skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the validity of this theory could be tested by imagining what would happen in a society of 10 people.

The size of national governments makes them seem capable of anything. But unless this theory includes a rule that it only applies in societies beyond a certain size (and I didn't see one), it has to work in a society of 10 too, and that scenario we can imagine fairly easily.
> People who have an established pattern of changing jobs every 2 years won’t even get an interview in my org

2 years? Most of the companies and projects I joined were long gone and dead 2 years down the road. Different industries indeed.
Thanks! Great to hear!
This link claims to be 700x faster than something called Masstree, which itself claims to do about 3 million requests per second with 16 cores. I'm not sure I buy 131 Million request per second per core.

> it was up to 700x faster than Masstree, up to 800x Intel’s “lock-free” TBB hash table. In fairness, those systems provide linearizable consistency and Anna does not. But Anna was still up to 126x faster than a “hogwild”-style completely inconsistent C++ hashtable due to cache locality for private state, while providing quite attractive coordination-free consistency.
It's always tricky extrapolating from focal cognitive effects to overall performance. For example, small amounts of cannabis or alcohol can also greatly attenuate the obsessive internal rumination (a.k.a., "the jitters") that can sabotage many kinds of performance.

Of course, it's dose-dependent, because eventually the detrimental effects on attention and memory (as you correctly point out) will outweigh the beneficial anxiolytic effects.
> I'm sure the executives take issues like this incredibly seriously

Considering Cisco's history of security issues they clearly don't take it seriously and it is unlikely that will change.
DST is so disruptive to my children's life and thus my life. I should move back to Arizona. Curse you DST!
Sure, some small % of the populations will probably do that. Some small % of the population will drive drunk.

Neither are acceptable ways to handle the vast majority of situations one encounters.

The situation in the article. is roughly the same as being lost (or going somewhere in a way GPS won't work) and taking directions over the phone. If the line goes dead nobody (who's behavior we want self driving vehicles to emulate) just stops in the middle of the road.
Doesn't all this presuppose the population continues to trust the currency to be accepted for anything _other_ than debts to government?

You know, like foreign interest and imports?

I would expect Brazil, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and pre-WWII Germany would all be great examples of the government printing a lot of cash to spend and not having it turn out well.
A minimal service to detect which cryptocurrency an address corresponds to
> Modern Monetary Theory’s basic principle seems blindingly obvious: Under a fiat currency system, a government can print as much money as it likes.

Yes, it can. But that doesn't make it a good idea. Just look at the Weimar Republic, or more recently, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

Money--like the things you buy with it--has a value. And when there are more and more and more units available, the marginal value of each unit it less. So sure, the government can always print more money. But each dollar printed can buy just a bit less than the one before it. Do it enough, and your currency becomes practically worthless.
>If their customers put a premium on privacy they should have read the privacy policy prior to using the service and understood Tunnelbear's obligations under it

If you don't want to be poisoned you should read every food label of every food item you ever consume. Why make laws preventing manufacturers from poisoning some food when consumers can just read the label to find out which ones are poisoned!

We should have sensible defaults. Not this nonsense where it is seen as acceptable to screw over consumers with carefully worded legalese.
Researchers have seen colistin-heteroresistant germs in the US
Oh yea my bad, I meant the set of all halting functions (which is (program->halts)) -- those are incompressible (again actually finitely compressible). The set of all programs can be trivially enumerated depending on the Turing machine (it's usually just a form of the set of binary natural numbers).

Note I did not prove incompressibility, only that there exist some incompressible functions; indeed there are as many functions as there are real numbers (in cardinality), so almost every function is incompressible! (imagine all different strings of random bits) For the halting function I believe the proof is a little involved and can be found on the book "Elements of Information Theory".

I find wikipedia's proof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem#Proof_concept) not quite illuminating though, since it is a basic proof by contradiction. Those tend to leave you wondering if you cannot replace the halting function halt(x) with a self-reference-free function halt_noself(x). Compressibility give a wider intuition that sure, there are special subsets of the halting function (program->halts) that are compressible, but in general it will be incompressible, and therefore a program will only be able to decide finitely many sequential programs -- and this table can only be done by a "luck-based" search: you test the programs to see if they halt. The ones that do not halt in any reasonable amount of time, you may try searching the space of proofs that it doesn't halt. This search is again undecidable, because at some point there will be a program which doesn't halt but that you cannot prove.

So in some ways the best you can do is grow the list with holes such as "program 1 halts, program 2 does not halt (proof), ...., program k-1 halts, program k ???, program k+1 halts, ..." -- you may never be able to fill any particular hole. You can also build a set of heuristics to accelerate both the simulation of the programs (to show they halt) and the evaluation of proofs (to show they do not halt).

