skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During a serious outbreak of something more transmissible than endemic disease like the flu (and all the various viruses that give us colds), people would freak out and attendance to all those things would plummet.
Around 1999-2000, unemployment rate was very low and labor force participation rate was at an all time high.

Around 2017-2018, unemployment rate is very low, but labor force participation rate and wages are so low, you have to go all the way back to 1976 to see a comparison.

In 1976, most spouses weren't working full time.

Oh and by the way, if you work Uber for a week and quit, you aren't considered unemployed anymore.
I was hoping this would be about an aerospike engine.
Can you post to any of those results from the actual regulators?

So far there have been a few people just giving up before the regulators get involved, which seems like a massive over reaction.
My nephews are constantly on their iPads playing games or watching YouTube.
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Dune II came before both of them, but as far as I remember it wasn't a pure RTS, it had an adventure aspect as well.
GDPR does not restrict EU companies' activities in less regulated markets. They are still just as free to abuse the privacy of users in USA as are their competitors overseas.

Your anxiety appears to be about American AI companies' competiveness in the face of even worse abuse of users' privacy in China than in USA.

In a race to the bottom do you really want to be the winner, no matter what?
The design history of Skype for iPhone was particularly misguided: First it was a native UIKit app, then MS put a lot of effort into making it look and behave exactly like a Windows Phone app [1], down to the unusual gestures. When they gave up on that, the app reverted to a native UIKit design, but just a few updates later we got the current Snapchat clone instead. Needless to say, features regularly got lost during these radical redesigns.

That‘s still very clearly the same Microsoft where a gazillion layers of dumb middle management ruin everything[2].

[1] http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/06/skype-redesign-iphone-app...
[2] http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...
I ended up taking a role elsewhere, but ReifyHealth was extremely respectful of my time and had a very enjoyable interview process. I'd definitely recommend checking them out.
Dune II was released 1992, Warcraft 2 in 1995, C&C Red Alert in 1996. Dune II was the first RTS with mass market success and had a defining influence.
As someone who looks at Xcode all day, I'm very happy to be getting a dark mode. But really I have my fingers crossed the syntax highlighting issues get fixed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208892
Why is Lineage behind?
You sure that isn't just a reflex "defending my country" reply?

I mean, extending on that statement, you probably also think sexual harassment, as long as it stays verbal, is OK to have in the name of freedom. As a guy you probably don't have to worry there anyways. People are driven into suicide through harassment.

And why don't you feel the same about the right to just shoot anyone at will? Clearly your government is strongly restricting your freedom there, but we probably don't Need to argue why this is a good thing.
Great library. We used it at my last workplace with great success. It was a huge win for interactivity across the platform.
> Just wait another two years and then you can forget about IE for good

Because most developers will target chrome with a current market share of about 60%.

I bet google will stop to innovate and compete as soon as they ate most of the cake, hopefully without forcing "standards" on other browser.

But some of their products is already crippled on other browsers, so that ship might have sailed already.

In another two years, or something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181269
Give me a break. HBS does not teach students anything remotely close to ignoring problems and never taking responsibility for your actions.
I personally think so. I hope other Danes think so. I may joke occasionally about the Faroese Islands and Greenland, but in reality, I hope they stay part of the Kingdom of Denmark, because it's a mutual beneficial arrangement.
Really hope it's not just Xcode 10 but system wide dark mode.
World Poverty, Immigration and Gumballs
Deferring seccomp decisions to user space
Would you recommend any specific combination of libraries boilerplate/starter kit? (I suppose I should just search npm, GitHub..) I feel like there are almost too many libraries for, i.e., transforming template literals to HTML, data binding, state management, etc. I know "do one thing only", but it can be daunting to figure out an optimal integrated setup.

Is there a popular/well-used set of tools for the kind of web-component based projects that you're describing? Polymer is one, I recall - wasn't too keen on it last time I looked at it, would prefer more minimal/modular..
Because then it might be construed as an attack on police funding. Politicians seek support of police unions when they're running campaigns.
I introduced my kids to Dune II a couple of months back and they loved it. They now like to pretend to be sand worms rolling around the lounge in their sleeping bags.

