skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gigerenzer is undoubtedly correct that Bayesian reasoning is something that can be learned by many people, and yet all that Kahnemann needs for the implications of his statement that "the human mind is not Bayesian at all" to be relevant in behavioural economics terms is for some portion of the population to reach systematically different conclusions from the correct Bayesian one using an inferior heuristic. (A point Gigerenzer essentially demonstrates by citing a study which show how outcomes improved after gynecologists already motivated to make correct predictions were taught Bayesian reasoning). Perhaps it's sloppy wording on the part of Kahnemann that Gigerenzer is taking exception to, but the core claim is not that humans cannot learn statistics, but that at a population level, some humans will continue to rely on less accurate heuristics which deviate from those predicted by rational expectations models in a systematic [and predictable] manner which are not simply eliminated over time due to financial incentives to be correct.

Indeed, the possible result that only some people are irrational would be very good for the paternalistic policy makers. In fact it would be better than the result that all people are irrational; if all people are irrational, what gives some irrational people the right to guide other irrational people’s lives.

Economists are always oh-so-sorry to inform us that some people just can’t run their own lives without the help of the “free” market or the government. So very sorry. Happily they know some technocrats that will bravely shoulder the burden of being Bayesians.
> So because someone is privileging you over others,

What? What does this have to do with anything I wrote?

> this doesn't seem like it is the right reasoning.

Then simply quote me, instead of totally butchering what I said and then calling that not right.
You're kinda begging me for a prequel memes response here :)

A lot of harm has been done by people who were positive they were good and the other country is evil.
Except that's exactly what kicked off the Yellow Vests.
> Could also be that C is superior in other ways, there isn't really a big difference between 0 and 1 based indexing, and thus 0 based won on the back of Cs other strengths.

Possibly, but then 1-based indexing certainly isn't enough of a positive to overcome the other stuff. And that's evidence, too.

> The Dijkstra discussion is only aesthetic preference, nothing more.

Dijkstra's comment says that people using the other 3 conventions were committing more errors--that's data.

> In Julia the examples would also idiomatically be written in terms of the provided mod1 function:

Agreed. The proper way is to encapsulate that behind a function so you don't have to think about it.

However, if you have to unpack that and repack it all the time (for example, Lua calling C), then you can't just encapsulate and forget about it.
Thanks for linking your talk! Just started watching it now. Is that Dan Boneh in the front?
Announcing Cwtch Alpha, a Start to Building Consensual Applications
Cool stuff :)
If America's government were like Chinas, secret police would be knocking down your door for daring to criticize the government's warmaking decisions.

Tangentially, the 9/11 attackers were Arab, not Central Asian, and the decision to invade Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, not even as an excuse.

Regardless, you're trying to tell me that invading another country on poor pretenses and botching the occupation is totally the same thing as committing genocide of your own citizens, and then murdering anyone who says fie?
Web Design 3.0
You have to be damn naive to think that economics is not political.
Wouldn't this same person do the same for a Draft PR? i.e. if they're just reviewing things wouldn't they just set the Draft PR 'ready to review' and then review it?

Or maybe I'm confused by your answer, are people commonly reviewing PR's without being asked?
And this means that free society cannot be established because....?
I'm sorry if the first comment was rude or uncivilized. I have read where I could be doing wrong in the guidelines.

Have a great day everybody.
I forgot that Delphi was sort of a mash-up of Visual Basic and Pascal. Two great tastes, I guess.

Are there contemporary products -- for building mobile and/or web apps -- that are similarly easy to use?
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez & Bernie Sanders openly espouse many of those ideas and are two of the most popular politicians in America. These ideas have a tremendous amount of traction and their advocates are getting closer to the centers of American power. This isn't a complete fantasy -- it's not an inevitably, but it is absolutely a viable part of political discourse & struggle
> > People are arguing that a ban on Muslim immigration violates the first amendment rights of foreigners living abroad.

> Which people?

Legal people, because it is inline with other comprehensions of how "persons" are afforded rights. Immigration restrictions are not invalid because the right to immigrate (or even technically resettle) are not covered by the constitution. So a presidential order (or governor's order) could be levied to restrict the emigration of people from one region to another - it would possibly run afoul of the terribly broad 9th amendment (basically, you have the right to do anything you should be able to do) but isn't explicitly banned... interesting this would be wholly illegal in Canada which establishes "Freedom of mobility"[1] explicitly.

Laws are fun!

Politicians often make divisive hyperbolic statements with no basis in fact!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and...
Can you link some serious people making that argument?
Not sure why this comment is downvoted, this seems like a legitimate question as the JIT has some serious performance benefits (https://medium.com/@k0kubun/ruby-2-6-jit-progress-and-future...).
Well, there's that ;)

Between 50Mb and 80Mb for the installer. Over 100Mb installed, depending on what is used.
Yeah, they would be -- Cilium handles your inter-cluster routing first and foremost (making sure those two things can talk to each other, and have a unique IP, which is a requirement of Kubernetes).

