skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought a second was a SI base unit: (from Wikipedia)

The second, symbol s, is the SI unit of time. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency {\displaystyle \Delta \nu _{\text{Cs}}} {\displaystyle \Delta \nu _{\text{Cs}}}, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s−1.
I think that makes sense for the average case. How would you work this out for divorced couples with shared custody? Also, any consideration for stuff like breastfeeding? In times of war, formula could become scarce.
Have you tried plants? I can't see windows from my desk, but I've got my cubicle filled with plants & it kind of makes up for it. One is a tropical shrub behind my monitors which would swallow my whole workstation if I didn't prune it back. Now if only people who seem to like the gloom would stop disconnecting bulbs in the fluorescent light fixtures..
Unfortunately "mercer" below is right - we need to comply with the laws of Australia regardless of where our servers are. The "Amsterdam server" idea is a red herring that doesn't change the legal landscape.
I'm a huge animation fan and spidey fan, hadn't planned to see this movie but did anyway and: jaw to the floor. Really amazingly conceived and executed animation.
If we're talking interstellar travel, we're likely talking about spacecraft undergoing very significant acceleration and velocity. I'm not a physics expert, but from my understanding it seems that a starship would need to have a very accurate idea of its own acceleration vs reference time curve (relative to some reference frame) in order to calibrate its own ticking clock to the reference frame. For NTP, this isn't so much an issue because on Earth all the endpoints' clocks are all ticking at about the same rate.
cover of Convoy by Mannheim Steamroller

Did MS actually do a cover of Convoy? The original "C.W. McCall" Convoy stems from the same people, but I didn't know they redid Convoy in the MS style.

The 1980s McCall-branded reunion album ("Comin' Back for More"?) is good.
At least in big cities it is almost never that people don't want to build more, but that:

1. Property owner do not want to see their quite significant loans, or investments, decrease in value.
2. Renters do not want to get priced out of the city, having to leave a good job and move their kids away from their friends.

In addition to that while seemingly intuitive in practice building doesn't seem to decrease costs. Presumably because:

3. Land owners and construction companies want to make as much money as possible.

Unless you can override these three groups, or get them to agree, it is a social issue and building more will make things worse. Look at the record from essentially every city that has been building. If just building more worked there would be good examples and the far majority isn't.
I think it's because the alternative is silence, which many merchants see as setting a scene that is low energy and makes people lonely -- the last thing a retailer wants.

Most retailers want to set a mood that attracts their target demographic groups. In some clothing stores that serve women age 30-40, they play pop music that was in vogue 10-15 years ago, when these customers were in their teens or twenties and had more youthful energy, knowing this music was a very big part of their lives.

It wouldn't surprise me if music were also intended by PR/marketing types to put these customers in the same frame of mind they were in when they were most socially vulnerable (their teens?), when fashion was a necessary way to become more popular... or less unpopular, anyway.
... but power requirements would put a limit to that as well. The RTX 2080 Ti already has a 250W TDP. Putting a couple of those on a single card and you are looking at >1000 W. Cooling and power becomes very hard as we are effectively trying to run and cool a space heater at the same time.
I believe it was Green Globs.
I read about it years ago as being a noteworthy pedagogical aid. Wish I'd had it when I was in school.
We agree.

I interviewed at (a fast growing real estate startup) and as an old guy, I highlighted my vast enterprise Linux engineering experience. The response from management was, oh, that's nice but doesn't matter here. I can teach people the command line in one day. This is a big AWS and exclusively Linux shop.

What do you say to that?
noise pollution is a real problem at my work place as well. The whole open concept and crappy ventilation system has caused me many headaches. I dont even listen to the radio on my way back home because how exhausted the whole day at the office has made me
The idea that billionaires pay too little tax is considered a radical idea in mainstream media, so that doesn't seem like a platitude.
It's one of the few I would have gotten first try, but they didn't include it in my test. I was still surprised how far off I was on the rest, though. Minaj was the only easy one.
My understanding is that it's just that the order can depend on the frame of reference. If you agree on a frame of reference then you can agree on the time. If you both try to use your own frame of reference then you run into trouble.

There's no preferred frame of reference, meaning that any frame of reference could work, but you can derive one from the cosmic microwave background if you don't like picking something too arbitrary.
> Some people would use the remote time for personal matters and chalk up a day with limited output to ‘I was doing research’

Be careful with this, because it can be a form of selection bias. I've run plenty of errands and had plenty of non-productive days from the office too. This stuff is unavoidable. If you're going to put WFH under intense scrutiny, make sure to put office work under the same level of scrutiny otherwise it might just be that you notice unproductive days more because you're looking harder.

