skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that there's little resemblance between Murakami and PKD.

I think I know what you mean regarding Hemingway. I got that "feeling" as a reader reading For Whom The Bell Tolls.

I'd look at "the Surrendered" by Chang-rae Lee, a Korean American author and a Pulitzer finalist. I'm only halfway through the book but it's very much a Hemingway esque war book, and I think I get a similar feeling reading it. Maybe it has to do with being very deep inside the psyche of the existentially troubled, conflicted protagonist.

If you do read it and enjoy it, drop me a note at me email. Would love to hear what you think.
I may be different, but to me it seems that EV certificates are useful for dealing with domain typo fishing. Google.com is pretty short and memorable. However, when I type my bank's address, especially if it is a small bank, seeing the EV certificate gives my more confidence that I did not make a typo in the URL. Given that LetsEncrypt makes if free and painless to set up https if you have control of a domain, the EV certificate just gives me just a little bit more comfort over a DV especially for sensitive information.
Oh, so you were only at work for 41 hours a week.

only an hour more than full time.
Driving in dry / warm conditions is simple mechanics. Driving in snow and ice is an art.

In snow and ice, variables that are typically constant or static become dynamic. Formally dynamic variables now become multi-variable equations. For example: travelling down a hill normally requires dynamically factoring for the extra speed due to the incline. Under blizzard conditions you have to factor ice/snow volume, as well as the incline.

I don't want to share the road with self-driving cars in winter for a long time.
Just finished publishing my blog using gatsby 1.8! Congratulations and great job!
Have you read the rest of his works yet? The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a masterpiece in a similar tone to Hard-boiled Wonderland (but less cyberpunk)
Your example isn’t really discrimination if you’re looking for fire fighters. “Experience” is largely acquired by making mistakes. People don’t care how old you are, they care how many years of experience you’ve acquired. I guess you can call it discrimination but only if you think hiring people “who are good at their job” discriminates against people aren’t. Of course, this is a US centric view, it could be totally different where you live.
Waymo for one definitely reads signs, but I'm not sure about those. Lots are written in ways that the average adult human can't decipher.
This is categorically and demonstrably false. Backing up to iCloud is disabled by default, as is Messages in iCloud. Either can be enabled or disabled as desired with no ill effect on your device or the rest of iCloud usage.
Hm, thanks for the heads up, it should be fixed now!
This was actually discussed on HN previously, with a link to the text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17797003
Interesting point. Out of curiousity, is it ok to tell us what country that is? I am always interested to hear about how these things work differently in different parts of the world.
I agree. Meanwhile, the IBM stock is up 1,320% since 1993. At one point it was nearly 2,000%.

That's the problem with playing the stock market: you've not only got to be right, you've got to be right at the exact right time or you'll get slaughtered.
Part of the reason most languages obscure this is because it's a moving target.

If a language let you say, "this chunk of code here should run in 7 cycles", what happens when a new optimization finds a way to reduce that, or a new architecture comes up where that operation gets slower but lots of others get faster?

I'm not arguing against your desire, just explaining that it's not unreasonable that we're where we are now. We've gotten so used to language portability, that it's good to remember how painful it can be to lose that. It's no fun having to rewrite all your code every time a new chip comes out.
Oracle, Microsoft. They're called "DeWitt clauses", after the researcher who first invoked Oracle's wrath after publishing benchmarks and finding them to be the slowest. Read on:

* more about DeWitt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt#The_%22DeWitt_Cla...

* an overview of database licenses with such a clause today: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12116865/1376005

* an essay discussing the legality of such clauses, with links to further material on/about them: https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/dewitt-clause.html
One of the problems is that every time a carbon tax is proposed its a tax on consumers, rather than carbon producers. Any tax should come on those who are pulling the carbon out of the earth and selling it to others, not the end-user. To make matters worse, drillers and other carbon-related corporations are, in many cases, currently receiving tax subsidies (tax holidays on public-land drilling among other things). A good first step would be passing a law that banned subsidies for carbon-producing industries before we propose taxing the end-user, which has a disproportionate impact on those least able to afford it.
I don't think the JVM will be going anyway anytime soon.
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I'm not too surprised by the fact that cancer is transmittable via organ donation.

I'm just surprised that the donor wasn't screened for probability of cancer using a DNA test. Or is that not possible ?
We got the GMs last Monday, so we got a week to regression test against it vs the previous betas.
I stand corrected, I think I hastily generalized the Houston example I think the source actually used to all of Texas when in fact the zoning examples were defined with respect to Houston.
Concrete solutions to Stallman's objection in lexically scoped languages include,

- Callable objects that store `FOO`, and

- Closures that capture `FOO`.

