skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But ... i thought amazon is going to produce the new series of the Expanse. Or is SYFY going to fork the story with a 'deuteromolecule' ?
For people who're only looking to reserve one subdomain - this might cause an issue. They might think they got `website.workers.dev` when they would have been equally happy with `awesomewebsite.workers.dev`.
Rucksack means backpack in German.

'Rücken' being 'back' and 'Sack' being... 'sack' or 'bag'.
Make sure you say "show me ball" instead of "a ball"...
If they knowingly keep this much friction in their sales funnel, I expect pretty bad support. I don't ping them until after disqualifying all their competitors, partly over spam, partly over the intrusive questions I know they'll ask, and partly because if their number were competitive and reliable it wouldn't be concealed.
Throw Out Your Code
> wouldn't be surprised

> probably

Hmm, anything of substance, or is this just pure speculation?
> cosmic energy

Huh? What's "cosmic energy? Do you mean cosmic rays? Those are actually atoms or electrons moving at an exceedingly high speed. Matter, albeit highly energized matter, but not energy itself.

If that is what you meant, the fact that this object was moving at 25 k/s is a fart in a whirlwind compared to the overall velocity of those atoms/electrons. It would have a virtually identical effect to something moving at 25 kph. Not to mention those particles are too small to really "disintegrate" anything. At best, they would knock a few particles off some of the atoms that comprise the object, perhaps changing a few into another element/isotope. There just isn't enough mass there to do any damage on a macro scale.
11k for a large company barely registers on their radar.
In that case I'd agree with you. I'm not particularly keen on rehashing foundations of mathematics either.
> after all, LIFE ITSELF comes from just such an action, so pretty much anything is in play if that is the standard!

That's how an instance of life came about. A very simple, most likely extremely short-lived, not at all efficient form of life. The advancement to Eukaryotes took ~2 billion years from there, and multicellular life took about another billion years. These happened not by random bashing, but selection pressures.

While a solar sail could happen completely randomly, 'life itself' isn't really a good comparison, since that's not really how it happened. At least not any form of life that is really recognizable as life.
Off topic, on the writing style: the personal casual style that sprinkles things with "I have to say, I love this." seems to have become incredibly common now in news sources. What's led to this? I always feel like it detracts from the story, and adds nothing unless they've AB tested it and it helps ad revenue?
If Times is the NYTimes, I'd have flagged it had I seen it. It has a paywall, and I don't want inflammatory off-topic political stories on HN that I can't read.

As for substantial discussion, it'll take a few days before anything can really be considered. As scandals go, 'generals sell nuclear tech to countries enemies' doesn't scan as very believable, even for corrupt officials. Give 'em a chance to respond and see what gets said.
> Or perhaps employees were output-limited not by mental fatigue but by, essentially, giving-a-shit. One of the big insights of productivity studies is that "can't do more" and "won't do more" aren't clearly distinct when you're relying on internal motivation; there's no clear way to say that "won't" is happening on a different, volitional layer. If people were working 40 hours a week with 25 hours of 'drive', constant productivity makes more sense.

I think this makes the most sense. Assuming I understand right what you mean, it could be described more simply as "work expands to fill the available time", a common enough criticism of sprints in agile (cases lasting longer than they normally would because there's still days left in the spring).
This is so true. Over years I have realised that my productivity is pretty much similar if I worked 7/8/9 hours. Over time the longer I work the less productive I am.
There was a nice quote I once read on HN - everyone have fixed budget for quality thinking. working longer does not increase that.
An interesting question. Once a mistake is made, what response do we hope for? Truthfully, once enough mistakes have been made, you can't have people happy, you can only have less UNhappy.

Speaking off the top of my head (The question really does deserve more thought):

* Announce what steps have been taken to not have this happen again. Show some sign of actual regret that this happened.

* Don't spring it on people. Normally there's a progression before layoffs: hiring freeze to allow headcount to reduce over time, rumors and acknowledgements that allow headcount to further reduce, informed end-dates and severance packages. While rumors have been swirling, this is WAY too many people for this to be the surprise it seems to have been.

* Be careful with contractors. Contractors didn't get any severance. On the one hand, positions of temporary duration practically BEG to be contracts. On the other hand, contracts should (according to my personal and subjective moral outrage) have defined durations and be renegotiated in advance, not end as a sudden surprise if you've fulfilled your part. If you know these are temporary positions, contract appropriately.

And, if you've screwed up ENOUGH - yeah, pay people to make up the difference. Don't pay them to do nothing, but these are all professionals of varied skills. Use that. "Hey everyone, we're going to reduce headcount because we don't have enough active work to justify your positions. But we had a record year, so you all have a job for another month, and your tasks in that time are to add value for the company. Build a guide for newcomers, put together a marketing proposal, write a tool for internal use, whatever - you know what the company needs, and now you have a chance to do it."

