skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainstream press gets details wrong all the time; when I read newspaper and magazine articles about a subject I'm very familiar with, I can usually identify some misunderstanding or oversimplification or other mistake. But I can't recall any instance of encountering mainstream media getting something so egregiously wrong as to be comparable to mixing up "vaccinate" vs "don't vaccinate". Nor have any of the health care professionals I know ever disputed the pro-vaccination consensus as reported by the press.
Somewhat related, it's entirely possible that someday social security will be revamped to include equities similar to how Canada runs its pension plan.

The ideal time for this would be once the current house of cards world economy collapses. Could be 10-15 years off yet.
> We pick something boring, say from the standard library, and nothing tricky like a hash table. Really boring like floor(). If you can't figure out how floor() does its "magic" that's scary.

What I find scary is that you think floor() is an easy algorithm. Here's a typical high quality implementation of floor() (Plauger's implementation in "The Standard C Library" is different, but of similar complexity). Not something you'd derive on a whiteboard: http://www.netlib.org/fdlibm/s_floor.c

I'm concerned that a question like this is selecting for mediocre programmers who'd brute force some solution, while causing programmers who are aware of the complexity of the problem to freeze.
More big words, please...
That also tells you something.

For instance, the first time I had a pair programming type of interview like I described, they in fact did have an ergonomic split keyboard for me to use. For physical reasons, I type with one hand and couldn’t possibly type efficienctly on one. I had no problem asking them for a normal keyboard. If they had seem to have a problem, that would have told me a lot about the company.

You could even ask what their favorite editor is before hand even as part of the phone screen.
It's amazing that asking forgiveness would have any value at all, words are so cheap as to be free; there's little stopping him from saying whatever suits his agenda in that area
Dave Brin's answer: privacy is lost, but we should make sure that it is lost by all equally. We must eliminate all avenues that grant privacy to any class that is otherwise favored.
Provides us (hn users) a place to discuss that thought.
In 2015, Wired reported that one daycare at Google had a 68% measles vaccination rate, although Google contested the accuracy of the article at the time.

What a morass of foggy and unverified information, this online hive mind.
I really like this Table

https://www.homedepot.com/p/301809830
You can't apply what you describe as a "libertarian moral-economic approach" to a capitalist culture and society and claim that the result reflects the true moral fiber of its citizens. The system is too complex to make such a sweeping generalization.

For example, I could probably stand to donate far more money to charities and causes than I do. The reason I don't give more is because I worry about whether the charity I choose is being run efficiently, and I worry about my own financial stability changing the moment I give the money away, and a million other varyingly logical/illogical concerns. I'm sure I'm not the only one who fits this description.

Not to mention the capitalist fiction of being able to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps as an excuse for why I deserve the money I've made and the less fortunate are simply lazier, etc. I personally no longer believe in that, but a lot of people do. So-called "hustle culture" is somewhat related in that it romanticises having to work non-stop to be financially secure.

But I digress, as I've wandered off topic. My point is that it's unfair to judge a society's morality by the measure you've applied due to all of these factors of capitalism and more.
What I want to know is why the software developer is expected to give estimates. Estimating how long common tasks take seems like something I would expect a software manager to be able to do effectively and care about. If you’re just a monkey who is asking everyone to do the planning and estimation job for you, I’m frankly unsure why the company allows you to collect a paycheck.
If its outside Australia's EEZ there is nothing they can do legally. An illegal military confrontation is the last thing anyone needs. The whole South China Sea issue is over this right to navigate freely outside a EEZ (and that man made islands don't count towards an EEZ)
It wasn't like he alone created that half a trillion in value. Facebook employs thousands of people. He was at the right place at the right time.
Can someone suggest a few practical use cases of this for normal plebs like me?
I would also add that some of the most compelling rationale, at least in the US, would likely cite oppressive regimes that seem distant geographically and historically.

“That would never happen here!” is the thinking.
You can fund private insurance via taxes as well. That's not a limit to private market insurances.

But I tell you one thing that really affects why insurance sucks: that you get sweet tax exemptions if you get it through an employer, and to be an insurance that works through an employer you need to overcome massive regulatory hurdles.

Welcome to the world of regulatory capture.
It is a discount store, that is what they have.
Nice!

What I haven't found in the docs is how federation would work.
> To a large extent, anti-vaxxers are only willing to engage

> with the issue in an emotional, irrational way and they are

> almost by definition unreceptive to the kind of rational

> discourse you pretend isn't being attempted.

Maybe you are correct, but I don't think it's reason to stop trying. Something is very wrong when we decide to give up on our fellow humans.
How does this solve your cold start?

