skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the interest -- it's actually just a sum of the probabilities for the items from 1 to 10,000. For example, if there's a 0.1 chance you know each of 10 items, it adds up to a total value of 1 -- no cutoff needed.

Mathematically, there's a trick where you don't even need to compute the sum item-by-item... I calculate the binomial regression which gives me the two relevant parameters, from which I can calculate the probability density function (PDF) [1] for an item of given rank. Then I just calculate the associated cumulative distribution function (CDF) with the same two parameters [2] for rank 10,000 -- and that's the final result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_density_function

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_functi...
US tech workers in HCOL areas (esp Bay Area/Seattle/NYC) are very well paid.
how is it typically dealt with? regular annealing?
What If the Atmosphere Disappeared?
Announcing elba, package manager for Idris
“Blockchain Is The Most Over-Hyped Technology Ever, No Better than a Spreadsheet/Database”

I think he fundamentally understands and misunderstand something that most people, (though probably not here) don’t get.

A blockchain is an immutable distributed ledger (database). It is a terrible decision for anything that can be centralized (something where you can trust some party).

It is incredible tool and a case where you can’t trust anybody.

There are very few applications where The trade off of trust does not outweigh the efficiency of centralization, but should you have such a case…
it is very hard to make developers pay for software.

Have you seen the Magit kickstarter[1]?

Magit is one of Emacs' killer apps and it's known and loved by virtually all of its users, who are almost all developers..

When its maintainer opened a kickstarter to work on it for a year, it was more than fully funded by nearly 2000 backers.

So, yes, developers are willing to pay for quality software.

But, yeah, overall this is a gift economy where people take what's freely given but also give back to the community in some way.

[1] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681258897/its-magit-th...
I'm missing quite a lot of them in firefox on linux
I'm becoming more and more convinced that reinforcement learning is equivalent to AGI, we just haven't finished optimizing it yet.
I don't think that's a reasonable conclusion to draw from the fact the TV wasn't pure noise. Why would the agent not be able to determine that every noisy frame was one step away from every other?
Q: What qualifies this group for the position of beacon to the masses?

A: Not a blessed thing.

If you pay a psychiatrist, you have to worry that they have a conflict of interest. If you really get well, you won't need them anymore. They have an inherent motive to help you only enough to take credit for things going better, not enough to set you free from needing their services.

If you turn to family, coworkers, or friends, the odds are very high that you will face similar conflicts of interest. Family inheritance. Family allies (the "favorite" child/sibling/cousin). Etc.

It's really hard to find someone to talk to whose personal biases are less problematic than those entrenched ties. A stranger or advice columnist may not give good advice, but they are somewhat less likely to give advice designed to encourage you to cut your own throat for their personal benefit.

People like me who like actually being useful and hate that kind of crap are sometimes drawn to giving advice for free in online forums. I read this because the title made me think it would be about that trend. There are endless places on the internet where you can anonymously ask for advice without admitting to your boss that you don't actually know how to do X or admitting to your spouse that you are thinking of leaving, etc. I think a similar article about that in specific would likely be far more interesting.
Perhaps you could do me the favor of answering my question.
Earth's oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought
Humans have always done drugs. We have smoked pot specifically for thousands of years.

Why do you want to keep adults from making decisions about what to put into their body?
Here you go: http://www.fabercastell.com/design/products/perfect-pencil
No, but continuing on with Egyptian body part hieroglyphs, there is Gardner sign D27, Unicode U+13091.
I've racist theory, i appologize if it's offensive and wrong:

I think Beijing is running into problem in this region due to presence of higher proportion Caucasian DNA who are not conformist like Asians and Beijing is terrified, why the things which work on majority of their Han Chinese population doesn't work here? Why can't they see the benefit of our system? Are these dillusional enough to not see their own gain?
How to ship a Rails upgrade and not break everything
I read enough books in public transport. No one cares. Even myself I had perhaps one 5 sec encounter like a glance on a book cover I known
An Email-Only Authentication Scheme
Facebook separating Workplace from the main site for security-minded customers
In Japan there are yellow pencils but green pencils are more common.
https://www.tombow.com/products/writing/pencil/
This isn't a new thing. I remember miniature books from several decades ago. Maybe 2.5-3 inches tall. And ultra-thin paper was also used to make large books relatively small.
Original title: "Facebook is separating Workplace from the main Facebook site to appease business customers concerned about security" (35 characters too long).
I still do not completely understand what SAP HANA really is:

- an in-memory database technology?

- the name for SAP’s cloud platform?

- an on-premise DB to run SAP ERP (to replace Oracle)?

- a full-stack proprietary web development platform?

- a marketing term to solve all problems with SAP products?

