skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the world in general, yes.

For the US middle-class? Medical expenses and college tuition are both exploding, so they are finding it increasingly hard to make ends meet. Yes cars are safer, cellphones so much better and so on, but it just doesn't add up to enough.

Plus all it takes is one wrong move by Putin or Kimmy and all that progress goes up in a mushroom cloud.
I have noticed a lot of similarities between Julia and Nim as well. It would be an interesting compiled companion language to use alongside Julia. Both have really nice generics but I assume interop + generics isn't something that works out too well.
Why do some communities thrive while others become ghost towns?
I'm aware of a deal where a consortium bought a plot in a downtown area to build a tower, and demand went down so they went into a holding pattern while making money on the parking.
You should go through your code and try to extract generic abstractions that you can release as resume building projects or as assets that other developers can license and include in their projects.
I saw this exact situation happen at a previous employer. Three large high-end apartment buildings were built in an area where a large percentage of the residential population are older wealthy people. The three buildings have minimal parking and are located right across the street from a mall. Within two years of the first building being completed, the mall implemented paid parking.
I mean, are you expecting power in the future to be a tenth as expensive as it is now? A hundredth? With “cheap enough” energy anything is possible, but I don’t see where we would get order of magnitude improvements there anytime soon.
How is it better? Does it do the same thing?
Matz has stated that it’s unlikely to happen for years (2040 was mooted recently). So, your strategy is more likely to leave you with a less scalable and more buggy code base for years to come.

Sorbet is compatible with existing Ruby, requires no syntax changes and can be transpiled into whatever official typing support comes into existence many years from now.

Give it a try, it’s good for you :-)
> It's a natural tendency for all programmers.

Then I'm not a programmer :) Less optimizing means less work! I like spending my free time in all kinds of ways.
Err, this 100% applies to biology research, where there is absolutely a problem of small sample sizes, small effects, etc. Our studies (my field is cancer) are routinely vastly underpowered because of the high variability of the datasets we are studying, the low availability of samples, and the large number of variables we collect on these sample.

Also, to a good approximation, everybody p-hacks. Furthermore, the habit of publishing "noteworthy" results (true in every journal, especially true for large impact factor journals) is essentially p-hacking across the entire field. This is a huge problem.
The humblebundle sales showed clearly that linux users are ready to pay much more for video games than windows users are.

I have personally used hundreds of dollars on linux compatible games.
You are completely missing his third point. For people without wealth (or a social safety-net which provides you the resources you need to survive), it isn't optional to work for free. You have to eat and have a roof over your head, which means taking a salary if you are working full-time on your startup. Its not a strategic decision.
A current list of my top problems in pressthink – PressThink
There's a short form and a long form of the code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code#Usage

https://plus.codes/howitworks
I think I would just rather have advertisers barrage me and I'll continue to block them.
The important point for patients is that those charges - capped or not - would no longer be directly billed; instead the insurance companies would be responsible for paying them.
Are you assuming async I/O? For a thread-per-request architecture with blocking reads and writes, it seems like green threads will work better.
> There is absolutely no doubt that all those sites, and many others, are continuously running such experiments.

They are running randomized experiments, but they are not necessarily running the right experiments. If the bottom line is revenue, then attrition may not be directly measured; if they are testing on per page-view or per session instead of bucketing users permanently, then they can miss effects too; and if they are testing by bucketing users simultaneously, they can miss non-additive site-wide effects. If you look at my comment, I link two publicly-documented randomized experiments, and both set up/analyze their tests in an unusual way.

After I published my results, I heard about some parallel results, but not that many. I heard whispers that Google might (or might not) have internally run equivalent tests; I heard from Chris Stucchio that an unspecified company he worked for had run an A/B test with similar results; I heard from a mobile developer that they had run a similar experiment but found no effect of ads; Pandora subsequently published their A/B test; and Mozilla has published this. I also read through most of the 'advertising avoidance' literature in academia going back 30 years, and found nothing relevant. And that's it.

So, if everyone is always continuously running obviously relevant experiments... where are they?
Maybe former Islamic Caliphates.

But if Catholicism plays a role:

a) why is Ireland outside?

b) why is the Non-Catholic part inside?
Many large downloads (at least for some games) driven not through your browser will also by default have a peer to peer option enabled. Battle.net comes to mind for me.
Nevertheless its review score average is equal to Stardew Valley's. Although I concede that people's expectations may be lower when buying this game, and that may make them less likely to leave a negative review.
If this is true, how does that work if the fundamental conclusion re the relationship of 2 entities is the inverse of what you expect? To me, that result doesn't call for adding participants to get to an acceptable p value, it means reevaluate your assumptions, because your basis of understanding is wrong.

