skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 12 years ago, some colleagues (Yehuda Koren and Chris Volinsky) and I proposed a technique for measuring proximity in quasi-random (social) networks, that can handle out-of-memory databases, and more than two query nodes, also finds a visualizable subgraph that represents as much of the relationship as possible using dynamic programming. It is described here (includes some figures): http://web2.research.att.com/export/sites/att_labs/groups/in... The proposed heuristic approximates the "cycle-free effective [electrical] conductance" between the query nodes. In this paper, we were able to use anonymized phone calls to confirm 6 degrees of separation.

There used to be a live demo on an AT&T Labs website but it is not available now. There are published algorithms for all the phases of the proposed heuristic, but my recollection is that Yehuda found an efficient, robust implementation of k-disjoint-shortest-paths was not easy.

This is an interesting problem, thank you for making your work available. (I do agree the HTML form placeholders that change rapidly but are ignored when you press the GO button are a little confusing; it took me a minute or two to figure out what was going on.)
This is really what I feel to some degree. The place you live at matters a lot. But even with 32 I haven't found mine yet. I feel I'm much closer (not in kilometers but in closeness to how I want to be as a person) but still some way to go. And this is really tiring, because moving to another town, making new friends, learning the local work network, learning the cultural nuances that nobody seems to notice until you fail applying one, getting used to a new apartment where the toilet seat is slightly higher and the shower water is "just right" with another setting you don't know yet. It takes a lot from one's life and happiness, and I slowly start to wonder at which point I might reach "good enough" and just stick to it.
this project does not work out of the box via npm install. seems like you have to get all babel.js with it and maybe use a typescript executor like ts-node

ES2015 imports took javascript back to 2008, before node and npm made it awesome.

use NPM and require if you are building tools for other people, that way they can implement your work without adding compilers and obscure configurations to their build. don't nobody want to use be forced to use alternative and backwards incompatible technology

use typescript and import for "business logic"
I haven't kept up with their progress, but looking today I see they're on the 2nd rev of the hardware now, which I take as a positive sign that they're still plugging away.

https://mycroft.ai/

You can even go grab a docker image to try it out before buying the hardware.

I'd love to buy one as I love the idea of a device like this that serves me, not the manufacturer. The main thing stopping me is in line with other comments in general: After a few days, when the novelty wears off, I'll have no use for it.
"It depends"

As someone who has gone through this for some 20 yrs, it's usually a faster commute to travel from Hoboken to pretty much anywhere along/south of the PATH line during peak hours (so 34th down to the southern tip of Manhattan) versus a starting point of the UES/UWS (which is where the comparable housing exists).

My commute from Hoboken to various startup locations in NYC was consistently ~45 minutes door to door, versus an hour for my friends on the UES/UWS.
Just adding "Could you" to the start (and change first sentence's . to ?) would make a world of difference
That's a southern thing in general. Brunch is probably the most common way I hang out/see friends over any other time.
Holy cow, these blog posts are everything I've been trying to say about OOP but never been able to put into succinct examples and explain clearly... and then some more. Thanks so much for sharing this (and to him for writing). Now I can finally point people somewhere instead of just getting a blank stare back when I tell them OOP is hard.
Thanks! Makes me wonder why those links were in there in the first place...
It may be better as ShowHN rather than a single article. But it was a great read.
It's more funny than condescending.
Bitcoin mining = "Guess a random number between 1 and 5"

If the network guesses too fast due to more cumulative guesses per second, the target number increases.

Interesting historical antidote, in early November of 2017 there was an event where it became more profitable to mine Bitcoin Cash. During that time about 60% of the miners left BTC Core in unison to focus on BTC Cash. Transactions for BTC Core started taking upwards two to three times as long as there wasn't enough hash power to guess the magic number in time.

Eventually the miners returned to mine BTC core and transaction times returned to normal, other than the backlog in the memory pool that built up during that period.
I don't know why the title of the submission has been changed. It's not only the code, a PDF of the book is in the repository, too.
Maybe I'm the crazy one here, but giving plugin authors a single month to get updates out to support webpack 4 was a really irresponsible way of releasing this. When people kvetch about what a shitshow the javascript scene is, this is exactly the kind of thing they're talking about.
Bringing GPUs to Bear on Bog Standard Relational Databases
Our brains are built to forget so anything that's considered unimportant is likely to be forgotten. A perfect example is why we can enjoy the same TV shows many many times, not just once. With video or film, we are saturated with information, there's no way we can capture everything we see and hear and even what's capture is quickly forgotten since it's mostly unimportant. With books, most of us read books at a very comfortable place and pace. Also, we read at relatively fast pace vs our ability to analyze so we understand but don't send the knowledge to our long-term memory. At best we can give a fast summary of what was read, something like a 300 pg book into a few paragraphs- even if we re-read a book. So, in essence, we read for entertainment, not education or recall.

