skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)
Acceleration is a lot more fun than velocity for most people. You can experience high acceleration (in all directions) at low speeds in a good nimble sports car, and stay completely within the spirit of the law.
I still think the way to go is to have a price index where if procedure X is available in (list of countries with good healthcare system) for $Y, then it should be illegal to charge more than $Y in the U.S. Have a central authority that manages the price index and the list of countries that we survey prices from. Then doctors and hospitals and pharmaceuticals couldn't all take advantage of the system by charging $500 for a fucking IV drip.
> If you have to pay people to give feedback, you're doing something very wrong.

Why? This is a more unbiased way of getting feedback than letting your most vocal users tell you about their problems with your product. Paying users for feedback is more common in B2C apps but happens quite a bit in B2B also.
What are these amazing modern DB's you're speaking of that are kicking the pants off of Postgres that I seem to be unaware of?
> when there is nothing left to learn,

I only logged in to comment on this :-)

This won't happen, ever. That's because new things to learn are being created all the time!

For example, when there was no horse there was no horse riding. When there was no computer there was no programming. Just two infinitesimal examples to demonstrate what I mean.

Knowledge of "basics of the universe" such as quantum theory are of no use to a "higher order" being such as ourselves when almost all of us apart from a few physicists work on much higher planes. The matter and energy of the universe is constantly being rearranged to create more and more and higher higher order problems, you will _never_ run out of new ones. First we create the problem, than we solve it, creating new ones (and the whole universe does it too, and biological stuff especially) :-)
This does not seem obvious to me. For example, imagine if you overnight doubled the US population. Would wages go down? Well, overnight you would also double the economy and double demand for just about every kind of work, from hairdressers to security guards. What's the overall effect? (And you are talking about just 3.5%, not 100%.)

Here's one classic study on the effect:

David Card, "The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market" (1990), http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/mariel-impact.pdf

Quoting from the abstract: "…This paper describes
the effect of the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 on the Miami labor market. The Mariel immigrants increased the Miami labor force by 7%, and the percentage increase in labor supply to less-skilled occupations and industries was even greater because most of the immigrants were relatively unskilled. Nevertheless, the Mariel influx appears to have had virtually no effect on the wages or unemployment rates of less-skilled workers…"

That's a rapid influx of 7% of Miami's population!
But the effect isn't obvious to economists, either, and you can find people arguing both sides. This is a fairly balanced article: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/04/541321716/fact-check-have-low...
I thought they were lame searches too, so I went to Amazon and searched "Bose headphones." Nothing above the fold was Bose headphones -- the second pair of headphones don't even have a brand listed. Thinking that wasn't specific enough, I tried "Bose noise-canceling headphones," and the same thing happened.
Here’s an HTML version if you’re on a phone: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1808.00811/
I go to Starbucks to work on my side projects
It makes perfect sense if you look at this as a get-rich-quick scheme: brand as first ever sovereign cryptocurrency, launch IPO, mint money.

And I'll take you up on your kind AMA offer: why would you live there for two years?
This is why user experience researchers have a job. It's not about asking the user what they want, it's about observing how they work, their problems, their current workarounds, and then building something they need.
You’re vastly overestimating the human brain’s ability to accurately recall first hand accounts. It’s actually kind of shocking how bad eyewitnesses are at remembering details.
We got a large pan pizza the other day and it was enough for five people, who each got two slices. To have one person tackle that would have been crazy.
Indeed, even at the level of mundane passenger cars, I think automatics have gotten a lot better. My first car was a 1975 Dodge with 3-speed automatic. You kind of had to "play" it, in order to make it shift at the right time, e.g., for passing.

My family now has a Toyota minivan. The transmission shifts smoothly and intelligently, and downshifting with the gear selector when descending in the mountains seems to be no problem.

Even better, we rented a big passenger van this summer in Europe, and its transmission seemed to "know" when we were on a descent, and downshifted accordingly. It was pretty cool.
For reference, the "weird trick" is adding code splitting and putting most of the logic into a web worker.
Microsoft Announces New Canadian HQ in Downtown Toronto and $570M in Investment
How much of that is codec driven?
Was it someone from Mozilla, or the Long Now Foundation?
Yes, but the key is seeing the divorce coming, and deciding then to play it both ways. Express commitment to working out problems. And also start hiding resources. Cryptocurrencies are now an affordable low-end option, for those who couldn't workably cover more traditional methods.

