skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In almost every college course I was in, there was a clique of students that shared homework answers and copies of tests from previous semesters. I had access to these if i was lucky enough to know someone in the clique.

College is a lot easier for those who cheat. I remember courses where the class average was in the 40s before it’s curved. A slight advantage could be the difference between an A and a C.
Hmm.

I was hoping for an aggregate view on why cops were dismissed. They didn't seem to try to index the reasons. This just lets you search for names/towns, which then links to a spreadsheet that contains the reason someone was decertified.

So it seems like the main purpose of this would be for avoiding the other situation they have there: a crook/felon becoming police chief[1]. But I'm concerned that this is yet another example of how technology is making it impossible to move on from one's past. Many of them are drug use, or small crimes, "Unprofessional relationship", etc.

On one hand, it's great this can be researched to avoid a bad hire like above, but I guess I also feel sorry for Joe or Jane Cop who was dismissed from the job for using cocaine or shoplifting and now it's easily searchable 25 years later for everyone in the world[2]. Is avoiding the former situation worth the latter?

[1] - https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/0...

[2] - Not specific to cops, but this is literally how mug shot websites make their money. "Pay us to remove your mugshot on our site".
> Meanwhile, the cost to the city in terms of infrastructure (pipes, roads, drainage, etc) is much lower than the houses in the subdivision down the road

The costs in terms of lots of services that aren't physical infrastructure scales with population, though, and for some services (or for adverse impacts that services don't fully mitigate) is also higher, rather than lower, for the same population when density is higher; e.g., crime rates per capita tend to go up with population density.
It is, in my experience, true. I live in an up and coming suburb of Detroit and every new apartment / condo building is incredibly skewed towards the high end.

In fact, a huge development project is going on in the downtown area currently. One of the requirements of the project was to set aside a certain percentage of the new units as affordable housing. When the developer was asked about the affordable housing at a city council meeting, they revealed they were targeting a price point of ~$1600/mo for a 1 bedroom. For context, the going rate in the city for a bedroom is $300-800/mo. There was no language specifying what exactly affordable housing so they can get away with it (something the city is working on for next time).

My point is, this is a real problem. You need to think about it and you need to actively prevent it in from happening in whatever legislation you put forward.
Bitcoin continues to be one of the most lucrative trading opportunities, but automated trading has become highly competitive in the past 4 years. Much higher levels of knowledge and abstraction are now required in order to get returns which were formerly almost accidentally possible.
What about the people owning homes as investments, or as part of their retirement plans? You can argue that a lake house would be taxed because it's lived in part of the year (weekends), but what if the owners put it on AirBnB after the children go off to university and the family isn't enjoying it together anymore?
Yeah, but it also says "in a unique way" and 1 breaks that since it sends any other number to itself under multiplication. So maybe a prime number also has the property that it sends any other number not to itself when multiplied by ? maybe that's already in it ?
Funny true story about this:
One time a man came up to me and handed me his phone, and asked me to call his mom. He was about to pass out and he asked me not call an ambulance (God bless America) , he appeared to have a concussion.
By this time there was about 10-15 people around him and he could barely talk. I asked him what his phone code was and instead of just giving it to me he said "it's the first four prime numbers".
Immediately, about five people shout "1,2,3,5". I am no longer holding the phone, because I handed to someone else to make sure it was okay.
Sure enough, I was in a mathematical proofs class and we had just discussed this topic. So, I say "one is not a prime number".
Of course, we get the phone unlocked in the second try with "2,3,5,7" and the guys mom is on the way. Everyone thought I was a genius a hero.
They're in the edit. Precedence of code-flow indicators (I said "code-syntactics" in my original quote, that's wrong, sorry) are more important to me, than keeping away redundancies.

What I am advocating for, is "Before you work on a pointer, check its validity", regardless of what follows after. It's just a general guideline, do it, even if you think it's senseless and redundant. Ever since I've adopted those basics, I've virtually reduced my problems with pointers to zero.

There's danger in accidentally not null-checking, but none in accidentally double-checking. Therefore, the implementation should take care of this (too), or at least consider implications.

I can't really take risks there.

The original author of the article is asking me to "stop" this, which could put a lot of things at stake. No, thank you.
I’m old enough to remember when SY and Pixies were new, and even as a music fan they sounded like a revolution. But within ten years it seemed normal, and ten years after that it was just boring. That’s just how music is. Still great bands though.
"Whenever a product m×n is divisible by p, then m or n must be divisible by p."

Actually it's the other way around:

'Whenever m or n are divisible by p, then their product m×n must be divisible by p.'

The opposite is not true, i.e. the statement is not reversible and still true. For instance:

6x4 = 24; 24 is divisible by 8, i.e. 24 mod 8 = 0, yet 6 mod 8 = 6, and 4 mod 8 = 4.

