skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We didn't do it because the troll said so, but because the troll said so".

Either way, the decision is ... whichever derogative may not yet be blacklisted, sorry, interdicted.
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"But if the same 100,000 people drank nothing at all, 914 would still have one of those same problems. That’s only 4 more people per year (per 100,000) who will have a problem that’s attributable to alcohol—that’s tiny. But it’s also not zero."
...and it's also far too little to be statistically significant.

Moreover, nutritional studies of any kind have been infamously bad at giving reliable information. The advice from one decade is almost routinely found in the next to be invalid, or even the opposite of the truth. That's for things like carbohydrates, about which there were few religious injunctions or political polarization. For a topic with as much emotional and political baggage as alcohol, I find it unlikely to be any better. Whatever your decision about alcohol, I think the reliability of the science (pro- or anti-) is just not sufficient to help you make your decision.
Does it do sms? How's the battery life? I might get one...
I've never heard this before. I echo the other commenter's request for sources.
observe the complex behavior of an ant and you will be humbled.
Could you rephrase your last sentence? Was that self-description or a suggestion, and what was that about the splits?
As someone who has worked with bootcampers that didn’t know how to code before the bootcamp, I do not understand at all how they get jobs.

My only theory is that the companies hiring them don’t understand the concept of negative work.

Edit: as the downvotes start coming in from the bootcamp students.

Edit again: as the flags start coming in from the bootcamp students.
LISP/Scheme usually gets covered in pretty good detail in the standard "let's make an interpreter" required class.

APL could be interesting, but the last time I checked everyone wanted real money for APL that you could run on modern hardware. Maybe some golfed Perl 5 could be used instead.
> the existence of an afterlife are the same kinds of natural laws that invalidate the principle of physicalism or materialism

I don't see why that follows.

There are lots of phenomena in the world, like money, which are manifest in a non-physical substrate. Many many other things are immaterial. The characters I am typing right now are immaterial. There are bits in memory that represent the characters, but it's only in interplay with an entire system of physical structures that you can say the characters themselves are manifest. You can't point somewhere and say "that's where the character is". It's diffuse across a bunch systems in such a way that it's not manifest in any one location.

Almost all of our social and political realities are like this. Where is Conservatism? Where is calculus? These are not things with locations, which is what makes them extremely difficult to study, which is why so many people reject things like Social Psychology or Science Studies as bunk science.

Money, algebra, and the capital M that starts this sentence are all things that exist, in a way that's totally compatible with materialism. It's not necessary to claim that these things exist outside of a material substrate. They merely exist above it. Distinct from it, yet contained within it. Fully determined by its laws, but not described by them.
In AR or in a "real" 3D environment, skeumorphism could make a lot of sense for manual tasks imo. On 2D screens it's a different story, but even there it helped people to understand technology.

You're training hand eye coordination, and other than the instructor or your master in an apprenticeship, you don't have formed habits through practice. You stand in front of an object you want to interact with, and the ghost basically directs your movement, showing you how to hold or lift components and the ideal posture.
Firefox and safari have done a few relatively small things. Chrome is owned by google, and edge doesn't seem to have done anything.
This is what I expected the article to be about, but it's more interesting than that.
Something beautiful about a company best known for exploiting workers, Walmart, teaming up with an expert is trampling over our personal privacy, Facebook.

Safety training is a good place to start, there’s a great argument for “it’s important and will save lives!”

Makes one wonder where the next stop on the road to our cyberpunk dystopia will be. Rift v2 will probably have eye tracking which will be a godsend to advertisers and if we all have them on our faces employers would love to know what we’re actually paying attention to.

The future is going to be great, awful, but great.
It's an inspiring story about jobs in middle America. But can places like Kentucky really compete with outsourcing hubs like India or Eastern Europe?

I think it comes down to access to education. Coastal US businesses would be happy to "outsource" work to these areas if these skillsets were widely available there. Perhaps, trade schools and coding bootcamps like the one in this article will be enough to bring these jobs.
Ask HN: Are you thinking about investing in an Opportunity Zone?
Part of the Republican 2017 tax reform involved a section about Opportunity Zones. These are designated low-income areas where the government wishes to increase investment. The mechanism is that if you reinvest money made through capital gains into an OZ, you can defer the capital gains tax for up to 10 years, reduce the overall amount of the tax, and avoid all CG tax on the investment returns in the OZ.

I won't pretend to know all the details about startup tax treatment, but I think it could be relevant for a lot people who are coming out of startup acquisitions and are suddenly liable for significant capital gains taxes. Here are two scenarios:

Default:

- Joe the engineer's startup is purchased by BigCo, leaving Joe with a $1M worth of stock options.

