skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article. But there is no real reason why to leave Facebook. I get the whole privacy thing but that’s nothing new, is it?
Works as long as you're not one of those people who pronounce it "gao-da"
Why the Multiverse Must Exist
SRE at a large software company here - PagerDuty is absolutely critical to our operations. I will absolutely not trust Slack's availability nor is Slack the right platform to manage this and to expect immediate responses, even from oncalls.

When you've lots of users bells and whistles like schedule layers and setting overrides are very useful.

You don't need the $99/month plan, you can do fine on $39/month.
Visiting Munich? HEre's Why You Shouldn’t Miss the Town of Augsburg
I think it’s more of a new dance move but I like your parable nonetheless.
You can still write hacky temp code in Rust, although it does take some experience to get familiar with the ways you can do this without hitting borrow checker errors and etc (well, short of reaching for unsafe, which is generally not a good way to do this).

That said, for getting code written fast, Rust for me has been better than C++ for a while now, even though for most of that I was better at C++ than Rust. The reason for this was largely Cargo, which eliminates the pain points of dependency and build management that plague C++.
Men who lived in Spain 4500 years ago left almost no male genetic legacy today
I can't imagine having sufficiently spacious and sparsely-populated household storage that each of these things could live on its own individual scale, to be monitored in this way.
The title of this hides the real news: that software bugs have caused one suicide, several imprisonments and hundreds of people to get sacked from their jobs. Disgraceful.
I couldn't find reference to this technique could you go into more detail please ?
Individual resource records have individual TTL fields, but RFC 2181 requires all of the resource records in a resource record set to have the same TTL value as one another.

A more imaginative alternative DNS would make these first-class entities in their own rights.
Yes. Although maybe it's worth adding that what was disproved is local hidden variables. The not-disproved hidden variable ideas must have explicit instantaneous action at large distances, i.e. faster-than-light communication among the hidden variables. And that is a pretty ugly thing to have; before Bell (and Aspect, maybe) one could hope that this would not be necessary.
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I didn't think this was a problem that needed to be solved. Then I realized that I was running out of coffee and unless I make the trip to the store tonight (tough chance - I have a movie night planned), I will be out of coffee tomorrow morning.

Not the end of the world scenario, but I'm basically a zombie without my morning coffee. Not something I want to experience on my Sunday
The same happens in Spain. My take is that by hiding those taxes to employees (voters), governments have a much smaller accountability perception than they would have if their voters (i.e. their customers) saw how much they are really paying to them.
Okay, Maybe (Math) Proofs Aren't Dying After All
AFAIK you can charge your service with Wechat, but be very careful hide from AppStore audit first.
That has expected running time N! loops. Far from horrible unless you make the 'is sorted' or 'randomize' calls horrible.

The great thing about this algorithm is that the same piece of code does all these things. There isn't a separate bodge for checking whether something is sorted.
I don't have an opinion on the benefits of schools and degrees, since I don't have one, but I am sure you could have gone work for FAANG after 4 years of autodidact learning and work experience, as well.
Problems Don’t Exist in the Present
I like coffee but it's now mostly a utility for me. Same with milk and eggs and butter. I have a fixed brand (not that there are too many options in my local market) and I buy it by default
Yeah I used to think that too, the problem is the 'free marketplace of ideas' doesn't work because alot of people are literally incapable of reasoning at a high level, on either side. We can't change fascists fast enough to keep up, it's simply not possible or realistic. Also you don't seem to understand how 8chan works, because /pol/ already has a curated hate forum where any voice of reason is banned.
You could also use Special:Export depending on your use case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export
anyone tell me is it free of Hacknoon 2.0 or behind a paywall?
I love startup parody as much as the next guy, but this is taking it a bit too far.
I don't think that blog post is referring to the same paper. This new paper is about an experimental demonstration of Wigner's Friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner's_friend. Scott's blog post is talking about a more controversial extension to it, which combines Wigner's Friends with Hardy's Paradox to attempt to construct a reflective or meta limitation on the applicability of QM. The wiki link also discusses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner's_friend#An_extension_o...
Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy
point: utf8 (unicode)
I've been working on some research for a recommender system using xml wiki article dumps the last few months. I've been using mwparserfromhell as well to get plain text and some other metadata I needed from articles to create a dataset. It seems to work pretty well for that use case anyway.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
You mean to say it's slacking off?
“Most people don’t even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn’t make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.”

this got me Lol’ing pretty loud
Yes, but he might stick around and take and pass the Ph.D. qualifying exams and then be well on his way to a Princeton degree: At least at one time, the Princeton math department Web site stated that, IIRC, "students are expected to prepare for the qualifying exams on their own and that no courses are offered to prepare students for the qualifying exams. Courses are introductions to research by experts in their fields."

