skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi :-) Thanks. I'm no expert in rational temperaments, I just am objecting when you say things that don't sound true. Like "jazz is said to approximate the scales that could be built off the '7-limit' intervals, which explains its more dissonant nature". (that explains nothing) Or "The only way this would have musical significance.." (only ratios of small integers can 'have musical significance'?)

"look at the 7th and 5th notes in a harmonic series" - I played trombone for years. :-) The 7th is flat, sounds out of tune. (Yes I was mostly playing jazz)

I don't know why you think I'm writing from the point of view of equal temperament as opposed to harmonic series. But it does sound like you're writing from the point of view of a particular rational temperament - maybe because you just read that book. There are many, dozens or hundreds, of different rational tunings/temperaments/intonations, writing today 'from the point of view' of any one of them about music, as if that's what music 'really' is, would be arbitrary, silly.
There's also a weird dynamic where they deal with increasingly complex medicine. As the medical system has grown, care has moved out of hospitals, leaving them with the more complicated (and more expensive) cases.
I think it's easy to overlook just how long it takes to establish a car business in the US, or assume it's different because this is the future. Hyundai started selling cars in America over 30 years ago, and they're still kind of an upstart. It took them almost 20 years to refocus on quality and overhaul their reputation for building junk. Tesla has only been around for a decade.
I have a strong distaste for science popularizations that misrepresent results to make things seem more fun or exciting or whatever—but this isn't that. This is more a presentation of a physicist's worldview, giving some background on the physics which made it that way.

> Reality: The details of time diverge a bit from common understanding.

I think you may be underestimating the divergence a bit. The author is hardly alone in finding general relativity's implications on time to be of profound philosophical importance, for instance.
They have a (slightly out of date) page on the very topic

https://www.semiaccurate.com/fullyaccurate/

Some things since then, they were the first media outlet to talk about how Intel's 10nm was a disaster, The first media outlet to talk about Zen chiplet technology and predict AMD had a homerun on their hands.
> I think the extra factor is that rich people seem to attract more rich people. That is the number that I think can't be out built.

That isn't a real problem though. If people are coming who actually want to live there, let them. There are zero cities in the world that are entirely covered in buildings the height of the Empire State Building. Every time you sell a housing unit for more than it cost to construct, you have that much more money to construct more housing with.

The actual problem is that the existing residents pass zoning regulations preventing high density new construction, because they know it would reduce housing costs, but once they live there their housing costs are fixed and what they're worried about is increasing their property values.
Wow! Looks like Kevin Igoe is trying to sneak NSA backdoors into these encryption protocols!
People like that are why we can't have nice things.
a sudden decrease in farm acreage

but.. it wouldn't happen that way (like throwing a switch). Crops would rot in the field and then be replaced by native plants. Is this evidence presented in paper(s)?
Silicon Valley is ruining the world. Between programming nerds and business bros you have no one to look out for the consequences of social media.
The government already does decide which drugs to fund, just at a different stage of the pipeline.

Also, it honestly probably will be about as efficient, since we subsidize a lot of medicine’s private R&D already (eg orphan drugs), not to mention eliminating the rentiership of private IP and (some of) the waste of pharmaceutical marketing
Are you familiar with Hügelkultur? I wonder if they'd be of any utility in conjunction with the sand damns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur
Wow, I didn't know that academia was getting this bad; what happened to letting the truth be debated a la the Socratic dialogue in the academia of all places!
Indeed. I'm sitting here at a cafe in my small Kansas town. There's a landscape company across the street with a sign offering $12/hr. They are desperate for people. I know this because I've hired their competitor to mow my grass and they can't get it mowed often enough because they are understaffed. This is a small town, probably about the same size as OP's. You can walk or ride a bike anywhere, so transportation is no problem.

I suspect that there's more to OPs story than what was told. Substance abuse, etc. Not faulting the guy but I think that he needs to make an honest assessment of his situation. It's not the lack of work, I know that.

Good luck, OP. My parents were both drug addicts and I moved from house to house for most of my life, too. I know how hard it can be. But, I clawed my way out and I know you can, too.
Is this open to Canadians? A friend is considering a coding boot camp and it seems like a lot of money upfront.

Also how do the success rates compare?
I am attempting to reject an absolute statement that I find dangerous by showing a very basic and boring counterexample. If suffering is a conscious decision, it is such in all cases where suffering occurs, and suffering occurs in animals.

"Suffering in humans" is not concrete. You would need to create a distinction between "suffering in humans" and "suffering in animals" and explain where it differs and what is special about it and I don't see any such definition, so I am going to go with "suffering in general".

Many people here are talking about physical pain, which animals can also suffer from, so it doesn't seem obvious to me that your definition of "suffering" would be some kind of a special definition that shares nothing with suffering in animals.