- Joe decides to sell the options and buy a house. He pays roughly $300K of CG tax and buys a house worth $700K.

- Joe lives in the house for 10 years and then decides to retire to the countryside. Over that time, the house has doubled in value. Joe realizes another $700K of capital gains when he sells the house which corresponds to $200K of CG tax, so after all is said and done, his net worth is $1.2M.

OppZone:

- Same initial story, but immediately after Joe sells his options, he uses the money to buy a house in an Opportunity Zone.

- Joe pays no CG tax on the option sale, so he buys a house for $1M.

- After 10 years, the house doubles in value, and Joe decides to sell and retire.

- He now pays CG tax on the initial option sale, but no tax on the increase in home equity. So his value after all the transactions is $1.7M, a $500K difference.

https://eig.org/opportunityzones/about

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/opportunity-zones-frequently-asked-questions
The answer is probably mesh nets... I think these would be harder to control, esp if a company with good intentions controlled the backbones that it connected to.
Yeah, it does SMS just fine. I had to charge it up every 2-3 days though and I'm not a heavy user at all. I call for the odd taxi a few times a week and that's it.

Be warned, it charges via its 3.5mm jack. It comes with two USB adapters for you to charge and read its internal storage.
I think it's healthy for people to work hard to do things at the uppermost of their capability. And it's wonderful for someone with means to support someone who is doing that.

It's certainly not necessary for healthy trees. It's a group of artists supporting each other's art.
True. The real test of faith is actually accepting billions of years of planetary development and evolution, and still believing in god.
Beau Willimon Shows Us the Path to Mars in ‘The First’
> Rules made by 55 year old early risers that only need 6 hours of sleep a night who have become school officials are just cruel and unusual punishment to a chunk of teenagers out there. In a better world there could be a class action lawsuit to make this stop--but its still considered okay to promote "early to bed, early to rise" and flat-out discriminate against people with sleep disorders.

tbh, i doubt the time that students are required to be at school has much to do with their ideal sleep schedules. only about a third of women are stay at home moms these days, so you can consider parents to fall into one of two groups: shift workers and 9-5 office workers. shifts can start/end at any time so they can't really be planned around at the level of an entire school system. so by default, the schedule gets planned with the assumption of both parents working 9-5s. if both parents have to be at work by 9:00, the kids need to be at school by 8:00, so the parents can drop them off or at least make sure they get on the bus.

also, a lot of school districts only have enough buses to transport all the lower, middle, or high school students at once, so their arrivals must be staggered.

given that school also serves the purpose of gov't sponsored day care, i'm not sure what they could really do better aside from granting tardiness allowances for students with bona-fide sleeping disorders.
How do you define quite unusual? I’m not East Asian, but I most often get symptoms similar to Alcohol Flush Reaction with even only a single drink. I often find a single beer strong. I’ve never been able to figure out why sometimes I’ll get a headache after a single beer.

“Approximately 36% of East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans) show characteristic physiological responses to drinking alcohol that includes facial flushing, nausea, headaches and a fast heart rate.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction
Also, crypto tokens are exactly for that sort of thing.
I think Postgrest[0] takes an approach to authorization you may want to look into. My understanding is they use one base user that is granted the ability to switch roles to reflect the current user once they're authed by your app server.

Have you transitioned your business logic into your DB from your app or is that approach something you started with?

[0] http://postgrest.org/en/stable/auth.html
I found a similar issue with the git commit log example (when filtering from initial state and clearing filter) - I guess it can be reproduced via a "heavier" example e.g. a couple hundred nodes with more frequent state changing.
Austin, a town in Minnesota, proud to be ‘autism-friendly’
I think the album "Future Shock" by Herbie Hancock, while technically electro, is a good example of techno's roots in funk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFM9bbfF0P4
Do you have a stomach for it?
Would they qualify for freedom of the press if they renamed themselves to The Google Times?
I think the author is making a mistake by assuming the biggest potential benefit would be the coders taking jobs with "tech companies" in Kentucky. Coders working outside of technology companies can still provide significant added value. Smaller, non-tech companies frequently see enormous productivity benefits by building simple building CRUD applications with a small amount of custom business logic.
Sorry, but can dog and cat - emotional connection substitute porn please be treated like politics?
Numbers are irrational. We can simply write 2+2 = 1 if we assume 1 is called 2. So how can you make religion irrational? Just because the story telling is bizzares and perhaps even unproven, doesn't mean the stories are irrational. We have science theories which cannot be proven and yet continue to be listed in the literature and called science. Let's respect religion. People have their preference and it is irrational and condensing to say we hold irrational beliefs. That's very insulting. I ask for apology here.
I'd guess that the vast majority of people who have Global Entry either paid for it using credit card benefits (most travel rewards cards have a Global Entry credit) or have it paid for by their workplace.