At a previous company, the WFH policy included a question "How will your performance be measured when working from home?" to which I answered "The same as when at the office", but the question implies a level of suspicion that sets the tone for the whole thing. If you want to allow WFH but are concerned about productivity, do it in good faith and allow enough time to get a statistically significant sample size, and actually compare it with office work rather than just looking at the raw numbers in isolation.

Edit to add: You might also find that people will choose to WFH on days they were planning to run errands, but they likely would have anyway had they worked from the office, so you need to account for this too.
I don't think they are - I think it's just a misunderstanding of phrasing maybe?

I interpret "I should have paid more" as I should be compelled to pay more, not "I wish I could pay more". The distinction being they'd rather not pay additional tax, but they probably should have to. I think the language is just somewhat ambiguous (specifically the word 'should').
Mega-landlords are not people.
I agree they probably stop caring about their tax bill because they are billionaires. I find it disingenuous however to then look down the income ladder to people earning more than $1 million and including them in your “we don’t pay enough taxes” bucket.
On the other hand, the political process is unwieldy and unresponsive in this age of instant communication, which is why it's not working that great lately.
I wouldn't call a 10 hours battery life as an "endless battery life". On my ASUS Transformer Book T100, which is a full Windows 10 device, I had a battery life of about 10 hours and I didn't called that endless yet.
All that seems to be couched in terms of somebody being fooled. Who is that somebody? Who is 'you'? I think that description is a contradiction in itself.
I experienced this in a Target last year sometime. No music over the intercom, and the energy in the place just felt more... nervous, restless. I don't know whether that's an effect inherent to silence in large spaces or whether it was an effect created by the absence of something we took for granted.
That is amazing. What kind of vitamin D in at what levels did you settle on?
On the other hand GPUs are made for computing and will crunch those numbers for you until they die. If you want a human to classify things you have to consider the lifetime cost of making said human and keeping it entertained.

They also need idle periods every day, during which they don't even shut down!

You can't power them with PV cells either, instead they rely on carbohydrates produced via a horribly inefficient chemical photosynthesis process.

And if you intend to let your human classifier run for 8 hours a day you better buy at least three of those for error correction.

And I must say this comparison is still quite lenient towards the humans since we're not even comparing them to purpose made silicon entities but generalists.
> I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it, but there’s something about this machine that causes me to favor it.

The keyboard.
I am pretty sure 12 years old are incapable to cause as much sociopathic harm as adults with too much power.
The Starbucks I frequent often (a kiosk at Glasgow (Scotland) Central Train Station) seem to have their own music on their phones or something. Always hear something different.

I suppose it depends on the type of Starbucks.
Good plan. More people per square meter. That means you have shorter ways and switch your congestion from the road or the subway to the elevator in your apartment complex. Might even be better for climate but does not sound like a better way of live.

If you want to remove car ownership you should try to provide an alternative that is actually better. If you want to avoid congestion, don't create a massive black hole in the center of each city that everything gravitates to.
Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances: Evidence from One Million Europeans
Well I meant it quite literally: if it is not clear which component has the bug, the components are not separate enough. You also say:

> in the real world components are never sufficiently separate

But the separation of components is not an issue of "real world", it is a function of design and implementation. It is absolutely to the developers how independently the components will be implemented; if there is no way to test them in isolation, then they are not really separate components.

Take this website, and your browser, as an example. They are obviously connected, as you're using the latter to access the former, but they are completely independent: you can access other pages with the browser, and you can use other methods (other browsers, or curl, or Postman etc) to access this page. Each can be tested separately, and even when they are used in conjunction they don't directly depend on each other, but rather on a set of standards (HTTP, HTML, CSS etc) understood by both.
> I generally veered off path around half-way on most of them.

That's something misleading about this visualisation... It makes it look like you got it more wrong because you have a letter wrong early in the word, even if every letter after it is right.
I spend about 2 hours in Starbucks every morning before taking kids to school. Usually the playlist is tolerable, but every once in a while it's absolutely horrendous, particularly for 5AM. A couple years ago they had a 70s Soul Train playlist including Love Train which drove me nuts. I can only imagine being an employee on an 8 hour shift and not able to put on noise cancelling headphones.
No, because that would make sense. You MUST shoot yourself in the foot at absolutely every opportunity that presents itself or you're too afraid.
worked at a music store for a couple of years - part time, but the company-provided playlists did grate after a while. upside was it was fairly chart-driven, so you'd generally not get the same things for more than a few weeks in a row. it was mostly just very... popularity driven (of course, they're trying to push new stuff). We did generally have some down time each day which was 'staff choice', but even then they still wanted it to be from their approved list. We mostly followed that rule. It was a big corporate chain store thing, not a hip indie place.