You are likely trying to say some kind of a thing where humans are special and have special mental controls and so when a human feels pain they have more means of control about it than an animal can. This is all well and good but then we get into issues like children or people with limited cognitive capacity. The line between human and animal quickly becomes thin and we're back to square one, the square where saying that suffering is a choice is egregiously wrong and the statement must be qualified.

It seems to me that you're trying to move some goalposts around.
I'm not sure that's true. For ZOE, the compiler knows whether it's returning a failure or not, and thus whether to set/clear the carry flag. The callee immediately handles it so there's no need to store the carry flag. For a generic user defined union, neither of those is true; the compiler won't be able to deduce which field is active in all situations and won't be able to preserve the carry flag (even if it wasn't modified by other instructions, how would you handle 2 discriminated union variables?) so the flag needs to be stored in the union. The compiler could automatically add a flag variable and update it appropriately, but then again, that can be done today in c++ ... call it std::variant.
Hey dude
Just read your story. I'm sorry that it ended how it did but I am really amazed of your strength and determination! I mean, wow, to go through that and still keep on fighting? That takes character!
I'm certain things will change to the better. Our industry need more people with your determination. Keep up the hard work, Jesse.

All the best from hopefully a future colleague
This is the report the article is based on
https://guardianapp.com/ios-app-location-report-sep2018.html
The kind of thinking according to which this is unethical is the root of presenteeism and a butt-in-seats culture, which values time wasted over value created.

Paying someone by the hour while expecting results that can't be measured in terms of time spent is the actual unethical elephant in the room.

While technically working for less than the time stipulated in the contract is unethical, you could ask yourself: What's more beneficial to your employer and more in line with the meaning of the contract? Someone actually working for just 35 (instead of 40) hrs or someone just "doing their time" and not achieving anything during that time at all? My guess is, your employer would agree that it's the former. Unfortunately though, it's the latter that's quite common.

The only way to properly resolve this conflict is to pay people by the results they deliver not by the time they spend to achieve these results.

n.b.: As a contractor / freelancer the situation would be different. Ideally, in that case you aren't paid by the hour anyway but in terms of value-based pricing. If you are paid by your time, there's usually no fixed weekly amount. So, as long as you deliver good work you simply get paid the number of hours or days you've actually spent rather than some imaginary number.
As I'm sure you could guess, the reality is much much more complicated. Drug dev is really hard, and really expensive. Private money funds an order of magnitude more R&D than the government. That private money takes a huge amount of risk, and most investors lose money (even in the last few years when VCs and public equity investors have made money, those profits will probably be offset by poor returns to pharma companies for their expensive acquisitions of risky assets). The actual rent seekers in the US healthcare system are large hospital systems, although that's not something that is discussed much in the public debate (hospital spend accounts for 30% of US healthcare spend compared to 10% for prescription drugs, and the strategy of hospitals the last decade or so has been to consolidate into local monopolies so they can capture market share and drive higher rates with payers -- pretty much the definition of rent seeking)

Drug company R&D productivity has been declining for years, and probably will be zero or negative in a decade barring breakthroughs. From my limited experience working with NIH and FDA, the government would be way, way worse -- there is very little accountability so simple things are really hard and slow.

NIH spends ~$34B on R&D. Private industry spends over $200B (mostly US pharma companies, with a good number of EU and some Japanese as well). Top 15 biopharma companies spend like $70B per year on R&D in aggregate. Global venture funding is on pace to be $15-20B this year for biopharma

Despite all this money, we got 47 new drugs in 2017 in the US. Most for cancer and rare disease, because those are the only remaining therapeutic areas where you have enough of a shot of making money to attract private capital. If you look at the top 10 causes of death in the US, only one -- cancer -- receives much private funding and new drugs -- very few new drugs for diseases like heart disease, diabetes, mental illness etc. That doesn't even account for the world's most devastating diseases, many of which receive very little funding and innovation, because the economics dont work

To replace for-profit R&D with government R&D in the US, we'd need to probably quadruple or quintuple the NIH budget -- assuming NIH is just as efficient as private industry. If we wanted to allocate spend to the biggest unmet medical needs rather than those that can make a profit, we'd probably need to spend 10x the ~$300B+ the world spends now on drug R&D (that's basically a guess but I don't think it is crazy directionally, considering how little investment goes into cardiovascular disease, psychiatric disease, infectious disease, stroke, pretty much anything other than cancer)