Anything here would be an improvement over what we've seen.
One thing doesn't make a list.

Clinton did hand over emails, and the deletions were vetted by lawyers and government officials. She did this back in 2014, two years before the election.

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

and

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

Oh, and the Clinton email controversy only had 0.6% of the emails involved in the Bush email controversy.
For me, the most useful feature of Netflix is the custom ratings it provides. They're almost always absolutely spot on, with the exception of "Netflix Originals" which seem to be bumped up a bit.

I'm curious why something like IMDB is useful for people. I would much rather get a metric related to what I, personally, might like, rather than what the majority likes.
Ad SDKs have gotten much better about size. We show a decrease of roughly 5MB after the change. The real "hit" comes in the form of battery and network usage.
> IMO it's fair to refer to your success as "self made" if you exceed the median success level of your class peer group by a substantial margin.

"self made" isn't a statistical or legal term. It's a term of culture and art, and it is always employed by people through a subjective lens, whether to themselves or others.

Trying to impose a statistical definition on it ignores the history of its use up to the present, whether that use was justified or not.

> i'd say the author of this article more than qualifies for it

The fact that you are willing to apply a statistical measure for "self-made success", yet despite how little you know about the article's author, you are willing to apply a term like "self-made-failure" to them based on your personal feelings of antipathy toward a particular class of people, indicates that you might not be arguing in good faith.
Since they arrive faster they will spend less time in the air. Less time in the air means less fuel burnt. They are probably still burning fuel at a similar rate though.
This is utter horror and is pretty much asking for people to quickly code up something to type fake keystrokes when you take a break.
Likely has to do with the tweet most of the way down [0]. However, that tweet has to do with used models and the rest of the tweet storm seems to deal with new models... unless I'm missing something.

https://twitter.com/JakeLangford6/status/1097688650035462144
This is the solution I arrived at, too: explicitly balance out the bias, which seems to be as simple as just taking the square root. Surprised the whole thread isn't full of that idea.

Long rambling version:

The bias in the naive 'solution' is demonstrated in that if we consider a circle of radius 0.5, it has an area of 1/4 that of a circle with radius 1, not half. Which means that as we span our random parameter between 0 and 1, we 'spend too much time' in that small 'inner circle'.

(It's easiest to assume a circle of radius 1, centred about the origin. Nothing interesting arises from additional generality.)

So we don't want the displacement from the origin to rise linearly with the uniform-random parameter. Instead we want the area of our 'inner circle' to rise linearly. Which means that the displacement from the origin should be the square root of the random parameter. (The random parameter's interval will have to be adjusted appropriately of course.)

Our 'theta' has no bias trouble. Transforming from number (angle) into vector/coordinate form, is just routine trig. Nothing interesting to worry about there.

All that's left is to be careful that our theta span the interval [0, 2 * pi) (carefully excluding 2pi), whereas our area should span [0, pi * r^2] (inclusive, assuming that our 'circle' is meant to be an 'open ball' rather than a closed one).

Either we're missing something, or this Haversine business is a needlessly complex answer here.

I considered that another approach might be to define a spiral that 'winds through' all points in the circle, but I'm pretty sure that's not possible. If it were possible, it would give an injective space-filling curve, which is known not to exist. (If it were not injective, it would presumably be biased and so be a non-answer to our question.) Put another way, if your answer involves accepting just one random number, and not two, then your answer is necessarily wrong. (I think I'm getting all this right.) [0]

Another thought: the naive solution is biased despite being injective. Interesting. That seems to be the root of the failure of intuition that leads us to the naive (biased) 'solution'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space-filling_cur...
Oh, well if you have someone of higher authority to enforce its continued and proper usage, then obviously that's a different story.

I was originally commenting from the perspective of the plug-in as a self-help tool where its usage and existence in the browser was determined solely by the users themselves.

In a household setting, I could see it being useful in preventing kids from spending too much time in front of the computer.
What Element Is Attracted the Most to a Magnet? [video]
> A more serious question: I assume this kind of event doesn't actually save fuel because the airplane still has to maintain the same airspeed to avoid stalling, right?

If a plane maintains the same airspeed, but gets extra ground speed thanks to a tailwind, it'll complete its journey in less time and therefore should save fuel. (Unless it ends up having to circle the destination airport while it waits for its original landing slot!)

Of course, planes going the other direction will use extra, so overall we don't win.
Discourse and language in general has seem to become “dumbed” down in the past 50 years.
To whom is this directed? If it's to me, just write your question here. I've pretty much already explained how it works. Go to the Hathi Trust login screen. Pull down the list of partner institutions. Go to one of them in person. (or get a Library of Congress card, also in person.)

