skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The practice of screening everyone out causes this.

Many employers will terminate you instantly for any arrest, regardless of disposition. I know one woman whose roommate got into a domestic disputes in the backyard. The police arrested everyone in the house, and dropped everything within 3 hours.
Driving statistics would imply this is far from true for the general case.
Because these scooters do not have infrastructure designed for them, they might as well be more dangerous than cars, both for the rider and third parties.

For example, in the Netherlands, this is indeed the case, and in the Netherlands there are bicycle paths, although I am not sure if that helps or increases the amount of accidents or their severity.

Data:
https://www.swov.nl/en/facts-figures/factsheet/road-deaths-n...

What is the risk of a fatal crash in Dutch traffic for different modes of transport?
Ah, I did misread you! I would guess it's rather complicated though, as it might be part of a bigger "agreement" with the Chinese government in order to ensure smooth business in general - but that's of course only speculation on my part.
Nope. These guys didn't recruit people who are chronically homeless, they recruited from people who are about to become homeless.

The proposition is more like, if you can't pay rent we'll let you work it off in our building.

As the article notes the chronically homeless have a high rate of mental illness, among other issues that make them completely unfit to work.
The title is completely baseless and conspiratorial. The article goes on to suggest that the data must show the program is working but that this can't be allowed because of a conspiracy to cover up the success of UBI. There is no evidence for this whatsoever.
Possibly not all. There's OOMScoreAdjust as well. (-:
It really comes down to two things:

1. How exceptional are exceptions?

2. Are committed to providing good language support?

If exceptions are the result of programmer error or terrible malfunction, then unchecked exceptions are fine. But in Java, exceptions are fairly common, even for common low-level stuff: read a non-existent file, parse a non-numeric string, look up a non-existent domain name. If you're going with that approach, it makes sense to type and control these.

As for language support...Java is interesting. It doesn't have unions in any of its types except for exceptions. But that makes it interesting trying to write generics, e.g. in a very functional approach. In my experience, most functional Java paradigms just don't support any user of checked exceptions and you make all exceptions unchecked.
> Unless you also consider how likely it is that Mom is working ..

I did consider that, and factored it into the historical shift in attitudes about both parents working, compared to when school hours were determined.

> ... especially because school officials explicitly say they do what they are doing because of this issue, and also, why do you think the article mentioned childcare?

You're assuming your school officials are fully cognisant of post hoc ergo propter hoc

It's possible childcare is the easy option and doesn't require much pondering or historical analysis.

As I noted, correlating how things are done there to elsewhere in the world, and elsewhere in time, may be informative in determining actual causation, rather than just correlation.

> Think about this for a second. Mom and Dad work from 9:00-5:00 and then have an hour+ of commuting to do. All the schools get at or before 5:00. Is it more desirable for high schooler Joseph to get home before his 8-year-old sister, or the other way around?

Yeah, you're making quite a few assumptions. I'm not sure how old Joseph is meant to be in this anecdote, but presumably older than 8yo, and (also presumably) attends a different school. The idea that different aged children attend significantly different geographical / scheduled schools is relatively modern too (I'd suggest a much more recent change than determination of school hours).

No, as I said before, I suspect this is all much more simply ascribed to doing what seemed appropriate at the time (aligning to a standard adult work schedules) and determined in the absence of any good understanding of circadian rhythms, variations during development, and importance of 8 hours sleep.
It’s also possible that no such middle ground exists, and some people are just less attuned to the hangover effect. Or maybe some people do and some don’t suffer from heightened sensitivity. I don’t see how you can make a blanket assertion that moderate drinking with no ill effect is available to anyone.

In fact the topic article describes research suggesting that there is no “good” amount.
Sometimes the subject at large is more exciting than the article.
There seems to be two possibilities here:

1) you have rightly pointed out all the authors of the Linux kernel are total idiots who don't understand C.

2) It turns out writing a kernel isn't possible in pure C, and the kernel requires some carefully designed and considered methods of accessing all of raw memory, in various unusual ways.
Wow that’s way better than mine. I still find coding with two thumbs on an iPhone se does not fully make use of Pythonista. But there’s no way I’d buy an iPad that doesn’t have BT mouse support.
While it may be “cumbersome” from the programmers perspective - it’s certainly a lot faster than an MMU.

There’s no universe where traversing a page table (actually a tree) in memory is faster than an offset and a bounds check.
Because people from KY can freely move to CA/NY/WA and people from India can't, it's a lot harder to exploit the people in Kentucky to work for wages that are significantly less than what they're worth.

