skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting...

I wonder: Given a graph paper and one point on that paper could you manually color in one at a time those surrounding boxes that a larger square (eg 5x5) or a equilateral triangle (aprox rasterized) or a rasterized line between two given points emerges? If yes, how would you do it? Would you need to run an algorithm of "which box to color next" in your head? Or could you just color in an entire region because you already know aproximately which boxes need to be colored? Do you know/guess which boxes you need to color before taking the pencil into your hand?

Because, given such a graph and a task to color some of the boxes to render a figure, if you know which boxes to color by just looking at the paper is the same as seeing the boxes colored in your mind, isn' it?
Windows LPEs are still up to $80k on zerodium, instead of the up to $50k for Linux, Mac, and BSD. Yes those numbers are funny money, and you're more likely to see a third of that, but they're still useful numbers in a relative sense.

Like I said, I think this is just a bug, but Windows LPEs do have value.
I had just started actually reading TFA because this topic interests me, I was skimming past some infographic of "phone addicts spend x% not looking at the road" when - pop! - a little distraction popped up in the bottom right corner offering "hey <domainname> wanna chat". A distraction, a creepy "personalized" one no less, on an article about distractions. Too meta for me, I ctrl-w'd outta there.
"There's a sense in which all taxes are antagonistic to free enterprise – and yet we need taxes. ...So the question is, which are the least bad taxes? In my opinion the least bad tax is the property tax on the unimproved value of land, the Henry George argument of many, many years ago." —Milton Friedman
At 2% of the population, with a word to describe it only since 2015, That's a completely understandable & reasonable question.

I treat the world as a narrative, so a sphere is part of a very clear story. Indeed, A one of type object.

If it helps, there's an objective way to classify this under development in Australia, involving colour bias in people with stereoscopic vision:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2124346-people-with-no-...
She pissed off most of the staff. She introduced a weird iteration of "fire the bottom performers every year". She bailed out Dan Loeb (who had hired her but changed his mind after she refused to do almost anything she promised). She didn't get a particularly good price in the eventual sale. She got paid hundreds of millions for nothing (her pay alone was ~5% of the eventual sale price...one person). Terrible acquisitions. Terrible hires. She also appears to have rubbed almost everyone she met up the wrong way (I know people who met her and got a bad impression, imo she came across very poorly to investors and was preoccupied with perception/spin...I believe she gave an interview a few years ago in which she even blamed Carl Ichan...truly odd).

Most people are, I think, quite forgiving when it comes to failing in these situations. The issue often is that some people, most in my experience, have no idea how to behave when things go wrong (and, given enough time, something will always go wrong).
> But in this case I'm having trouble following what his criticism even is

A piece by Isaac Faber [1] from December last year clearly described what Taleb's position is. A summary paragraph towards the end:

> Here we can say, with some confidence that FiveThirtyEight predictions are not always reliable probabilities. However, they masquerade as one, being between 0 and 1 and all. This is Taleb’s primary argument; FiveThirtyEight’s predictions do not behave like probabilities that incorporate all uncertainty and should not be passed off as them.

Faber's piece was discussed on HN [2] soon after it appeared.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/why-you-should-care-about-the...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18704376
this is complete bullshit and every new yorker knows it. Why hasn't crime returned to pre-1990 levels in the last 18 years? Not enough time ?
Wait, I can't believe that I am a "rare individual" who can visually imagine things. Is visual imagination really not a wide spread ability among the population at large? I would think that it is the opposite. That aphantasia would be rare.
Was your father not allowed to switch jobs on pain of death?
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> the girlfriend complains quite a bit about all of the (often repetitive) ads on Hulu -- and I'm pretty sure we even pay for it.

Hulu Plus has two offerings, an ad supported one for $5.99/mo, and an ad-free one for $11.99/mo. I subscribe to the ad-free one, and if you watch more than a couple hours of Hulu a month I think it's worth it (but I can't stand watching commercials, so maybe other people find then less onerous).
Advertising doesn't help the advertiser unless it helps you.

This is nonsense. History is littered with cases of advertising abuse and misuse. Everything from literal snake oil salesmen to modern day shysters profiting from selling conspiracy theories and anti-tax bullshit is enabled and propagated by advertising.
A little off topic, but when did Ben and Moisey Uretsky (founders) leave their daily duties at DigitalOcean? Only shows them on the board now [1].

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/about/leadership/
If you cannot read the laws you are subject to, should the government be able to punish you for breaking them?

If the ICC wanted to keep their work papers private, they should not lobby to get the enacted as laws and code. No one is forcing them to lobby their rules to state houses & cities.
> It's possible to go from composition to focused in the span of time it takes to move the hand (and eyes) from the phone back to driving mode.

And yet it takes even less time to irreversibly ruin somebody else's life because you weren't paying attention when it mattered.