@epistasis' using the term 'p-hack' is incredibly apt in this case.

The ability for a study to be deemed "correct" in proving a hypothesis might be true of small samples if you are sufficiently rigorous in designing the experiment, but it could still fall apart at larger sizes - which only proves that part of your hypothesis was not statistically meaningful regardless of the conclusion you reached.

Again, a thorough discussion of limitations around any research should address this.

E.g, "Our findings indicate x, but there is no way to know without further study if y is actually true instead"
It's not that optimizations don't have their place, but when your goal is to create a game and make money off of it, then micro optimizing C++ code simply has no place. Also, a 2D platformer simply doesn't require any highly optimized system.

One should spend the time building a game, polishing it, marketing it, presenting it at shows, etc. and not trying to build the most efficient engine, just because engine building is quite fun - as long as the goal is to make money from a game.
Sure, I agree it’s still logistically challenging. I’m just claiming the hard part is the ideological hurdle of getting the original core devs of the project to willingly facilitate frequent “changing of the guard” where the burden of critical new features and design is wholeheartedly given to new and intermediate developers of the project, to graciously let other people take the reins and have the core devs with an attitude of service to their community of users, fixing bugs, adding small feature enhancements, and particularly creating excellent documentation and tutorials.

That’s the first step. Templates, disqus boards, SO, etc., aren’t going to save you if the core devs view the open source project as a walled garden where they pick and choose what to work on based on a need to “be the one” who is responsible for milestones of implementation.
Portal's team produced Narbacular Drop (spelling?) as a final project that could be seen as a prototype of the idea
This is wrong on both accounts.

The speed of light in a fiber is only about 70% of speed of light in vacuum.

Modern single mode fiber has very low attenuation (less than 0.01dB/km). But more importantly you don't have to use opto-electrical repeaters to boost the signal. What you do is using purely passive dispersion control by mixing different kinds of fiber and compensate for the rest dispersion using chirped fiber bragg gratings. To boost the signal you splice in rare earth doped fibers (Erbirum, Yttrium) which acts as optically pumped optical amplifier.
This is possible?
Are you sure you don’t mean 99% of all phone or computer users do not know what root means?
Hopefully the insurance companies would demand some transparency.

At least when it comes to ERs transparency isn’t exactly useful. Most people don’t have time to go shopping around between them, all transparency does this let you know you’re being billed $1700 for a Band-Aid instead of billing code B736.21.

This clearly isn’t a fix to the problems of the healthcare industry, but it certainly sounds like a nice step up.

While I understand the logistics behind it, the idea that you can go to a place, pay your bill, then have eight different people bill you for the same service just feels like an absolute scam.

Yes, one was the doctor, one was the lab, one was the hospital etc. and they may work for different companies and even in different buildings it’s just that they all HAPPENED to be in that one building that one day if that one time.

But you don’t go to a restaurant and get separate bills from the establishment and the waiter and the cook and the group which buys ingredients.

“We couldn’t have told you how much that Caesar salad would have cost, it depends on complex negotiations with your dietitian. Had it been at least 30 days since your last consumption of Californian arugula?”
2013! This idea dates back to at least 1992, in the form of scheduler activations, as described in this paper by Tom Anderson (no relation):

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mosharaf/Readings/Scheduler-Activ...

EDIT: And that Google work sounds like directed yields, an old idea which i traced back as far as 1996 before getting bored:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-96/cpu-inheritance-sc...
I don't want to nitpick, but the drawing is a bit off:

The line as it is drawn excludes Venice and Vienna. Correcting that line to actually overlap with St. Petersburg and Trieste gets these epicenters of European culture back "inside".
"Best advice" why? Accurate, perhaps. But do you really find going around telling people that they're not going to win the lottery makes them stop playing? Even after they read an article about someone who won $100m and has quit their job to sail around the world?

I think such advice misunderstands the psychology of why people gamble on very long odds. The primary drive is emotional, not rational. The rational brain only has to be convinced that a theoretical possibility exists. After that, it's a matter of emotional appeal, and culture is very good at presenting seductive narratives based on rare occurrences.
I also have the Emacs + Org-mode + Dropbox setup.

In addition, I have an AWS lambda endpoint which listens to a SES email hook. I send emails to the SES address which the hook then appends and schedules to org files on dropbox based on email content.
HBDchick is an advocate of Human BioDiversity theory, which, very simply, states that the distances between various populations of humans over time have lead to statistically relevant and measurable differences in both mind _and_ body (this is the crux of the issue). While this is intuitive within the whole of mammalian evolutionary biology, there are some very sensitive conclusions that any party could arrive at if one accepts that different groups of humans have evolved different traits that reflect both strengths and weaknesses in modern society. She is not alone in this assertion, but the status quo of politically motivated science has tacitly decided that exclusion and censorship are the best response to an admittedly uncomfortable possible interpretation of reality. There is a huge amount of reading on the topic, but i refuse to use throwaways and i do not want to be banned so feel free to DM me if you'd like to know more. IANAB.
Can you elaborate?