At some point they moved in to promoting video in store, which got worse. The CDs they'd send were samplers, but the "now play this VHS tape"... the Garth Brooks concert VHS... ugh - however much you like him, having to listen to it 2x/day for weeks... (at least it seemed like weeks)
> On the other hand, it comes up with "Beagle" and "Labrador" as synonyms of "cat". Color me unimpressed.

'It doesn't matter whether a cat has floppy ears or yellow fur so long as it catches mice.'
They do, but it's only possible to apply for CO status when drafted. You can not become a CO when registering with selective service. https://www.sss.gov/consobj I know because I tried.
I once quit a job in part because the building manager insisted on playing one playlist of 90's soft-rock. He said it was part of the "brand".

Same songs...every day.
I believe they are referring to the relativistic drift experienced when comparing two observers moving with high relative speed.
No.

We cannot rely on people to keep their systems updated, and this behavior costs society billions of dollars annually. Because of this people need to either accept automated patching, or stay off of the public internet.

This is an entrenched aspect of our society: you're free to do what you want, until your behavior causes negative ramifications to the rest of us, at which point, we as a society reserve the right to regulate poor behavior.
Hey, did anyone hear about Spectre?
> caution against cherry picking papers and placing interpretations atop them

I worry about this every time I read a "practical" article about the brain. Can anyone tell if the main points in this article is generally accepted in the scientific community?
TPFC has been my best friend since the T41 (my all-time favorite TP). The noise is also a side effect of replacing the failing original fan with an aftermarket part a few years ago.

I didn't replace the HDD because the longer load times aren't really an issue. It's the parts that require some processing power that are a bummer. And this is also where the noisy part comes in, given that it's in high load for longer stretches. I prioritized lower temps over lower noise, this may have helped with the longevity.

I might throw in an SSD just to show the little workhorse some love.
This is true, but does not compensate for relativistic time dilation.
You can already do that. Buy the business edition. Or use Linux and run windows in a VM. Or block the windows update system in one of a million ways including firewalling it. If you are really such a power user, you can do what you want already.

For the millions of others people who don't know how to find facebook without putting it into google search... yeah the automatic updates are good for them, and I'm tired of power users thinking their opinions are the only ones that matter.
> Ten years ago I knew the answer to this question. Today not so much.

10 years ago, the NSA existed., Now the NSA exists.

The USA, like other big powers, is going to want to try to get access to information and computer systems.

> This is why the EU should hedge its bets and keep the door open for Chinese companies.

You appear to be saying that because the USA gets its hands on Europe's data, Europe should let China do so as well. That doesn't make sense to me, so I wonder what it is you are saying.
I explained all the linear algebra involved in the Peterson-Gorenstein-Zierler decoder and offer a working implementation in https://www.nayuki.io/page/reed-solomon-error-correcting-cod... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565939

It runs in O(n^3) time, and unfortunately is not the state of the art. What actual Reed-Solomon implementations use are the Berlekamp-Massey and Forney algorithms, which run in O(n^2) time.
They just played 12 songs, in a loop

Sounds like Muzak, not regular radio.
The authors trained ResNet-50 in 7.3 minutes at 75.3% accuracy.

As a comparison, a Google TPUv3 pod with 1024 chips got to 75.2% accuracy with ResNet-50 in 1.8 minutes, and 76.2% accuracy in 2.2 minutes with an optimizer change and distributed batch normalization [1].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06992
If you ever get the chance go to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, which has a great explanation of the difficulties (and values) associated with timekeeping:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich#O...
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is

So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth
Ah yes, the Chinese, those paragons of upholding international laws and agreements. They certainly won't end up just doing whatever they want to do.
You might check on https://forums.irix.cc/ .

I have an Origin 300 rackmount with upgraded Noctua fans, and it's quiet enough to not be a bother.
There's no entitlement in trades between landlords and people with money - everything happens on mutually beneficial terms. Landlords own property by the right of their investment into it, which was also a mutually beneficial transaction between them and the developers who built it and got rewarded for their work.
Not everyone processes things the same way as you and many people (children, poorly educated folk) don't necessarily have the self-awareness to make such decisions reliably. And we both know there are people who delight in propagating such material and causing discomfort to others. Perhaps consider that the problem is not as simple as it appears to you.
Somewhat comically J.C.R Licklider's first proposal for what became the internet was titled the Intergalactic Computer Network. He later said he did this because when the project is inevitably downsized it would at least cover the earth.

