skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you make the jump to concluding that Amazon is doing this because of some greedy or nefarious purpose? Is it possible there could be management anywhere at Amazon who cares about this segment of the workforce?

I guess - without any further information, why spread this negativity?

I don’t understand the agenda here. My personal experience with shopping Amazon and AWS has been generally really good. Even if you’re has not been good, how do you extrapolate to Amazon people all being part of some evil conspiracy?
> This, and many other concepts based on "vetting" news assumes that the audience cares.

Exactly. It's not as if there haven't been any high-quality news sources around; quite the contrary. But quality has steadily been losing to whatever the consumers want to here.

Just compare 1980's CNN with today's CNN.
Doing this to people who are only remote one day a week seems extreme. But if you're actually remote most of the time, not having an assigned desk is really not a big deal for a lot of people. At least many of us don't really need a lot of stuff that isn't on our laptop in order to be productive.
Note that number of digits is actually 10^(85 billion), not 85 billion.
Oh, it appears that it does, it's just worse hardware than the SE in the same form factor, and is actually discontinued.

I'm actually pretty surprised - that now means that the iPhone 5S has now gotten software updates for 5.5 years, which I think is a record.
Also mortgages.
Why does gravitational lensing produce four copies of the star and not a whole circle of copies? I would have expected the light to bend evenly around the intermediate star, giving a halo-like effect.
Right, and also... What causes one to need to exert self control?

Am I exerting self control if I want to do the things that I need to do? Or have I just stumbled into a sort of happy accident?
Some millennials are in their mid 30's. Isn't it time to pick on a new generation?
Doing the nerd's work and saving me time. I like you. <3
A country operated by corruption and you think a smoke a mirror show means elections are fair?

Priceless!
It's a type of supermassive object formed in the early universe from the fermentation of rye bread.
Constant noise in and of itself is stressful. Whether it's coworkers on the phone, music you're drowning them out with or white noise to mask them and give your noise cancelling headphones input doesn't matter. I shouldn't be subjected to non-stop aural input 8 hours a day to type on a keyboard.
Lame joke but it highlights how these topics are condensed and discussed at the dinner table.

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How about this crazy cold weather?

So much for global warming huh! har har har

That's not how it works Dad!

I know I know but still...

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Harmless maybe, but it doesn't stop Dad from sharing a climate change denial piece or voting for a candidate who doesn't believe (or pretends to not believe) the science.
Just to empathize, before I figured out how to type funky foreign characters on my en-us keyboard, I tried to use L for £ for awhile and...it didn't work. I thought I was being creative and industrious in an obvious way but it didn't even scan well for me. Heck, that may have been the one character that got me to learn. :)
"just pure news you won't be promised anything."

One of the most important aspects of the scientific mindset is to attempt to disprove one's own beliefs... I'd argue that that alone is enough to derive the most important aspects of scientific practice from.

Your challenge for the next couple of months is to read your own sources and actively seek out reasons why they are trying to lead you to certain things.

In particular, the question to be focusing on is "What conclusions am I expected to be drawing from this story?"

If you don't find them, I'd like to hear about your sources. They must be something exotic and small, because every name brand I've ever examined is pretty busy telling me what to think, not neutrally reporting news.
Why Would an Animal Trade One Body for Another?
You can get satellite internet in the middle of nowhere. It's much harder to get water, power, waste management, medical services, and grocery stores.
Sorry when I mean simplicity I do not mean it in the ASM sense but more like LISP. Very simple basics, very powerful concepts.
The currency symbol's placement is a matter of convention, which varies from person to person, mostly influenced by what they're used to.

I'm attacking your pedantic attempt to reduce the matter to an inflexible rule.

Some English speaking countries prefix the currency symbol, so if let's say my audience is from Australia, and I want to make the gesture of adhering to their customs, I will prefix it. However, in other (most) scenarios, I'll write it the way I write it 99% of the time, in the postfix position. And that's ok. Everyone doesn't need to use the same customs, words, grammar, or even language. Regarding these things, the only thing we care about, at the end of the day, is being able to understand the other, and the other being able to understand you.

As you've noticed, I said _some_ English speaking countries. That's because there are a lot of people, who even though use a lot of English, only a fraction of that is with people from US, Canada, Australia or Great Britain, so the customs of English users from those countries become irrelevant.

There's customs and there's language. This is an obvious example where one does not have to entail the other.
Weird flex much?
I've been reading up on the theory. Is there a way for me to start playing around with some of these ideas that wouldn't involve me joining a lab?

