skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, any number of subsets of the theory being disproved could falsify the super-set theory. But if there are two super-set theories, and you cannot falsify one over the other, then those collections are not falsifiable.

Some philosophers argue that all the subsets of evolution - genetics, mutations, natural selection could still support permanence of species with local changes. Until you can create an entirely new species in a laboratory without direct gene editing, there cannot be positive proof for evolution - but till that is done, there is no negative test that would disprove that evolution is the consequence of all its component hypotheses.

Personally, I don't see any reason to doubt evolution, considering it is neat and beautiful. But at the same time, I can see that it hasn't been built via the same scientific method seen in physics.
Are you trying to manage large videos via the cloud with only a crummy WiFi connection shared with an entire school?
the main problem is that most people have moved their social life at the office so there is little left when u stay near home all day.
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Well four years of a language won't result in you being a very good speaker anyway. The key here is that foreign language classes also teach you about other cultures, which is definitely important.
I don't know nearly enough to have a respectable opinion on this, but those screens can display different information configured to display different information at the user's choice.

Here you have another max 8 with a completely different layout on those screens: http://www.driven-technologies.com/images/bt_portfolio/52/or...
That's really interesting, for itself and other reasons. The US sending a commission into Japan (in '45!) for the sole purpose of studying survivability related to atomic blasts seems sort of mind-blowing to me.

Thank you for the podcast reference.
They will be out of business.

It only works in extremely high end ( think $400/per person ) kind of places with super limited seating. Or in a fast casual place that competes with the likes of Chipotle.
I wouldn't under-estimate the influence of Pascal here. Noted language designer Anders Hejlsberg for instance has a strong Pascal background (Delphi) and type location in C# was supposedly a heavy debate precisely because of that. Typescript benefited from the repercussions/learnings/findings of that debate and decades of C# usage.

That said it's probably a "both" situation: ML and Pascal are both clear founders of type descriptions and their both deciding on relatively the same type syntax within just a few years of each other likely a convergent evolution indicator.
Do you feel more limited by your own capability to Get Shit Done,or do you feel more limited by your colleagues'/bureaucratic organization's capability? If the latter, try management?
And 99% of the non-spanking arguments ignore these truths and seek to treat children like tiny adults. If treating children like adults were possible, then we would redefine them to be adults and let them go on with their lives.

If someone acts the same way at 25 that he acts at 13, that person would be a sociopath. But 13-year-olds are rarely sociopaths (i.e., they are only when truly mentally ill).

Children can't function the same way adults do, and we can't treat them the same way, full stop.
We can do it but it won't be comfortable. It would be "roller coaster fun" (similar acceleration). You have 500 people on a train (half of them facing backwards) and want to give them a comfortable ride. Including keeping the coffee in their cups or their stomachs :). Again, it's not a technological challenge, it's a biological one. The human body doesn't evolve faster because we have capable cars.

At 5m/s^2 we're talking ~0.5G, more than what you feel in a plane taking off (normally ~0.4G) and one order of magnitude higher than most high-speed trains accelerating (~0.03-0.05G). This is not a normal or comfortable regime. And at 0.2G lateral acceleration (in curves) you have a good chance of seeing your lunch again. This means at 600Km/h you need 15-20Km turn radius. Add to that the air turbulence at close to and over 500Km/h at sea level which causes a rumble that's nausea inducing for most people (riding in low pressure tubes may help here).

Just a few other numbers for reference:

Shinkansen: 0.07G

ICE (German HSR): 0.05G

S-Bahn (metro transport): 0.1G

Plane take off: 0.4G

Roller coaster: 0.5G
In the midwest you still see people clad head to toe in goretex waterproof gear biking to work in a blizzard. Doesn't matter how the weather is if you've prepared for it.
Being that clear wouldn't have been as catchy (read: clickbaity)
A humours note on SDI, I read somewhere there Reagan made this up almost on the spot (or it was only ever "discussed" nothing actually planned in meetings) and left people in his administration scrambling to explain what he was talking about. (ie, he "announced" the star wars system in 83' but SDI didn't even get started until 84')
Anthropocene as a term focuses on the human-shaped nature of Earth in general. Overfishing qualifies as a component.
That gives a new meaning to "security theater."
It's not a data plan, but I'm using straight talk's $55 "unlimited" plan. Supposedly I'll get throttled or whatever after 50GB or so based on congestion, but I'm generally over 100GB just from tethering and I've never been throttled. Not sure what network they use, I think Verizon. Might be an option to consider if you haven't yet.
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Yes, you have identified why computer language “fluency” is not on the same level as foreign language “fluency”. While you can communicate with reading and writing in a foreign language, it limits your ability to connect with people. Whereas with computer languages, it is almost all reading and writing, especially in whiteboard interviews :)
None of them will actually retire in any meaningful sense. You have to change so much of yourself to become that type of person that even after you reach that early, luxurious retirement number, you won't take it because there won't be anything left that you enjoy outside of work.

