skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun story, my wife and I had bat bugs at an apartment several years ago - they look identical the naked eye and the panic that sets in when you see them is real! An entomologist or even just someone who knows what they're looking for with a microscope can accurately identify them separately from bed bugs by the tiny hairs on their thorax.
Luckily bat bugs aren't NEARLY the pest that bed bugs are - they really only like to eat bat blood and typically only show up when there are bats around, finding their way haphazardly toward anything else when bats are unavailable for food.

This also means that I'm acutely aware that number 4 was the right answer.
That depends on your provider; on my side, data caps have gone up a lot or have been lifted completely during the 4G era.
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Your list of straw-men is incredible. I'm certain I can find active criticism from Silicon Valley regarding all of those topics.
> Is there empirical data showing this is happens more often in restricted models?

Are you asking for studies? How would you even rigorously define the hypothesis?

> SAT is NP-complete, which is [...] much easier than even verification of FSMs (PSPACE-complete).

So? How does that invalidate my example?

> The beauty of SAT solvers is that they require no such semantic approximations, and appear to work on arbitrarily difficult problems (except when they don't). So far, they work by magic -- we don't know why they're so effective in practice.

But that's the point! For real-world problem instances, you'll find that automatically SAT solving a CNF model works much better than applying an automatic theorem prover to the C program that generated the CNF model. That's because in practice, it's easier to design heuristics that work on a propositional formula than it is to design heuristics that work on CNF-generating C programs. If that were not true, then we wouldn't need SAT solver – we'd just run the automatic theorem provers on the C programs that generate the CNF model.

> I don't see a particularly good reason (and I haven't encountered any research to that effect) for how to make such "good" instances more likely using some restricted language.

And yet it works extremely well in the case of the CNF-generating program vs. SAT solving the generated CNF model. That is a pretty strong argument, you cannot just dismiss it because PSPACE harder then NP.
I have most of the symptoms described by the OP, including a severe difficulty focusing on movies/books.

For me, it's basically that my mind wonders if I'm not very interested. It's my mind's default mode of operation that I think about everything related to the thing I just thought about. Comes in very handy when programming, but is kind of annoying when trying to get through some mediocre material.

Something worth noting is that my focusability seems directly based on how interested I am, not how action-packed something is. For example I have no problems watching the 1981 German classic Das Boot, where people just sit in a submarine for 3 hours. However something that is popularly belived to be made for ADHD people like The Transformers is excruciating for me even though there's so much going on visually every second.

Stimulants like Adderall make me even more focused on things I could focus on already sober, but also make me even less focused on things I don't care about. So basically just intensifying my natural tendendices, as opposed to changing them.
I suspect arkh's point is something like the following (as made in an article I can't locate at the moment, from about 20 years ago):

1) There are multiple fields available for new entrants to the labor force to pick from.

2) Some of these have better working conditions than others.

3) Women tend to be a bit more mature than men at the age at which one picks a career and are more likely to consider working conditions when doing so.

This has nothing to do with whether people are caring that someone is screwing someone else or not per se. What it does mean is that improving working conditions in some fields would likely draw more women in, if the above theory is correct. I have no opinion on the theory itself.
Windows 10 didn't undo anything. All old programs run fine on it. God forbid a large company try something daring.
Could IPv4 address exhaustion be staved by opening some of the currently unused /8 blocks? For instance, Apple has the entire 17.0.0.0/8 block. If IPv4 addresses are really becoming scarce and demand is going up, seems like Apple could dole out /24 or /16 bit blocks to RIRs and make some money - which they obviously like to do. So why aren't they doing it? Maybe someone more familiar with the economics of IP has an idea.
"Having the stomach" has nothing to do with "taking the rules seriously".

> it’s stultifying and boring and predictable and tiring

I agree. Anything becomes boring when repeated enough times, like once a week in this case. That's why I wanted to move on from talking about laws that will never happen, towards trying to understand what a gun advocate feels when this sort of thing happens. It's interesting from a psychological perspective.
It's that the kind of client you want? One that comes takes 10 billions $ a year worth of GPU (6 x 1.7) for only a single day. All that to give you bad PR afterward because that crashed the market of a popular cryptocurrency?

Sure 23 millions seems fun, but handling that many GPU is expensive and if they doesn't have differents markets to support that usage, it's a big loss to them (and if they actually have the market, then, that single 23 millions isn't worth much either).
Should have launched a '59 Corvette, playing "Radar Rider"
I don't know if you're going to see this, but I feel the need to defend myself. Sorry about going on a tangent here, but I have no other way of doing this.

