skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was before p2p and user contributed content

alternate article: Content is not King

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050621
> near or medium term

I want my grandchildren to be able to see their grandchildren grow up on habitable planet.

But if you say that 6 years isn't going to happen in 1000 years and point me to sources then I'd be very happy to hear that.
Regehr and colleagues have been doing excellent work on undefined behavior for some time, which has been fantastic.

I do personally wish the C standard was changed a bit to have less undefined behavior, leaning towards getting programmer intent correct and not worrying (as much) about getting every possible optimization into the generated code.
While I agree to your general sentiment, there are countries where apprenticeship systems work fairly well - Switzerland (full disclosure, I'm Swiss) is in my opinion one of those examples. At the age of around 14, you can choose to either proceed further with school or to get an apprenticeship. About 20% stay in school, 80% go the apprenticeship route. You still have usually two days of school during apprenticeship (with about 50-50 general education and education with focus on the kind of job you have chosen), and plenty of options to switch back to routes for higher education at any time.
I recognize something similar to your stomach case, but my psychiatrist told me that a regular doctor can't establish AND not-establish if it's psychological.

If there are markers, even if his intuition wasn't 100% sure, he can only cross it off when a psychiatrist has examined it. Otherwise he'd ignore an unknown variable manifesting practice wise as "let's assume (gamble) that it's irrelevant". This is actually quite scientific. To say "I do not know" therefore I send you to someone else. Instead of "I do not know, so let's go with my less than first place experience"

For a doctor who (might have) missed so much other aspects in life due to the nature of studying and practicing medicine, to say when it's his moment to shine "i do not know, I will send you to someone better qualified than me", is quite amazing. Most people can't set their ego aside when it concerns something as simple as the taste of music. Not to mention, depending of course on the setting/country/institution, one might be sending 'free cash' out of the door as well.

Just to explore objectivity, if a patient is to potential points of obsessions with having something particular. It becomes rather easy to sell those expensive pills. Martin Shkreli gave us a a very real example of seeing the bug in the sytem, and put a fucking kiddy script in it.
Yeah, I hear ya. But he said sales and graphic designer.
I think that's a bit different than developer or management.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V

You realize that BFR is much heavier than the Saturn V stack, right? The thrust means nothing. Look at the effective payload weight. Yes the thrust is higher, but it weighs nearly 1.5 times more so it can't haul as much payload.

Notice how the payload to LEO is less than the Saturn V. I am not spreading misinformation. I'm here to educate.
I recommend these introductory lectures to Category Theory. I'm going through them right now.

I assume you know some math/set theory and some Haskell, otherwise you may want to work though some of the chapters in Real World Haskell first.

Oh and put the videos at 1.25× or 1.5× otherwise you will fall asleep.

https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz
I think it's naive to say "they'll figure it out within 100 years".

Mankind's history is full of periods of technological stagnation and regression.
I assume that a reasonable proportion of us clear our browser data frequently.
Thanks for the reference to John Whitney, new to me, and most interesting. Some of his films are on archive.org and his book Digital Harmony is downloadable as a pdf.
Contrasting with B2 (the cheapest usable option I know of) it's cheaper, especially if there's a lot of egress. Has anyone used this or have any experience with their support?
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For books there is Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years.

And for a blog there is a series from someone in Belgium documenting how HFT companies were putting microwave transmitters on towers in order to shave miliseconds from trade order times between London and continental European exchanges. It’s called HFT In My Backyard.
I am of a generation of Brits that have known about chindogu since childhood in the mid 90s thanks to the excellent children’s TV program It’ll Never Work - a program about inventions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27ll_Never_Work%3F
Every country has its own laws. In Germany it is a historically grown two-tier system:

The "basic" one (ALG 2) which amounts to ~9-12 EUR/day + rent (if it is a reasonable flat) [1] It comes with a lot of strings attached, like you have to use up your savings first and can recieve penalties if you don't show up for job interviews etc.

The "premium" one (ALG 1) pays you ~65% of your last 12 months gross income regardless of savings and termination pay. You guessed it, for that to make sense you would have to be employed at least 12 month before becoming jobless and at a sufficient pay-rate. Also it is limited to 1 year (after that -> ALG2)

PS: Health-insurance is included

[1] grossly simplified
Mann beisst Hund.

Hund beisst Mann.

Perfect German. Different meaning.

I doubt that Polish people or Russian people learn German much easier. Somehow in English speaking countries there is this fear to learn a very similar language.

There are numbers how long it takes for an English speaker to learn a different language... German belongs to the easiest group.

https://blog.thelinguist.com/how-long-should-it-take-to-lear...
The Truth About Research on Screen Time
World's first animal was a pancake-shaped ocean dweller
I would say it is a problem, because it has costed us a lot of money.
Worship of the GOP and corporatism? Give me a break. At least neoliberalism or late stage capitalism make sense. The GOP are in such a position of power in the universities that there isn’t a single science, physical or social l, humanity, or other field of study where there are more Republicans than Democrats.