Perfect plan is minimizing work while maximizing income over a long career. Those that figure out how to do that will never share their secrets.
Well, I think you guessed the reasoning already correctly: The use cases of kdb+ all are so much concerned with performance, that it even matters if the whole binary fits in the CPU cache. That's certainly the reason why the GUI stuff was removed after K2. Similarly was the removal of almost all system calls in the pre-kOS prototypes. It must be very interesting to work on such a system, squeezing every possible bottleneck.
Womp womp, article didn't get picked up when I posted it last night. Guess I should have retitled / waited until morning!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19418939
I can absolutely see remote work as leading to possible depression in people, but once you bring in vagus nerve stuff, that's just confusing - it's a nerve for our parasympathetic system and can be excited by our emotions, absolutely, but it's not part of a "social engagement system", as far as I'm aware.
Makes me wonder, why not use decimal counters? If designed cleverly enough, they could drive the segments directly.

Each digit would have 7 latches, one for each segment, and cycle through just 10 of the otherwise possible 128 states. It would be ironic to use clockless logic, making simpler latches.
I made a GitHub Issue with that suggestion for you: https://github.com/bcye/Hello-Goodbye/issues/16
I've seen it asserted that it's actually safer to drive 55 when everyone else is going 75, despite the conventional wisdom you're quoting here.

So do you have a citation?
I believe they have restaurants that don’t require upfront payments, or “ticket” resales?

This is true.
Sony doesn't seem to care about emulation of old systems. The reality is that old games doesn't bring in much money for them and the people who run emulators are a niche.

Piracy of the PS4 would get their attention.
Thanks a lot, this is a great guide to go by!
Following the link in the article to the white paper "The Social Smart Contract" there is a detailed explanation of the entire project (paper.democracy.earth) - reading this, I think the answer to "what do they want to do with a blockchain and why" becomes more clear - the project is about building a digital governance platform i.e. tokenize democracy, which enables new forms of digital voter representation and participation. This article is focused on the evolution of the project's token architecture i.e. the how, vs. the what/why.

Regarding the meaning of 'formalizing humans on the blockchain" - I think the point here is, social media and the nation-states (driver's licenses, passports) are the centralized entities that control formal identity - this project is layout out an approach to decentralize the ability for a person to claim a digital ID, which is a keystone challenge to be met for digital governance to not be overrun with bots and sybils like current social media platforms are.

Also if you research the co-founder, he is a college drop out game developer and founder of a political party in Argentina - pretty far from an MBA type.
Just an FYI, you are probably getting downvoted for drawing a terrible and insensitive analogy between (a) insurance companies and drivers and (b) the perpetrators and victims of a genocide. At least that's why I downvoted your comment.
"Every time we have a real-life interaction with somebody our younger vagus nerve, sometimes also called our social engagement system is activated and exercised, like a muscle."

Whaa? Where does this come from? Extraordinary claim with no citation, somehow linked to loneliness?

I get that remote work may be lonely for some people, but I've been doing it for years now, and it's the most relaxing, friendly, and pleasant work environment I've ever been in. I'm a thinker, and I need to be alone with my thoughts.
... not just their training materials?
Lord is this impossible to read on mobile. I get using a gist and eating your own dog food to share content. But these guys have incredible eng talent and can’t make a gist readable on mobile ?
It is more limited, yes. It is only useful in rather trivial cases.

For everything else, there’s macros. Macros are unarguably far more powerful and useful than multiple cursors.

Visual block mode is constrained by absolute cursor position. Multiple cursors is constrained by relative cursor position. Macros have no constraints whatsoever, and can even be recursive.
That was my take from the article too. Hell of a job title
So what's the most likely outcome for all the grounded planes at this point? As someone who has some fear of flying I'll definitely make sure none of my trips include a 737 max in the future, no matter how many patches or upgrades boeing releases
>How have you attracted users and grown Gumroad? People always ask me this, and the answer is always super boring: we sent a lot of emails.

Thats really grim advice. Spamming people sucks but do it until you gain momentum.
I only made it a few paragraphs in but this feels like the same vein as "Money doesn't make you any happier past 70k/yr" with the same nonsense and tired platitudes to defend it.

