skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free for all: the psychology of pay-what-you-want cafes
Their hearts are probably in the right place, but I wonder if there's a more effective strategy than what they're suggesting; trying to teach teens about the dangers of tech via ads. That hasn't been a very effective strategy historically. If anything, it feels like it just produces the opposite desired effect.
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MIT launches new human and machine intelligence initiative – SD Times
Is there any trend currently for young people or new college grads to avoid these huge manipulative companies like Facebook or Google? I honestly have no idea, I haven't talked to a student or recent grad in awhile, but after the events of the past 24 months I wonder what a 20 year old pondering internships thinks about all this?

When I graduated in '98 the most "cool" thing was to work for the biggest name possible (so Microsoft or IBM at the time), but I imagine things have changed.
GCC command options for debugging: -Og and -g3
It's always fun to see what rich people do to find meaning.
Facebook and other social media platforms might be heading for the type of reckoning the fast food industry had in the late 90s and early 2000s.

http://marko.la/facebook-is-mcdonalds/
The bigger canals must be deeper. But I was also stunned how shallow they are. Good thing the gondolas ride high.
Critical thinking in software development
Maybe so, but that's no reason to post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16304411
Must feel nice to attack the gift horse. Such hypocrisy.
Try worse, removing ad-blockers from google store :)
And all of that work is already done for you in all modern major SPA frameworks.
TACC Releases Special Report on Artificial Intelligence
Multidiff: Binary data diffing for multiple objects or streams of data
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Is all about the click rate mate. Sensational titles = ad revenue. They purposely shorten it to make you more interested.
I'm interested in Reason/Buckle, coming myself from the ClojureScript.

The seemingly tinier minified compilation size would be a huge plus. But what are the actual sizes emitted for large scale projects (arguably the ones that matter most for static typing)? Anyone could share real-world experiences?

For reference: I know of cases where 60K lines of clojurescript (arguably equivalent to 150K lines JS) compile down to 5MB under advanced optimization mode.

(in case that scares you: well it's an actually large app. We should do route-based code splitting soon - easy/robust with clojurescript apparently)
Valve has ridiculously bad support. Some years ago I was trying to report a fairly serious security issue, they closed my ticket and instructed me to post on the forums instead.
Agreed. The old CERN website is pretty fast, but Gatsby actually loads subsequent pages much faster — hardly any discernible delay.
> Ads warning teens about the dangers of technology, that's definitely going to work.

That's a good point of course, but on HN if you make your point as a snarky dismissal, we get lousy discussion. So please don't do that. There's no point worth making that can't be made thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16304411

Edit: since the comment was edited (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16304414) I'll detach this bit and mark it off-topic.
Funny you mention it, I just started looking into rewriting my portfolio website (http://sdegutis.com) from a custom node-based static site generator to use Gatsby.js, in order to get more practice with React.js. Really curious to hear what other HN regulars who've used Gatsby think of it...
we have big plans for the exchange but right now we are trying to find out what a common retailer trader is looking for. Our goal is to open with wide range of Bitcoin/Altcoin trading pairs but Altcoin/Euro trading pairs are an important feature that we would like to have on a near future.
From the article, you get the clear impression that she had a complicated relationship with the sport: she was passionate about it, but afraid of it as well.

I can't help but wonder if she would have gotten closer to her goals if she had been able to see things in a less scary light -- by being taught and supported in a more positive way, or something like that. I guess it's down to who you are as a person, but attitudes can be developed in different ways.

I wonder if there is a distinction between top performers and mere mortals here -- that the top performers manage to find the love for what they are doing even under intense pressure? And, in that case, which way the causality goes...
Snarky dismissals aren't allowed here. Regardless of how right you are, you end up damaging the container of this community by posting this way. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Work is to do work and in the US you often times do not even know who the person one cube over voted for.

Then why do they have diversity training seminars and ask for feedback on the information received? He gave them feedback with his memo. Then he posted it to an internal board. They asked for feedback, wanted a conversation and he provided. Someone else released it to the public.

> but at work and multiple times even after told to stop

He was told to stop multiple times? Where is this from?
People are fleeing facebook in droves. Read last week's release. Something's gotta change, it's more of a debate as to what or how.
In remembering this issue I had, I made a frankenstein promise return object mimicking fetch's interface called "retch" but didn't publish it. It allowed progress and cancelling. It made me think would be nice to have a promise interface standard class you could inherit from where you could add sugar to it so the chain would remain consistent with your additional functionality. Anyhoo.
iNetID is the open, public, user-friendly Internet identity system
There seems to be a common misunderstanding here.

