skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to be pretty much disinformation though. There is a section about Sweden at the end, but it is ignoring everything that has happened in the last 20 years. Of course rent control 'doesn't work' when you are converting government owned apartments to co-ops at below market rate, subsidizing co-ops and issuing 100 year mortgages. Rent control has to be combined with active building policies if you want more housing, in which case it actually keeps down the value of land. That is the big problem in most cities today, builders simply can't get land at a price to build affordable housing.
In context that was considered a good thing. In hindsight no.
A couple of years ago someone made a website about the "Grinch" vulnerability, saying it was going to be bigger than shellshock. The "vulnerability" was that members of the "wheel" admin group could use sudo to run commands as root without a password. Needless to say, RedHat replied that it was intended behavior, but not until the researcher got their 15 minutes of fame on a bunch of tech websites.

https://access.redhat.com/articles/1298913
what do you mean by train wolf pups?
That was awesome!

(Though it doesn't mention Prolog compilation research.)
Before you go with anyone, look up Wardley maps by Simon Wardley. Read his medium blog (all of it).
Your wife didn’t know before you even interviewed?
"Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests"

It calls out mood and anxiety disorders, which might be a disadvantage in this situation.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-...
I think it’s largely dependent on the parameters of the problem. The researchers noted the significance of the distance between the reward, the first tool, and the second tool.

My guess is most humans run two quick analyses: 1) what is the cost of seeing if the short tool can be made to work and 2) what is the cost of retrieving the more distant long tool using the short tool. Human/primate efforts would seem to begin with tool use before escalating to metatool use.

All seven of the New Caledonian crows in the experiment engaged in metatool use on their first attempt; only some of them successfully retrieved the second tool but none of them trialed simple tool use.
Yeah, but that seems pretty rational. VCs are only slightly less short-term than public markets. While rockets are awesome, it is not clear that there can be a 10 year positive return on them. It could be possible that a startup with a bunch of VC could develop a ton of useful rocket-related technology and still not see a financial return for 50 years.

By contrast, internet businesses return or bust in that timeframe.

It does appear that we don't have a great funding mechanism that is expecting long-term returns vs short term. Past the 10 year expected payoff mark, there's debt, and there's grants. VC is a possible solution, but, there is very little willingness to stretch funds out past 10 years, since the 10 year mark is kind of a benchmark that is marketed to investors in the funds. When you are playing with other people's money, 10 years is already a really long time.
Look at a map, bro. Do you know anything at all about Canada? Seriously.
i thought he was killed
Can you elaborate on how you see this as an integrity problem? A new malicious version was released; at no point did the attackers represent their new release as the same code as the previous release.
I understand cynicism in the current environment, but we're talking publicly about individual real people, with no evidence of criminal intent (the article suggests the opposite, if anything).
If you want more, there is an excellent course on "introductory" topology on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXSSz0gZI4

It is made by a physicist, not mathematician, and it's a great combination of informal explanations and carefully covering the actual math definitions.

I feel that his approach works way better than making analogies.

There is another course from Wildberger. A bit more hardcore, but also has some interesting perspectives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap2c1dPyIVo&list=PL6763F57A6...
Thanks for making this. I've wanted similar labelling for some time.
I’ve found this YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/k9-wTnqIidY

more helpful, as it spends more time showing you both (and obviously you can hear the sounds).
Was going to say much the same thing, plus it starts instantaneously, vs a minimum of several seconds for a VM
I'm aware of restrict and the problem it solves but that does that say about TFA? Are you proposing that restrict should be deprecated in favor of the mechanism proposed by the parent?

The example in the paper linked is specifically a situation where the compiler does not normally catch the aliasing between two pointers which is the opposite of the problem "restrict" solves (i.e. a situation where the compiler emits code that assumes that two pointers can alias when in fact they do not).
I'm sorry your marriage didn't work out.
That's a sure sign you are watching ravens, not crows. Ravens can play together in the air in ways crows never do.
Twice (starting new enterprises) if it weren’t for a couple lucky breaks I’d have needed at minimum 18 months. As it was, I burned down about 6 months worth the first time before starting to break even. The second time it both took off and crashed quickly and I didn’t burn much cash during the enterprise itself but did spend 3 months after unemployed and looking for a 9-5 job.

A third time (joining an early stage startup as a late founder) 6 months would have been a decent contingency if it went under fast, 12 if it withered away slowly. (Also caught a lucky break on that one and had a soft landing.)

Once (walking away from a bad job and looking for one that was a stretch), 6 months would have been plenty because if the gamble didn’t work out I knew I could reset my sights lower after a few months of looking and be employed somewhere within 6 weeks.