If you mean the Teutonic Order's crusade quickening the Christian baptism of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, I'm sceptical. Not that the region becoming part of the Christian Europe isn't important; it's just that it was inevitable anyway. The paper "The Origins of WEIRD Psychology" [0] linked by another comment proposes that this is likely to do with Catholicism. However, I speculate that the East Baltic's (the Baltic states') embrace of Catholicism is evident in the 20th century, not because of the ?-1410 crusade, but because in the 20th century, they experienced severe antagonisation from the atheist USSR, and went full-throttle in the other direction. A bit like how the US alcohol prohibition backfired. Aggressive suppression of religion led to it growing strong roots. Funnily enough, same thing was happening almost a thousand years ago, only reversed. Region resisting Catholicism peddled by Teutons and suppression of the pre-Christian religion. 20th century -- same region fighting to preserve a Catholic identity.

[0] https://psyarxiv.com/d6qhu/
Or, as many do today, companies will keep much of their office space in the suburbs both because of rent prices and because it’s where most of their employees including execs want to live.

I commutes into the relatively nearby city both by rail and car at one point. Wouldn’t have done it long term and probably wouldn’t again without buying a small property in the city for during the week.

Added: Companies will do whatever makes business sense. But potential employees who would find commuting into a city location a nightmare is a factor. As of course is new grads who insist on a location they can get to without a car.
Presumably the Soviets knew about that, since they produced clones of them pretty quickly.

Here's a series of images (by a Russian, appropriately enough) that shows where the traps are and how they can be found:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Z80proj/Z80_traps.pdf
and now articles are being published in the UK asking govs to use cloudflare, google and others to stop the transmission of information in just this way -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18107919
It is essentially a "don't be a complete dick" statistical cap. Whenever you hear somebody complaining about excessive regulations remember all of the other cases that resulted against past antisocial behavior like that.
Yes. At this point, recommending that a 9-5 programmer quit their job to work on an indie game is equivalent to suggesting a PR writer quit their job to write the next Great American Novel.
This is paid leave.

Comparing Sweden, which has mandatory paternity leave, to other countries with parental leave, the the amount of money you get paid during leave is the major factor in whether someone takes it or not.

https://qz.com/587763/how-swedens-daddy-quota-parental-leave...
I wonder what is the outcome distribution for an indie developer spending this much time building an utility desktop Mac/Windows app. Somehow this seem to have fallen out of fashion.
Working on a team without capital is a challenge.
I suppose we could just demolish all the public roads and start over.
Hopefully that dream will be the self driving car bringing you to kiss-and-ride and then going home, not bringing you all the way downtown. Otherwise everyone's congestion problems just got 2x as bad (and that's before you account for the current mass transit users who may suddenly decide that personal automobile use is more attractive now that you can pay for your empty car to drive off to cheap/free parking instead of paying for a downtown spot).
IE11 is still supported by Microsoft atleast up until 2021, possibly further. We bet on Vue and 5% of our enterprisey customers rely solely on IE11 for some reason or another and our competition supports it unflinchingly.

So, atleast we're very glad for this decision.
I think core developers should do whatever they want. Nobody is entitled to anything from a developer of an OSS project, unless there is a contract and/or money involved.
It's just a question of defaults. If stack size is your only concern, then change the default in your runtime: don't go M:N.
I would be interested in seeing if two neural network models with equivalent topology and weights could always be said to 'have' the same subject matter. (It's a better example than for-loops, because I think both brains and computers can embody what it means to have a neuron in a close-enough fashion).

I would expect the answer would be "no". You would have to know about the environment that trained them, which blows the door open for something which is irreducible without knowing about environmental conditions, and biology having too rich of an environment to be as precisely reducible as computers might ever be without them being also a computer system.

In my other posts in this thread I emphasize the "in-principle" and "in-practice" distinction because I don't believe it is the "in-principle" part of reductionism that ought to be at stake. It's if we can actually do it in a way that doesn't invite approximations.
To be a successful indie dev, you need to take an auteur approach: have a singular vision, create a unique aesthetic, and possess a fundamental understanding of the medium (gameplay). You also need to be able to balance all of these qualities with the resources you have at your disposal. If you have a great story, but no gameplay, you shouldn't be making a game. If you have an aesthetic, but can't implement it correctly, you're going to need to pay for assets one way or another. If your gameplay is merely a rehash of something old, you better have some twist to the other elements that makes it stand out. And all of this doesn't guarantee success, merely gets you to the baseline where you can be successful. Being good at programming is probably the least important skill in game development unless your idea is so innovative that you will need complex systems without precedence.

