skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever seen Schindler's List? There's a scene, near the end, where Oskar Schindler breaks down. He looks at all the little luxuries in his life, tallies their cost, and lists off how many more lives that could have saved. It nearly destroys him.

To Schindler, "I have no moral obligation to do the impossible" would have come off as a self-serving rationalization for not doing as much as you can.

For all that, you're absolutely right. Break some boundaries! Challenge yourself! Experiment! Just understand that some other people, having gone through similar processes, might arrive at personal conclusions that could in some instances perhaps differ slightly from yours. Perhaps you and I could be more careful in what we deem justified and what we deem a rationalization, knowing that those are intensely personal decisions.
I have same problem with hacker news after I quit FB lol
When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-boeskool/when-youre-acc...
Just FYI, this figure that gets used comes from the high end of a range that is estimated from 20 million to 100 million for a population of North America around 1500. The estimate for Europe is around 50 million to 60 million.
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-claim-that-100-000-000-native-A...
Here you go (as an image on imgur) - https://i.imgur.com/7DGvmcI.jpg
Mens and women's bodies respond to these hormones differently. It's why people who have a y chromosome but who have complete androgen insensitivity syndrome are women. The level of testosterone or estrogen does not matter; only how you respond to it
The problem is incentives. Ubuntu has no incentive to take your information. Google has. That means that even if you change the settings, you don't know if they will ask you in some obscure dialog box to turn it back on, etc. Or they will say "you upgraded, but you didn't turn off the setting again? that's your fault then". Sneaky tricks like this are happening all the time. Only if the incentives are right I can begin to trust that they will not abuse my information.

And if Ubuntu starts to abuse my trust for some reason, I will switch to a different distribution. I can already say that I don't like that Amazon shopping logo in the Unity interface.
I'm 39, so out of touch with many people and especially out of touch with younger generations. I recently spoke to a college counselor who has tremendous interaction with students across all mediums.

He is pretty balanced in his views. He swears, Facebook interactions are an empty shell of what it was in 2008 and that it is nearly completely irrelevant for the current and incoming generation of students (not including Instagram and WhatsApp, which are FB properties, and very much hot.) He bases this on interactions he has with almost a thousand+ students. For me, this is difficult to fathom, Facebook to me is like General Electric, a bastion of day to day life.
so, are we just-ok-Earth now?
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> Have you ever stared at a text file on the screen, hoping it would have been a database so you could ask anything you want about it?

Not really. I could see this being helpful for debugging, but at that point you can get by with some simple bash string operations. Doing that same operation w/SQL seems like overkill.
> Take An ANC with 0 latency, that stops cancelling noise at 8 khz, and add a 50 usec latency to it, now will stop cancelling noise at ~1.5 khz.

How did you calculate this?
It would be great if you and your family elaborate more on this experience through an AMA and/or blog post?
It still seems like the core of your argument is "Some things are hard to test, so you might as well not test anything at all" - which I really don't buy.

> How about you just answer me this question: Did you still see significant bug volumes after implementing the unit tests for the FileProcessor ?

Kinda tricky to answer this, since there were test for this class from the start. But, overall the answer is "no" - we did not see significant bugs in that class. Occasionally we'd get a bug because the SFTP connection failed, or execution took to long and the connection closed - the type of bug that to you seems to negate the value of uniting testing the FileProcessor. But, without the unit tests for the FileProcessor, I'd have those bugs plus more bugs/bad behavior in the business logic. How is that better, exactly?

The idea that tests reduce performance is ridiculous. Improving performance requires making changes to a system while ensuring it's behavior hasn't changed. This is exactly what testing provides. Without tests, you can't optimize the code at all without fear of introducing regressions.
In Italy, it has happened in the past that you had a result like Party A: 45%, Party B: 45%, Party C: 10%. Party C forms a coalition with Party A to form a government, but constantly bargains for 'more' than their 10% would merit - because otherwise, they pull their support and you have new elections. They eventually did and IIRC, Berlusconi got voted in again...
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The point that the interviewees make, as I understand it, is that money is not really the "problem" in American national politics, it's the way a two-party system has emerged and over the past century, increased its 'duopoly' with policy, gerrymandering, etc. I found this argument very compelling. I'm not sure if there is enough will to make the changes that might lead to some changes here, but it does seem that the intention of the constitutional framers has been lost by creating a binary that doesn't allow for some ideas, such as fiscal conservatism, to succeed at all (though I wouldn't say the framers themselves were always on the good side of history). Great book on that topic is "The Founders' Coup," which puts a lot of where we've come into perspective.
I don't think that's true at all. It provides the illusion of compatibility with 3rd party voting, while saddling it with strategic voting pathologies not so different from winner-take-all.