So the answer is very much “it depends on the circumstances”.
A Simple Serverless Test Harness Using AWS Lambda
Guess I’m just another in the mix here, I’ve been putting out job apps for some time and thought I had a promotion coming that was given to someone else for what appears to be political reasons as I’m more qualified. At least I have more motivation to move somewhere else I suppose because being passed on for someone I have helped grow daily is just the icing on the cake and shows how blind the company is to their ever growing list of internal issues.
Clearly, because every human problem is a problem of reasoning.
This is a hilarious coincidence, we (a database with opposite tradeoffs of Cockroach) just did the same thing a month ago:

`npm install gun@0.2019.413`

This means no breaking change.

How old/new of a version you are on.

Month+day the bug got fixed.

It was the compromise between intense debates within the community. It is the one thing everyone could agree too.

Looks like it is already catching on! I hope more projects adopt it.
criminalize advertising
This article is such a mess. It’s talking about 1950’s 80’s and early 2000’s (with reference to “but 15 years on”) so is basically generalizing half a century in a few paragraphs.

Across all these periods of time large parts of Manhattan had relatively cheap property. Soho/Tribeca were probably favorite spaces for studios compared to other parts of Manhattan because they included non-residential buildings with huge open spaces with higher chance of natural light.

15 years ago the greatest density of NYC’s new artists were probably found in Williamsburg for some similar reasons, today they’ve been priced out and are probably more likely to be found in Bushwick. In 2035 they’ll probably be centered in some other neighbourhood.

What the author fails to mention is the enormous number of artists that died during the AIDS epidemic.

I know this is just fluff to provide something in between advertising of the NYT magazine, but this is exactly why I’ve cancelled my subscription. GAH!
This. Privacy is not about embarrasment. It's about power.

I don't care (that much) about my privacy, I care about everyone's privacy.
Apex Electronics – Los Angeles, California – Atlas Obscura
"The offering also includes “neutrality targeting”: that is, isolating upsetting stories that could decrease receptivity to ad messages — placements to be avoided."

In a news environment driven by ad revenues, expect the news to avoid hard hitting stories that make you feel bad. Shame and anger are emotions that cause change -- they don't sell consumer products well. Chipper stories are the order of the day, never mind the complete capture of the information system by corporations, government elites, and the rich generally.
Re line breaks: That's Microsoft being poetic :)
Being smart often doesn't correlate with being able to relate well to other people, and in the end, other people are what give you options, not really reasoning. You need to be valuable to other people, which requires empathy and an element of salesmanship at the very least.
Really? The happiest man I ever knew was a plant maintanenance guy with a GED who couldn't have been more than a 90.

The most miserable guy I ever knew had a PhD and was for sure a "genius" at 160+.

Sure it's just anecdata, but sometimes "try not to think so much" seems like good advice.
One Month, 500k Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. To Profile a Minority
Hugin and Munin means Thought and Memory. I can't imagine how that would be onomatopoeia :)
Vi Hart on how to make a spirally triply meta-chiral time crystal [video]
You cannot run COPY...PROGRAM without a permission that can only be granted to you by a superuser and which is not granted by default. I'm failing to see the distinction.

Postgres is just a process that happens to do a lot of I/O. It's no different than any other Unix process: it can spawn children, it can dynamically load libraries on request. It protects these powerful tools with permissions, which is the sane and correct approach taken by many, many other languages and frameworks, all just unix processes, all just trying to get shit done.
Yes absolutely, the launch of brick and mortar was supposed to satisfy the "want some right now" crowd but high prices have turned a lot of folks off.

Weedmaps is the defacto "local" black market source in my area, I can have product in hand within 2 hours from a selection of dealers.

Sellers post their "menus" on the app and leave a phone number or email. Responses are quick. Delivery is $10-15 usually.

Most will verify you are 19+ when they drop it off, as selling drugs to minors has historically had stiffer penalties then selling to adults. The laws have all changed now and the first person was just charged with possession under the new laws last week.
Here's a video from one of the data scientists who worked on the project explaining the science behind it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzZmNxmWko
Interesting, thanks very much! I will have a look at these blog posts.
My guess would be that the ravens demonstrate effective scavenging behavior to the wolf pups. Interestingly, both wolves and ravens engage in observational learning of food acquisition behaviors [0].

I think most of us would assume that wolf pups have an innate scavenging ability; this is probably wrong.

[0] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aff0/dca479ca58868890d903cd...
If I ask a machine for the Wikipedia article about “such-and-such”, then I fully expect “such-and-such” to go over the network. If I ask for my lights to turn off, the cloud has no legitimate need to know about it.