And yes, it sounds horrible. But really, it's not that different from having savings, in case of job loss or health problems. And hey, I suppose that two divorces have left me paranoid. Or maybe I'm just not suited for marriage. I mean, I know that I'm not suited for full-time employment ;)
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How about the steering wheel. Driving at any speed while holding your phone is quite hard on a manual unless you are happy to destroy your gearbox
I watched 3:15 of that and he was still just getting started. Do you think you could provide a link to the good part?
If you like esoteric, I learned this algorithm for obtaining the exponent of a 2x2 matrix, which amusingly enough is part of an interesting fibonaccialgorithm.
Isn't it a Russian saying - "He lies like an eyewitness"
> At an average of 40 miles per hour that's not particularly bad.

I gave you the time it would take if you drove at mid-day, not at rush hour (hence the "without traffic" qualifier). A lot of people commute to New York, as you might imagine (and you have to go through toll booths and there was non-stop construction), but my hours were variable at that particular job so I didn't always get the same experience. It wasn't part of my normal commute, but I assure you the George Washington Bridge isn't any better than the Golden Gate, and I have also driven over that in heavy traffic.

Anyway, I've done that and I've commuted on Massachusetts highways (allegedly among the worst in the country). I didn't enjoy it but my point is that driving an automatic car didn't make it any better.
Just writing down my train of thoughts here. This article made me think of a machine learning-like approach of learning the customer needs. You want to find out the true distribution of them. Apparently, the more clearly you can identify the needs, the more win for your products. But in some areas, the customers are "noisy" and the boundary (of what's okay and what's not) is not clear. So you want to try various approaches to figure out the shape of what the "needs" look like.

In some sense, brainstorming (without criticizing the ideas) is a bit like generative methods. You only want to find the center of distribution. But sometimes you want to know the exact boundary. In that case, you need to employ a discriminative way; to try both sides of the boundary to define the better shape of it.
We had a case once where a guy kept breaking into a local business. Didn't take anything, just broke the door or a window and picked things up and moved them around a bit then left. Did it repeatedly despite a series of warnings and discussions.

Guy was not malicious, just not mentally healthy. Doing nothing meant the business would continue to get harassed.

Judge and prosecutor and defense attorney had a long conference about how none of the options available were any good.

Mental health courts are one approach being tried out in a few jurisdictions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health_court

Basically like a plea agreement with conditions to enter into a community based support program or some kind of treatment program.

They aren't without criticisms, but they provide a tool to deal with these messed up situations the criminal justice constantly gets stuck with.
I'm not sure where the "worship war" idea comes from. I've never heard anyone state something like that before. What are you referring to specifically?

However, Australians are far from perfect. In particular being isolated geographical means lack of exposure to other cultures and leads to a significant portion of society being "casually racist", which sucks. All our modern political parties are a joke as well, and due to our small economy we are in many ways a puppet of the US i.e. this bill.

So no, I don't think we're a metric for how it should be. But the really depressing part is that with all the negativity I've just listed (and there's certainly more), we still have our shit together more than a lot of other countries. That's far from being a reflection on Australia being "good", rather it's a reflection on how bad a significant portion of the world is.

P.S. One positive thing about Australians is that the majority of us aren't particularly patriotic. So we will happily admit to how big of a disgrace our country can be!
They sell fake flowers in a glass vase at many gas stations which are meant to be used as crack pipes. It's not a new thing and probably not illegal
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It used to be a form of saving money and better control of your car, but now is more of an acquired taste to want to use manual shift. For me, the fun is in doing perfect rev match down shifts or doing a goo toe-heel move before a tight turn. Otherwise comparing to all the AI and radars, there isn’t much practical use anymore.
I personally loved the Sodexo food at my college. Maybe it varies regionally.
I like it!

I am in Austin as well - if, in the future, you ever need any Operations/Finance help, don't hesitate to reach out :)

Best of luck!
Agree. $40/mo is a bit steep for just documentation and also when VuePress exists for... free.
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I think the real problem is that you are blowing things out of proportion...to me your situation doesn't seem that bad. You are aware of your mental condition, so try to reason your way through this mode of thinking.
The entire post is premised on frustration in my ability to share what I know in order to avoid punching down. That I can't share specifics is the whole reasonto try another tack.