This is essentially the process by which we do mathematics, or even computer science :) We use a growing set of heuristics to prove statements we deem "interesting" or "useful", and sometimes simple statements will come up (such as Collatz conjecture, Goldbach's, Twin primes, Riemman hypothesis, ...) that we cannot prove and we do not know if we will ever be able to.
Actually got -4 points for this comment.

Apparently you shouldn't take any side in an HN flame war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

There is an entire scientific debate about it in the field of psychology. Claiming it is anti science is willful ignorance.
That's not the logic I'm putting forth. People making noise about sovereignty frame things in terms of the treaty being an absolute, I'm just pointing out that it isn't an absolute and that the framing is silly.

I mean, I agree it is absurd to have to point out that countries will only stay party to treaties that are of some net benefit, but there you go.
Quite a few comments here are saying this is for managers.
I don't agree.

This is a perfectly sensible guide for engineers in the second half of their career.

When you are young and fresh, it is the company's job to make use of you and make you productive. Effectively, the first thing they should do is intro you, give you a few learning projects, and help course correct to get you productive. Managers invest time in this so that the manager effectiveness amplification occurs.

When you get old, senior and soulless, once you start getting hired as a lead, this algorithm is basically exactly what you should be doing in your first 30 days. At that point you're almost always being hired to fix something that's broken and it's your job to make yourself productive for the company instead of the other way around and then help make other people productive (or, more often, make other people less unproductive). Putting aside the very rare exception where you are your own brand name and can get vanity projects and total control, the only real exceptions are when you start a fresh company or project and have total control, but those opportunities are comparatively rare. Most senior engineers hired into a new org who are in a leadership position will find these steps quite sensible.
"Look at that asshole eating fake ice out of his freezer. Go get some real glacier ice, shithead!"
White House posted a videogame compilation on YouTube
Looks like it's possible to have a "Lesser" AGPL. libbitcoin[1] uses such a license.

Also licensing things under a dual AGPL/commercial license seems perfect for things like databases. Mongo uses it IIRC.

[1] https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin/blob/master/COPYING
Grammar and style are both ultimately dictated by usage, so if someone insists on plugging in XYZ as a new ultra-PC pronoun I can't really prove that it is incorrect, no matter how ridiculous.

So, that said: The whole point of using "they" is when you don't know the gender of a person and don't want to presume by saying "he" or "she" or muddying up the text by saying "he or she". When you know the gender of a person, using the correct pronoun is better--it's both succinct and corresponds more closely with reality.

It's a touchy subject [I mean, some idiot flagged my comment--come on!] but people tend to over-correct in grammar quite a bit, and over-correcting with "they" happens like this.
Ask HN: What is the best process to learn a new language?
I'm looking to learn Spanish. I live in Costa Rica right now so that helps a lot, but there are so many different language learning apps + websites + guides + books etc. I am learning a decent amount but I am struggling to keep up with the speed of locals talking.

I watch a decent amount of Netflix shows in Spanish, but most speak super quickly as well.

I'm in between using Memrise (free) or Lingvist (paid... quite pricey for an app too) right now.
Great!

While that would make you unnecessarily build the dependency the first time, it at least wouldn't be in your final binary, since everything would be unused. That said, we could still warn about it anyway, even without extern crate.
TECK (seemingly out of production) has three keys in place of spacebar by default configured as (backspace)(enter)(space)

Using thumbs to activate those works really well!

https://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/truly-ergonomic-mechani...
It's a bit sickening how dismissive the author is to brush aside the impact of inflation on this plan. Inflation is a direct tax on the poor who are trying to save money. Great, let's give them jobs that are dependent on inflation and then remove their ability to gain capital. Runaway inflation is a real contributor to poverty traps, but I must be crazy because according to the article "panic over government budget deficits is delusional, a misguided and atavistic remnant of the gold standard."

Modern macroeconomics comes off as such a tribal, groupthink discipline to me. Far too many policy suggestions stem from tortured analogies like "we need to prime the pump and increase spending to increase aggregate demand!", or "Capitalism runs on sales, ... you have to increase spending to increase sales!" Where is the analysis of the real cost of programs like this? Why are we so focused on short-term results without considering the long-term effects?

Economics is not physics. You can't run controlled experiments and discover mathematical relations that succinctly describe entire economies. I wish we would stop taking the poor excuse of what is currently macroeconomics research, which is basically terrible curve fitting on small sample sizes over a brief historical period sprinkled with whatever ideology the economist subscribes to, and jumping to terrible policy decisions that affect real people.
DoreenMichele already indicated what she could have done, and what she shouldn't have. She did not take the high road. She demonstrated that she had a chip on her shoulder and chose to express that in her behavior. I'd have raised the issue with the manager in a non-confrontational, constructive way. If that proved impossible or ineffective, I'd have accepted it or quit. Even the author freely admits nothing good came of her approach, but she failed to realize that put her in the wrong, because she had a superiority complex.
> If you want to challenge a hypothesis it's insufficient to simply try to spread uncertainty, you need to create and provide data for an alternative hypothesis.

