skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And still, the whole "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown" is based on false arguments:

The author claims:

"the reaction at the time was "WTF? Which heresy are you talking about here?"

But the exact heresy was explicitly and very clearly stated both in the sentence by the Inquisition:

http://hti.osu.edu/sites/hti.osu.edu/files/documents_in_the_...

"the above-mentioned Galileo, because of the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctrine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture."

And in Galileo's Abjuration:

http://www.creatinghistory.com/galileo-galileis-abjuration-2...

"after having been judicially instructed with injunction by the Holy Office to abandon completely the false opinion that the sun is the center of the world and does not move and the earth is not the center of the world and moves, and not to hold defend, or teach this false doctrine in any way whatever, orally or in writing; and after having been notified that this doctrine is contrary to Holy Scripture; I wrote and published a book in which I treat of this already condemned doctrine and adduce very effective reasons in its favor, without refuting them in any way"

The premise of the whole series by that author is also wrong, approximately, that because the parallax wasn't observed until around 1750 Galileo couldn't prove in 1633 that the Earth is not standing still, therefore the Church was right and it wasn't a matter of faith but a personal thing. It's obviously a completely invalid argument.
I've unfortunately been very close to people with cluster B personality disorders, and I think "savant" is a better term than "genius". In many cases, these people don't even realize how manipulative they are; it's just an unconscious reflex.
Do you have a link to more info? Would love to read more but can't seem to find anything.
> I’m not sure how they justified filling a computer lab in an elementary school with iMacs, especially since the only things we did on them were typing tests and playing Oregon Trail.

Because it made someone at least four levels removed from your school feel good about themselves that they were able to integrate technology in the classroom.
I think, the number of zero-days included in Stuxnet is an important factor in making it sophisticated and complex.
That's actually why Anthrax was researched as a bio-warfare agent. Goes airborne spores to human so collect the spores and you get an airborne agent, but it's very bad at Human to Human transmission basically requiring direct contact with open spores.
Interesting that they took to the Google blog to announce this; is there a corresponding LKML post?
Using Music to Boost Office Productivity
Ruby didn't have keyword arguments when they came up with the initial approach.
And for every company which wants to have a DBA there are thousands which just don't care, or claim having a DBA is just too expensive as the programmers are enough. The results are quite terrible then... but almost nobody cares. Just my small remark after long time of looking for a job as a postgres DBA :).
Instead of the 'park it anywhere and inconvenience everyone else model' of deployment, the dockless scooter companies should advocate for dockless scooter dedicated parking spots/landing zones around the city.

The dockless scooter companies should negotiate (and pay a daily fee to) the cities to convert say every 100th car parking spot into a dedicated spot to park your scooter/bike.

I think this would be fair as one existing car parking spot could serve 10-20 dockeless scooters/bikes [1]. And it would require no effort other than repainting the parking spots and the city revenue (i.e $20 per day per spot) would be about the same if not slightly more.

[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/06/bike-share-do...

[additional edit] Or alternatively, the city could just mark/paint out dedicated spots on the existing sidewalk that are currently underutilized (i.e. out of the way of existing pedestrian traffic) and that ends up leading to more city revenue in addition to car parking.
The responders seem to forget that the video content providers paid their ISP bills as well for their internet connectivity.

They paid akamai and level3 for CDN.
They paid amazon aws or google gcp for the bandwidth costs.

In case of Netflix OpenConnect gave ISP's an option to reduce traffic at exchanges.

The person that watched Netflix paid her ISP bill.
Netflix paid its ISP bill.

Now, the ISP of that lady wants to charge Netflix also. For what?
Sorry that's not how science works. You can't just "look" and "know" the answer. A mouse has a smaller brain than a human, does that mean the mouse is smarter? An elephant has a bigger brain, does that mean the elephant is smarter? No, you need to actually methodically prove something is true, you can't just guess. We have no living neanderthals or other humanoids to test our theories against. If you go cross species, there are too many variables to account for.
All the actresses fail in front of the beauty of South's actress
I did get the 45 minute lunch break and dined with another FB employee during that time, but I was in the room doing whiteboard problems the entire time otherwise minus them showing me the office space as we went up a few floors when I first arrived. This was in Seattle, if that matters. I think the room was labeled Occam's Razor and was super small, barely enough room for 3 people to stand.
The Qt "gui" front end for Neovim was pretty much indistinguishable from a terminal emulator, last time I tried it. I don't see the appeal in it.

