skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> using said resource unwisely
> prevent unwise ways of utilizing

Who are you to decide what is wise or unwisely use of oil? How do you know the carbon tax does not unjustly affect the ability for those with lesser means to use it today and as a result kill off entire peoples who would have existed otherwise -- talking about hampering future citizens.

The entire notion of limiting use of it because it is going to run out is silly because it will still run out. It does not matter if it runs out 100 years from now, or 200 years from now or 1000 years from now. It is still going to run out.

You want to trade the freedoms of today for the idea of "freedom" tomorrow. You have no data or proof to suggest that how it is being used today vs how it will be used by future peoples will be better or worse. All you are doing now is raising the price artificially and hampering current citizens -- which I argue are more important than any future ones you can image.

> A carbon tax helps bring the price of oil up to at least be closer to its real value.

Value is subjective. 1000 years ago oil was worthless, and when found was often considered unwanted. The price of oil will change as its value changes over time. We could have had different events that caused us to never discover the use of oil and thus it would be valueless to us today.
I think I’m gonna talk to my doctor about getting immunized. I might have had the shot when I was young but hell if I remember for sure.
Stats is the science of sciences in my opinion, and anyone who brings it to life like this is awesome.
It is pretty weird. I don't think there's a simple, empirical answer available. But if you would like to read more about incredible mathematical intuition and elegance, give the book Love and Math a read.
This is not an expectation of privacy. This is a negative liberty from constant surveillance in public. This has something that has implicitly existed forever. Perhaps it needs to be explicitly stated now. And here I am not even advocating for that freedom, but simply for that freedom to be ephemeral in retrospect. Say after 2-10 years the data is destroyed.
> I don't necessarily believe...

To be honest, when someone puts it that way, it sounds like they do actually believe it, to some extent at least.

No one who doesn't believe it would phrase things that way.
Google's illegal anticompetitive contracts with phone manufacturers that forbid them from developing/selling non-Google-app-store-infected phones if they want to sell any phone's with Google's app store: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/Google-s-Confidentia...
I wonder if it would have been worth it to build a device to scan the skittles for you.

edit: would love an explanation for the downvotes
The tests are more time consuming and expensive than just getting a new MMR vaccine. If you were vaccinated, then there will be no effect because your immune system will kill the live virus in the vaccine. If you weren't, then you are going to need the vaccine when your tests come back anyway.

Plus in some places (like California) you can get a free MMR vaccine at pharmacies like CVS, without making a doctor appointment.
> We'd probably have eradicated polio already but the Taliban keeps killing off humanitarians in Pakistan.

It’s important to remember that this was the direct result of the CIA’s use of a vaccination program as a cover:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28764582/

Whether or not you agree with that call, it seems likely to be an enduring side-effect.
True e-bike believers double down with second Super Bike festival
Your argument would be more effective if you don't state it in such absolutist terms. Do you really believe that vaccines are so safe that anyone who has any doubts about their safety is anti-science? The science of immunology itself does not give you that level of certainty.

Here is a book on Vaccines and Auto-Immunity written by highly credentialed immunologists.

https://www.amazon.com/Vaccines-Autoimmunity-Yehuda-Shoenfel...

Would you call them anti-science?
The question should be: how many C extensions does the average Ruby developer have in their Gemfile. And my guess would ranging from a few to many.
> how susceptible educated people can be to essentially baseless fear mongering

If I were to wager a guess, I'd say this is because people who feel like they're very good at logic/rational thought underestimate the effect emotions can have on motivating a belief?
Although bordering on impossible to prove, there's a case there for reckless endangerment.
Yeah, when I first encountered the field I was quite confused. I’d interview developers who had worked for years, but only knew about really weirdly narrow areas of SAP or whatever and definitely couldn’t display the kinds of skills that we usually evaluate for. It’s so different as to feel like a completely different field; we just happen to share titles.
I think it just means that not all intelligence is "general intelligence". Humans are weird and complex creatures.
Its too bad its still flakey at updating apps. I've been using it for a few apps for many years, and I'd say easily half of app updates simply fail for non-obvious reasons. Its been this way across multiple devices and countless versions of Android, so I'm left to believe the problem is with F-droid itself.
In fact, there's a browser extension which users willingly install that can help you "commit ad fraud":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19278936

It might actually be beneficial for privacy, since trying to "poison the well" of tracking data gets detected by the adtech companies and they'll likely start ignoring you. In that sense, affecting their bottom line is the only way to make advertisers leave you alone...
There's many that believe that educated people are above having baseless beliefs. There's plenty of evidence showing that that belief itself is baseless too. Funny that.

You can see this mistaken belief whenever people decry that there are "smart" people that believe dumb things outside their profession. Well, "dumb" people believe dumb things outside their profession too.

