skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: maybe this communicates it better to some people - bipolar is a tail risk of sleep deprivation / experimentation with sleep schedules / etc. It is low-probability.

But not fucking with your sleep is "antifragile". If you agree with Taleb generally, you won't risk it. The downsides are immense. You can easily spend all your savings in one weekend buying soviet filmmaking gear. And that's just the financial side. Bipolar is treatable but doesn't go away. It's just easier to handle. You go to the grave with your pillbox in hand, just in case they buried you alive.

The minor disruption of having to take a handful of pills every night, 3 minutes times 365 days times 35 years = 2100 hours. You could probably learn French, German and Italian in that time. I'm refraining from talking about the major downsides. Educate yourself.

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You can also have a latent allergy to peanuts but you always ate small portions. Then someone says "eat only peanuts for a week" and someone says "beware, some allergies are cumulative-exposure, you could be especially sensitive". Then you weigh your risks and benefits. Maybe have someone around to help you if you choke.

With bipolar you won't know what's happening right away. It will seem you're having the best period of your life (and you are!). Weigh your risks and benefits. What's being proposed is a lifehack. You could also try to sleep right the way your mother taught you to.
It is interesting to see that these days, everyone across the globe dresses essentially the same way. Why would that be, especially since other parts of cultures (like food) are still distinct in distinct places?
It's not buried at the bottom of the sea though. It's in a cave on the shore.

And the cargo is not stuck on the bottom of the sea permanently either; it's periodically washing ashore and causing ongoing pollution and litter problems.
Hopefully new CEO will tame some of the extremist mafia moderators and reopened interesting discussions and questions.
Travis CI: “Slow booting Linux builds” / Travis CI has been down/slow 24 hrs
Imperial launches one of world's first online Masters in Machine Learning
No. Mobile operating systems are considerably safer than desktop operating systems.
With their last new aircraft, this happened many times. For example, they discovered that the pieces didn't fit together: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-finds-787-piece...

I agree that someone with a title like Systems Engineer should be responsible for such issues, but (having worked at Boeing) not every group has systems engineers overseeing their work. Or they're working in a different city and you get a phone conference with them once a month.

This should be no surprise. Conway's Law in action. You can look at the issues that Boeing has and guess to a reasonable degree of accuracy what their organizational structures look like.

> You always expect out-of-spec conditions to be a possibility and have something in place to handle those conditions appropriately. To not do so is incompetence bordering on negligence.

I don't think it's possible to build an airplane if you have to expect this from every system. Any flying machine has many single points of failure. An F-15 once famously flew and landed after losing a wing. This is clearly out-of-spec but no aircraft considers this condition a realistic possibility or has contingency procedures for it.

Exercise for the reader (and maybe a good interview question for a manager): draw the organizational structure for a team to design and manufacture a new airliner. List the single points of failure on the aircraft, and point to who is responsible for them. Would you fly on this? What did you miss?
Allowing repeat questions is absolutely essential to keeping a community vital.

I've seen this pattern happen on so many Internet forums, going all the way back to the WELL, where eventually they develop this surface crust of long-time users who systematically chase anyone new away by informing them that the thing they want to talk about, whatever it is, has already been talked about. At first, it might start with a chatty response that provides a link to the old conversation and also provides a summary or some other additional input. And, when done that way, it generally is helpful and friendly.

But, with practice, the procedure is optimized down to the point where the post is little more, and sometimes less, than "We've talked about this before: <hyperlink>" And that's toxic. The only way you could send a clearer message that someone's contributions are not valued is to come right out and say, "Your contribution is not valued."

Stack Overflow has, unfortunately, stumbled upon a way to accelerate this process by gamifying it.
This seems like a great guide for how to teach stats! Does anyone have a corresponding guide for how to learn stats this way? I have almost no experience and would love to learn it in this “most tests are just linear regressions” way that the author claims is so intuitive!
Yeah, low rep restrictions are annoying. I think it's to discourage bot abuse and spam. If you can get 200 rep in any StackExchange site, then joining any other one will give you 100 rep to start off with, so I found it was worth it to answer/edit questions until I hit 200 rep
I like how they are calling their helpdesk people "Junior Technology Concierge"
I’ve been a member of stack overflow and programming professionally for over 4 years and still can’t upvote, comment on or answer questions.
"Among Boeing’s critics is Gregory Travis, a veteran software engineer and experienced, instrument-rated pilot who has flown aircraft simulators as large as the Boeing 757."

