skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We meet again, Mr. Bell. I think you might have missed the last bunch of replies I gave you, you might wish to check!

There's one other thing those online vendors can't give you:

Wavefront aberrometer guided glasses. Unfortunately the industry sits at a shitty place here. Nearly all doctors don't buy those. And even if they do, their measurements aren't portable to the vendor systems. So instead, opticians have those. But opticians can't use cycloplegia, which you do need to get a proper wavefront measurement - and even if you can arrange that (say, by hurrying to your optician very quickly after a doctors visit), you'll run into the problem that most opticians don't configure those devices correctly, leaving them at the vendor default of 3 measurement cycles (instead of the 5 it takes to get statistically useful results), don't check for ring defects on the scan, and so on. It's a mess.
Citations, please :)
From Harper's? Not likely. Alas.
I don't think any of these solutions is really right.

formatted = Calendars::gregorian->format("y-m-d h:m:s z", date)

is prefectly fine. And when you want to do week-year formatting

formatted = Calendars::weekyear->format("y-m-d h:m:s z", date)

will get you there. And you can use the Islamic or Chinese or Persian or Javanese or Julian calendars without having to have additional confusions. You could reconstruct your own Gregorian lunar calendar and use it.

One of the major problems in the article is mixing two unrelated things into one package: the customary western calendar and the ISO week-year calendar. You can see why someone might want to do that (because some businesses like to use them both simultaneously for different purposes) but that was bad design (you can tell, because there's the same concept - the year - with two different possible values).

Since we can't always be precise, we need to make sure that we always improve our libraries so that they are confusion-proof. If it's explicit, it's good.
I appreciate the last part of your comment as a stepdad (we call it being an Immediate Dad) going on 2 years now.

I remember the first time they spoke to me negatively about their father... deep inside I wanted to agree or comment on it, but I knew that wouldn't be the best thing for them. So I said nothing. And I've continued to say nothing. I like your approach better though; so don't mind if I adopt it. :)
Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse
I haven't heard of these studies. Could you point to one of the best ones?
How’re is this tax supposed to fix or ease homelessness?

Several years ago, some friends were looking to purchase a starter home in Seattle, maybe for $250k or so. But they had such a killer deal on rent, they opted to wait a few more years, to save up more money.

Well, in the next few years that dream quickly slipped through their fingers. Now you have to pay upwards of $500k just to get some as-is teardown that you’re not even allowed to look inside before you buy.
I'm fiscally conservative and I don't mind the tax, it's just very poorly planned. $20M in revenue for businesses is not much. It's a regressive tax, and it is appropriated to homelessness which the city has done a very poor job of dealing with. Money will no doubt be wasted.

I do support a more fair tax in Bay Area that goes directly to transportation and infrastructure improvement
And the aesthetically best frames are also still made in Austria - http://schau-schau.at/en/
The pleasure is in fact real and cannot be made illusory.
The YQIS Conference and CoQuS Summer School 2018 – Quantiki
CIA watchdog nominee says he never read torture report
On October 25 1988, I gave Steve Jobs a demo of pie menus, NeWS, UniPress Emacs and HyperTIES at the Educom conference in Washington DC. His reaction was to jump up and down, point at the screen, and yell “That sucks! That sucks! Wow, that’s neat! That sucks!”

I tried explaining how we'd performed an experiment proving pie menus were faster than linear menus [1], but he insisted the liner menus in NeXT Step were the best possible menus ever.

But who was I to rain on his parade, two weeks after the first release of NeXT Step 0.8? (Up to that time, it was the most hyped piece of vaporware ever, and doubters were wearing t-shirts saying "NeVR Step"!)

[1] https://medium.com/@donhopkins/an-empirical-comparison-of-pi...
I find these days I avoid bash a much as possible. I find myself using D for things I would normally use shell scripts for. Bash just...I dunno...why? Why was it designed in such a stupid way....?
We're going to make '20 times our money' in Tesla
Where exactly do you expect business to go?
When I smoked weed heavily, I had persistent sinus inflammation/infection and coughed up black and grey mucus every day. Open wounds took forever to properly heal. Switching to vaporizing cleared those symptoms up pretty much immediately. Smoke is just plain bad for you, even smoked meat (BBQ) is linked to cancer!
Someone thought it was a good idea to use a portable subset of the shell as a target for a worse programming language: layers of M4 macros.

They didn't back away with anything like "not using it though".

So now we have GNU Autotools.
Doesn't matter what a thing is (Edit: Except for a green tea bag, apparently?) if you leave it around damp for a couple of days it'll start to smell musty just from airborne bacteria growing on it. If that thing is a warm damp mesh, it's basically the perfect home for bacteria and will start to smell even if it was 100% sterile when it came out of the machine.
I completely agree. It’s super fascinating to think what other skills/practices that reasoning applies to as well (nutrition stands out the most to me).