After the institution logs in, you can download anything you want. Bring a flash drive or portable hard disk and take home your PDFs.

I'd recommend calling the partner library first to make sure someone there knows the Hathi login. It's not that popular a resource, sadly, and many people have no idea what it is. You may also find a friendly librarian who is willing to do the download for you and email you the PDF, saving an in-person visit.

One thing to note: You don't have to be a student to use the resources of university libraries. They're open to everyone.
> A faceted classification system sounds pretty unnecessary in this context.

If by "this context" you mean exactly the use case you describe, then yes. If you are always looking for books you already know of and can name, there is little point in further classification.

Another potential use case is that I have tens of thousands of books and I am looking for English-language fictional books about scientists and monsters by authors born in the 18th century.

Again, I haven't looked closely at the app and chances are that it doesn't really help in that use case either, but I meant to explain the concept of a "library" to someone who did not understand it, and why a simple hierarchical file system may be an insufficient abstraction for library classification in general.
>Exactly. The nostalgic fantasy I'm criticising carlospwk for is that public libraries are "noisy, too relaxed and not geared towards actual studying". Not really a position that fosters the needs of the diverse population of patrons.

I could have maybe worded myself better. I don't really care what people do in a library, I just wish it was silent and peaceful like it was before.
Wow, that is useful information! Ne'er again will I buy a text without reading the fine print. Lesson learned.
Ha! Cheers! I’ve not checked on my phone for a while, that’s definately not right.
If you let go of your attachment to the cloud and take a critical view of it, it's easy to see that the cloud itself is a big part of the problem.

If the humble broadband router sitting in your home could manage these devices, there would be no need to put IoT services in the cloud. You'd pair your app with your IoT device on your home network and your broadband router would provide information to the app about how to reach it over the public Internet.

Alternatively, there could also be some kind of universal bridge that sits behind your router, opens a port via UPnP and speaks an open protocol. Said bridge could have an ISM-band SDR and run sandboxed bytecode radios and services uploaded to it by the various apps that pair with it.

This would be very feasible if it weren't for competition and market forces getting in the way. Everyone's playing the vendor lock-in game at the moment, but what we actually need for IoT to succeed is standardisation.
I use the Redis service. It's way less expensive. around a 90% less expensive for me. It has all of the high end features. Fault tolerance, etc.

AWS does not compete on price or performance and the Redis servers are hosted directly in whatever cloud facility you'd like.

On final note. Since setting it up, I've never had to look at it again.
You are only coming through in waves
Appreciate the comment! No, it means that after a few beers I'm a master with words and the numbers that drive them, without a few beers I'm also a master at everything else in life. Hope that answers your question!
Doctors Share How Burnout Nearly Led Them to Suicide
Uber and GM Cruise Are Making Their Visualization Tools Open Source
My cynical impression is that OpenAI figured out a way to get tons of free PR, with the ultimate “humblebrag” of all time. I don’t think they honestly believe that what they’re doing has a material impact, beyond media coverage and people talking about it as we are here. This situation cries out for Occam’s Razor, and when you cut away the fluff it looks and smells like clever marketing, not in the least because it’s worked.
Growing a Compiler: Getting to Machine Learning from a General Purpose Compiler
Given that we don't know if interstellar spaceships exist I'd say calling them "rare" is a misnomer.
I don’t disagree that there’s opportunity for bad actors. This exists for everyone. But the NYT is trying to imply with no evidence that there is a habitual firm policy of leveraging client secrets for insider trading at the firm’s hedge fund. That doesn’t make sense. If you’re going to commit fraud, you don’t do it in a fund to be allocated across thousands of partners, you do it for something that’s actually going to matter for you in some way. Like the guy who got caught.

The only evidence of badness within this they could find was a pharma company invested in by an outside firm.

The NYT has also released another article about why they’re writing these hit pieces.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/reader-center/mckinsey-he...

Basically it boils down to them having a hunch that a big private company is bad. And have they really found anything? No, not really. They just keep churning out pieces that say this could be bad if the firm has no internal controls though they can’t find anything to suggest it’s true, or one off studies that are linked to bad outcomes. Their reporting isn’t factually incorrect, but it’s being written with their own stated bias to find bad things. They’re not hearing leads and digging further. Given that this is true, their investigation has found basically nothing.
Frontend is mostly custom made things, but we do use handlebars templates for views.

Backend is node.js based.
I don't buy the argument that open-sourcing would allow citizens to better fight this. Let's be realistic. If the full model is published, for every one person who studies the model to understand how to fight false propaganda, there will be 5,000 who use it to shitposting for lulz.

Also, as everyone's pointing out, the cat's out of the bag. Whatever OpenAI does, the same ability will be in the hands of state actors, and large corporations, and soon not-too-large corporations and dedicated individuals, probably in a few years. So basically whatever OpenAI does today doesn't really matter.