You've simply repeated my point. All of the existing data supports GP's sibling's competing hypotheses.

> When there is a hypothesis that is heavily supported by data, something that might be right, but lacks data, is not a credible alternative.

The competing hypotheses are supported by exactly the same data and are further supported by the data from the Asian diaspora and by the twin study data. You must find an experiment that supports one hypothesis and rejects the others, which is what climate science has plenty of.

> That people, and groups of people, are radically different is supported by everything we know. Genetic factors influence every aspect of our beings, and so to argue that intelligence is somehow immune to this is something that requires evidence.

You make a giant leap. Intelligence is partly inherited -- that is true according to twin studies (which don't control for the fact that adopters have to meet a certain bar and therefore can't show the actual effect of post-natal environment and also don't control for prenatal environment). However, claiming that the difference in intelligence between racial groups is due to genetic differences vs. due to environmental differences is not supported by evidence. In 1947, the literacy rate in India was 12%. After seeing the rise in literacy rate over the past 70 years, you would be hard-pressed to claim that this deficiency was genetic.

It seems you can parrot the concepts of scientific reasoning that I explained in the GP post but are simply unable to apply them.
The CircleID article is full crazy. There's a whole passage about how the IETF "took over the ITU-T/ISO internet TLS" which turns out to mean basically the words "Transport Layer Security" are also used to name one of the dozens of X series standards. That standard, X.274 also involves er, securing a transport layer, like TLS, and so there are some elements we'd recognise - even Diffie-Hellman key exchange (although it's under a different name and hidden in an appendix) but of course it's not an Internet standard and doesn't use Internet nomenclature.

It's like if midway through a rant on how awful Back to the Future is, the author stopped to complain that Huey Lewis and the News is just covering the 1984 Jennifer Rush song... not _quite_ as crazy as saying it's a cover of Deee-Lite's track but still pretty crazy.
Lots of people use vim, which all of these examples would also work in

EDIT: except for the missing trailing "/"
Agreed. The argument in the article though is that inflation is so low these days that a bit of quantative easing might not be such a bad thing after all.
Bought direct from EVGA. Check their websites, many of them offer them direct for sale. They may be out of stock so you'll have to do a notify.
"... has challenged the widely-held assumption that diamond prices could only go up."

Did people really believe this? Sounds like these people are as delusional as cryptocurrency folks. No bubble lasts forever. When will people learn. Nothing can go up forever.
To be fair, the point about "the building blocks of a Rails application scale really, really badly as a codebase grows" is not about performance, it's about code manageability.

Also, just because more people love Rails than loathe it in no way negates the point that there is a lot of negativity. The two are orthogonal.
> Why would we expect to get paid for two seconds of thought?

Because the results of those two seconds of thought have value.
On mobile the spacing makes it look like the “get in touch” links belong to the next listing instead of the ones they really belong to.
ummm https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mo...
I think the main point is that police data is now stored on Amazon servers.
Just wanted to let you know that you might have athlete's foot.
I agree. The original analogy would have been better served with Canada as a reference.

Edit: Or even better Italy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/why-has-italy-...
I'm in central Europe.

I sincerely do not understand the problem people have with changing a single hour in a single day during a weekend in the year.
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I don't know why exactly, but that really pisses me off. I'd love to see the Feds go after them for that money, but I doubt Mr. Dress-up or his government would ever do such a thing.
Qualcomm's Paul Jacobs steps down as Chairman amid Broadcom takeover battle
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Is it truly a gamble?

Yes sometimes you fix something another thing breaks. But does that happen often enough to be a gamble?
Laravel Database Operations – From Eloquent to PDO
Again, I said "not primarily reliant on advertising."

The Guardian's readership revenue exceeds subscriber revenue[0]. BBC is taxpayer-funded. NPR relies on donations.

Serious analysis of the editorial lines of The Guardian and the BBC show pretty consistent pro-corporate pro-establishment bias.

Sure; so does The Economist. This is why I read multiple sources and then use my big animal brain to form my own opinion. :-)

[0] https://digiday.com/media/guardian-u-s-got-profitable-pivoti...
The 30 Year Quest to Tame the 'Wily' Cancer Gene
I'd say it's more like comparing a horse to a car:

Horses were never really "vehicles." We just misappropriated them that way, because they just happen to be big and move around and we can sit on them. Cars are purpose-made to be vehicles for humans.

If a designer shows you their wireframes with their grid lines drawn on top of it, I don't think many people would think "ah! so it's like in a science paper when they're printing the raw data from their experimental results in tabular form."