I'm talking about I guess simulators and some cheap kits to play around with photonics.
it does but only for public repos.
The mechanics of the actual election seem to be decent enough. But there is rampant vote buying in many areas. I've personally seen liquor handed out for votes. Money, clothing, and alcohol are commonly used to purchase votes in many rural areas. Last I heard, it cost something like like 1000-3000 RS ($15-40) per head in rural Andhra Pradesh.

FT article from 2014:
https://www.ft.com/content/a9d35821-f2f1-3479-8082-2ce1e6fa7...
A neural network trained on HN comments would probably give a scathing critique of a tangentially related project.
> noise cancelling headphones
> don't want to be disturbed

Yeah, collaboration here we come!
More likely in 50-100 years is manufacturing capacity in space gets to the point that building a 1u satellite up there is way cheaper than sending from a deep gravity well like Earth's. I imagine at some point, rockets will only be used for sending people and other things that can't be transmitted or manufacturered.
I assume this is distant history.

Free accounts are now allowed unlimited numbers of private repos with limited collaboration.

But I would also not classify as removing access when you stop paying as extortion. You know when your account is paid up to. You would therefore know when you'd have featureful access to. It's not their fault you can't plan ahead is it?
"While gravitationally lensed light sources are often shaped into an Einstein ring, due to the elongated shape of the lensing galaxy and the quasar being off-centre, the images form a peculiar cross-shape instead." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Cross
Registration over ssh is cute but not safe from MITM attacks. Even if the ssh key was published somewhere (which as far as I can tell it isn't) you would be dependent on people manually adding the key to their known_hosts file which you can't reasonably expect most people to bother with.
ALL cable news.
A lot of this looks like park land, not some where you could really live.
Continuous variable quantum computing is going to be huge.
So you think the women that worked as “computers” in the fifties entered the field because they had a passion for electronic machines?
The number of people I know in suburban settings and inner city settings are fairly equally miserable and depressed though. I kinda don't buy that suburbia makes a happy-life theme...
There's a shortage of developers in part because of terrible management practices.
A person should go to bed earlier then. Can't sleep? Then get some exercise and clean up their diet. At some point a person has to take control of their impulses.
Secured debt and unsecured debt are different animals entirely.
The second claim seems dubious. China has about the same number of people as India and about twice the land area. The US has about the same area as China. Russia has twice that land area.
There are still some oddities.

"How to Train Your Dragon" (2010), 99% with 206 reviews does not make the list, but many older movies, with lower scores and lower number of reviews do. E.g., "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), 98% with 111 reviews, and "It Happened One Night" (1934), 98% with 56 reviews, and "Casablanca" (1942), 97% with 79 reviews, and "Alien" (1979), 97% with 115 reviews.

It looks like the older a film is, the fewer reviews it needs backing its score to make the list.

It's also possible that the age of the review is taken into account, so that a modern review looking back on a film counts more than an older review, because that would probably be more relevant to someone today deciding what older movies to watch.

For example, take "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (1966). It wasn't very well received by critics in 1966. Now, though, it's at 97% on RT, and is regular included in lists of top films (it used to be on the RT top 100, but looks like it has been pushed off).
That’s good to hear. I went to a small college in Massachusetts that only had dial-up in 2008 and no cell service. The entire school shared a custom symmetric 10 mbit/s split over 500 people.

Man those were the days...
Using headphones works very well for me, but the downside is that my brain has completely associated the sensation of headphones with productivity. Even if I'm home alone, it's hard to concentrate unless I have them on.
I think you have either misunderstood the reports, misunderstand the API, or misunderstand how to integrate it. There is literally no way for me to accidentally steal a users data. You may not like facebook, but accusing me of putting my users data in jeopardy is just fucking cheeky.
Well, if the inverse is dense and the excitation as well, then I can see an advantage, because computing a solution by applying the inverse to the excitation would be O(n^2). But I suppose that usually the excitation would be sparse.
I’m ok with cryptographic authentication of unencrypted messages (eg https with null encryption). But as soon as encrypted payloads happen, everyone will be doing way more than the “ssh where no other radio transport is available” use case.
My point was that the fact that Colt markets what is essentially demilitarized M16 as "The AR-15(TM)" is source of significant confusion.
All-in-one-bucket PTO plans are extremely common including at large tech companies. I think it's a bad system but it's increasingly the norm outside of "unlimited" PTO plans. It's definitely not some weird outlier.
No, disagree.

> input type="number" is fine. Please don't stop using it.

Agreed

> The problem here is a bad input device

Part of the problem is the input device, but, as is stated around here, a "Social Security Number" is NOT a number. A number is an object that we can reasonably expect +-*/ operations on, within the context of mathematical feasibility (i.e., yes, there are some issues with division under the integer set).