Here's a summary:
https://rangevoting.org/IrvPathologySurvey.html
The Pentagon started uploading malware from APTs to VirusTotal
The surreals have no relation to any of this. I'm guessing you've confused them with nonstandard natural numbers? In which case the answer is, well, what are we assuming? From the point of view of ZFC, of course there are no nonstandard naturals -- but PA can't prove this. Note that this is from the point of ZFC that PA can't prove this, since PA itself can't even formalize the notion of a nonstandard natural number (if it could, it could prove they don't exist).

In any case, surreal numbers are an entirely different system of numbers that exist in ordinary mathematics. As opposed to nonstandard naturals, which are a "what if we look at other ways of doing math?" thing.
Some counterpoints -

- Crostini is only for a limited set of Chromebooks. I have an Acer 15 with Intel Broadwell, which is extremely powerful and not that old, but Google won't support it for whatever insane reason they might have

- Chromebook keyboard is lacking. You cannot program without a del key

- They aren't cheap. Only the low end low powered 2GB models are and they are unusable, as well as not supported by Crostini. For this kind of money I can get a Windows laptop with almost equiv battery life

- or even better, a used Thinnkpad + Linux which would be better than almost anything for 1/2 the cost.
Doesn't apply if OP is in California.

OP: Your responsibility is first to yourself (and you're clearly under-compensated both financially and career-wise, in your own words: "mostly around comp, title, executive involvement, and growth opportunities"). I'd engage them in good faith and see if they can offer a better deal than what you're currently getting. Don't share anything that could be reasonably construed as trade secrets or other protected information. If the offer is solid, jump. Don't give notice until everything is signed and you have a start date. Good luck.

Not a lawyer, not your lawyer.
> Coke I don't think has been as good about diversifying their income stream

Coca Cola definitely has a diverse brand set of income streams including Minute Made, Nature's Own, Odwalla, and Vitamin Water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands
> "I’m confused as to how anyone would think this is alright to do."

Could be placeholders from development that ended up going live. I wouldn't jump to conclusion.
I was homeless as a teen for a short time. I guarantee you that there are moral/ethical homeless people that don't steal or attack people. (even when high)

So, I can say wholeheartedly it's not discriminatory against homeless or the disaffected, it's discriminates based on behaviour. Period.

If law breaking behaviour (theft, assault, etc...) exists most prominently in addicted homeless people, that shouldn't be surprising nor ignored. And it certainly shouldn't negate the laws of the land.
> You can’t just go around changing words all willy nilly. Language is a group effort and different words have different meanings.

If you're going to argue semantics, then at least start with some definitions for the words you're arguing about. Your definition of perception as just the sensory input and interpretation as a conclusion based on this perception is not the only way or even the common way to use the words in this context.

For example:

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-psychology/chapt...

> Perception refers to the set of processes we use to make sense of the different stimuli we’re presented with. Our perceptions are based on how we interpret different sensations.

and

> Perception: The organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information

> The scientific method has been used very reliably and predictably to solve very big problems.

When you say 'very reliably and predictably' what does that actually mean? What does 'very' mean? Do we have a way of objectively measuring these things?

> But in society we have decided to arrive at similar interpretations to many things so that we can function.

'Decided to arrive at' and 'arrived at' are not the same thing and also depend on your 'interpretation' of society. An electron doesn't decide to behave similarly to other electrons even if it does so, for example.
Colder, Darker Climates Increase Alcohol Consumption
My best guess would be that it is caused by the fact that GMail doesn't really have folders per se. It emulates them when it's syncing with your client through IMAP and the web interface shows you folder icons, but these are really labels. In the case of the "sent" label I'd guess it's just a well-optimized search over "From:" headers of all the mails stored in "All Mail". If this is the case, then it appears that this search isn't as accurate as one would wish it was.
I love my job
Bregrets, they've had a few
Then you end up with a system where someone can arrive at the right answer via AST that you didn't expect, which was a frustration when I helped students with a service like (IIRC) CodeCademy.
Hi! As someone who seems to struggle more than most to understand people on video calls, I'd like to give you my impressions.

Something struck me about the sample video. The very first sample included background noise, but it was very easy to understand regardless of the noise, probably because it was recorded by a pro microphone rather than a phone. Every other sample was far more difficult, regardless of noise removal. Noise removal doesn't really seem to help; in fact, any imperfections in the noise removal process actually make the audio more difficult to understand because I have to guess not only the speaker's voice and the noise but also the algorithm for noise removal.