Ok, what? I'm a veteran software engineer and I've flown (MS) flight simulators such as the 747 (badly), and even I know that none of that gives me any grounds to weigh in on this situation.
And perhaps better ways to discourage this behavior from new users. This is no different then imagine a few programming newbies join a "Introduction to Programming" class taught at a college by seasoned professor and assisted by graduate teaching assistants. What if TA's start discouraging new students from continuously asking mundane questions? Do the instructors care only about the "performance" of average students in the class so they can go back to their department at the end of the semester and show they have hit a satisfactory passing rate? Or they care about that every student walked away with a good understanding of programming at the end of the day?
There are different zones. In Zone 0 or Zone 1 area you can't have any of that. Also there are special phones that can be used in those zones. Those things are basically bricks.
>> site similar to ask.com or Quora.

One huge advantage SO has over a site like Quora is that on SO there are generally very few 'poor' answers that get voted up.

Quora is a shit show when it comes to both questions and answers (at least related to programming)
OP "wrote up [a] code example" as is generally asked on SO, and that's somehow now bad asking "someone to debug your code for free"?
A Deep Attention-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Model-Based Control
Woudln't that mean the BBC are lying? Surely not ...

I can understand older items in the back catalogue needing to be removed, but for most shows now the standard contract should include "and presented on iPlayer in perpetuity". I don't know why they'd commission a new children's show, for example, and not include such a clause?
There is no evidence that USA can out-produce China and a great deal of evidence for the opposite.
>>I have little sympathy for questions asked by complete beginners. SO is probably not the best place for that kind of thing.

Welcome to the problem (as I see it) with SO! As someone who was a complete beginner during the modern age of SO, I can tell you that it sure helped me get into my current career (which is not coding related whatsoever) by driving me away from the profession. "Who the fuck wants to work with assholes like this"?

Was I asking stupid questions? Of course! Does anyone on SO owe me anything? Not even a tiny bit! But this is a cultural choice. If this is what you want, then it's doing exactly what it's supposed to. But many people don't want this.

If I go to a library, the librarians will help me to the best of their ability. That doesn't mean they teach me French, but at least show me where the French books are. More often the tone from a comment was "lol, gtfo n00b or get gud m8" which is unhelpful. Rarely was I getting a suggestion of a resource that could help me answer the question I was posing. "RTFM" isn't useful if you don't know what that manual even is.

There's all sorts of people with all sorts of personal stories about their experience with the SO community, ranging from "I wouldn't be the CTO of my company if not for them" to "I will never work in this industry again". I'm not saying I'm right, or that things need to bend to me. I'm just putting a perspective out there.
I'm not the one you're asking. But what I believe now is this: The Cluetrain approach largely lost. But the Manifesto did in fact represent how a lot of people felt. The complaints about what the net has become are, in essence, because the human approach lost and the impersonal corporations took over.
I Agree certain ads can legitimately target on the basis of age, sex, race and religions.

However, as a multi billion dollar ad company FB knows these options are illegal in other instances. I’m not even sure those other companies you mention are ad companies or give advertisers the option to discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race and religion like Facebook.

Last I used FB ads, the process included a submission of my ad to FB for review. Therefore, FB knows if an ad targets based on age, sex, race, and religion and I do think the onus shifts to them to throughly review these types of potentially illegal ads before publishing the same.

Certainly FB prohibits advertisers from publishing other types of illegal ads to avoid potential liability (try publishing a cigarette or alcohol ad targeting children) so it’s hard for them to bury their head in the sand on these matters and say they don’t bear any liability for the acts of their users.
Do we really know who is right here? Do we have data on much social media helps extremist groups grow vs how social media surveillance helps authorities catch and disband members of these groups and their plots?
FWIW, the way I was able to bump my reputation up was suggesting edits. It's pretty satisfying spending months learning proper technique and then recognizing small coding inefficiencies made by more experienced coders.
Probably had some ill thought out marketing idea shut down by reasoned technical debate :-)
Words in one language are very often ~gibberish words in other languages. And worse, because of false homonyms. And people with heavy accents.
>plenty of evidence to indicate that Samsung had released touch screen phones before Apple

Samsung hadn't released a single one of those phones and you're completely ignoring a major difference between those "designs" and the hardware changes that occurred from before to after. The iPhone's main innovation wasn't just that it was a full-front touchscreen but that the full-front touchscreen was a capacitive multi-touch screen. There was no stylus and you could capture multiple inputs at the same time. None of Samsung's devices, and even the LG Prada that you mention without any context, had capacitive multi-touch and yet all their phones had it afterwards.