Interplanetary internet designs and peering are interesting problems to think about though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network
The Exception: Restoring Lois Weber
Biometrics Input Kit for XR – eye-tracker, brain-computer interface
Interesting. Since I last checked, my X220 hadn't received any updates in more than a year, and I run coreboot now, so I've stopped checking. Looking now, it seems they released one in January. Seems like my impressions were wrong.
This problem is called forced alignment. YouTube's subtitler does it for you. If you don't want to upload your video and subtitles, here are some other tools that will work: https://github.com/pettarin/forced-alignment-tools/blob/mast...
I’ve had a similar experience. I think the reason is that there’s a lot of noise in the field. A ton of low quality thought and half baked ideas or pure nonsense.

But that really should not close one off to reputable sources like Tara Brach (highly recommend people start with her guided sessions which are available free on her site) who have a well of experience honed over the years.

One time in India, some family members took me to an astrologer. I was extremely skeptical but this person was famous in town and well known regionally as well. And when I voiced my concerns that the whole field was all hocus pocus, one of my relatives said that may well be true for many individual practitioners in the field, but if you think about it as a person communicating to you using their own finely tuned heuristic for outcomes, it’s a different story. Maybe the more reputable sources in these fields should be thought of in that way, where you shouldn’t expect perfect accuracy but you should use their thoughts and knowledge as a rough guide to a kind of knowledge we have very few tools to directly explore rather than pure truths.
Yosefk: My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)
Are you willing to accept responsibility for the breach then?
One of the basic tenants of engineering is "why is this feature appropriate"; much of AWS can be sliced away with this razor, much of the time. Appropriate tool for the appropriate time. A lot of the AWS systems simply are special purpose and not good for general application.

I'm working on a Kubernetes configuration at home that provides the common & popular features AWS in a consistent & portable manner: blob store, database, etc.
I think with the newer versions of F# you can do some manual memory management if needed.
Two approaches to building products, explained using circles
I have a 2008 MB (first of the unibody models) and it would be OK if not for hardware no longer being supported by the newer versions of macOS. This means I am unable to install .NET Core 2.0 or some of the newer Node versions which is a shame.
I'm sure that won't be difficult to google.
The Starbucks at Lawrence and El Camino in Santa Clara recently removed all the outlets from their back room.
How about no Android? Switch to Sailfish OS that was developed in Nokia (as Meego)!
Myths in Machine Learning Research
Usually it has nothing whatsoever to do with the code organization. The most common cause is lack of active developers to make the adaptation

It varies from shop to shop, but what I've seen is that code organization has a lot to do with it. Basically, if your code organization/factoring is really bad, then it's more likely that porting becomes untenable. Ironically, these are the projects that can have the longest lifespans, sometimes developing a history of multiple failed attempts to "port" them. (Really, re-implement while incurring huge opportunity costs.)

> If all of the environmental variables remain the same

Would you like a pony too?

You're seriously missing the point. My point is that the environmental variables never remain the same. (I was making two points, and I think you missed where I switched.)

> 2) you have a reliable syntax driven code rewrite tool

Would you like a pony too?

I repeat. I've been paid good money to use such a tool. I've used such a tool to enable the 1-step-removed porting of a project to a different language variant. Instead of doing the port myself, I was refining a tool which automated the port and enabled the maintainers to easily port all the changed code they were checking in. This lets you do a port without incurring the opportunity cost. I know of a consulting company that once made most of their income with this.

Yes, you can automate away the easy cases, but that's not even half the battle.

You can't simply hit a switch with this, of course. Someone has to put real thought into how the translations are made, especially if you want idiomatic, readable code going out the other end. The good thing about consistent idioms, is that they can be leveraged to multiply that work. The manual part can be re-leveraged through automation.

That's why people hire maintenance programmers like you.

That could be read in a way that sounds less than friendly and maybe a bit elitist.
It's incredibly hard for me to wrap my mind around the who and why of this.

It's obvious whatever efforts they're taking to curate YouTube for kids is not enough if bad actors can slip in such horrifying content into videos.
Is it? My reading of that definition leads to exactly opposite conclusion.

Rot is when something breaks down while environment remains the same. What happens with software is the opposite: it forever remains in pristine condition; it's the environment that changes.

(Compare also with description of evolution. A species does not "rot". It dies off when its niche changes so much its no longer adapted to survive in it.)