skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not, you know, edit the actual sentence instead of adding a thing that says EDIT but leaves the original confusingly unedited?
12 months. 6 months is not enough in an extended recession.

Disclaimer: 2008 GFC experience (company folded, had to walk away from primary residence, etc, took 8+ months to find another job while burning through mortgage payments, medical/living expenses). Experience described in this comment and those below are so others can make more informed decisions than I did.
If we’re comparing a bus or train to a Lyft or Uber carpool or line of some sort, wouldn’t you expect it to be more cost effective to drive people around in buses rather than cars, even if the app coordinates things so that there are two people in the car? It sounds like buses are not very cost effective.

I think what’s actually happening is Uber drivers are paid peanuts and provide and maintain their own vehicles. There’s a technology innovation (eg the efficiency of knowing if and where someone needs a ride) coupled with a labor innovation in paying drivers less than minimum wage.
Nvidia Takes on the Inference Hordes with Turing GPUs
A more relevant link seems to be the actual policy:

https://opensource.suse.com/suse-open-source-policy
Having a truly shared and portable dev environment
It could be another self-replicating entity. It doesn't have to be DNA. But self-replication is the __basis__ for evolution of life. Sure, it could be made from other elements...but why wonder if other elements can create self-replicating entities when you can measure the amount of Carbon in the galaxy...right from here on earth! Carbon is more abundant than say Strontium. Carbon is created inside a star, Strontium is created through Supernovae explosions.

Also, Carbon can form 4 covalent bonds more easily than Si (same family). Si can form 4 covalent bonds but they're weaker than Carbon due to the distance from the nucleus. I am sure someone more familiar with Chemistry can chime in, but Carbon is a special element in the Universe.
For me it wasn't a book but NPR's planet money podcast that triggered my foray into reading up on real world economics. It does a great job at pointing at important concepts that are relatable and breaking it down into simpler parts I can pick up at anytime and travel deep into understanding it.

Sorry if this is off-topic, but thats what comes to mind when I think of a constant source of highly valuable information (besides HN)
He smoked it like a cigar - he didn't even inhale.

I feel like weed is our generations racism; people now know the preexisting ways are no longer correct, but the old guard just has to go away before anything will change.
Living carless in LA is getting better every year. Keep in mind the massive amounts of bike lanes being built, and perfect cycling weather year round. Along with the Metro and rideshare, it's pretty feasible to not have a car.
I think you underestimate how many market moves are because of stupid overreactions to news events.

Ultimately though the true cause of these moves can't really be known so reasonable people can draw different conclusions.
> Any unwinding of the BOJ position would lead to major disruptions.

That's just pushing the inevitable. A lot of stocks went up because of debt. Those stocks needed to come down. In a real capitalist system, the companies with declining stocks would be replaced by new ones. But BOJ intervened (for good reason) and now they are in a painful slow decline.

Pull a bandaid quick vs pull it over time!
I felt like this particular article was almost bizarrely moderate in its tone. It managed to talk about ML and a new seti discovery in a balanced manner, discussing both the optimistic and realistic takes. I guess I'm just so used to modern headline writing that I'm pleasantly surprised when someone doesn't publish "Artificial Intelligence finds aliens." :)
"How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

It's an enduring classic for good reason.
Does that erode trust in currency and cause hyper inflation? I suspect no.
Overcoming SOAR Hurdles with Security Automation on Demand
He said:

>> if a state managed to arrange an associate's degree program paid by taxes, the programs would teach that which should have already been taught in high school. These college programs aren't college.

Emphasis added.

I provided a concrete example of where this is already happening in higher ed: the mathematics course that a huge percentage of students take in college are covering material that's supposed to be covered in high school.
Even if you're no fan of copyright, you still have to acknowledge that censoring political speech, created initially by the person posting it, is a vastly more grave ill for human rights than google removing something someone posted that they did not themselves create.
I'd like to offer a bit different approach. First, start off by making a simple calculator program, that uses RPN syntax. This is dirt simple to implement -- read a line of input, if it is a number then add it to a stack. If it is a math operator, then call a function handling that operator (addition, multiplication, etc) on the last two items in the stack and push the results back on the stack.

Now add error handling (i.e., unrecognized operators, or stack underflow condition) -- figure out what you want to do, such as crash the interpreter with an error message, or return an error and let the user continue.

Now, read up on the Shunting Yard algorithm. This lets you take a regular (infix) math expression, and convert it to RPN (postfix) notation, which you can then feed directly into the RPN interpreter ("stack machine") that you just wrote.

Now look at handling parentheses, which should be covered in the same explanation of the Shunting Yard algorithm.

Next, add in variables in the original stack language, and figure out what minimal changes to the second piece (the algebraic expression parser) you need to do to get it to handle variables.

