skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is way more difficult to figure it out than you think. There are plenty of "local minimums" (or false bottoms), that go a bit back up then goes down again.

Same thing is happening also for local maximum. People try to time the top of the market. People thought it was in Summer 2015, and lately around January//February 2018.
Let's not forget the legendary Blair Witch Project. Horror, as a genre, if done well can work incredibly well on a very small budget. Not sure many other genres can achieve the same level of audience emotion on similar budgets.
> Why is having more female doctors preferable to more medical services in total?

This is a false dichotomy. They would have more medical services overall if they simply admitted the right amount of female applicants and then expand their training programs overall so that the less-qualified male applicants who are currently getting preferential treatment can simply train elsewhere to become doctors. Sure some female doctors might work less, but some won't, and there would still be more qualified medical professionals in the field overall.
Plus you need a vehicle that can tow the boat.
Planking? SV culture is parodying itself at this point. That is truly ridiculous.
> Correct: ['جملة', 'جمل']

جملة means a "sentence"

جمل can mean a Camel (pronounced "jamel" you can guess the origin of the english word)

جمل can also mean "sentences" (pronounced "jomal")
I've used J (a language in the APL lineage) as an interactive calculator before. It makes some things pretty easy, especially if you need to operate on series of numbers.

What's the sum of the numbers from 15 to 20 inclusive?

i.6 N.B. Returns an array 0 1 2 3 4 5

15 + i.6 N.B. Returns an array 15 16 17 18 19 20

+/ 15 + i.6 N.B. returns the number 105

edit: Or course, if we're talking about languages helpful for calculation, we simply must include a reference to https://frinklang.org/
They continued to update the underlying engine with new features and bug fixes and new bugs, they just didn't rewrite it from scratch.

Apparently a recent update also fixed a longstanding problem where the square root of a perfect square integer doesn't give you the exact right answer, so maybe there was a general change to the implementation of exponents and roots which may have introduced this bug too.
I took from your post that affirmative action is defensible because it helps those who had a harder time due to racism or sexism.

But you admit asians who affirmative actions hurts the most face more racism than whites.

Did I misunderstand?
the disparity between progress in the 'world of bits' compared to progress in the 'world of atoms' really has become quite stark. I would agree with you that there even seems to have been a regression in some domains.

We've lost an engineering culture that connects to the physical world and real materials we deal with every day. Another good example is probably the kitchen. A kitchen mid 20th century looked very different from a kitchen at the beginning of the century. Kitchens nowadays really hasn't changed that much for a very long time.

Dan Wang has written a very good (albeit lenghty) essay on the topic: https://danwang.co/how-technology-grows/
Gee, who here didn't foreseen an idea of strangers coming to your home to deliver after they can't wait to end their shift already (and go home) won't work.

The article mentions billions put into figuring out how to tackle on Amazon success. Here is the plan, free of charge:

Ask anyone why they chose Amazon over Wallmart, here is the answer: Both Amazon and Walmart has large range of goods, but Walmart lacks in reviews; offer perks and discounts (on products you have problems to sell) to those "good Wallmarters" who are willing to spend their time reviewing products online and you fix half of the problem. Make reviewing possible only to person who purchase a product from Wallmart to compete with horrible fake reviews that Amazon is plagued with.

- Have ONE designated person (or few people) delivering per store and made it their full-time job to deliver. The reasons I hate going to Wallmart are: 1) lack of short-distance parking lots [takes me 10 minutes to find a spot, sorry I'm lazy]. 2) confusion of where a product is [take me extra time to walk and find an isle]. 3) checkout time and lines are ridiculous [being 24-hour open doesn't mean much when there is only one clerk at the night shift, so waiting time is the same at rush hour]

- So have that ONE designated person: have their own reserved parking spot, have them handheld access to know where products are, have them skip checkout since products are paid online. Have them smart online app to deliver throughout the day, back and forth as many times as sophisticated algorithm of said app decides its the wise route possible.

You welcome, Wallmart!
Interesting, I met Peregrine (one of the rainworks founders) a few years ago at a meetup when he was starting to experiment with this. Really enjoyed his enthusiasm for making art.

From my memory he tested out a few different paints and found something that was supposedly biodegradeable - my best guess is he may be using one of the neverwet variants - http://www.neverwet.com/ , he mentions it here: https://twitter.com/icreatenovelty/status/445228159248506880

edit: I'm wrong, he's using Belgium-based Nanex from the msds sheet.
How 14479.14 - 152.36 displays should only depend on the calculator settings. That it changed depending on previous calculations suggest that there was probably a scratch variable used during calculations that was supposed to be reset before the next calculation but was not.

