skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, Americans wouldn't normally be late for job interviews or other important events in a set time, which is completely normal in Latin America.

Nope. Sorry, but you are completely wrong. If you are late in job interviews for instance, you will probably not grant the job, if its in bussiness meetings, it will hurt your credentials in the company and it can even lead one to be fired.

Bussiness mentality is different than party mentality. Other things you must have to take into account is local culture. Rio is more laidback, while Sao Paulo is much, much less because it has more of a bussiness culture. (And i bet its the same in the US between different cities).

Thats one of the reasons why i try to teach some people, that for some contexts, thinking in terms of 'Latin America' its just wrong and too broad of a generalization.

You cant hardly generalize the whole of Brazil, and doing so in terms of Latin America is even worse.
I'd be saying "Yeah!" along with you, but that client is also a video chat and audio calling app, not just text and images.

There's bloatware out there, and this may even qualify, but it isn't just text chat. (Why would you use the desktop client for text chat anyway?)
> Spam isn't (generally) illegal,

Doesn't CAN-SPAM act of 2003 make spam illegal?
Wow - 81% lost by Tracxn
I've done Remote Desktop from an airplane and that was actually quite snappy
> Are you adjusting for inflation?

Yes. "Without adjusting for inflation, these 'nonsupervisory' workers saw their average hourly earnings jump 2.8 percent from last year. But that was not enough to keep pace with the 2.9 percent increase in inflation, which economists attributed to rising gas prices" [1].

> Most Americans haven't seen any real wage growth when adjusted for inflation since the 70's

This is not true for people employed full time [2]. Real hourly wages for hourly nonfarm workers [3] are up. About the only people I can find who are earning less, in real terms, than they were in the 1970s are manufacturing workers, and even they are up over the last decade.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/15/for-t...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

[3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.t01.htm
> Increased economic destruction by hurricanes (whether worsened by fossil fuels or not) is due to government providing economic incentives to construct in coastal areas subject to hurricane damage.

No, infrastructure built to hurricane standards 50 years ago might be perfectly strong to stand against current storms of the time. If increased storm strength is cause by fossil fuels (and that likelyhood is strongly supported by scientific studies), then the fossil fuels (with or with subsidies) will have incurred costs to a lot of other externalized actors. Shouldn't that industry have to pay?

> Don't subsidize the reconstruction of properties damaged by hurricanes and flooding.

By leaving "the market" to contend with increased hurricane resistance alone you have just caused increased expenses for everyone building homes for ignoring fossil fuel externalities (some of which was encouraged by gov't subsisdy). And it's not just homes, it's maybe reworking entire metropolitan areas sewer or housing zones.

All of this underlines that the practice of "economics" has no such neutral starting point. Any action, even the action of letting "the market" decide is a social and political decision of helping some parties over others (or, better, helping many parties together). And these decisions often can't be disaggregated into neat isolated and individualized transactions or responsibilities.
I don’t remember the official name for it, but one common technique to overcome all sorts of fears is to progressively visualize the experience.

For your flying example, that might mean to sit and think about just packing for a trip. How does that make you feel?

Then think about driving to the airport. How does that feel?

Then think about boarding the airplane.

Then think about flying calmly.

Finally, think about really rough turbulence.

The idea is to think about each step several times (over many weeks/months) until you are progressively more and more comfortable with the entire process. Often, anxiety about a specific event (turbulent flying) will start well before you experience the turbulence - so by progressively visualizing each step in the process, your mind will begin to better control your body over the entire experience.

This process works for all types of fears: spiders, bridges, going underwater, etc.

However! I’m not a professional - so if it is really bad, then I would recommend going to a therapist - even for just a few sessions - and they can better walk you through the process. Search for “CBT in [your area]” if you don’t know where to start.

Also - if you can’t get over it with just mental exercises, and you really need to fly somewhere - a doctor can prescribe medication that will relax you for the flight (though there are potential side effects - including addiction - so talk that over with your doctor).
This is a bit speculative, but I suspect quantum theory is essentially god's programming language. It seems to crop up everywhere we look, like in psychology, biology, machine learning, computer science and general probability.
Sad to see this state of affairs in WA. It’s a very rich state but feels quite poor.
I agree with most of that but this:

"are who they are through no real fault of their own"

This is the ultimate cultural relativism rubbish, no offence, but people make their own decisions in life. It's this kind of reasoning that some try to use to absolve murderers and thugs for their actions.