As to corporatism the US has much, much higher turnover in high cap companies than France or Germany. I think it’s akso substantially higher than the U.K. That points at something more akin to business friendliness/capitalism/creative destruction than fascist or ordo-liberal corporatism.
Somehow the right image where according to the description an elephant was introduced is now identical to the left photo in the article.
Except my code looks prettier than yours. ;-)

Joking aside and as silly as it is to talk about "objective aesthetics" - surely you can see an argument for "less clutter == better" - as much as you've trained yourself to not see the braces, they add nothing that indentation doesn't already provide other than visual noise.
Is that diagram right? The neural net does the segmentation? There's no pre-process, it literally feeds pixels in?
In general it's hard to distinguish between a good idea executed badly and a bad idea executed badly.

I think Java executed badly here.

There doesn't seem to have been a clear policy in the standard library for what kind of exception should be checked, and there really ought to be a concise way to say "panic and abort the process" when that's appropriate.

Also, when you have checked exceptions (or similar things like error returns which it's compulsory to check), sometimes you need to add variants to library functions for cases which can't fail. For example, you might have a library function which takes a character-encoding parameter and can't fail if that encoding is UTF-8; you might be better off adding foo_utf8(x) which is like foo(x, UTF_8) except for the error specification.
The LGBT Couples of the Entertainment Industry
Can't they implement a "virtual representation" or sort of ideal or archetypical scene in an AIs memory that's quickly accessible, and then use that to diff "new unexpected stuff" and refocus on that difference somehow?
It is very much the universities job to screen these people. They put out a credential that says a person learned such and such. If they do not learn anything, then that credential becomes worthless and the universities role is finished.
Yes, and the crazy thing is you can get cosmetic surgery on every corner of every street, no questions asked.
This is some of it, true, but this is possible to do with older children getting out latest. The reason they are first to leave is younger siblings.

edited for spelling: it seems typing with one hand (broken elbow) makes for worse typing even though i must look at the keyboard.
You could just assert that i%2 == 0 via some postulate - as long as the proof is irrelevant for the code that is. Doing so is similar to converting from any in a gradual type system: if the assertion is correct you get correct code with little work and if you're uncorrect you're no worse off than if you had no types at all.

There are difficulties with dependent types, but having to go all in can be avoided via a shift in culture.
Maybe. But that's supposition today.
And if there is a need for follow up, some variation of "we quite clearly are interested in you and value your time since we spend actual engineer hours walking through your code.

What would be disrespectful was if we ignored all your hard work and hired someone not half as good as you because they had more glowing reviews or more stars on their repos."

Obviously I'm no hiring manager, but often a bit of honesty goes a long way.
Kill the past and learn from autopsy. MIT should understand that tradition leads to loss of knowledge.

If a party dorm that draws pride from pit roasts and drunken mud wrestling is worth having, it will be re-made.
> My problem with this is that you have to make sure every contributor has the same editor settings. You have to also configure every editor before you can use it to write code in such a language, which is sometimes impractical.

I'm not aware of ever having to do any of these things. I'm not even sure what you mean by "configure". Every editor I've installed has always done the right thing out of the box and every contributor who isn't completely incompetent has done the right thing naturally.

Compared to my experience in curly-brace languages where indentation holy wars about and it's actually painful to read code in with a brace style you're not used to - I have more respect for the wisdom embedded in Python and PEP8 daily.
There's still the model of sending content via MMS to smart phones (or even dumb phones) with carrier billing. Yes the one that has been used for selling custom ringtones in the 1990s. With Android's stagefreight bug a couple years ago Google managed to put it out of consideration such that people must go to app stores instead. But carrier billing has always been the obvious native payment method on the mobile web where telcos already have your details and a customer relationship.
Maybe that's not what they think, but many act as if if were the case.

The golden hammer mentality is widespread, and your disease better has to be a nail.
> Here's the elephant in the room. High schools start and end earlier with the idea that older kids can watch their siblings.

That's an interesting postulation, but is it born out by societies where most families have a single child?

What were the child care options like at the time that the current school hours were developed (I'm guessing this is close to a century ago).

Do all relatively-civilised societies have the same attitude towards school hours and public commitment to child care?

If not, then trying to identify some correlations would be informative.

My gut feel is it's entirely unrelated to older siblings looking after younger ones -- partly because if both are at school at the same time, that problem is already solved.

I suspect the root cause is probably something more simple -- at the time school hours were decided, schools / education departments looked to how it was done elsewhere, be it neighbouring schools / states, or failing that, simply aligning the hours with what was commonly regarded as a 'good honest day's work'.