...and my guess is that "scratch variable" is actually a flag that switches calculations between fixed-point and floating-point mode; the first subtraction was done in fixed-point mode, but when it did the division it used floating-point, and then kept that mode for future calculations until explicitly cleared.
I just came here to make sure someone mentioned Bruce Campbell's films. Thanks! I'm bummed there won't be another season of Ash vs Evil Dead.
Planet Money: The Postal Illuminati
And frankly the "(or even almost as well)" is just wrong. I can't count how many times I've seen projects fail due to trying to shoehorn the problem into some existing solution because the NIH syndrome was so strong. Really if at first glance it looks like a perfect fit, it isn't, but you might get it to work. If right off you can see how it is not quite a fit, don't think you can make it work because you are most probably wrong. It will either fail outright or end up being way more work than if you had just solved it with custom code.
The popularity of Redbox demonstrates that some people really do appreciate being able to drive to a store and rent a DVD. Blockbuster probably died because enough people switched to Netflix that the overhead of running stores outgrew the revenue. Redbox then swooped in with automated kiosks and were able to serve Blockbuster's remaining customers.
I find explanations like this dangerously misleading, like Hilbert's Hotel and the Banach-Tarski paradox discussion talking about peas and suns. Infinity is not finite. Making it pretend-finite by making impossible analogies to finite physical objects instills fundamental misunderstanding of what finite and infinite means.
Only for the people who actually respect drinking age laws, which afaict is not that many.
They had a chance to become profitable and started taking away suscribers from netflix... there is a great podcast by Wondery on this https://youtu.be/qaDGUdJSlb0
Probably, the most fundamental misunderstanding of the Actor Model is that it is based on "Event Loops" which require the following: When an Actor receives a message, it must run until it produces a response to the message and then loops back to receive another message. However, a ReadersWriter scheduler must be able to receive more read and write messages even while it is still processing a message as explained in https://www.amazon.com/Inconsistency-Robustness-Studies-Logi...
Even so, a ReadersWriter scheduler must obey the Mutual Exclusion Principle, which says that only one activity can execute in an Actor at a time.

Another common misunderstanding is that an an Actor must have a mailbox, message queue, or event queue.
There would be an infinite regress if any of these were required because since everything is an Actor, each of these would itself need a mailbox, message queue, or event queue!
I've worked at 5 different companies that did standups. They always sucked. Agree with what others said here: If you need to talk to someone, just do it, don't wait for the next day.

The team that didn't do standups was by far my best team. We still talked frequently as needed and moved quickly. Actually quicker because we didn't get interrupted by standups, hour long retros and planning meetings.
You don't even need the reals for that. Rationals is plenty.
The film director mentioned died in 1994.
Given credit cards that offer 2% back, a 1% discount for debit or cash isn't enough.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that life is harder (on average) for minorities.

Ignoring the role of racism and sexism to try to put all the blame on socio-economic background is a gross oversimplification. The NYtimes had a really nice infographic [1] showing the racial disparities in class mobility. tl;dr - white folks who are born rich tend to stay rich more often than black folks, and those who are born poor are more likely to move upwards.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...
The best use of an engineer’s time is whatever makes the company the most money. If talking to customers C-level people is a weekly requirement for that, then that is what the engineer needs to do.
> I've also seen things like lamp cord used in fixed wiring behind walls or in attics.

We found exactly that, lamp cords and extension cords, when we started our remodel a month ago. The former owner did some renovation ten years ago, and was an architect so we always assumed he did a decent job. That was one of a few questionable choices he made, so we're now re-wiring the entire house.
Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, Monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?”
It's amazing how much Huawei has grown. Here's an article about them from 2017:

http://knowledge.ckgsb.edu.cn/2017/03/27/china-business-stra...

they wanted to top the smartphone market, and just over a year later, here they are.
That's an OK point, but when half the comments on this thread are "I had to mess around for days to work out the config" then surely some common use cases can be covered by general FAQ's, like every other VPN/networking technology provides?
Are you saying high school was the equivalent of free healthcare? That’s actually exactly what you’re implying.

Is it the learning? A college education and a high school education were very different from eachother 50 years ago, and are still very different from each other today.

Honestly, you’re comment makes you seem like a racist and a sexist. Mainly because a high school education was never the equivalent of a college education or free healthcare for all. Like, you had a point to make and just hijacked a tangentially related comment to make it, without it actually being relevant.
> Shudder. I consider the "teaching is lying" meme to be vile.

Couldn't agree more. And when I read this in the article I also thought of high school chemistry even before I read your comment. I was put off chemistry in high school precisely because of its incoherence.

The best thing to do, as always, is to be honest. Tell your students that what you are teaching them is a simplification; a model that is useful at this level. Many will be satisfied with this answer and not want to go to a deeper level. But some children, those with a greater need for coherence and for things to make deep sense, will be reassured to know it's only a model and either wait for the deeper model to be taught or want to start exploring the deeper model at that time. Which is fine.