That being said, I don’t think your final comment is true (minus the part about farming) due to scale. Sure early humans spent just about all of their effort on hunting, but there weren’t many humans back then. Nowadays we spend much less effort on a given task, but because that effort is distributed amongst billions and billions of people we end up collectively putting in even greater amounts of effort than was likely possible in ‘early human history’.
Tucson man in trouble for giving haircuts to the homeless
How Do I Understand Deep Learning Performance? – The Official Nvidia Blog
Uhm, capitalism and the state says otherwise, sweetie. ;)
"Hobbyist Operating System, just for the heck of it".

Some people really get a good kick out of doing hard things for the heck of it. I did a fair share of it in my day, it is good fun. :)
Engineering without a license
> Collectively, it's a level of intellectual effort that humanity has likely never brought to bear on any other problem besides, perhaps, farming.

You leave out the human pursuit which has occupied most of our intellectual and physical resources since we first fashioned tools: war.
We just had someone leave our company because many people gave the person bad internal reviews because of this crap. And many left before that. You have to be delivering in spades for this to work.
If you look at the 800,000 year data there's nothing that odd to suddenly wipe out megafauna when man arrived https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...
That was a beautiful article. I have to commend the Guardian here. I'm going through hell with my wife and my daughter. The fact that there are people making it with kids not their own -- out of love. It gives me hope for this world that I often think is awful and wicked.
That's very kind, thank you. I'll try your suggestions and will keep your generous offer in mind.
The shell is acceptable for configuring the build of a better language. The excuse there hinges around the argument that we don't want to require the user to already have an executable version of that language installed in order to build that language from sources. And we also don't want to require some competing better language X to build our better language Y, because that doesn't look good.
I'll have to try that one. I've done a few things with:
Python process launching http://amoffat.github.com/sh
Well, taxing something means you’ll usually get less of it, so I guess it’ll reduce demand on housing (probably not what they want since it hurts the economy in other ways). If the money goes to building for those in need it could help a bit.

The only thing that will really help over the long term is building even more apartments.
Polling Show Trump’s Newfound Support of Amnesty Is a Betrayal to His Base
Yes, they managed the company terribly in the years after Jobs left (with the exception of the alignment with IBM and Motorola for the Power architecture and chip transition). Apple had something like 5 different CEOs in 8 years before Amelio decided to buy NeXT and bring Jobs back into the fold.
I agree that this tax probably won't fix the homelessness problem. Whatever has happened to Seattle is much deeper then just homelessness. Amazon and the like have ravaged the city of it's ability to provide functional housing even to service and support workers.

I know this is happening in every city, but it's very pronounced in Seattle. The city shuts down at 9PM because no one lives there and then the homeless spill over into the empty well scrubbed streets.

It's soul has been sucked out and been replaced with techno culture. A weird head tax is a reasonable ding for an exasperated set of natives, but someone has to find a way to balance these concerns. Or not... I shudder to think of what the bay, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Boston, etc are going to become without all the people that make up a city that aren't just there to get their next rung up on the way to be CTO for their own gig app.
It's badly written, but my read is it's saying basically Chemists have used something trivially known in current Mathematics in a unique way to produce something that looks pretty interesting but does not further knowledge in Chemistry?

Yet to pass peer review.

Sounds like fun, just not sure why it needed the build up.
Elon Musk Explains Improvements to SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 Rocket
I once gave Marvin Minsky a headache by showing a video tape of bright blinking PostScript graphics! I apologized, and we had a nice conversation about how eye tracking interfaces tend to do the same thing.
> City of Seattle revenues have grown dramatically from $2.8B in 2010 to $4.2B in 2017, and they will be even higher in 2018. This revenue increase far outpaces the Seattle population increase over the same time period. The city does not have a revenue problem – it has a spending efficiency problem
Or got annoyed with them. Modern elephants, lions and tigers tend to get problems if they do in crops or villagers.
Chart: Artificial intelligence may change the way companies issue debt
Somewhere that they get subsidies rather than taxes.
Is this project ready to share?

It's not published to crates.io, and doesn't have a license or Cargo.toml
i just finished masters of doom's audiobook a week or so ago. it was the most addicting story i've heard in some time, and elevated carmack even more in my mind.

the book was also strangely motivating.

have you (or anyone else) read anything else like masters of doom recently?
Earlier today the headline read “illegally enslaved”, like in the linked article. I almost pointed out that that was redundant, but I figured there was no point. Apparently it did bother somebody.
I kind of agree, but it's really just a discussion, which I feel has a lower bar than a formal debate. If the refuter thought the argument was weak, they could have simply responded with their point of view and some evidence, rather than complaining. It's not like the OP was making claims on hidden truths.
I think that's a bit of a stretch of the imagination, how did you get to there?