Does anyone have an hands on experience with HANA, beyond the usual marketing BS? Is is that revolutionary? If it runs on such specialized hardware, is the speed increase that impressive?
Koh-I-Noor still makes high quality art supplies, btw.
Awesome, thanks for this and the context around clock speed not being quite as misleading anymore modulo thermal throttling.

My takeaway here is that my 2015 MBP13 will still blow away a new MBA then, so no reason to upgrade.

Edit: the GPU comparison may be off, though. MBP13 used an Iris 6100, not an Iris Pro. Problem is I can't find official reference anywhere to an Iris Pro 6100, so have no idea what's reporting for this benchmark. What I do know is the Iris 6100 benched worse than the Iris Pro 5200, whereas this IP6100 in the link benches better.
Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech
The challenge here is that there's no answer key, so nobody can really know for sure which reviews are authentic and which are not.

We all can look at reviews and make our best guess, but at the end of the day, it's always going to still be a guess. At ReviewMeta, we aren't claiming to know all the answers. We try our best to ensure everyone knows it's an estimate (you're actually forced to click an I agree button before accessing the site) and we also provide all our work so you can use the numbers to help you make a more informed decision.
A few years back HP manufactured a few new HP-15C calculators as a limited edition. I was lucky enough to hear about it early and buy one.

I see they're now on Amazon for crazy high prices, so I assume they're no longer in production.
What about people who the boss isn't sexually interested in? What sort of work environment and career can they look forward to, potentially? There is a reason many societies and companies discourage or prohibit relations between employees and tortured allegories about neighbors borrowing milk won't change that.
I personally have paid for software in the past, but I don't do it much anymore because:

A) Self-funding a startup has required me to become quite frugal

B) Giving money to competitors is almost always a mistake

Unfortunately that's the way things go. I would like to be able to afford more, but so would everyone else.
Indie game art seems to be pretty good. There are some annoying comments, but overall I see lots and lots of positive comments and support.

Even on Twitter, see #screenshotsaturday responses.
Make a robot who can code?
Could Machine learning achive that ?
Do us all a favor and close your browser. Thanks!

- Earth
The house I was born in sold for $4000
Consciousness after decapitation
Unfortunately, Wikidata has a lot less structured data than the semi-structured data you can get out of Wikipedia. A database like Wikidata simply doesn't get the same broad user base as Wikipedia, and therefore also fewer contributions.
Here’s how you can get a 2–6x speed-up on your data pre-processing with Python
I hate when people speak on my behalf
I think there's a further problem that there's never been a shortage of evidence, about things like this. The point is, prejudice and discrimination are not evidence-based in the first place. People who support existing unjust structures are generally strongly motivated to turn a blind eye. Even people who don't support them are - it's simply far easier and more socially advantageous to stop worrying and love the bomb.
You can buy an e-book (or a physical book) to ensure that you legally paid for the content, and everyone in the book production pipeline get their agreed share.

Then you can download a de-DRM-ed copy, and use it, because they often come in a better layout, actually fit for reading, and are not going away.

Maybe publishers will eventually understand that their books is going to be pirated no matter what, and start to compete with pirates on quality and affordability. See, this actually happened to most of the music, so there's hope.
Something that wasted a lot of my time this and last week was discovering that, from what I can tell, the CloudWatch Metrics API will almost never give you an actual error message. Request something with the wrong credentials? "Sure, here's a 200 response with zero datapoints". Request a metric that doesn't exist? "Sure, here's a 200 response with zero datapoints". Request a metric from the wrong region? "Sure, here's a 200 response with zero datapoints"...

It makes narrowing down a problem extremely un-fun.
The article doesn't mention that "Koh-i-Noor" is Persian for "Mountain of Light" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor]
We have a binding machine in my office. I use that for our technical and procedural documents. It's more compact than a binder, and you can still slip plastic covers around it to protect the contents when put away. Updates require a bit more effort to insert but I've found that it's not too annoying.
Shining light on the “Dark Web”
Null checks are also opt-in, that's why Tony Hoare calls null his "Billion Dollar Mistake". Explicit runtime checks are in no way "similar" to static typing! Static typing is a machine-checked proof of correctness for a certain class of properties.
Less cognitive, really, did you give them all IQ tests? In a discussion on any other topic on HN shitty anecdotes like this would be dismissed immediately.
I'm disappointed the article doesn't also point out that there are also egyptian hieroglyphic characters for breasts.
Ya maybe...i've always wondered. Never bothered getting tested. I've mostly just learned to focus and pay attention when I need to. A while back a learned to meditate and practice mindfulness and i've found that's been more helpful than anything. When i start to feel my mind race i'll just close my eyes and focus on my breathing while I count for a little bit. It usually helps me get my thoughts back under control.
I had the login page cached in my browser, so there's a bit of javascript that pops up an alert.

