skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the best socioeconomic system depends on the circumstances.

Yes, just as life must bend to the contours of the environment it inhabits or otherwise perish, and there are a lot of permutations to the environment so life has evolved in so many ways, the best socioeconomic system is the one that serves the unique needs of a population. Whether it's encouraging social cohesion, resource sharing, trade, resource management, religion etc. it needs to be considerate of the people it binds.

The right tool for the job.
Unless of course the hiring process has a systemic flaw and there's an entire class of people that are being rejected that could be game changing.

(I actually don't have an axe to grind here - it's certainly not related to any obvious grouping - I just wonder if interview and selection might be so deeply flawed that a the occasional random lottery injection might improve the overall result.)
If you had actually read the article, you would have discovered that many of the projects covered in the Nevada auction included batteries.
Yes this - it just looks out of place in every font I've ever seen it in
Anything of value sent via snail mail gets seized. CC and bank accounts denominated in USD can't be used.
There is a black market where people pay with physical USD and crypto.
It is really painful sometimes to navigate life and witness the complete lack of understanding of control systems shown by the designers of many essential pieces of basic infrastructure from roads and parking all the way up to the banking/financial system.

Another common lack of understanding that is particularly prevalent within middle management is the trade-off between efficiency and resilience, the application of this to the finacial system is discussed at length in [0].

[0]http://www.lietaer.com/images/Sapiens_text_final.pdf
> Better employees, or employees that stay long enough to have experience both have a value that returns back to shareholders.

You're making the argument that companies should be nicer to their employees, because that is in the best interests of their shareholders. The linked article is implying that companies should be nicer to their employees, despite the best interests of their shareholders. These are 2 completely orthogonal arguments. The first is a moral argument, whereas the second is a business-tactics argument.

Since you brought it up, I certainly agree with the business-tactics argument to some extent. Companies like Google have certainly done well for their shareholders, by keeping their employees happy. But then again, companies like Walmart have shown that in some markets, employee happiness is barely correlated with shareholder returns.
You're replying to a comment about the true cost of solar being the battery + the panels, asking why anyone would think of buying a battery.

That's why.
Yes, tons of that.

See this - using K-Means clustering for anomaly detection in web traffic:

https://imgur.com/a/qWMgUo0

Using DBscan clustering for anomaly detection in healthcare claims data (detecting doctors who anomalously prescribing opioids). Using public CMS data set from 2015.

4 out of 8 top anomalies (doctors) were later actually convicted of crimes or gone into all sort of troubles with DOJ:

https://imgur.com/a/6wFWTg5

https://imgur.com/a/f721ndb

(Splunk Enterprise + free apps was used to ingest data and build all this logic and dashboards)
I have a 970 and Witcher 2 runs constantly above 60fps on ultra settings. You sure you have tried it after the port was improved?
Same here, but I kept Instagram (it really isn't much of a time waster in my case), but nuked Twitter. Twitter, more than any other of the apps, did not only waste my time but made me actively unhappy while doing so.
Upholding the Constitution can be a dogwhistle for various malign ideas. But there are also people who see, for example, the "living Constitution" jurisprudence as not actually upholding the Constitution, but rather just saying what you want and calling it the law. There are people who see executive orders (whether by Bush, Obama, or Trump) as not the way the country is supposed to be governed, and worry about the constitutional legitimacy of those orders. Probably the majority of the people who worry about such things are conservatives; my feel is that the majority (at a minumum) are not concerned about such issues as a cover for white supremacy.

Note well: I take no position on whether Oath Keepers is using "upholding the Constitution" as a cover for white supremacy.
This is great! I've been reading up on low level logic during long builds at work. Any chance you could add a clear all button?
So the idea would be to allow currying, but not allow partial application of the currying?
I think I'd call it an assumption.
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TensorFlow is getting easier to use
Except when it does to the extent that the common term for this approach ("skunk works") derives from a big company that did exactly this.
Twitter's Crackdown on Fake Accounts Will Make You Look Less Popular
They are solitary activities like TV and gaming consoles. Bowling isn’t. And arcades weren’t when I was growing up, and you’re still out there possibly interacting with people.

Further, they are idle consumption far and beyond books. I’d question anyone who sees someone sitting on a phone/TV/game all day and think it’s doing anything good for them.
It's not a loophole if people follow a law's explicit purpose.
The LAFD might be the most admired municipal organization in the city. They have a very difficult range of environments and handle them very well.
I don't think you can paste images into a Markdown editor.
I don't care about cultural appropriation and stuff - you are right in that aspect - it is a back and forth exchange between Hawaii, the East, and the West.

But it'd be like if you grew up buying "Mexican hats" from Walmart. It's a sombrero - they have other hats in Mexico, including hats they came up with, so your terminology is bad even if it's been working for you.
It is an option, a terribly obscure one, if you use Twitter's search interface to read your tweets instead of your home timeline.