Again, it's not just about the individual components. It's taking them as a whole and seeing the sudden shift that happened right when the iPhone launched. Samsung was working on all the components individually but was basically caught with their pants down.
Yes, W3W is stupid, but each address is a pointer to lots o bits.
There's also this other issue that unified India is an extremely new thing and it wasn't common for people within India to refer to that landmass as a whole.
I feel like this tweet sums up the situation: https://twitter.com/dogetard/status/1111110061768822784?s=20
Hello,

This is Gregory Travis, who wrote the original article on which the EE Times article is based. If any of you have a specific question regarding my conclusions or how I got them or want to discuss any statements of fact, I'm more than happy to engage.
I am not in aviation, but if they added redundant sensors and a new indicator, with an accompanying change to the flight manual for how to react to said indicator, wouldn't that have run contrary to the goal of "no new training/certification required"?
There are languages, ie cultures, where iphones default to male. Since it is not random, the assumption must be that market studies and tests has shown a male voice being favored in those countries vs a female voice in other countries. It more than proves that a male voice can be used as default.

The discussion of which gender the voice assistant defaults to can basically be distilled down that people rating the experience of using the female version higher or lower than the male version in specific cultures. The question is why people of some cultures are biased towards a female voice, while other countries are biased towards a male voice.
And the emoji one will work across languages.
Nasa Fireball and Bolide Data
Step 1: Get list of recent past problems at different refineries from news or people there after the fact or any number of ways.

Step 2: Get past location data that includes these periods (but spans a much larger time).

Step 3: Analyze what's different about the problem times compared to normal operation.

In some cases, it might actually be as simple as X% of work force doesn't come in for normal shift on what is otherwise a normal day.
Rust &TheMachine
What do you mean by "injecting secrets into the environment"?

You mean a section in your app.yaml like this one:

env_variables:
DB_PASSWORD: "this is a secret"

As for as I know, in the Standard and Flex environments, app.yaml is the only way to define environment variables.
Knocking at Kubernetes' Door
The thing is this is largely by design. You don't make an absolutely finite, reducing supply commodity and expect it to do than anything than turn into a valuable and rare token.

If you wanted a cryptocurrency to actually see use as a currency it would have to adopt a monetary policy analogous to at least what the naive version of how most western fiat policy behaves - you have monetary velocity / inflation / at rest targets and adjust supply to push the market in the direction you want it in.

Whats interesting is that in the general case this is perfectly valid to codify, depending on how far between commodity and currency you want to take your coin. More aggressive inflation algorithms would pressure users to spend it whereas less aggressive ones would cause deflation and hoarding.

Of course such a cryptocurrency is untenable because it isn't a valid pyramid scheme to attract early adopters with. If you build it to just be the ultimate currency it isn't going to see mass market appeal because its not a get rich quick scheme like every other crypto has attempted besides maybe namecoin.
They’re not overreacting. My analysis of employee-level U.S. Census Bureau data and qualitative interviews show that U.S. tech workers over age 40 have good reasons to be concerned about how globalization affects their career longevity. In addition to competing with greater numbers of skilled foreign workers, older tech workers are now also more likely than younger workers to lose their jobs when technical work moves overseas.

All that said, it would be a mistake to rein in U.S. immigration policy. Here’s why.

The largest and most prominent visa category for employment-based immigration to the United States is what’s known as the H-1B visa. Some 90% of H-1B visa recipients are individuals under age 40.7 Typically, economists analyze the effects of immigration through an apples-to-apples comparison of immigrants and nonimmigrants in the same general age and education bracket who are looking for employment. However, peer displacement doesn’t appear in that data set because the salary differences between workers with H-1B visas and domestic employees of similar ages and skills are minimal (in part due to a law requiring companies to pay an H-1B worker the “prevailing wage” for the position).

I don't see how it follows that adjusting the US immigration policy is a "mistake". Isn't the increased supply of workers putting downward price pressure on salaries? Even if H1B requires a prevailing wage, that wage will go down to meet the increased supply of talent that additional developers bring.
Not sure I follow. If (big if) there were really a measureable advantage to having us "pick the direct word quickly, instead of the slower way of deriving it from a rule", it doesn't follow that irregularity makes that easier. I could memorize "goed" just as easily as I can memorize "went".
If that's the same issue I had, it was a defective nvidia chip. I went through 2 logicboards and I know several of my friends who had 2012 MBPs went through a few too.

We used to be an Apple shop, and we had a lot come in due to that issue.
Even more interesting there is also a a women who exists who literally cannot feel any fear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient)

There is a radiolab podcast where they actually interview her.
And further, just because you find something to be harmful doesn't mean you have any motivation to replace or fix it. I don't like Facebook, but I certainly don't have any interest in writing my own open sourced Facebook.
>> Everyone there is just looking for someone to snipe at for internet points

I agree. But not just there. Here too. I feel I do not always express myself like I would were there no karma points to be earned/lost. I often wish for a karma-less HN .