I'm pretty leery of argumentum ad populum. I think we went with lexical scoping for a few clear reasons, and I don't know if the reasons for dynamic scoping are compelling. I would love to hear more of them, though.
It has nothing to do with the trolley problem. The trolley problem is a headline-grabbing non-problem in the actual design of driverless cars.
100 years doesn't seem like a long time to me because of the age of our civilisation or species, it seems like a long time to me because of the lifespan of our species. I certainly can't communicate at all on a 200 year RTT, as I'll be dead and forgotten before I get an answer.

If it's communication, that implies a two-way exchange of ideas. The galactic equivalent of blogging would be like all such communications: typically of more interest to the sender than the receiver.

If we assume a long-lived species that can receive a response within its lifetime, we must also assume that during the intervening time little enough of the context has changed that the answer is still relevant. That means a species and a civilisation that has extremely little change over hundreds of years.

This is what I mean by an extraordinarily static civilisation.

(But if it's so static, what could possibly be said that has material bearing on anything? :-)
If you need any help or a sympathetic ear, I used to be obsessed with startups, but then I had a kid. My email is on my profile - feel free to use it as you need!
They talked about an "ageist conspiracy". Above post is saying an ageist conspiracy isn't required.
It's so funny to watch these discussions and seeing people who absolutely cannot conceive of things being different for different people. Things they see as problems are just everyday life for other people, and it turns out that people cope just fine.

When I grew up you went to school in the dark during winter, and when you went home from school it was already dark again. You got a little bit of sunlight during lunch break, and that was it. It's not like you had a choice...
A net energy loss/gain analysis of DST would be interesting, at least from the consumption side. That could impact carbon emissions which would be relevant today, right?
Well more specifically, what I was trying to say is, if you wanted to be part of, say - the cross-stitching community, and you made a post about how over-under stitching sucks, and so the owner of that server banned you, and then let every other cross-stitching based mastodon know about your terrible stitching beliefs, then while you can still "join" another mastodon instance, you are effectively removed completely from the "cross-stitching community".

From what I'm aware of, this has kinda happened with certain instances have essentially been blackballed by the groups of instances which don't like them, or whatever.
If I were an AI or uploaded brain, I'd copy myself over the communications link, fully expecting to diverge into two distinct individuals.
> that assumes bias actually exists in the first place.

Not really. It only assumes the possibility of bias. At the very least, one must look for it. There's a lot of subjectivity involved in deciding who to hire or fire, and unfortunately a lot of people in tech seem to think they're perfect rational machines immune to bias, so they never even look. Don't have to look far for examples.
Let's just get the world to UTC already.
If they didn’t get a work permit they’d be violating immigration law, first of all, and second, that has nothing to do with taxation. And what after your third 6-month long vacation you don’t think they’ll ask how you plan to support yourself? Where your money comes from? Who you work for? I get that every time I wander through and I'm a full-on citizen.
Variables I can think of that change:

- Lane lines cease to be a thing, even if you can see them, you're better off not following them

- Stoplights also mostly become a guideline, it's sometimes safer to run them than spin out

- Signage or signalling may or may not be visible at all

- Other cars or pedestrians may or may not be visible at all even in daylight

- Your stopping distance can effectively change every few feet

- A foot of snow accumulation may be transferred from the roof of the car in front of you to the windshield of your car with little to no warning
Well, the Xcode GM dropped with the new hardware because it contains references to it. So you weren't allowed to submit with a beta toolchain before then.
The one glimmer of hope that I have is that I am literally incapable of driving in the snow without substantial software assistance, and that's true for literally every other human I know.
I'm not expecting quantum computers to actually do anything faster than conventional computers for many years, and that's fine; making things incrementally better is usually much easier than making them work in the first place.

People have been simulating quantum circuits as proof-of-concept for quantum algorithms, and D-Wave has a "quantum annealing" machine (although a preliminary glance suggests there's skepticism about whether that involves any provable quantum effect), and there are frequent reports about pushing the limits of entangled qubit count, but I'm wondering if anyone's actually made a quantum device that solves even a specific problem faster than non-quantum physics would allow (hence my original comment along those lines), rather than faster than conventional hardware (which could take years or decades to match).
Ask HN: How can I get a job with poor communication skills?
I'm searching for my first real job. I have contract experience and a CS degree. I'm in the U.S. at a top 10 tech city.

I've had at least 10 onsites over the past six months. Most recently, three rounds before reaching the onsite. My communication skills are terrible. I'm an introvert with a speech impediment. Where I'm at, I have no friends nor family.

I need a job, but I won't magically improve over my communication skills overnight. That takes a lot of time, speech therapy, visiting the orthodontist, building relationships, etc.