See also: https://wpostats.com
Is the first ad on the web some known thing? When was it?
Wouldn’t that training set be valuable!
I think that smart teams are going to extract what they can out of these bots. Even top players had difficulties dealing with the inhumanness of the bots - people are generally trained to compete against something that acts to some degree on instinct, not probability.

The bots lack if fear in e.g. diving a tower before 5 minutes definitely paid off to a certain degree.

I also personally feel that the caster stack of players intentionally lost their matches to hype OpenAI. The limitations of the bots were very apparent, and the pro players at TI easily outsmarted the bots by either:

- Split pushing with 1 hero and fighting with 4.

- Baiting a lower priority hero (e.g. Lion). The AI would very often vastly overcommit for kills in the lategame.
How many other countries in the world put the "squeeze" on their poor and middle class youth such that if you join the military and go murder foreign citizens you can qualify for a GI bill that pays for all college and more (that is of course, if you survive) - - - yet, if you refuse to be a "hit man" for the Gov't (the 6th commandment), you'll likely incur $40,000 or more in college debt . . .
Do people actually see images of things in their head?

I can close my eyes and think of something, but I won't perceive anything more than a linear description of it.

At best, I can use these visual descriptions to draw an outline in my head, but it instantly fades out if I don't continuously re-draw it.

Kind of like this:
https://i.imgur.com/0zuPIPV.gifv
Can anyone clarify what's going on here?
So if we're on the same page driving a MT: the reason we're blipping the throttle is so that we don't upset the balance (front to rear) of the vehicle, and we do our blip just before shifting to 1st from 2nd and ideally we've judged it correctly so there is no change of pitch from engine braking.

So with a dual clutch AT vehicle, under savagely hard threshold braking there is no gear related pitch change. And under normal driving there is none either. To be clear though I only tested the GTI at a small "pitch and catch" autocross style track once, but I did drive all of VW's vehicles that day, it was a manufacturers test day.

Here's a Wikipedia explanation

"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-clutch_transmission "

Bikes and cars have significantly different engine power characteristics. I'm guessing you ride a sport bike?
I think “just” is apt. If you have a web request to send the password, you will have a url or username string very close by in memory that can be searched for.
He laid out what he believes to be the defining term/condition of wet in his mind, and that's what I'm saying is bogus. He's saying completely submerging something means it's not wet. That makes no sense and there is not a single definition I could find that supports that assertion.
I’ve done a lot of prototyping with LTE, GPRS, LTE-M, and NB-LTE chipsets (along with having previously worked for a Bluetooth tracker company) and I think this article is making a false conclusion. The terrible battery life of these example products is much more caused by the power devouring GPS or a lack of adequate battery capacity in these products than by the LTE-M chipset.
I literslly just launched our startups product documentation site with VuePress and had a great experience.
- host the git repo on github
- use github pages to manage the web hosting, it even gives you SSL for free
- VuePress generate beautiful docs too and has a super low learning curve.

The one issue with the above setup is that it’s just too techy for the average person. I was looking for freelancers to hire to help me buildout the documentation, annotated images etc. The average writer is far more used to WYSIWYG editors like Word and would have no idea how to use Git. If this solution allows non tech users to collaborate on the documentation, they may be on to something.
There is definitely something deeply weird and unprecedented about a world where the richest countries are having the fewest children.
Care to elaborate? Regardless, you won't be stranded!
Me too but rarely there are these hard core foot by foot stop and go traffic where I wish I had an auto, but rarely.
You still can build a house that way, building to code is not hard, it only becomes any sort of problem once you start doing crazy shit like open spans 20 foot wide or vaulted ceilings, and even then, there are simple standards for most of that too, which is why the building codes are so extensive. With a couple months of work or training anybody could build a house to code by themselves without a problem. The only real consideration for not doing it yourself is your speed. Some guy that frames all day every day is going to get that job done multiple times faster from practice and have more than all the tools for anything they will encounter, but if you have the time and can swing a hammer then you can do it.
I can understand the argument you're trying to make, but it's incredibly sloppy to call the healthcare system we have in America 'the free market'.
I'm going to leave this Nabokov quote here for the benefit of others:

"Incidentally, I use the word reader very loosely. Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do not have to move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and then can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting. However, let us not confuse the physical eye, that monstrous masterpiece of evolution, with the mind, an even more monstrous achievement. A book, no matter what it is—a work of fiction or a work of science (the boundary line between the two is not as clear as is generally believed)—a book of fiction appeals first of all to the mind. The mind, the brain, the top of the tingling spine, is, or should be, the only instrument used upon a book."
Whether foot operated or hand pulled, you will have to use your hand to disengage it so not seeing the difference.
Falling down is no big deal and expected. Why you should always weara helmet. My favorite is wheni released my left foot, but leaned right. Did that twice.