Clearly this would all have been a long time before anyone knew about, let alone considered, age-specific circadian rhythm variations.

Jesus, we know more than enough about it now -- the damage lack of sleep does to adults, and its profound importance through development especially in the teenage years -- and yet it'll be at least a decade before even the more progressive western societies shift teenage school hours forward by a few hours.
Try to write the classic Haskell Quicksort in Idris:

qsort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]
qsort [] = []
qsort (p:xs) = qsort (filter (< p) xs) ++ [p] ++ qsort (filter (>= p) xs)

and let me know how it goes, if you will. That's when I gave up on Idris.
How to Effectively Determine Your Market Size
> from free speech types

How about center-left free speech types like me? I'm from the UK and it's so clear over hear which side of the spectrum "owns" free speech.
Research on RESEARCH – Metaresearchers study why research goes wrong
To those that think spreadsheets can’t be dangerous:
https://www.cnbc.com/id/100923538

From that link:
“Spreadsheet errors are costing businesses billions of pounds, according to a financial modeling company, which is calling for the introduction of industry-wide standards to reduce the risk of mistakes.

F1F9 estimated that 88 percent of all spreadsheets have errors in them, while 50 percent of spreadsheets used by large companies have material defects. The company said the mistakes are not just costly in terms of time and money - but also lead to damaged reputations, lost jobs and disrupted careers.”
I think it would be more telling to just pick a random commit and then show the diff and ask they candidate why they made the changes they did.
Make attendance mandatory and create some comfortable spaces for in-between classes.
Charlie Munger
It's a problem, because we are no closer to answering questions like:

- what is dark matter (the stuff which makes up 97% of the universe!)

- what is dark energy (I.e. Why is the universe expanding at an accelerating rate?)

- what happens inside a black hole?

- what happened at the big bang?

- how does gravity work at the quantum scale?

The Standard Model has nothing to say on these, it is fundamentally incomplete.
I fear we won't answer these questions within my lifetime, sure, we may get tantalising hints from astronomy, but not direct observation in experiment.

This is troubling for theoretical physics, it needs guidance by experimental physics. But all these super-smart theories to supersede the SM cannot be verified by experiment right now.
The Real Reason Why Apple Discontinued the iPhone X
> Sometimes I've even had to throw a different type of exception than declared by an interface method and was left to either refactor tons [...]

I see that this is inconvenient. This might be the essence of the whole thing here.
It is way worse than adding a new argument to a function!

1. There is no way to overload a function with different Exception clauses.

2. You not only need to touch the call sites but also parts of the stack that led to the call sites.

> I've had to write code to open a file that I know will always exist

How can you ever be sure a file exists? I can be sure a function or a variable exists if I declared it. Files can be manipulated by other processes, USB drives are ejected, etc. You can never be sure they stay where it was. Even if I created the file one line above, I technically still have a potential race condition.

> For functional programming languages, I think it's a lot more convenient to not have checked exceptions.

There is a clear tradeoff here. E.g. when writing python or bash scripts I seldom care to catch errors. Let it crash fast and return a stack trace.
For production grade software you usually want to much more careful and handle exceptions explicitly.
Checked exceptions are clearly targeted for the latter.
Reviving the old 3310 got Nokia back into every store in Europe. It really doesn't matter whether those phones are any good or not, because they're not a priority, they're just a gimmick.

They're just a gimmick that's a complete win from a marketing side though. I know Nokia, I've seen their new feature phones everywhere, I've found out that they have sturdy, decent smartphones now (like the 7 plus) running Android One, and I've made three purchases from them this year.
Similar here if left to my own devices, and I'm 40. I think we are a minority, though.
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Wrong. They can do a second take. You should just code it in.
Also a recent RustConf video on the topic https://youtu.be/x9acx2zgx4Q
I think semantic identation is very intuitive to non-developers. It's used in print everywhere.

I think there's a touch of Stockholm syndrome in your belief otherwise. You have been corrupted and are projecting "intuitive" on to the pure. ;-)
In Germany, you can also collect unemployment benefits after you've quit or been fired with cause. However, in those cases there is a waiting period of 12 weeks before you can start collecting benefits. If you have been laid off for reasons not related to your performance, including for long-term illness, you can start collecting benefits immediately.
Is this not a whole new attack surface?
And to be perfectly anal, it was only advocating _threatening_ physical violence. (As in, _“say_ you'll smash them...”)
Read biographies. So much to learn from other people who lead a humble life.
It applies only to the sale of stock, as the name implies. One can restructure an asset sale as a stock sale in order to take advantage, if the tax benefit is big enough.

Not sure what you mean about a business that has no stock (sole proprietorship?).
There was a touch of exaggeration for comic effect there. But only a touch.