They suffered a major DDOS attack a while back, and I'm guessing that their servers being down intermittently is going to be part of their normal operations.
I thought this is because School busss color is Yellow so everything yellow identifies things which has to do with students.
Exactly, the binding is a function of the publisher and there are binding systems that have the behavior the GP is looking for. The rubber binding you've mentioned is fine but it isn't particularly durable (it is how notepads are bound for example.

There is an excellent resource on binding examples here: https://www.designersinsights.com/designer-resources/choosin... which goes over them. But since book binding is literally several hundred years old there are lots of good references.

Sunnyvale used to have an adult education class on book binding that ran during the summer. I still have my class project from that class somewhere (which was a sewn case binding).

All that said, if the paper is stiff then the only lie flat option is spiral or comb binding.
Vaginas? No. (Did you maybe mean Vulva?) But, there are breasts.
I think this is a large part of what goes on in the digital humanities - to varying degrees of success. The problem, as usual, is not that there isn't an abundance of evidence. It's simply that nobody reads sociology papers except sociologists.
Tone of Voice
> Programmers who don't see the value of immutability or can't understand it are not programmers you really want to work with.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but since you just described easily 90%+ of all working programmers, it's kind of unavoidable.

One place I worked, one of the lead engineers knew I was into functional programming and asked me if I thought it would be a good idea to introduce Scala or Clojure into our pure Java code base. I said "No. The majority of the programmers here couldn't make the adjustment."

Put another way, if I could assemble a hand-picked team of all of the engineers I would rate as "great" who I've worked with over my 12+ year career thus far -- I'd have a team of about 7 people.
Appendix removal is linked to lower risk of Parkinson’s
Discussion of the last update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17011699.
The UI for Cloudwatch Logs completely crumbles if you use it for Lambda functions, especially if you have a lot of executions.

We run ETL pipelines and have lambda as a component of that, maybe 250k-500k invocations a day.

If you want to search through the logs for a particular invocation at a particular time (e.g. when an error happened) the UI just cannot handle it.

I think part of the reason is Lambda creates a new "log stream" every time a new container is created, which I'm guessing is how they shard the logs. So you end up with hundreds/thousands of log streams within your lambda log group and the backend has to search them to find the particular search pattern you are requesting.

Most of the time we have to export the logs to S3, download them and do some manual grepping.
Because we've tried that prohibition, and the results are demonstrably worse. I would recommend Radley Balko's numerous articles and his book on how detrimental the "war on drugs" has been to civil liberties in the USA in general, and how many people's lives it ruined.
This sort of thing is useful for showing placeholder images while high-res images load:
https://jmperezperez.com/svg-placeholders/
> I don't see why something like this couldn't run on a lambda: https://www.loggly.com/docs/python-http/

It would, but then you're also paying for the time it takes to flush those logs to the other service before the process exits.
People are more likely to speak up when they're unhappy than when they're happy.

If they agree with everything you said, they'll typically upvote in silence.

It has nothing to do with developers.
I tend to wrap, or even refactor purchased assets to suit my needs. In that way it more closely resembles the workflow of collaboration with other developers - they provide a working implementation and you tweak it for your use case. This breaks future asset updates, though, so you need to be sure that you won't need them.

To be honest, the code quality in most assets I encounter is so low that sometimes I even throw away the scripts and only use the meshes/textures/shaders/etc. (I'm looking at you, that-one-very-popular-vfx-pack!)
Interesting this is the top comment when in the thread discussing the original article and abuse it was basically a series of hits against Ms. Simpson (the accuser in this instance)
Java at startup. C++ and python at bigcorps.
I've saved about half of my income since I started working (6.5 years now), in part because I'm financially paranoid.

Beyond the security cushion, it's pretty nice generally. I've taken a couple months off every time I quit my job (and the quitting itself is pretty stress free, don't need to worry about having another gig lined up before I jump ship).
There's a process to report false positives and other problems:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission

...to ensure things like this get investigated.

For what it's worth, I just downloaded the latest D compiler distribution for Windows and scanned it with Windows Defender -- it didn't report any problems.
Mildly interesting: HN pot post currently at 420 comments
The laptop I witnessed had issues with sleep and resume (simply didn't work out of the box, sometimes wouldn't resume and other times would resume inappropriately and overheat in a bag) and very bad issues with audio. It was a coworkers laptop and they gave up after a while.
A Colorado study of 5 year trends in pot use found 19% of high school students have used it in the oast month. It is almost same percentage reported in a national survey. The Colorado number was based 47K respondents.

http://cdpsdocs.state.co.us/ors/docs/reports/2018-SB-13-283_...

P.S. Pot use under age 21 is not legal in Colorado.
I'd rather have the compiler ensure that my discipline (and my team's) never slips, and to get guarantees about all possible executions instead of just those executions that have been tested.