'Daemon' is just an alternate spelling of 'demon'. It's pronounced the same, means the same thing, and is simply the same word. Just as 'encyclopaedia' and 'encyclopedia' are the same word, or 'mediaeval' and 'medieval' are the same word.
I'm a pretty technical user, and I'm not sure how that would help me at all. What am I supposed to do with such a prompt?

A conference coordinator hands me a T3-HDMI adapter (as in the above scenario), I plug it in to my laptop, and it says "This device is requesting direct memory access. Allow Y/N?" My talk starts in an hour. Should I ask for the source code to the adapter firmware so I can do a quick audit?
What is wrong with Comic Sans? (2014)
Certainly not terrorism. The 70s were the height of the Troubles.
I remember some of the loops that we needed to go through to keep Steam working on a ship. Where personal PCs can stay airgapped from the Internet for 9 months to a year. Changing date (windows and bios), system rollbacks, and just about anything else. It was pretty terrible.

In theory offline mode is supposed to work, and does on Mac. But on Windows steam breaks itself eventually.
history?
arguably, since Enlightenment we've been gradually giving up on conservatism and an average person benefits from that.
Assuming their numbers are anything like the US, then definitely not violent crime. It has declined significantly since the 70s.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Looking at their website, they should really swap the landing page [0] with their "Problem" page [1] if they mean to communicate the strongest message they can about this issue. The landing page isn't as clear at what they're looking so solve.

I'd love for them to have a sort of "shop" to raise awareness. If I could just get my hands on some stickers, I'd be posting them around in public to point people to the /problem page.

[0] http://humanetech.com

[1] http://humanetech.com/problem
Exploiting modern microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, and other attacks [pdf]
Various traditions have their own systems of meditation. But broadly speaking, sitting practice involves not interfering with the contents of consciousness, while still being vividly awake to them. Then something we might call "the sheer fact of consciousness" becomes more salient, first during meditation sessions, then even in the midst of Times Square, and later even in sleep. Normally, we have such a tight association with the particulars of conscious experience that we cannot help but overlook the primary sense of being common to all of them.

I'm sorry if this all sounds like mystical mumbo-jumbo. Language is admittedly a big barrier here.
The biggest consequence of defeating aging is how people will work and will other people have jobs . We already see this happening now.

If you have a set of very experienced people that can perform their tasks why do you need to replace or fire them? Consider the job market with professors in math. Due to tenure you have a bunch of math professors that do extraordinary work. People who would have replaced them instead get non tenure track positions or go into other fields .

This is not to blame math professors that have jobs right now. Or the situation that grad students have in becoming professors.

It also has a weird effect where the social dogma stays for longer than would be if medical science wasn’t so good. I don’t know what the long term changes that will do.

To be honest if there wasn’t so much emphasis on people learning calculus math would have become like getting a
Philosophy degree.
It's easier to get it wrong than you might think. Sweden doesn't publish a specific "rules for work visas" document. That website is it, and it is not all inclusive. The only way to know all the rules of the visa are to read the actual laws (in Swedish, and in Swedish "legalese", so good luck to foreigners... the people who would need to know), and to read all of the relevant case law around it. On your first days in a country, you probably aren't perusing the rulings of their high courts.

In this guy's case, there is very relevant case law. Before March 2015 Migrationsverket applied the rules based on the average of your work visa period, 2 years. They would take your last 2 year's salary, divide by 24, and see if it's over 13,000 kr per month. After March 2015, following new case law, they started looking at each month individually and deporting if any specific month violated the rules.

Depending on when he did this, it is possible that if he asked a migration attorney for guidance they would have approved, and they would have been correct. The rules retroactively changed that year. It still would be just as likely to make the wrong decision after the court ruling, since migration court rulings aren't a particularly big topic of conversation for most people. Nobody really learned about it until deportations started skyrocketing in 2016.

I wrote a bit about the topic here: http://dontdeportthedog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Failu...
Blockchain and Bitcoin Publicly Traded Stocks with Drastic Business Pivots
what GP means is not that you are granted success if you keep trying. he/she is saying that the fun is in pursuing something beyond your abilities, knowing there is a good chance you will fail in the end.
I can’t find any super up-to-date info on the UK murder rate, but extrapolating trends from the early 2010s, it seems to be about the same as the 70s [1]. Deaths by Terrorism in the UK are way down [2], though if you care whether the people likely to kill you are Irish or Islamist, I suppose that’s you’re prerogative. No idea where to find data on adventure sports...