Some companies that are trying to do multi-cloud or really large kubernetes installations (or just multi-tenancy) are finding that they have to split up the clusters for isolation or availability as well, so now Cilium offers a solution for that as well.
Transitivity OCD?
VPNSecure moves company from Australia to Hong Kong due to anti-encryption regs
I think python+pybind11 solves everything. Start with python and move slower parts to C++11 using pybind11. Bonus point: You can use all the existing C/C++ libraries.
https://github.com/pybind/pybind11
Somehow, some part of me really wants to see what this model would generate with that as a prompt.
There are some hillarious 419eater meet comedy answering apps that direct random pre-recorded skits to the scammer.

When real-time natural speech synthesis arrives with unique accents, coupled to hardware-accelerated machine-learning, it would be within the realm of possible to direct a Turing-test-capable bot to waste a scammer's time with a generated situation and personality that meets various plausibility, social, customer qualifiers and scam-delaying constraints. Also at said point, the "are you a bot?" question non-IRL will be even more worthless but possibly comical.
> what the blockchain does here that couldn't be implemented by any random database system

More likely it can be used to circumvent regulations by trading digital goods and investing in futures, instead of liquid assets.

Even if it is eventually regulated, the upside potential (no matter how temporary) is an upside.
Flow Visualization Over an Airfoil
> My guess is that the JS implementation of the worst-performing browser is having trouble with the non-1 for-loop steps.

Why would non-1 for loop be slower in some browsers? Does the compiler add some sort of prefetch instruction in the faster browsers based on the loop increment?
Company moving from AU to HK.

AU company had to remove canary, but new HK company will have a canary.

Reading between the lines...
But if the sellers don't communicate about prices, then it's not illegal collusion, right?
> articles on the topic seem to be very math heavy and tend to give me headaches

Of course. Academic papers (and a disturbingly large number of Wikipedia pages) are not meant to explain things, they’re meant to emphasise just how smart the authors are.

> I have no clue what e.g. a tensor is.

Well, even Einstein struggled with Tensors. In the context of TensorFlow they’re just multi-dimensional arrays.
I would try optimizing the JS before dropping down to webassembly. For example try replacing let and const with var as let and const in loops have to create a new variable for each iteration.
I agree this is incendiary, for the reason that it cuts to the heart of these groups’ deeply contradictory self-image / self-proclaimed values. Nobody likes being told publicly that their actions have led and will continue to lead to serious harm for many people.

I didn’t say they were evil or stupid or duped. Just short-sighted and self-interested with a practically anti-republican ideology (though I might also add: often disingenuous in public discussion, and largely unwilling to take public responsibility for the side effects of their discourse and policy).

> how universal healthcare was not implemented in the US because the USSR had it

Universal healthcare was not implemented in the USA because the GOP and allied corporate interests have thrown everything they can against it for 75 years, typically sidelining serious policy debate in favor of slogans and cheap attacks. “Because the USSR has it” has little to do with it, except as a disingenuous excuse.
When viewing this through the lens of Chinese Hollywood investments, it's a slow and often unseen process.
I don't believe this needs to be the case. Joining the EU gave British Citizens new rights by treaty. I think it should always be easier to grant more rights and more difficult to strip them.
"Did you implement a storage pattern that was ordered by key (or hash(key) if you used hashing)?"

Well, I didn't implement it, Jeff Dean did, but yes, that's what we used for a lot of features.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-SSTable-in-Googles-internal...

https://www.igvita.com/2012/02/06/sstable-and-log-structured...
Rather a significant number of characters in that series that based on real people, to the point that many characters use the real person's actual name. The cast section of the Wikipedia page shows the extent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk_Empire#Cast_and_char...

The references beyond that are quite interesting as well. I always felt that the character Nelson Van Alden (also George Mueller) was a reference to Baby Face Nelson, who was known also as George Nelson.
Ask HN: What are your tips on becoming a better manager?
but what if i just say im the opposite sex?
At least from my perspective, the ROI is often negative. Lipstick looks varying degrees of clownish to me, and if I can’t see your pores you look like a robot. I don’t blame anyone for doing whatever makes them feel beautiful; I’m sure my choices look distasteful to some. But a look enabled by product works because it has been sold to us, men and women alike.
A country deciding to join something like the EU should require a super majority, not a mere majority of those voting. It's a major obligation for everyone, and requiring a super majority helps ensure that the decision is not one that is due to a passing fancy.

The US Constitution recognizes this by requiring a 2/3rds vote in the Senate for treaties, as well as signature of the President.

