skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't hold. The timing of the VPN code widget is not a random variable, but rather fixed. Thus, sampling a random inspection time of the widget has equal probability of being in the 0-30s bucket as it does in the 30-60s bucket.

For a bus, the intuitive explanation is that if you were viewing a timeline, the biggest parts of the timeline would be the "late" buses, and thus you're more likely to "inspect" (arrive at the bus stop) during one of these longer stretches.
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Whatever the language of the week is obviously.
I think you’re close in your perspective but I don’t think I would describe it as generational nor using the game analogy. Here’s my suggestion - coming from someone who spent a few years in the grassroots of a party’s infrastructure. First, the expectations of those who back a given party are way beyond reality. However the party elite sell this vision as achievable if only the party has the White House, both houses of Congress and the judiciary. Not only is this unreasonable, it completely unravels the minute all of these conditions aren’t met. Just look at all the executive orders and cornerstone legislation that Trump has been able to undo inside of a single term. Creating positions that requires an untenable, short-lived condition to be successful just doesn’t seem very smart to me. Yet both parties endorse this. At the same time, even when a single party controls everything it’s still not very good at getting what it wants — because there are a number of minority protections built in to the system. I think the first thing voters need to do is adjust our expectations. What can you compromise on? What positions can you live without entirely? What opposing policies might actually make sense over the next twenty or thirty years? I think it’s time we start thinking about how do we create laws that are sustainable when you don’t have all the power concentrated in one party.
Peter principle it is not.

Politicians are competent, just not in the areas people need them to be competent in. They're competent in maintaining power bases (including outright lies in addition to just being weasels) and other political manoeuvering.
Spot on.

I was 1st SE at the company I am at now. Previous applications were developed by outside contractors. I tried making some changes to that code base and found massive issues. Source code was older than the compiled application. Massive methods that were 1k+ lines long. Business rules all over the place in IF statements. Barely any documentation/comments. Only way forward is complete rewrite.

I'm a relatively fresh SE, but I read books/research good practices because I'm trying to avoid major mistakes. Also, it is hard to explain to people who even know some code, how difficult it is to make what seems like a simple form.

At this point I would refuse to work without time for unit testing/refactoring/research.

Interestingly, few days ago I made a very minor change in app I developed straight out of school. App had 0 unit testing and minimal integration testing. It created a bug, because I allowed the specs to change weekly and I just coded it without thinking. Therefore, many lessons were learned that day.
I was so excited when they announced that they were bringing this back as the IntelliMouse Classic. It's amazing how much they got right that most mice today don't get right.
This is because refresh can't take negative time.
At what thing would people who govern be competent at to be considered competent?

For any regular readers of the Financial Times, the irony of quoting Simon Kuper in an appeal to competence is surely a bit rich, given his open, haughty, contempt for people who make their livings working at jobs that require physical competence to create value, vs. sustaining cognitive dissonance to achieve political ends.

But the question of what would "qualify," someone for governance is a useful one. Arguably, the bar for representing the interests of a constituency is very low, but mere democratic election does not provide enough confidence to legitimize the pervasive powers of social intervention representatives and modern public employees grant themselves. It's not clear what would confer legitimacy on these new technologically enhanced powers, but it's becoming evident that a ballot is decreasingly sufficient.
Depends on what you expect the AI to do. If you allow it access to a DB of decklists to compare opponent cards/choices against, it gets "easier" but still complex. There's so many branching option trees though.

Could be interesting to see what happened, I just don't think you'd be able to build an "unbeatable" machine that didn't also cheat the RNG elements of the game/have the full decklist of its opponent.
I have a single server in my house. Mostly used to back up all my different devices and to run Plex. I run CentOS today.
I am not clear on the restrictions and if I would be allowed to use the free RHEL.

With the hassle (subscriptions, restrictions etc..) it isn't worth it.

I do wish RHEL would allow it for usage that doesn't make money, like personal servers.
You’re seriously underestimating the support overhead of having a Mac app. There’s way more hardware and software configurations than on iOS. The equation may not play out to make maintaining those Marzipan ports appealing for many.

The amount of UIKit developers is smaller than the amount of publishers. A lot of apps are made in bulk with web wrappers or template engines.

Let’s say there’s 200k UIKit developers in the world. That’s still clearly less than 10% of professional and hobbyist software developers.
I agree with your comment about senior devs. it seems as devs climb the ladder many get a superiority complex where they could do things quickly and others cannot.

I was once a tech lead of a team where the architect had been berating and criticizing a team member for weeks over something he thought should take a day.