If Kentucky was a good outsourcing hub, then the good developers would eventually just leave to find better jobs, unless the local jobs paid almost as well, in which case it doesn't make much sense to continue outsourcing to Kentucky! Borders prevent Indians and Eastern Europeans from doing this
Walker sounds quite sceptical of this story in his book, sleep deprivation may be effective as treatment in some cases, but could be a cause of depression in more cases.
If only we could do the same for humans. It's sad to see some of these poor humans effectively neutered or put down by social or legal forces.
The priority of one party is to spend money on social safety nets, while the priority of the other party is to hobble these safety nets to the point of uselessness.

It should be no surprise that we ended up with expensive and ineffective social programs.
Yes, there is almost always stratification across populations for any chosen marker. You can check out gnomAD for this SNP: http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/4-100239319-T-C

Take a look at the population frequencies on the right. While the minor allele is infrequent in Europeans, it is extremely common in East Asians, for example.
yes. there's a similar problem in Alaska. We do have jobs but not nearly enough compared to the quantity of developers/graduates up here. It drives down wages and most developers end up leaving. It took me years to find my first development job while being stuck in call centers and tech support roles for 4 years.
Kombucha is certainly a market. There is also a large variety of non-alcohol beers.
Author here. Yes, I did not formally show humans create mutual information. That part of my argument is just an intuition pump. The article was meant to illustrate why artificial intelligence could well be impossible based on one formal premise and one intuitive premise. The goal was to demonstrate artificial intelligence is not a foregone conclusion.

A broader point is that the existence of mutual information (i.e. all the order in the world) is evidence that something not Turing reducible exists, regardless of whether the human mind is Turing reducible or not.
Saw an interesting viking museum in Norway that had a skeleton of a man who had his leg shorn off by an axe in battle. That one may be a bit more obvious I suppose, but I suspect there's a ton you can learn from just a set of bones.
This sounds like what next_permutation does in the C++ STL. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/next_permutation
Show HN: Alternative bookmark site (Developed with Node.js and preact)
Ways in which memory is not linear: many asymmeyric multiprocessing setups (eg gpu/cpu), distributed processing (eg openmp), multiprocess systems w several virtual spaces, harvard architecture systems, segmented architectures, disk vs ram. Many of these may be considered performance motivated departures from linear address space, especially if performance includes reliability in addition to execution speed.

(Otoh virtual memory can be used to create the appearance of single address space for any of the above, and sometimes has been - eg as/400)
Edit: I know it is anecdata but I do want to point out that there are counterexamples under specific circumstances (read when creating CRUD apps).

I just got into the job market (I studied for 8 years, 4 degrees, now graduated for good, did some serious jobs on the side).

So far I disagree. I have had 5 freelance gigs: two in iOS (couple of years ago), one as a web dev coding instructor for a year (1 to 2 years ago), one in React frontend (1.5 years ago) and now 1 as a full-stack/dev-ops/semi 'data scientist' person.

Computer science allows me to rise above the difficulties that I'm facing now since all I'm building are glorified CRUD apps. I am looking for a company that takes software engineering more seriously than this. Because of building glorified CRUD apps and some knowledge of soft skills + some git knowledge is all there is, then a computer science degree is overkill.

For comparison: I made iphone apps during courses in my CS degree, I disabled viruses, fiddled around with concolic execution, created a computer graphics engine, created a compiler(ish) an operating system(ish), learned UML, some software architecture.

How is this not enough for CRUD apps?
Step 1: cut funding disguised as a redesign. Step 2: complain that it doesn't work and needs a redesign. Step 3: go to Step 1.

It absolutely needs a redesign but it also needs funding -- and people who don't want to fund these programs have gotten very good at using the former to avoid doing the latter.
Subscription only makes sense when the content is concentrated in 1-2 paid-for aggregators -- or if there's a single convenient way to pay for everything.

Not sure why we haven't added some such one-click "pay $0.2 for this article/video/etc" option to our web browsers. That was the whole promise of micropayments back in the day.
We're not talking about administering arsenic to people just in case we're wrong about thousands of years of experience. We're talking about randomizing exposure to an activity that billions of people choose voluntarily, an activity that at worst has an effect of a few parts per 100,000. That's on the same order of risk as being struck by lightning. Unnecessary x-rays are likely worse. Why the outrage over this risk in particular?