There are still marginal benefits of GE over Mobile Passport - more airports have GE, you get expedited service at land borders and at Canadian airports, and you can cut the standard line if the kiosks are broken. My favorite part of GE might be the reciprocal benefits you get in other countries though. For instance, you can sign up with the UK to use their automated border gates which is normally limited to EU citizens only.
We're all in luck because the Home Assistant community [1] is on it. It's still a bit of a tinkerer's domain but things are rapidly evolving and becoming more user friendly.

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/09/17/thinking-big/
But they never deliver an experience that’s on par with Apple. Everything they do always feels so utilitarian and driven by data rather than a more holistic (for lack of a better term) approach to design
patreon is pretty solid
Nice thing, but pretty slow.
You seem to be quite keen on the notion of lambda lifting a function "in place", so maybe you can explain why one would want to do that.

From where I'm standing, the lifting is about actually displacing the functions out of their current enclosing scope and into the global scope, possibly just out into an enclosing scope. But if you want to transform an anonymous function and then leave it in situ, that doesn't seem like lifting at all.

Closures explicitly don't come into the calculation, and it obviously only works in an immutable data setting (otherwise it might change the semantics of the code).
enjoy

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC-016497/30-jahre-techno/
> there really ought to be a concise way to say "panic and abort the process" when that's appropriate.

There is, it is the Error class and its subclasses, e.g. OutOfMemoryError
With a token, a legal contract is still necessary. With a contract, a token is unnecessary.
a lot of Chinese parents send their children to study abroad because they know Chinese universities suck

I'm told the value of a British degree, once highly prestigious, is rapidly declining in China due to the number of degree mills (ex-polys) we have here churning out degree certificates as fast as they can cash the tuition fee cheques.
I can’t see them doing that without some form of binary compatibility.

Disclaimer: I work at google, but in an unrelated department, and have no inside knowledge / reads about what is going on with fuscia, and so my opinions aren’t more insightful than any other random engineer on the internet.
I do not understand why you and others are getting so defensive here? The parent comment is 100% correct without even saying that art education cannot be democratised. At the level required for becoming interesting for the public, though, art is more social than technical: there are history, etiquette, education, steps for accreditation until canonisation. No nerd can disrupt that by style transferring Munch on Van Gogh through a neural net. It is just silly... or private, if you want, just a game, which is ok but does not justify the venom under this comment.
While I'm aware anecdote is not the same as data, I really feel that the smart home experience vis-a-vis Alexa is getting worse. It no longer recognizes simple voice commands. Third party integrations constantly need to be reset ("I'm sorry, I can't find that." or "If you want to use SiriusXM, please open Alexa on your phone."). Randomly swaps responses between devices across the house whereas it would always respond with the nearest device in the past. Etc. Etc. Etc.

It's the same sort of things that keeps happening with maps programs, smartphones, and basically any modern tech with software updates. No one can leave well enough alone. They have to put their fingerprints on it in order to advance their careers, so everyone mucks around and breaks things and calls it an improvement.

Frankly I'm just tired of expensive devices getting worse with every single software update.
The story is literally about nothing except the airline learning something that it doesn't already know.
Do you have any actual constructive criticism to go along with your sweeping generalization?
Yeah, that's a great point. In the example I had in mind, finite elements, the actual model is typically autogenerated by the software package. The CAD model is not meshed by hand. This issue was alluded to in the OP as well. But you are correct that this issue is not really with understanding the numerical method, it's with the model setup.
Risk reward is never understood as risk reward by those doing the management. Usually what is instead attempted is a more of the same strategy- if i run a cats & dogs magazine, and i make one article on parrots, which doubles my readers, i do not see this as a signal, that a variety of animals might fly, but instead, will do a bird part of the magazine- repeat more of the same.
Yep, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism#Occurre...

> [...] However, complex multicellular organisms evolved only in six eukaryotic groups: animals, fungi, brown algae, red algae, green algae, and land plants. It evolved repeatedly for Chloroplastida (green algae and land plants), once or twice for animals, once for brown algae, three times in the fungi (chytrids, ascomycetes and basidiomycetes) and perhaps several times for slime molds and red algae.
Not a partnership with Facebook, at least directly. I work for STRIVR, who actually landed the contract.
I'm surprised the article still considers schizophrenia as a single entity, when evidence points to there being several diseases with symptoms overlapping to some degree...
> This sounds like democratic socialism with some arbitrary restriction on polity scope.

There's no implication of socialism, but yes I expect some form of democrasy could be involved.

All laws are "arbitrary restrictions on policy scope".

> How do you concretely define [right of return]?