I have this URL bookmarked as "Twitter classic":

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=filter%3Afollows%20-fi...
Google Search Algorithm Update Currently Mild
While Germany spends 78B on migrants, it ignores its poor pensioners
Ptolemaic-Era Black Granite Sarcophagus Discovered in Alexandria
Have you ever tried reading e-books? I've replaced most of my "on break" or "during commute" social-media time with plain reading of long-form content.

I tried that, and it didn't work for me because it's just too easy to switch to another time-absorbing app if the phone is already in my hand.

But I did something similar: I started reading actual books.

The key was to buy used paperbacks for $1 from low-end bookstores. That way I can carry it around and not worry about it, and if it gets lost or damaged, no big deal.

When I'm done with it, I leave it on the bus or train for someone else to find.
Software developer gets fired by a machine
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https://www.techworm.net/2018/07/software-developer-fired-machine.html
Ex-Tesla worker escalates battle by blowing whistle to SEC
Because you at least don't have to write classes for everything? :)
> There are two basic primary levers in US politics. Money. Votes. That's pretty much it.

There's at least three: money, votes, and committed foot soldiers (it's easy to think the laaf two are the same, but they don't overlap more than any other pair—whilw commanding votes and commanding people that will work for the cause (and thus move money and other votes) are loosely correlated, they aren't the same thing. One of the particular values form which religious communities are targeted as such is that they often command foot soldiers at a level beyond what is true of groups that deliver similar committed votes.
#define super IOService
#define fBlastIForgot [..]
OSMetaClassDeclareReservedUnused
OSMetaClassDeclareReservedUsed

This is so much nicer than just function pointers, base members and container_of!
Not if you're Kodak and making film.

Or, at least, the technology might have been obvious (they did have a hand in developing digital cameras), but the idea that they should bet big on the new technology eventually replacing them evidently wasn't obvious.
Every time I've paid out of pocket, I paid for the procedure ahead of time. I never considered it, but this is one of those good examples of why to do it.
I don't understand this. Fiberglass is non-conductive, so that's not really a reason to not use non-wood ladders. It is also generally stronger and more durable for the same weight.
These are not good questions for JS developer interview. Most of these questions can be asked in a phone interview/online test. You want to have people that know how to build stuff. If you are dragging someone for an in-person interview then spend a bit more time on pair programming interview.

Good people do not need to apply anywhere to get well-paid jobs. You want to poach people, find people from open-source contributions or your network recommendations.
ProPublica is not a technology company, it's a non-profit investigative journalism outlet.

They and countless other journalism/civic orgs would likely be happy for you to show them up by whipping up usable ETL scripts relevant in their respective domains. Since it all involves public open data you don't have to wait for anyone's permission.
Even better than being alone, not having foot traffic anywhere near my desk would be nice. I don't know how the guy sitting right by the door does it. People coming in and out all day and walking right by him.
They don't surpass SV salaries but can definitely match EU wages.
I think that is because there are no good free open source debuggers? In Visual Studio you just set a breakpoint and examine the variables; it works great. On Linux you are left alone against a command-line monster with outdated weird command syntax.

gdb has an awful interface; it requires you to read a long manual and learn outdated command syntax before even using it; it is often faster to add logging and rerun the program. It is not a debugger for humans.

For comparison, JS debugger in Chrome devtools works pretty good and is easy to use. It is really helpful and allows you to identify a problem very quickly (faster than reading an introduction page for gdb). But it has problems sometimes, when you try to set a breakpoint and it is set in another place or is not set at all without any error messages.

I saw some comments here against visual debugging; maybe their authors had experience with some buggy or poorly written debugger?

I also tried to use Firefox developer tools in several versions up to FF45 and almost every time something didn't work. And when they work, they choke on scrolling large minified files or heavy sites with lots of ads.
I don't think its anger. It's just that police and fire departments have garnered this "can do no wrong" mindset to the extent that trying to fix what they actually do wrong (waste money) has turned into a political third rail.

Fewer fires but larger departments [0], 6-figure trucks driving to fender benders, pension spiking, minimum staffing requirements & huge overtime pay (union-negotiated), etc.

Look, I appreciate what first responders do. I just don't think they're above reproach.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2015/09/04/05316abe-...
Completely agree. Back in the day, children began to be treated as adults around 12-13 as long as they proved themselves responsible enough.

I remember riding my bike 10-20 miles when I was 12-14 before cell phones, visiting distant friends and buying random stuff with my $20 allowance. Running errands for my parents too. By 18 my parents were more like mentors than protectors. Just some people I really liked to look up to and help out when things got real gnarly.