So, look at the qualifying exams, see what might study, and while attending classes attend the ones that can help with the exams.

In addition, might have available some profs to answer questions.

In addition, likely one way to impress Princeton or any university is to publish, and one way to start to do that is to attend research seminars and see what some of the open questions are, also notice what some of the profs and grad students are working on. So, this way get some guidance on what might attack as a research problem.

I got a good pure/applied math Ph.D. Well over 50% of what I needed and used for courses, the qualifying exams, and my research was what I'd studied independently after my 4 year college degree and start of grad school.

Then a grad course in optimization gave a good introduction to the Kuhn-Tucker condition, maybe say Karush-Kuhn-Tucker. After the course I saw a tricky question about the constraint qualifications, didn't see an answer in the library, so signed up for a 'reading course' to 'investigate' the question. Two weeks later I had a nice, clean solution, wrote it up, and was done with the course -- two weeks. Later I published. There I'd noticed that my work also answered a question stated but not solved in the famous Arrow, Hurwicz, Uzawa paper applying the KKTC to economics. I published in JOTA.

So, a 'walk in' student at Princeton might have been able to have done much the same. With such research and passing the qualifying exams they would be on the way to a Princeton Ph.D.
Nice summary. It would appear that the lem editor is:
https://github.com/cxxxr/lem

(No hyperlink in the article)
If this is serious, you are solving the wrong problem.

You assume that you can mail order the coffee your clients want through an API, this is the hard part. It's not hard for people to know and signal that they want more coffee. But even worse, you limit coffee variety to a small fraction, most gourmet beans don't even have websites.

But if we are assuming API-reachable mail ordering, here are some much simpler solutions:

An amazon button next to the grinder.

A one click app with a today view widget. It can even pro-actively suggest that it might be time to order more.

*Automatic re-ordering on a schedule that is easily changeable. Almost everyone will have fairly constant consumption patterns, getting new coffee a few days too early sometimes is not an issue, it won't go bad.
I almost feel stupid but I never realized they take the corners THAT fast. Holy shit. Respect. That's insane.
Like GCP computing pi this year, they can brag about the immense amounts of hardware they throw into it but still take a year to sort a 5-element list.
I really liked his first paragraphs! I also liked physics and was a math grad student to learn the math for physics!

But I tend to agree with his first statements about polynomials: They look too restrictive to be highly promising for physics.

It appears that he drifted off a central focus on physics and got interested in some math that may, long shot, have something to do with some detailed aspects of string theory. It looks like he is more interested in the math than the physics.

Okay, but to me it's a loss for physics.
The author is an econ professor at George Mason.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180403082331/https://eul.im/

previous version of volt
Split memory into pages. Then create two types: OwnedMem, and SharedMem. OwnedMem will own page(s), so access to memory will require no Arc. SharedMem will implement safe protocol to access memory from different threads using Arc or atomic operations. SharedMem must also implement .clone(), so both CPU and GPU will be able to hold it.

> And I think that for certain problem domains, rust provides more safety than you actually want.

If writing of unsafe Rust by hands is hard for you, then write code in plain C, then convert it into unsafe Rust using crust.
Education = Teaching + Coaching
> if you consider selective enforcement.

That's the exact opposite of a well drafted law.

Good laws are clear, straightforward, and apply to citizens in equal measure. If you can't know if you are following the law or not, you might as well not have law and instead rely completely on arbitrary judgements.
>The point of this is that none of this has anything to do with signaling, but it also has very little to do with the quality of education received. The value of an e.g. Princeton degree is that you're the sort of person that could get accepted into Princeton. [..] The degree just works as 'proof of filtering'.

That is precisely what signalling means. Top colleges pick only does who have signalled being over 99.99% of the population in things like intelligence, conformity and work ethics, then they filter out a bunch of them that never end up their degrees, and now their having their degree signals that you are a top 99.999% worker.
Perfect example of where this product is useless. Just have it automatically deliver on set intervals, that can easily be adjusted. Have a bit too much is not an issue, it doesn't have to be fresh. Besides, you should be breastfeeding.
Yes, but not to the degree of your anecdote. You observed the background cycles of insect population variation.