I don't have any strong expectations about the details. In my head as a straw man is something like:

If you (A) were born in a place, or (B) lived there for 4 years before the age of 20, you can claim it as your homeland. You may claim up to two homelands. Half of every 10,000 hectare region on earth must be reserved to be split equally among indigenous people.

I agree it'd be a hot sell. I see it more as a guiding principle than a practical global policy proposal. I believe we will end up in a world that approximates that policy, through gradual embrace of caring policies in all locales.
Regarding the bounding of numerical results, we currently have precise method that cannot be used on real size applications and methods that can be used at scale but tend to tell you that your result is between minus infinity and plus infinity.
I have seen it used sucessfully in small math kernel and embedded systems but genuine application usually require deep modifications of the algorithms to get any useful result.
At some point we should wonder what other strategies Silicon Valley has. The fact that coders are encouraged to work remotely is attractive to sustain these areas of the USA, but it hampers the formation of centres of specialisation and exchange with other fields: either these graduates stay and work remotely, disconnected from both local industry[1] and the tech hubs, or they move away and worsen the unemployment problem they were supposed to combat.

[1] Not to mention that coding websites and apps doesn't exactly make you an integral part of the economic tissue of Hueysville, KY, as opposed to the much-maligned coal jobs.
And that would be a fair comparison if before trainers were training with death-by-PowerPoint and now they were doing the same inches from trainee’s eyeballs.

However I’m hopeful that this new medium leads to interactivity by default, furthermore there are first mover advantages to be gained from improved engagement while VR is novel to most users.
At least they’re using it to directly sell you stuff though. I find that head and shoulders above selling it to people who want to sell you stuff, but also may want to do a lot of other things.

Amazon is not deceptive in their sales tactics, which I appreciate. They identify likely needs, and provide me with options for meeting those needs. They provide a service. They’re like a personal shopper who leaves everything on your door step.

You pay for it, but you’re mostly happy to because it’s kind of a win win (except for the pickers). Sometimes you still save money, and you almost certainly save loads of time. They’re capturing your information in an effort to better serve you. You could say Google is doing the same with their direct products, but you’re not the one paying for those benefits, so you have to worry who is and what they’re getting out of the dynamic.

At least with Amazon you know they’re doing it to get money from you, and you can choose to give them that money or not. It’s a much more straightforward dynamic.
Completely agree. And my whole point is that you can do that better in VR. Instead of meeting in the real world, meet in VR and learn there together with your friends and teacher.
You think it is rational to feel insulted when you are told you are being irrational? What goal are you optimizing for, and how do your actions facilitate the fastest means to converge on it?
There's a really interesting strategic move here that I hadn't previously realized. Amazon is bundling some perpetual cloud service cost into their new connectivity module. They're solving a cost problem for device makers in a way that can address a critical risk for consumers.

With perpetual cloud support, the long term maintenance costs of a novel connected device are much lower, and there's less of a chance that your smart devices suddenly die after a year or two when the manufacturer kills that product line. If done right, this could mean the ability to buy any off-brand or startup device product and not worry about losing ongoing support. This could significantly increase choices and lower costs for consumers, and gives Amazon an even more powerful voice in the ongoing direction of alexa-integrates products.

It's also a brilliantly unique move, in that no other company can offer the same blend of services around a smart home device. Conceivably, Amazon could enrich this with purchase and provisioning, i.e. every device sold through Amazon.com gets a certain lifetime support guarantee and arrives at your house provisioned for your wifi. This could make experimenting with new gadgets a lot lower risk.
The headline sounds like the plot from Speaker for Dead (Orson Scott from Ender's series).
I'm an early riser, always has been. My brother and mother are night owls but I somehow got my father's gene for getting up very early in the morning. All through high school I had a long walk to the train and had to get up at 6. I don't think I was ever late because of my tardiness. Today when I get to work at 8.30 I've already done my workout and some work on hobby stuff. This has been the case since my early 20s.

On the flip side, staying up late at night is absolutely horrible. I love hackathons and have been to three of them with my colleagues this year and I'm always such a buzz kill when I have to get some sleep past midnight. I wake up and a lot of the best code has already been written by them.

We're all different. I wish society was more adapted to people of all configurations, with more adaptable work schedules. And party schedules, even though missing out on them is not as bad as all the ways night owls are judged as lazy by ignorant people.
Yeah, companies should learn about negative work.
Why is it not rational to feel insulted in the first place? Do I need permission and science to feel insulted? Is psychology irrational, then

Definition of irrationality:

> the quality of being illogical or unreasonable.

What part of what I said is irrational? Calling people having faith in religion is holding irrational belief? Irrational is a negative word, not a positive word unless you think we are talking about mathematics.