Whatever is happening on your phone is not more important than other people's lives. Don't use your phone while your car is in motion — period.
Not to mention that it requires other licenses and hardware to work in the first place, so your total licensing cost is quite a bit higher than that:

"What's required to run Anthos?
Anthos has multiple components. Among these, running GKE On-Prem requires vCenter 6.5 in order to create VMs for the GKE On-Prem cluster. Additionally, GKE On-Prem integrates with F5 BIG-IP load balancers in order to provide layer 4 load balancing."

At least AWS Outposts and Azure Stack include all the hardware and all the licenses in the box.
I've seen this first hand at several conferences where Microsoft "MVP"s come on to the stage and try to make Microsoft seem all "hip" and "rad" rather than talking about real engineering and technical improvements, it was not only nauseating - so many people could clearly see right through it.
ahah, right? I really hope thats a typo. Although you could probably see a lemonade stand valued at > 1m these days, that number is absurd.
Isn't the whole "3 meals a day" a modern invention? Maybe 1 meal a day is the natural diet of humans..
I have been a Microsoft MVP from 2006-2018. While I was proud to be part of a group of so many smart people at the beginning, my professional and personal life changed over the years and I stopped blogging regularly, never engaged in their new web forums (which replaced the newsgroups – anyone remembers them? ;)) and finally filtered out all of the many emails and newsletters coming to my inbox. So I would say for 10 out of 12 years I have been a ghost. A ghost that has been "re-awarded" every year – for whatever reason. I think that alone tells you something about the value of that "title".
Not really. You have one vote in the council per country. For it to be a majority you need both the number of countries >55% and the amount of population >65%. Population is defined as people with "usual residence"in the country. I can't find clarity on this right now but eg refugees would normally not be included. So it's really long term population increase which is rather rare in Europe.

With 83 million people Germany has 16.18% of EU residents (18.5% post Brexit). Adding 1 million increases the weight by around ~.18% (or ~.23% post Brexit) - assuming you get people from outside the EU and thus an overall EU population increase. Thinking strategically, you could think this matters if this is a long term trend. But factually you have to have quite a lot of shifting population (within-EU migration) to change the set of possible alliances that can reach 65%.

Moreover, even the smallest country retains their individual voting weight, so if one country grew so big to overshadow all others they could still reign it in through majority vote.
It seems to me that many drivers and cyclists have unique strategies that could be useful for self-driving cars.

My father has a good one for going around blind corners and going up blind hills at night: Check trees and other objects in the direct path of oncoming traffic for light.

I also tend to look around buildings now, which is something self-driving cars probably already do but many drivers don't.
True, although I guess we'll have to wait and see what this means for the operational experience. I cant fault AWS for looking out for its customers first.
I have recently been digging into composition as related to object oriented programming.

Can someone summarize why this is better than say inheritance?

I can possibly understand the value of composition where you need a large team to be able to constantly add and remove functionality to a code base with this without having to mess with APIs override methods, etc...

But is there a fundamental benefit of composition over inheritance in ever circumstance? (I've read a number of articles on this recently and I am not understanding the benefits vs the complications it adds)
As far as I'm aware, the authors have not eliminated the genetic confound here. Specifically, the propensity to accumulate wealth and power seems to have a genetic element, which would also explain the phenomena they observed wrt southern slaveholders regaining their wealth and power.

> Ultimately, if something similar happened today (immediate removal of 50% of rich people's so-called property or some other major wealth shock), avoiding a similar recovery couldn't be done without banning private schools and removing all children from their parents for long periods of time, along with forcibly relocating the previous property owners and not letting them network with each other.

Something that might interest you is the fact that the current elites in China are largely the descendants of the country's pre-communism elite. Social engineering is hard.
The article certainly doesn't make it look that way. She joined in 2004 and left in 2006. Way too short even for a five year tenure clock, especially when she very much needed the health insurance.
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Not sure if this is helpful but I am at work right now building out my first Kubernetes cluster. I need a diagram of the different components to see how they all fit together and even though it's probably relatively simple, I can't picture it in my head and I am about to draw one on a whiteboard. If I can physically see something, I'm fine.

Coding is not at all visual for me because I lack the ability to picture anything. If I think of a function, I know what it does, I know what it returns and I know what arguments it should have but I can't picture a call graph in my head or anything like that; only metadata associated with things.

No on drawing pictures.
Your wife's desire for timely updates comes second to the legal (and, hopefully, moral) requirement of not recklessly and needlessly endangering those around you while operating a motor vehicle.
I also hired an independent tax preparer, to avoid paying Intuit. They did a good job. I was disappointed when I received their payment form and found it was hosted on Intuit. I had paid Intuit by proxy. :(
The lack of access to basic banking services in low income area's is one of the biggest failures of the private banking system. Even when services are available they often are overloaded with cryptic fees which erode trust in all financial services.