Life stuff happened. Flat tires, sketchy situations, talked to the police a few times. Even broke some bones once in a bike accident. Every time I learned how to deal with life situations and make it home alright. Young enough that strangers and the justice system are still ready to give you some slack cuz you're figuring things out, a gift that many kids these days don't get.

It makes you grow up fast. I was babysitting for multiple days at 14, responsibly as any adult. Starting working real jobs soon after, not disclosing because I don't want to dox myself... But I was doing "real adult" jobs where the consequences for mistakes we're so bad that people could die. My boss got several complaints that it was illegal or irresponsible to let a "child" do such work. It wasn't.
Principled and Practical Web Application Security (2015) [pdf]
Can confirm. Grew up in the area. Lots of neighbors, family and friends are FDNY. Everyone loves them.
It has already been an unnecessary distraction, so you're right about that.

I hope for a future where ideas are toxic, not sequences of letters.
Wow. That looks worse than the Ruhr area before they started scrubbing.
Nice rant, good read, and I find my self wanting to know how they actually solved the problem.
A Massive Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt. Nobody Knows Who's Inside
I'm kinda thankful helicopter parenting is being undermined by technology

I wish. I know people in their late 30's who are on their parent's cell phone plan, and have tried (unsuccessfully) to get on their health insurance.
> I hear people raise this concern a lot, but I think it is without foundation.

Well, I've come across companies that have policies against using unlicensed or public domain code.

This sadly makes whether it's a founded concern irrelevant, as the licensing choice suddenly prevents me from using the code in any shape or form if I work there.
The truth I think is more often that the legacy system is too old and brittle to improve, and customers are demanding ever more complicated features from it.

So you rebuild as a new system as a gamble, because even though it shows all the traits described, the new system is at least one that anyone is willing to develop, and one where features can be added, and to which people can be recruited.

We know big rebuilds have small chances of sucess. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do big rewrites. You are in a bad place if you even
consider. Maybe the big rewrite means the company has an 80% risk of going under. Still could be that safe bet.
I wonder what the local news situation is in the UK.
Partial application of functions is fine. Partial functions would be disallowed.

Here's a function that is only partial, because it can throw an exception instead of returning a value when b is zero:

def divide(a: Int, b: Int): Int = a / b

Here's a total function to accomplish the same basic goal:

def divide(a: Int, b: Int): Try[Int] = Try(a / b)

This function always returns a value of the type it's declared to return.
I didn't say it wasn't. We're talking about the cost per kWh which depends on the interest rate that you can finance it with, not your ROI.
Facebook groups + alderman + local FOIA by activist citizens is what has been developing here.
This reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018221 where we talked about Feynman using probabilities to say that Fermat's Last Theorem was probably true, in the statistical sense of the word.
But is not breaking into a debugger and seeing the call stack often faster? Brain won't help you much if you have thousands of files and more than 100 000 LOC and with the debugger you just walk up the stack until you see where that NULL came from. And after fixing the bug, of course you can use your brain and search for similar code patterns to make sure that there is no same mistake anywhere else.
As a pro-NN person, I'd appreciate a good explanation of the benefits of removing NN that reflects the current reality of the situation. If you could kindly explain to this one-sided thinker why Pai seems like he just does the bidding of the companies he used to, likely will again, and (one would argue) currently works for, that would be a boon to my jackass brain.

Thanks in advance for your hard and thankless work.
Chaos Engineering Is Not Just Tools – It's Culture
My mother and father have each had 'fake' clone profiles of them created a few times.

Occasionally I get friend requests from some random dolled up woman, perhaps once a month.

... that's it.

I wonder what causes one person to get a large number of bogus friend requests and others not. I'm guessing it has to do with who your friends are, and how many?

I'm around 1000 FB friends +/-, but the vast majority of them have been on Facebook for a VERY long time, so perhaps they're less likely to be friend scam accounts?
OStatus (the original Fediverse protocol) literally already had this, it just didn't have the developer excitement to keep the ball rolling.
I started my career as a journalist at a small daily paper before moving into tech in the 1990s. As a young reporter - still in college - I got horrible assignments like having to attend local budget meetings, going down to the police station to copy the blotter, sitting in on school board meetings, updating the local calendar and reporting on the high school sports teams, among other tasks. This stuff was boring, tedious and rarely ever generated "news" of anything beyond an informational synopses of the goings on around town.

It didn't matter - the paper was picked up and read daily by thousands of readers. Many read it cover to cover. It's truly an important service to any community. In fact, I would go so far as to say that without a local newspaper an area isn't a community at all. Newspapers traditionally bring people together and provide a sense of belonging and regional awareness and even pride.

This stuff isn't sexy, nor particularly profitable, but it has to be done! Someone needs to keep track of these events, summarize and disseminate this information. Even the most boring, mundane happenings need to be recorded and publicized for well-functioning society. Without that effort, the things happening around us become opaque, and being informed relies literally on word of mouth.