I'm absolutely certain life would be swell for recruiters and hiring managers if skilled workers were happy to cap out at 70k/yr and never asked for perks like remote work or flexible schedules. I supposed it's easier to just wave your hands while shouting "labor shortage!" or "entitled millenials!"
I think I took a photo but only to show someone, probably deleted after that because I had trouble with it.

AMAZING food on that island, but then I kept thinking about these beasts running around at night. Didn't ruin the food for me, but I was happy to not think about it.

Those are gnarly rats!
If I did it, then so can you.
I've used github for my side projects for that entire time and I still don't have a single private repo.
The likelihood that a side project is going to pay off is very slim. If you are doing a side project for the sake of doing a side project, you are doing it wrong. Doing other things like fitness and raising a family are worthy projects, in which case your coding job is now your side project.
> ...any laptop is just a big step down from a real machine...

A friend (age ~30) works on very large-scale climate model comparisons. He directs his model runs (done on a remote supercomputer, which is his version of a "real machine") from his 13" Air. I work with smaller datasets, and it's kind of amazing what power he can command from that little thing.

He uses a dock to make visualizations on a larger monitor when at his desk.
For some people, moving isn't very easy. If you have kids there's the whole issue with switching schools, etc. If you tend to switch jobs frequently it may be a case of just getting settled and now you're in a new job.

Moving is also, for many people, a gigantic pain that they'd rather avoid, even if it means suffering through traffic every day.
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This dude is downvoted but definitely just hanging out with your spouse counts. The availability and comfort of physical presence is a thing.

It isn't all the big moments. There's definitely a lot more of just time spent together.
Most of those knobs below the glare shield are things like dimming the displays, setting what appears on each display (notable as there was an AIRS report from a pilot who struggled with the displays and presentation).

But the key controls in these accidents are identical. Namely the electronic trim on the yoke, the trim wheels in the middle and the cut-off switches to the right and below the throttles.
TBH, convention seems to play a big role in what people expect/tolerate in terms of up-front payment, cancelation fees, and so forth. Some restaurants do require a deposit to hold a reservation that you lose if you don't cancel far enough in advance. But that's uncommon and pretty off-putting to many people.
Yes, I have an example. The parent comment was about regulation in general, and mine was in response to that. However, there was the massive deregulation of the FAA in 1978 due to this sort of pressure. It had one effect of creating more competition in the industry, but it arguably went too far and has had an impact on safety as well. [0]

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/perspective-on-airline-sa...
>steel / aluminum construction is dropping in price every year

I'm not sure this is any better. Steel and aluminum production are both incredibly stressful on the environment. Brazil, for example, mines massive amounts of iron ore (for steel) and bauxite (for aluminum) in the Amazon, contributing significantly to the deforestation there. I don't know much about the process for steel production, but aluminum smelting is incredibly energy intensive. The result is large energy projects which themselves impact the environment. Hydroelectric dams are commonly used to supply the energy needs and can result in massive environmental side effects in places like Brazil. A common alternative to smelting near mining operations is shipping to countries like Iceland, which has exceptional energy production capacity thanks to its many renewable sources (like hydro) and offers cheap energy. While dams in Iceland have significantly less flora and fauna to disrupt, you're adding the emissions cost of shipping.
This is nothing new.

I know a number of other SF writers who are professional futurists, with selling books as their side hustle; others who do consulting gigs for industry from time to time. In general, corporations pay more than publishers …!
I remember in high school I tried to get them to count my Intro to Java class as a foreign language, to no avail.

In hindsight, I kind of agree with their decision. Obviously I love programming (hence why I'm always on HN), but I don't think about C/Haskell/Lisp/etc. in the same way that I think about English.

While I understand that there are semantics that are superficially similar, I feel programming is closer to mathematics than English, and I don't think anyone is suggesting that we count algebra as a foreign language.
Ask HN: How many hours/week are you expected to work in SV/NY/other tech hubs?
For someone outside Silicon Valley, the salaries being paid to rank-and-file software engineers seem very high - which is great!

However, on many job postings you'll see words like "grit" or "passion" listed as requirements. These are codewords for "we'll work you hard" and "overtime expected", as far as I can tell.

Software Engineers in Silicon Valley or comparable large tech hubs:

* How many hours do you work per week?

* Do higher-salaried jobs require more hours?

Both individual examples and higher-level overviews of the market are appreciated.

Context:

I'm a software consultant working with software companies in tech hubs - but I work remotely. I occasionally check their job postings and am $urprised at the pay rates and wonder if I'm underpaid. But then I think: Are there long hours involved? Is 50+ hours/week the minimum?
So this basically means within an enterprise instance of Slack -- "your" messages can be decrypted and made available for consumption if required?
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It's very circular. You're expected to code in your spare time because your peers code in their spare time. Your peers code in their spare time because it's expected of them.