Declaring this level of risk to be outside the bounds of permissible research is an attitude incompatible with scientific progress. It's elevating short-term harm prevention to an unjustifiable extreme that makes it impossible to determine whether we have an accurate model of the world.
That is true, but algorithmic information theory would say the Platonic circle is the best explanation for those approximations, so the approximations are instances of the absolute.
Because good luck getting VC funding for anything that doesn't imprison the user in your company's cloud.
Sure, you could run an alcohol intervention by an IRB and see what they say. If they think there is equipoise they might go for it. Just because I don't agree doesn't mean I feel strongly about it or would throw down some gauntlet.
A year is a long time to a teenager.
Social Security hands money to literal billionaires while excluding many of the elderly poor. Now, we can argue if it’s good use of money, but these programs are intentionally set up this way.
Hurricane Maria’s lessons for the drug industry
I have a good friend who was diagnosed with schizophrenia before he graduated high school. It was very tragic to watch. Who was once such a bright and capable person, can no longer function in normal society. I found it very difficult to invite him places. Often times I would need to back him up in a physical fight. He wasn't violent, simply incapable of seperating reality from what he saw, often times taking the form of disturbing subjects such as women or children being raped. And being the good person he was at heart, would not let something like that go, but would rather confront it right on. At wich point the person being accused of such a heinous act would do one of two things; Realize the guy clearly has some kind of mental issue and leave the area a bit shaken but no worse for wear, or more frequent the case, challenge him to a fight, even assaulting him with deadly weapons in some cases. When he wasn't engaged in some form of direct confrontation, he would be yelling racial slurs at the tormentors in his head. And the torment was constant. I am sorry to say there was even a period in my life when I stopped being a friend and started being someone concerned with ones own social standing, wich of course in my mind, had no room for any social pariahs tagging along.

Fast forward 10 years when his mother passes away, his other family had written him off long ango, and we find our tragic hero homeless, with symptoms noticeably worse than before. being the only person he trusted, it was up to me to get him the help he needs. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I gave him a room in my house, which was the least I could do really, and even helped cosign for a car. But all of this mattered little in changing his actual situation, which still seemed to be getting worse not better. The challenge for me was balancing the line between being a friend, and being just another person trying to convince him his mental model is faulty and he needs treatment. For one reason or another he absolutely refused to go. He called that place rape factory, and insisted he'd rather be homeless then spend even a single night there. And who am I to hold the definitive truth on reality? Where I saw dysfunction, he saw a "gift of sight," only a few are capable of. In the end, I'm afraid that my unwillingness to convince him he has a problem is coming more from a position of weakness rather than strength. Had I been able to convince him to get treatment, than perhaps he wouldn't be in jail today, and I wouldn't have lost the lease to my house; ultimately leading to my own homelessness to this day.

Despite all of the headaches, I learned some valuable lessons from Ben. Mostly, don't worry so much what other's think of you. Take life as it comes without being so serious all the time. And reality is not some fixed thing, and is mostly a function of the beholder.
Don't throw away printed books: effect of reading media on reading comprehension
See also this timeless classic:

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ (flash)

Ishkur's guide to electronic music. Enjoy!
This is exactly how I feel about it. I came to the Bay Area for compensation closer to the value I provide. I stay because few other places offer the same combination of opportunity, compensation, and diversity. I'd take a 10% to 20% pay cut to live closer to family in a less expensive area, but where they live (a Midwestern city) every single one of those three things is strictly worse.
That is a good insight. The law does seem similar to the 2nd law of thermodynamics. The form of the free energy formula looks a lot like mutual information.

So, this could go two ways. Either humans are not net entropy reducers, and also not information creators. Or, they are information creators, and thus are net entropy reducers. Not sure there is evidence the latter is false.

A broader point is that regardless of whether the human mind is an entropy reducer, something in existence is an information creator/entropy reducer, otherwise we wouldn't have information/low entropy to begin with.
I turned off all the Alexa stuff a few months ago because I was tired of just randomly triggering all the time. It went off 10 times more when we weren’t trying to use it that it did when we were.
Replace ableist terms and pejoratives in source code
You mean in general or specifically for PostgreSQL? Ctrl+c definitely works in cmd in general, which is what my original post was referencing. I use it all the time.

Not sure about for PostgreSQL in cmd off the top of my head (posting from my phone). I suspect because I got down voted that it may not work there.
Well, it's all a matter of tradeoffs. It's good that these articles are showing up, so people can better evaluate each tool for its merits.

I don't have much experience with React Native, however I've written a few small personal Electron apps. It's amazing how fast you can get a cross-platform utility app up and running. As for it's cons... Well, it's certainly not particularly fast, and it doesn't match the platform's user interface. I'd definitely suggest avoiding Electron for many projects, but it still has its place.
true that - I've seen a ton of Kombucha.

On the beer side - I see a lot less (here in Portland OR) but read more about the trend. ...I might not be looking hard enough though.
¿Existen llaves que no se puedan copiar? [ MANUALCERRAJERO.COM ]
I don't accept the legitimacy of IRB rulings; I hope to see a day when these bodies stop blocking research. Researchers are competent to be ethical on their own.

My reading (not just [1], although [1] is a lucid examination) suggests to me that IRBs are net detrimental to research. There's an incentive misalignment that pushes them too far in the "harm" prevention camp and that makes it too difficult to answer scientific questions.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/
I learned from a communication class (I think Dale Carnegie) that it is not enough to say "I am sorry" or 'I apologize." You need another component: "I apologize. Please forgive me."
exactly.

this is particularly important if you ever rely on 3rd party modules. a common pattern is to spin up VMs, apply config management, then validate config management as part of your infrastructure's ci process.
I don't think they will release Fuchsia and then immediately abandon Android. They will most likely release it for some low-end phones first and then work their way up. Maybe even release a Fuchsia Chromebook before any Fuchsia smartphone.

