skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, I tried my hardest to keep my post non-normative - it's basically a factual one paragraph summary of every goverment report on this of the last 15 years. In the context of the overall thread, the underlying point is that 'nr of hours worked' is only one data point, and is only meaningful when interpreted for a well defined purpose and when considered with many other factors.
Agree.

But I’m advocating something much stronger than that: breaking them down into small modules each with a published interface.

You can see what all any given module depends on by looking at one set of imports at the top of one file.

Each of those has a github repo and a README, so it’s easy to find out what they do...

But most importantly, the architecture of such a library will be wholly different than what it would have been if developed as a monorepo.

My point is not really that this structure of code is ergonomic. It’s that forcing yourself to do things this way forces you to clarify the purpose of modules. And to discover interfaces which are truly orthogonal.

And that makes the code easier to understand.
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Here's commentary on the court decision (in German) with links to the actual decision:

https://netzpolitik.org/2014/urteil-des-lg-koeln-zu-creative...
Never spent a night with sisters? Just to clarify, was that literal?
The literacy issue is not as big an obstacle as we might think today. Shakespeare worked in a majority non-literate culture and created work (plays and sonnets) intended to be heard, not read. Moreover, he was largely an absentee father. If Melville or Tolstoy's kids were illiterate, I'd agree that something doesn't look right, but in this case we're projecting modern assumptions backwards into a deeply foreign early modern culture.
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I'm not any where near my school. Anyway, I already did mock interviews with my school last year, and did several mock interviews with principal engineers a few months ago. I'm also attending Toastmasters.

I already have several projects in Vue. No one asks about them during interviews.
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Complete guess but they might use multiple F/A-18s, each with their own boom in a specific formation, to mimic the non-combining booms of the X-59?
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That will be ~1000 employees for a ~100k town. Not sure if this would even offset the infrastructure use from the gigafactory alone.
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I would guess that more irritating than that, are ignorant people trying to discuss a field they have no idea about (I'm looking at you, antivaxxers)
Maybe it is you. From TFA:

"“The more guys, the less safe the girl is. When there are other men in the room [for sex], it’s like the men are competing with each other, and they get rougher, so the girls can get really hurt.“"

Not much need for bigotry to see that if people get "really hurt" in an inter-company bonding event, something must be wrong.
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It excludes / make it awkward for professional women or even gay professionals.
What's the problem with posting on Github? I could see several benefits for it: no ads, source control, easy edit from the web page, notifications for your followers...
Ok the 'global' syntax thing makes a lot more sense than the one I was told about (which involved the 'inspect' module iirc). The typing - yes I understand all of that, my point still stands that it's all 'you don't need to know all of this! Oh, at least, until you do'. Wrt python3 - fair enough, things probably do get better. But that just reinforces my point about cruft building up in any practical language, and Python being just as susceptible to it as other languages.
From 4.5.1

> A surprising 56.3% of participants believed that even while a user was logged into a Google account, their search queries would not be saved while in private mode. The large majority of participants (144) believed this to be the case
because private mode does not save search histories, conflating the browser’s local history with Google’s.
> I'm super confused reading comments like this.

Ditto. Generally you see that the people taking a loosely-veiled stab at science articles are also genuinely religious themselves. It appears that it's fine to hold faith, but not fine to actively study the truth behind the matter.

The flip side is the trolls, and I genuinely don't understand why some people perceive it to be cool or funny to just arbitrarily go against the grain of a conversation.
I think there are a few other major problems, but I think many apps are unlikely to hit them in the same way that they are unlikely to have integration issues with native code, because they don't need much native code.

Most apps only need to be a bunch of table views and detail views, with some forms. Line of business apps that need to be efficient (not pretty) or that don't use many of the advanced platform features, short lived apps for events/marketing/competitions/etc, apps for restaurants or shops, these are all places where I think React Native fits perfectly.

However, if you want your app to have the best performance (spoiler alert, you probably don't), you want to be at the cutting edge of platform support, or you want to create experiences that fit on the target platform perfectly, then I think native is the way to go. Most apps do not need this.
> Lolicon is one of those odd moral black holes for westerners.