[ed] I've stepped into a cognition discontinuity, move along, nothing to see.
Questions:
1. Can someone explain why this is not a clear cut of a collusion? Didn't the same "cartel" get busted for this behavior a while ago?
2. Why aren't they under tight regulation since they have a history of doing this?
Pointing stories/tickets/units-of-work should not be tied to time estimates [0]. It should be a tool to break down useful deliverables into the smallest useful deliverable, leading to less unknowns. Example: a task of "move application from vm to kubernetes" could be reduced to smaller parts that give the business greater insight into its progress. Maybe you have to get it working in docker first, maybe update the integration test environment, update the build pipeline, and maybe have a roll out strategy. Maybe any of those need to be finer grain. The pointing of the original story might show that the story is large and it can lead a discussion on breaking it down. Again, this is all to provide visibility to the business side. It gives them more confidence in you and your team compared to "we are still working on it."

[0]: if your team trends to a consistent velocity of points, it can be tempting to start equating points to time. Avoid this.
I never understood the concept of falling in love. I can understand falling in lust. Love is something you develop over time.
Okay, so your stance is "indulgences are good."
No, because "primes" is plural. To render mathematics into English sentences, one has to be aware of English usage and accidence.
Yes.

Also, Chinese efforts to fight freedom of speech and punish religious people worked very effectively to reduce criticism of the government and prevent people from attending churches/mosques.
Didn't think about it to be used offline... Might be a good feature. Currently, it's living a database on a server
> three major manufacturers of NAND memory — Intel, Micron, and SK Hynix — have announced that they will be taking measures to address the oversupply

Isn't that illegal? To fix the market by colluding and price fixing?

How is this different from the act that Mercedes, BMW and VW are getting fined for for colluding to not release emissions tech?
It's against the guidelines to say it I think. But I'm pretty sure at this point he didn't read the article. He has just read the title and thought he had enough knowledge on the matter to answer it without reading the author's writing.
Remote work is also a good option if you want to work on a side business/other project. At minimum, you save your commute time, which can be used for so many other things.

"expected to work lots of unpaid overtime"

A great thing about contracting is that you are paid for every hour you work. It has more risks (less stability than a full-time job), but it definitely can give you a better life balance, if you want it.

Companies are also less likely to give you overtime if they need to pay for it. Most of the time, I have to get overtime approved.

It really depends on your goals. Working for FAANG is good for some developers, because they want the prestige, you can make really good money, and you get to work on some really cool software. I don't care about any of that. I just want to make a living while I'm working on my next business.

The business is my goal.
Thanks. I was very brief because I was on my cell phone. Did not expect downvotes for that comment. :-)
There is already land tax, but with proposition 13 people lock in low tax rates. So, if you've owned a home for a long time, you are gonna pay a lot lower taxes than someone, who recently bought a condo on land with the same value.
A question I'm too amateur to resolve on my own is what if the Big Bang simply created two universes? One made primarily of "matter" and the other made of "anti-matter?"

What if the big bang was simply a Casimir event? The particles should have collided and annihilated, but didn't? The result being two new universes pulled into existence by the sudden inversion of entropy?
So when do they get rid of r/politics?
Right now, California's property taxes are highly restricted by Prop 13, an anti-tax measure that, among other things that restrict the ability of the legislature to levy taxes, caps property tax basis at purchase price plus 2% increase per year, far far less than real estate appreciation, and often less than general inflation.

So property tax is already controlled at the state level, and any change will require voters to enact it by proposition at the ballot box, statewide.
I really have to give it to USA Today, the amount of effort/work to create this is immense.

My worry is around maintaining and so perhaps there's a 'github'-like tool/platform that they could use to ensure the data is updated.

Perhaps folks could suggest a scale'able solution that wouldn't break the bank towards the responsible upkeep this would entail.
Rhetoric matters much less than economic clout. Much of the "influence" you describe is from sustained marketing rather than through rhetoric. The rhetoric itself is almost irrelevant, in fact.
" I think maybe a fourth track at a lot of organizations should be special projects. Small teams (3 people max) given autonomy and clear objectives (revenue goals, user growth goals, etc). "

I have been thinking about that too. I am pretty experienced and the best use for me would be to get something off the ground quickly to working through a hard problem . I have seen a lot so usually my instincts are pretty good and I am much faster in responding to problems than the less experienced are. I also have the confidence to make decisions and take responsibility without needing approval from multiple parties.

A lot of companies like to talk about being "agile" and "like a startup" but they rarely let engineers stay focused on a problem, leave them alone and let them work through it.
Some people use the word “exercise” to mean any physical activity, and others use it to mean pushing your body near its limits. Lots of the bewilderment that happens in these discussions is between people that define the word different ways and don’t realize it.
tl;dr: "...whether or not a number (especially unity) is a prime is a matter of definition, so a matter of choice, context and tradition, not a matter of proof."

