skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is correct. If you come from Unix programming, perl should not at all be unfamiliar. It was an intentional amalgamation of shell, sed, awk, etc. And there was a time when that was the "mainstream" programmer community.
How does this relate to Apache Heron? I thought Heron was essentially Storm 2.0. Which one should I be using?
Contender for one of the worst headlines.

Giant [tree] logged long ago but not forgotten would have been better IMO.
I've been using Awesome every day since 2009. The only things I change from the default on a new install is the terminal, the default layout and hide title bars.

The author mentions compositors, but if you don't require fancy things like transparent windows or shadows, and you have a a well supported/behaved GPU and monitor, you can probably do without them if all you care about is tearfree video. Drivers like intel, ati, amdgpu and more recently modesetting have a TearFree option that does just that. For some systems switching to a DRI3/glamour setup is enough and as a last resort you can configure X11 and mesa to force vsync.
> evil motives

Nowhere did I ever say "evil motives". I merely pointed out that Google has a duty to its shareholders.
There is probably a lot of selection bias there.
This is also my take on this paper. It records an increase in reported side effects, which is not the same thing as an actual increase in side effects. Patients may have been experiencing these side effects anyway, but either didn’t report them, or didn’t associate them with the intervention.

Knowing these side effects are associated with the intervention would likely be enough for Confirmation Bias to increase the reported instance.
> You're moving goalposts.

Only if you insist on uncharitable reading. I'm talking about software development; if I mistakenly assumed that could be left implicit, I'm sorry. And ~500 line programs are positively minuscule. JQuery is ~50KLOC, and an average business system is ~5MLOC. We're talking four orders of magnitude between those prototypes and a rather average industry system size (systems commonly run to tens and even more than 100 MLOC).

> It's not proof, but it is strong evidence.

I don't think it matters if it's strong or weak evidence, as it's not even about software development.

> the C sets can be up to an order of magnitude higher than the mean values for the C++ sets.

As I mentioned in another comment, C is not a good example. It's a ~50-year-old language, and the theory that correctly predicted that languages won't make a big difference was based on diminishing returns. I.e. not that no two languages have ever been or could ever have a big difference, but that over time the ability to affect quality with language would severely diminish. The original prediction of that theory was that no 10x improvement would be made by a single language improvement over a decade, and was called overly pessimistic by PL fans. It's not been over thirty years, and we have doubtfully made a 3x boost with all language features combined.

If you want a more precise statement: no theory or empirical evidence supports the claim that a reasonable choice among production languages developed in the past three decades or so has a big impact on any measurable bottom-line metric.

> I just said it didn't deliver quality

But those papers show that, unlike language, process does have a big impact on quality.

> With enough process you can close any hole in a language, but it gets exponentially expensive.

You are now making an unsubstantiated claim that contradicts a substantiated claim. Programming languages (with the caveats above) have not been found to have a big effect (nor is there a theory that suggests they do), while process has.
Hey, thanks for the feedback!

Working GIFs is a feature on my TODO, for sure! :)

There will be something like suggested subscriptions once you don't have any.

First screen sometimes is a little bit strange indeed, I don't have a good idea for that now.
Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.
No, it's because they don't blocker attackers after finite attempts, and often have default or blank passwords
Yeah I wish there was a better logic chart than [1], or at least one that I can give it something in MSOL and it can internally compile it to a representation in one of those logics.

[1] http://smtlib.cs.uiowa.edu/logics.shtml
Sounds like pr when Google is under antitrust investigation
+1 for Magnet. Been using it for a while and it works like a charm.
A constant temp house wastes money and pollutes the environment.
And it doesn't do types, so that's not really an issue either…
I would sort of disagree that EV Bite is just a spammy blog site. I get a lot of great EV news from them among others like CleanTechnica, Electrek, etc.

By the way, I know you have discretion as a moderator to change things dang, but I would hope that you try to place at least some good faith in posters. All the submissions I make are from my personal RSS newsfeed, which I've tried to prune throughout the years to build what I believe is an extremely comprehensive information portal, if perhaps somewhat biased towards the technology industry and technical engineering.
Mentour Pilot on youtube, a 737 instructor, has a few videos about it. The gist is that in any plane when you're close to stall, you want to pitch down and increase airspeed over the wings. Depending on the precise circumstances you do this by pitching down and throttling up. However in the case of every 737 and in fact any aircraft with engines slung below the wings, the act of throttling up the engines causes the airplane to pitch up. The reason is because the engines are not in line with the center of mass. Imagine rowing a row boat with only a single oar.

This is something all 737 pilots are trained for, so they have to balance that pitch up from the engines throttling up by pitching the plane down more than they would otherwise need to. The precise relationship between throttling up and pitching up was changed when the 737 was modified to create the 737 MAX. Namely, on the 737 MAX the pitch-up is more extreme. It is not so extreme that it makes the airplane a bad design, but it is extreme enough that pilots need to not expect the legacy 737 behavior.