Surely on some level we're all the result of our upbringing, but we also have to take responsibility for what we are at some point.
"Tesla counters this impression, and told CNBC that moving to work in the factory temporarily is purely voluntary and that declining the request would never impact a worker's performance review."
Sure sure sure.
depends on what sphere you're looking at. the overwatch league is poised to take over in the esports scene while fortnite is gobbling up the casual playerbase.

note that this is north america focused, i have no clue about europe, south korea, or china.
Mirror:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vcwVnj...
Really incredible -- you've made something I didn't know I needed, until watching the demo videos just now. Can't wait to throw away the breadboard :)

Congrats on the launch!
For me, it is more about the "fear of not doing something that I really want to do" which keeps me going and not worry about failing. So to overcome the fear of failing, I would say be more afraid of the fact that you will not do anything and regret it on your death bed.
> The lessons in SICP are about fundamental computing concepts and independent of any language. The authors simply chose Scheme because it is easy to learn and let them teach those lessons comfortably.

Exactly, And for some of their audience they may already be more familiar with a different language -- so why not lower the barrier of entry?
> Why would mark zuckerberg find himself talking to captains and colonels at the naval warfare school?

Why wouldn't he? I would love to talk to these people given opportunity - not because I'm involved in anything connected to military, but out of simple curiosity and interest in strategy and tactics...
Hey hey! Hang gliding! Anyone reading this comment, I highly recommend learning how to do it.
The paper [1] states:

> There is a classical algorithm whose output distribution is O(ε)-close in total variation distance to the distribution given by l2-norm sampling from the ith row of a low- rank approximation D of A in query and time complexity [O(poly-func)] where δ is the probability of failure.

So the classical algorithm would give a "sufficiently close" approximation of what the QML would output? The article doesn't mention this at all. Is it fair to compare a quantum algorithm with an equivalent classical approximation algorithm?

From the quanta magazine article:

> Computer scientists had considered [the recommendation problem] to be one of the best examples of a problem that’s exponentially faster to solve on quantum computers — making it an important validation of the power of these futuristic machines. Now Tang has stripped that validation away.

Has he really?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.04271.pdf
Your taxes do NOT fund most pensions.

I’m a teacher in NY. My pension plan is self funded by our membership (teachers). Taxpayer dollars account for the annual school budget (you vote on!) which does include salary and employer healthcare contribution however it also pays for grounds and buildings, transportation, extracurriculars, etc...

Additionally, the current tier 6 of NY state workers pays a “retirement fee” into their retirement which is how the TRS in NY is funded. This fee is not a % of salary, it is an annual fee spread over pay periods.

So just to debunk one point, most public worker retirement funds are self funded by members.
Right, I should have said that I was recommending not ever sending on 25. The STARTTLS mitm is just too easy for large attackers.

IMHO, being backwards compatible is necessary for a transition period. The messaging to SMTP operators should be... get on board, or you are going to start losing mail in 1 year.

Even Chrome is going to show all http as insecure in the very near future. Which reminds me... I need to get all my sites upgraded.
It's not just publishers. My current org uses SalesForce and it's frustratingly slow. Opening a single record takes several seconds as every single interface element is generated dynamically and then populated, seemingly one at a time.

When it's finally done loading, you click on a dropdown, and then the dropdown just shows you a loading spinner, as your client asks the server what should be populated in the dropdown menu. And of course it takes another second. Clicking virtually anything, including back (which should be instantaneous on a proper webapp), will present you with yet another loading spinner and a multi-second delay.

I understand the benefits of building webapps this way, but the benefits primarily accrue to the developers of the app and not to the customer.
Attack exorbitant salaries of physicians, and watch them suddenly forget how to treat your medical problems. And probably refuse to treat your family too, just to teach you a lesson.

How long are you willing to go without medical care just to make a political change? Not sure that geriatric politicians will be skipping their monthly appointments.
Many of the social insects -- ants and termites and bees, especially -- build "buildings" which have heterogenous rooms specialized for different purposes.

Genetic algorithms, indeed.
I agree with the spirit of the article, in that we should be striving for a leaner web.

But last year I had to build an iOS SDK. As an SDK, we wanted it to be as small as humanly possible. It came out to around 12mb, which is obviously too large. So I tried removing literally everything but one file, and it came out to 10mb. So an iOS package, compiled, with only one class, comes out to 10 megabytes.

Yes, the web can improve, but in the grand scheme of things I don't think it's as dire as some make it out to be.
My favorite example, but I am told I am biased when I noticed that in unrelated articles.

It seem to be a well organized negative PR campaign against the company (completed by name calling and downvotes on social media)
> Which is not to say Putin doesn't have strong support, just that polling can't be relied on to assess that

Reputable firms try to correct for the biases you mention [1]. We have more evidence for the claim that Putin is domestically supported than otherwise. Which makes sense, given he's stabilized and relatively-competently managed their economy [2]. (Cf: Oil prices are up.)