What happens if I have a new request come in for which I have no key OR key_backup?
> This assertion contradicts the comment by you that I replied to, which asserts reasonable doubt can exist in people who aren't fundamentally nutters concerning the value of vaccines.

No, that comment asserts that it only takes one small unreasonable conclusion to send you down the path toward an anti-vax conclusion. That's not what reasonable doubt is.
Price is the best mechanism for organically assessing quality at scale.
The only research this article cites is a 2017 study that looked at Panera Cares itself. You can hardly fault the Panera CEO for trying when his efforts are what allowed the research to be done in the first place.
Google Voice Now Part of G-Suite
Crowded and uncomfortable? I never really felt it was that bad. I lived in Hyogo-ken and would sometimes stop in at one on my way home from university. It was a fun place to be, a sensory overload perhaps though you get used to it pretty quickly. I usually just bought snacks there, a halloween costume... It's like an upgraded dollar store.
People think I'm weird for not installing whatsapp because it downloads all my contacts and I can't prevent that in this version of android which I can't update because I can only do that through at&t while on their network but I get service through someone else because at&t doesn't cover my area.

It's absurd.
To further your point, NLTK is written in pure Python whereas the backend for spaCy, thinc, is written in C/C++/Python. Really no comparison here.
1) Pass law providers require to support all insurances

2) Make insurance company that reimburses 1$ per visit

3) Profit
Social media spreading poorly sourced articles strikes again.
Curious what's your reasoning behind this? If anything I see programmer jobs as one of the only professions that will survive the next couple of decades.
Aristocracy and gentry: 30%
”I often think the big challenge of economics now is perhaps not managing overall growth but managing sort of "decline" overall with demographic changes.”

You are a quick thinker my friend. If you figure out how capitalism can work on a shrinking or even steady state economy you will get the Nobel price. No kidding.
Emergency care being expensive is not a problem of insurance. Public hospitals are also expensive. Its related to other things.
I find COLMAP has better dense depth maps, a more configurable pipeline, is cross-platform, the code is solid, and the accompanying research is principled (it takes a Bayesian approach to stereo matching.)

What aspects of these make them great alternatives in your opinion?
Strange Fruit: The most shocking song of all time
In 2008 when I was on the Bing team, Sergei had just developed this library and was putting it to work on the document understanding pipeline. He was incredibly passionate about it and would evangelize it with anybody that cared to listen. When I saw the headline on HN, I immediately guessed that this was Sergei's work. And of course it is! Sergei, if you are reading this, try to guess who I am ;)
What I don't get is why do you think paying 2k to a private insurance is any worse than 2k to the state.
> The thing is, charities and churches are rarely "run well".

Do you have any data or personal experience (not just one example) to back that up?

The truth is, the vast majority of churches and local faith-based charities just quietly do their thing and usually aren’t big enough to garner any recognition or attention at scale.

Actually, it’s the big operations with money flowing to a central hub that are usually the most suspect - when those at the top have less accountability and more temptation to not put all that money where it ought to go. The American Red Cross comes to mind. The only exception is large charities with a “100% of donations go to help people” policy (i.e. employees and leaders have to raise their own support to work there).
Git's Built-In Web UI
You can see our outages here: https://status.cloud.google.com/. OAuth is included under "Identity & Security": https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-iam/19001
Appalling really. It's almost as if those Georgists are onto something.
> What's your most convincing argument for why an average person should care more?

Laymen Argument 1:

Mark Zuckerburg who has majority control of the largest source of private data in the world bought the two plots of land next to him for privacy reasons.

Laymen Argument 2:

Forward me all of your emails if privacy isn't an issue. crickets

The average person doesn't care about these because it doesn't affect them right now, but it's a "boil the frog" situation...you won't know you're getting boiled to death until it's too late.
> Etc cetera. There's no end to the nuisance. If I could choose to just pay more in taxes (hell I'll pay way more than my current premiums) and never deal with insurance again, I would do it in a heartbeat.

If you have a high deductible, you already chose to pay less. Revealed preferences and all that.
The code quality is amazing. Good job.
Ethereum Core Analyst Selects Quantum Resistance Date, Dials in Time-Frame
Exactly. It's negative because Shaich acted without doing any research, purely trusting his "gut" about how he, a rich white man, thought food insecurity could be "solved" despite being the last person in the world who would know anything about it.

It's negative because it was a waste of time and money that could have been applied much more effectively to help the problem if some research was done first instead of trying to swoop in like some Ayn Randian super hero.
> So eager to throw our privacy out you don't even see that you pretty much chucked the rest out the window too.

What privacy is lost by having a doctor attest to the fact that you've either received a vaccine or have a medically-valid reason not to?
Have any of you here looked into neuromorphic computing and Spiky Neural Networks? Do these show any promise?
The marvel isn't that we're good at picking up on patterns, it's that nature itself is so patterned to begin with.
Its definitely a boon for the cause, but I would be surprised if it passed the senate.