The practice of having countries conduct votes on EU membership until a vote passes with a simple majority - this whole Brexit thing shows what a folly that is. Putting a bar of a 2/3rds vote for entrance, and for significant new treaties would help ensure there is actual buy in, and not just simple politicking.
Jobs for whom? Not the vulnerable members of New York, jobs for upper middle class yuppies like you or me or nearly anyone on this site from the rest of the country. People in Queens aren't stupid, they know what the impact of Amazon would be and how it absolutely would not benefit them.

And almost certainly because of this struggle, the next City they try and go to isn't going to give them nearly as sweet a deal. They will demand more. Struggles like this are effective.
New feature update to Lambda time-out debug library. Now logs HTTP requests
I.E. 6 was a good browser when it was released too.
I started tracking how my mood changed over time.

For example, I noticed I was more likely to be introverted during the morning. But I was more likely to be outgoing and social during the afternoon.

I then arranged my schedule to match my mood cycle. So I'll code during the morning and talk to people in the afternoon.

It works great and I feel like I have an endless supply of energy (with a few caveats, of course).

Good luck!
This is where leadership is required. Sadly a quality in short supply these days, when most politicians are worried more about not being offensive then actually doing any good.
> When was the last time America rolled tanks onto their university campuses to shoot students until they fell in line?

Well ... May 4, 1970. But there were no tanks and they only killed 4 students.
1) Get up really early on weekdays.

I wake up at 5 and start work at ~5.30. Nobody else is around until 8-9. During that time I try to work on a small list of tasks ive created the previous eve, or over breakfast. The "thinking" tasks. When the "real" working day begins I just go with the flow, meetings, helping people, routine work etc. While still feeling Ive made progress. I also skive off at 3 or 4 so I have the entire eve with my children, and my playstation. Or for a quick beer with friends. In bed by 9pm and time for a book.

2) Get up really early on weekends

Before everyone else is up and running I have time to focus on hobbies, side projects or (occasionally) a little bit more work. Then the rest of the day is relaxed. Again, the feeling that youve made some progress. Its a really old tip, "early bird gets the worm" and all that. But it works.

PS as neuroticfish says, triage is important. Half the stuff we do is worthless in the long term. Take the time to figure out what things that are really important.
It's a bad idea to delete your own post. If you do too much times the mods may ban your account. Delete the post only when you made a (big) mistake.

-- About https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19004568 "Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab"

See https://hn.algolia.com/?query=undercover%20apnews&sort=byPop...

It was submitted three times before your submission. That's probably the reason the dupe detector blocked it. Anyway, it was resubmitted again two times after you submission and one got 463 points and 172 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131729

I don't see nothing shady there

-- About https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19165839 "Facebook's security team tracks posts, location for 'BOLO' threat list"

I don't understand what problem you had when you tried to submit it. It looks like a normal post that didn't get traction.
What rights did they gain ?
Interesting. I’ll have to try next time.
Technology can be more than new things; it can also be made of combining old things in new ways, or finding new uses for old things, or even simply new ways of thinking. If we removed "cryptocurrency" and "blockchain" from the above, they'd still have a new settlements process. They're using a distributed ledger to make the process safely automateable and reduce audit costs.
No, I don't think they are mixing them up at all.

We either stop believing in free markets or we let everyone play. Maybe there's an untried middle road before returning to isolationism and protectionism. Mercantilism 2.0?

China and Indian companies are just doing exactly the same as the US did last century, and the Japanese and Koreans did a few decades back, or Hong Kong a little before that. With all the same worthless complaining points the US often complains about China now, like espionage, lack of IP protection, propaganda, values, poorer quality, they're good for manufacturing but they'll never design etc, as 19th century Europeans were complaining about the US when they were playing catch up at all cost.

200+ years of history proves it will always happen, aided by those currently leading, and biggest countries (wallets) win in the end. Each and every time someone's culture was "being eroded".

The only ideological agenda is some of their views and norms are different to yours. Newsflash: American mores were different to the Japanese and European too so why weren't they "a very short-sighted and dangerous road" too?
What the fuck?
How incredibly distopian that your life can depend so heavily on cell phone coverage.
Honestly, I think you are not capturing the trade offs here correctly. There is some value to being in a hub, but not infinite value. For example a start up gains a lot more benefit from being in Silicon Valley than a company with 10,000 developers. The startup needs access to VCs, and it needs to hire superstar programmers.

Once a company reaches critical mass, it doesn't need access to VCs, and isn't able to hire superstar programmers at scale, so the quality of the average employee declines compared to what you see in startups. Now you start talking more about repeatable, workman-like code rather than brilliant groundbreaking code. You can still do the latter in a research center that you can keep in the hub and move a lot of the other code to the periphery, which will be most of your employees. After all, we are talking about HQ2 here.