There have been talks in the past of expanding the Post Offie's charter to encompass basic banking services like savings accounts and cashing check.
are we still on about this? what good does it do other than make white feel bad and black entitled and powerless?

I suggest black Americans to go to Africa and Asia, not even extreme poor countries, see how life is there and see poor people's altitude toward life there. See if they bitch as much as you do, then read some books about happiness and how it has nothing to do with having equal to what privilege people have, and think about the purpose of your life, is it to claim things you deserve? Or to create things and do what is it that make you happy, regardless of circumtances?
A few weeks ago a kroger bagger asked me if I wanted paper or plastic bags. I took the paper bags. I said I was suprised they offer it. But the lady said theyve had the option all along.
I think I'm privileged to live in Australia where I do not need to pay for my visits to the hospital and for my operation when I had appendicitis. Whereas in the US I've seen it is 30-70k. It's also interesting that there is a range of prices depending on the hospital. Would this be representative of treatment quality? How much one can pay shouldn't be the determinant of the optimal treatment that one deserves to receive.
I like fluid layouts because i like to control the width of every window I open in my computer. I hate those 80-line & fixed designs so much. I enjoy the freedom of setting the content the way I want.
At one point she was seen from the outside as the 3rd most powerful/influential person at Google, after the two founders and even ahead of Schmidt, I remember articles praising her decision of leaving the Google front-page almost empty with only two buttons on it (I think this was around 2008-2010). Then she went to Yahoo and drove it into the ground and as such I'm surprised that people still take her business-related pieces of advice that seriously.
"As a thought experiment, how could this have been avoided?"

We have good models for this. Many nations have employed highly effective GULAG systems that have achieved excellent results at wiping out all manner of unfairness and inequity.

The opportunity hasn't even yet been lost in the US. Cycling the white population through work camps could achieve a great deal in leveling the prevailing disparities.
I don't know that J/APL have a good front page example - if it does nothing, it's not interesting. If it does a lot, it's intimidating off-putting gibberish.

APL, rather than J, but here's a beautiful Prime Numbers up to 20 example:

(~R∊(R∘.×R))/R←1↓⍳20

Reading right to left, iota 20 makes numbers 1 through 20 inclusive, 1 drop takes that list as an argument and removes the first element, R left arrow takes that shorter list as an argument and stores the numbers 2 through 20 into variable R.

In the nested parens, the outer product multiplication pattern (R___R) makes a multiplication table of the vector R against itself, and because we dropped 1 from the list we avoid all the 1xN and Nx1 pairs so it's a table of composite numbers. Then outer parens R epsilon compares each item in R with the matrix of composite numbers and generates a boolean result vector the same size and shape as R, but each input number has become 1 if it was found as a composite number, 0 if it wasn't (aka prime). Negate that bitmask so 1 indicates where a prime number was in the original R numbers, and use / to filter (reduce) the original list to pick those out.

Primes: Numbers 2..N which aren't members of all the products of 2..N.

No explicit loops, no if/else branching, no proliferation of names for working arrays, no need to wrap it in a function, give the function a name, document the function parameters and their assumptions. And even though it is N-squared runtime, it's short enough that an interpreter could pick out that pattern in code and implement it faster behind the scenes, if that was beneficial, without forcing the programmer to interrupt neat code to appease the machine beneath.

I can't APL or J, but I transliterate it to J as:

(-. R e. ; R*/ R=: 2 }. i. 20) # R

J starts counting at 0 so this drops two numbers from the list. (Yes, J has p: for making Prime numbers).
Advertising helps the advertiser if it results in a sale - it doesn't matter if the sale helps the viewer.

Exactly this.

Often it doesn't even require a sale. A lot of Facebook & Google advertising is for bullshit sites which push increasingly sketchy content backed by even sketchier advertising. Sometimes the goal isn't even profit, the Russians paid for advertising to influence politics.
Too much focus on utility functions, not enough focus on novelty functions, even though it's been proven that utility functions decline in usefulness as a search space expands. Given an infinite search space, a utility function can only find local optima, there is no global optima. In such situations, a novelty function that finds a path from one happy local optima to another happy local optima is a better bet than using a utility function.

The above paragraph is rational, and yet people who consider themselves hyper rational often ignore the truth of this. And the irony is that some of them do this for an emotional reason: they want the security that comes from believing that there is an absolute right answer. They are irrationally rational.
I have the very book you talk about ("101 BASIC Computer Ganmes", the DEC version from ~1973) on my bookshelf. In very poor condition, but there.

Many of my very first "lessons" in programming were from taking programs in that book and then translating them to BASIC as found on the VIC-20 and, a little later, the C-64.

