skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is learning?

A particle responds to its environment. A system of particles reconfigures itself in response to the environment, sometimes in a persistent way. That's all your brain is doing when it "learns"
>> I am certain the whole system could run on one dedicated blade. There was just this culture (made easy with docker containers) of "spin up another box" for every silly little tool.

> Did you weigh these costs against the value of the developers not stepping on each other's toes using the same instance? Separate users with sudo privileges provides zero isolation.

Each developer's machine is a separate instance. If the whole system could run on "one dedicated blade," then the developers could easily run a local instance on their own machines (either directly or in a VM) without stepping on anyone's toes.

Using AWS for local development seems wasteful and over-complicated to me. The only good reason I can see for doing it is if you're really vendor-locked into AWS-proprietary services, and it's impractical to run your code anywhere except on AWS (but that's arguably a mistake in itself).
Yeah as a long-time Erlang dev I would strongly recommend Dialyzer to anyone trying to build a serious Erlang project. It doesn't give you quite the same level of rigor that a strong typing system would, but it is nice to be able to spec out types on an as-needed basis while letting it infer types in other parts of the code. It kind of ends up feeling like a nice middle ground between static and dynamic typing, in my experience.
Um, no. The real world is not that simple. It would be nice if it were.

Or perhaps your statement is correct, but in the real world components are never sufficiently separate. So, while your statement may be correct by definition, it is not useful.
This would fix itself with a sufficient number of insurance firms competing for business. Unfortunately, the majority of the desirable lives you would want to insure to balance out the sick are already in nice white collar employer healthcare plans, so it's not really profitable for multiple health insurance firms to compete.
Postel's law, "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept"is definitely not "a uniter"!

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-0...
Iterative development, Agile, Design Thinking, DevOps are all areas that require some form of culture change to teams & sometimes company. It is possible to create small teams that are driven by some or all of the items listed above, however, they usually need to be insulated from the rest by management. Will there be spillover on both sides? Very likely, but the idea is to get the wheel moving forward.

The process of moving a medium-large businesses towards a more 'Agile' mindset for example, can be dreadfully slow with plenty of roadblocks throughout the process and that can cause some executives to want to go back to their previous ways.

Realistically speaking, some companies are better-off starting to implement some areas of the items listed above and in steps, add the other areas that are relevant to the success of the company. Not all areas of Design Thinking for example, will be applicable to all segments of the company, understanding which ones to add, when and the costs/benefits of not having the other areas is really what drives success
In the context of this conversation, I assume we're talking about a single data store for all of an apps data needs. However, I'd argue in more modern application (newer) that one would design with a couple different data stores. using NoSQL for true data that can't be definied by a schema, and then the traditional RDMS when both ACID and schemas are needed. And then, there's several other types of data stores in between.
Cloudflare adds new warrant canaries
> long different paths.

Sure, but you were implying the OP knew less than you, simply because you are (I assume) Chinese. This is a remarkable claim to make on the internet - the OP could be a Chinese historian steeped in far more history than yourself. It's just a strange thing to say so I wanted to call it out.

>Narrow minded

Who here has been narrow minded and in what way? When I asked why it's acceptable for Chinese netizens to downvote a game to oblivion because the game has an easter egg calling Xi Jinping "Winnie the Pooh," but not acceptable for GAP to release a proper map of the PRC on their sweaters (that doesn't include Taiwan), you answered that I was "talking out of context." I would argue in this thread you have been narrow-minded, literally "unwilling to see the other side of the argument."
5G Is Going to Be an Incredibly Tough Sell in 2019
Yes. Having spent too much time debugging code by people who thought they were clever enough not to need language safety, I want language-level protection.

(Did the Python crowd ever fix the race condition in CPickle?[1] They were in denial about this about eight years ago when I reported it. Doing multiple CPickle operations in separate threads can crash CPython. If you search for "CPickle thread crash" you find many reports of hard to reproduce problems in that area.)

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue23655
> I do like hyperscript better than JSX... precisely because it's not a syntax for function calls. Because it's just a function.

You should check out Elm: https://elm-lang.org/. It uses a hyperscript like syntax for rendering in a functional style. It's all just functions, and it reads that way too.
> And you'd be able to run up to 10.11 (El Capitan) on the Pro or 10.7 (Lion) on the MacBook.

or switch to any current linux, if you can figure out the 32bit efi booting
I seriously wrestled with whether having kids was moral. Indeed, it seems highly probable that they will just grow up to witness and suffer in the next great extinction event.
It's in the context of Elixir, so search for "mint elixir" and I'm sure it'll be quite discoverable - or searching for "mint" on an Elixir contextualized site.
> That happens to every country

Both your sources are for the US only. How did you get to 'every country'?
I really can't agree. I would not exchange my eyesight for the whole world, literally. Therefore the qudos of having looked at a novel explosion in no way compensates for any risk to my eyes.
I'm still rocking a 2008 Lenovo X200. It's just fine for home use but it's pretty hot, slow (the blame is split between the slow CPU and the slow HDD) and noisy. Also at this age the battery is mostly good for power spikes and the screen is in permanent "night shift mode" (backlight is yellowish). Still chugs along.
Passing up a salary increase for stock options will occasionally pay off big, and if you have good confidence in the company go for it... but a lot of companies fail and those options become worthless.

