skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, as no repeating patterns zooming in.

Does it have symmetry, yes.

However, this is a simulation and with that the constraints and randomness of the variables will over many runs, highlight if there are any aspects that are overlooked.

Looking at this run, level of wobble seems to be overly bearing with noticeable patterns that for me would question the model.

That and as a kid, we had a grass hill of about 500m in length and a mild graduand and fairly flat that you could ride a bike upon. I would go down it, side straddle my bike, step off and see how far I could run alongside my bike and get back on. Yes there was accidents, but I was a kid, nothing beyond a bruise doing this. I would say being conservative, I easily managed 25 meters. Now this was on a hill, more momentum to start with and the big factor, on grass.

Yet I look at the model runs and see very little running straight down. I would factor in the model has a fixed initial momentum, and a random increasing wobble. This would play out with the pattern being seen.

What's needed now is for this to be done 800 times for real. Even with a static push, factors would come into play. Such as dust build up, temperature changes, humidity can all have a small factor in the outcome.

Which highlights a big area with simulation and real runs comparisons. Simulations will all those nuances chaos factors as static and as if all runs happen at the same point in time. That's hard to repeat for real for comparison. Which makes it hard in nailing all those small areas that make small, but noticeable effects over time.

With that, is the problem a fractal? In that the more you look into all factors that affect it, you end up zooming into a whole new area of factors that affect that factor.
written by a journalist who only wants to work four-day week.
It would be amazing and not unlike his character to have staged his death.
Editorial Innovation in News – BBC News Labs
Thanks! I have thought about it, will consider this.
There's a cure for everything, including eventually old age; whether you find it or not is another story.
Seems like a good place to share a few amazing plane related survival stories:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Elder Lauren Elder survives 1976 plane crash

- https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17476615 Juliane Koepcke: How I survived a plane crash

- http://clear-prop.org/aviation/haynes.html The Crash of United Flight 232 by Capt. Al Haynes
You haven't met many Russians, have you? :)
Kaiser Permanente is non-profit. Actually, multiple non-profits: insurer, hospital, practice group. But, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there are strings attached. To be fair, their mandate is to provide low-cost healthcare, not free education.
Exactly. I work at a very similar place on the East Coast -- very startup like culture unified by leadership principles. I had one so-so experience, followed by an absolutely horrible experience, followed by two terrific experiences. For the bad experience, I worked weeks on end, lots of times throughout the night trying to deliever, in many cases, unreasonable feature requests all while trying to maintain production systems. Sometimes dysfunction happens. You live in an imperfect world with imperfect people. In the end, sticking through and using the horrible experience to learn and grow ended up paying off long term.

Bezos has corporate principles that led to his success. Many people respect that. I personally do no -- I lose respect for any man who cheats on his wife, no matter the reason, but I digress that what he does do in the business world has worked with immeasurable success.

(My final random point -- I find it kind of ironic that a man who stresses so much that his leadership team have skilled writing and memos instead of powerpoints let his security team autogenerate a security bulletin about a serious docker CVE. I mean it's very obvious to me that this was written by a bot https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2019-... -- I think it's a tad tacky to be using a bot to generate your security bulletins)
As a former employee, it’s more that there’s only so much you can do in that situation. I didn’t have any ability to impact the situation other than advocating for good practices, helping people I know manage their careers, and giving truthful feedback for managers (being able to since I wasn’t in a “bad” team).

I didn’t want to paint an unrepresentive picture for people that might prevent them from pursuing legitimately good opportunities. Ultimately, this rubs some people the wrong way because they feel it’s the same as covering up issues. I definitely saw a lot of incredulity that I, and others could even have a good experience.