I found the approach taken by the author of this article quite patronising and rather distasteful.
Seems like a good idea, but maybe it's better for a big company like Amazon with really good record keeping and both IP and shipment tracking to know who's buying this stuff. Just in case something more sinister happens that points to criminal activity, for example the Order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_(white_supremacist_g...

Brinks armored car heist in 1984, some of the money finding it's way into various Nazi groups with the express purpose over overthrowing the government, and who had a Denver journalist assassinated on his driveway.
AFAICT, they don't have a custom kernel, it just runs an application on startup.
It seems its hard to be original in the horror genre. Every horror movie uses the same tropes and cliche's.

JUMP SCARE
Violin screech
Creepy little girl
Research history in library
Running in a house

When every new horror movie uses these, it's hard to respect the genre.
My older sister, folks :)
I think part of the problem for “elevated”, “art house”, etc horror films is that the majority of “horror” films these days are more torture porn than drama/plot, and more “jump scare” than tension.

I feel like the original “cube” ushered in the realization that you could make a “popular” movie that was not a block buster actually be profitable if you kept the costs close to zero. So we get movies that don’t require well known actors (the star is the fx) with few sets (cube essentially had two).

I thought I had a point but now I don’t know what it was, so I’ll leave this comment half way done, just like my old high school essays :)
One of the things I really like about python is that constructors are basically just regular functions with some extra metadata unlike languages like JavaScript where you are required to use the special keyword “new”. Python’s approach makes it much easier to use constructors in higher order functions.
And the energy btc "wastes" is to secure the vaults and the money flow. Other fiat currencies "waste" energy on security with bright security lights, guns, bombs.

However, I do like how things like PrimeCoin have a residual product from their security.
Sorry, I can't spray paint my sidewalk but you can spray neverwet on it? This stuff is not good for the watershed.
Confused, isn't that just the built-in Calculator with an optional (extremely ugly) skin enabled by default? What do you like about it?
Presumably APL the programming language.

Personally I used to use Maple for this kind of thing circa 2002. It used to launch on Windows in a fraction of a second (faster than the built in calculator tool!), and was an amazing calculator for pretty much any purpose.

Unfortunately some version of Maple around that time switched to a Java-based front end, and thereafter took forever to load, and had a UI littered with glitches.
Given that package delivery is where USPS can profit, I wonder why Amazon/Walmart don't lobby to modernize USPS so it can cover the use-cases - why not deliver multiple times per day? There's no greater economy of scale than "delivering everything to everyone".

I mean, that's a rhetorical question. Obviously they'd both prefer to monopolize a for-profit alternative to USPS... but it seems short-sighted
Though what you are doing today is a direct result of what happened yesterday.
Looks like there are active commits too! Thanks for the link; I’d not seen this before.

It looks like he’s done some custom work to the Preferences app. Impressive!
Banks! My goodness. You know, banks were making tons of money right before the 2008 crash too, it's just that the loans they were making were bad ones. They're in the same situation now, wouldn't you say?
> and the patterns obviously predict a lot of words that don't actually exist

I think I remember that there are a handful of cases where speakers started using some of the previously unattested forms in modern times to refer to new concepts... is that right?
So I pick games that support Linux, and honestly don’t feel like I’m missing out on much. Big Name Shooter 2018 just doesn’t interest everybody. That doesn’t mean “games don’t exist” - it means the games that you specifically enjoy don’t exist.
Did the Ohlone use OpenStreetMaps?

Maybe that's the confusion.
SciPipe – Go-based library for complex and dynamic pipelines in machine learning
They wrote a new calculator for Win10, but AFAIK this breakage wasn't because they actually rewrote it again (as evidenced by the fact that it hasn't changed in any other obvious ways), but because of some subtle and as-yet-unknown change --- exactly the type of thing that horrifies me about silent automatic updates. What used to work is now subtly broken, and no one knows why.

Googling around, I found another discussion on it:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/windows-10-calculator-bug...
My understanding of it is that 100,000+ are in reserve for existing companies / sites already registered. All you have to do is contact them to let them know, with proof, that you want ownership of yours. After launch there will be a "sunrise" period where if you register with ICANN, and then provide proof to handshake, they will give you ownership. I'm not sure how long that period lasts, I'm guessing for a long time until they feel ICANN is no longer relevant if I had to guess.

The goal of the project seems admirable. Potentially, this can help fund open source initiatives which are sorely underfunded while solving the "how do we find a domain in a decentralized way and verify its trust" issue that currently exists. I suppose time will tell, though.
"For example, I have no doubt that the flat earth theory is incorrect, but it wouldn't bother me if it we're included in Wikipedia."