Here's what happened. Somebody posted a link to a PhD thesis in mathematics which was not at all written in the style in which math PhD these are written. Somebody else commented that this is great all math PhD these should be written like that. Then, I pointed out that the author of this thesis (a black woman), wrote a piece on a blog of the American Mathematical Society website saying that all the white male in the math departments in the USA are the problem, she wants them out and they should all resign.

Then various people started down-voting and attacking me. I replied to their attacks and defended myself. This amounted to "ideological war" according to some moderator. Also, since I did not use this account for making lots of comments, it appeared to the moderator that this account was created to primarily to start flamewars. The people who attacked me in a very nasty and personal way did not suffer any consequences since they had more comments hence their accounts looked more legitimate.

So yes, I feel like I've been the victim of an injustice.
15 years in I have built systems from scratch and done menial janitor work. I don't think its fair to say that that it isn't complex, some shitty work can be really complex due to subtleties and it would take someone with a fair bit of experience to fix. If it was so easy there wouldn't be a shortage of tech workers and our wages would be way lower.
I had bed bugs in a room I had in the UK as a student. The previous occupants were from Mexico. They were so unheard of at the time that I had to bring live specimens with me to the city hall to prove the infestation because they couldn't find the usual signs. Even the blood on the wall where I squashed one of them wasn't enough to convince them (the bugs become quite "stupid" after feeding and do things like aimlessly climb the wall). So yeah, I'll never forget what they look like either.
I believe the answer to that is sometime in the year 2091
source : https://www.outerplaces.com/science/item/17804-elon-musk-tes...
Ah. Different use of designing a game - I was thinking more like a D&D campaign. I suppose it shows my affiliation: tabletop RPGs instead of board games ;) I can certainly see how that would be useful for your case.
I agree here, but I’d go further; build things people want, not the idealistic future some day version where we eventually get to a priority feature for a lot of people like releasing fast scalable software quickly (I’m not saying Rethink didn’t do this but they prioritised correctness and sharding, features fewer people need). For most apps built with Mongo this transaction support isn’t a problem (until it is).
You can only read memory that is mapped in the address space of vulnerable processes with Spectre. Usually, that is only memory from the current process and maybe a small bit of shared memory (and code segments of shared libraries, but those don't contain any interesting secrets). So while you can read memory from other processes, those processes need to be vulnerable and you cannot read memory from processes that applied mitigation.
> Diversity of opinion

What other type of diversity is there? Any other kind is simply superficial and irrelevant.

> Not all opinions are equally informed, or equally valid

A trite point used to justify intolerance. No opinions should be censored.
You make a statement decrying the politicization of comments directly after making a sweeping incorrect generalization about conservatives?

Owning a firearm is not some prerequisite for being a member of a political party. There are large numbers of conservatives that do not own firearms and do not care about firearms ownership. It may surprise you that there are also large numbers of people who are socially liberal who own firearms, such as myself. None of us are ok with school shootings. I am perfectly willing to have rational conversations about the merits of responsible gun ownership with people who are capable of having that conversation, but that has nothing to do with the issue at hand here.
Yeah, I'm not sure why we have to take the approach of crapping on one or the other. I happen to think things like construction are probably pretty complicated too.
They don't effect people who live in modern houses and they don't (typically) carry Chagas in the US.
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Also they've been known to live for up to a year without feeding.
yes, does the OP feel the same about the percentage of males females in jail?
So far in my life I've seen quite a few extremely anti-LGBT republicans end up getting caught with their pants down with another man (or young boy).
Just sleep in a clean room with solid walls/roof (like most urban rooms) and you'll be safe from kissing bugs.
Billionaires buying the justice needed to wipe out a major news outlet... in secret...

This is an argument where people who feel differently about "money as free speech" tend to have wildly divergent opinions. I find it quite alarming that billionaires have the power to squelch the free press.
Happiness as a function of money/power/etc is a logarithmic function. Given that there is a finite amount of these things to distribute among a given number of people, the distribution that will maximize total happiness of the population is one where everyone is equal. That isn't theory, that's fact, with mountains of evidence.

Marxism is the strawman that the right wheels out to try and push back against policies that encourage equality. Equality doesn't equal marxism, proving marxism won't work doesn't prove that policies for equality won't work.