For these reasons and others, I don't personally find run-time checks to be an adequate replacement for compile-time checks. But there is no really convincing research on the subject, and I certainly don't begrudge your preference here.
Ask HN: Are you supposed to “study” for FAANG interviews?
I fall under the umbrella of impostor syndrome where I think I'm not capable of passing a FAANG interview. I was wondering why that is. I think I would be able to learn what's "typical" about a FAANG interview (CTCI problems?), but maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. Are you supposed to study for these interviews in the same way you study a test on new material? How much of the interview is expected to be second nature (or maybe even just solvable) to an entry-level engineer?
I hadn't heard of this before, but now I'm curious - do you have any more details on this?
The full question and its response, for context:

> KW: If the systematization of the possible is somehow reconfigured by self-learning algorithms, are the capacities of indefinite potential then also reconfigured when it comes to evading this very systematization? In other words: is a new, ‘intelligent’ systematization of indefinite potential arising in the context of AI?

> LA: You have really identified a crucial issue here. In the final chapter of Politics of Possibility, I proposed that potentiality continues to overflow and exceed the capacity for the calculation of possibles. However, I am worried that this evasive potentiality may also be under threat, and I do address that in my new book Cloud Ethics. With contemporary deep machine learning, there is a move to incorporate the incalculable and to generate potentials that need never be fully exhausted. Gilles Deleuze once wrote that ‘the problem gets the solution it deserves’, implying that the particular arrangement of a problem will systematize a solution. To my reading, today’s algorithms are reversing this, so that the solution gets the problem it deserves – in the sense that the potential pathways of the neural net are infinitely malleable in relation to a solution. Let us not forget that by ‘solution’ we mean an algorithm that may decide juridical processes, policing, security, employment and so on.

Hope this clarifies things.
I spent a week on vacation in Chile without an internet connection earlier this year (to be clear, there is internet in Chile, I just chose not to connect). It was a wonderful experience – highly recommended. Biggest personal benefit was that I could sit alone with my thoughts for long periods without getting impatient or feeling like I was "wasting" my time.
How Profitable Is a Portfolio of Top BUIDLers in Crypto?
As others have said DF is very different than Nethack. Although it is often put in the roguelike category for a variety of reasons, I think of it more as a story generator/doll house than as a game like Nethack. It basically allows you to create a world and then live in that world. You can play in adventure mode, which is somewhat like most roguelikes or you can play in fortress mode which allows you to experience the lives of a group of dwarves as they build a fortress. There is no purpose to the game, so it's basically all up to your imagination. You do whatever you want with no restrictions, but also no real added motivation.

The main thing about DF is that it is full of bugs and/or strange coding artefacts. You need to have a kind of hacker mentality to play it because it's a massive puzzle to figure out how to do anything. It's surprisingly rewarding because you often think, "I wonder if X is possible" and after you hack away for a while you discover that it is. Or after you hack away for a while you discover that something even more wonderful is hiding away in there, the product of some weird unplanned generative properties of the massive game engine.

For me, it's really this latter thing that is most compelling about the game. In Nethack it's said that the developers thought of everything. In DF it's more like the game engine has so much complexity that it has taken on a life of its own. I doubt there is any game that has the depth that DF has, but you have to tease out that depth.

I think the game is well worth playing, though whether or not you will like it depends on a number of things. It is a massive time sink and requires endless fiddling, planning, and grinding. Sometimes it feels like a chore to play. But it is also massively rewarding. It depends a lot on the person.
How to Not Become a Zombie, Using Martial Arts
I would disagree. I don't really see what people are spending money on? Everyone I know working in technology have pretty much bought everything they ever wanted in terms of electronics, clothes, equipment and vacations long ago. Most people could afford a sports car by 30 if they wanted to. Unless you have very expensive taste these things really aren't that expensive. What is expensive is space (housing, vacation home, workshop), time (education, sabbaticals, hobbies) and fluffy things (security, love, prosperity). Sure, housing might only be some percentage, but it is that percentage for the a large part of your life.
Sure. Code something useful that's a whole different animal.
Ask HN: Ex-smokers, how did you quit?
I've been a smoker on and off for a long time. I have managed to quit a few times and stay out for as long as 2 years but I start again mostly due to stress and habit.
Those of you who quit successfully, what worked for you?
I stopped reading the paper after this quote.

If the author doesn't understand the tech or has a very simplistic understanding of it, their opinion on it doesn't matter and shouldn't hold any weight.
Brutalist market: flats at London's Centre Point taken off market
After reading your article I'm reminded of an article I read sometime ago about Lennart Poettering, author of systemd for whom users actually were collecting money to hire a hitman to kill him [1]. I don't think anything can top this level of hate for free software.

[1] https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/81162.html