From the forum posting at https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=32714:

* Arch:
- x86 32bit (though the kernel is designed to be ISA
transparent, arch. dependent parts are handled with
arch_ stubs)

Given that it's written in C, it presumably means that
the architecture specific code is abstracted behind an API. No different to Linux AFAICS.
a problem but also a profound solition for storage of some kimd?
"I never say anything negative."

That's smart and so important. Children often do that because, rightly or wrongly, they feel that loyalty to the remaining parent requires it of them. But it intensifies the pain of being caught in the split. You can't fix that, but at least you're not making it worse, and they may see that more clearly when they've grown up.
To simplify even further, would it be right to say that dopamine is not just a carrot being used to adjust weights but that the entire dopamine system actively learns how/when/why to use the carrot to effectively train?

if so, some interesting real world parallels i can see:

1/ this is why good teachers early on have such a profound effect. Teachers act as a dopamine system so good teachers teach meta learning via whatever they teach

2/ teaching the meta directly is difficult as the meta of the meta is too abstract. Which is why grammar/math may tend to feel out of touch. They are already the meta.

3/ drugs can mess up the dopamine system and throw the feedback loop out of whack. Even if you have the best resources, the “teacher” is now inept
A Russian hydroelectric turbine (not too different from a flywheel) stored horizontally in a "vault" (a dam) killed 75 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano%E2%80%93Shushenska...
Court: No right to carry concealed weapons in public
Some require a separate username crafted by the bank, but they are low entropy. Something like last name plus 2 digits. One is a clearly sequential integer of limited range.

Usernames are not secrets and add no security by being kept secret. Just lengthen the damn password instead!
Re 6: I am an /extremely/ mediocre developer but I have crafted some real 99th percentile bash skills (within my company, not globally) and I completely self-sustain myself on just that. (You're wondering how many people write bash where I am, and the answer is somewhere between 8 and 15 thousand people).

It's funny how many things that seem kind of incredible for a pure bash solution, looking back over the past 21 years doing this drivel. This year is the first I had to learn how to export all of the shell's variables and function definitions for a forked clone to run asynchronous background processing of the main thread. Bash! Bash of all things. Probably 10 seconds in any other language, but here is bash kind of hopping alongside. Callbacks, reflective programming, there's always a really awkward way in bash to do what's happening in the popular languages.
doesn't this functionality builtin with awscli?

sth like this

aws ec2 describe-instances --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].[PublicIpAddress]"
An SAT for CEOs
> Everyone is competing to find the most attractive/compatible mate. They bypass the less attractive/compatible and go after (or accept dates with) more attractive people

Correct. Or, as Louis C.K. eloquently put it. "You either F-ck up, or F-ck sideways. Nobody F-cks down."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_BPt18sbyQ
Best wishes with your difficult situation. Hell is not a picnic.
Firefox for Android too!
Trump disavows 'alt-right'
( yes )
I worked with `sh` for a while. I strongly prefer invoke. It handles signal processing and TTY flawlessly.

You can even get it to ssh into remote terminals and open a console and it works.

It's also a CLI builder where you can chain commands together
Being positive at all times is how my stepdad was. Even when my father hid in a bush outside of my house and he had to pull a gun to get him to leave (father was armed as well, brandishing wildly while on meth) he still never said a negative word to me. No matter what I'd say either, he was always passive regarding the topic.
This Startup Just Built Japan’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
When we go to a museum and see skeletons or life-size models of Pleistocene megafauna, we tend to assume these animals behaved just like the wild animals of today: wary, elusive, and ferocious if cornered. Then we consider the size-difference and shudder.

However, extinct megafauna may have behaved differently. The wild animals of today are the product of tens of thousands of years of intense selection pressure from humans. It's possible that a Mammoth behaved less like an African elephant and more like a Dodo. i.e. Humans migrating into areas where humans were previously unknown may have encountered animals that didn't view them as threats and which did not evade pursuit or defend themselves as modern wild game does.
I wonder how much this aligns with the parts of the physical brain associated with those different parts of the consciousness (ego, understanding, fear, sensory, autonomous nervous system), and when they start to be deprived of oxygen. From the way you described it, it very much has the feel of going back in time from "civilized person" to "lizard brain".
Haha. You've never worked in government. There are buildings of people paid to do nothing, where "nothing" often includes spewing shit on Internet boards and social media sites. When they are off they are out doing other things.