(The best counterargument I can think of is that the speech recognizer might be too computationally expensive
to run on cheap hardware.)
I used to work at a Series A funded biotech startup. I’d consulted for them for free for 2 years, then joined full time after they got the funding, then it all fell to pieces. Investor pressure led to CEO putting huge pressure on team, and (along with many others) I cracked and left.

Fallback option was to help my best friend from school to build a tech startup. We lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic but we’d talked about this during my last few months at the biotech and we figured it’d work. It was being built with Ruby on Rails which I hadn’t touched - last time I did any web development was 6 years ago with LAMP - but I was excited to get back into tech and learn.

When I started working on this new startup, it went wrong very quickly. I was working from home and quickly felt isolated and sad. I noticed that my anxiety levels were shooting through the roof. I felt I wasn’t learning RoR anywhere near quickly enough to get to grips with our core business problem (which was to build a new search engine for technical staff). And since I was working with my friend, who had literally busted his arse for a year to raise funding for us, I felt utterly trapped. My head was telling me to get the hell out and take a long long break to destress. But that would totally wreck his business opportunity - his funding was contingent on having a tech team (me) ready to go immediately.

Eventually I did quit. I found myself utterly helpless and reliant on my wife’s income for the first time. I was now relegated to stay at home dad status, which I’d done everything to avoid as my career had always been important to me. That was rock bottom. In real terms it could have been much worse, but mentally that’s about as low and trapped as I’ve ever been, and I honestly didn’t think I’d ever find a way back into any meaningful career.

Long story short - I took a year out to spend with my kid. Wife got a one year transfer to London, which was an amazing blessing in disguise because it was a tonne of fun to explore the city with my kid. Finally inched back into tech, did two boot camps, rediscovered my love of coding, got a job, and gradually got back on track. It’s taken 5 years and is in many ways an ongoing process, but I did manage to get out of that trapped situation.
I don’t disagree that one can define dimension for a manifold (topological or differentiable). I was replying to the parent comment and so I was pointing out that dimension isn’t really well defined for a general topological space.
Yes and no. Cs is huge. People have preferences for what they’d rather be working on. But it seems it’s a lower div class, whose projects tend to be more general. There’s a possible cases: your peers find the project boring because it is trivially easy but just busy work to them; they find it hard; they are interested in something else in cs.
> If there are not so many things to be improved, there should not have been so many tools to replace `make`.

There isn't? The actual non broken badly designed ones that don't generate a DAG and aren't tied to a language is make, tup, ninja and redo.
> Even more curious is that IT culture is basically that if you want to get paid what you're worth, you have to quit and go to another company.

This is a very US-centric perspective. At least in Germany, the situation is somehwat different. Here, changing companies too regularly, often bears a social stigma.
My iq has been measured at 158 and I have definitely felt trapped before. Sure I "reasoned out" of these situations eventually, but I suspect most do. Do you suppose there are people who really find themselves trapped forever?
Do you ever wonder if you should have, instead, pursued something on the side or maybe enjoy other aspects of your life, rather than make your job your primary source of fulfillment? I'm in a similar situation.
I think that rent control can make you paralyzed. Unable/unwilling to pursue new and potentially better opportunities in new places. Having a rent controlled place makes it significantly less likely that you will take a job in another place, even if it's paying you more.

It's the classic case of economic myopia. Maybe that new job would put you on a career path to be a millionaire in 10 years, but you can't see anything except how you would be losing money (by giving up your rent controlled apartment) in the short-term.
> Another plus is that with aircraft you don't need to build a launch pad

That one doesn't seem like an advantage, a launch pad is much cheaper than the world's largest really odd-looking and unique airplane.
Billable and Non-Billable Hours
It wasn't just that rent was cheap; rent was cheap in many other places as well.

It's that rent was cheap in close proximity to the buyers and dealers artists needed to make a living, with a subway to get around on nearby, and (eventually) a critical mass of like-minded creators to hang around with.

This basically doesn't exist nowadays. You can move to western New Jersey to lower your bills, but it's a long haul to New York when you need to do business, and unless you get others to move with you, you'll be working in isolation or with a small handful of peers.
In Northern Europe, the subspecies Corvus cornix, hooded crow, is easy to tell apart from the raven due to its grey body parts. For this reason there is never any doubt what you see, but this also has imprinted the other body differences in my mind. I don't think it is hard to tell the black Corvus corone from raven due to this.
I've been trying to leave my company for the past year but 6 months ago I had a severe concussion at work. I was put on medical leave. It's been 6 months now though since I'm on medical leave I can't apply to anything. I also have been having trouble with my doctor. He doesn't do any test and just asks questions and doesn't even make eye contact with me. I have been trying to see a new doctor but I have to get approval from my works insurance but they keep going around it. I have been thinking about seeing a lawyer but I feel guilty about going because I have been with the company for a while and don't want to feel like a dick. But I'm sick of the pain and not being helped.
That's pretty much the textbook definition of a shitty wife and a shitty person.

