skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grand-mother (who passed away last month) was the last surviving member of the network Comet, that tried to find, host and help British, and later American and Canadian, pilots out of occupied Europe into Spain. She had incredible stories about how to clothe the pilots: the vest, borrowed from that my then-slim great-uncle, with the button that popped in the Pyrenees, never to be found; hats and shoes were really hard; the cello box with a priceless cello in, shot by a patrol.

In one instance, it was really difficult because one of the pilots was so tall. The only way they could find something that barely fit was a cassock, the long black dress a priest would wear. (How my furiously anti-religious grand-mother, my Protestant grand-father and their best friend, the son of the Pastor from the Church of Sweden, found a Catholic cassock was never part of the story.) They did agree that he was too young, and had to be a seminarist -- therefore couldn’t celebrate sacraments, and had to stay quiet. Once again: they probably should have known the cassock had to be different than a priest’s. That was less a problem than the two inches missing at his ankles. Late growth spur was anyone’s guess.

The problem was: he had giant feet and no one could find shoes that fit, so he had to keep his Air Force issued shoes. They didn’t seem to look out of place, as the story goes: one day, to keep the cabin-feverish pilots busy while waiting for the green light from the coyotes, they all went to Montmartre. My grand-mother wanted to pretend they were friends visiting, and tried to take a photo of them on the steps. A German officer, willing to oblige, apparently suggested that my grand-mother stand with them while he took the photo. Thank God he never noticed the shoes: not sure my grand-mother would have found the inspiration to explain why the US Armed Forces was the appropriate source of footwear for freakishly tall seminarist.

My grand-mother only regret: that she didn’t dare ask the officer to stand with the “priest” and keep the photo for historians to admire the shoes.

--- Epilogue:

I later found a store selling replicas of WWII memorabilia and I checked to see what the shoes looked like (the German officer was a terrible photographer and had framed the photo below the stem, showing some leg but without the feet). I expected something very distinct, like ranger boots: check for yourself, US Air Force officers’s shoes would not look out of place on any civilian in 1940.
Has instantly-public texting with no review prior to publication EVER been a good idea? It really seems like the simple solution of requiring ONE other person to OK a message would help so much. It would further help if systems had uneditable history logs so you know exactly how a message got out.

Examples of bad texts are widespread, from all over the planet, not limited to companies:

- Companies shaken up by impulsive tweets from an executive. (One person, instantly public, no review.)

- Remember Hawai’i receiving texts about a missile launch? (One person, instantly public, no review.)

- World leaders sending extreme messages that could frankly start a war. (One person, instantly public, apparently no review.)

- Reddit founder editing stuff because he got mad. (One person, instant effect, no review.)
Feel free to give me a proof that adds zeros and gets a number greater than 0.
Google Employees Strongly Support Creating Censored Search Tool for China-Survey
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766799
I use a mix of wmutils[0] and windowchef[1] and they're great, lots of little programs (some < 10 LoC) but also some cool stuff like mouse support and borders etc. I've only ever had trouble with JAVA apps which is a simple fix (_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1)

This is a screenshot of my Linux desktop [2], I use these on OpenBSD as well without too much issue.

[0] https://github.com/wmutils
[1] https://github.com/tudurom/windowchef
[2] https://i.redd.it/ql1id3rocnq01.png
And replace him with whom, precisely? Did you resurrect Edison?
> That they don't call themselves science. Maybe call themselves studies and that they put more effort into what they call experiments.

I'm sorry, let me clarify: My question is not "what would you do with what we have now?", rather, it's "assuming we throw all of what we have now out, how would you do it in a way you consider to be science?" My assertion is that disregarding all our progress up until now in these fields on the grounds that they have not yet reached the level of maturity of physics or other hard sciences is unfair and will create a self-fulfilling cycle whereby we never gain any actual progress in these fields.

> This is frankly a terrible example. Because it does not tell the whole story does not mean it is incorrect. There is no unifying theory of sociology either.

Except that's exactly my point. Sociology doesn't tell the whole story, but your assertion that everything that comes out of it is tainted isn't right, either. You're comparing relatively nascent fields to relatively well-developed ones and expecting them to be exactly the same in terms of replicability, reliability and applicability, generally. That's unfair, and totally disregards history.

If we regressed even further, to before Newton, to the ancient Greeks or Romans or Egyptians, sure, they got a lot wrong - most things. But everything is a building block. I think that we are just now beginning to make real progress in fields like psychology, sociology, etc. You can call them "baby sciences," if you'd like, or invent whatever other word or term you prefer, but it doesn't change what they are, and it doesn't make them not worth proceeding with.