Had pilots been trained for the performance characteristics of the 737 MAX specifically, it would have been perfectly fine. But they weren't, and instead MCAS was meant to paper over the difference so pilots could be kept in the dark (which is cheaper but borderline homicidal...)

To put this another way, in some hypothetical universe where the 737 MAX was the first 737 ever, it would have been introduced without MCAS and pilots would have said it handles like a dream. Then, when the 737 NG was introduced after the 737 MAX, there might have been a reverse-MCAS system implemented to make the NG handle like a MAX. That reverse-MCAS system may have then failed catastrophically.
The problem is how to incentivize companies to pay workers the same amount for less work. A lot of people, for example, the service industry, can't just work shorter shifts for the same pay. If your job is delivering a product then you can, and a lot of people do, work hard enough to deliver and then goof off for the remaining time.

Take a Starbucks employee: They get paid per hour worked, so if they want to work less, they need more money. Now Starbucks needs to pay more people more money to maintain the same hours. This circles back to the popular discussion of automation and UBI or whatever, where Starbucks now has robots and the employees don't exist anymore.

On another note, I'd rather work a job I don't enjoy than be unemployed, I've had periods of unemployment and they were pretty bad.
agree that it's crap study, but even worse than that it's an attempt to discredit symptom reporting in general

while talking extensively about the nocebo effect, it ignores the fact that without media coverage a patient may experience side effects but not connect that effect with the switch from one drug to another, or may think they're imagining the effect, etc
In Star Trek TNG, everyone can track everyone else. That was a common plot point in almost every episode..
At this point I have to start doubting anything I read so far, then. What is the reason?
India has population of over 1.2 billion people. And major part of this population is vegetarian (at least in the sense that they don't eat meat on daily basis twice a day).

What if India were meat consuming nation just like US?
Comments aren't a feature I'm going to implement there, that's strictly for "scrolling entertainment", if you want to dive into discussions you can open the post on Reddit (using the button under the photos)
Data visualization and storytelling.
Theoretically it's fine, why not. In practice, who would opt to coordinate twice as big group of people with halved worktime?
It's the promotion process moreso than the hiring process.

You can only be promoted if you fit a pattern that your job ladder's promo committee recognizes and if you are already performing at the level you're going to be promoted to. May have worked well in a 10000 employee company but it’s extremely conservative in a company of Google's size. It knee caps recognizing innovation outside whatever's considered "traditional" for your ladder, and it is blind to any roles which require cross-ladder, cross-organizational OKRs and accomplishments.

Source: not a Googler, will never be a Googler, but friends of many NYC based Googlers who all seem to be looking to leave out of frustration with the promo process.
Think of it like discovering a new human language. We use logic along with knowledge about the world to triangulate words that deal with concepts.

ML models work in the same way. Difference is they aren't human so it's harder to just use your empathy muscles (though even humans cut off from the rest of the world can come to pretty wild perspectives and ways of thinking). But they are logical, in some respect, and they are modeling our human perspective on some process in the world. But as a sibling comment posted in a link to the Distill paper, we need a lot of tools to make that process easier.

For example, very often researchers will probe single neurons and find they do something we find conceptually understandable, like a neuron detecting when you're inside a parenthetical when generating text so that the parenthesis is eventually closed. I'd expect the "symbols" to be very similar, because after all the neurons are symbols too. Both require you to either relate it to a small concept or put some together to create bigger concepts (or both).
Previous discussion from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20030618 (22 comments)
How is Stoicism different to everyday psychological dissociation covered up with a nice-sounding philosophy?
So, helping Nazi Germany in the beggining of the WW2 seems justified in light of this, I agree.
It appears now that the US government can order Google, Qualcomm, Intel, and even non-US companies like ARM to do basically whatever it wants, and has shown no qualms in the past about spying on their European allies. From the a non-American POV the US does not have a clear moral high ground.
But it sounds like the career officials wanted this 7 years ago, but were blocked by Obama's political appointees.

So, there is no swing in policy, at least among the career officials.
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I directly know of a well known international institution that did the PC thing when trying to hire someone (“we’ll very much prefer if you’d send us a woman instead of a man for on-premises support role”) but they were smart enough to only say this over the phone, not over email, especially not in an official manner out in the open. If Google really did the thing you say they did (not saying that they didn’t, is just that a source would be helpful) then they’re beyond stupid. If it matters I live in Europe, not in the States.
There's no separate scroll wheel — it scrolls by turning the ball around the z axis, so it's purely optical. It works very well unless you need to keep the x,y absolutely fixed while scrolling. I can't comment on the wrist rest; wrist extension causes me trouble, so I have mine sunken into a customized keyboard tray to place the ball near keycap height.
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Google who inspired me to create then invited me out to demo and spit in my face SUCKS!

I met/was invited by many other huge tech companies who similarly no deal was made but they were respectful and professional unlike arrogant/ignorant Google! They have a history of doing this to those dreamers they inspired to create.