You need marketable differentiation.

Also make sure your game appeals to furries. That's where the real money is in indie game dev.
Irfan Siddiqi is one of the leading researchers in the field of quantum feedback and has done some really awesome experiments. I think developing new architectures for superconducting quantum chips is very important and there are many things that are still unresolved. John Martinis' group had (and maybe still has) a very open-source approach to this as well, they published most of the source code and custom-built electronics they use in their labs for controlling qubits (the architectures themselves are documented more in papers and theses). It seems their wiki is no longer reachable from the public web, shame.

The quantum computing startups try to convey the impression that they solved all problems for building real-world quantum computers already, I think that many things are still open though (and so far none of the startups has really produced convincing evidence that they really have a working quantum computer, or even an interesting qubit chip).

What I'd like to see from these startups are at least some basic measurements that characterize the quality of single-qubit manipulations, two-qubit gates and qubit readout. With that one could at least estimate what one could do with their quantum devices.
Or maybe the fact our country is huge, and infrastructure cost is ghastly compared to say, all of europe. But sure, blame the voters.
It'll be possible to pack them way, way more tightly if a) the structure itself is able to move the cars around at will, and b) you can give it an estimate of what time you'll be back (or 30 mins notice for the "standby" option).
I don't synch between instances of Org, but you can install a full-blown Emacs (and many other apps) on Android within the Termux terminal emulator:

http://endlessparentheses.com/running-emacs-on-android.html

It runs Org fine, I've even used Spacemacs on Emacs runnning in Termux.
That is a hard one. They only thing I could come up with off the top of my head is that Sweden a bit more consensus oriented, which could be quite good for creating commercial successes. Like for example I would say that the Netherlands has a stronger electronic music scene, but the big names are still a bit less commercial than Avicii and Swedish House Mafia. Maybe that is because between the Netherlands and its neighboring countries you have a pretty big market. While for Sweden it is Sweden and then the world.
To pay taxes for the public services and infrastructure you will use during your retirement.
yes that has bothered me. think just how insects who can't see, don't know of birds, what if there is a sense we don't have and don't 'see' them.
Haven't read the paper, but kept me thinking about twitchers, youtube streamers and such...
Derek Sivers on E-Myth Revisited (2004)
but birds see them, and they see us
I don't think that's a very controversial point of view. Emergent behavior is all around us - ant colonies, neural networks, and yes, biological organisms.

Whether emergence can explain everything is another matter though, and I think that's where "irreducibility" might come into play.
Yes. Cap for where I am (Sweden) is around the pay of a teacher, and the pay during the leave is 80% of that. This means I as a software dev is paid around 50% of my salary during the leave. Some employers fill this in up to e.g 80 or 90% as a benefit.
>SV would have the best public transit on earth and wouldn’t have any homeless or housing problems.

They should. All that would be required is raising municipal taxes.
Fishing the AWS IP Pool for Dangling Domains (2015)
In China, companies are reluctant to use React.

How come?
I was wondering if it was the same project I remembered! I used to use it in high school, with its stored on a USB stick that i'd carry around on my keys. Was pretty useful at the time, wouldn't want to carry around a USB stick now, but using dropbox is interesting.
Mollie Tibbetts and the Low Illegal Crime Rate Lie
Inside Wayback Machine, the internet’s time capsule
Poking around the guy’s website [0], I’m not surprised his sales are so dismal- it’s a very earnest description of a project its developer obviously likes, but which he describes in terms of other, pre-existing games and game-styles (e.g., metroidvania, roguelike, procedurally generated, crafting, etc)... which reads as “a mashup of other games you’ve already played.” The one differentiating bit, that it’s a metroidvanian roguelike that can be played in the browser is buried a ways down the page (after a paragraph about how skillfully it’s coded- good on you, but players don’t care.)

If he really wants a commercial success, my guess is that he would be well advised to make a concerted, well-advertised run at the in-browser gaming market, and try to find ways to monetize that (likely by scummy micro-transactions.) His chances still wouldn’t be good, but perhaps better. (Getting on the front page of HN is a pretty good tactic too, though. : ) )

[0] Well, I spent about ten seconds reading the site’s front page, but that’s probably more than most of his hits did.
woah, that certainly took a turn. not that i think it's wrong , just a humorously abrupt shift.
How optimistic of you.

The harsher reality of the billions of people coming out of poverty is that many more people will be increasing their climate impact.

Optimism tends to be synonymous with ignorance.
If you haven’t tried the Wim Hof method, please give it a go. It might not work for you as well as it has for others, but it won’t cost you anything to try it.