Further, we can't say that because some sciences progress quickly (e. g. computer science), all sciences should be expected to do so. As many in this thread have pointed out, good social science is harder to find and harder to do than good computer science. Progress will therefore be slower. It doesn't make said progress unimportant or impossible.
Cortanad and Alexa integration released
I’d take that to the extreme and say that many cultures view their cuisine as the ultimate in spiciness while assuming others don’t come close. My anecdote is three South Asian/Indian men being refused the “spiciest” option at a Sichuan restaurant in Palo Alto. Of course, we took this as a challenge and definitely could see why some people might not enjoy it but it wasn’t exactly sign-a-waiver level spice.
Postgres should provide it, it just doesn't (yet). Usable native partitions didn't really arrive until v10 and v11 finally makes them production capable with range+hash, default partitions, moving rows when the partition key changes, pruning partitions in queries, etc.

Until then, extensions like Partman, Timescale, and Citus make up the functionality along with specializations for your use-case.
Elon Musk’s “Taking Private” Tweet Analysed by 'AI'
Software engineering can be reduced to math too, for example functional programming is a lambda calculus derivative. I think it's basically just that we're so close to programming that it's hard to see it for what it is, just a bunch of rules and equations.
Outliner - like emacs org mode or what Scrivener will do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
> I’m not sure how you spent so much

There are 7 days in each week.
Or start-ups that are set up to just kinda help out like Patreon but now that they took massive investment they have to be greedy about what was supposed to be a charitable endeavor
I think it's worth including a bit on disjoint sets. I've managed to pull that solution on interviewers a couple times and they end up fairly impressed when you beat their best solution which is O(n) storage O(log n) time, with one that's O(n) storage O(1) time after amortization.
A Rare Genetic Aversion to Sweets Could Be Key to Fighting Obesity
This isn't about equality.

This is about the majority of women wanting something different than what the majority of men want. Men are more likely to be utilitarian, women are more likely to want to look nice.

The market is simply providing what women want and have proven will pay for. Same with men.

I can still sympathize... the struggle is real.
Link for the interested https://www.livescience.com/33039-why-do-mattresses-have-do-...
More companies are negotiating directly with care providers
> This doesn't look good for him.

Can I ask what you mean by this?

Will the SEC arrest him? Ban him from being a Director of a public company?

I keep hearing about him 'getting in big trouble'. But I don't get it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it is upsetting for him to possibly be forced to pay millions in fines and maybe even be kick off one of his projects.

But that isn't a very big downside, and half of it isn't even from the SEC.

I mean, there seems to be a pattern when it comes to the misbehavior of the ultra powerful:

The upside to his action has the potential in the billions, while the potential IF caught is generally going to be a fine worth millions.

He may have snubbed his board badly enough that they make him pay for this incident by removing his control of the project, but that is a separate matter.

I feel whenever someone powerful is going to be punished the media goes crazy over every detail of the noodle that is going to be used as a whip.
Having been scarred for life from accidental exposure to the drivel of dozens of cryptocurrency "thought leaders," I think the authors may have chosen prosocial behavior as the wrong correlation.

Here are some alternatives that might correlate well to lack of BS-sensitivity and attraction to profound-sounding fluff:

- ability to solve quantitative reasoning problems

- ability to use deductive logic

- likelihood to take unnecessary risks for minimal rewards

- likelihood to change one's mind in face of new information
Can't get VC money or free PR unless you apply the thin coat of buzzwords and shiny tech - should probably add a VR P2P neural network blockchain protocol to the business model for good measure.
If you want to talk about inappropriate, talking about gun control in relation to this story is COMPLETELY inappropriate here. This 100% is a story about suicide, hence my comment about assisted suicide.
Why should they have job security more than anyone else?
I think that's describing no leadership rather than a variety of it, but yeah most leaders suck, especially in software
...such as the ability to rescue children with a magical submarine?
It's too bad that 80 bit precision has been abandoned.
Yup, manufacturing will move from China to Africa, and it'll be China reaping the benefits.
If I'm ever in this situation, I hope somebody just Million Dollar Baby's me.
The finance guys come in and make an expected lifetime value of a customer. So at $200 a month, that's $2400 a year. But right away they assume the average person will stay with them for 5 years, so thats $12,000 per signup.

Now that they have this figure, all math is based off it. So if you sign up 100 people you just made 1.2M of expected value. So if you want to be worth 120M you just need to be able to get 10,000 signups.

Of course, when reality hits this all falls apart. Customers churn with new competition, so the 5 years was too optimistic. You also to lower your rate to $100 a month to keep up with the market, and costs increase.