What should I be doing?
you can wake up at 4am but that doesn’t change the fact that society centres around 9-5
Microsoft wants to manage your desktop fleet
Awesome! It looks like you are the creator, I have some questions regarding licensing and copyright I have had trouble finding the answer to.

As the episodes are syndicated it seems reasonable to "rebroadcast" the episode on your site, but the terms and conditions for many podcasts (example 99 Percent Invisible) seem to suggest that is breaching their usage rights.

Have you looked into this at all and did you find similar issues?
You can do that with capital gains sure because you’re taxed based on residency at disposition but work is done where you are physically and taxes are due.
>seeing the EV certificate gives my more confidence that I did not make a typo in the URL

not really. there's nothing preventing an attacker from creating a legal entity with the same name and legitimately getting a EV certificate.

https://stripe.ian.sh/
I love Souseki. For me he's the Japanese Dickens. I highly recommend Botchan (spelling from google -- no idea what this book is called in English).
Of these, the following are attributable to "static variables become dynamic" (and highly nonlinear at that...):

- Your stopping distance can effectively change every few feet

- A foot of snow accumulation may be transferred from the roof of the car in front of you to the windshield of your car with little to no warning

The following are hard planning problems:

- Lane lines cease to be a thing, even if you can see them, you're better off not following them

- Stoplights also mostly become a guideline, it's sometimes safer to run them than spin out

But these are just damn hard and probably the true limiting factors:

- Signage or signalling may or may not be visible at all

- Other cars or pedestrians may or may not be visible at all even in daylight

But I'm not an expert on perception so... maybe that's my bias showing.
This sounds a bit like AngelList?

That aside, your business revolves around a chicken or the egg problem. You won't get investors until you can deliver deals, but you won't get deals until you can deliver investors. I'd suspect that, if you could deliver either side of the equation, you wouldn't be asking this here, so my gut feeling is that you might want to go back to the drawing board.

All that said, I'm about a billion dollars away from being a billionaire, so it's likely that I don't have a fucking clue what I'm talking about...:)
Permanent DST improves both of your examples (sun rising too early in the summer and setting too early in the winter).

The argument against permanent DST in Boston is how dark it would be when kids go to school.

Of course the counterarguments are "Alaskans do it" and "you can just adjust school schedules (and the work schedules of all the affected parents...)". In theory, those are both options, but are less desirable for many than the status quo
Maybe the problem is with the party.

If it has positions that educated people don't support, it won't have Republicans there. Centrist Democrats in the US are what conservative or economically right is in the rest of the world.

The party holds many ideas that are frankly medieval

http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Republican_Party_Abortion.h...
There are lots of attributes that are provably impossible to statically determine about a computer program. Whether the program halts is the obvious example, but Rice's theorem generalizes this to effectively any attribute of a computer program you would be likely to care about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem
Wouldn't it be PT then?

Also why not just move to one zone west. POE Pacific ocean east time.
Donated her kidneys, lungs, liver and heart. All four recipients developed a similar breast cancer.
Of which there's a paper about ML-based frame tweening: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00080 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjViy6kyiqs
> The diagnosis of breast cancer was occult at the time of donation.

I.e. they didn't find evidence of it at the time of donation.
My project (https://qards.io) was #2 on ProductHunt last Saturday and I can say I have some knowledge of Gatsby. The community is very, very vibrant and I'm surprised with the number of plugins they have.

The maintainers are very active and responsive and the project itself does many things...just right.
Both p2p GPU renting for AI training and location-based renting for gaming are very interesting business models.

Also glad they didn't drag blockchain into that.
Where do you work, Mars?

I've never seen management axed ever. I dream of it though.
Because it's counter-productive. I agree with it insofar as things like spam, which has nothing to do with communication, really - but when it comes to just simply, speech, it's a bad idea.

Lets take a really overly simplified example. Lets say you don't like people who like Purple. You're a Pink guy, through and through. In fact you hate people who like Purple. You think they're all jerks. So - you decide, you're going to make it so that you, and anyone else on your sever doesn't have to see Purple posters.

Half a year later, you find out that most people now believe in Purple. You don't find this out until people are telling you about how good Purple is in real life. When did all these people turn to Purple?

The problem I'm trying to illustrate here, is that as someone who is all about Pink - and opposed to Purple, you've taken yourself out of the opposing conversation. You didn't realize that Purple had the stage, and had been convincing people to go Purple. You didn't realize how much ground Purple gained, with nobody there to speak out about how bad Purple is.

While it might feel nice to not have to see things you don't like, in the broader sphere of the world and the place you live, it's damaging. You need to be aware of, and have to confront things you don't like. It's part of your civic duty.
Or most people. If it is actually blizzard conditions, one should have a very serious reason to be on the road. If not, stay at home instead of driving. Snow days are called for schools. Maybe work in general also?
You're approaching it from the wrong angle.