You got no money out of your options, if you were asked about the options and could have declined them for a modest wage you would have made more.

(Also, your post needlessly and illogically attacks lower income folks, just give it a rest. Rich people buy fancy cars that are equally worthless instead of responsibly investing their money.)
> Does consciousness produce any measurable effect?

In the morning when you wake up do you make a sandwich? If you didn't have consciousness, you wouldn't. So your body would cease to exist in a short time. Consciousness has measurable effects - every time it saves us from hunger, danger, and other bad situations, or when it leads us to good situations.
Its probably bad PR for Facebook to hire sex offenders to moderate their platform.
Oh that was disappointing - I hadn't heard of one of them so I hit what I thought was the "skip" button, and it took me straight to the results of all of the questions without letting me try any of the rest.

I realise that this is because I am stupid - there is a warning, but I thought it was just warning me I wouldn't be able to try that question again, not that I wouldn't be able to try any of them. (It said that you wouldn't be able to go back again, but I didn't want to go back - I wanted to go forward.) Boo.
Yeah but you can get a still-good small gasoline-powered car for a small fraction of that, and it will have 3-4 times the range of the Leaf and refuel time of 5 minutes at the nearest gas pump.
The era of 1TB microSD cards has begun
This used to be true but is no longer so. Almost every hospital would negotiate with you if they could see that you had no money or were willing to pay a lump sum. You could end up paying 4-10x medicare rate.

However, starting about 5 years ago some hospital got the idea they could refuse to negotiate with everyone and it seems to have spread. Now there are a bunch of these unreasonable hospitals. You can open up all your finances and show that you have no money and that their bill is 100x medicare rate and they would rather get $0 and you declare bankruptcy. I guess they end up getting more revenue overall this way?
All those brackets and parentheses reminded me of the Lisp panel in the "Git the princess" comic.

https://toggl.com/programming-princess/

I will take a more serious look at ClojureScript, thanks for the suggestion.
Absolutely. I do think that the typical amount of sun which a descendant of northern Europeans, now living in Phoenix, gets is probably still not as much as their ancestors got, simply because the amount of time spent outside is so much less. But your point is well taken.
Arright, calm down Tipper. Let's not pretend Youtube is edgy or "Rock and Roll". Its the most banal money farm ever created.

Let's focus on how they're driving content creators to actual suicide by arbitrarily cutting off their livelihoods.
Womp Womp!
Damn the bezel around the keyboard is so sexy on that machine. That's exactly what I would want but no one sells something like that off the shelf with a warranty. I still rock my X230 but the display is garbage.
It's not that we hadn't noticed it before. It's that we hadn't thought about it before. We all knew from experience that none of us had gotten any sort of tan through glass when asked. We just never thought to think about why. And before that day, we didn't know enough to answer the question. The fact that we were "primed" is just happenstance because the question came up during the learning process. Once we knew the physics (which all HS students in the US learn), the same question(s) could have been asked on another day when we weren't "primed" with the discussion and we would have been able to deduce the answer. For example - if that anecdotal evidence never came up the teacher could have put it on the final exam and we should have been able to figure it out. Again, my point is that anyone who went through the US school system and theoretically has the capability of answering the question if they actually thought about it. But most don't. That was my only point, really. It should be common sense, but isn't because no one actually gives it any consideration.
bas55 [1] is the closest I can find to a Dartmouth style basic (so 70s rather than 80s). Alas constants are truncated at 6 places (internal calculations are all doubles). It compiles fine and works well complete with LOAD, SAVE and limited line editing.

Does anyone know of a portable basic interpreter that supports double precision all through?

The kind of stuff I (used to) do [2] requires more than 6 figures.

[1] https://jorgicor.niobe.org/bas55/

[2] https://sohcahtoa.org.uk/kepler/moon2.html
IIRC Long filename support was introduced with Windows 95, which shipped with FAT16. It wasn’t until OSR2 that they introduced FAT32.

In theory FAT32 could have introduced a new on-disk data structure but I guess they wanted the minimum required changes to support larger disks.
> using their capacity to come ahead in the game of life

I, as an independent conscious entity, don't get a benefit from "coming ahead at the game of life".

If someone has a child that they love and cherish, that's great. I'd rather them have a child for that reason over having one because it represents the statistical viability of their collective genetic sequences.