If it’s my truthful experience at Amazon that it was generally a good job and I didn’t see much of any of this stuff personally, what would you have me do?
Speaker Ralston Ties Up Court Cases Citing His Legislative Duties
If it helps, I grew up in England and never heard this word either -- sounds like use outside aviation/Navy is rare.
For small cuts super glue will work better than this. For complex, dirty or deep lacerations, this will not be good. We still use sutures for a reason, despite the fact it takes us longer to put them in.
When does an e-reader stop being an e-reader and become an e-ink display tablet? This sounds interesting, but more for the activities it enables in addition to and apart from reading.
And corporate credit cards aren't blank checks. Employees will generally have to pay back any spend on their corporate card that is not approved as an expense.

It may prevent the employee from holding the bag if the company goes bust. But some "corporate cards" are issued by banks in a way that makes the cardholder jointly liable.
Beware this narrative. There are many with legitimate concerns around fraudulent activity (SCTY acquisition, “funding secured” tweet), as well as Musk’s highly unstable behavior (pedophilia accusations, etc etc). It’s not solely those with financial incentive.

And no, I’m not a Tesla hater. Just someone who wishes Tesla lived up to their own image.
Wellll..... it seemed to be a long list of ....

1. Tried this incredibly cunning and creative trick...
2. It didn't work.
3. Try another incredibly cunning and creative trick...
4. goto 2.

And then just before the end, Get Very Very Lucky with something that had nothing to do with cunning or creativity.
I used to play a ton of MajorMud, half to chat with other people while we played, and half to script it so our characters could keep playing while we were all at school. I met my husband on a BBS, and here we are all these years later. Plain text chat with local strangers in your area code is truly magical.
I've gone down this rabbit hole before (albeit around ten years ago), I think the closest there are are the Alfie Kohn books. E.g. No Contest, Punished by Rewards, etc.

Those are more about parenting and the school system, there aren't really any books on early childhood development if that's what you're looking for.
Another story of a ferry pilot with a Cessna - though this time, the Atlantic - http://www.cessna150-152.com/transatlantic.htm (wayback with images: https://web.archive.org/web/20160306022257/http://www.cessna... )

> Leon meanwhile was too busy making final preparations to show concern. An extra "L"-shaped 66-gallon fuel tank had been made. It took up most of the baggage and right hand passenger area. The airplane was then flown to Moncton, Canada for transatlantic clearance.

Tangentially related is the "how do you get a Boeing 717 (range 2,060 nautical miles) to Hawaii (SFO to Hawaii is 2084 nautical miles)?" - https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/8scjkk/ever_wonde...
Can you name anything else named after where it's going, not where it comes from? I can't think of anything named like that, but I guess there must be some.
The argument in the article is unconvincing, and shows a distinct failure to think on a societal level or on time lines beyond a few weeks. The calculus seems simple to me. The potential harms from not open sourcing the model completely - minimal. Potential harms from open sourcing it completely - greater than minimal. Hence their decision.

OpenAI should be lauded for making this decision. If you think about the sort of people who would choose to work at OpenAI, it is clear this was a very tough choice for them.
How would you know what part of their life and their thoughts it reflects?

What if they don't give a shit about the illness but everybody else makes the biggest deal of it?
Sure, but that's because the company is doing better. If it stagnated then he would only make base salary. If the union does their job poorly the Union leader still gets paid.
So you bring all your cables with you everywhere you go?

I think OP is saying that these cables could be swapped out while you’re away.

As for “seeing that something is going on”, I really don’t think anyone worth half their salt would allow for such a scenario... authors of such implants aren’t exactly registering the device with the OS.
Germany Says It's Not Ready to Block Huawei from Its 5G Network
Saudi Investors Uneasy with How Son Is Running His $100B Vision Fund
Yep. I specifically called out that the gaps were quite short.
I was expecting something along the lines of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734966 or
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836, or a discussion on how to implement CSS in a browser, but this article seems to be really more about "algorithms for writing CSS".
Ive made and will be giving a talk on what a TSCM team would use.

My talk was accepted at CircleCityCon in Indianapolis IN. I've built a tablet capable of intercepting and injecting radio from 20MHz to 1.5GHz.

https://ccc2019cfp.busyconf.com/activities/5c3a57314808fac10...

https://mobile.twitter.com/CrankyLinuxUser/status/1097884386...