It's the simplest way to relax with my significant other. It's almost infinitely varied and can be as demanding or undemanding as we choose.
> I can't tell you how many times I've had to write code to open a file that I know will always exist and have to write an empty try-catch.

How do you know that the file will always exist? I'm pretty sure you don't. The try catch shouldn't be empty. Now it's going to crash when you try reading or writing from the file so all you did was make it so it blows up with a less helpful error later.
I have no idea why you think I shouldn't be able to comment on this!
Redundancy (engineering)
How did software get so reliable without proof? (1996) [pdf]
The elephant is on top of the guy's head, it's hard to see with all the boxes laid over the image.
The device does appear to be capable of receiving updates: https://workshop.numworks.com

Concur on the credit thing though.
Look over the man's head ;)
New iPhones Teardown Component-by-Component
And 80% of the monthly fee was for the phone, not the service. Plans without a bundled phone are much cheaper.
The Decline of Newspapers
How to Change the Delivery Address on EBay After a Purchase
Why is that a problem? It's done exactly what it set out to do. We got what we paid for.
Well, no one else has said it, so I guess I drew the short straw.

Teenagers are most likely wired for later nights because they have reached initial fertility. They will sneak off in the night to fool around, especially if they haven't had a child yet. At the risk of sounding patronizing, this is how babies are made. Adolescence is the age when women would first become pregnant, and the ancient's concept of marriage was probably not the same as ours. (There is evidence of monogamistic tendencies in humans for a long time but that isn't synonymous with marriage.)

Teenagers are biologically wired to want lots of sex and they tend to do it at night. I would put a lot of money on the fact that that hasn't changed in millennia.

Obviously, this is a critical aspect of the process that allows for the continuation of the human race. Humans didn't have the consistent ability to wait to reproduce until 30 as is common now. And probably not the desire too; I can't see career-building interfering.

The initial party must have ended pretty quickly. Poor ancient teeenagers.

(Edit: considering this speculative is reasonable and factually correct. But speculating there's been behavior change is currently more speculative. What reason do we have to think teens had daytime sex in ancient times and our behavior has changed? What about for mature adults? Never heard of an existing tribal culture that mostly has sex during the day, and that's how we get much of our anthropological evidence.

Humans tend to have sex at night, and the most fertile, desirious and energetic would be wired to spend more time at the time people have sex doing it: that would be selected for because of our primary biological directive. Is there a more logical evolutionary reason?)
Robo-Advisors are really for Robo-Clients
They are Warrior Doctors
Good job asking for PMs when it's not possible, and with no contact email. Is the offer legit?
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I generally enjoy podcasts that point me elsewhere. So:

EconTalk is an educated economics podcast from a right/libertarian-ish perspective, which I do not share.

http://www.econtalk.org/

TWiM (This Week in Microbiology) is simply great even if you are not a microbiologist, and I'm not.

http://www.microbe.tv/twim/

The Art of Wrestling is also excellent, and to be clear, I do not like or watch wrestling.

http://coltcabana.com/
I would not be surprised if someday more than one of your first four questions are all resolved by the discovery that theoreticians have made a bad assumption, and have been chasing today’s phlogiston or aether.

This might coincide with the discovery of a new theory answering (or proving unanswerable) the fifth question as well.

Or, all the necessary “fixes” to the Standard Model are out there. Either way, I agree that it might be another long wait before our technology can find meaningful new constraints.
Global Entry is certainly awkward. Can't tell what the value prop is, now it's so watered down.

Go through a detailed background check and in-person interviews and biometric capture -- then discover at the airport (JFK for example) anyone with the Mobile Passport app on iOS can breeze right through the same global entry lanes, without having to use the Global Entry machines ...

Mobile Passport - Breeze through Customs

The Mobile Passport app speeds you through U.S. Customs and Border Protection at 3 cruise ports and 25 airports.

This app is officially authorized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

https://mobilepassport.us
Self Driving Cars: Wiki
Twice a year I look up on auctions if there's one cheap.. I still miss that tiny phone (my first too)
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I believe it's more just how to use a dependently typed language (my copy is still in the mail). Like the Little Schemer, it's written in the Socratic style. I think the idea is that you can do it all in your head if you want, with a piece of paper covering up the column with the answers.

If you are interested in the implementation, you can read more about it from one of the authors: http://davidchristiansen.dk/tutorials/nbe/
I guess the best way is to force an analytical approach on your treatment. Ask your doctor a list of all possible causes of your symptoms. Ask them to assign probabilities to each of them, and a score of 1-10 that indicates difficulty of treatment, risk and cost. Then sort the list with your doctor, and work down the list (this last part will take time of course).
A bad employee in a small company (or organization of any type) can do a lot of damage. It is negligent to hire someone who hasn't proven they can do what they claim, and negligent for a manager to not verify they aren't doing the work they claim to be doing.