That's why you try to get acquired before that happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala

(I don't know anything about the U.K. situation.)
Eating spicy food: What are the effects? (1983)
Rule #1: Do not use C++11. (To be fair, this may depend on which metal - the language could be perfectly usable on larger systems, but those could be much, much more difficult to program at the bare metal level in the first place.)
I mean more that the paper compares meaningless statements with difficult but meaningful statements. Rather than the common term of "bullshit" meaning lies or something disagreeable.

The author probably should have defined "bullshit" more accurately, but the paper seems to be purposely abstruse.
The spelling of the pepper and the sauce both vary by region.
In another interpretation, something can be "superficially" beautiful in an abstract way (say, a fractal or abstract mosaic), but if you can find another meaning in it, it changes the way you see it, probably for the better.
Do you use Blind? You'd be surprised. Especially how it works at companies that big - aka network effects.
Elon must be going through some serious shit in his personal life considering his pathetic attention-seeking behavior on social media. It's kind of amazing how a man who is clearly so bright and talented can act like such a moron when given a way to instantly draw attention to himself.
> Every population should have the right to control who enters their land.

Obviously nations have the right to do that. I don't think anyone has said otherwise. Saying "your right to not be tortured and killed by a tyrannical government is less important than my right to prompt convenience at the grocery store" is still a dick move.
>The upside to his action has the potential in the billions

Sending a reckless and untruthful tweet does not have an upside in the billions. he could take tesla private without lying to investors.
Sounds like what Pizza the Hutt would freeze Lone Star in, for preservation
> Besides the SEC, which is a criminal investigation, there are also civil lawsuits filed in this case - three of them so far:

http://www.haynesboone.com/Publications/criminal-enforcement...

> The United States securities laws are enforced through both civil and criminal actions. On the civil side, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has broad investigative powers and can bring civil enforcement actions seeking monetary penalties, injunctions, bars against serving as a director or officer of a public company, and other civil remedies. The SEC’s civil enforcement is supplemented by the activities of self-regulatory organizations such as the major stock exchanges, state securities regulators, and private litigants. The SEC does not have authority to bring criminal actions. Criminal violations of the federal securities laws are prosecuted by the Department of Justice and the ninety three United States Attorneys offices throughout the country (collectively the “DOJ”). The DOJ may seek indictments for criminal violations of the securities laws on their own initiative or through formal or informal referrals from the SEC. This paper, presented to the Union Internationale des Avocats Winter Meeting on Claims Management, Torts and Litigation of Claims, focuses on the criminal enforcement of the U.S. securities laws.
It's telling that the profound statements are inherently prosaic. So are they really 'profound' or categorized so because they can be tied to some kind of natural or observable or relatable phenomena. I guess that doesn't matter since we are tying this to prosocial behavior, the idea here is to identify what can induce the feeling of 'birds of a feather' (at least, that's my take of it).

The bullshit statements were easy to pick out because they're too abstract or require lateral thinking.
Me neither. My own comments here on HN when the story broke were very positive and impressed for that very reason: it would have been a great feat, buying back the company at 20% above than its present value, especially when he said early investors would have the option to stay in.

It seemed like such a great move, the only problem being how to raise such a huge amount of money. But then he tweeted "funding secured", so that's very solid... I mean, he's a CEO, he knows securities law, he would never post something like that without good reason, right...?

Now it just looks like one of his worst blunders. I believe most people don't even realize how bad it is yet. Based on all I'm reading, the SEC has a strong case, and so do the civil lawsuits.

I'm not a psychologist, but the more I think about it, the more it seems like the type of ego-driven blunder you can only make when you're surrounded by people who worship at your feet 24/7.
This is a phenomenal field choice for an online degree. I'm a little surprised that they didn't have a professional institution co-sponsoring it (like AT&T did for another GT program). One of the big players like Splunk or Symantec seems like an ideal fit for this.
I like the content of the article but did not appreciate the out-of-place call to action to try their service right in the middle of the body ("LogRocket is working on ... Click to check it out.").

In my opinion, those call to actions are helpful when in the similar context with the content itself, or when placed outside of the content. Otherwise they are just intrusive.
Depends on the width of your rows and the relation of access patterns to physical row allocation.
Couldn't they issue some blindable certificates (it's in the name!) that attest that someone belongs to an org without being able to trace it back to a specific email?
I've heard of Blind but I'm too chicken to give them my work email address. Can anyone on HN testify to having done this? If so, aren't you concerned that your employers can see you're using Blind?
After his erratic behavior over the last few months, I find it totally believable.