OTOH I dont even get how it could be in the table to bankrupt an entire market without compensation. Can the state really just outlaw all private insurances?
You're taking the two places that have the most tourists and lowest residential concentration in Tokyo. Obviously it's going to be mostly tourists in the shop.

Go see a Donki in a residential neighborhood and it'll be full of locals. I live in Shirokane, an upscale highly residential neighborhood off of Meguro station, and even if it's reputed as one of the richest place in Tokyo there is a Donki and it's packed with local families shopping.
The AF needs to look at the software industry. Bring in hordes of newbies and keep the ones that don't kill themselves for 3-5 years, then repeat.
That's why I didn't mention the pharma companies. If it legitimately helps people there's still tons of money to be made off of it, such as marketing it properly and some optimized form for consumption - like how Epipen scammed the public with their 'form factor' patents which held up generic brands for years.
I don’t think this is accurate. People are often frightened of unlikely things so long as they feel they can do something about it. But when a threat seems incomprehensible and they feel powerless to do anything about it (at least partially bc they do not understand it), they will shut it out and shut down rather than confront it, because it overwhelms their ability to cope with it emotionally and paralyzes them.

Incomprehensibility and powerlessness are overwhelming emotions. They flood the nervous system, so people shut them out in order to be able to continue to function on a daily basis. It’s the same reason why people continue to ignore climate change.

It’s not a rational problem, or a probabilistic one. It’s a problem of emotion. It’s a trauma problem.
Sandberg is a major liability and should be gotten rid of ASAP. Mark has a vision and has made some good choices, prescient moves and (most importantly) great long-term bets but Sandberg looks to me like a career opportunist, completely out of touch with technology.
I put my money on the brain adapting to the absence of those inputs.
I don't happen to agree with your position concerning the wall.

But your account is relatively new. I wish you well in figuring out how to more effectively navigate conversation here.
Tinder’s Move to Kubernetes
Pytorch install without any problem for quite a long time (they have a whl with all libraries included). This can't be said about tensorflow unfortunately.
“We use [the fast Fourier transform] in a much more violent way, use it several times instead of a single time, and replace even more multiplications with additions and subtractions,”

The algorithm itself doesn't seem particularly aesthetic.
One of the big selling point of "persistent virtual memory" is that you do not need to serialize things to file at all: [0]

> Phantom doesn't have files. Well, there are no files in the sense that a developer opens a file handle, writes to it, and closes the file handle. From the user's perspective, things still look familiar – a desktop, directories, and file icons. But a file in Phantom is simply an object whose state is persisted. You don't have to explicitly open it. As long as your program has some kind of reference to that object, all you need to do is call methods on it, and the data is there as you would expect.

So in today's OSes, your editor may store data in the complex structure (ropes? ArrayList of Strings? b-tree?), but when saving, it serializes data to the nice format, using capnproto, json, xml, RIFF or something similar.

In Phantom, there is no "save" step. If your editor stores text as a list of extents pointing into set of global buffers which contain strings in UCS-4 representation, this is whats gets written to disk, with pointers, vtables and all. Phantom OS magic ensures that pointers and vtables can be restored later.

This is nice for application developer (less code), but very bad for third party trying to extract the data -- you either have to run the program and ask it nicely; or reverse engineer the class structure of the program.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/03/phantom_russian_os/
>destined for landfill

I've always referred to crap at discount stores as "future garbage." Sure, that's end-of-the-line for most things, but these discount stores peddle stuff with an exceptionally short useful life. Especially targeted towards kids, I feel! I guess it's easier for a parent to give in to a child's wants when the toy is only a buck.
>Currently released model supports most of the languages except East Asian (Chinese Simplified, Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai). You should expect good results if a language uses space as a main token delimitter.

Any plans to change this?

What does MS fall back on for these languages?
it's not crowded for a typical japanese store and not crowded for a typical east asian megacity store. i've seen "supermarkets" that have just as much walking space. that's just the nature of the use of space in that part of the world.

also i feel like almost every city will have a business like this that sells everything under one roof that does very very well. japan itself has a lot of these kind of businesses - daiso, tokyu, etc. places like donki just happen to be the most well known of them all.
Funny thing is that this whole packaging problem could be much improved with some regulation. You could force brands to put their products in large receptacles in the grocery store which would take the place of outer packaging from which you would remove them to buy them... the products you would buy would have a minimal amount of packaging. You could also regulate a certain set of standardized containers made of glass to contain items with easily removable stickers that could easily be cycled through the system.