I saw stated elsewhere something like, a Social Security Number is an identifier which happens to be limited to [0-9]. It should be treated as such -- an input field with a limitation on valid characters. Same with a phone number or a membership ID. No matter how sensitive the input wheel, you should not use input type="number" for a non-number, no matter how much it really, really looks like a number.
I was also interested. It seems to be a combination of the intermediate galaxy being elliptical, and the star behind it being off-center from our point of view:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/14056/how-does-g...
Einstein rings exist, too. A cross happens when the lensing object has a certain shape and orientation.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Cross
If you forget China that is.
that's a funny thing to say when coming right out of a scandal where they admitted to slowing down older phones. I know they have their reasons; not having told people is still unacceptable
> it shuold have been a better C. It failed. It was supposed to be more secure than C. It failed.

If it's worse and less secure than C, why is it so popular? Why didn't all people continue to use C?
> But the real problem, is the growing cynical world view that we cannot trust any authorities

Sounds familiar, almost like it's from some sort of playbook...

> I think it will be very difficult now for anyone to argue there was not a massive effort from the Russians to help elect Trump

Oof, I wish.
Appointing A.I. to corporate boards of directors: a defense
Wow, I learned something today; I had always thought of integer multiplication as a constant-time operation.

This is why I love computer science, no matter how much I think I know, I can feel like an idiot a day later.
It appears this is no longer the case: https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2018/4/3/seattle-employe...

>City officials adopted the language for subminimum wage for people with disabilities in 2015 in its minimum wage law. That language had been modeled off the State Minimum Wage Act, which allows for “special certificates” that can be issued if someone has a disability.

>In September, the Seattle Office of Labor Standards stopped issuing those certificates based on the director’s rules. The bill, which passed through council member Teresa Mosqueda’s committee late March, officially changed the code to remove the option altogether.

The nonprofit that got fined was due to their underpaying workers without the previously-necessary certificate.
My father in law is one of these people.

Second hand smokers need not apply, first hand is what it takes to succeed. He also gets the ability to walk away whenever he needs a break, for as long as he wants. He has a captive audience who has to listen to his latest feelings on Obama or Big Foot. And a surprisingly amount of random encounters that result in sex.

He used to drive taxi, then Uber for about the same take home. But what really makes him stay with video poker is the free gifts from the Casio (swag mostly), and the ~ 100 senior citizen ladies he romantically encounters each year.
There is also a cost, particularly in terms of management attention, to arranging offices or cubicles that is really painless if you have an open office. When you add a person, you with an open office you just say: plug your computer in over there. So when I see an open office I think of a company that is expecting a high turn over of employees. It makes sense for a startup, that may be moving to another building in six months anyway. When a company is more established I question it.
This makes me think of the book Atomic Habits, which is all about how to form good habits and break bad ones. Procrastination can be seen in many cases as a lack of habit triggers to start down the path to work.

Keeping a daily to-do list (I use bullet journaling, but other processes can work) has done wonders for my procrastination. I have a habit of writing down everything I need to do that day - even if I've already done it. I have a habit to check at the end of the day to complete what isn't yet done. I have a habit of marking things completed. So my to-do list habit leads to not procrastinating. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than where I was.

I also have a habit of taking my journal and a pen with me everywhere. I'd rather be without my phone than without my journal.

I don't use a phone for my reference calendar or (especially) to-do lists, because a cell phone is full of all sorts of nasty bad-habit triggers, many designed by giant corporations that prey on my attention for money. It's basically a digital crack pipe I carry everywhere. So marking my tasks for the day without also checking email, weather, facebook (removed that app entirely and went cold turkey), etc... it's very difficult.

Paper is how I manage my time. It gives me positive habits and positive reinforcement.
What is your favorite developer interview question?
WMAP measurements put the age of the universe at ~13.77 billion years, so I was initially perplexed by this part of the article:

> The object acting as a lens turns out to be an elliptical galaxy located at a distance of approximately 7 billion light years (z = 0.556), while the source is at least 20 billion light years away (z = 3.03).

...but I found this explanation in the Wikipedia article on the most distant known galaxy (GN-z11), which is 32 billion light-years away [1]:

> At first glance, the distance of 32 billion light-years (9.8 billion parsecs) might seem impossibly far away in a Universe that is only 13.8 billion (short scale) years old, where a light year is the distance light travels in a year, and where nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. However, because of the expansion of the universe, the distance of 13.4 billion light years traveled by light from GN-z11 to Earth, called the light-travel distance, has expanded to a distance of 32 billion light-years during the 13.4 billion years it took the light to reach us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GN-z11#Notes

see also:

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe#Meas...
My employer is switching to a hotel/open office environment. I made a slightly snide comment about how it must've been designed by the bean counters. I was told it wasn't even saving my employer money. I was quite befuddled. "You mean you're giving us a shittier work environment and it isn't even saving you money?!?!"
And that's the thing. On the other side, they have all these initiatives to do catered breakfast/lunch, happy hours, game night, etc. To try to get people into the office. We have a lot of truly remote employees (coast to coast) so attendance will not be mandatory.
Invisible Women Programmed America's First Electronic Computer
This is such a simplistic view. Tell that to the doctor in residency.