The only way to fight forgetfulness is to slow down and analyze, summarise and recall. Start thinking in terms of book reports. Another possibility is to read many books on the same subject but even then you have to fight the urge to ignore something because you think you know it.

Reading for education and recall is not a given you have to work at it.
It’s awesome in the most literal sense of the word that someone wrote a 300-page book on this topic and just put it online for anyone to read for free. I hope I can contribute at this level at some point.
I've never been diagnosed with autism, and if I am on the spectrum it is only barely, but I'm pretty sure all people experience the "can't fall asleep because thinking about embarrassing social-interaction" phenomenon. What might differentiate neurotypical from autistic people in this regard is the sheer amount of information that they are able to glean from a social interaction. That is, a neurotypical person will remember body language, facial cues, and coded language (e.g. "oh.. that's interesting...") as being significant parts of that social interaction to a greater extent than people on the spectrum.
ITER will only be able to run at full power for a few weeks before its materials reach their radiation damage limits, so trying to use its heat output would not make any sense. And unless they can get disruptions well under control on non-tritium shots, it will never be allowed to do any DT runs.
Some new ideas for AI benchmarks in vision
One challenge with Wikipedia data I've struggled with over the years is that knowledge graph and interest graph don't directly overlap. Cancer is about as closely related to Healthcare as Horse is to Astronaut (stronger ties, but same distance).
I would like to see how this particular question changes in the next year to see if a wave of expertise hits or is about to hit:

"""

I've used Go for: (single choice)

- 686 (11%) Less than 3 months

- 1,588 (26%) 3 - 12 months

- 1,338 (21%) 13 - 24 months

- 1,678 (27%) 2 - 4 years

- 809 (13%) 4+ years

- 102  (2%) I've never used Go

- 25  (0%) No response

"""
The first L&L book is what I'm thinking of: It's actually pretty manageable. I'm talking out of my ass beyond here in the series, I don't have any others in physical form so I've read bits of QM and The classical theory of fields

The downside to them is that they don't come into contact with the "mathematical" physics side e.g. Treatment of Lagrangian/Hamiltonian formalism through differential geometry.
the books are incredible. the lingering sense of dread that is evoked through VanderMeer's writing can't be beat!

i'm still going to see the movie, however. ;)
I don't think the question is poorly stated, and all of your questions miss the interesting bit of this one, which is that you are more likely to randomly select a long interval rather than a short one.
Which version and OS? It renders correctly for me on the Developer Edition on OS X.
It may be obvious to you but it's very hard to see this without a fair bit of experience.
Book a Taxi Online
Most people I work with don't know that I don't take stimulants. In fact, it only ever comes up when I decline coffee from someone. I rarely ever mention it, and I hope my post did not come across as sanctimonious. Let me know if and how it did, so I can be more clear in the future. I just wanted to state my preference and reasoning.
Looking at the background of the current residents, I'd it looks more similar to a postdoctoral research position. Not sure whether it's intentional or a byproduct of the high degree of competition, but one likely needs Masters or PhD to get in.

But comparing these program with my current postdoc position (and grad school): The experience in these AI residency programs is probably more practical and less academic, and it probably pays more.

If you're a top-notch candidate coming out of college, I'd say why not try applying? You can always get a Masters degree and try applying again :)
BCH is frequently more profitable than BTC -- the mining power constantly oscillates between the two.

Checkout fork.lol which tracks DARI, an estimate of the profitability of mining the coin, you see how the more profitable one frequently switches:

https://fork.lol/reward/dari/btc
There are autodidacts who can go a long way with a big library (or nowadays: sci-hub, b-ok, MOOCs) and their own self-directed study. But if you haven't started on that path before finishing high school, it seems extremely risky to assume that you can start doing it instead of attending a university. Further, if you're already self-motivated and learning on your own, you're probably going to have a lot of (intellectual) fun attending one of the more rigorous institutions, learn faster with access to proper labs for experimental sciences, and fill in gaps that you might have tended to neglect with pure self-study. The credential will also be a big help later whether you want to go on deeper into research or find an "ordinary" full time job afterward. (College degrees are still economically worth it for those who complete the degree. If you can learn degree-material on your own you aren't going to be one of those sad cases who takes on student loan debt without graduating.)

I hated school before I reached the university level. I maintained good grades but I was usually bored and learned most interesting things on my own. A university was the first place I found a majority of fellow students who were straining forward to learn due to interest in what they were learning. It makes the experience far different from being with people who are just being goaded forward by a teacher or evaluating everything in light of "will this be on the test?"
Wil Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels
After 5 years, I learned how to say "No," to marketing and managers and people who thought something was a good idea, even if they outranked me. Before then, I felt it was my job to say yes to everything and make it happen. (This was also the phase of my career when I once put in a 108-hour work week.) What gets better at this point, is you see problems coming earlier. What gets worse is the disillusionment that comes from realizing not everyone knows what they're talking about.