[1] https://mises.org/blog/gun-control-fails-what-happened-engla...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/com...
I understand that, that's why I'm saying that for list-type articles, HN should make it a rule that you have to put everything on the headline.
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You've lost most of the semantics by the time you're at LLVM bitcode, since the high-level abstractions have been lowered into a basic for.

Rust's type system provides memory and race safety, but those details are lost at a lower level. It's very hard to analyze data races at the assembly level!
McDonalds is still a viable business. When Facebook goes, it will evaporate like MySpace did. And not a moment too soon.
Absolutely. When will governments (EU?) step the hell up and regulate this huge part of our lives?
> it's UNETHICAL to discriminate in the name of diversity.

I think Amazon disagrees with you. They include this in their job postings:

>Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

I don't think you can be both equal opportunity and affirmative action at the same time.
I used it actually because I love react but needed to work with a great designer who already knew sass and I needed to include react components but also wanted to hook it up with a cms too. Check check check... keeps going and produces a static site. Wow. Even the designer could use this and modify things for simple components, not knowing react. I'm pretty happy so far.
Nope. There are higher fidelity maps. You should read about robotics.

It's true these maps don't exist for the whole world yet but it's also why all sdc companies are launching in metros. They're building them.

Vision is good at recognition but bad at localization. This is the real problem. In robotics a fundamental problem is SLAM. You should read about it.
It depends on the cost of a defect. A language used for aircraft control software is going to have much stricter requirements for static analysis that a language used to create a website with cute pictures of kittens — even if happens to be the very same language.
Calling out for highly trained secretaries to do the doctors typing is really a strawman.

As a patient I don't really care of the quality of the bureaucratic output if the case is one-shot - which most
are. So in that instance they could have a drunk monkey punching the computer. What I do care about, is that the doctor could see more of these one-shot patients and just forget the damn computer.

The value the records add, is providing a long term storage for my current diagnostic case. Once the issue passes, the value of those records plunges to zero.

Calling whatever it is, 80/20 principle, tipping point management - not everything needs to have 0.999999 level of certainty. In the one-shot bureaucratic typist thingie 0.9 would suffice. Once the medical issue becomes more prolonged and difficult, added care in the papers section will start to add value (as patient information is logged and tracked, and so on).

On the other hand, since this is a medical setting and we insist training on the secretary, the secretary could add immense value, by just going through the checklists the doctor really does not remember to do. The constantly recurring problem when getting medication is the doctors checking for incompatibilities with the patients physical condition and other medication. From my experience, if there is any underlying condition they screw it up half the time. As an example is a relative of mine with nut allergy and some ongoing medication - the stuff this persons gets described half the time has bad outcomes when combined with either of them. So in this instance the only valuable outcome would have been applicable medicine, and since that was screwed up, the value of output is zero, and the amount of resources used is... non-trivial at least.

Hospitals have solved this by having nurses following in the doctors footsteps with procedure specific checklists - and this saves lives. http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/7/08-010708/en/
I recently started blogging again, and I chose to go with a static site generator. It's fast, really fast. Loading a whole page with each click is so much faster than visiting most of the sites I visit each day.

I'll never get why we collectively decided that it's reasonable to grant every random website in the world execute permissions on our machines.
This reply is already more substantive than a mere "That's sad", which may or may not have any thought behind it. If you fleshed it out a bit more into a thoughtful point, you'd have a good HN comment.

Merely stating an opinion doesn't count as substantive. There needs to be something to interest the reader.
One of the problem is Apple has been following its rule of Asset less. Since Steve came back, do not own manufacturing, do not own x, do not own y. The less asset the better. The reason were simple, Apple wanted to stay slim and agile. It was the reason why Apple was so late into Datacenter, they kept using the cloud until it was unbearable. They were late to CDN, they kept on using Akamai. But today's Apple isn't the same any more, and I argue Apple should be adding more asset, like CDN, DC, and its own Fibre.

Apple Stores: I think Apple should own more of those Stores property outright. It should aims to have key location or % of Apple Store to be an Apple asset. I just dont like the idea of paying rent. I know many argues paying rent gives you flexibility, but I think we are at a time where Apple could own half of those Stores as base numbers. Not to mention the Apple Stores opened Internationally is still far too low.

Wallet: That is like being neglected, membership card, license, Bank ATM Card, shouldn't Apple be providing solution to get rid of these.

iPhone as a Services: Or basically rolling out iPhone upgrade programme internationally, and add free iCloud Backup to it. This will need a pile of cash in the bank since revenue are now spread out.

TV and Router. I dont trust the current selection of Router for its software quality. And Apple should make a TV Set.