When it comes to believing this stuff, people tend to just be people. The "smart" get special attention because some of us incorrectly assume they should be immune to it. But they're obviously not.
https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1118575264026333185

(Pulls the fucking screen off) I think this may have contributed to my screen not working
It makes me wonder, what to do then if an game of interest does not have such timing mechanism? To put it another way, how to train the agents as fast as AlphaGO (no timing issues at all) or OpenAI Five (in-game overclocking) if the environment can only be simulated in the same time scale?

Any thoughts?
just a side note: Measles vaccine is given at 1-1.5 years of age.

Hopefully not too many babies have cancer, aids, and organ transplants.
> The scary thing about anti-vaxxers, at least to me, is how susceptible educated people can be to essentially baseless fear mongering.

Argh, it sucks... it sucks so friggin much. I've been trying to articulate my feelings on this for the past few weeks. There is a breakdown of thinking throughout our society. It's not just that critical thinking is impaired, but rather the ability to endure any sort of criticism of one's belief structure is gone.

So we know you can't throw facts down at a person when they state an immediate falsehood. You must combat it, but the tactic to combating such a falsehood requires an emotional component.

Seeing videos of iron lungs terrified me as a kid, I had remembered seeing a few elders with shriveled arms from polio. These emotional experiences burn upon you far more than the impersonal fact: that diseases maim and kill. But we just want to develop fantasies and live inside our filter bubbles because of course it's easier to believe the distrust that vaccines are just a delivery mechanism for the government's nanomachines.
I appreciate what you’re saying but I don’t know... I’ve come to terms with sports. Not so with astrology. Something about it...
A device seems like overkill. Write code to apply machine vision to this grid: https://possiblywrong.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/skittles_a...
No problem, if they don't have a record, they can take another shot. IMO FAANGs are best suited, many have their own on-site clinics. If not, you can in states like California, head down to Walgreens and get one on the house without an appointment.
Anyone do the math on this?
How do you feel about kids not being able to bring PB&J sandwiches to school because of the fear some other kid might have an allergy to it?
Are they sure it is measles and not amp?
>So, what’s the point? Why bother with nearly three months of effort to collect this data? One easy answer is that I simply found it interesting. But I think a better answer is that this seemed like a great opportunity to demonstrate the predictive power of mathematics. A few months ago, we did some calculations on a cocktail napkin, so to speak, predicting that we should be able to find a pair of identical packs of Skittles with a reasonably– and perhaps surprisingly– small amount of effort. Actually seeing that effort through to the finish line can be a vivid demonstration for students of this predictive power of what might otherwise be viewed as “merely abstract” and not concretely useful mathematics.
(author of blog) If I were to attempt to return to academia, I would consider departments other than pure mathematics. E.g., the last place I interviewed at (about 10 years ago) was Emory University's department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and I remember being excited by computer science being part of the same department. I just checked, and see that it's now split into two departments: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/site/home/

I would likely have a lot of trouble re-entering academia due to lack of recent academic publications; I've been on many hiring committees over the years in pure math, and we never considered hiring anybody who wasn't already in academia.
So now not only do I have to spend several days on the phone each year with my insurance company, on top of figuring out which plan I want every new job, but I also need to watch a bunch of videos about kidney-replacement options for when I get in a car accident? And what heart attack care is available? And how many $1000 Ti screws they should put in my leg when I shatter it rock climbing? And somehow the collective time-wasting is going to be somehow cheaper for all of us?

I always wonder if you libertarians are doing a bit, because it sure seems like it.
For anyone stubborn enough to want to do this with Vim, I've come up with this.

function NestExpression()
" Get end paren pos
" Returns [0, 0] if not in parens.
let save_cursor = getpos('.')

" If line not set to zero, append
let end_paren_pos = searchpairpos('(', '', ')')
if end_paren_pos[0] > 0
execute "normal! a)"
else
" We're not in a set of parentheses
return
endif

" Return to the inside of the parentheses
call setpos('.', save_cursor)

" If line not set to zero, start insert
" mode, prepend and move cursor left
let end_paren_pos = searchpairpos('(', '', ')', 'b')
if end_paren_pos[0] > 0
call feedkeys("i( \<LEFT>")
endif
endfunction

nmap fj :call NestExpression()<cr>
If the comment had been about discriminatory hiring practices, or even just generally about ageism in the industry, I would have nodded, and probably upvoted.

But he phrased it as the OP being "too old for a FAANG", which centers the fault on the OP.

Besides which, in whichever sense it was meant, the comment was almost certainly factually incorrect. A math PhD with significant software engineering and engineering management experience isn't someone that gets turned away that easily.
You'd probably want a jig for that, wouldn't you?