Also- doctors and lawyers better be doing stuff in their spare time. They only get paid when they're working with patients. I sure as hell don't want a doctor who hasn't read a new study since he left medical school.
People don't expect to be able to get work done in a passenger car. Train passengers (especially the lucrative business sector) expect their laptops to stay on the table.

Another factor - half of all train passengers are facing backwards.
I'm not sure what that question gets you, because this won't be the case.

But where is their price floor right now compared to their operating margins?

If the business is mostly actuarial risk, then dramatically lowering that risk by more accurately characterizing good and bad drivers would see premiums plummet.

If the business is mostly SG&A, then better assessing individual risk would be misapplied optimization and wouldn't affect premiums much at all.

(I do look forward to the next permutation, "well what if somebody lowers prices," so we can have a good round of explaining what a cartel is.)

Do you have good reason to think that car insurers have formed a cartel?
Am I missing something, or is this post effectively saying all you need is a perfect network and suddenly ethernet is fast?
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I use Complete Anatomy, free install/preview.

The full content is ~$45 downloadable, but if you sign up without buying, you'll eventually get some promos in your e-mail -- I wound up buying it all for $10 during a back-to-school discount.
No. Go learn some real foreign language.
Probably because of an NDA the OP signed. Companies don't like it when their employees share the company's profitable code with the world.
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You know there are cities in Europe as well, right?
I quite enjoy giving gifts, but I'd say it's about both the giver and receiver equally. If the receiver doesn't enjoy it, then I don't get the satisfaction from giving the gift.

As such, I can see why they'd be upset about having to stay within limits. It's harder to hit that "wow" with a $10 gift than a $100 gift, after all.

Every Christmas or birthday that I've made someone say, "This is the best gift ever!" is the greatest feeling.

The worst for me is when someone asks for something specific. There's no way to get that "best ever" title from that. You're merely meeting expectations. Gift cards are also in this category since pure cash would actually be a better gift, and still just as soul-less and expected.

And if my aim isn't to wow them, I'd just be giving them a gift because it's expected socially, which doesn't interest me at all.
The link should probably be changed to the actual bug: https://bugs.python.org/issue36276
> The not-so-subtle message to the customer is, "We don't trust you to pay." But that knife cuts both ways: if you get my money up front, why should I trust you not to cut corners on the meal that you provide?

Because the mostly-anonymous diner has effectively no reputation to lose by not showing up. The restaurant has everything to lose by not continuing to produce good meals that satisfy their customers.
This is more like advertising your insurance company in women’s magazines to pre filter your customers without offering different prices based on gender.

As the insurance company couldn’t determine your driving ability themselves, and therefore offers the same price regardless of ability, the black box allows customers to pre filter themselves before applying, hopefully reducing the average accident rate.
Well see that's the thing. Any city councillor who says 'pretty manholes' will be superseded by someone who says 'children and the poor'.
This tool appears to be great! One question though, what does your storing solution look like?
I wasn't even questioning the debt, but the price Romanian people paid and more generally looking at him as some kind of "difficult guy, but fair" when in fact he was a ruthless dictator who lived like a king and though he was a God, just like any dictator or person with too much power.

That's like saying "Say what you will about Hitler, but he built some damn good highways.."

I live in Portugal, trust me, I know a thing or 2 about national debt..
If car insurance really is a cartel, then sure, market forces won't work. But in the absence of a cartel, the generally expected outcome would be that safe drivers see lower rates than today and dangerous drivers see higher rates than today. Average premiums would probably remain about the same, because total payouts would remain about the same.

I get concerns about privacy & whether the market forces will actually work. But, pricing risk is also the fundamental business of insurance, so it seems very intuitive & logical for them to add additional parameters to quantify risk in their models. The better they can quantify the risk, the more competitive their rates can be, and the more successful they are as a business.
Yes, that's probably a good generalization of the type of job that requires it - and "causing a lot of damage" even captures the case of high-skilled jobs that require security clearances.
My folks were nearly burned out in the Paradise Camp Fire (there's no visible structures around them). They went with a satellite-only broadband provider because it would've taken another 1-2 months from now to get POTS telephone restored (they would be the only customer on the street).
Plumbers should fix clogged toilets in their spare time.
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I know T-mobile has some coverage issues but their phone plan has free phone tethering. I think its capped at 3G speed but works great for typical laptop usage.
There's oil on Titan!

(No, really, there is!)
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From what I heard liquid hydrogen is quite nasty. It will definitely require different materials than ln2