No person is in a position to observe the next effect of population decreases across many such cycles.
Assuming you are not being sarcastic, could you enumerate the main reasons as to why software engineering is super special?
Would a Haskell implementation of the second step (recursively call badsort and pick the first) actually exhaust all permutations of permutations before picking the first item, or would this have O(n) (or at least less than O(n!)) complexity due to lazy evaluation?
Cool tests! PyDatalog does Datalog (which is ~Prolog, but similar and very capable) logic programming with SQLAlchemy (and database indexes) and apparently NoSQL support. https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/

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

... TBH, IDK about logic programming and bad facts. Resilience to incorrect and incredible information is - I suppose - a desirable feature of any learning system that reevaluates its learnings as additional and contradictory information makes its way into the datastores.
What is customer discovery? (short version)
Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson's study showed that, if teachers were led to expect enhanced performance from children, then the children's performance was enhanced.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
No, Flickr didn't hand your photos over to corporations for machine learning
The author has a book on the subject and is one of the main proponents of signalling in education :D
Bibiana Steinhaus: Bundesliga referee shattering football's glass ceiling (2017)
Unfortunetly I think it is hard to recommend Sweden to anyone these days. People have made huge amounts in the housing market and anyone getting there now is going to pay for it. Maybe Malmö is still good to make a life in, but it would still require careful consideration. At least Sweden, but maybe even Scandinavia, really isn’t what is was ten years ago.
Coffee aficionados don't want to be restricted to buying from a single, web-based company. Unless this company stocks hundreds or thousands of varieties.
Ask HN: Technical Start for a Non-Technical Founder
My technical co-founder and I have split ways.

As a non-technical founder, I decided to bring in a partner to take care of all things 'tech', while I dealt with Sales, Marketing & Finance. The startup was my idea. However, I believe my partner to have more experience, skills and guidance (FAANG), and guide me in the journey too.

However, I have always felt that my partner was not pulling his weight. With constant delays, not replying to emails, and or suddenly on vacation, and so on. I felt like I am chaperoning, rather than get more insights from my partner.

The app I am building is not complex. I even made a replica of the entire thing on MS-Excel.

I slowly found myself learning to code enough to design and build the front-end of the application. Which I delivered to my co-founder to do the rest, and still we have not been able to deliver.

I guess to him, this was a side-project, and for me, I was passionate about bringing this to market as fast as possible, and truly believe that this solution is necessary to the world.

But the pivot to a sole founder, albeit exciting is a little scary. I always doubted if I would be able to do anything technical, and didn't have the courage. But in the last 3 years, I have been able to surprise myself. I want to do this, and I will build this.

- Has anyone been in a similar situation? Can you please share your experience in coming back from this?

- I want to build a web app, no matter what. I am good with hacking about in HTML, CSS & JS templates to create front-ends, but I have no idea what to do next about the back-end. According to my business logic at the moment, PWAs sound like a good choice - but I just want to get it to market - so is building something responsive enough?.

- Where should I start to make the back-end?

Any and every advice is much appreciated.

Thank you so much for your time in reading this.
Wikipedia is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
The UK abolished its tax deduction for mortgage interest a couple of decades ago and marriage allowance still requires contacting HMRC, which many people never get around to.
World’s Most Controversial Interpretation Accidents of Our History
Ask HN: How do I approach German businesses?
Hallöchen HN,

I'm a developer working on an pilot Product that targets traditional German businesses, like bakeries, cafes and restaurants. (No it's not a POS solution).

However I'm totally clueless about how to approach the businesses. I speak B1 level German, and can hold a decent conversation with the locals.

How do I approach this?
I would really appreciate if anyone have pointers about talking to German businesses.
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> Right now rates keep going up as we get better at conservation, which disincentives conservation.

Can someone help explain this? How would higher costs disincentivize conservation?
> Now Facebook have less money that they can use to influence the world in stupid/evil ways, and the WhatsApp founders have more money they can use to influence the world in good ways.

Correct.

> since Facebook now owns the service of WhatsApp, they have the adopted duty of popularizing it—a service that inherently resists the kind of centralized analytical approaches Facebook uses to make money

There's nothing inherently decentralized about WhatsApp.

> that nobody would accept if it was turned into not-that, because that’s its whole thing.

Sadly, that's what happened with WhatsApp. It was sold as a privacy-friendly alternative.

After it became part of Facebooks metadata harvesting engine it turned out the majority cared less about privacy and more about the fact that it was a really good messenger (it was/is).
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Solution sets to more general equations are so difficult and pathological that a lot of modern mathematics just entirely rules them out as objects of study. For example, any time you hear the word “manifold”, it refers to a space which has none of these pathologies and is entirely smooth. So the entire theory of differentiable manifolds will never encourage anything which “pinches”, or drops down a dimension, etc.