I haven’t really done any gaming in years (other than The Witness). Still reminisce about all the hours spent playing Dune and Syndicate and the like.
The adventure game (with minor RTS elements) was Dune (no II) by Cryo. This one is Dune II by Westwood, which was a pure RTS.

Funny enough, they were developed at the same time.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/

> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.
I find the best approach to KISS is to write it as simple as possible under the assumption you'll have to throw it away. If it turns out you don't have to (after measuring), then all the better.
Spotify remove 'hate conduct' policy following backlash
The source video hosted on the Apple servers:

http://apptrailers.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-0000...
"Doctor! What did you say? Doctor!!!"

Amazing how the rumor spread from 1 person. Fiction I know but still amazing.
Agreed, grip strength and reaction speed were the most impressive parts of this feat. His teammate anchoring him deserves about half the credit for non grip related strength.
winform and win32 were built by engineers. Wpf had much more thought put in place for design aspects. The problem s we try to write applications in a system designed for documents.
Nokia brand smartphones are unlocked, come with latest vanilla Android without bloatware, and they get regular fast updates (updates guaranteed for at least 2 years).

I have Nokia 3 and it's perfectly OK. No thrill, just works and stays updated. Nokia 6 is $230 in the US.
Believe it or not 200GB of disk space may not be enough! At least 250GB is required according to: https://source.android.com/setup/build/requirements.
Dune II was the game I bought a Soundblaster card for. It was one of the first games with voice acting. That the Soundblaster also worked for Wing Commander was a bonus.

My favorite tactic in Dune II was to build concrete tiles right up to the enemy's base and start planting turrets. You can do a Protoss cannon rush in Starcraft, but the tactic was available in Dune II first.

It seems like this distribution requires the original game files. I tossed my 5 1/4" floppies when PCs stopped shipping with floppy drives. Silly me.
Just have a look at the comments of the video on YouTube. That sums up why I no longer visit Reddit, and turn off comments on most sites. Impressive catch though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqHloZxSeGo
Yes, but do we need that information? It could be the case of any integer graph. Either just plot the samples, or curve them. Don't curve them with intermediary values, that means even less than a trend curve.

Edit: okay maybe the violin plot as it is shown has the correct density information. I disregarded that aspect of the plot.
That's good to know. I had the impression it was more expansive.
Tough article.

Sounds like in the early 1900s, Vienna faced the rise of fascism and the fall of the "Liberal" order. The bourgeouise, mostly liberals, began to use art discourse as a means of secretly discussing their discontent with the political situation.

Artists like Thomas Bernhard, Karl Kraus, and other Vienna-hating Viennese thus criticized, through their art, the artistic circles of contemporary Vienna.
Yeah, it seems to be pretty clear. They justify it on the technicality that they are not charging you, but an inanimate object with no rights; but honestly they could do this with almost anything you own, including your own body, through reasoning which is only slightly more ludicrous.
Forums only had to have a checkbox or user agreement saying "you must be over 13", and are protected from liability for users posting illegal content in the US by section 230 of the CDA.
Company names aren't name protection.

The only form of trading name protection is a trademark. So if neighbourly.co.nz wanted to expand into new markets, their next move would be a WIPO filing for their trademark - but you can't just register a trademark in a country and not trade under it there, it's easily challenged.

And after having searched IPONZ's website, it appears that there's not even a registered trademark in NZ for neighbourly - so if Google were to start trading in NZ using "neighbourly", neighbourly.co.nz would have to rely on the passing off provisions of the Fair Trading Act and be able to produce evidence that Google had caused them loss by confusing their customers.

TL;DR - trademarks are important.

As an aside, based on spelling (-our vs. -or) I presume this Google product comes from a non-American market.
> basic things was its sound... I'd go in an airplane and I wouldn't be able to hear anything.

Was the sound issue also present when you were using headphones?

A bit of topic: Because it inconsiderate to use speakers in a airplane. Last airline I used warn passengers to not use speakers.
I'm not sure if Amazon's recommendation algorithm would qualify as AI.

Basically, it's still just shopping basket analysis as in the somewhat famous "Men who buy beer on Fridays are also likely to buy diapers." story (http://web.onetel.net.uk/~hibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html ).
I think a major problem with it is apathy, which is abundant, and can explain most ways government works worse in America (and why there should be less of it). Granted, I still don't agree that things are oh-so-bad in the U.S. Every time we bring up an issue, the Americans and foreigners alike gasp and point fingers, but this sort of stuff happens all over the world, just maybe not this exact problem in other English speaking nations.