In other words, because semantics.
The NSA wants to call time on its phone-tapping hobby
At the clinic mom used to work at, they used "FLK" instead of R46.1, which stood for "Funny Looking Kid". It was shorthand for "Something doesn't look right with this patient, and we need to find out why"
If p is a prime number, then the product m×n being divisible by p means that either m or n is divisible by p. In fact, this is how prime numbers are defined when generalized to generic integral domains.
"Add a sensor" is a non-trivial exercise in the aviation world. If you're doing things correctly you need triple redundancy so you can determine when one sensor is returning bad data. Adding sensors for every little thing would add enormous complexity to what are already extremely complex machines.
Many countries across the world don't enjoy living under the USA as the biggest power either. Dozens of countries. Also regarding pollution, Google oil usage per head and the US is the worst offender
That's not the kind of content you just stumble upon. If they sought that out they'd just as well have sought out other forums, so I find it moot that they happen to find racist content they found agreeable on reddit that further radicalized them. It's like the incels, they're just looking for a circle jerk.

The reason I feels strongly about it is open discussion with racists have led to conversion away from white supremacy that would not have otherwise occurred e.g. Davis - https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinc...

The fear of power of racists operating on a platform like reddit is overblown by virtue that racists seem stronger without it; strongest with echo chambers.
To a small extent, yes. It's a matter of degree. Nuclear and renewables still have a much lower footprint than coal. It's just not zero.

We don't know the full lifecycle costs of fusion plants, but at least the fuel part won't involve open pit mining, unlike uranium ore, so it hopefully will be better than fission.
Yep, Inadequate Equilibria is also a gem. I'd say that compared to MoM, it is more down-to-earth and about how to navigate the problem field and how to find the cases where one can make a difference.

I also feel that as an engineer it is really easy to forget to see the context of a problem. Often technical solutions can be really shitty, but still work because of the context. And installing better solutions won't work if the context does not allow it (or makes it too pricey). Often the shittiest solutions are cemented in use by difficult webs of dependencies that are hard to change. Examples of this kind of systems would be social media platforms (cemented by network effects) and payment systems (technically PITA, but hard to compete with).
There is nothing wrong with stagnating but in a lot of companies the stagnation level for engineers is pretty low compared to management. You also have to deal with the fact management has decision power so you often get overridden by less qualified people who happen to be in management.
Owning is better economically if you're going to stay in that house for a while. If you're living there less than a few years, all the costs associated with purchasing and selling g a house can hurt pretty bad.
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Thanks for the answer! Really helpful.

> A separate question is what kind of trouble you might be able to get into with specific companies due to license agreements. Would love legal take on any of above as well.

I believe you are allowed to reverse engineer software you own in most countries despite what the TOS says. But they might ban you from their platform which doesn’t stop reverse engineering because Apple/Google is distributing the software.
That happened to a F-16 crewchief at my base. He went to duck under the intake instead of walking around like he was supposed to, and the airflow grabbed him by the field jacket and pulled him in. He did not live.
Also same root as "cognition". Similar in Spanish, "reconocer" and "conocer" (which also means "to meet", i.e. to know for the first time).
This seems to me like a very High School English teacher inspired interpretation of the story. I'm not sure what your distinction is between opinion and thesis, but in either case the "sins of the father" quote is just a dramatic element of the story. The thesis IMO is quite clearly a critique on the hypocrisies of the Norwegian society at the time. The characters in the book that all proclaim traditional values and virtues are all hiding despicable behavior while the mother and son subscribe to a more progressive morality and are punished for it.

Also Carver might feel more vital and reel considering his stories are about people in my parents or grandparents generation (people I've met), whereas Ibsen was writing when Victorian England was still a thing. I love both authors btw.
I agree, insightful and powerful, thanks for the link. The medical system in general is a perfect case study of the contradictions and cruelties that have emerged from our present technological and institutional status quo. Maybe a barometer too, telling of how well or how badly a given society is dealing with the current moment.
Exactly. This line of reasoning is just an excuse that people use to justify maintaining the status quo rather than doing some hard work to change it.

These grandpeople had to have been using something else 10 years ago to communicate with their grandkids... and then over these 10 years then simultaneously learned how to use FB, forgot how to use that other technology they'd used their whole life, and also lost the ability to learn how to use any other communication technology?

Not impossible with cognitive deterioration, but probably a lot more rare than this excuse.