Solar and wind don't need on-demand electricity to cover the gaps, they need better storage solutions.

Then, you have nuclear as the base for large metros / regions, and local wind/solar with good storage solutions for peak demand.
In the 80s IBM had a team of expert bug smashers they put together. They got the best from different teams and by putting them together, they were magnitudes more efficient and allowed IBM to ship software faster without bugs. But as time went on, hardware was cheaper and bugs were allowed to be released with the expectation that patches will come later to fix it and kick the can down the road. Which is what we have now and why we have frame works like ITIL to manage the incidents to mitigate the issues with the customer and problems that will get bug fixes. There is too much money held up by not releasing and things may get fixed eventually. Released software doesn't have to be good. It mostly has to work. eventually things get fixed, or customers move on, or products get canned. Watson is getting canned because it doesn't provide the value everyone was promised and incremental updates can't kick the problems down the road any further.
I do the same thing (store all my personal data in Fossil). I like that I can save a file in markdown format and it's rendered automatically when I view the file online. (Not unlike Github, but Github is a proprietary service.)

For my purposes, I don't see any advantage of Perkeep over Fossil. I know when I use Fossil that I can trust my system and that I will always have control of my data, and that reduces my stress levels. I have enough things to worry about without worrying about my data disappearing.

I don't use the feature very often, but Fossil supports unversioned files, which allows me to delete a 500 MB file from the repo if I no longer need it.
It’s harder than it sounds!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594035229/ref=as_li_tl_no...
Through the serial port. It turns out that if you really dig into the 1541 docs, it’s possibly to push assembly code into RAM using existing 1541 commands over the serial port. And the 1541 has a command buffer. So I pushed assembly to perform parallel calculations to it, and then pushed two commands into the buffer, one to execute the code and the next one to resume normal serial ops after it ret’urned. The data from the calculations was placed into the data buffer prior to returning, and the 1541 just sent it out the port as a regular data packet, just as if it had been read off a floppy. Or so I recall; this was in 1986. My memory’s a little fuzzy.

It worked with N drives, too, although the C64 sort of had to act as the bus master to avoid serial packet conflicts.

That was a long time ago and I’ve certainly forgotten many of the details. But it won me a trip to the International Science Fair (this was before Intel started sponsoring it).
probably a dumb question but if you exposed the low level memory manipulation wouldn't you just end up with something like assembly?
And have you ever tried to compute the "Pride and Joy" algorithm using a silicon-based computer? Exercise in futility, to say the least.
It is free. They take a cut of the interchange fees.
So would it be valid to say that all transplant recipients have a significantly higher risk of developing cancer ?
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nice :) I remember when I was doing my Honours research, I remember reading a paper by Japanese researchers where they used Genetic Algorithms to evolve and produce new tunes.
There are a lot of things to consider, including what you consider a crime.

I read one article that described how because of the increase in police presence in schools students were more often being handled by the criminal justice system like the common school fight, that would’ve otherwise not been included in assault statistics in the past.

During the crack epidemic many small offenses, such as petty theft were being punished harshly and used as an excuse to put more resources towards the war on drugs rather than diversion and treatment.
This sounds like exactly the kind of job for a computer.

I live in an area that gets a lot of snow. The only 'safe' things for a human to do in snowy, icy, wet conditions are: slow down (a lot), leave a lot more following distance, stay home. I talk to a lot of people who seem to think that they are able to drive at full speed in the snow and complain about all of the 'out of town' drivers who slow down the roads because they 'don't know how to drive in the snow.' It's the people who make those kinds of complaints that frighten me the most - they are deluding themselves. I'd rather share the road with a computer.
You and the people you know may just not be suited for driving in those conditions. Mountain areas in California have plenty of people capable driving in some serious snow with older cars, ABS is usually the only thing they have, no traction control or other software help. Anecdotal, of course, but so is your comment.
>How about instead of inventing new languages we just pick a couple and tell people that if care at all about performance not to use the rest.

Yeah right, let's just burn down the Web.

The biggest performance hog on my machine isn't Python code.
I just installed a germanium Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzy Logic unit, and boy did I ever see some benchmark improvements
Yes, those places can fix their schedules to follow the daylight. Problem solved. Now you don't need to have permanent DST anymore.

Why again does people want clock time not to match solar time? It's far more sane to change the numbers on the schedule than to change the clock.
If the VCs have funded and believe in that particular CEO, maybe...

Is Elon Musk worth 1000x the value of a randomly selected Tesla employee to Tesla? I think probably so. (Compare the market cap impact of Elon's sudden departure or incapacitation to that of another randomly chosen employee as just one proxy.)