Finally, add in functions, and you have a simple language. I followed this exact formula when putting together a toy language many years ago, after which I learned how much I didn't know that I didn't know about language design. But I know enough now for a second shot.

Oh, and some other resources to study that may help -- Look for the reference books for the Postscript language. The "Blue" book teaches you Postscript, and I believe it is the "Red" book that tells you enough of the internals for you to write your own Postscript interpreter (or to at least get inspiration on creating you own version of a Stack machine interpreter).
And yet in nations like Japan, where there are proportionately a greater number of elderly than in the US, their healthcare delivers at a much lower cost (by half!) as well as a higher life expectancy. This despite a decades long economic stagnation, as opposed to the curious economic "good times" in the US which seems to decrease our life expectancy and increase our health care costs.
The fact that interviewing for software engineering jobs tests skills that are mostly unrelated to software engineering. Related: interviews that are SE relevant, but in no way apply to the job at hand.

Example: I was asked by a 50 person company to “design the Twitter home page/feed for the world.” Relevant to SE, sort of... I mean, who designs massive distributed systems themselves without being able to consult colleagues or the internet? Relevant to a 50 person company? I suppose they wish it was....
I don't even really understand how to hedge my bets anymore. It's not like there's an industry that will be left unaffected by the current economic climate and... well, the climate. What exactly am I supposed to be working on/towards if the system itself seems broken?

I'm down to "Hope the problems don't really precipitate in my lifetime, and don't have kids". I don't feel like that's a solution.
I've re-read Siddhartha at various times of my life and it had a profound impact on me each time. Can't recommend it enough.
Why CBS’s Board Turned Against Leslie Moonves
Users. :)
Just do a search for historical tax brackets. The OP is correct, however he doesn’t follow up with the effective tax rate paid. In the 1940s there were a lot more tax deductions.

The effective tax rate for those in the top 1% hasn’t changed all that much and is near historical highs.
S&p 500 still have significant exposure to emerging markets.
I've never lived in LA, but if I did it seems like the neighborhood you choose to live in would drastically impact your experience in a much more severe way than other cities because of how long it takes to get from point A to point B i.e. if you chose to live downtown then basically forget seeing friends or dating someone who lives in Venice. The only condition in which I could see myself living there is if my average commute was < 30 minutes, if I had a core group of friends that lived in the same neighborhood as me, and if I enjoyed the social aspects of the neighborhood I lived in.
"Bad faith" research is almost certainly non-replicable, but non-replicable research isn't necessarily in "bad faith".

But that doesn't matter, because non-replicable research is still non-replicable research.

If you study a nonextant phenomenon enough times, then you can produce a null-hypothesis rejection anyway; and if you study a nonextent phenomenon once, then that one study has a chance (albeit minute) of rejecting the null hypothesis anyway. The first is bad faith, the second is either bad luck or incompetence, but neither is an accurate representation of whatever was being studied.

> good faith research that cannot be replicated is part of science.

To science's detriment, yes.
> Great strides have been made in using machine learning to filter out obscurants such as snow. Perception for autonomous vehicles is effectively a solved problem.

Great strides is not 'perfected' and I don't think perception for autonomous vehicles is a solved problem whatsoever. What is a driverless car to do if it slides out of position on the road and is now facing the wrong direction? Does it have the ability to know whether it needs to call for help, can safely maneuver, it's occupants are in immediate danger and should exit the vehicle (or not exit the vehicle)?
Or maybe, hire people and have them spend some time learning. Pay them while they are learning. Pay them enough to stick afterwards and treat them well.

Really. If people dont have exact skill you need but have aptitude, hire them and pay them to learn. No matter what missing skill is.
Because of physics.
The literature disagrees. The causes of addiction are complex, but are broadly based in factors that are reasonably considered 'instability' in the colloquial sense. These include things like adolescent abuse, SES, disengagement from 'conventional' society, mental illness, etc. There is a genetic component, but its contribution is relatively modest.

The trope of a well-functioning adult succumbing to the allure of drug abuse is a red herring.

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/09595239996329
Contraction last 2 quarters in South Africa
Average sale price for iPhones is too high for the SE to be a large percentage of sales (I think)
That's an interesting idea. In the mental health out patient space there is Supportiv (http://www.supportiv.com/), but they are still getting off the ground. Good people.

For hospitals, I'd be nervous about the legal implications of implementing such a platform - specifically HIPAA, since you'd be facilitating the communication.