Apologies for the rant and i know this is an unpopular opinion, but I think the public debate on drug pricing and healthcare costs in general is way off and is a huge obstacle to actually making healthcare better and developing new medicines
Even if there's no license, there no way someone can just walk into a bar and get a bartending job. I should know, I went to bartending school. Bartenders are almost always hired from lower level employees. Usually you start by cleaning tables, then you work your way up to a barback, and then you can move up as a bartender.
I thought this would be good on here, both because she should be far better known, and because she seems to have changed the world for the better more than anyone on here could dream of doing. Also her approach to art and education sounds so admirable. A place like Hull House, if started today, would still seem cutting-edge. Well, I found her wikipedia page incredibly inspiring.
You're implying physical force by comparing to an abuser situation where an implicit threat of physical force is involved. If you don't want to imply violence, don't use a violent metaphor.
I think it helps to remember that they occur as cluster headaches. It’s one thing to have a terrible pain that ends within the day. It’s quite another to have the same exact pain with maximum intensity “pounce” on you every day for weeks, months, years.
Psilocybin leads to increases in the personality domain of openness (2011) [pdf]
A randomly stopping car is dangerous even to people who aren't tailgating. A human would be charged with dangerous driving for that - which is a felony in my jurisdiction.
I looked desperately in the press release for some version of Aerohive's Private PSK (PPSK) where you can have multiple PSKs for the same SSID (Ruckus and Cisco have their own versions too) but couldn't find anything.

The ability to have multiple PSKs and revoking\changing one of them but not the others would be really convenient for small and even medium-sized wifi deployments...
`ack` has been my goto for grep-likes -- though I would occasionally `ag` for the multi-line support, which ack does not have. My favorite feature of ack that ag didn't have was the --output flag, which would let you do something like this:

$ ack '^(\w+)' --output 'hello $1 world'

hello abc world
hello defgh world
hello etc world

But seems like this is equivalent to rg's `-or` flag, so looks like I don't have any reason to not switch over. I love the `-r` flag by itself (short for `--replace`), which seems like a handy replacement for sed's substitution. Also, I've been impressed with how responsive and receptive the author has been on Github.

And it doesn't hurt that all of other burntsushi's tools seem solid and well-designed, such as xsv.
You may find this a little more to your liking:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
https://lambdaschool.com/outcomes are our outcomes - not bad at all for a free-upfront school. We see about one student hired per day at this point.

To be clear, we can do better. Our company-wide goal is 90% hired within 90 days. More work to do.

We're still working on Canada; have him/her email me austen@lambdaschool.com
Fair point. However, I think the above still holds if you replace “lower prices” with “reduce the growth rate of prices”.
"Insects are very good at navigating their space and other very complex behaviors that are at least as difficult as driving a car."

And yet, they are commonly seen splattered over the front of cars. Which is failing at exactly the same problem driving AI needs to solve.

You seem to be dismissing this as not part of "their world", but if we're going to compare them at all, I think it is. Conversely, avoiding being eaten is not something driving AI needs to solve.
ROTFL

Are you serious? What Elon does is his business alone. What the PR machine can do afterwards is spin the facts whichever way seems beneficial to them.
>how one gender of a sexually dimorphic species might tend to evolve with greater variability than the other gender.

I have heard this theory before, in arguments where it was being supported by the higher male fraction in both C-level positions and prison. However, there are plenty of confounding factors in those cases. Has this dimorphism ever been found in something relatively simple and easily testable? Ideally, you'd be able to show that it happened in height, or for more social relevance some metric like IQ. In any case you would want something that society can do almost nothing to influence beyond extreme nutritional deficiencies.
Stories like this, the Uber story, and the recent one about Google tracking location even when you opt out, are why I'm looking forward to Purism 5 with PureOS and kill switches.
But considering the gap, it could be better. This is like the tax-cuts-- "Oh, you should be happy you're getting a few hundred dollars back!". Well yeah, but if the cuts had been made fairly across income brackets, I'd be getting thousands.
Small note, the JS objects are in fact ordered. The lack of determinism caused issues between browsers so the spec now defines the following order:

1. Integer indexes (string keys) in ascending numeric order

2. Other string keys (non-integer indexes) in insertion order

3. Symbols in insertion order

https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/#sec-ordinary-ob...
How do researchers find this information? Presumably the apps are using encrypted network connections to submit your location data to surveillance backends. Is guardianapp reversing each application using jail broken devices? Using an iOS emulator to inspect the running app?
Or you can read it, subtract out the bias, and still have more information than other sites.
> I refuse to ever file bugs with them since I know I won't get any meaningful updates.

Having your bug get fixed is perhaps the most meaningful update possible, and that's the one you'll never get if you don't file bugs.

I get your pain, I really do. I've filed many hundreds of bug reports with Apple. And many of those never got updates, or (more often) got a single update telling me it's a duplicate. It sucks to spend a bunch of time compiling a bug report only to be told that it's a duplicate.