One point I concede to conservatives is that being too strict about equality dampens personal autonomy (which is very important to happiness) and reduces incentives to innovate. A balance must be found. I should note that happiness from autonomy follows an inverted U curve, where too much autonomy (e.g. too many choices) causes just as much unhappiness as too little. Additionally, many extremely wealthy people don't spend in proportion to their earnings, the money is just their score in the game of capitalism, so redistributing more of their earnings doesn't materially affect them as long as you are doing the same thing to their competitors. Based on these facts, I believe that the autonomy/equality balance is currently very sub-optimal in terms of happiness.
"Inheritance anomaly" is something else. It refers to the combination of inheritance and concurrency not working out well together.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=968159
Nothing of what you listed has anything to do with conservatism, really. It's just as easy to come up with a list of terrible (even if they don't think so, of course) things far left believes in as for far right.
You seem to be distracted. To return to the central point, not all opinion is equally informed or equally valid.
It's potentially worth noting that both those statements should be past tense, not present.

My understanding of the apartheid thing was he said something in college that someone else heard and remembered for many years. I think that 1. People say stupid stuff in college, and 2. Thiel could have easily said something in an exploratory philosophical kind of way without fully believing it.

He has denied the apartheid comments and apologized for the rape comments. I'm not saying this should get him off scot-free, it just seemed important to note that he doesn't currently say these things, publicly at least.
A couple of years ago I would have written this kind of thing off as anti-M$ shilling, but the passive-aggressive authoritarianism if 10 had changed my mind. How has computing gotten so bad that most general purpose machines have an actively harmful, much hated OS forced onto them?
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3G technologies used CDMA while LTE uses OFDM so it is a different way of encoding. However, wireless carriers in the US have often increased their number of cell sites substantially - possibly doubling. The amount of spectrum that carriers have has increased substantially - again, more than doubling in some cases. Plus, with the rise of data, consumers now have a way of testing the quality of their link (ie. a speed test) so it's easier to verify under-performing phones. That probably has an impact on device manufacturers. LTE's decreased latency can also make it seem more reliable. Slow ping times mean that downloading a web page can become tedious and seem like it's not working as a script blocks and you're waiting on a 400ms round-trip between the 3G network and getting to the server. Even things like the rise of cheap CDNs like CloudFlare mean that more content is located near you.

5G NR is still OFDM based.
> No I meant straight up paying for services through money, not selling yourself as a product.

Ah, gotcha. TBF, most of the discussion around this is about replacing ad-funded models with browser-based mining, not replacing direct payments.

> I don't pay for some services I otherwise would is because the payment process is very clunky or downright broken.

This is a great reason to look harder at in-browser mining.

Electrical utilities have far lower payment processing costs than SAAS payment providers like Stripe. They also provide a way of aggregating many microtransactions in a way that credit-card networks actively try to prevent.
I found this illuminating. I like that the author took a step by step approach and made their points clear. Kudos.
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What I'm going to say is not at all against your girlfriend, but I find amazing that you could buy pantyhoses for 1$ that are single use. The amount of waste must be staggering.
Unless data plans increase alongside this, it just means most people will just reach their caps dramatically quicker. At least for me, speed isn't currently the big limiting factor; the data cap is.
> Whatever is holding women's participation in our field at or below twenty percent is artificial, and a travesty.

It is not artificial at all. Women notice early that it is a hard field with little respect for the practitioners, so they move elsewhere.

Men catch on to these things when they are 30 and see that the HR drone who moves from one web app to the next in order to create some activity gets more credit than persons fixing kernel bugs.
Interesting:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22566141
How about actual open mindedness, grace, and rational discourse? Everything doesn't have to be about rules and legislation. Let people be wrong but still humans sometimes.

Sometimes is feels like we're in a neopuritan age, complete with analogs to The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter, but the new sins are sins of thought and speech, not the occult or sex.
How about the annoying bugs in the widget toolkit used for the start menu and control panel?
I'm not sure why it seems so revelatory to people that there are some opinions you don't get to express out loud without consequence, even if you're asked about them.

If my boss says, "Hey deong, what do you think about black people?", that's not a get-out-of-jail-free card for me to start dropping n-bombs. There's one answer you're allowed to give to that question, and it's not because there's some conspiracy to oppress dissenting opinions. It's because there are extremely reasonable standards for employment that include not shouting racial epithets and white supremacist propaganda. Being asked your opinion doesn't change the rules.

Damore was certainly less inflammatory than that, but the point remains. You can argue that his opinions didn't warrant firing, but there's no reasonable way to argue that because he was responding to requests for comment, it's unethical or otherwise shady to hold him accountable for those comments.
IIRC they did patent it to use as a threat against trolls, but promise never to enforce it against fair users.
So, a legging ? I agree that it would be nice. Specially for the sports market
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Racism and Nazism are guaranteed a voice by the Constitution. Good or bad, we need to respect the importance of free speech in our country. What a Nazi says can't hurt you, and if what they say can hurt you (e.g. inciting violence or hate crimes), it's likely illegal.