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/20/president-putin-russian-...

[2] http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/what-is-the-...
Nobody has a fear of flying. You have a fear of being out of control, and you have a fear of dying.

But you have no control, and you're going to die. So both fears are irrational.

How do you defeat them? Nobody else owns your brain. It's your brain. People condition you with the things they say and teach you, but it's still yours. Re-wire it. It's no different than operating your limbs, in a manner of speaking. The connections are there, you just need to use them.
Amen to every word except this sentence. "Better choices should be made by web developers to not ship this bullshit in the first place."

No developer I know, web or otherwise, wants to do any of this, and all of them are religious in their use of ad blockers and autoplay stoppers.

This is the kind of stuff developers are forced to do with guns to their heads by the PMs and marketing teams that actually determine the user experience.
Overstating the Role of Environmental Factors in Success: A Cautionary Note
Sex, coding and evolution – where did I get it wrong?
Again, ask yourself why the powers that be are priming the public in order to partially defuse forthcoming very damaging videos...
Some of the worst offenders are logging webservices. We've replaced a simple text file with a bloated site that requires mousing around, does not support grepping, etc.
Quoting someone at the Internet: "We’re living in a low-return, high-risk world."

Understatement of the century. ^^
If you assume that people are locked into a fixed position in the economy, then yes, those people have seen negative wage growth when adjusted for inflation.

But if you assume that new entrants to the economy develop skills and move up over time as they acquire skills and responsibility, as is likely a closer reflection of reality, then their wages have grown over time. The observation you are making shows that for new entrants to the economy at low income levels, there has not been a net increase in the starting wages those people earn since the 1970s.

I guess the question to ask is: should we expect the real earnings of low level, low skill jobs (not people) to increase over time as the economy does? As you said, these are relatively flat. I have no reason to assume someone performing low-skilled labor in 1970 should be paid more in real terms than someone today doing the same job, in pure economic terms. For that to be true, they'd need to be performing some kind of increased value in their job relative to 40 years ago -- but if they were doing that, they wouldn't be performing a low-skilled job anymore, and hence would be moving up in income level!
> Could someone ELI5 why FB is in the business of policing any non-illegal speech at all?

If Facebook's brand is associated with garbage, and it has already gone quite far in that direction, Facebook won't exist for very long. The only reason to use Facebook is that others use Facebook. It's a matter of survival for them.
Can you cite a government who is not corrupted?
Just to provide a counterpoint based on the scant evidence of his blog (post and comments). He is , of course , brilliant, and has a refreshing no-nonsense approach. Modest, he is not, not that is anything wrong with that, I would call modest for example Terence Tao a far more accomplished academic. This is something that should be a "law", the more accomplished a person is the most it can "afford" to be modest. So for example Einstein was more modest than say Feynman, and Edward Witten is way way more modest than your typical string theorist.

The other thing I dont like about Aaronson is his weird fetish with STEM people , he seems to think scientists and technologists are somehow superior or more worthy than regular folk. I also dont agree with some of his opinions on the actions of the state of Israel, but I will avoid that, being this the Internet.
Faust: Stream Processing for Python
No one else has mentioned this, but have you considered upgrading your class of service to premium economy or business (if possible)? I find that my baseline anxiety is far higher after dealing with boarding procedures, jockeying for overhead space, and cramming into a tiny middle seat with my knees touching the seat in front of me than when coddled in first class. The entire pre-flight experience/lack of personal space is (for me) so anxiety provoking that calming myself down for the flight is difficult. It's an expensive fix, but maybe worth exploring if you're flying infrequently. Also worth noting that I'm a 6'2", 220lb person, so YMMV regarding necessary personal space.

I also had the luck with learning about flight dynamics, airplanes, and how most unpleasant sensations during flight are well within operational parameters for an aircraft.
Would you be able to provide links to modern structures built with the methods you're describing or research about them? Does this conservative design resemble something like Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, or is that the wrong way to think about it?
I had a somewhat similar experience. I had a long-haul flight on Singapore, and the entertainment system had a bunch of videos on the basics of the aircraft and how it flies. This included a few videos on what causes turbulence, how the plane and pilots handle it, and how it’s not particularly dangerous. Now instead of just telling myself that the odds are in our favor when I’m on a turbulent flight, I can think back to the concepts in those videos and rationalize to myself what’s happening and why it’ll be fine. Understanding what you’re experiencing is really helpful.
One thing you can try is, when you get to your seat, talk with a few people around you. Just enough to get a sense if somebody around you flies often. When you get into turbulence, or the fear starts hitting you, look at the face (not awkwardly) of that person. You may even have a pilot sitting near you. If anything, look at the flight attendants faces. Are the flight attendants giving each other looks? Does any of the above people's faces show worry? 99% of the time, you will not see even a slight look of worry in frequent flyers. Just think about that, these people have been through it all. Crazy wind landings, extreme turbulence, bad storms, most everything. If they are not worried, take comfort in that.