Not just for westerners. Despite the author of this post's protestations to the contrary, Lolicon is quite controversial in Japan. While it's certainly more mainstream there than in the west, the idea of it "inciting abuse" is a common argument in Japan, with the fact that criminals on trial happen to be Lolicons often being reported. In this way it has something of a parallel to linking violent video games to violent crime, which western media often does.

There may be good arguments against this idea of "inciting abuse", but the author's supposition that there's this stark divide between Japan and the West and that Japanese simply can't comprehend Western perspectives on Lolicon is just nonsense.

"Inciting" in general is the usual argument against otherwise "harmless" activities you mention like incest and necrophilia: the idea that the act of performing such will normalise other more harmful acts.
Probably the software is garbage (especially since they don't even support a recent version of Postgres) and does something that just barely works with Postgres itself, but completely explodes with PGBouncer.
Nice. If I had known about this extension I might have used it.

When people started hashtagging on FB, I thought it was the stupidest thing. Then, when FB made it a feature, I just had to shrug and go "I guess the hashtaggers are the ones in the right, now..."
> Your comment is akin to saying that USD was not money in the 1930s.

USD has the benefit of active management from a central bank, active management from Congress, and being a government-backed currency with a minimum threshold of demand (being the currency which is used for government spending and taxation).

Insofar as a completely different universe where BTC is an actively-managed currency of a world superpower is "existing market conditions" then yes, BTC is just like the USD. /s

The better comparison is gold, which is a commodity like Bitcoin, and yet much more stable than BTC. Thing is, there is also a minimum level of demand there, for jewelry and industrial purposes. Small, but real. Nobody actually has an interest in Bitcoin stability, it's just investors who want to make money on it going up or down. So... it does.

(the real rollercoaster was back when Tether was printing hundreds of millions of dollars on a daily basis and injecting that into the crypto-economy. Ever since they knocked that off, it's been hanging around the $6000 mark.)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066
stuck like this https://i.imgur.com/CiISBYY.png forever THANKS MICROSOFT
40 was a little too small, and 42 has been OK in practice!

I find it’s helpful because beating any structure beyond maybe 5 levels deep is painful, so I am forced to refactor.

Names aren’t so much of an issue because of the single-file-per-repo and 150-line-target principles:

If your module only consists of 150 lines, there’s just not enough in your namespace to need long names. Essentially, you only ever work within a small, isolated piece of a huge flat namespace.

Long names are necessitated by the huge, deep API surface that the filesystem provides.
Yes, but the new EU versions would be just as vulnerable to being sued for copyright infringement for user content as Google, HN, Github, Facebook and Twitter would be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamics

But yeah, it's a breakthrough...

Oh look
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive

No one mentions as well that the optimum form factor for such a technology consists in two round plates facing each other (wink-wink).
Personally I don't care what others do. I care if I am put in a position that I have to engage in these activities, just to win a contract, get paid or whatever else. Especially if I wasn't warned in advance.

I guess it would be better for everyone if the interviewee is asked "You might have to participate in, err, hard parties. Would you be okay with it?"

The other thing you have to consider is these can be much worse for women and minorities than straight men.
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I'm sure the prostitutes knew what they were signing up for.
This is the shit that the "Laoban" culture is, a culture of middle aged looser type officials - it is everywhere where the touch of communist "culture" reached. This shit started with party members, and state companies from North East, then it spread like a virus to everywhere where people from the region were hired in any much high position.

I'm not surprised that Westerners fail to perceive the essence of the it — this is an act of collective humiliation of junior employees who are made passive spectators of those disgusting orgies. It is a sublime message to his underlings — be my loyal shoeshiner, and maybe one day I will elevate you to a position where you can do this too.

Those middle age nobodies rarely if ever attend brothels just by themselves, the whole point for them doing so is to drag their subordinates into it, making them a part of the "humiliation pyramid." There is no "oiling of the deal" element here.
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Your math doesn't make any sense. How is a single Concorde flight supposed to replace a day of other planes arriving every 20 seconds?
I'm under the impression, in Udacity's case especially, that part of the problem stems from asking native engineers to use a language and ecosystem that they're not used to working with, and then trying to get them to integrate RN code into an established, brownfield native codebase.