If my grandparents were still alive today I'd just tell them that Facebook was controlled by the Democrats and we should use X,Y, or Z instead of effectively donating to Obama's campaign. They'd have deleted the app and gone back to text messages and phone calls by the end of dinner.
And, even more important: is it Numberwang?
The Future of Shopping Is Already Happening in China
I agree 100%. Kudos to the team at USA Today for compiling it.

This dataset[1] has been frequently asked about on the open data stack exchange site[2], with no real authoritative answer until now.

[1] https://gofile.io/?c=bEbPGv

[2] https://opendata.stackexchange.com/q/4566/1511
> If you pass a struct to a _more_ privileged context like a syscall, it's not a problem.

Simply not true; that context could pass a copy of that structure to a less privileged context other than the original one, without doing anything about the padding.

(Well, you could argue that it's the privileged kernel's fault: it should meticulously floss the structure between the members to clear the padding to zero while preserving the values.)

Someone upthread mentioned "sending over a network": that's an example. Sending over a network (or local socket/pipe) begins with pushing it down to a more privileged context, which then assiduously places all the bytes into a buffer that is blasted out on the wire. In this case, the more privileged context has no idea what the structure even is; it's just a blob of bytes.
And it's self fulfilling too by those who limit housing construction. If only 10 units are built but there are 1000 units needed, those 10 units are going to be sold to the 1% wealthiest. If, seeing this, voters to restrict construction even more because the "wrong type" of person is buying, and only 1 unit is built, only the wealthiest buyer gets housing and it becomes even more "luxury."

The only way to start serving the needs of "normal" people with new construction is to issue permits for that full 1000, or maybe even better, try to get developers to build 1200 or 1500 and then compete for buyers, rather than having buyers compete for limited production.
I wonder if that would have anything to do with all the issues the city has though? According to wikipedia, GM went from providing 80 thousand, to 8 thousand jobs, high crime rates, they had a financial crisis, and of course the whole water contamination issues since 2014.

Seems likely that it's an outlier in this case.
A life hack to increase productivity by reducing smartphone use
sensor probably?

I would assume no incense burning (censer) in there.

Yay English!

A censer censor sensor is something that detects someone who covers up the existence of incense burning things.
Sensor, probably :)
Can someone explain how/why California has failed government policy?

And why more government involvement in sectors would be a good thing?

I understand the benefits of central planning, but when I see it fail locally, I wonder if the flaws outweigh benefits.
The webs we weave... so to speak.
The Chinese solution of nationalizing social media...? Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
Every time I nark on ICD-9, -10, -11, someone claims there's some hidden benefit as yet unrevealed to us mortals. Just clap louder and Tinkerbell will fly.

Is this true? Even in finely contrived circumstances using the biggest suspensions of disbelief?

I've looked a few times, have found no studies showing ICD-* improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, or any other healthcare benefit. (Consultants and insurers do okay, though.)

When will we learn? This is just another rehash of ontology vs folksonomy, symbolic vs machine learning AI, data dictionaries vs screen scrapping, etc.

Source: Implemented 5 health exchanges, was active during transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10.
I think there should be a national effort to "spread out" the economy and fight the trend towards centralization in a few areas. If you build more housing in CA, even more people will move there and the overcrowding will become even worse. There should be incentives for companies to move away from places like SV and NY.

More acceptance of remote work would help too but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
This scroll jail shit is why I absolutely despise AMP pages.
I guess don't get what you're trying to say then.

Yes, society as a whole has a collective opinion that forms the mainstream and defines a) what's outside of that and b) what to do with those outside of it. Do you see a problem in excluding these opinions from mainstream platforms like Facebook and reddit? Even with a pretty open stance towards free speech I see excluding people posting racist death threats from a platform I use to look at cat pictures as a positive.
Yeah, I suppose it’s like that in Kentucky too. But I would guess the salaries are even lower than where you’re from, plus the overall anti-intellectual environment just drives ambitious people away. Plus there are basically no venture capitalists, people (especially older people high up in business) are still quite -ist, and there’s a lot of an old boys network with poor education in general. It’s just an unattractive place to do business
Indeed, it feels rather like we're reading someone with an axe of their own to grind.

I'd like to see a little more justification for this:

« For him, the Victorian-era hypocrisy he decried was a manifestation of the power of the mob to stifle the imaginations of the handful of great men and women who were born to leaven the loaf. As he declares in An Enemy of the People: “The majority is never right….The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.” »

That seems to me to be a clear-cut case of dishonestly attributing the views of an unsympathetic (at that point in the play) character to the playwright.

Further, I think the author may be exaggerating Ibsen's lack of popularity these days (having to write things like « of the later works, only <list of six plays> continue to be widely performed » is a bit of a clue).
They should invest their money elsewhere, like new enterprises, instead of homes as rent-seeking is a negative on society, not a productive activity.