We might as well think about totally different ways of building online communities when everyone has shitpointing sockpuppet engines powered by AWS/Azure DeepLearningToolKit Trial Version.
Interesting. Threads like this can also be used for profiling, tracking and analysis of HN readers and active users.

Well, it's a double-edged sword I guess.

P.S. Also there is nothing wrong with self-promotion, assuming you are not shamelessly plugging in irrelevant, low-quality content.

EDIT: P.S.
I remember once being on an almost empty flight from SFO to ATL a few years ago. I checked the flight information on the seatback screen in front of me and was startled to see we were going well over 700 mph ground speed. That was pretty much the quickest flight I’ve ever been on; I think the whole trip was well under four hours.
Great thread idea!

I'm a fan of static sites, Hugo in particular. Went from WP on Apache in early 2000s, to Drupal/Nginx to Hugo/Nginx more recently. I edit the sites locally and rsync the files with an alias when done. Saves messing about with a CMS. Which I've done enough of in my time. Quick and cheap way to host a bunch of fast sites.

Freelance + blog site using Kube framework/Hugo. After looking at all the great sites here, it definitely needs some colour, a new favicon, some images of yours truly and update of services offered. But before that lot gets done, it's at:

> https://lukespear.co.uk/

This other one is experimental, the better looking of the two, probably the home for courses I hope to put out this year:

> https://objectivelyfun.com/

It uses a customised Hugo theme - related posts, new sidebar, new post layout, new post types, improved meta stuff etc.

Keep sharing - it's great for ideas.
With respect, I think most comments here are missing Dyson's point (perhaps because it was somewhat poorly made).

I don't think his point is about whether the integrator and analog electronics will be resurgent in the next century, and analog hardware will be common.

I think Dyson is talking about the complex network of the modern world, where humans interact with computing machine, and with each other - humans influence computers, and computers come back around and influence humans. I think his "future of computing" is a future where human society and culture is decided based on the interplay between humans and our machines, and this decision is an "analog computation" made by a massive scale hybrid computer that no one has intentionally designed or understands.

You can see examples of this already, with youtube recommendation engines influencing the belief systems of millions (billions?) of people across all kinds of subjects, and with our thoughts frequently dominated by whatever happens to show up on our phones.
You should keep in mind that being unable to show or find an example doesn't disprove the category. You'll never show me a fork yesterday, but that doesn't mean there were no forks yesterday.
I don't claim that this makes it inconsistent. Just that it admits meaningless concepts. You can attribute this, if you like, to the fact that I am a computer scientist, and see things through that lens.

If you give me a statement saying "For two sets, A and B, is 'A union intersection B empty", the statement would not be well-formed, so you could just say that it is not a valid proposition without asserting anything about its truthiness. Similarly, a good foundation of mathematics should be able to reject a statement like "2 is a member of 4" as poorly formed, and make no statement about its truthiness.

I guess what I'm saying is that set theory is a bad basis for mathematics and should just be regarded as an interesting relic from previous attempts to formalize mathematics so that we can move on to more powerful systems.
Interestingly the National Weather Service in Wilmington, OH posted about the jet stream and its affect on their weather balloon yesterday [0] (please forgive the link to Facebook)

[0] https://www.facebook.com/NWSWilmingtonOH/photos/a.1920894441...
Now imagine you had a profitable business on Google Cloud and this happened.
Unfortunately, LIGO encountered the 1/1,000,000 almost as soon as it was powered on and they've been waiting for another one like it. Probabilities are funny things ...
I also have a good track record with Namecheap for bussiness and personal domains.
Does anyone have a list of competitive programming challenges like this? Specifically where you're programming a board game against other algorithms. Googling "competitive programming challenges" doesn't yield a lot of good results.

I'm aware of http://fruitbots.org/, which I had a lot of fun with.
If I'm in a tailwind of 100mph and have a cruising speed of 200mph, then I'm essentially travelling at 300mph relative to the ground, but using as much fuel as if I were travelling at 200mph. On the return leg, I would hit a head wind, and be travelling at 100mph while still using as much fuel as if I were travelling at 200mph.

So yes this does save fuel.
Openbots: An Empirical Study on Automated Programs in Social Media
It's measured by repeatedly taking GPS coordinates divided by time.
Uh, what? Plait makes the important point that the light curve is hard to explain without tumbling, and if the "sail" is tumbling the entire acceleration calculation presented in the paper is shit. Kind of a big deal.
This is a blog, right? Blogs have always been more informal.
The "technical" term amongst philosophers is "ontological category":

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/02/31-flavors-of-ontology.ht...
> given that this is a .gov website, there shouldn't be (as much) concern about it being politically charged.

Because government (in this case, a committee of the House of Representatives) is apolitical?