If they are worried though... well.. then.. yeah. Also, if you do this, and your daughter is with you, even if you are worried, try and stay calm and not show it. This will comfort your daughter as she is looking to you first.

Edit: One more bonus! If you know someone who flies military aircraft, or know somebody who knows someone, try and talk with them sometime. Take them out for a beer. They'll tell you some things that will make bad turbulence in a commercial jet seem very minor =p Might give you a good relative scale of things.
+1 On this, and I'd want to encourage them to provide this feedback throughout the internship as well, not just at the end. Sure, sometimes they'll have suggestions that we've considered and decided not to do, but if it's a common question we should document.

For helping the interns, I'd talk to them about what they learned, what their next career steps are, and what subjects they're most interested in. Ideally, you have a mentorship program setup already where this has already been discussed, so this may end up being very brief. But even without a mentorship program, having good discussion about how you can help the interns aside from just having an extra line of experience on the resume is healthy for both sides.

For improving the program for future interns, I'd also ask them what they wished they knew when they first started their internship. For all of the above, make sure that it's a safe environment to have honest discussion - for instance state outright that they're not going to burn bridges by pointing out process flaws or talking about working at other companies in the future.
Thanks! This is something I want to fix eventually. These papers will be very helpful.
Thanks! On firmware - yes it will be automated at some level. In the past we have co-generated low-level drivers to go along with the electronic design. It's pretty straightforward to do when you have the right representation.

We don't plan on generating code above the driver level. We just get it to an initialized firmware repo with example code (so you can poke/talk to everything on the board).
It's not that cheap though. My laptops 1 TB SSD can comfortably store 60 GB of AAC files and I forget they even exist, but if those were uncompressed, the 300 GB they take up would be a major problem.
Skype also has audio and video, with custom codecs even, and p2p, yet it wasn't even close to using the very real 1gb of ram slack consumes

(I'm talking about the old desktop client, not the new electron based one)
What citations do you want me to provide? This is purely theoretical discussion. Do I need to cite that after millennia, we still have different languages?

Do I really to dig up some academic paper to acknowledge that humans find it hard to agree on standards? That doesn't even include the geopolitical implications of this- as if China would ever agree to make English the One Language that all government and business runs on, etc.

If you make a theoretical conjecture, I don't need to provide academical papers to provide a rebuttal. Please, treat academical papers with rigor, not as a fallback for when someone challenges you on, again, a theoretical conjecture. I also don't need to provide papers for basic human intercourse.

> This worked for one country, so there are chances it works at a bigger scale.

No, you cannot extrapolate based on one country. Human beings are irrational and proud. Again, look at it from a geopolitical view.

> Yes. Things are imperfect. We will loose in the process. Guess what is also imperfect ? Communicating at the scale of 7 billion people with different culture, believes and needs.

Yes, different cultures, beliefs, and needs. All of which would be lost by -unilaterally- forcing one language, since reaching agreement won't happen. Nations are still figuring out how to solve their own issues, so why should a Korean person care to be forced to learn some random language? That already happened when Japan occupied Korea and forced Koreans to learn Japanese- why don't you read some history and tell me exactly how much Koreans liked that. [This also goes back to my previous statement about military domination being the only real way of forcing a language change.]

> The fact it takes 5 years to a chinese to be able to write english and 10 for an english to learn chinese is not subjective.

[Citation needed again]. Of course English writing is easier to learn, it has a phonetic alphabet... However Chinese has much more simplified grammar than English. There is no subjectively "better" language, unless you specifically mean in 1 single aspect, maybe. But languages don't exist in vacuums, so this point is moot. (5/10 years is way off, also. This is anecdotal evidence as well, and years vary by each individual person.)

Discussing the merits of Chinese or any other language is really another discussion, but Chinese people do just fine.

> Again, that's funny comming from somebody who is all emotional about this.

No, this is coming from somebody responding to a shortsighted conjecture.

> Also, thinking I'm talking about engineering and not politics and sociology "is a very stereotypical hacker news viewpoint".

No, I don't think that you're talking about engineering. I'm specifically pointing out that you are treating a human and cultural issue from an engineering perspective, as if it's merely something that can be "fixed". It's a myopic viewpoint, because that's simply not how humans work.