After 10 years, I learned how to manage people and projects. I don't think it's possible to do this well until you've had at least one excellent boss, one terrible boss, one successful big project, and one failed big project. What gets better is understanding and being able to handle the bigger picture. What gets worse is that you become responsible for things that you don't really have control over.

After 15 years, I learned how to choose the right technologies for a project. I think you begin to get good at this once you've made a few technology decisions and seen how they turn out five or so years later. What gets better is the satisfaction from seeing, understanding, and using long-term patterns in software development. What gets worse is the frustration of seeing people reinventing the wheel or making the same mistakes that you made 15 years earlier.
A few San Francisco companies seem to be doing this already: Grand Rounds, Amino, and to a much lesser extent Castlight. They sell through the employer-payer; not sure if they are competition for AmaMorganShire or potential vendors to them.
I've been experimenting with this chart that claims good results in reversing presbyopia:
http://www.robert-silverman.net/presbeninst.htm
I've only tried it a few times, but there were temporary noticeable results.
Unfortunately there are no quick fixes for my floaters that have gotten worse over the years.
A tangential question for the journalist @Eilene:

> I'd like to use some of your comments in the book and will not know or need to know your name

How do you verify the stories? I'm sure you don't just trust random postings to Internet forums and print them as truth (I hope?).

Personally, I've been in SV for 20 years, founded several successful startups, sleep 4 hours a night on average, and eat only nuts and berries. Or I live in my parents' basement amid a haze of pot smoke, and spend my days trolling the Internet. Or I'm a 16 year old provocateur writing this when I should be paying attention in trigonometry class, but I'm not out of spite for the ADD meds my parents make me take. Or I work down the hall from you and I've really wanted to ask you this question in person, but I only have the courage when I drink. Or maybe I'm someone else today ... let me think ...
The excessive mempool size caused a lot of trouble for us when attempting to read it from bitcoind. Since the mempool was so large, JSON-RPC requests were taking upwards of 15-20 seconds. I’m surprised such a critical endpoint is so sub-optimised.
I finally found my first 6-degree path: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ellipsis%20%28...

Purell_hack has managed a whopping 9°, based off dkuder's Phinney - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469620
Porsche has been playing with new ownership models recently, including a sort of membership club where a fixed monthly payment gets you access to any model.

So this blockchain-based entitlements thingumy could be seen as an attempt to put in a flexible technology to support more experimentation along those lines.
> Can you tell me more about what you mean by filtering by mutual paths?

I should have said mutual connections, my apologies. So if article A connects to B and article B also connects to A. I suppose you could do this mostly client-side, all you need is two searches (one the reverse of the other) and an intersection of the resulting graphs, no?
I would love all of that, but I don't want it connecting back to the cloud. And understanding some of the inherent necessities these things have with the cloud, I understand I am not the target market.

Which is a shame. If there's another HA device out there that in convenient form factor that communicates with my LAN and gives me greater granular control over what it talks to, I'd be buying three right now.

That's a hint to anyone who may be working on a product, or know of a product that fits the niche of the perpetually paranoid :P
I was interested in your reference [1], which you use to argue that sea ice extent is not changing.

Your suggestion turns out to be contradicted by observational evidence with very high confidence, or more briefly, wrong. The chart you link is probably OK, but it only covers a few years. To see the trend, you need a longer time base.

I got this from the just-released (U.S.) national climate assessment, chapter 11 (pertaining to the Arctic -- https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/11/). See "Key Finding 3", which I'll quote in its entirety:

"Arctic land and sea ice loss observed in the last three decades continues, in some cases accelerating (very high confidence). It is virtually certain that Alaska glaciers have lost mass over the last 50 years, with each year since 1984 showing an annual average ice mass less than the previous year. Based on gravitational data from satellites, average ice mass loss from Greenland was −269 Gt per year between April 2002 and April 2016, accelerating in recent years (high confidence). Since the early 1980s, annual average arctic sea ice has decreased in extent between 3.5% and 4.1% per decade, become thinner by between 4.3 and 7.5 feet, and began melting at least 15 more days each year. September sea ice extent has decreased between 10.7% and 15.9% per decade (very high confidence). Arctic-wide ice loss is expected to continue through the 21st century, very likely resulting in nearly sea ice-free late summers by the 2040s (very high confidence)."

The report links to what it means by "very high confidence". I believe the chart that goes with it is: https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/indicators/indicator-arc... - although really the conclusion is what matters, because it's based on much more than just one chart.