Edit. Because I get micro depressed when I loose karma and I start to question myself. I feel I shouldn't care because I look upon myself as strong, well-behaved, clever. But I do care. Immensely.
We love OpenResty! One of our principal engineers was recently named a core maintainer of the project
The second sensor is on every plane, true, but the MCAS doesn't use it. The light just tells the pilot when the two sensors disagree.

The criminally negligent thing is having MCAS only use input from a single sensor, especially when there's a second sensor already there.
Web pages can now detect when Chrome’s window is covered by another window
Sackler billions targeted in New York fraud lawsuit
Look up Gabby Gingras if you're not convinced how dangerous that condition is. She became legally blind from scratching her own eyes as a child (among other things).
Our team has started using types-code to communicate, works well. We have unified basic interfaces and concepts, that helps.
Yes but I assume that plankton are smart enough not to eat rock particles, since they have both existed for millions/billions of years and plankton have adapted to discern between edible/inedible, whereas plastic is a very recent invention and is easily mistaken as a food source.

Perhaps you need an analogy:

Consider if a company were to sell you a plastic hamburgers disguised as a real hamburgers (i.e. how advertising food products used to be before being outlawed). Now, pretend you could swallow and ingest a hamburger whole (without chewing i.e. how plankton eat). What do you think will happen to your body?

Here is a video in case you are unable to follow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beUhzQAkanM
I noticed the "subjective" closing many times and always wondered why that criterion was even introduced on SO. I mean what's wrong with a comment/question being subjective as long as it contains useful information?
I read in New Scientist that they've discovered a way in mice to turn off the connection between pain receptors and the emotional response to pain in the brain. So the mouse feels the pain in the sense of recognising it, but doesn't have a negative feeling associated with it. That's like a half-way point; you wouldn't injure yourself accidentally (as the woman), but you also wouldn't suffer if enduring chronic pain.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132143-900-silencin...
How did Facebook cause this to be made? The wording implies that it's meant to address the administrators that demanded such an ad be made. The ones who decided to make it. Who caused it to be made.

Facebook is just the hardware store in this sense. They provide tools. And you make the billboard. They did not cause this to be made.

edit: They still may be responsible for publishing it, which is illegal. I would think its a much better argument to go after them for that then the 'cause' to be made' argument.
> I don't think anyone is seriously complaining about the performance [...]

Well, I do. It's not even that it's pretty pricey for what's inside. The lone fact that you can't get a macOS laptop with a better CPU or battery life than what it's offered with a maxed out MacBook Pro is a joke.
I found the "You must have 50 reputation to comment" frustrating at the start as well as an answer I was using was wrong as in the code didn't run which took me a while to alter and get it to work and I couldn't point it out. I guess you can get reputation by answering questions but it was annoying. Also as a relative newbie I could only answer quite dumb questions.
This article is clearly clickbait. I don't think they've done a good investigative job. Even though I don't have any pilot license, I have flown "full" 747, 767, 777 and 787 simulators, but this doesn't give me the authority to make broad statements about an airframe being faulty or not.
I agree that it's important to have lawyers defend people accused of horrible things because they could be innocent of those charges. The thing I think I disagree on is that when it is a single lawyer or a group of lawyers constantly defending a group of connected (through power and money) people, it tends to become a lot less clear that they're doing the moral duty of defending all accused instead of defending the accused that will line their pockets the most. The problem here is the one observed in the justice system as a whole, which is that routinely people with less money are disadvantaged in the system due to the lack of money to "convince" these lawyers that shield their actions behind the high-minded moral of defending all accused individuals.

In theory: All accused get representation regardless of accusation
In practice: Only the rich who are accused of vile things get a proper defense.
And blessed to get away with calling yourself an engineer without the rigor that these plane designers normally operate under.
My employer (S&P 100 sized) is rapidly deciding to move away from all Atlassian products including Jira. If enough people stop doing business with Australian tech companies, this law will likely be punted. Money talks, politicians run.
Yuck. Is this a move to help advertisers pause ads when we switch to a different tab? Imagine adds not going away until you watch them...

What's the official use case for this?
Suprised there was no mention of the Lego spill:
"Nearly 4.8 million Lego toy parts fell overboard from the Tokio Express container ship in a storm off Land's End on 13 February 1997."
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28582621
But if you answer such questions at face value, the asker still doesn't know how to write concise questions and will continue to post walls of code, since, after all, it worked and produced an answer for them.

It's almost like you need to pivot the question at that point to be "how do I isolate problems?" or "how do I debug?" because the asker lacks those basic skills needed to ask a good question.
They might be. It's got to be easier from an enforcement point of view to go after publishers than all the individuals who place ads. They have limited resources, just like the rest of us.