The US work culture sure doesn’t care about you getting rest.
If you have power then water is straightforward. Just dig. We’ve been doing that for hundreds of years.
That is literally every open office I've ever worked in. Walls are desirable, windows moreso, and corners are coveted. Remarkably, the highest-ranking workers seem to all occupy those desirable desks. Even more interesting, I've seen company officers bring in bookshelves to create spaces where they cannot be approached from behind (that office space was odd and mostly lacked corners). Egalitarian workspaces are a myth.
It might interest you that a couple of years ago was the first observation of gravitational waves. Here is a BBC article https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35524440
> This study, which has combined images from the Hubble Space Telescope with spectroscopic observations from the GTC, has confirmed the existence of a new example of a gravitational lens

What is the "GTC"? The article doesn't say.

It appears to be the Gran Telescopio Canarias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Telescopio_Canarias
Should the HN rules be amended to discourage self-authored submissions? They seem to circumvent the natural filter that comes with peer-nomination, and suggests they were written with promotion in mind.
see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483785
Yes, and I'm calling your view here incoherent or, at least, mistaken.

It isnt valid to interpret brains this way. An "algorithm" isnt something a physical system can "run". These are observer-relative properties a system instantiates because of our use of it.

A brain is a physical system and our model of it should be a causal model in terms of its intrinsic properties that do not "disappear" when not in use.

A digital computer is an oscillating electrical field across a piece of silicon whose oscillations "correspond" to steps in an "algorithm" but only to an observer who imposes those correspondances. The program "1 + 1" on a digital computer is some state transitions of the cpu's electrical state -- it is an algorithm only when we impose an meaning on those oscillations that they do not themselves have.

There is no physical distinction in the "waterfall computer" and "digital computer" that bares on them being computers. They are both computers in exactly the same way. We havent gone to the length of a water-to-lcd display, but there's no reason we couldnt.

Water falling over a series of moveable rocks can (easily) be arranged to display the result of "1 + 1" on an LCD (eg., bucket/pixel, with water level = intensity, pipes to handle "graphics").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
Do you take both, or would you mind explaining your dosage?

I see you've mentioned you seem to have developed a tolerance. Mind sharing more detail on the above such as how long you have been taking the above and the dosage used for each, as well as the notice of tolerance of each etc.?
Then you run into issues with things like sewer / water / trash disposal, and also funneling those people into and out of those parcels. And you need to take away some of those parcels for increased shopping capacity, parks / recreation (with families, it is good to be able to access baseball / soccer / other sports fields, regular parks, etc).

So yes, you can tear down large parts of the bay area, and replace them with Manhattan, but at that point why not just move to Manhattan which is already built on that model?

Of course, I'm partial to the model that works where I'm at, Chicago area. You have the city and everything it brings to it, yet there is bountiful land surrounding it for having more spread out housing and other development. With good transportation all around, and a tone of both large and small businesses built up all around the city, up to 50 miles from the city core (so many people don't have to commute that far for work).
We absolutely should employ disabled people.

However, Amazon has a history of aggressively exploiting workers who have little bargaining power.
Believe it or not, this US-built fast e-bike hits 45 MPH and 80 miles of range
This is a really bad look for VeraCrypt and the writer is clearly not informed enough on this topic to make that kind of statement. It really pains me to be the lone -1 on that GitHub comment.
And even if they want to, they can't because it's down...
I think it's hilarious there are complaints about regular office noise like talking business on phones, typing, and sniffling/cough etc... If you want to go to sleep it's a perfect to expect that...otherwise stop complaining get headphones, move your desk, change your environment or remove yourself from the equation in some way.

I don't believe that productivity is hurt because of open office sounds, I think people just love complaining.
I wonder how much of the complexity is "semantic." Ie, our language concepts just break down when trying to describe willpower addiction and their interaction... addiction is wanting something even though you really don't want to want it.
Technically yes, practically no. Half duplex in a shared medium radio hardware just does not scale to neighborhood sized meshes well.
There is a bit of personal preference at play, but the XPS isn't quite the same machine as the MacBook Pro/Air 13"

We have a bunch of both machines, and the XPS is much thicker, not quite as deep, the fit/finish aren't even comparable, and the XPS has a plastic 'ring' around the unit that's easily chipped/scratch and they look beat up rather quickly