As a sole dev in a 3-person startup, I’ve managed to build a pretty large app with React Native, having zero prior native experience (although, that’s not to say that I haven’t had to learn a _lot_ about Xcode!)
How does it compare to Flutter?
From the article:

So, weight decay is always better than L2 regularization with Adam then? We haven’t found a situation where it’s significantly worse, but for either a transfer-learning problem (e.g. fine-tuning Resnet50 on Stanford cars) or RNNs, it didn’t give better results.
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If it’s ridiculously limited like 8k a year it would hardly be helpful when rent is $2700 a month
Don't haste to kill it. Chicken are prey birds and fight all the time with other chicken. Can cure serious injuries surprisingly fast and recover from grizzly attacks.

Just apply Aloe vera in the damaged parts, feed well, keep it warm in a calm place isolated from other chicken and wait. They will benefit also if you allow them eat the remaining chunks of aloe (only the transparent gel, not the bitter green parts).
And (4) is where BMW make their money! Or you'd have bought a Suzuki Swift :)
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Like they have a choice? Did you see the part where it's basically impossible for women to succeed in business as any average man would because of this system?
Nice one! WASM will be way more interesting with that :)
As a european football (you might call it soccer) fan, this sounds absolutely insane. Having a club move to a different city is a sure way to alienate large parts of the fan base.
Non-volatile memories like NAND flash and Intel's 3D XPoint have fundamental advantages over DRAM that guarantee they'll be cheaper than DRAM. DRAM requires a transistor for every memory cell, and stores one bit per cell. Non-volatile memories like NAND flash and 3D XPoint don't need an extra transistor to isolate each memory cell, which frees them up to be built with multiple layers per die, and the non-volatility is key to their ability to store more than one bit per memory cell (though the currently-shipping 3D XPoint is only storing one bit per cell).

So the non-volatility is indirectly related to why those memories are more cost-effective than DRAM, but they still have the array structure that allows for much lower access times than a hard drive.
All in all is it still a terrible idea to try to build native apps with HTML?

In my experience going back to Phonegap, I have tried many evolutions of these products over the years and all of them are terrible. Like unusable. 3fps and unresponsive.

Is React Native a new generation, a new stable outlook, or is it simply making React 3fps and unresponsive?
For me it personally, stories like this make it impossible to buy the theory that the world or work are meritocracy or fair.

It is not so much that it is politically incorrect, it is more that you can't simultaneously claim that this is how it is and is ok while also claim that everything is totally fair and demographic composition is not influenced by any of this.

Not just gender, also religious as it selects people with certain values - good traditional Christian boy saving himself for marriage is f-cked too.
That seems like the least likely explanation to me. A parachuter does not plan to jump into a massive forest without having any reasonable plans of what to do after landing. Bear in mind that every detail of the robbery was planned in advance.
Could this be the renaissance of RSS syndication?

The users autonomously aggregate the RSS published by the authors or the owners of the content an build their own personal aggregators at home.

You wanna share it?

Just share the links to the RSS (which are public and used exactly for that purpose)

The owner is in control of what's being distributed, the user is in control of what they are reading

Wikipedia itself is a form a centralization of data and content, which is undesirable anyway.
Sure, fallen fruit can cause problems; which is why in 'neat' orchards (only short grass under trees, very little other vegetation that can house predators that eat the insects that are attracted by fallen fruit) you pick as much as possible and pick up and discard fallen fruit. And 'production' orchards use dwarf or semi dwarf varieties anyway, along with planting patterns that let them harvest with telescopic lifts.

My point was, the analogy is still valid. In full size orchards, you'rr not going to be able to get any of the non-low hanging fruit. I know of cherry trees 25+ m high with kilos and kilos of cherries in absolutely unreachable places. And many fruit trees that I know of, only the low hanging fruit is picked at all most years.