I don't think the examined life is something to mock and put down...nor must it result in self-sterilization.
No it doesn't. All you have to do is search <language> <package> and you get relevant results. Look through your library list, it's pretty common for the names to only make sense in context.
Non profit means profit for management and their friends. They aren’t do gooders.
Yes, thank you, I think that's the one!

I had no idea there was a documentary film about him. Thanks very much for sharing that.
> "I looked a bit at the research, and it seems that they're probably using the sun/moon or magnetic fields to navigate. It's still a fun thought though."

I don't think that contradicts your hypothesis. Whether they're using magnetic fields, landmarks, the sun or sextants and chronometers, the question still remains of where they store their map. Does each bird store the entire map flawlessly in their head, or does the correct map without errors only exist collectively?
We do have theorem checker and proof assistants these days. Are there books to learn math with Isabelle or Coq?
>Chuck Palahniuk

I've been reading his books since I found out who wrote Fight Club in 1999. My brain does NOT want to remember how to spell his name. It makes me feel like I have a learning disability.
Knew a place that turned off the developers' test environment because it was costing 10x that per month. Which was as popular and successful as you can imagine. I'm.... skeptical about the benefits of the cloud architecture they actually had, given those costs.
That's great to hear - we're working hard to make sure our work also reaches many of the key people influencing policy initiatives and decisions.

That's a great suggestion - we hadn't actually thought of that in the context of our work. But it makes sense given we have such an abundance of open-source data.

What Kaggle Kernels do is awesome. It'd be cool to integrate this concept into our work at some point. Thanks for the suggestion!
You get the best discount by paying fully upfront. If you do this, the AWS bill doesn't show the RI on your monthly bill what-so-ever. Leading to a suprise 3 years down the road.
What about just eliminating medical bills entirely?
The only thing remarkable here is that these people are not hired by Facebook directly. Someone needs to ask Zuck why he thinks these hires aren’t worthy of catered lunch and @fb.com emails.
From the GBA forums linked in the README.

> Please note that there is absolutely no graphics, only console output! Also, it's not very fast (only runs at 15fps on a SD625) and it only runs old homebrew (e.g. first libtransistor tests and such).

Not quite ready for Super Smart Bros, but fingers crossed
Do you have the maximum number of children biologically possible? If not ( and I assume you haven't ), then you've made choices that have prevented others from existing. Assuming you are okay with that ( and I assume you are ) then the decisions involved are not a simple as you portray.
which country has universal healthcare with 1/20th of US GDP per capita? genuinely curious
Because it matches the field name for DOM nodes:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla...
I don't know why none of them have. Cloudflare has deployed DNSSEC, though.
> getting food packaged and sent across the country

You missed the biggest factor: industrial farming. Have you been to the midwest-does that look like a healthy, natural ecosystem? A vegan (well, most people really ) who lives there gets their food from the same place as one in the city.

I'm not sure any form of food production/gathering, at the scale needed today, would look any better though.
These laws don't apply to employees covered by employer self-funded plans, which are predominant. California can't enforce them in most cases.
T420 here for the nostalgia. Apart from the ssd and ram upgrades, the FHD IPS upgrade made it an excellent cheaper alternative to the thinkpad 25th anniversary edition. My only problem with it is the battery, I bought a new one but it only lasts for about 2-3 hours.

If anyone here is planning to do the FHD upgrade, be very careful with power, you need to remove the battery/power cable and press the power button a couple of times to discharge all capacitors etc, otherwise you will blow a microscopic fuse (I did!) and it's near impossible to replace it. I just soldered a bridge between the contacts! I just can't do anything wrong again or I'll fry something.
MySQL Challenge: 100k Connections
iVPN, and rather happy with it so far. WireGuard support, and good apps for iOS.
Apparently a prototype was written in Java. Borg was written in c++. AFAIK Kubernetes was always a Go project, but maybe I'm wrong. Why do you think Go was chosen?

Your comment about my experience with Java was needlessly provocative so I'm going to ignore it.
if we 100% stop having kids, sure. but how about slowly reducing to a total world steady state population of 1 billion. Will that necessarily lead to collapse? maybe with that many people a shift to fossil fuels would t matter so much. maybe we could all have good sized homes and yachts.
It is all ridiculous.

It honestly depends on the individual hospital. They almost always have a contract with insurance that they can't accept less, but nobody's checking and it's common for them to do so. Some hospitals are reasonable and especially if they see if you have low income/assets, will settle with you. Others don't care at all and will not accept any less and just send you to collections or sue.
The example is confusing, but it's actually an HTTP client.
Wow. I love explaining Reed Solomon codes and this didn't do it justice.

The basic concept is that if I give you five points all on the same line, you only need any two of them to reconstruct the line.