At the same time, you have housing markets that are so insane that the majority of your developers will not be able to buy a house, which means they are going to leave you or demand really high wages -- wages that a company with 20K devs can't afford.

This is the inexorable logic of the market. Suppose we are not talking about people but some other scarce resource. Very expensive leather. You put that into the exotic cars but when you need to produce in high volume, you look for cheaper substitutes in order to help scale your operations. Everyone likes to think they are rockstar developers, but your typical AMZN HQ2 employee is not a rockstar, they are probably just a decent programmer (Not that there's anything wrong with that :P ). It just doesn't make sense to put HQ2 into a place where you have to pay 200K to win over the marginal employee.
"Vocal" is maybe not the most accurate word for this. The reason why things don't happen despite polls showing majority support for them happening (or vice versa), is because the polls don't show how much people care one way or the other. People who care more will also do more - being vocal is one of the things, but another one is e.g. fundraising for campaigns and voting in primaries.

An unrelated example: polls show large supermajorities in favor of many gun control proposals (universal background checks poll at ~90%, for example). But most people who say that they want it, don't consider the opposite stance on that a deal-breaker for their vote - there are many other issues that are more important to them. On the other hand, the 10% that is opposed, is very firmly opposed, and that issue is close to the top for many of them, to the point of single issue voting. And when those people all turn up in the Republican primaries and vote as a bloc, those votes are enough to prevent candidates that displease that crowd from even getting to the general. And so you have all those party line votes, with every single Republican voting against, even though the majority of their constituents - and even the majority of their supporters - would prefer them to vote differently.
Green and orange? You just gave me a flashback to my 1980s school experience in Australia with MicroBee computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBee
I never got the same conclusion you did from the article.

Steph stated that even just an hour a day over 365 days will drastically improve your business and or life. That means 3-4 hours per day focused on a few key priorities will provide exponential growth in the areas those priorities cover (and perhaps overs.) That's one of the primary take homes from this article, in my opinion.

I think perhaps you read: burn those eight hours constantly, when Steph never stated that. She even goes as far to explain that "Netflix and Chill" is still a thing, but it's low on the list of time allocated activities.
Or better yet, WebGL should be able to do this in a few ms on a GPU.
At 530 sieverts (53,000 rads(gamma)) per hour mega-rad hard electronics could last about 18 hours. Long enough to do some work, but expensive if the robot could not be rennovated and they had to have an army of expendable robots. Such electronics have existed for quite a few years in the aerospace industry. Hard to come by and expensive for sure.
The public also benefits from people inventing alternatives to patented inventions.
Except that they would still have the solar panels and the power generated by them to sell as assets.
My thoughts exactly. Isn't this:

> make near-instantaneous transactions of value across the internet

the definition of what wire transfer does? And why not doing it in "fiat money" (it's an additional level of hilarity for a major bank to use this term, for those who understands) has any value?

The value of blockchain transfers is lack of intermediaries and gatekeepers - which advantage the private chain owned by JP Morgan takes away. This is like advertising "we sell gold coins, only instead of hassle of owning heavy metal pieces, we provide you with little pieces of green paper that could be exchanges for gold coins at any gold dealer" - totally missing the point of the whole exercise.
The reason you don't try to make bombs from power reactor plutonium: The long fuel cycle of power reactors produces too much Pu240 and Pu242. It's dang near impossible to get a nuclear explosion if there's much of those isotopes; their high spontaneous fission rate makes the bomb "fizzle" before the core can be sufficiently compressed.

Those who pretend to believe that industrial civilization can be run on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are engaged in arithmetic denialism.
JibJab, one of the first silly selfie video makers acquired
I think I mentioned this before, but I think you should allow for the case where all participants in the virtual room physically meet. Think conference, or a meeting on business premises. They should be able to swap keys with each other efficiently, perhaps using NFC, and without having to have O(n^2) interactions. Yes it may not be super-secure but you can assume the security is already taken care of by the physical security of the meeting.
A U.S. Hunter Paid $110,000 to Shoot a Pakistani Goat
so there could be hackers that spam calls to the people ahead of someone in an organ donor list? this seems like a very bad system
A centralized utility, even a poorly run one, will always provide electricity safer, cheaper, and more consistently then thousands of tiny private installations.

Not necessarily. For household solar, economies of scale kick in at the manufacturing level -- if you’re producing lots of standardized units, each household’s installation costs can go down.

You’re right that there will be some distribution inefficiency, as some households will over-produce and some under. But it may not be that bad if most households size their installations sensibly.

The centralized utility can balance distribution across many households, but there are some extra costs too -- installation and maintenance of power lines, power leakage, downtime due to faults.

Edit to add: I suspect we could agree that district solar (small local utility companies) is an excellent compromise that gets most of the benefits of both types.