Repo: https://gitlab.com/crankylinuxuser/siginttablet
Damn. Thanks for the link. I was just speculating..

I don't think the authors are drawing a casual effect here; in effect, this is scientific anecdata: hey, we tried this and this happened. We think you should know.

I think it's great they published the result, even if the n=1.

Assuming this is due to the fecal transplant, it just goes to show, we are messing with a major functional system in the body. And we should tread very very carefully. Scary..
Oracle Is Destined to Beat Amazon at Cloud Database: Larry Ellison
I guess HN is like that too. goes back to work
Dumb question — what would be involved in writing a mobile app that called BBS's? Handled the modem protocols, displayed ANSI graphics, etc....
> Can we talk about would be possible if this computer were possible and work backwards? As a mental exercise.

Certainly! This type of thought experiments is how much of physics progresses. But their results should be contemplated seriously. Assuming it is possible to prepare a system that works like your computer, it will immediately collapse into a black hole, because it breaks the holographic principle (and plenty of other bounds).

Similarly we can imagine what happens if FTL was possible: time paradoxes. Or if we could measure both position and momentum: UV catastrophe.

> You are getting too hung-up on the infinity aspect.

The infinity aspect is what makes Real Computation more powerful than other types of computation. It is also what makes it impossible in our universe. It has absolutely nothing to do with the type of (countable) infinity that is the length of a Turing machine tape. You can make asymptotic statements that are useful about Turing machines or logic circuits. The only useful thing you get out of Real Computation is strictly after you take the limit to infinity. Otherwise you have old boring less-powerful analog computers (which are nonetheless marvels of engineering and their creators deserve praise).

> Electricity is fundamentally more "unstable".

This is just nonsense.

By the way, the majority of continuous variable hardware is actually in the microwave regime, which is closer to the fields of electrical and radio engineering, than to the fields of lasers or THz systems.

Lastly, yes, I completely agree that such hardware might be interesting in many cases. But claiming that Real Computation is possible (as oppossed to just admitting that small analog computers are occasionally useful) is far fetched. Claiming that such hardware can be built when it flies in the face of everything we know about physics is like claiming you can build a perpetual motion generator. As I said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Please believe me, it is extremely rewarding to learn the details of these arguments, much more rewarding than the existence of Real Computation. In comparison with the real world, "Real Computation" is a boring cop-out. The last strip here describes the idea well: http://calamitiesofnature.com/
I like the lottery theory, that's a good add.

Studying cognitive biases might feed that for some... it's kind of the study of why everyone is wrong.

But maybe there's an axis of novelty or iconoclasm people need too.

I don't really know. After all, mine is just a theory about the dangers of people making up theories. The irony isn't lost on me, so I'm open to refinements. (And data... Though not sure how to get it.)
The LCA process also forces the employer to test the labor market first. It's all theater, and based on 20 year-old business practices (you have to publish your job ad in a major newspaper and some other places, of which one option is to have it be read out loud by a local radio station!), but it's not like you can skip through that process. How does LMIA compare here?
I do not possess a credit card for ideological reasons.

I do have two debit cards, one Visa and one MasterCard, for redundancy.

I see what you are saying and it makes sense. I’m just ideologically opposed to the use of consumer credit for regular / recurring / general living expenses.
The first scene in Return of Jedi is literally Vader telling someone: "I am here to put you back on schedule."
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Which came first, the post or the lawsuit?

Churyumov v. Amazon Corporate LLC (2:19-cv-00136) District Court, W.D. Washington

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14528071/churyumov-v-am...
Hacker news is to collect news, not facts, right?

Should I submit the periodic table? Every scientific paper ever posted?

It would waste less time if random posts from a year or older appended the year to the title. Seems very common, but not mentioned in the hacker news guidelines.
> they do not make up a significant portion of all developers in the US

I'm not sure that's true, but I will admit that most of my friends work at FAANGs (outside the bay area). So let me add that I know at least one senior engineer at a non-FAANG tech company that left a $300k job for a "significant pay bump".