Reed Solomon doesn't use lines (it isn't optimal) and the geometry they use isn't the Cartesian plane (this requires infinite precision) - but this is what the codes do!

Just like it requires two points to reconstruct a line, three points are required to reconstruct a simple polynomial (degree 2). Reed Solomon uses "high degree polynomials" which require n+1 points to reconstruct the degree-n polynomial.

The codes take data, make a polynomial out of it, and then send points from the polynomial to the other side, which can interpolate it as soon as enough points are gathered!

All of this looks like impenetrable discretization and matrix operations if you just get a description of the algorithms, which makes it seem a lot less approachable than it is.
If it's a question of experience then lets briefly discard the bottom 80% of earners, of the 20% left how different do you think their levels of experience could be when they retire?

Do you think the senior devops guy who can single handedly debug a network issue while enjoying a day on the beach is lacking in experience compared to a CEO or did they just get a different type of experience because companies only need one CEO but they need a bunch of devops guys.

I believe a good group in upper management does improve company performance but 100x is unreasonable. There is a talent to being able to respond correctly to different scenarios but you also need to be lucky enough to be in a scenario where wild success is possible and your response is only made possible by the team of people that drive the engine beneath you.
Google Play Services access contract.
Well of course the hospital billing department is going to tell you that you have to pay the entire bill. What did you expect? Ask to speak to a manager, make a specific counter offer, and threaten to pay $0 if they don't accept. It only takes a few minutes and even if they refuse you won't be any worse off than before. (I agree this is a ridiculous system.)
In both cases, it doesn't really matter. If a girl dumps you over text message, she wasn't worth your time anyways. If someone downvotes you without explanation, ignore the downvote.
so you are saying that you should maximize number of children you have???
> You mean people with economical pressure to be profitable ?

Selling more hardware is usually good for a hardware manufacturer. So is having fewer people returning their equipment because it doesn't work.

> not being able to provide linux support

Most kernel developers would be ecstatic just with proper documentation of the hardware being sold.
They no longer need your name as a psych-vector to manipulate you.
Is blockchain technology safe to develop decentralized finance system?
"As developers begin to understand how to harness the power of Blockchain technology as it relates to decentralized finance, they will be able to enhance the transparency, efficiency, and accessibility of over-the-counter financial transactions even further."
Is this true that DeFi can be achieved through blockchain technology?
I don’t think the point OP is making is about Zuckerberg spending a day doing the work of one of these positions is to determine the fair market wage of this position in Arizona...

After all what is the local market rate for a job that has shown the tendency to trigger PTSD without sufficient benefits to treat said PTSD? You would hope at least enough to cover PTSD treatments...Would you continue to use Facebook or allow your kids to use Facebook if there was a good chance of them developing PTSD symptoms? Would you take a job where there was a good chance you would develop PTSD and the job wouldn’t cover it and didn’t pay enough for you to cover it?
Companies and employees need to be able to sell the idea of a project/product/service to each other. The waterfall method serves as a bridge that connects the dots, allowing both sides to understand how they intend to reach the end goal.

The same way you haven't seen waterfall in its pure form, you will likely never see Agile, Design Thinking, etc in its pure form. That is because we are looking at environments prone to change and in control of humans with variable degrees of knowledge and prone to change.

What you have seen with the diagram that shows arrows in all direction is simple, it went against your perceived view or the standard and that put you off. Or, the person just didn't know how what they were doing (the more likely scenario).
Absolutely, it would also allow people to have a conversation about the data through various kernels and threads. As another comment said, there was some recent controversy over some of the reports, a Kernel system would enable an environment where people can have a data driven debate about what the data really implies. Thanks for your work and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it evolves!

Edit: When you provide an open platform for people to collaborate, it can be amazing who shows up and what gets done!
On that front no small cylindrical cells can beat "brick" prismatic cells, they are the only ones which can be realistically expected to beat $100 without material costs going down, in fact, they do so already.

Though... manufacturing of big prismatic cells never took off anywhere except for China.
So the real dynamic is that very few ever get to litigating the matter, because the path of least resistance is to simply speak the hospital's language and they will reduce it in-house to something more provably in-line with their expenses?

Still, it seems worthwhile to work towards penalizing hospitals for routinely going over the line, otherwise they will continue to monetize the difference between what is right and what they can get away with.

And on that front, I still have to ask how it's not straightforward fraud to lie about the expenses incurred? If we're roommates and I pick you up a gallon of milk at the store knowing you want some and will reimburse me, but I add it to our tab as $20 - am I not attempting to defraud you?

Trumped up costs do routinely happen across all sectors. It just seems on this topic that grassroots pushback is never discussed, yet could be quite appropriate. For example, a self-help form letter that demands an "out of network" hospital substantiate exactly why their expenses were double that of every other hospital.