There is something going on with him, and he is not acting normal. Something has affected his decision-making abilities and if I were an investor (I'm not but I'm a Tesla-owner) I would be very worried.
You can still be fertile, but the quality of the sperm decreases. There's a high risk of autism if you're fathering over 40.
Graphing Ultrasonic Sensor Realtime Data Using a Raspberry Pi and Soracom
UI looks ugly as sin
Flash was a closed source plugin that was added to the browser as a binary blob. It could be updated by the user, and because it frequently had security bugs users were frequently urged to update. Those updates also often introduced new features, which content providers started taking advantage of once a significant number of people updated, putting pressure on the rest to update too.

SQLite is open source that would have been compiled into the browser by the browser vendor. A typical user would not have the means to update it separately from the rest of the browser.

So why couldn't W3C pick a particular release of SQLite, list a specific subset of its features, and declare that this, as described in the documentation for that specific version, is the standard?
Any particular reason why you'd use a Hilbert curve instead of, say, a Z curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve)? Conversion to and from actual coordinates seems much more straightforward for that one (just bit [de]interleaving).

I mean, any Quad/Octree/N-dimensional equivalent can have its cells numbered by giving each quadrant/octant/each of the 2^N sub-cells a certain bit combination and then chaining those together as you descend the tree. The Hilbert curve version is just a special case of this with complicated rules for the "sub cell" <-> "bit sequence" mapping. If you were to use a Z curve, the resulting data format and querying algorithm would be exactly identical to the one in the article, just a lot less complicated in the (not presented) details of "where is this child" than the Hilbert version...
Wouldn't disabling javascript, preferably selectively, be an /improvement/ to security?
I'm finding that 'flow' is a significant contributor to NIH Syndrome.

You can't flow while integrating a third party library anywhere near as easily as you can flow by rewriting half of it (badly) from scratch.

Flow is a rush. Anything that is a rush can be indulged in to the point of self- (or other-) harm.
PM for PowerShell here!

I haven't seen DomTerm before, but it looks pretty awesome. At a glance, it's basically a GUI-fied tmux hosted in Electron? It would be awesome to have in Windows, but wouldn't that just require that DomTerm add support for these ConPty APIs?

In any case, I'm more interested in your proposed interactions. Did you have anything cool in mind? Given that we ship PowerShell on Linux, we could theoretically do some stuff there (including within PowerShell on WSL) before it's hooked up to ConPty
Surely those questions are just a reading comprehension test? I.e. can you read some difficult and somewhat abstract sentences and see if they have any rational (metaphorical or whatev) meaning?

They correlate because the root cause of identifying them is reading comprehension.

And for people who have a bit of trouble with the comprehension, the pessimistic "this is just bs" way of throwing up one's hands and giving up is correlated with non-social behavior. Meh.
I think most people that carry do forget 59 minutes of most hours or more.

A year or so ago when walking out of a big box home improvement store and guys says to me "you got a knife?", I slowed and turned and thought and said no.

As I thought about how I don't carry knives, they are sharp objects that cut things, possibly including me, and I can't afford the anti-hemophilia factor treatments, and I don't need a knife 364 days of the year or so, so no.

I looked around, seeing the guy holding the tie down string the store provided at the exit, and looking around for something to cut it with. I scanned and looked, and even tried to rub the string on a metal piece that was protruding from the string roll holder itself.

The metal did not cut it. As I rubbed it I noticed the keys in my hand. A key could probably cut it better, and even better than that - the multi-tool I added to my keychain a few years ago actually has a small knife in it.

So then I had to change my assertion, I did have a knife, I handed it over to the guy, he cut his string and all was well.

I forgot I had this weapon, and have before when going to places with metal detectors (which don't care if you take it off your keychain and hide it in the bushes next to the front door ). I forgot I had it a lot, even when asked about it, even when it was actually useful.

I hope it's not that hard to imagine, as we move throughout the days we get so much on our mind about past and future, we, or I at least, often forget what I have in the present, and I try not to be like that.
I have talked about this. From my experience it's very common in tech to let people work longer without compensation in time or money.
> What's your justification for that?

Occam's razor. The wavefunction is the simplest construct that explains our experimental results (it appears in every interpretation to some degree or another, certainly in pilot wave theory where it is the pilot wave), so it's simplest to assume it just is what's really happening.

> I remember Arthur Eddington pointing out that it could be interpreted as modeling our limited knowledge of a quantum system just as well as its 'physical reality'.

Hidden variable approaches are incompatible with our experimental results unless you introduce some seriously undesirable properties (e.g. nonlocality).

I didn't say that wavefunction realism is the only reasonable approach, just that it's a reasonable approach. Pilot wave theory isn't - it introduces an extra layer of complexity justified by nothing more than human intuition (not even innate intuition, but the experience of classical mechanics).
Yes they were.

They are, despite that, "new" in the sense I put above.

Apparently, I need to expand on "norms" The thought did not come across. Next time.