Sadly, pretty much every effort to digitally replicate the services provided by local papers has failed to my knowledge. As a result, I know more about what's happening in London than I do about my home city.

No idea what the solution is, and a lot of people much smarter than myself have tried for years. But what I do know is the long term consequences of small newspapers closing is a lot more dire than I think most people realize.
I thought we were talking about neoconservative economists and policy makers, not random and anonymous online commenters.
Fn: open-source container-native serverless platform
1. Tooling has seen huge improvements lately. I use many libraries that are macros and implicits heavy, and IDEA does a near perfect job. LSP support is coming too.

SBT keeps getting better, and you have a handful of viable alternatives these days.

2. All major Scala releases bring breaking changes, this is incomparable to Python.

3. By any real-life metric (jobs, conferences, meetups, libraries, ...) I don't see evidence that the community is shrinking, quite the opposite.
Louisiana is the most corrupt state and has been for quite some time.
At the same time, it's possible for the NYT to hire a curator who doesn't act in your best interest. Jayson Blair is a good example of that problem.

If there were an economic incentive to challenge facts published by the NYT, would Blair's deception have persisted for several years? It's even possible that a subject in one of his stories would stake tokens to challenge the accuracy of the story. Blair could then respond by voting against the challenge with a large number of tokens, but would other parties join Blair or the challenger? They would probably investigate further and effectively join the challenge as neutral arbiters. The incentive on both sides is to provide persuasive information to win votes. The direct token incentive for the neutral parties is two-fold: vote with the winning side to gain tokens, and increase the value of the tokens they hold by helping the registry to become more popular so that demand for the tokens increases. If consumers of the registry value accuracy, that incentivizes the entire network to fiercely defend the accuracy of the data.
Your `D(K(..))` notation is better than mine. Email me, and I will send you a gift card.

What you do is solve `\exists D: \forall arr: D(K(arr)) = arr` where `arr` is an arbitrary length array/bitstream. See paper [1]. There is also really old code you can browse at the bottom of my personal page linked in profile (doesn't compile anymore coz of deprecated dependencies.)

The arithmetic analogy break down when solving. So you're not explicitly computing `I - K`, but instead letting the constraint solver pick values that satisfy the equation (hence SMT solving.) Also, you are absolutely right that there is no reason to have their structure be related to identity: But, the "damage" done by `K` is encoded in the state at the interface to `D` and `D` better undo that state to get to identity, which is what the solver would exploit.

[1] Path-based Inductive Synthesis for Program Inversion http://saurabh-srivastava.com/pubs/pldi11-pins.pdf
> NASA's "schedule risk analysis"

Last time I looked at this, the firms set their own milestones. So for one, Boeing's milestone deliverable was a PowerPoint presentation; SpaceX's was a crew abort demonstration.
I suppose you could think of it that way.

My read on this is that desert, rocky terrain, and epiphytic plants find small microbiomes where they can survive. Once they have exploited those resources, once they've 'walked' looking for other spots very close by, they can't just move a couple feet away. They have to fly, and fly far, or die trying.
There's a lot of information that flat out doesn't make the internet.

And in most towns, it's been my experience that decisions are usually already made by the time it is.

The local political beat used to mean going and sitting through council meetings. Now there's no one reliably doing that.
I can't see any obvious place to download this dirt protocol so I can check (the website seems to be 100% marketing, 0% documentation), but based on a combination of pattern recognition and the evasiveness of the above answer, I would wager the answer is "there is no process, we didn't think about data deletion".
i can only wonder what kind of sweet deal the employees of the graduating project get to stay with the project and the new company as otherwise being kicked off the mothership can be expected to be a good trigger for job change.
I don't se how it includes the cost of a new system in 30 years. 2.3 * 30,000 = $69,000 and your cost listed is only ~$59k. 8% over 25 years is much better than I thought for the panels, but you still need to include about 10%/year depreciation on the inverters since you'll need to replace them every 10 years or so (at least that was about their lifetime last time I checked in Arizona, it may be different in cooler climates)
you can have anon structs an unions on gcc:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Unnamed-Fields.html
That implies that either tests fail rarely, or when they do fail, it's always easy to determine what the root cause is. Both of those are far outside my experience. Which is it, for you?
Many years ago I investigated [1] the problem of Rush Hour with minimal size cars. I called it Unit Rush Hour, as the cars are just 1x1, but restricted to either horizontal or vertical movement. Interestingly, the puzzles can also be viewed as a kind of maze with restricted movement. My web page has the hardest 4x4 and 5x5 instances in playable form.
I found the hardest 6x6 puzzle to require a whopping 732 steps [2].

[1] http://tromp.github.io/orimaze.html

[2] http://tromp.github.io/rh.ps
And Webassembly, and iOS, and Android.