Frankly, no large tech company could survive if it didn't pay competitively with other large tech companies.

I fully agree that pay is less in small, non-tech companies in rural areas, but I would be surprised if such businesses hire the majority of developers. Big tech hires a LOT of engineers.
Are you familiar with the show? No American viewer of Last Week Tonight is so lacking in self-awareness that they would condescendingly "laugh" at Brexit as if their own country was doing fine. There's nothing contradictory about thinking Brexit and Trump are both fiascos. The point of the segment (and the show in general) is to inform, not to laugh.

Also, no American host would ever really do a segment like this. John Oliver is British so he has a unique sort of soapbox being the host of a show whose audience is primarily in the US. That cross-cultural dynamic is one of the things that makes the show unique.
I agree with many of the comments here about how ymmv based on your management chain. My experience at Amazon has been very positive, but I do want to call out some major issues with the Amazon Connections tool reference in this post.

This tool is pitched to employees as an anonymous way to provide feedback about their team via daily questions. The reality is anything but.

* Responses are not anonymous, they are viewable by anyone on the Connections team, and individual responses are shared with managers in many cases. The Connections team will deny this because it is technically against their policy, but I have seen Connections case managers share information with managers many times.

* Feedback results are not viewable by employees, only managers (this is in contrast to the yearly tech survey, which anyone can view). This leads to data being conveniently left out, or entire orgs simply not reviewing the data.

* The questions are incredibly poorly constructed and there have been multiple internal tickets about propaganda and insensitive questions. A few examples off the top of my head are "Did you know that Amazon was voted the best company to work for 5 years in a row by xyz organization? (Yes/No)" and something to the effect of "How do you feel working with foreigners?" (The wording was significantly more sensitive, but this was the undertone and caused a massive uproar internally.)

These issues have been brought up repeatedly internally and in almost two years, nothing has been done. The Connections team has essentially disabled all feedback channels surrounding the tool. If anything comes of this, I hope a serious look is taken at how the Amazon Connections program is implemented.
The NFL is a nonprofit organization too...
Or if a real parabolic antenna is too expensive, sticking a copper wire on a BNC connector mounted in a Pringles can (5 GHz) or wider tin soup can (2.4 GHz) works as a cheap alternative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
The author is pretty rigourous about explaining the limitations.
Thanks for feedback.
OMDB is used as data source and its doesn't have all movie's info. Will see if there's another data source with better coverage.
I really liked idea of putting clickable link to IMDB.
Plus, what airline is going to want to pay out those miles?
For the most part, the lives of people who live in cities has gotten better over the last generation. They voted for the status quo.

For the most part, the lives of people who don't live in cities has not gotten better over the last generation, and they voted for change.

These differences are structural, and I don't think anybody knows how to make them better. You can tell people to give up their current lifestyle and move somewhere else with more opportunity and a completely different lifestyle, but that's a really hard sell.
I made some decent profits by looking into investments of Bain Capital and following some. You could look up who was buying and selling shares here: http://www.fatpitch.biz

Unfortunately the site seems dysfunctional now.
Ask HN: How Do Tech Companies Evaluate Docs Quality?
Recently, I am playing around the Android SDK and docker. However, I found the docs site quality of Android SDK is lousy. It's hard to follow. I need to spend a long time to understand the concept.

I just wonder how tech companies evaluate the quality of doc sites? How do they know where developers get stuck? How do they know which part is unclear?

Anyone here managing the doc site?
Or this researcher could have got a woman to speak into his mic while he played.
I ran a Utah BBS in the late 80's on a phone line I "found" in my childhood bedroom. I've thought, a bit, about setting up a "BBS" hosted on any computer connected to any WiFi access point. Here are my initial ramblings about the idea.

https://blog.joeldare.com/wireless-bbs/
Trump Signs Order to Begin Creation of Space Force
This is really cool, glad to see someone tackling this problem.