But many of the bugs actually got real feedback, and many of them got fixed. Sure, if I hadn't filed those bugs, maybe someone else would, so some of those would have gotten fixed anyway, but maybe not as fast, and a bunch of them probably wouldn't have been fixed at all simply because most people don't get around to filing bug reports.
just use the app
There are always people out there ready to point out that you have done something different. For some, being different is a badge of pride. For others, it is just uncomfortable.
I am so happy to read this. I will reach out momentarily.
Yes! Space-based laser ablation looks very promising to me. Though few are actively developing such capability. Basic idea is to direct a laser to the asteroid surface. That would hopefully create a jet plume from vaporizing matter that will act as a propulsion system to steer its course a few degrees away from earths orbit.

DE-STARLIE: Effective Planetary Defense Using Directed Energy

Because our planet is itself a relatively hard target to hit, we could be talking about an event that only occurs once every billion years ;)

8 Billion Asteroids In The Oort Cloud

https://watermark.silverchair.com/stu2267.pdf
Just looked into NSA agent Kevin Igoe, somehow the vote to boot him off the group failed a few years ago.

The millions and billions from the NSA's black budget[0] have to end up somewhere after all...

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black...
This is kind of what happened to the KeeFox addon for Firefox.
The developer one day decided to have a new default for URL matching. Instead of matching the hostname, i.e. old.reddit.com, it would then match the 'domain' i.e *reddit.com.
Back then it was as stupid as this is now...
Neat! The confluence of skills to dream up, model, cut, and build a musical instrument is pretty cool!

My full time job is operating a 4kW 1070nm fibre laser setup for cutting metals, mostly steel; stainless steel; aluminium here in Launceston, Tasmania.

Unfortunately the supplier advised us not to cut timber / particle board due to the potential of an ember reaching the fume extractor which contains regular cardboard type air filters. Oddly enough, last year I reached out to some other laser cutters locally and one mentioned their laser was down due to a fire in the fume extractor!
Wat 4 is just setting up for wat 5 though. On its own it isn't suprising, many languages use insertion order for iteration, but many others use the hash order. But wat 5 is truly surprising, no other language that I can think of iterates through the same map in different orders (different maps, even clones - sure different order makes sense).

I'm actually impressed by the go devs here, it's a great way to avoid people making assumptions if your order is legitimately randomized.
Thanks. This model seems much less predatory as you have a stake in their success.

The school they are considering has a 97% success rate which seems too good to be true.
Alternatively, companies who want to exploit workers can offer lower-than-expected wages, to make sure they end up only with employees who can be talked into going along with bad situations.
Are you typing uppercase-I or lowercase-L? I just typed in the first URL and it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVEI-BaSVU8
I am really hoping that one day we can legislate respect for privacy and be able to use mass produced widely available hardware and software.

A solution for a few outliers doesn’t really influence the big picture.

I am very interested in what individuals/institutions support privacy at scale.

I am aware of the EFF. Who else?
I just finished reading Rovelli's book "The Order of Time." The article is the last chapter, where the author summarizes the results of the "journey" of the book.

I recommend the book, it was an enjoyable read. The author is able to explain clearly concepts that I had struggled to understand before.

Throughout the book there are a many references to philosophical ideas and to the history of science, in some cases quite emotional. This being the last chapter, is quite heavy on them. However, I found them quite useful and interesting as a tool to break from preconceived notions of time.
Awesome! Fair warning, I'm heading out for the night, so if I don't get back to you immediately that's why. Will get back late tonight.
He's CEO of one of the most highly-valued and prominent tech companies today. For better or worse, what he does ends up being the interest of many people outside his personal network. But ignoring the pot-smoking, what would non-"engineered" press look like when it comes to the departure of the two senior executives this morning?
...what school is that? Sounds like classic code bootcamp accounting where they do something funny with the denominator
I see current generation wi-fi routers being discounted already. It could be a co-incidence but I am sure vendors would LOVE to sell you newer routers and will implement it within years, not decades.

As for devices on the other end, apparently it is possible to skimp out and have 1x1 instead of 2x2 https://superuser.com/a/323778 I don't even know why 1x1 is an option at this point. Don't make me think! In any case, mobile SoC manufacturers should incorporate this new technology much faster so I would assume the new WiFi will be readily available in mobile hardware not more than three years after the standard is final.
This seems like another excuse to go after US tech companies. Why does the EU hate US tech so much?
Sonos integrated with IFTTT
Nah, FPGAs are programmable hardware, it's a subtle but important difference.
Considering that the gap also means increasing disdain against the rich, I'm not that surprised. Not saying it's all just PR and getting on the good side of the mob, but it's still true that before being revered for his philanthropy, Bill Gates was one of the most hated people in tech.