Why don't you do yourself a favor and find someone who will lift you up rather then drag you down?
There's three advantages you get from air launch. One is that your first stage rocket engines can use nozzles that are optimized for vacuum or close to vacuum resulting in better performance through the entire first stage burn. (The RS-68 used on the Delta-IV, for example, has a sea-level ISP of 365s and a vacuum ISP of 420s, which is a pretty substantial difference.[1])

The second is that a launch aircraft at 30,000 or 40,000 feet is providing not just forward velocity but has also allowed the first stage to avoid some gravity loss (to accelerate at 1G at launch you need 2Gs of thrust). It's also allowed the first stage to side-step a major portion of the aerodynamic resistance.

Finally, an air-launched system is not as strongly constrained to specific launch windows. When targeting a specific orbit, you don't have to wait for a specific launch window at the primary launch site (the airfield), you can simply wait until one is relatively nearby and fly to it. This might be a big operational advantage even when it's not a big performance advantage since you can launch your aircraft when you have decent weather over the airfield and the fly to a more ideal spot to launch the rocket. If the radius of the loaded launch airplane is wide enough, this could be a very big advantage.

Even if you add all of these effects up, it's still a pretty small fraction of the 9,000 m/s of delta-v or so that you need to reach orbit. But keep in mind that rockets only deliver a few percent of their launch mass to orbit. A relatively small reduction in the delta-v needed to reach orbit might result in big gains in payload into orbit. In extreme cases, maybe it could double it.

The biggest disadvantage of air launch is that you are seriously constrained in the maximum size of the rocket. The Stratolaunch aircraft can carry about 230 metric tons of payload, whereas a Falcon Heavy weighs in at something like 1,400 metric tons[2].

[1] http://www.astronautix.com/r/rs-68.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
Yeah everyone knows Norwegians are ethnically superior to others. Wait, that is what you're getting at, yes?
Rent control is a scourge on our cities and people. It hurts everything around it: the people (both rich and poor), the city, the developers, sometimes even the people who are living in the rent controlled apartment. I don't think you could find a single reputable economist who thinks it's anything except a terrible idea.
No. It's unreasonable to expect they could be deleted.
To quote you: "If there is a line that gets crossed, it can be dealt with, or even turned into a teaching moment so long as it wasn't too egregious." A code of conduct in many ways is a commitment by the organizer that that's what will happen, even if it'd be more convenient to ignore a problem and avoid confrontation, or if they'd be tempted to treat some people differently. A commitment they can be held to by attendees.

In the same way, for the organizer, it provides something to follow when making a decision, and to point to to justify their decisions when challenged. Something that amounts to "I'll kick people out if they break those rules" is easier to accept than "I'll kick people out when I want to" (even if the latter is often the organizers right from a legal POV too).

If everyone "know[s] the difference between right and wrong, welcome and unwelcome", a Code of Conduct is redundant (which also means one existing shouldn't cause no problems, and when it does the ideas about whats right or wrong typically weren't as common as expected). But experience shows that this doesn't reliably survives contact with reality, and it's easy for issues to never get brought up or silenced because "surely we all are adults and nobody would really do something bad", where again the commitment part of a code of conduct comes into play.

It's always just a tool: It doesn't magically make problems go away, and I'm certainly not saying all code of conducts are perfect, fit the same for all groups or are always applied well.

Re "set of additional rules that are platitudes": So you don't have a problem with an organizer saying "If you misbehave I'll kick you out", but making it more explicit what counts as "misbehave" is a problem?
I think it's a compiler hint for optimizations, but the onus of correctness (ie. Is this really pure) remains on the programmer / whatever generates the C code
“I'm going to guess you are struggling to put your opinion into words”

That seem rather unkind. I’m going to guess this conversation is not worth continuing.
If on some midnight dreary there is suddenly a tapping, as of someone rapping, at your chamber door...

It's probably a raven.

Nevermore.
I got a job about a year ago at a big bank writing software. The job is terrible, boring as hell, but it pays really well. I'm getting paid at least 15-20k more than I'd make anywhere else. I definitely feel trapped.
They probably didn’t talk my elderly aunt, who paid a similar sum with her $1,100/mo social security and was able to stay in her community, parish and close to loved ones.
Curious what were the political reasons.