Gaming: Forget about Apple's Services or App Store revenue. Because most of those are revenue from Gaming. And yet Apple doesn't care about games on mac.

Maps: Maps in Japan is shit, Maps in South East Asia is shit. Maps in China is ok only because the data are from government.

Homekit: What happen to it?

iTunes: Rewrite it or dump it.

Time Capsule for iOS: Not everyone has decent Internet connection, or fast connection for iCloud. We need a simple solution that doesn't require a computer.

So you ask none of these are really new. I dont need anything new. I need Apple to stop making those pile of crap that they left behind. Start making those things great again. Apple Music in Japan is a complete pile of bloody mess. And they now are working on TV series.

It is NOT Good enough.
This reminds me of the thread where Geoffrey Hinton is wrongly described as laboring in the wilderness in promoting his ideas. Neural net's star has fallen and risen over the years but it always was a mainstream approach. In contrast, despite his fame as a mainstream explainer of CS, Hofstadter's approach has never gotten more than a few nibbles from researchers broadly and I think it's effectively only being pursued now by a dozen or less people who were direct student of his. I think that's a shame but what do I know?
What isn't a high-performance DSL?
Over 90% of my web browsing is done with JavaScript turned off. When I hit an spa blog I sometimes read it, sometimes not. Clearly if the owner of the blog is so insensitive as to make it an spa, they don't care about the content and especially don't care about their readers. That's fine. There's plenty of other content on the web to read. I don't understand why it's normal to let strangers run code on my computer. Yes, the masses are ignorant of the consequences, but I think that's slowly going away as me generations grow up with the internet. Anyway, the upside is that over 90% of web pages I visit load under a second. Imo, people who make their blog, marketing site, etc. an spa blindly don't care about their content, presentation, or the reader. Why would the reader care about them?
> “The largest supercomputers in the world are inside of two companies — Google and Facebook — and where are we pointing them?” Mr. Harris said. “We’re pointing them at people’s brains, at children.”

I'm not sure if I should be concerned that the leader of this initiative is wrong about something so trivial.

https://www.top500.org/lists/2017/11/
I think the pattern where the comments usually disagree with the article is healthy. It's a point-counterpoint argument structure, where the odd layers in the tree are arguing opposite to the even layers.

The article makes its case, the first comments make the case that was missing from the article, the replies make the case missing from them... and so on.
Even though you don't work on Office, I wonder if you might have some insight into why Microsoft seems to be largely ignoring two of their biggest strategic advantages: the desktop and Microsoft Office.

I've done years of VBA programming in Excel, struggling to make that horribly weak language do things it was never designed to do. I've just started working with Python, but more specifically pandas. How I got this far in life and never picked it up is beyond me, but now that I finally have, it almost makes me want to cry how powerful and filled with plain old common sense it is. So far, things are pretty much exactly how one would expect them to be in a non-insane world - if you need to do something, it is almost surely there, and likely very close to the form you'd expect it in. Just wonderful software.

With the battle now moving to the cloud, and Amazon being the biggest competitor Microsoft has seen in ages, why is Microsoft mostly just competing in the cloud, rather than competing there and bringing the desktop toolset into the 21st century with seamless integration with the cloud? Why can't I do something equivalent to Jupyter notebooks in Excel, including using Python as the language?

It just seems extremely short sighted to me, but I never hear it discussed anywhere. Does the topic ever come up at Microsoft?
Please don't post snarky dismissals here. Not cool, and you can make your substantive points without casting them that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
it really isn't given it is the BBC

the content is aimed at a UK audience, and there's no ads if you're in the UK
Solitaire and minesweeper both shipped with Windows since the early days, and I hate to break it to you, but Microsoft is mainstream.
Correct. If a process is waiting on a recv()/send() (or any other non-asynchronous IO syscall on Linux), the userspace process will go into (un)interruptible sleep and another process can be scheduled in it's place. When data is ready to process (or a signal needs to be delivered) the original process will be scheduled again and the syscall will return. It would be absurd for the CPU to busy wait on data.

And if the language you're choosing is a slow interpreted language like PHP then I'm fairly sure the context switch overhead is negligible.
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I submitted this because of the Hinton thread...
you're lucky to have a life where you get to do that. but do you have subordinates?

people with a lot of autonomy are harmed less by long hours and stress. i mean quite literally, if everybody is working 70-100 hours under intense pressure, the boss will experience fewer mental and physical health problems.

keep this in mind if there are people lower on the pyramid than you. what you yourself are willing to do might be quite harmful to them, not to mention the reward they get might be far less.
As if we've ever had control of "Climate Change".