The fact that some web developers consider them alike is a historical accident.
Are home renovations necessary?
I don't think this problem exists outside of the realms of linearizable or serializable consistency, which this system doesn't provide.
I'll give another +1 for Mullvad. They're servers are damn fast too, for what it's worth, on top of a pretty great privacy policy.
Thank you!! That is exactly what I was going for, nice feeling to see someone else recognise it :) Agreed on the rest too.
The article states the increase in price is because "supply in natural diamonds has peaked and due to strong Asian demand".
Indeed, transaction rate at bitcoin's highest points has been very low. Power usage is strongly correlated to price, while price isn't correlated to... anything.
For a car traveling at 70 mph, piloted by a human, it's estimated to take about 100 feet for them to react in an emergency, and another 250 feet to stop[1] (although theoretically high performance cars can brake faster, of course).

So while you can imagine everyone leaving over 20 car lengths between them and the next vehicle on the highway, it would be a radical and probably infeasible change in driving behavior. Not to mention how much slower people would have to go around curves if they didn't assume a lack of obstruction.

[1] http://www.government-fleet.com/content/driver-care-know-you...
It's certainly way less capricious than your average roguelike...
I would bet they all do. Yes they use custom hardware for some intra datacenter tasks, but outside of that i think they will all have Cisco, to one degree or another. Mostly great degrees.
If you could stack rank the problems of the world, it would become clear that there shouldn’t be time to write articles complaining about daylight savings time.
The more coins you lock into an investing wallet, the more likely the network is to choose you to mint a block.

In practice it's quite a bit more complex but that's the basic idea.
I’m not sure why we ever moved off year-round DST as we used for a few years in the US. Yes it makes for dark winter mornings in the North. But, honestly, there’s not a lot of sunlight to spread around in Boston or Chicago in the middle of winter anyway.
I hear often that strength training is more beneficial as, supposedly, increments your growth hormone levels.

I'm also interested in a listing of publications comparing different physical activities for their fitness related to improving health overall and anti-aging concretely. ?
I will write that down for my backlog! :) Thx
ESight smartglasses are changing blind people’s lives by enabling them to see
Huh.. thank you, will fix!
But does bitcoin create trust? It's a highly volatile currency. Maybe it's better than the Zimbabwean dollar, but it's not a foundation for the world economy.
I would imagine people who like to breathe clean air and drink clean water would care.
Ice Nine???
I didn't get mine right at launch, so this might be due to fixes, but I honestly haven't noticed anything drastic. Occasionally when the screen brightness is very low the dark colors start to blend together a little, but I haven't noticed any burn-in or retention on my display. (I also actually prefer sRGB and still have my display set to that, but there was a patch months back that let you make the color profile more vivid, and the default no longer is sRGB).
A Tech Policy of One: A simple doc that will reduce your daily interruptions
I hate messing around with editors and tweaking every last thing (or any software tool for that matter). Seeing if I can configure this new editor so that I like it 7% better than another one. I just want to use it without thinking too much and have it stay out of my way.
Same way as in a proof-of-work blockchain. Miners (validators) receive the transaction fees plus some number of coins per block that is included in the chain, but instead of anyone being able to mine a block (and thus requiring a very high difficulty), only nodes that have a large number of coins frozen (the stake) are allowed to publish new blocks.
Given the massively increased percentages of death, injury, lost productivity, etc that's associated with shifting the clocks around twice a year, I would say it's a pretty big deal and worth addressing.
Ask HN: How to prepare for a 4 hour coding challenge?
As part of the application/screening process, I was recently asked by the CTO of a startup, to build a feature as a part of of a 4 hour technical/coding challenge. His words were, "The challenge is setup to give you a sense for the types of problems we face and to give you a sense for how we work here at [company_name]. You will be asked to build a single standalone feature." I will be allowed to use whatever programming language and IDE that I want (which makes me think that the challenge will address fundamentals as opposed to specifics).

I'm a bit on edge as all coding challenges I've done previously have been 1 - 2 hrs (max), and have _never_ involved me 'building a standalone feature'.

Any tips? Advice? All would be appreciated.
I wonder why the price of electricity there doesn't go up? It's not like they can't find buyers for it.
I'll believe they are taking it seriously if they provide updates to customers without a current service contract. I genuinely hope they are.
My favorite recent copyright story is the Happy Birthday song.

It may be common knowledge by now, but Warner copyrighted this song from the 1800s and profited for years until someone challenged it in court.

I've been waiting for someone to post one of those "this was way more complicated than that and this is why it wasn't as outrageous as people make it seem", but nothing yet.

This in a addition to the Micky Mouse laws really makes the system feel flawed, even though it has its clear benefits.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/happy-birthda...
I believe this is a different sense of mode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi#Interface
Software Clown: 20 years of software mistakes, and how you can avoid them