I still often do that (just after "Hello World") when I'm first learning a new programming language... though these days it looks much more like just getting the requirements from the book than any sort of actual direct code level conversion.
I feel like I have pretty good visual thinking (I can picture and walk around places I’ve been and imagined with no effort, although I don’t know if this is actually normal or subnormal since it‘s impossible to adequately convey how your mind works), but I don’t think about programs like that

I’ve always learned better by just reading plain text instead of looking at diagrams or drawing mind maps or whatever, when I think about facts or am constructing a program, the things I need just pop into my head, I don’t really consciously keep track of a visual representation of how things are tied together, I just “know” what I’ve already done and what still needs to be done without thinking about it
That may make that one guy powerful, but it makes government pretty powerless...
I found that surprising too. I picture things in a space that's not even here. Where does that fit in?

Here's the book that the quote is apparently from: https://books.google.com/books?id=dZyPAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA52&ots=...
Cloud Run is built upon Knative so it runs inside k8s (which uses CRI API of a backend, Docker or any other alternative) which handles OOM by inner resource manager, not cgroups.
I am kind of playing devil's advocate. I don't think any of that is a good idea. You're basically gulaging people at that point, which would be a good comparison -- did those guys get their money back? There was a thing on HN about how people in England with Norman names are still wealthier than those with Anglo-Saxon names about a millennium later. Now that was a conquest.

edit: they claimed to control for "skill" and inheritance (which should cover some of the genetic component) but I don't know how well as the paper is paywalled
PewDiePie switches streams from YouTube to blockchain upstart DLive
I think it matters only because there is a strong contingent of alternative energy supporters that do not see nuclear as part of the mix when talking about ‘renewables’ and for those folks the math is really hard. Conversely the math is easy with a strong nuclear mix.
> but I've gone through cyclist stop sign enforcement twice.

That's because as a cyclist on the road, you are inconveniencing the operators of highly-lethal, 4,000 lb machines. If you haven't crossed your i's, and dotted your t's, you need to be removed from the road, for their convenience.
Friend of mine did this. I don't have the discipline.
Jackson literally said slavery was going "to be not the real reason, but a pretext" for aggression against the south. Lincoln also said he wasn't trying to free the slaves.

Trust me, it's 100% possible to be living a life in 2019, even as an American, defined by tyranny and injustice. Now, not the same level of tyranny as Black slaves, but you'll become aware people are just the same. Most dont genuinely give a shit. The ones that do cant be bothered to do anything about it. Too many will takr advantage of you. And the closest most people can get to morality is defined by social norms.

Edit: people downvote this, sadly showing this to be right. What would show this to be wrong is if someone offered help. I'm pretty sure people just want to virtue signal.
Configuration === composition, IMO.

Composition is just bringing together a bunch of objects to form something that does more.

Configuration is just bringing together a bunch of primitives, perhaps structured, to form something that does more.
Largely depends on how quickly Slack/ Discord move their APIs and how aggressively those platforms block this kind of app. This has little to do with app performance though. Slack is a sluggish pig because the way it's written, not because of it's feature-set
What an interesting perspective with a great paradoxical conclusion.

Well done.
How did you know she was distracted by her phone? I'm asking not because I don't believe you, but because my wife got rear ended about a week ago, and when the person got out of his car, he had his cell phone in his hand, but that's what you'd expect after a collision (calling family/insurance/police/etc).

Did you have to go through a discovery process or?

What happened to the distracted driver?
Ah, welcome to Alberta :)

A lot of small towns in Alberta only have Catholic hospitals (which are publicly funded, but run by Covenant Health [0], a Catholic institution). They refuse to provide, among other things, assisted suicide or abortion services despite being publicly funded. 4/9 of Edmonton's hospitals are run by Covenant Health.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_Health_(Alberta)
> I’m sorry, but a thank you is now considered arbitrary?
> And does it matter if they are truly thankful?

A thank you that is 1) Expected and 2) Not truly meant seems pretty arbitrary to me. I would show respect to the person who took time out of their day to interview me by not taking any more time out of their day by making them read a thank you message.

To be clear: I don't think there is anything wrong with sending a thank you. I just don't think it should be considered necessary, and it definitely shouldn't be a primary signal on hiring decisions.
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> I see this comparison a lot, and I just want to clarify: when you are distracted as a pedestrian, you're risking your life. When you are distracted as a driver, you're risking other people's lives.

You are letting distracted pedestrians off too lightly. They are not just risking their own lives; they are risking the lives of motorists, cyclists, and other pedestrians by potentially forcing motorists and cyclists into erratic evasive maneuvers to avoid them. Ditto for drunk pedestrians. We should not be giving them a pass just because drunk/distracted drivers are more dangerous.
I too do not like spending a $1 so somebody can earn $0.0002.