Android's strength over Windows Phone was the app ecosystem and I don't think an emulator will instantly be good enough to emulate all kinds of apps with sufficient performance, especially games.
Having the Dedication to Lead API Effort Forward Within a Large Enterprise Org
STRIVR already has some construction and factory line contracts. We started from sports.
There are three distinct concepts that are often conflated:

1) The syntactic construct of a tail call.

2) Abstract space efficiency properties that guarantee asymptotic space usage of programs using tail calls.

3) The implementation techniques used to guarantee 2).

Even though the implementation techniques of 3) apply to all calls, the space efficiency properties in 2) are asymptotic and thus are only meaningful when applied to programs with unbounded recursive function invocations. Applying the techniques of 3) only to function calls that might potentially be involved in a recursive chain would still satisfy any of the standard definitions of 2).

See Will Clinger's paper Proper Tail Recursion and Space Efficiency (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=277719) for details regarding the standard definition of "proper tail recursion" used in the Scheme spec and elsewhere.
I'm less interested by the phone and more by the idea of "a unique innovation ecosystem evolved with little western influence, thanks to political, language, and cultural isolation." ... "gongkai isn’t a totally lawless free-for-all. It’s a network of ideas, spread peer-to-peer, with certain rules to enforce sharing and to prevent leeching. It’s very different from Western IP concepts, but I’m trying to have an open mind about it."

Any suggestions WRT other writing about this sphere?
https://xkcd.com/357/
I would as it takes a longish time to do which is annoying to wait for. So if it could be remotely turned on when I’m at the store or on the way home that would be a big convenience.
Likewise with most async things that I forget to do, like watering plants or cleaning the house. If I can throw money at it and reasonably expect it to work (sprinkler system, house cleaner) I will do it.
There's not a ton of new dumb TV options. The majority of new offerings from the big TV makers are all smart TVs. The dumb panels that I looked at lacked specs on screen quality in comparison to smart TVs, too.

I'd love to be wrong about this though.
But the point is, it's easy to offer low prices to start, then once a bunch of customers have shifted their data, to jack up the prices and profit from it. Do they offer a guarantee of price stability?
The Last Humans Left on Earth
Right here we have a classic case of someone on the internet anonymously saying something is impossible to do while there are many many examples of exactly this working. I recommend readers of these posts to ignore the FUD and do some Google searches to look through some Julia code repositories to see it in action. There are some great tutorials and fact-based discussions out there that can lead you to some useful examples with tricks you can employ in your own code.
Consciousness and Computability – Ronger Penrose (2012) [audio]
That is interesting. This is what I find most annoying about neural nets though, they are impossible to debug. Can you work out if they are failing because of global context (car in water) or local texture (weird swirling patterns and odd colors)?
...what? What is your life like that most people you know don’t have a _microwave_? I don’t think I’ve ever met _anyone_ without a microwave.
Was she booked? Being put into handcuffs is a lot different than being charged with a crime.
Well that is just normal float fun :)

In [17]: Decimal(2.675)
Out[17]: Decimal('2.67499999999999982236431605997495353221893310546875')

So sort of round() is working as expected, but the number you are not inputting is not the one you are expecting.
> Because higher drinking age leads to less drunk driving.

This may be the cause of a poor or non-existent public transportation system. Once you have an efficient public transportation, you have alternatives to reach home after having drinks. Otherwise, it's your own car or Uber which is an expensive option.
Just read the FAQ and it seems that extension installation in this "spin-off" is pain in the ass; which makes protecting one's browsing experience in terms of privacy and ads even more annoying...

I wonder, how much it differs from SRWare Iron or Iridium
Why I’m done with Chrome
Why Nelson, B.C. Is the Coolest Town in the Kootenays
companies like IKEA and phillip's don't need VC funding to launch a new product line though.
> In my training, it was basically assumed that floating point errors were negligible these days

Yeah, that's what most of us think initially. The problem is that the effects of error can compound in many ways -- nonlinearities, feedback, etc. can all wreck your accuracy enough to make the results meaningless.

A really instructive counterexample for me was solving quadratics. Easy, right? Just try writing a solver for ax^2 + bx + c = 0. Now try breaking it. If all you did was use the quadratic formula, you should find that it's quite easy to break it, and surprisingly difficult to write a robust solver. (If you're completely stuck, consider the most obvious edge case: what if a ≈ 0? Any other scenarios you can think of?)
Homeless converted to live-in slaves. Sounds nice! Company towns are coming back, and probably going to be worse than ever, with big brother FB planning on doing similar.