What this does show is that we shouldn't expect government approaches which at least somewhat function in other countries to work well in the U.S.
No registered trademark on the IPONZ website for neighbourly.
It seems unfair to compare a proprietary and closed system api to a standards based one. Where there are many companies with different and conflicting goals setting the standards.
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I'm American, but I live in the UK and am currently working on a research project for Network Rail to investigate how machine learning might be used to improve performance. So I've been reading up on rail networks in general.

The Tube is mostly great, but there are issues; the public generally doesn't see them (but I guess you've never been in London at rush hour?). The UK rail network however is a disaster. Privatization has made things worse - organizational chaos because of too many overlapping responsibilities between all the companies / not enough coordination. And the profit motive of course screws up things for what ought to be treated as a public utility. The latest disaster (the re-timetabling of GTR's services) was badly planned, managed, and executed. It's not "government" in general - my opinion is Americans in general are a lot more organized than the British in a fundamental sense.

Europe is one a model of exactly how to run things - but at a certain cost to passengers. There is enough buffer space left in the timetable to deal with possible delays or problems, and so services are relatively infrequent, but on the whole punctual. Thus passengers have to adjust their lives for that. The UK however does not do that - buffer space is eaten up to stick freight trains in whenever possible and any issues with them (plus issues with passenger trains) cascade. And UK passengers have always had train services available at the drop of a hat (metaphorically) - the social cost to move over to the EU style of doing things would make a lot of people very unhappy. The GTR disaster is an example of how socially disruptive changes are, especially when badly managed.

Japan is of course super organized, so they have train services down to the very second. The UK only labels trains as 'late' if they arrive more than 3 minutes late...

As for NYC, yeah, they have a lot of issues. Old tracks, underfunded, but mostly bad management decisions in trying to solve one problem and it snowballs - the NY Times have had some good articles on exactly what is going wrong. It is like no one has been paying attention to all the OR research in this area, but that seems to be normal - the gap between theory and what's actually is done in industry is quite large.
From Hobby to Criminal Evidence
There have been working prototypes of primitive METs for many years. Martin Tajmar who published the paper concerning magnetic coupling was responding to the EM Resonator work at NASA JSC's "Eagleworks" lab, not to the work at Cal State Fullerton. If you will read more carefully, Tajmar is one of the three replicating labs that have reported positive findings using the MET. I've known Martin for more than a decade and I can say he does good work.

NASA just awarded the MET research phase 2 NIAC funding.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2017_Phase_...

If you will read the articles attached to my profile linked above, you will see that yes indeed, the EM Resonator does propose to violate the Conservation Principle, and should therefore be taken as pathological science. However, the Mach Effect Thruster does not propose to violate conservation.

Woodward is often six orders magnitude above his noise floor in his experiments. By contrast, the Eagleworks lab testing the EM Resonator was never able to get out of their noise floor.
Using defensive structures offensively in such a way does seem like such an RTS tactic that probably wouldn't get used IRL - does any have any examples to prove me wrong?
It's funny to remember Dune 2 and Warcraft 1 didn't let you select multiple units. You had to click and move one unit at a time so group attacks were really tedious and cumbersome. I was always curious why the interface designers didn't think to add multiple select at the time.
And Warcraft 1 was 1994.
I wonder: Does this let you scale between colors or is it just light or dark? On systems that support it, I always end up deciding on a sort of light gray appearance that's still darker than the typical Mac OS look. (And on CDE, I like the sand and teal ;-))
How is Copperheads supports for not using or fully replacing Google Play Services? Microg has built Lineage images so those are fairly accessible. Any word on Copperhead doing anything like that?
Worth plugging just because it's tangential - 0 A.D. is an open source re-creation of the game Age of Empires 1.
because space is a vacuum its actually really hard to cool things in space - there is no heat energy so it is cold, but there is no air for your generated heat to dissipate into.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/72179/cooling-do...
to add to what the other commented, Dune 2 was developped by Westwood who 4 years later did Red Alert
I really hope this is delivered.