Sure, but it belongs in its own article (where it is found) not in the middle of the articles on Earth, geography, etc.
If I push some buttons and it shows up later, and I didn't have to stand up to make it happen ... I'm pretty sure I can download toothpaste today. Latency isn't impressive, though.
Or people could wait a damn day.
I think the stock quotes represent the same entity. So it wont be ~850B + ~850B.
However, some news sources make some effort to reduce bias and otherwise function within an ethos that bias is something that reporters should try to avoid unless there's good reason for apparent bias. (For example, stories about smoking causing lung cancer, or about plate tectonics, don't require "balance" and contribution from opposing viewpoints because the opposition viewpoints are a tiny fringe without support.)

Other news sources, like Fox, don't even bother.
Of course when the tax rates were sky high above 75% for the top tax bracket, wealthy people went to greater lengths to spend their money on things that caused a tax deduction. Thus they largely avoided the highest brackets. This increased the velocity of money. It creased middle class wage growth. And it increased the investment in private and public infrastructure.

And low taxes has encourage hoarding. Hoarding is what happens beyond reasonable savings. Everyone should save money but at a certain point of wealth, it's no longer saving. It's hoarding. And Bezos is just one of many examples of hoarders. And I agree it's a public policy failure that he's encouraged to be a hoarder rather than being encouraged to do something else with it, or forfeit 91 cents on every additional dollar he makes to someone with a different (perhaps better or worse) imagination on what to do with it. Hoarding is stagnation across the board.

The other kind of hoarding that drives me crazy happens with patents. No innovation, no licensing, just suing to prevent other companies from using the innovation covered by the patent. If the patent isn't actively used or licensed, it should be expired/forfeit.
Most us med schools don't require a bachelor's degree. For example, medical college of georgia just requires a few prerequisite courses: https://www.augusta.edu/mcg/admissions/application-procedure...

Medical colleges in india don't require a bachelor's degree.

also, no residency requires a bachelor's degree.

also, bachelor's degrees don't have to be expensive... people going into 200k debt to become doctor's are mostly over paying. The acceptance rate for 1st time applicants to med school in usa is around 50%. You can get a bachelor's from anywhere and get in, if you know you can do well on the mcat.
I take it you never delivered newspapers as a kid?
Portmanteaus for naming new technology should be banned :P
And yet US "accidentally" bombs Doctors without Borders facilities.
It's easier to get than finding an XP installation or ISO to extract a calc.exe from. The installer is also signed by MS, which may be a factor in some highly locked-down corporate environments.
Just because you swapped the word "time" with "distance" doesn't mean you aren't still talking about time.

Distance from what? How far it is from now until when the work will be done. You are still talking about time.

I feel that swapping out the term with one that is more vague is, at worst, disingenuous, and at best, counter-productive.
I think there are ups and downs with genres. I think horror is currently in a new golden age (not the only one--there have been others in the past), and actually think the article is part of this trend. It's easy to suggest that the current wave of outstanding horror reflects a kind of "backhanded compliment" when it was preceded by overworn cliche films, for decades.

This is recognized within the horror fan community as well. There are lots of people on various forums talking about the cornucopia of great horror at the moment, and my guess is a number of fans will spend years catching up on their expanding lists of films to see and rewatch. It's really remarkable.

There's a broader context that I think the author is missing, or at least ignoring: film and visual arts critics don't care about genre, they care about film. Genre tends to create a comparative context that doesn't necessarily exist if your scope is film at large. So, horror films exist to cater to a horror film fan base, romantic comedies exist to cater to that, superhero films cater to that, science fiction, fantasy, and so forth and so on. If it is a backhanded compliment, my guess is the same could be said of any genre to some extent.
Kind of. Here in Norway the parents currently have around one year of paid leave, give or take. Out of this period, three weeks before and nine after the birth is for the mother, while the reminder is split threeways with one third dedicated to each of the parents while the last third can be used by either although not at the same time. The father also has one paid and one unpaid week during birth to help at home.

While there are some upper limits, parents usually get their full salary paid by their employer, who in turn get refunds from the government. There is a variation on this giving slightly more time off for less pay as well, plus some exceptions for single mothers, adoptions etc.

It's not a perfect system, and it's not created with the mother's career in mind, but it does accomplish some things:

-The father spends time with the newborn; if he chooses not to use his third of the parental leave it disappears. This leads to more involved fathers, and also help to even the score on who tends to the house.

-Parents can't be fired or refused employment for being pregnant. You also don't have to disclose this during interviews.

-Companies knows that having kids is natural, while smaller ones may struggle to find replacements during parental leave, the system is flexible enough to allow people to work a few days a week if they choose to. This is up to the parents to decide, employers can't dictate what they should do.

-Employers know that employees taking parental leave will come back, so any experience and work-related knowledge isn't lost just because they are having kids.