My own apple trees are 6ish years old now, I'm hoping I'll get my first proper (if somewhat modest) harvest this year. But even now, I already know I won't be able to reach much of it.

Either way thanks for the comment, I think we're on the same page here - I was just wondering if there was something I missed in your original comment. I always like learning about peculiarities or practices of people in other places, although I think in this case there isn't much different after all.
The "oh but middleboxes" argument is a universal one for bodging protocol development. For every new bit sent on the wire there will be some boxes somewhere messing it up. But there is also the opposite effect, maldesigned devices will never be replaced until users can't reach their services, in which case replacement is swift and decisive.

When the big content providers require it, infrastructure improves. Just look at TLS 1.3 for a recent example. When Chrome suddenly couldn't hand shake with a major load balancing vendor, blame was placed with the latter and the problem was fixed.
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Indeed. The same article gives a height of 30m for the wave.
I think this article has been posted here 3 times in the last few months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062790

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16333020
Well to be fair, I think that most people in many EU countries think the same, until they actually learn the details or find themselves experiencing it...
There are 7 departures to JFK alone from Heathrow between 8AM and noon today. I think there's about 20 flights a day overall.

Had Concorde been in place, to remove just 1 of those flights would require at least 3 concorde flights in that time period.
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No, but that’s how Stanford pulled off the inverted helicopter trick. Point is that flying regime is too difficult to design by hand, but ML is powerful enough to design a controller for us.
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Actually, not that bad, if you ask me

We had the the Russian Film School, the Polish Film and Animation school because of that

We had Stanisław Lem and Andrei Tarkovsky

We had East Germany Punk that inspired a lot of European bands (including Italian CCCP)

Now there is no typical eastern cultural product anymore.

Even in China they now produce massive blockbusters with American actors...
We just generate them on the fly - after all we're not stupid ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation#Algorithms_to_gene...

.. and there

"Generation in lexicographic order"

This algorithm only requires you to hold the last permutation in memory to obtain a new (distinct) one.
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They signed up for sex for money, not to get hurt. Workplace safety and all that.
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I had a pretty similar experience. It's still a challenging environment - getting performance and memory management nailed across platforms and devices took some very careful engineering.

Based on my limited experience with native iOS app development, RN actually requires an almost completely different way of working.
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That almost never works in software jobs as workplaces are not mobile.

Move a big desktop with hardware? Good luck. Try to access local state from a laptop? Does not work or is inconvenient.
Multiply by number of people talking.

Not talking also kills pair programming.
People buy from people they like, I guess? I'm not in sales but it's a lot easier to bond with someone while having dinner together and drinks, than it is in an office meeting room.
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In 1950s, I think, there were extensive research about behavior and how it changes in response to external influences, run chiefly by F. B. Skinner. The overall conclusion of that was that punishing the undesirable behavior does not work; that is, it will likely change the behavior, but not in the desired way. The only reliable way to change the behavior was to reward the desirable behavior; there's also some details on how to dispense the rewards (first regularly and then over irregular intervals). Skinner even wrote an utopian-genre book Walden Two about the future society that engineers its own culture using behaviorist method. (For example, quite a few diseases can be prevented or detected early simply by undergoing regular medical observations; yet not that many people do this regularly. What if we could change our culture to shape the desired behavior? Wouldn't it result in much more efficient health maintenance?)

For quite some time I regarded this as a humanist approach, but then I changed my mind and consider rewards used in this way not much different from punishments. Even if you don't try to use it manipulatively (which is obviously evil) but actually care about another person, it's still too dangerous and, I believe, eventually detrimental to the person's well-being. Besides, it's very easy to deceive yourself that you're not trying to manipulate while you actually are.

Consider that, for example, many video games follow the Skinner's model to the letter: they reward the desired behavior (playing) by dispensing some virtual rewards from time to time. Not regularly, so it's not boring, but often enough so that you get the boost and continue; and from time to time they give "better" rewards (more rare or in exchange to a number of smaller ones, so they look subjectively more expensive). It's easy to see people addicted to these games.