I'm a conservative for socialized healthcare. I think that it's a strong moral good with high social utility. But I think it should be something managed at the state level, because I think my state tends to do a better job with social programs than the federal government.

The national parks service was created by a conservative. Being a greedy, bought and paid for capitalist has nothing to do with being conservative. I'm very much in favor of defending our wildlife and using our global political capital to make the world a better place to live.

I don't care what you look like or who you marry. Women are mostly equal right now, and will continue to be more equal over time. Lets focus on groups that are actually disenfranchised, like African American men.

Your comment was very insulting to me, as someone who considers themselves a conservative. We aren't a caricature of bible thumping, gun-toting, minority hating, woman hating mongrels. We have the same needs and values as anyone else in life, simply different priorities.
While this theory makes sense, I find a rather large issue with it.

The basis for this argument is that both boys and girls are equally likely at birth to go into a given field. As they grow society gives cues to them that X is for boys and Y is for girls. These cues end up shaping preference and explain the large difference we see in the ratio of boys/girls in X. The issue I have with this theory is that it shouldn't apply only to STEM, it should work for all fields. Thus if instead of STEM we say Law or Finance or Medicine have cues then that should mess with the ratios there.

If you go back several decades the ratio of men/women in Engineering, Law, Finance, and Medicine were all equally low. As time moved on the ratios improved in Law, Finance, and Medicine but not in Engineering/STEM. If you want to claim cues as a major factor in the current STEM ratio you have to explain either

1) why unchanging cultural cues were not the reason for the improvement in Law/Finance/Medicine but still negatively affected STEM
or
2) why the cultural cues when away for the other fields and not STEM

I haven't been able to find an answer to either of those points and so I think that while some cultural cues exist, it isn't the main reason for the ratio differences and doesn't need to be address to fix the issue.
You can also search YouTube for "Java Puzzlers" for a few talks by Josh Bloch (the author) where he goes through more puzzlers.
Is Milo a white nationalist? I always thought he was just the Breitbart court jester. In any case, I don't agree with just discarding nuance in these discussions; "fully enlightened" could mean anything from his libertarianism to his support of Trump as a candidate.

Unless Thiel, or anyone else really, comes out with some statement on the superiority of whites or the need to get rid of non-whites, let's desist from rushing to slap these labels on them.
Still no one is willing to name the beliefs that 'you just can't say.' In McCarthyism it was communist/socialist beliefs. What political beliefs can't you espouse in public without being shunned? For Thiel it's probably the pro-authoritarian/pseudo-monarchist beliefs of the neo-reaction guys he runs around with. Gotta be honest, I don't mind those being shunned.
1. Discussing the economic effects of apartheid seems totally ok. In the 40 year old "quote", he seemed to separate the moral issues of apartheid and he just thought it was economically beneficial. Lots of things can be immoral but make money! It does perhaps show a lack of social intelligence in how he discussed it, but he was presumably ~18-20, this was 40 years ago, and a lack of social intelligence doesn't make someone a bad person.

2. He didn't say rape is made up! Certainly in theory rape can be either too broadly defined or too narrowly defined. Have certain situations moved toward too broad a definition? Thiel thinks so.

I have no idea if rape has or hasn't been too broadly defined, but seems a reasonable enough position to be part of the discussion.
Wonder if existing merchants are switching or if there's a lot of new merchants.
I am too. I own an AR15. Sad, and looking at the comments was right, that this particular post not going to provide a beneficial discuss on any topic defined as good by the site guidelines. There are comments that say that conservatism needs to be eradicated. Why is that HN appropriate?
If it's a capacity issue, it doesn't matter how fast your phone can connect to the tower, the issue is connecting the tower to the rest of the internet.
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In english 'Doctor' is a word that at one time exclusively did refer only to males. A word used for females was 'Doctress'

http://doctordoctress.org
Good call, but I'm a bit confused how that would increase engagement, unlike the other patterns here.
I'm genuinely hoping that it puts ISPs in a bad position to have no dominance in the market.

I've been under a "provider" who caps out at 10Mbps with, sadly, about 40% uptime with our neighborhood for about 5 years (constant outages. On a first name/you've got my phone number basis with the contracted technician, as is quite a few people in the neighborhood). I joined the board to get out of it. We're due to get out of it at the end of March, but Spectrum has zero interest of coming in and servicing people. CenturyLink said they'd be willing... but want a 5-7 year contract and everyone in the neighborhood is understandably against that idea.

So yes, bring on the time when mobile bandwidth is such that low caps aren't "needed" and the speed is high enough to get rid of ISPs as an option.