What does help me is low frequency pickup. I think the first sample is easy because there are plenty of low frequency components that are later lost through the phone.

Low frequencies are presumably difficult to pick up due to the size of the microphone in a phone, but could there be a way to restore those frequencies through audio processing? It would be interesting to analyze the response of specific microphones to specific low frequencies and find patterns that an audio processor could use to restore the low frequency components.

Anyway, kudos for doing some very interesting work. I don't know how representative my experience is.
Because it's right in our backyard? At about 6 light years, this star and its planet(s) are the second closest extrasolar star system to Earth, after Alpha Centauri.
Sure, an inclusive headline is "What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach us About letting algorithms decide". Because AI or upper division math, the decision was consigned to a process that is opaque to the average parent. And the opaqueness more or less conceals basic tradeoffs.

The school has figured out that starting HS late-ish and letting all student out before dark provides the best situation for students.

But if all school levels start at the same time, the district has would have to have a bunch of school buses and drivers that wouldn't be used other times.

To avoid all this "waste", the district has to decide which schools to shove into some other, worse schedule. They thus came up with a algorithm to minimize the amount of bad-scheduling but which maintains the existence of bad-schedules. And when it sent an entirely different group than before into the bad-scheduled situation, naturally that group complained - it didn't help these were wealthier, whiter groups with influence.

Sure, you thus have more affluent people saying they didn't want to be the one sacrificed here. But you also ask, why sacrifice anyone? Why not bite the bullet and have a good, standard schedule for all schools? You'd offending the modern god of efficiency but you'd actually be aiming for a greater good.

The article talks about Trolley Car Problems a bit and how people relate to algorithms "solving" these. The thing is instead of saying "that there are sacrifices is given, now we must decide who", which guarantees divisiveness, one could say "let us make choices as a society which mean that no person a priori need be sacrificed."
Certainly, where I am, far, far more people want treatment than can get it. So much so it's impossible to guess how many don't want it (yet.) How effective current treatment is - other than naltrexone perhaps, is another story. I'm pessimistic there, too.
Is there a potential for this to go wrong? I know deforistation is the problem, but isn't it just as likely that these producers will start producing oils from other sources. Potentially annuals like corn.
Thanks for my next project!
It's not that the author is biased towards moderate candidates; the author wants the moderate candidate to win when the mean of the population's normally distributed political beliefs lie closest to the moderate candidate.

The posit is that the spoiler effect is bad: Fielding an additional extreme candidate on one side should not be helpful to the other side.
So it is a coin that is backed by the law system of the country you may not be residing in?
> you are not allowed to look at what exactly they are sending or not sending

What? I can absolutely look at network traffic on my device. People do this... all the time. There are plenty of reports of Chrome traffic - many of them being people mistakenly believing that Chrome is doing something malicious when it isn't.

I don't believe that Google is incentivized to use host-based instrumentation to do their collection. The cost is quite high for them to do that. Much easier for them to rely on Google Analytics, Search, and various other web-based tracking mechanisms.
> Is patch generally applied to resources I the multiple gigabyte range, very possibly with the original resource size exceeding the total amount of installed RAM in the system?

That's where bundling all your data files into a single large archive bites you in the butt. Individual files the game uses ain't gonna be that large.
I had some luck developing https://bitbank.nz an AI based crypto currency prediction platform, I do find that teaching AI can be a very hard subject to grasp for some but one of the most rewarding I'd say.

Lots of AI problems to solve in this space: anomaly detection to help understand risk, data collection/text mining to understand current trends in markets, clustering groups to find groups of for example high engaged users or people who should be shown ads instead of being pushed to pay for a product because they are likely not going to purchase ect
Interesting article, but some details are vague. The MIT students pointed out that most of the protesting parents were white while while a majority of the school district were minorities. The obvious subtext is that white citizens are having an outsized influence in the city's decision making to the detriment of minorities. But there's another option that isn't considered in the article (though it may have been considered in real life), minority parents didn't like the new schedules either but didn't feel motivated enough, either because of political disenfranchisement or apathy, to try and do anything it. If this is the case, then the whole narrative changes completely.
Definitely. I've only experienced that "second class citizen" treatment of streetcars on King, too. They run well on Roncesvalles, Queen, Dundas, College, Bathurst, Spadina, etc...