I suggested he should take over and complete it. It took him weeks to complete.
Extensions are (mostly) POSIX-compliant shell scripts (though they can be compiled binaries also). I have (kind of) explained in the main thread the reason I never felt the need of re-factoring the code into multiple files.
Nothing on its face, but the article contains an entire section on why this may not be a desirable outcome.
Obviously the bus can't arrive before departure
Figma has a blog post about the algorithm they use for their collaborative editing features but no open source code as far as I can tell.

https://www.figma.com/blog/realtime-editing-of-ordered-seque...
I thought the following line: "Below we have a letter that we have written variations of numerous times over the years. " made it clear that the letter is not real, and is therefore a semi-fictional example.
Why do you say draining entropy is a fallacy? It is certainly true that entropy recorded from I/O sources accumulates at a very limited rate.
So the answer I suppose is as stated. Cloud backups and when traveling, clearing our devices.
Well, I live in Rio and was robbed twice last year alone. So, YMMV.
To be fair; non-functional requirements as a separate entity are pretty much wank.

If you need a line in a document to tell you that exposing privileged information to the outside world is a bad idea, or that you should make sure the solution you are designing has a reasonable chance of servicing the expected load then you probably shouldn't be a developer.

The last time I seen explicit non-functional requirements the had something like "the solution should have a 99.99% uptime." I realised that our down time for releases (old school I know) was more than that and promptly ignored them.
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"Overs and unders" are still a thing in manufacturing. Up to 10% either way.

e.g.
https://support.discmakers.com/hc/en-us/articles/209954927-M...

https://www.lumi.com/blog/explaining-overs-unders

http://www.admorefolders.com/overunder.html
You can say the truth of the matter without being brutal. You are trying to tear down someone that contributes to open source, and whether or you not like it, people out there do or they wouldn't still be developing it.

And contrary to what you seem to think, if you don't like the product don't use it, and better yet don't comment on it as you aren't helping anyone.
CLIPS is a very neat tool with a very broad range of applications.

It is used in medicine as a diagnosis tool:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/64c0/672703724bd32e04b94c10...
http://www.jatit.org/volumes/research-papers/Vol4No10/5Vol4N...

In software security for malware detection and categorization:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4724664

In gaming for driving AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S1CkfzEHSU&t=489s

And plenty of other fields.

It's a very good solution for complex problems where a large amount of knowledge or expertise is required in order to reach a solution. Its documentation and REPL are excellent for those who want to approach fundamentals of AI by solving concrete problems.

It also comes with several language bindings allowing to integrate it with other AI/ML platforms such as tensorflow, numpy etc.. In the past I helped few students which were trying to bring together machine learning models and expert systems to benefit from both worlds.
After a few misfires, Army’s newest pistol program is slow on the draw
Deep Learning Control of Specific Neural Populations
>While the Republicans could push through a relatively lenient offer along partisan lines, doing so could come with heavy political costs for the agency, since it would expose them to attacks that the Republican majority is soft on misbehaving technology companies.

One thing that has changed recently in politics is that a significant portion of Republican base now considers Silicon Valley tech companies as foes. I would guess that there would actually be a lot of grassroots support for a massive fine on Facebook.

In the past, tech companies could assume that the Republican affinity for big business would shield them. Now that has gone.
Yes and no. It absolutely makes sense to ensure that admin scripts used by RHEL run in a predictable, tested environment; even more so since Python has dropped backward portability. OTOH not even being able to rely on Python's presence is exactly the kind of thing that makes Python unsuitable as the shell replacement it is being promoted as.
Linear Regression in Python with Large Dataset
How to get your team to buy into TypeScript
Is it even possible to misrepresent the robot's capabilities? In the UK most (all?) advertisements come with cautionary notices such as "capital at risk" or "past performance not indicative of future returns" or similar...

Although obviously such warnings can't reach some people... My favourite example of this was the collapse of OptionSellers.com following the huge move in Natural Gas futures. I mean, they were selling options - it's right there in the name...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/hedge-fun...
I am left-handed and the IntelliMouse Optical was my favorite mouse. It broke after a couple of years and then I just bought three of them in bulk packaging for the same price!

Today, I use the SteelSeries Sensei models which kind of are modern versions of this mouse: https://steelseries.com/gaming-mice/sensei-raw
Definitely not. I frequently use landing page tools with built in templates, analytics, and A/B testing tools such as Unbounce, Leadpages, Webflow or one of the many others. Many email platforms such as Mailchimp are starting to offer integrated landing page builders as well.

With those tools I can build multiple variants of a responsive MVP landing page in 2-3 hours.
Do you get updates on the dev license?
You again seem to be applying what I'm saying to what seems to be your experience with the American government.