I would love to see some artist take this up as a project and create an art display with this sort of imagined reality of what things could look like in a modern store with a bit of regulation pushing business to make packaging reusable.
Doesn't really help that M4A is pushed by someone that calls himself a socialist and outspokenly disapproves of capitalism.
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Does anyone have an HBO Now login I can use
Also: Don't forget green. The 0 and 00 slices of the wheel are green because that's where the house makes their money.
Completely tangent question: Does anyone know how a website such as this is created? It has that "old" vibe to it. Perhaps, I am guessing it was created using one of those software in a box that you buy a physical copy of it, and it allows a non-techy person to create a website. I am curious because I see this similar type of web-design in old websites.
Per wikipedia, what you are describing is the Net Reproduction Rate.

TFR is not calculated that way. Instead, it takes women in the child bearing age group (say 15-44 or 15-49), and adds up the age specific fertility rates to calculate the TFR.

What TFR would result in replacement level of the population depends to some extent on mortality rates among women from birth to end of reproductive age, Thus advanced countries may achieve replacement levels at a TFR of 2.05 (say), while countries like India may do so at 2.1, and other countries with higher mortality may do so at 2.3+.
The article says at the height of her career Twigg never made more than $50k per year with sponsorships.

So coaches I bet would only be making $20-30k per year. Barely a living wage these days, unless you live in Montana
> The truth is, the vast majority of churches and local faith-based charities just quietly do their thing and usually aren’t big enough to garner any recognition or attention at scale.

Your original comment said:

> When run well, those do far more good than even government programs.

Can you prove this? Because Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps do more good for 100+ million Americans than your local charities and churches, nor do faith based organizations have anywhere near the resources available to them government does.
I really want slack to adopt these as well...

I'll often be on call with customer and create a checklist on MacOS Notes on the fly. Then will copy paste that in slack or github for simple tracking.
So the argument in question was about a technical matter which is not appropriate to share externally. The software engineer with "strong anti-vax opinions" believed that vaccines are net beneficial, but not that they should be absolutely forced by pulling a child out of parent's arms. In return, you and "many others" threatened to report their kids to authorities.

Or maybe it was another debate, can't tell from limited context. In any case, either it was work-related, in which case engineer in question had full right to express an opinion. Or, it was pure idle chit chat, in which case it seems unprofessional to pile on, let alone share externally years later. Are you also in the habit of posting office gossip from Facebook on this site?

As for personal belief exemptions, Trump declared a national emergency on Southern border. If civilians are somehow deputized to build the wall, do you want to be forced into it or to be able to declare a personal belief exemption?
It just seems like if you can push yourself mentally and physically to be a world champion, then a mediocre office job is exponentially easier.
Interviewers underestimate the complexity and problems floating point numbers cause in interview questions.
I wonder if the increases in the gig economy (ride sharing, charging, food delivery) will lead to more people eligible to file these incomes as sole proprietorships, allowing them to deduct health insurance.
It wasn't actually intended as constructive criticism per se. Just observation concerning some of the replies I'm seeing posted on HN, which strike me as being influenced by the title rather than rooted in the obvious fact that you've had years to think about this and know what you are doing.
The "#bbinclude" in the source suggests it was made using BBEdit.
I agree, it makes the dollar store in the USA feel like a high end retailer. They sell absolute junk. Things you would find in the garbage that other stores might throw out.
Its says Bling stands for "Beyond Language Understanding". They must be really good programmers.
It's 2019 and not a single mention of which OS this runs on. I had to download it to find out it's for Windows.

Might want to make a note of that somewhere.
The real cost for 10GbE is the switches. Even the cheapest NeatGear supporting 10GBASE-T is like $2600
I don't mind being a bit challenged to increase my vocabulary. But, it seems the nature of this website attracts people that order dry, straightforward explanation of phenomena?

I don't like overly flowery language, but I don't mind a person with a good grasp on language and composition writing a piece that is more than "'A' because 'B' followed by 'C'. The end." Maybe it's a fine line...
It’s probably lower in reality since it’s phone poll and minorities are probably more likely to participate in polls.
> Maybe you are correct, but I don't think it's reason to stop trying.

Last time I checked, all the experts are still providing the same expert advice to get vaccinated. The shaming has not displaced any of that, and most of the shaming seems to take the form of telling people that they're doing a bad thing by rejecting the advice of their doctor or encouraging others to do so.
>I think they intentionally put these in nightlife districts, so they can be a sort of drunk man's IKEA where you always end up buying more than you planned to.

Complete with food.
I was really hoping Matt Parker made another amusing-yet-educational mistake somewhere, like his famous square.
Essentially they pay for procedures and not for outcomes. Imagine if we compensated plumbers that way.
This is some fucking nerd sniping, if I've ever seen such a thing.