I like the idea, as it could be useful for building communities for patients that could otherwise become isolated and non social (which can effect health outcomes).
None of the "AI's" are ever explained, my guess is it's an RNN, as you can easily use that to generate a series of words, notes, etc. or really anything if it is trained.
Wouldnt heavily advanced civilization wanted to remain silent? If they know they are less sophisticated aliens out there like us humans, then for sure there are civilizations more advance than they are. I suspect they are not interested of sending their own signal to someone who could anihilate them with a push of a button (even higher civ.)
Bezos can keep his donations, I just want Amazon to pay tax like any other business would in the UK, pay employees NI like any other business in the UK, and pay minimum wage like any other business in the UK. It shouldn't be up to the billionaires to choose where to spend money that should be in the hands of national governments and workers. This article for instance shows homeless Amazon warehouse workers living in tents [0]. Maybe a better solution to homelessness is to pay people properly.

[0]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/amazon-worke...
The details of the Cambridge Analytica piece (as I understand them) were that a third party violated the terms of service and grabbed more data than they should have from friends of users that filled out a survey.

Facebook had since restricted access to the API to prevent this terms of service violation a few years ago, but it was after Cambridge Analytica had already engaged in their bad behavior.

The news was largely that a bad actor did a bad thing and FB had already locked down the API to prevent this a couple years ago, though in the news the details around this were mostly incoherent. The market reaction was a massive crash.

It's probably worth Facebook focusing on bad actors more explicitly (which they're doing now with their focus on integrity teams), but the reaction to the CA news was disproportionate - even on HN. The market moves during sensational media stories seem to be an easy place to make money, I think this is where it's similar to the pot smoking CEO overreaction.
Although downvotes don't necessarily mean factual incorrectness (and I didn't downvote), that may have been the case here. It may also have been because the comment could be read as implying undue influence (and thereby indirect subsidy) by government regulation, injecting controversy/politics where there is none.

Regardless, I wasn't able to find in the WP entry adequate support of your assertion. (Oddly, the "[..]" were in the original WP text):

> As IBM is the only remaining provider of hardware (and only in their mainframes) using their non-standard floating-point format, no popular file format requires it; Except the FDA requires the SAS file format and "All floating-point numbers in the file are stored using the IBM mainframe representation. [..] Most platforms use the IEEE representation for floating-point numbers. [..] To assist you in reading and/or writing transport files, we are providing routines to convert from IEEE representation (either big endian or little endian) to transport representation and back again." Code for IBM's format is also available under LGPLv2.1

There's only a regulation for a file format (and a single, isolated one at that), not regulation of using/processing, and format conversion utilities are available, rendering it irrelevant.
The radar, Lidar and cameras on the Uber that struck Elaine Herzberg all detected her, it wasn't a sensor failure that led to her death, it was a software failure, the autonomous OS tuned to not respond to positives below a certain threshold.
Normal double-buffering involves doing something trivial at the moment of buffer-swap, like changing pointer or at most doing large-ish memory copy. Double buffering DOM would either not solve the problem (in the case of doing the layout computations in background and then swapping already layed out DOM) or would involve doing all the layout computations at once when the swap happens (with the implication of this being mostly equivalent to loading new page and thus slow and in many cases too slow to happen at 30, 60 or whatever Hz)
By "current hardware" the GP presumably meant the most recently released phones, ie the last generation. The iPhone 7 was released 2 years ago.
Accurate form my time there in 2015; When our vcs asked if I would move there, it was a "I love it right now because I'm near the beach, but if I lived somewhere I could afford, I'd never be able to make it to the beach".
We like to start small, then think bigger later
A Pair of WWII Bunkers in New Orleans Contains 7M Fish
> We should absolutely ensure that people get a quality education and that the rigor of the programs are aligned with the difficulty of the field of study... That is different from "competitive" admissions. Which, in my interpretation, is artificially limiting the number of admissions such that perfectly qualified

That's totally fair. In that case, I think this is a difference in wording/failure to communicate more than it is an actual substantive disagreement.

I agree with the problem that you identified. I don't think that the correct solution to that problem is to start teaching middle school math in universities.

Night classes and/or GED prep courses are a better option for people who need to re-do high school.

Of course, fixing k12 education would be an even better option...
A lot of unexplained happenings occurring all of a sudden. First mysterious signals from space and now the sudden closure and lock-down of the New Mexico Solar Observatory:
https://www.abqjournal.com/1219922/nm-solar-observatory-clos...
is there a similar topic for videos? Some YouTube videos can cause profound changes in yourself an your life in minutes (if you are sufficiently open and actually want the change).
Indeed carbon is special in this regards it's also produced in star fusion and space is filled with organic material because carbon, oxygen and hydrogen are abundant.

Also the main reason why silicon is worse is because of catenation, which carbon is much better suited for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenation
There was talk of making community college free but that never passed. It would likely have been tied to success rate as defined by the Department of Education. One pernicious stat is that we are judged by graduation rate. This means a student who comes to us for two years and transfers to a 4 year university but does not formally get an AA is counted as a failure on our part. My experience is that most of the metrics used are useless but well intentioned and increasingly funding and whatnot are starting to get tied to these metrics. I'll optimize to satisfy whatever my employment is based on. In the old days we just taught our classes and pretty much everyone was expected to have high standards. Not anymore.
Really good point.