This kind of report is a good place to start, because it's easy to look at small points of evidence and get the wrong conclusion, especially if you are not a climate scientist, e.g., have no publications in the area. Reports like these were made for people like us.
Because they're cheap.

I had a discussion the other day with someone who designs large, moving machinery. His preference is for the actual controls to be physical switches and knobs that are easy to user and learn. He relegates touchscreens for setup & configuration.
I can relate. I think kids are actually much better at grasping when something is "off" with other kids than adults are. They know who the weird ones are, and they'll definitely let you know if it's you... though if you're like me you may be oblivious to a lot of it. The worst was always when they would pretend to be nice so they could get you to make an even bigger fool of yourself when you finally felt safe enough to be yourself :(
Lol. “Omg only in NYC” is the trap that has kept me there this long.

I suppose my network is pretty strong at this point, so finding work as a freelance dev has been quite nice as a result. Though my network led me to Chicago, so i shouldn’t think my ability to find work isn’t constrained to nyc only.
You might like Altra shoes; they're zero drop and have a very open toe box. I'm about 9 months into wearing them, and I love them. They felt weird for the first couple of weeks because of the open toe box, but after that anything else feels wrong.
I am a “MasterChef” survivor
What I wish people were saying on this thread are:

1. Do their friends in tech partake more/less/same than non-tech friends? Because I know people in tech who've done shrooms etc, but way way less than the ones outside of tech.

2. This would be better viewed quantitatively, seeing the whole gambit of responses here.
The robo dog asking me if I know John Connor is giving me bad vibes. I do like what I see. I don't understand the demo though what am I supposed to do?
Plato: JavaScript code analysis tool to monitor the maintainability of your projects
I understand that, but my argument is that people usually spend up to the amount they are comfortable with because they are not rational actors.

I made this argument a lot when the prius was becoming popular. Lots of people said it was overpriced, that is cost 30k and there were similarly equipped cars for 20k. But that completely missed who was buying the car. If someone is in the market to spend 30k on a car, they most likely will, as they have entered into a different price bracket.

Same thing with apartments. Sure in Seattle you could share a space and pay less, my hunch (with no data to back this up) is that you probably wont. If I can comfortably afford 1-1.5k, then that's what I'm going to spend, regardless of city (Please don't nitpick and say 'Oh I share and pay less', I'm not speaking in absolutes).

You obviously will get a more space/features/quality in Seattle for the money, but my argument against this guides is they say you will actually be making x, because I'll be paying more in rent. but that's not the case. Yes you can argue the missed cost of having more space, but that's not what they compare. My bank account is going to be the same after rent regardless of the major city I'm in.

EDIT: Spelling and Grammar
More like seven degrees amirite
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=John%20Arneil&...
> V8 cannot compile arithmetic assignment operators, which it calls left-side expressions, so you can see a rapid speed boost in V8 when you replace something like a += 1 with a = a + 1.

Is there a reason it can't? I'm not familiar with Javascript, but aren't the two expressions equivalent?
I feel like you hear the "The Bay is over, the bubble popped, the culture became oppressive" story every year and every year it doesn't seem to go anywhere.

Now, I would never take a job there, but so many of my cohort have and continue to that I don't think the end really is nigh.
The correct solution is to use a paid version of Adobe Acrobat, which will let you do minor revisions to text. Bet he's wishing he shelled out that $150 or so now.
I read this comment and was confused because it is exactly what I would have written and thought I had a moment of amnesia where I forgot that I posted a response...

Same boat 100%... Family sharing, 2TB plan, have my wife and mother in the family. Combined we use less than 200GB, but I am happy to pay for more storage rather than deal with tech support calls from them two when we go over 200GB and they get error messages popping up. :P
Yes! I completely agree. Thanks for posting this, it needs to be brought up in any conversation about code-free tools.

Pagedraw is not a code free tool. It never will be. I don't think it's possible either.

Programming needs to happen in language. Even if you did something like Scratch, (to which I prefer typing,) you still need the arbitrary constructs of language in order to express whatever you want.

Pagedraw is not programming, which only works because we don't really think HTML and CSS are either.

You will absolutely still need to write code to make novel algorithms and custom business logic until the AGI revolution comes. Pagedraw is meant to be used side by side with code implementing the business logic, state management, and anything else novel about your app. Pagedraw will take over more and more of the non-turing complete parts.

Today, with Pagedraw you write state management and API code just like you did before.

> Do you see this product as a tool for developers or a tool for designers to publish their creations directly to the web?

Yes. Both, eventually :) Today the product is a strict replacement for HTML and CSS, so it's something a developer would use to bring designs into production after the designer's done with them.
:raises hand:
it is a dying business in all means. The brand name might worth something though.