding up his plans (or those of Gates) without questioning the fundamental morality of the vast inequality of wealth and power they represent is how America went so far off the rails in the first place.
That's a pretty strong up thing to say in light of child abuse grooming videos. Which is why I assume you say it ignorantly since you are nowhere near up to speed.
Uber’s new Asia chief wants to work with governments and taxi firms
I think it would be interesting to send someone down there with a camera to see what's accumulated in the last hundred and fifty years. Based on the comments there's at least one piece of wood and possibly a dead nun...
pinning while more reliable is not actually fully reliable. If you want reliable you should be checking in copies of your dependencies either directly or as sub modules. then if you want to upgrade you check in the latest. Pinning still allows the person in control of the 3rdparty repo to mess you up. Your reproducibility is still at their mercy.
i think this is the prize winning strategy. elegantly simple, almost amusing like a child turning a light switch on and off, with deadly purpose however.

Well actually, a lot depends on what the miners do when they are locked out.
You are of course entirely right. It may be worthwhile to email Siskind or Pearlmutter on the subject. I believe Siskind has a tradition of naming things after brutal dictators, so I imagine it's liable to not amount to much.

Might as well name your VR SDK Holodomor.
Actually they do - the combined Microsoft 401k fund is large enough that they can reduce fees compared to normal places. I think most of the indexes I am invested in were at something like 0.05% costs. It's similar to the benefit of Vanguard Admirals shares.
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That exists in lots of cities already.
Here’s an example,

This year I want a [blank] from Santa/father Christmas.....
This is absolutely a great idea. Great entrepreneurship combined with the govt. efforts will be beneficial for end customers
why not just check in your dependencies like Firefox or chromium or WebKit. with your proxy only people using your proxy get those benefits. with checkin everyone gets those benefits.
I really want to meet this intersection of people that "hate cities", yet hear about a Bill Gates venture in the Arizona desert with "80,000 residential units" and think: "Yep, that's me!"

Or, more broadly, my point to OP was: assuming we have perfect telecommuting and the era of the city is coming to an end: Why build a city??
Awesome, and I bet with pinning of contacts to home screen this could easily be used without ever touching the phone app. Also would be cool to use tasker to increase integration with multiple triggers or timeouts.