I have added several of my abandoned projects, here is a quick summary of them if there is any interest:

https://github.com/satoshinm/WebSandboxMC: Bukkit plugin providing a web-based interface with an interactive WebGL 3D preview or glimpse of your server - this bundles the NetCraft frontend in a Minecraft server plugin. There are requests from Spigot users https://github.com/satoshinm/WebSandboxMC/issues/100 to make it active again, which is what inspired me to add it to Code Shelter.

https://github.com/satoshinm/NetCraft: Web-based fork of https://github.com/fogleman/Craft . Craft has been featured on Hacker News before, but it is pretty much abandoned, so I forked it into NetCraft, but then in turn ran out of time/interest to update it. The summary still applies: "Voxel game for modern web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) and desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux). Just a few thousand lines of C using modern OpenGL (shaders)." Heavily inspired by Minecraft, but much smaller and simpler.

https://github.com/satoshinm/pill_serial: Triple USB-to-serial adapter firmware for flashing onto an STM32F103C8T6 "blue pill" minimum development board . With this firmware you can make your own USB-to-serial adapter, times three, by flashing a <$2 blue pill board.

https://github.com/satoshinm/pill_duck: Scriptable USB HID device for STM32F103 blue pill (inspired by USB Rubber Ducky) . Another project for the "blue pill", this one lets you make an automated USB keyboard/mouse device, an imitation of the popular Rubber Ducky hacker tool, but a lot cheaper.

https://github.com/satoshinm/pill_6502: emulated 8-bit 6502 CPU and 6850 ACIA for STM32F103 blue pill . Want to build a retrocomputer but an authentic 65C02 chip is too much? Play around with a classic processor without buying old hardware? Emulate it with the cheap blue pill, with enough support at least to run the Microsoft OSI BASIC ROM.

I have started a few more abandoned projects on https://github.com/satoshinm?tab=repositories&type=source but these seem to have generated the most interest (especially the NetCraft/WebSandboxMC combination, but the pill_ projects can be quite handy), no longer can maintain them myself but would be great to see continued maintenance provided a community finds them valuable.
Point taken, but either way, it's so not my problem. Maybe in the former case I'll refrain from aiming a flamethrower back behind me as I run as fast as possible out of there!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_toxicity
It appears as there if is little correlation between metal density and toxicity
Google has racks full of equipment at every ISP in America, even the minor ones. They can bring this latency down to 5ms or less.
At 27 I took on a multi-million dollar, VC-backed property management startup that was trying to defraud me on my rent and rental deposit. It’s amazing what some legal research and a few hours of spare time can do.
circumference = 2 pi r, so increasing the radius by 1 foot will increase the circumference by 2 pi feet, not pi feet.
Sailfish OS Is Now Aurora OS in Russia
Re 1: GPT2 is no different from most stuffs by DeepMind. DeepMind, in general, does not release code, data, or model. DeepMind does not seem to get reproducibility complaints, supposedly "key aspect of science".
OMDB currently supports movies only, I think, that might be the reason. Will look into it
Many books on Kobo also have DRM unfortunately.
If I haven't seen it, it's new(s) to me!
What were your symptoms? How were you originally diagnosed?
Blogspam. Original: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ginaclarke/2019/02/19/why-freel...
Astronomers Just Found 300,000 Hidden Galaxies in Just a Tiny Patch of Sky
This model will probably be reproduced quite quickly with in 2-3 months if there is an entity that has the resource and enough incentive to do it. They did release the paper and that should be enough to get to even close
This was fun to watch.
Unfortunately large portions of our society rely on having a functioning government. If things fall apart, I doubt the masses rising in revolt will magically end up with a libertarian government. Something authoritarian is much more likely.

Better the devil you know.
Umm... premiums depend entirely on who you are, where you live, and what you're insuring... I pay more than twice as much for home owners insurance ($125/month) than I do for car insurance ($60/month).