Kakoune looks pretty interesting on the other hand. It even has a Clippy. I'll be trying that one out!
... Balanced. As all things should be.

or alternatively:

Mr. database engineer. I dont feel so good.
> Is whiteboard interviewing so bad that people would go out of their way to avoid it? I mean, I've encountered / can imagine horror stories for all the usual alternatives: a) take this 3-day long mini-project, do it using all of our preferred technologies (some of which you'll be using for the first time) and get it back to us - it should only take you 4 hours! Or b) do this on site, using our machines and environments which will be unfamiliar to you. Or c) speak to some random invigilator over Skype. Or d) do a written test, or e) take us through your GitHub collection, which may or may not exist, etc.

This is the problem. There was recently a large HN thread about the take-home projects and how so many people didn't like them.

None of the options are popular: if you use whiteboarding, people will complain it's a bunch of brain teasers unrelated to real programming work. If you use take-home projects, people will complain about doing unpaid work.

Would professional certifications help? I doubt it -- they would need to be based on standardized tests, which would have the same drawbacks as the whiteboarding questions nobody likes.
I'm not really a fan of these "magic" code creators. I'd use it only as required and not all out.
Microsemi primarily deals with the aerospace industry and manufactures radiation-tolerant FPGAs; Their latest product line is a series of Flash-based reprogrammable devices (RTG4). Perhaps these alternative memory technologies lend to better data integrity.
"Reconciliation" seems to be the choice euphemism for budget cuts. I was reviewing some legislation (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sconres36/text) recently which failed to pass (budget slashing proposed by Rand Paul) and noticed that almost the entire text of the bill itself is "X Reconciliation", "Y Reconciliation".
That's not a bad idea. I think I'll make something like this, a site that let's you search for dev jobs with filters that devs actually care about. Any other suggestions for filters?
> You start with a question, conduct experiments, analyze results, adjust your hypothesis, and repeat the process.

This is missing my pet step: doing the literature review.

I’m pretty ambidextrous when it comes to Python and R, so I’m not typically a combatant in the data science language flamewars.

But... for as much as the Python community likes to assert their superior coding chops, I’ve observed that the R community does a much better job of reading about prior art.
Cool. A website full of companies to avoid. Thanks for posting!
It seems to me since we don’t yet know the truth around large swaths of reality (dark matter and such topics), a replication crisis is exactly what we should expect

You have to eliminate a lot of possibilities in a universe with this much detail

The real issue, again IMO, is more of an “expectation crisis”. We expected to repeat this and failed to. Because we’re still a ridiculously ignorant species lacking conscious awareness of many aspects of reality
There's some information about the current voting mechanics on this page: https://docs.tildes.net/mechanics

"Upvotes and flags" would be the closest, though the "flags" aren't necessarily a bad thing, for example you can flag things as a joke.

I'm also trying to make sure that there are good time-based sortings so that people have predictable feeds - at the moment, there's both a "newest" sort that's just chronological, as well as an "activity" one that works like a forum, where active threads keep coming back up to the top. There's a bit more info about my feelings about that here, as well: https://docs.tildes.net/overall-goals#let-users-make-their-o...
> However, that’s not how we manage risk.

I think that this point can't be over-emphasized, and I wish you had put that sentence in its own paragraph.

Risk (management) was also alluded to elsewhere in the comments in the discussion of "rules-based" versus "principles-based" regulation.

Perhaps characterizing certain business reactions as "panic" is grossly unfair, when they're merely sensible (or even somewhat excessive) risk-aversion reactions.

I've come to suspect that the HN readership has a high risk-affinity, not just because of the startup leanings, but also even because of the preponderance of programmers working in internet/web tech, possibly never even being exposed to an environment that's life-critical or money-critical (is there a word for that? fiduciary?). Given that, I also suspect there's also broad, possibly even unconscious assumption that risks like you're describing are no big deal, 80% compliance is more than enough, (always) ask for forgiveness instead of permission, and that sort of thing.

Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with either risk-affinity or risk-aversion, as long as one is aware of it and it's not an unconscious bias.
Most geniuses aren't assholes. But no one writes news stories about individuals that have no drama and are pleasant to work with.
perhaps, but perhaps the creators don't know of any more holes. Or perhaps the creators knew about more, but the focus on security that this created resulted in not just the holes stuxnet used being closed, but the others. Or perhaps the creators know about more, but their targets have added layers of security and so they can't actually get their next worm where they want it.

A lot of unknown. Those who's job it is to secure systems have their own tricks.
Kakoune's model is slick and occasionally tempts me but I stay with vim for the rich ecosystem of plugins and that its on nearly every system.
Wow, there are so many new ways that people are coming up with to recruit software developers. Clearly there is a problem here that needs to be solved.