Hence, building.
Saying that data should rot, is a path to downvotes. I still think it's right, though. Hoarding is a mental disorder, not a plan for a bright future.
While humans like capsaicin, we can't stand nearly as much as birds can. Sure people eat ghost papers and make amusing videos of themselves in pain. Birds however aren't bothered by even 1% capsaicin by weight, far more than any normal human would voluntarily consume.
Neptune Financials Is Hiring Software Engineers in Toronto and San Francisco
I don't understand this comparison. The calendar we use is already natural and the most logical one. Days and years are very real physical phenomena. One tracks the highly relevant daytime/nighttime light cycle and the other tracks the highly relevant annual seasons cycle. And then behind these two there's also the Lunar calendar, which can be relevant if you're near the ocean because it's connected to tides, and also the amount of available light at night when the Moon is shining.

Compared to days, years, and Lunar months, what does astrology give us, orbits of other planets? Distant constellations? Who cares?! This doesn't affect our daily life in the slightest. Astrology doesn't add anything. The normal calendars we already use are the best and most relevant.
Have you seen Efficiency Is Everything's data on food?

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/food/
If it landed on red 10 times in a row so far, the odds of landing another red on the next round are almost 50%. Gambler's fallacy is so much fun to observe at the tables though :)
From the anti-vaxers I've talked to, it's not so much the fear mongering, it's their distrust of scientific studies due to economic incentives.

Smart people especially know that it's relatively easy to lie with statistics and to generate studies with subtle selection bias.

If your premise is that most/all modern scientific studies are funded by drug companies and therefore cannot be trusted, then being anti-vax is still a stretch but you can at least see how it could be rationalized. Especially given the rich history of money suppressing/biasing scientific studies in the past: smoking, asbestos, j&j baby powder, round-up, etc.
We will be lucky to have any future historians at all.

We're living in the middle of a dark age anyway. All our precious digital media are extremely fragile both in their capacity to be preserved, and in future generations' ability to decode them even if they are preserved. If you want historians to see something, write it on a physical object, in multiple languages.
> No one who doesn't believe it would phrase things that way.

And why do you say that? Do you have any reason to think I'm not being earnest other than your "hunch"? Is that really the quality of discussion you want to have with complete strangers who are otherwise saying nothing offensive whatsoever- to question their sincerity? Seems pretty whack to me.
Plenty of really smart people believe in religion, too. It's a lot more complicated than just saying "Someone believes in X irrational belief, thus they can't be smart", especially since they easily could be really smart in other areas. Your views on vaccines, religion, and any number of other things really have very little bearing on how good of a software engineer you are.
I know John Cantrell is a common name, but someone by that name solving this strange puzzle and that person having such a recent twitter and github origination date just raises a few hmmmmmms in my head.
Quick bullet points on the steps a company should perform when a data breech comes to light?
What would they have done worse?
I'd think that he could have also proven this with a lot less work by writing a simulation.
To me astrology seems like just a load of old bunk, but that's probably because I'm a pisces.
Sage is primarily developed to support pure mathematics research (and undergrad teaching). Probably the main possibly unique thing Sage brings to numerical analysis is good support for arbitrary precision and interval arithmetic. Beyond that, Sage is written in Python, so it inherits the standard numerical functionality from that ecosystem, namely numpy, scipy, pandas, etc. Sage also has excellent support for Cython, since much of Sage is written in Cython (I even made up the name "Cython").
OK, I'm calling a severe case of Cake Derangement Syndrome and revoking your cake privileges. For the sake of both your mental health and your incipient diabetes.
It seems to me that the author misunderstands the nature of the libertarian moral-economic approach. The whole point of it is that whatever decisions people make wrt charity and welfare with their own money are the only ones that reflect their true morality, and thus, a free market will simply express the moral consensus of the society in which it operates. Thus, if the experiment supports the theory that "consumers don’t prefer conscious capitalist businesses", from that perspective, it is not a failure - it just means that the current consensus is that the various social causes aren't important enough to pay for them.

That is also why people who subscribe to this value system wouldn't talk about SNAP - from their perspective, it's some people deciding what to do with other people's money, which cannot be moral by definition.

You may disagree with that value system and its definitions - I do - but you have to at least acknowledge that it is different enough that what you see as problems is not necessarily what its adherents see as problems. In this case, the article writer is complaining at the end that it's a failed attempt at "solution to a problem we already know how to solve" - but is it really meant to solve that problem? I don't think so.
Silicon Valley company catches virus; calls McAfee & Norton for help without success.
I believe you're being earnest. I'm taking what you're saying as what you mean.

When someone says "I don't believe X" it means they don't believe it.

When someone says "I don't necessarily believe X" it means they kinda do believe it.

Not one person who believes the world is spherical would ever say (or agree that it correctly captures their view) the statement "I don't necessarily believe the world is flat".

[EDIT: I thought this example might help make things clearer.

version 1:

- wife to husband: you're spending a lot of time with that new co-worker. Do you find her attractive?