I recall an old beta of iOS having a much reported preview of dark mode. Several versions later it's still not on actual phones. I want a dark mode on my iPhone far more than on my laptop!
Our advantage in this work is to make use of the scaling laws that govern Mach Effect Thruster efficiency. The force generated divided by the electrical power necessary to run the device, scales linearly with frequency, quartically (to the forth power) with Voltage and linearly with both the 1w and 2w mechanical Qs of the device. QSPs unique advantage is we have access to proprietary materials and designs that enable us to scale the thrust efficiency to much higher values.

The risk mitigation strategy is to provide another product line that does not rely upon Mach Effect physics, and by bringing that technology to market first, even if the thruster were to disappoint, we can provide exponential ROI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kMm2OkNx00&feature=youtu.be
Brilliant! I'm never reading an arxiv PDF again!
Arguably the "first" RTS. Not sure about SDL2 support. But clean C/C++ might be a good candidate for WASM port to web. Still need .pak assets...

Recall many abandonware variants of Dune games floating around the web back in the day. With some incredible cut scene art ;)
page bloat certainly is a problem, though the progress in device performance and bandwidth of mobile internet connections has been tremendous. I think people like Addy Osmani from Google are spreading awareness of provide in depth guides for drastic improvements, e.g. those two:

https://medium.com/dev-channel/the-cost-of-javascript-84009f...

https://images.guide/
Hey Dan,

Yes of course we hire women. Would love to hire more. We have a few on the team at the moment, but women are definitely under represented. You're right I probs should avoid gendered terms, but I'm Australian and "guys" has always meant "group of people" to me, rather than a gendered term, though I realise that's not the way the rest of the world views it.

Should mention that I don't speak for the company, especially with regards to recruiting, and am just a backend dev after more people, and figured I could post here in a less than official capacity.

To me, as an engineer, the things I am interested in are:

- Salary
- Who my boss is whether I trust them/think they are sensible.
- Engineering lead business. I.e engineering is a big part of the decision making in terms of what are priorities.

I feel that this company is decent in all these regards.

https://festicket.workable.com/j/7D1A4FF76A

Edit:

Thanks for the feedback btw, I'll tidy this up for when I post next month. Appreciate it.
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The only experiment I know of and would consider a serious attempt at reproduction would be Tuxedage's series,

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FmxhoWxvBqSxhFeJn/i-attempte...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dop3rLwFhW5gtpEgz/i-attempte...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oexwJBd3zAjw9Cru8/i-played-t...

His total is 3 for 3. I do not know how to explain these results without either taking them to be honest attempts at a fair experiment or by assuming those involved colluded. I find the latter absurd, given my priors about the honesty of members of LessWrong (Yudkoswky in particular, though he wasn't involved in the reproduction).

> If I told you I reenacted the experiment at home with a friend, would you consider this a reproduction? Someone saying they reproduced it on the internet would convince you?

It is not so simple. I would want evidence that you and your friend were smart and had a decent understanding of the domain, and that your friend was in a similar state of unbelief about the plausibility of being convinced. I would want a statement that it was a serious attempt at doing things "the hard way" and true to the experiment, on both sides, lest you get [1]. Of course I would want the standard rules, or a reasonable modification publicly stated, in addition.

[1] https://pastebin.com/Jee2P6BD

> What is the goal of the experiment?

To show that "I can't imagine anything that even a transhuman could say to me which would change [my mind]" is not evidence, and should not be treated as such. To provide evidence that "humans are not secure systems".

You say "very low stakes", but Yudkowsky convinced someone who had offered a $5000 handicap. That hardly seems like a trivial quantity.

> [maybe it's all a lie]

You have to be very cynical to take this worldview.

> we don't even know what a "transhuman" mind would be like

The experiment is under assumption of a true singularity, ergo. nigh-unlimited intelligence. I can discuss what outcomes I think are likely for AI development, or which are merely plausible, but the experiment is about one particular hypothetical, so that would be a different conversation.

> the participants seem to be selected from a pool of people fascinated by this kind of questions and who would be open to suggestion that a "transhuman" mind can convince them of stuff

I am unconvinced that this experiment would work if the gatekeepers did not have an understanding of the topic; they are meant to play a gatekeeper, after all. A person who considers the singularity plausible but thinks an AI box is effective seems like the perfect control should the singularity happen and people want to figure out whether to AI box it.