In the US you can compare federal debt and debt payments easily if if you use "percent of GDP" as a unit.

(a) Federal Outlays: Interest as Percent of Gross Domestic Product, Percent of GDP, Not Seasonally Adjusted (FYOIGDA188S)

(b) Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product, Percent of GDP, Seasonally Adjusted (GFDEGDQ188S)

Formula: a/b

The result: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=lcpR

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ADDEDUM: Part of those interest payments is paid for the Federal Reserve who then pays them back to Treasury. In 2017 Treasury paid something like $262 billion interest and Fed pays $80 billion back to Treasury. Debt from government institution to another is not really worrying or 'real' debt. It's just accounting trick.
I tried recently to find a good Android with 4” screen. I suspect they do not exist. There are sub 100usd phones from China with terrible screen and camera and unknown build quality, but nothing comparable to SE.

Recent Sony Xperia Cpmpact du to the edge-edge design could be a replacenent for SE if they had a version with sub 5” screen. But the available models are too big for my taste.

So I ended up with SE and hope that at least for 3 years I will have small quality phone.
Yeah, I've gone through some of it. Helpful, I was waiting until I got my current back injuries fixed before trying to apply it. I don't think I can squat correctly while a certain spot is tight - have tried.

It did help me get closer to the proper position though.
Not being disturbed. Being able to stay focused.
An "anonymous" author sharpens this argument in a Current Affairs essay called It's Basically Just Immoral To Be Rich. The logic works better applied to super-rich people than trying to get to the assertion that everyone should give up expensive things they have or want and live in some minimal way. Also check out This Little Rock And All Who Sail On It on the same website.
That just depends on the delta between civilizations. They might've advanced way beyond us and they don't have the means to fallback to human method of communicating.
I toured Sunspot when I was at Apache Point researching about two years ago. Even at this time, Sunspot seemed fairly run down/on the way out.
I hadn’t considered the networking part of it so thank you for that insight. Despite studying online I’ll probably have a chance to meet some people during labs which I need to attend in person.
If speaking very roughtly, I'd go so far as to extend that analogy to the CPUs, as well, and, more importantly, the I/O.
Why? What's magical about human beings that a sufficiently advanced sensor and sufficiently advanced AI can't do the same responsive task?

If there's magic in the human mind at all, it's the creative side of the mind. Driving isn't a creative act.
From the Frying Pan Tower, a Front-Row Seat to Hurricane Florence
You have ignored what I wrote
this is a bad article

it harps incessantly on debt, throwing out scary, big numbers ($250T! $40T in china!) but doesn't explain why increasing government debt is an issue

there is a reason to worry if the interest rate on the government debt is larger than the growth rate of the economy

currently that average interest rate is below 3 percent [1], so for any countries with >3% economic growth, it really doesn't matter - they'll be able to make their interest payments to one another (most big holders of gov debt are other govs themselves)

financial and household debt is down across developed economies, and corporate debt is about the same as it was in 2008

furthermore there is no discussion of what could trigger a debt collection death spiral/meltdown, other than "the world's second largest economy is now coming to terms with rising corporate defaults", backed up by 0 context or data

the real worry would be continued slowdown in GDP growth ala "secular stagnation" that many prominent economists are exploring - if you're not growing your income, you can't pay down your debt, and you have to start cutting costs (healthcare, education, defense)

debt has a bad connotation and is easy to sensationalize, so articles like this get attention, but there's no news, argument, or takeaway to be had from reading it

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/opinion/on-the-debt-non-s...
Actually the current price per barrel is almost half of what Venezuela needed to remain competitive, because even though they have enormous reserves, they are hard to extract. Since their primary export (and thus the commodity that makes up the majority of forex to/from Bolivares) is crude oil, the only possible response to this was massive inflation.
I'll agree and expand on their benefits to more complex things:

The vast majority of languages are parsed into ASTs of some form, and Lisp is basically directly programming in AST data structures that are executable. Seeing that source code is basically just another data structure to be manipulated and converted was the major "Ah hah!" moment in demystifying compilers for me.

Forth is a great lower-level representation of nested expression evaluation, and sheds a lot of light on how to organize that evaluation in your code generation, converting foo(bar(baz(val),blort(val2))) into a linear stream of operations. Even for register machines, Forth's stack represents the intermediate values that must be retained between expressions in either registers or memory.

Once this basis of how programming languages work is established, then the ideas of new programming language design from the source code perspective can be explored in practical terms.
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