Sounds like the vanguard of the master race need to get a real job.
McCain Helps Sink GOP's Obamacare Repeal in Dramatic Senate Health Care Vote
Turning off cell reception might mitigate it. They seem to use cell triangulation to determine where you are. But maybe also other techniques. That way to locate someone has been possible basically since the beginning of mobile phones - even before internet usage became a thing.
Other examples are Conan and Tarzan.
I'll have to read the article. I'm a little surprised that pie menus never caught on even in the era of tablets, where they seem extremely well-suited.
Developers outside of the machine learning PHD world don't make that huge an income, especially if you live in a high rent area and are single they tax the heck out of you in california today. Back then people could afford to drop these large amounts on projects because rent was like $125 a month and taxes were very low compared to say modern california. It actually goes to show how an economy that benefits the rentiers has a way of shutting down innovation and experimentation as all resources go to cover the basics.
Maybe some people are more wordy, and some more visual? You'd be surprised at how people adapt to not being able to read - there is literature of children who 'fake' reading - they essentially memorise the shape of a thousand or so words (over the course of their school) so it appears they can read to some degree, but have no idea when they come across a word they haven't memorised.
It's only regressive if lower-sh income workers are impacted by the changes, and I'm not sure this will be the case since wages are in theory derived from the labor market, and this tax will only affect a minority of jobs.
Google Wavenet vs. Amazon Polly
Such a contrast with the people who used to live there before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCA39QJUKLM
The disappointing part is that these practices can easily become standard. It's a race to the bottom like sharing SSN numbers with employers, which should have never been an acceptable practice, but people will "undercut" each other.
I think the symbol that looks like a nut with the threaded hole off centre is the "Google how to find X in JIRA" icon.

(No, not the "Tests" icon, its got the hole slightly off centre to the left. Or the "Calendar" icon, its fo the hole slightly off centre to the upper left.)
When I saw that recommendation it made be sad. I love seeing my variable names with a quick glance. Came to the comments mostly to see if anyone had the same preference.
Good question. I'm aware there are distros with better laptop compatibility and more features, and that CentOS is a bit of an unconventional choice. Here is my reasoning, but I have very limited experienced with the nuts and bolts of Linux and I appreciate any feedback I can get:

I work professionally in IT and one reason I'm installing it is to better learn my way around Linux. RHEL is the most prominent distro in business so CentOS seems the place to start. There's no better way to learn than to keep burning my hand. :)

I did make sure I used a Thinkpad to maximize the chance of a successful, functional outcome with CentOS or any other distro or 'nix. AFAICT, Thinkpads are by far the most popular machines among the developers of the various 'nixes.

One advantage to CentOS, for me, is its stability. I don't want rapid upgrade cycles. I have no need for the latest and greatest; I'm not gaming; I don't even use Bluetooth. Vim and a web browser should work fine regardless of the distro.
Trump sides with Democrats to raise debt ceiling
In the case of Seattle, Kirkland and Bellevue are host to quite a few small and large tech companies already. The office space is plentiful and cheap on this side of Lake Washington, and there is less of a worry of being hit with poorly planned taxes and regulations that Seattle is, at this point, infamous for enacting.

With the way the housing market is going, and the upcoming King County property tax hike, I wouldn't be surprised if tech workers started creeping out into Snohomish County and favoring jobs on the Eastside instead of Seattle due to traffic.
Mega cap tech companies need subsidies?
This was something of a problem in America a few decades ago. People thought nothing of just throwing trash along the roads, in parks, etc. Informal dumps were everywhere on vacant lots, in roadside ditches and ravines. This eventuality motivated the Keep America Beautiful anti-littering campaigns that are credited with changing public attitudes.

But in 3rd world countries where the priority is shelter and food, it's going to be hard to muster up a lot of concern about litter.
> This doesn't look that different, but it absolutely is hugely different than the example you provide.

The salient point about the example I provided was that it's implemented in Python -- I appreciate the correction regarding the actual semantics, and I agree that's a somewhat better design, but I also think the difference is irrelevant to the point I as making: that these operators aren't magic beyond their syntax.

> The difference is that strong typing makes the error happen as soon as you misuse an object (but not before, because that's not possible). Weak typing delays that as long as possible.

Sure, but my complaint is that if the contract for a function says it only accepts a Session, then passing it an Element is in and of itself an attempt to use an Element like a Session. This is the key point -- Python has absolutely no knowledge or understanding of the intended type of the function's arguments, and so as you say, it is impossible for it to know to signal an error here. For strong typing to be a language feature there would have to be some way of capturing that sort of thing. Instead, we have specific methods like int.__mul__ etc. in classes that ship with python that check their arguments and raise exceptions. That's good library design, but it's not a property of the language itself.

Note that catching the error at the call site is not as ambitious as catching it at compile time -- see the references I made in earlier comments to racket and julia, which can do some level of dynamic checking for user-defined functions/types.
Contact lenses aren't always easy to fit. Especially if you are correcting for astigmatism. There's sizing, weighting, permeability and the unmeasured but distinct differences between brands. There's also the choice of changing the actual powers involved for different reasons. So people have to take them away, try them for comfort and such... Three visits is pretty normal. If you are a keratoconic then 3 visits would be a very easy case...