- husband: no, I don't find her attractive.

&

version 2:

- wife to husband: you're spending a lot of time with that new co-worker. Do you find her attractive?

- husband: no, I don't necessarily find her attractive.

A husband that genuinely did not find the co-worker attractive would never express things in the second way. It's clear in that second way that he does find her attractive to some extent but doesn't want to say it]

Sometimes "I don't necessarily believe..." is used when the person feels awkward admitting that they have some belief, or when they haven't consciously realised that they do. It can be when they haven't fully admitted it to themselves.
I don't think you're completely wrong to be offended, but it's also worthwhile to know that people may interpret your phrasing differently than you intended.
>Actually seeing that effort through to the finish line can be a vivid demonstration for students of this predictive power of what might otherwise be viewed as “merely abstract” and not concretely useful mathematics.

This is how I feel about engineering.

If you design something, prove it out with logic and math. It will work.

Or you will learn where you were wrong.
Ask any pro in their profession what do they think about newspaper articles from their own area of expertise. Now where do most people get information about areas they aren't working in? If it's that bad in paid journalism, how much worse is it when you expand your source of information to Reddit, YouTube autoplay etc.?
Before checking in code:

* have the unit tests been built and run?

* have I reviewed all changes and removed commented out code, tidied up?

Edit: oh, you meant apps. I read your comment as asking for good items for checklists.
Nope hadn’t seen that before. Thank you! Ironically I am not a big efficiency person but where I am very interested in efficiency is foods. Like what food has the best amino acid profile for the dollar, that kind of thing. And this appears to be that.
Complaining multiple times about being downvoted tends to add to more downvotes.
> This algorithm is proven to be O(n log n) only for numbers with at least 2^4096...

No worries, all the rest runs in O(1)..
I'm curious what the hack ends up being
I remember an experiment in high school math of some variety.

The teacher had us all "guess" what twenty coin flips would look like. The longest any streak any student wrote on their paper was maybe 4-ish in a row or something.

He then had us all actually flip the coins and record the results. One student had like 11 in a row, most hit a streak of somewhere between 5-8 of the same result.

Lesson learned, we're really bad at guessing 50/50 streaks.
> And they come anytime they please, since all locations stay open 24/7

Not quite right, they do open till very late but the one I've been to (in Iwate) closed at around 3 am.
Maps -> OsmAnd~

The usability of OsmAnd~ will depend greatly on the area where it is to be used. It can use a host of map tile providers and/or vector maps, the detail level of these varies from very good to hardly any. I use it in Sweden where it generally works fine.

Waze -> ...

OsmAnd~ can be used for navigation but it does not offer live traffic updates.

Gmail -> my own mail server + K9 on Android

Gmail is more or less equivalent to a mail user agent, right? Mail is an internet standard which has been around for a while, long before Google was launched from a scruffy server under a desk. With a bit of luck mail - or some other open protocol like it - will be around when Google has gone the way of so many of its predecessors.

The list goes on:

Google Search -> a private Searx instance

Google Drive/Documents/etc -> Nextcloud on a private server

Google News (remember that?) -> News application on the above mentioned Nextcloud server, using either the web front or one of the Android apps available on F-Droid.

Youtube -> private Peertube instance on the already mentioned server

Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram -> No need for such

Whatsapp -> private XMPP (ejabberd) server using Conversations Android client, using OMEMO encryption. Also using Telegram app from F-Droid.

Spotify et al -> Airsonic on that server I mentioned, feeding off my private collection and also serving internet radio stations (which it also sometimes uses to update the private collection). Using Dsub (from F-Droid) on Android, the web interface on PC's. The same collection can be reached through a host of MPD instances scattered about the place, these are controlled through MPDroid or M.A.L.P (both from F-Droid). There are also a few Kodi instances, controlled through Kore (from F-Droid).

The list goes on.

There is no Google-proprietary code on any of my Android devices yet they provide me with all these services.
Coincidentally I just got the MMR vaccine again last week. A blood test found that I didn't have rubella antibodies (guess it wore off).
My perception was that vaccines are not really big profit centers, so their studies should not be tainted by money - no?
The rate of unvaccinated children in CA is highly correlated with income and non-Hispanic white populations (LA Times published stats a few years ago). Not sure that jibes with your hypothesis.
Gemini here, I’m all over the place...
SMS 2FA sucks for those who travel to other countries and switch SIMs to avoid data roaming costs. One bank I work with had an interesting solution. If you have their mobile banking app open (authenticated) when you get the verified by visa page, you simply click submit (enter no SMS) and it goes through.
Indeed -- CS is now the "Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering", so it's not just a department. I never tried to move to CS, and I have no idea if there would have been a path to do so. When I first got hired at UW in 2006, some faculty in the CS department were very supportive of Sage, even giving me some temporary office space in one of their old buildings.