You also seem to be representing what I’ve been saying as if I’ve suggested there should be only one, centrally-located repository and that is not the case.

One of the first suggestions I had was the UN or IEEE.

For what it's worth, I have volunteered software engineering time for the former, and it was productive and barrier-free.

My reasoning, that I've stated multiple times, is posterity. I think a system could be valuable for the same reasons we make libraries publicly funded and run institutions.

I'm sorry but you seem hung up on semantics. I just don't see collaboration in the context of a public institution as somehow separate from person-to-person collaboration. It's only your perspective on it that removes it. It is completely a matter of implementation, and the rest is semantics.

We simply can't rely on a VM hosted by a profit-focused company as the backbone for record-keeping in posterity. The goal being something other than economic profit means it can never be the priority of such an organization.

I was never trying to start an argument, but a discussion about possibilities.
> Hmmm, last I checked concentrated sulfuric acid is not commonly available to or advised to be used by the public

IIRC, lead-acid batteries, common in automobiles, contain a somewhat concentrated form of sulfuric acid; they are also made of plastic, so assuming they continue to be available, I doubt that such batteries will use this new plastic.
My guess would be some sort of naive algorithm that doesn't account for such proximity.
Ask HN: What to do if the police won’t investigate your crime?
I was robbed in a transport hub of a major European capital. I was distracted for 1-3 minutes and someone took my bag.

I was certain the police would do something about it. There were dozens of people all around me and it happened in full view of security cameras.

The police ridiculed me for getting robbed and went so far as to force me to go to lost and found before they’d speak to me.

Then proceeded to refuse to request video footage from the organisation that operates the cameras and basically saying, not explicitly, that they wouldn’t do anything about it. Note that the police station is at this trans port hub, I imagine if they wanted to they could walk into the video room and watch me being robbed in slow mo.

I’ve contacted the police several times and they simple ignore me. I don’t speak the local language and attempts to call them have been fruitless.

I lost a passport and about $4000 worth of electronics.

What can I do?
>> you've personally witnessed a person denied customer service simply due to the fact that they do not dress in expensive clothing?

Nobody is talking about denied anything. This is about speed and priority. It is no surprise that well-dressed attractive people get better customer service. This is just a little more true at apple than at other electronics stores.
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Do not use that plugin. It has a unintentional back door where you can just bypass it completely and get the login screen. All of the forked plugins that are based on it, that I have seen, have the same issue.

Plus, since it's more than 3 versions old, many of the security plugins will flag it. If it's your site, that's fine. If you have set a site up for someone else, it's hard to explain that it's ok to use this plugin.
I fail to see how a dev talking about a wholly unrelated implementation from an entirely different vendor has anything to bear on this conversation unless you're just maliciously spreading FUD around the entire concept of random numbers.

Do you actually know if the instruction is faulting or delivering back non-random data ("sure it does...")? Is the non-random data 0's or something with a pattern like 0x9090? Does that match the Intel implementation's behavior exactly?
Really excited to see this. The built-in code editor feels like a small step-change, but it's one of the features I miss most from Framer classic.

As a designer, being able to easily jump between code and design for complex prototypes makes my workflow dramatically faster. Love seeing the continued evolution of Framer X.
If you're an accredited or institutional investor, then you have only yourself to blame (unless the investment was misrepresented, in which case it should be the one who sold/brokered the investment).

In this case, the investor was foolish to believe that a magic AI system could generate reliable positive returns. At the same time, it sounds like the performance of the system was misrepresented. Either way, if you're responsible for 1bn of assets, you better do really good homework.
Sadly, Edge is completely different from IE, and still cannot replace it in most cases. There are still too many public websites (e.g. online banking and other sites using digital signatures), and even more enterprise intranet sites, that require legacy ActiveX, Java applets, or Silverlight.

I'm fairly sure Microsoft is not fan of IE either, but they will still be stuck with it for many years. The most they can probably do, is to not have it installed by default in future versions of Windows 10, but I have a feeling that it will stick around for longer than IE6.
I just mean in the same way that they are (or should be) nice, friendly and charming with their friends and family.