I understand that the company needs a way to vet people to make sure they are technically proficient for the job. However, there must be a better way of filtering people. I just bailed on a company after they told me what the interview process would be:

- Take home coding quiz where you need to sign up and use their algorithm platform. As you would expect, there was asynchronous programming and a recursion algorithm involved (two for one!)

- 3 more technical interviews. 2 of which were screen share and/or white boarding sessions. 1 is a "riddle part", which I assume is some kind of brain teaser involving a recursive algorithm.

After I saw the coding quiz and all the follow on stuff I just told them I wasn't interested. I was kind of offended, and it didn't put me in a positive mindset towards the company and engineers that worked there.
Most likely weapons of war.

In the 1950’s, the tech companies of that era were the aerospace companies designing the latest fighters and bombers.

It’s funny because in the 1930’s airplanes were heralded as a tool of peace that would bring people closer together.

We’ll see something similar with tech shifting from utopian visions to a “tech industrial complex” supporting the military.

Obviously lots of money was made. So much that the companies bloated. McDonald Douglas, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, all used to be separate companies. In fact, even Boeing and United Airlines were the same company at one point...
That would be amazing - I use tmux + vim, and the one thing it's lacking is debugger integration.
There's enough stories where Jobs could be persuasive when he wanted to; it's just a lot easier to scream at someone if that would work, too. I'm reminded of Lyndon Johnson, oddly enough.
I feel you bro. I've been there and done that. The thing is is that they are completely happy losing out on seeing the few candidates that are mixed in among the whole pool of non-PhDs (who are 85%+ posers) when they can select among the PhDs (who are 85%+ legit). It's a simple risk aversion tactic among companies and has nada to do with you personally. Like the man says, "nothin' personal, it's just business".
I live in Oregon, where you can't pump your own gas (except in very limited circumstances). I stopped at a station that I don't normally used and was horrified to see one of those in-pump screens blaring away.

My annoyance turned to laughter when I realized that you can't even see or really hear the screen from inside a car (I was on a motorcycle). The ads just play to the poor, beleaguered station attendant all day long.
Knuth?

i mean, i've never worked with him, but he's apparently great.
Obviously blockchain tech, right? Or am I misunderstanding gold rush?
1. Wozniak
2. Lasseter (and others)
3. Ive

His success was being involved with people with genius and vision that were willing to put up with his shit.
There is a rule of thumb that relates the size of the brain to the size of the body. A bigger needs more brain mass just to operate (more nerve endings?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient
One I've been thinking about: the building design industry's ability to couple mechanical energy systems to passive energy strategies and building geometry/material.

Mechanical engineers have figured out all sorts of clever ways to couple different parts of the HVAC system together ensure maximum efficiency. Air is recirculated, if air can't be recirculated, just the sensible heat or moisture is captured and added to supply air. There are increasingly complicated loops of supply and return cooling/heating water to reduce the energy cost of exhausting waste heat or absorb heat from outside conditions. All of which is calculated with building energy models, and can easily be parameterized and optimized for specific load scenarios.

And yet, anything that is the architect's domain is never as tightly coupled. So you end up with mech engineers recommending these sort of plug-and-play systems, architects implementing fairly generic "sustainability" strategies, and the efficiency gains from coupling the two are lost.

Off the top of my head, here are some reasons for this (beyond just the disciplinary division between mechanical engineers and architects):
- lack of sophisticated computational geometry methods that plug into the energy simulators
- the huge upfront cost of developing a mechanistic simulation models
- the dependency of energy modeling on complex fluid modeling and the prohibitively huge computational cost associated with that
- the inability to capture local microclimate conditions that can inform hyper-localized building design
- the lack of a database of building energy models with accurate geometry/material options that would allow architects to predict energy impacts of geometry
- the general ambiguity of classifying "shapes" and "geometry", it seems impossible to break down geometry into feature vectors for ML or statistical analysis.

I don't know if this actually has a huge energy impact, but my instinct is that there's a lot of potential "coupling" that could occur that is left on the table because the building design industry tends to silo the active/renewable energy systems. Granted, there's plenty of activity in the industry around this, but at this stage it's all based on the idea of hooking up existing state-of-the-art simulation modelers to CAD geometry modelers, and then doing fairly simple optimization design solution space searching between the two. As the divide between the two software "silos" (energy simulation/CAD models) starts to break down, and more sophisticated methods to break down the solution space trickles down into the industry from ML/data science, I think this should lead to a scenario where we can implement more tightly coupled building designs.
Thanks for the clarification!