On the other hand, by restricting ourselves only to polynomials and their solution sets, it turns out that the singularities which arise are not too bad, and we can study them in detail. In other words, restricting to polynomials is the _only_ restriction we have to make, pretty much every solution set can be studied from there on.
Marketing and bovine scat. What a match.
The point is that these people all have incidents in their past which should, in theory, have hurt them politically, but which in practice, didn't.
Rates could adjust month to month and they can be given the new rates with their bill.
SaaS for diagrams? No thanks! It's probably very good software, but I can't tolerate the business model, sorry.
Property size should be irrelevant. It should just be based off usage.
You're arguing with extreme left about markets.
I Am No Liberal, But
I'm not being difficult, but how is this different / better than the other similar sites?

I'm not seeing / feeling anything compelling. Is it because I'm in a small screen device?
California never had a market for water / water rights, so your extreme left imagination is left without data to back it up.

At all.
Social Media and the Work of Being Yourself
Lol this is absolutely false. You would 100% get ejected from a Princeton class room.
Or both you know, that’s also an option.
They also can't force you to type truthful numbers into TurboTax, paper forms, or whatnot. Hence the audit in the first place. There's no reason you'd have to file your own taxes with or without TurboTax. The IRS just asking the questions, optionally online, and having their computer crunch the taxes ought to be a no-brainer but I don't know what the real reason is why that is so difficult in the USA (and the article didn't really answer that: I doubt Intuit has more than a squat of real-world influence on the thing).

I live in Scandinavia and that's how it works here: you basically get a proposal based on what the tax office knows (salaries, local capital gains/losses, interest deductions if you have mortgage etc.), and then you submit diffs, if any, and they calculate everything based on that.

I've only ever had to change my tax proposal when I've married/divorced/had kids or had activity in a brokerage firm abroad (who wouldn't report my gains directly to my local authorities). Buying and selling property also shows up automatically as the registration process goes through the government anyway.

Now the tax authorities have even stopped sending any papers with a return envelope. They just point to the online service where you can easily augment whatever fields that might be missing input.
More importantly, taking internships means you have some practice, not just theory. Not quite as green. It also signals you actually take some things seriously.
> Signaling doesn't buy you much. At least in engineering, because a technical interview will sort out whether or not you actually demonstrate basic programming skills very quick.

Doesn't everyone complain about how technical interviews only measure how well the candidate is prepared for technical interviews? With that in mind, I'd argue that the willingness to prepare for a technical interview has become just another signal. Also you go against your argument just after:

> My first company that hired me out of college got a much better deal waiting for me to complete my senior year. Yes, each year isn't worth the same. This makes sense. Senior year was my capstone -- building valuable communication skills in a team environment.

Firms can not measure soft skills accurately, so this returns right back into the value of the college degree as a signal. You get points for attending a school which provided a teamwork-oriented final course. It's your final grade that matters, not what you learned in that course. You might have developed better skills than the rest of the cohort, but it's meaningless if you didn't get a better grade then them. Everyone would rightfully assume that the others have better developed skills than you, because that's what the current system is able to measure.

One final unrelated point:

> Would you pay 50% the price for a half-finished version of Microsoft Word? Probably not. It'd be far less useful of a piece of software.

The utility of added features is diminishing. It'd be worth a lot more than half, or Microsoft would just keep on piling features and raise the price quadratically (or with some power above one).
Despite popular opinion, I like the new Top Gear (once they got rid of Chris Evans). The last two series with Matt LeBlanc was really good.

Will reserve judgement on the new-new line up with McGuinness and Flintoff [1]. McGuinness used to be funny, and Flintoff's podcast [2] is/was brilliant.

* [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45937945

* [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fr7t1/episodes/downloads |
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/flintoff-savage-and-the-...
There isn't any such complete system, but you can set up a virtual desktop on a VPS that you connect to over x2go or chrome remote desktop. I run a bunch of local and remote desktops this way, inside containers or VMs, based off a common setup script [1]. I mount my homedir to something external (mounted LXD volumes, docker mounts, iscsi, whatever) so that I can blast away the container/VM and rebuild it without destroying my homedir.

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/ubuntu-dev-installer/blob/maste...
> Finishing school is signaling that you are person that shows up in the morning for classes

Not sure about others but I tried my damnedest not to take morning classes unless I absolutely had to -- most semesters I had nothing before 11am or noon. The flexible scheduling was one of my favorite things about college. I did take one 8AM class and thinking back I have no idea how I didn't completely bomb it -- I showed up pretty sparsely after the first week or two.
It's not sorting though, you don't get closer to the desired order and there's no guaranteed bound on termination.