If you meet new people and you find them attractive, treat them like they are already a friend that you've known for years. Don't be weird, just tell them a funny story, embarrass yourself, show them that you're fun and human. Those are my rules, and I've dated way out of my league my entire life. I'm not saying it's easy, but it is simple (not to be confused).
The idea is sound, but this letter is truly surprising to me. Instead of a succinct summary of what goes into the change, we get a long-winded narrative that reads to me as full of excuses. I think a more useful email would be a breakdown of the time actually spent, and a proposal for improvement, something closer to this (obviously sent after the feature has been deployed, and obviously including additional items for documentation, code review, whatever else takes time in your development process):

Summary
- 0.5 hours investigation and planning
- 0.5 hours feature development
- 4.5 hours manually testing
- 0.5 hours deployment

Proposal
- 8 additional hours now adding automated testing

Obviously, depending on your client, they may prefer a more verbose format or need some more explanation, but probably 3-6 sentences at most.
Wow. Thank you!
Probably current AI is base on FP64, FP32, biological neuron likely be large network of only one or few bits. Once we figure out how to build, use, optimized large network of nodes which only process a few bits each, the power consumption might just go way down.

Someone might also find that kind of network can run a KHz like human brain cells instead of MHz, GHz. The power usage will go down even more.
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Yes. Best case is that there are decks that are unbeatable when played correctly against other decks (even if that deck is played correctly). I can think of a few match ups that are likely "auto-lose" based on deck construction.

Most of the games AI has surpassed humans at have several things in common, and one of the biggest is they don't contain a great deal of hidden information. Chess is all in the open, with very set defined options. There are a ton of different game states, but none of them involve "what if my opponent suddenly drew the one card that I cannot in any way do anything about to prevent ruination".

TL;dr- robots will never defeat the "heart of the cards" unless you stack the game in their favor.
Ask HN: Contracting vs. FTE as a young professional ~1 yr out of school
I'm currently employed but I'm looking around because I'm bored/interested in seeing if my company will match.

I'm getting contacted for alot of contracting roles, but my understanding is that these roles don't really involve training.

As someone who's fresh out of school (1 year to this day) I want to put myself high risk positions where I can learn a lot, but I'm not sure about dealing with the consequences that come from contracting (ie handling your own benefits). With that said I'd like to hear the HN communities thoughts on the matter. I think some FTE roles (especially as a university grad) tend to imply a degree of training/mentorship (which I would highly appreciate).

Also there seems to be a stigma towards contractors, though that may be a YMMV depending on company?

If you were 22, a year out of school and your priority was learning and becoming a better engineer, would you take a contract role over an FTE?
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My last two projects have been for the military and a medical device. The example here seems so wonderfully simple (even as an example of how much has to happen on a simple change). Add in all the process/design/QA/validation documents that need to be created -> passed off -> executed -> recorded and you are at much longer than a day.
The same presentation on video from athenahealth TechTalk:
https://youtu.be/5cr2Yn_MrKg
Senate Banking Cmte: Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy
I think it is important to point out that this point of view that "human rights" (with the quotation marks) are something that exists solely to favor "bad guys", at the expense of "upstanding citizens", is one one of the central points of alt-right rhetoric in Brazil right now.
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If two people are having a conversation about something — let’s say the location of alice’s backpack — which is immediately obvious to anyone walking by the coat hook in the front of the office, should that conversation lose wiretapping protection?
Interesting! How do you usually plan your journey in Rome, and how often does your journey work out like the plan?
Who said anything about america? I'm in Canada. We don't get military discounts everywhere. When we wear our uniforms in public we generally get looks of surprise and confusion. We don't get priority boarding. In fact Canadian soldier almost never wear uniforms while traveling, certainly not while on civilian aircraft.
America's soldier cult is a very unique thing.
I disagree. Sometimes a task requires more time than someone with no knowledge of the system would expect; sometimes it can take much less. I always thought that a big part of my job is to make tomorrow's changes less expensive than today's. If things are constantly costing more than expected, there is a problem.
You walk out with the product. Though you can ask someone if you want a bag.
Douglas Adams: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/250456-anyone-who-is-capabl...
Does the concept pay rent though? There are a lot of ways to end up powerless and marginalized; a legacy of racism is one but I named a few others. Generally the concept that encompasses the result of a group of people being marginalized, irrespective of how it happened, is class.

Does it sufficiently capture reality to say that this discrimination happens to the lower class? In that case, "systemic racism" is mostly acting as shorthand for statistics that black people have less wealth on average, and points to an explanation of why. Or does this happen to black communities over and above that of other communities of comparable wealth? In that case, it makes sense to say that racism is a separate factor, beyond just economics.

I guess what I'm saying is, these are two different concepts with two different implied solutions:

A) A history of racism is why black communities are poor, and all poor communities equally suffer these burdens.

B) Black communities suffer these burdens over and above equally poor communities.

In case A, measures to increase wealth equality might solve the problem. In case B, that might not be sufficient, and deeper causes of lingering racist discrimination might need to be sought.

Just labeling the issue "systemic racism" does more to confuse rather than clarify how to solve it, I think.