It's definitely improved monumentally. Also in part due to increasing service and the new cars have helped open up space as well. Of course, they couldn't have increased service as such without running the project or it would just bottleneck.
Chinese sellers know what their costumers want. And that is an Apple logo, so third party repairmen can say it's genuine.
> China has cultivated in its people a very troubling mental complex

> China drills bitterness into its people about their past humiliations, and uses this to develop racist nationalism

I don't believe you meant to, but you crossed into nationalistic and racial flamewar with this comment. Imagine how it must feel to read something like this if you're on the receiving end. It's surprising how many of the replies below managed to remain thoughtful. When I read those comments and compare them to yours, it's clear who the model HN users are in this case.

I don't think you were being malicious, I think you underestimated the difference between musing in a personal conversation and broadcasting to potentially millions of people. For example, it isn't enough to protest that you didn't mean all Chinese, just the ones who <insert caveat here>. That is far too crude to undo the impact such claims make on the ones who are being categorized. If you can imagine yourself in that position, this is not hard to see; yet it is hard to imagine, because we're mostly so certain that none of it could ever be justified in our own case, so it feels like no big deal.
Sure, you can refuse to speak during police questioning.

However, if you're charged, you will asked to take the stand, and perhaps be deposed. I'm not sure that you can keep refusing to speak, without facing contempt charges, unless you plead the Fifth. But IANAL, so ???

My "isn't it obvious" comment was not about the innocent. But rather about someone who is arguably guilty, and knows it, but doesn't want to give that away.
I would almost be tempted, more so, to say that it is the reverse, that they desire transgression. The thing of it is, to use Lacan's reversal of the the slightly-incorrect distillation of Dostoevsky by Sartre [that is: 'Without god, everything is permitted.'] which goes: 'Without god, nothing is permitted', transgression is only possible through a lack of permissiveness.
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The browser's Javascript console also only runs code locally, but getting people to copy code into it is a serious attack vector.

Not saying that's Apple's reason, but being limited to local execution doesn't mean it's safe.
Infants distinguish between leaders and bullies
How do I decide which to do? You make it sound simple, but “approve of” is not a simple concept.
Interestingly I just replied to someone else asking about minorities groups in China, you can find it just by searching for my handle. Long story short: It's fine to live in China as a minority group.

I've also expressed my opinion about some other issues like Xinjiang in another thread if you're interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439175

I'm not saying there aren't tons of problems with Chinese government. But from the point of view of a Chinese citizen, the human right issues are mostly excuses that western media use to attack Chinese government; a lots of those are false claims; and even for the parts that'd be truth, it impacts very few amount of people and it's generally not a big concern for vast majority of people living in China no matter Han or not (Not saying violating human right is fine but the issue has much lower priority for most people)
Yeah but why? Is there more traffic at those times? Does it conflict with other activities that the parents plan to do?
I’d second that observations just based on how my 8 younger siblings use it. They’re 13-28 and all barely touch Facebook, though some are very active on Instagram. To them, me using Facebook is what old people like me do.
And perhaps also a desire to maintain parity with Azure since they announced Java LTS support via Azul for their customers a couple months ago (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/blog/microsoft-and-azul-sy...).
I am speaking from personal experience. Bus scheduling with constraints was literally the textbook problem I was solving in my Operations Research class during my Junior year in undergrad. I would not classify myself as a genius, did not go to an Ivy league school, and I could do it then. It was on the harder end of the spectrum for my classes, but approachable to any undergrad studying mathematics. If you can pass a linear algebra class, you can learn how to solve these types of problems.
when you change to NOT use the standard that's not the same thing at all

The standard is Bluetooth now. It's time to take a giant leap into the 90's.
If you're on Windows, you've had the ability to do this for Quite Some Time®: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/850320/creating-an-...
So the comments here seem to be debating the merit of various kinds of voting systems.

Does that mean we fairly unanimously agree that non-partisan primaries are a good thing? Those are something that could be passed state by state via ballot measure.
There is a video demonstrating the simulations posted on the OPs reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FXLQoLDBA

The video was created by the Equal Vote Coalition. They also have some good information on their site.

https://www.equal.vote/
It seems like they are staking most of their future value on Foundry, which according to the article does away with the need for meaningful FDE support for integrations.

Does anyone know what the "secret sauce" is for Foundry? If we were to assume the USG/Gotham business is worth $10bn, that would mean Foundry-related business is worth ~$30bn if the whole company is in fact worth ~40.

What is the killer use case for Foundry? What does it do, that competitors don't, that makes it worth so much? And to what extent are the current success stories actually stories of the product succeeding without FDEs?
Night vision is best in class for sure. But it is quite a stretch to claim that pixel still has the best camera. The anandtech review of the Pixel 3 consistently said that in daylight the iPhone Xs and Galaxy S9 produced better photos. They just have better hardware. As amazing as software is, you can only do so much to make up for lower class hardware.
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