There was a recent HN article that did a step-by-step using rust+musl on Alpine. The "why" makes more sense now.
Azure Functions in F# (For Real)
Reference Listed Drug (RLD) Access Inquiries
neovim-gtk seems to add a little more
https://github.com/daa84/neovim-gtk

Of course there is the other extreme of Oni
https://github.com/onivim/oni
I'm not sure that's the case. He's not saying that the mathematics doesn't represent the physics. He's saying that in order to apply the mathematics we have to have some empirical model to which the axioms of the mathematical system applies. As long as that's the case, the mathematics can provide insight into the physical system. But where the mathematical tools break down are in the areas where we don't have any data.

From a physical perspective the math, in this case, is moot. We have no data about what happens past the event horizon, so I could just as easily say that it encompasses a space filled with tiny pink unicorns which exhale confetti and it would be just as meaningful.

What we know is that something different happens. So there's really no room for either the mathematicians or the physicists to speak with authority on what happens. What we're left with is very well-informed speculation about a really interesting region of space-time.
This 1000 times. I work in data warehousing and Business Intelligence. The closest I have gotten to data scientists are actuaries. Most who don't have a clue about data management, the process to get your data to be consistent and clean so you can do your analysis. Instead of creating standardised processes and tables, each analysis is started from scratch leading to maintenance nightmare and inability to cross-reference the results with any other data sets.

Whoever is running data scientist units needs to realise you need IT/DBA/programming people in the mix. Statisticians in my experience cannot design databases, concepts of code reuse and normalisation do not exist in their vocabulary. A great deal of time is wasted doing repetitive tasks that someone with a programming background would have assisted.
I actually disagree. I found what finally led to me using VIM was enabling VIM keybindings in RStudio. It's an emulated VIM setup, so not every command is supported, but it does have the advantage that at any point Insert mode works pretty much exactly like a non-vim setup. After a few months of this sort of semi-usage, I started to feel confident enough to use regular VIM, and started looking into more advanced command usage. The biggest thing was still, the ability to drop into Insert mode and have things like selection, copy/paste, backspace behavior, all work like they would in a normal text editor. If I got frustrated and needed to "just get something done", I didn't have to drop into notepad or whatever to do that. Rather than start off with no vimrc, I think its a lot more helpful to start with a vimrc that disables a bunch of functionality or makes it work "normally", which you can then re-enable as you see the need. For example, at first I shortcutted all registers to the system register.
> What the fuck are you talking about?

The point is that net neutrality doesn’t even exist presently.

> Fair, but I'd say this is an incentive for ISPs to step up their game.

What do you mean?

> This is a very old argument.

Yours or his?

> First of all, soap, wine and haircuts are not a medium of sharing information.

How is this relevant?

> And all qualities are not sold at the same price.

I think that’s the point.
Funny how I never thought of this rather obvious solution to a problem that I also had! I will add it on the list at: https://github.com/tyherox/ryeboard/projects/3. Thanks for your feedback!
I thought google uses hg, have they switched over to git as well?
Can you clarify what you mean? I doubt that deciding not to look at news sites on the internet is depression.
Let's please call it as it is: the dick pic network is shrinking and hasn't ever found a proper purpose beyond sending those. Sorry to be so blunt.
I think it comes down to the scientific method. In math and physics new theories are proven extensions or replacements of previous theories. In philosophy you do not have the same kind of proof, there is more room for interpretation. And then of cause there is the beauty and concisenes of the old texts
Instacart open-sources easy creation of CloudWatch Alarms
>It's very ironic to me that offensive technologies do not threaten world peace as much as defensive technologies.

ummm... what?
This article, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/game-chan... mentions that USAID and the WHO are proving resources:

> Both Mbandaka and Bikoro now have mobile labs, where researchers can test blood samples locally—a huge difference compared to most previous outbreaks. Provided by USAID, the labs contain generators, freezers, and equipment for doing diagnostic tests. The Mbandaka lab is expected to be operational tomorrow afternoon, once the WHO delivers a generator.
Photometric parallax, apparently.
Not an expert (but a background in neurophysiology).

Synaptic pruning (deleting synapses) is an important part of neural development. Here's a ref [1] with a couple of paragraphs (see "Synaptogenesis" and "Synapse Pruning").

Synaptic pruning seems widespread in mammalian neurodevelopment. I wouldn't be surprised to find it's involved in some ultrastructural neural aspects of intelligence.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722610/