Nowadays, i feel more stable clipped in.

And i know countersteering is a thing. Don't really process it, though.
By consolidated I meant a small number of authorities vs a single authority.
Having seen that industry as well, the numbers there are very high, and can skew true ever loving crap out of any average.
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Don't work in your office for all of the obvious reasons. Go anywhere else. Try different coffee shops around your office or home neighborhood. I think that a coffee shop provides the right level of distraction for doing work when your brain is tired after working a long day.
I had a similar teaser question in an interview for a senior technical role which went something like: given a function that has a uniform distribution over N, how to create a new uniform distribution over N+k. I recalled the general idea/theory of building new distributions from old and felt confident I could find the answer with general resources (textbooks I had at my desk or a quick search). The (fairly junior) interviewer didn't recognize the idea and kept trying to push me towards a specific answer. I looked it up after the interview -- the problem is apparently well known in CS circles (it was not for a CS role) and was something I could look up in 3 minutes. I did not get the role.

Arrogant? Maybe I am, a little, sure. But I don't spend my days remembers every minute detail of every technical documentation I've come across -- I can't remember everything! What I _do_ instead is remember _how to recall_ technical items in specific contexts to quickly refresh and remind myself when the time comes.

I don't come across _too_ many arrogant or clueless interviewers, but when I do I am genuinely surprised.
hmm... increased spending does not mean higher costs. It could mean higher costs, or it could mean flat or declining costs and a lower profit margin, which is a good thing.
This is a great read, but I'd like to hear more about the nitty gritty, what server hardware you use, it seems like you have 3 pis and then a bunch of really advanced enterprise-level stuff for other work... I'd love a guide on what you did to get here. The internet really needs something like that.
> It's interesting that they were not able to extract good images from the test when they just asked the subjects to imagine the pictures. I speculate that is because the vast majority of people are able to recognize images of things, but not produce those images.

It seems reasonable to me. To use a computer as an analogy, the set of signals produced by a webcam recording a video to a hard drive are not going to be the same as the ones of the video playing from the hard drive on to the screen.
Very impressive! I was quite skeptical until I read your comment. Now I'm just a little skeptical.
I'm not so sure about that. I never go to the doctor and I have good insurance. Yet the local ER waiting room is full of people with sore throats and no apparent ability to pay for the services they are there to receive.
Throw yourself in the deep end of the pool. As a technical co-founder, I had to attend an industry conference and man a booth. All fear evaporated by the end of it. You'll find that people are often looking to talk about their issues and their lives. Even better, most people will be sympathetic to your dilemma and will appreciate that you aren't coming at them from the slimy sales perspective. At least, that was my experience over the course of several days of the conference.
I have no issue conjuring clear images when closing eyes. I guess it depends how your brain is wired and this is probably why we have ways to refer people who are good at drawing, painting, etc. They probably have a mix of clear visualization and very good hand/finger coordination.
Brazil is the same. New cars with automatic transmissions are now at least 40% of sales, but on the roads, manual must be still at least 80%, and 10 years ago it'd be virtually 100%. Stop and go exists here since always, Sao Paulo is a nightmare.
For me a brain teaser means the company can’t get to the point and unknowingly is just beating around the bush.
I have more than 35 years driving all kinds of vehicles and what i've learned is that "all the other drivers are wrong" or at least is what everyone says. Probably we all need to learn to better ourselves and be a bit more patient and courteous.
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Don't let this one thing be the thing that stops you from making a game. These types of rabbit holes can cost you an entire project. Keep in mind that AAA games often have several engineers working on this type of component. Unless you have that level of funding, consider just using what works until it no longer scales.
Check out "NOVA: Search for the Super Battery" on Netflix
www.netflix.com/title/80991272?source=android It's a great intro into the challenges of current batteries and it shows Ionic materials' battery which is very similar tech to the one described in this article.
fMRI data is very noisy, and that's reflected in the generated images. They're not at all recognizable, unless they're sampled from a very small class like simple geometric shapes. I doubt it's possible to do much better, with fMRI.
An act which incidentally is credited as the most beneficial piece of US legislation to date in terms of addiction reduction and prevention.
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