Glad to see they are on the hot seat and I seldom use Google search anymore! All my friends/peers/family/etc members know what I mean when I say I DDG(ed) instead Googled it. Some start using DDG too cause they say Google sucks too!!!

I wish I could get away from their other services!
Blogspam doesn't mean spammy blogsite, it means copying the content of a source article without adding anything.

There are good reasons to do that, e.g. to be a one stop destination for news on a topic, but from aggregators like this it's preferable to link to the original source because errors are less likely to have been introduced by broken telephone, and to give credit where credit is due.
the scans are actually of a
retarded person with hydrocephalus, and are not scans of the
near-mythical never-verified anecdote from Lorber (https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/1980-lewin.pdf) of the 126 IQ guy (Hawks gives a
couple reasons why that might not have been as impressive as it seems:
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/brain/development/ten_pe...
).

So the best example doesn't have hard fMRI scan evidence, and the
documented cases of hydrocephalus going along with an IQ of 70 or
whatever are much less impressive - if you think the brain is doing
something, you would expect profound deficits like that!

More interesting is a recent paper: "Miniature spiders (with miniature brains) forget sooner", Kilmer & Rodriguez 2019 https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2019-kilmer.pdf
> effectively everyone lives in a city in the modern world, and while their housing might not be air conditioned most of the major buildings are.

The states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh lag the rest of the nation in economic development. This statement is very much not true in those places, and even elsewhere in India. Air-conditioning is still a luxury outside of relatively well-off people's houses, corporate buildings, and malls.

> Cooling ourselves down in a heat wave, in the modern world, is a solved problem at least as far as keeping ourselves alive goes.

People there can't afford to not work. Sitting in an air-conditioned space for half the working day 4 months a year is not viable for them. A lot of the work is manual or farm labor that must necessarily be done outdoors.
> Right now, CPUs are mostly two dimensional with only a few layers stacked on top compared to the extent in the other two dimensions.

Moving away from that would still be increasing transistor density and thus would not be rewriting or beating moore's law, it would still be moore's law applying.
This paper doesn't address the first step; but takes issuing of public key cryptography as fiat. If we can solve this first problem the consequence ranges far beyond democracy.
ITT: a massive roll-call for sour grapes.

P.S. Life would be easier if you just bit the bullet and finally learned those algorithms. It ain't that hard.
Big discussion yesterday (in which this original paper was already linked): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20070566
> The US is shooting itself in the foot.

This is one possible outcome. Another is that China learns to be a bit less self-serving and more cooperative with the rest of the world.

> Because the message this sends to the bigger world is: don't get too successful or we will kill your business.

That seems like a bit of a biased interpretation. Do you believe the US is literally trying to kill Huawei, or might it be possible that this is a negotiating tactic to get them to realize and acknowledge the value they receive from the rest of the world generously trading with them, by demonstrating the consequences of what happens when someone treats them in the way they treat the rest of the world (I am referring to access to their markets)?

> The irony is that that is exactly what western companies blame China for.

In the Alanis Morissette sense maybe.
There's also souper, which is a generic superoptimizing pass for LLVM which can use Z3 (or most other popular SMT solvers).
By default, "high" is top & right, "low" is bottom & left. "Drop" is a shipment, hence "Volume Business" having large shipments but low margins, while "Small Accounts" have large margins but low shipments.
This seems unnecessarily pessimistic. I mean they're still funding amazingly dumb ideas like pogo sticks as a service right now. One day, a startup will resist getting acqui-hired just like Google resisted getting acqui-hired by Yahoo and it will disrupt its incumbent. But I'm guessing it won't be a company focused on pogo sticks as a service. As for the harder and more beneficial challenges out there, the Silicon Valley MVP model never worked for them in the first place because they are hard and they take time. I'm not seeing the vision to go after those problems emerging in any serious way yet.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/05/31/swedish-startup...
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For the last 40 years, people talked about psilocybin, weight lifting, lsd, fasting, meditation, wim hof and many other things that affect people's happiness.

We had 4 decades for doctors to get interested in them, study them, and make protocols for them for the public.

Only now are we, timidly, talking about them. It was considered hippie stuff at best, cult/lunatic ideas at worst.

But turning an entire nation into drug addict is apparently fine.
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The Russian government is using Sailfish in a big way. I heard the Russian post-office as well. There were negotiations with the Chinese government, but I assume that might have fallen through.

Jolla is not much B2C anymore, mostly B2B now.
Stopped reading at

> All the obvious apps/websites have already been built.
Bigger tubes is 99.9% of CloudFlare, that's why you can't build a competing business.
Economists are obsessed with job creation because the leading ones started their careers in the late 70s and early 80s when the number of jobs was shrinking, but the number of people who wanted a job was growing faster than ever.
What do you mean by "close links"?
Mitsubishi-Hitachi Power to build world’s first 1 GW energy storage project
> Yet our culture still think its ten years ago. Everyone expects a release in 6 months, and 20% month over month growth at scale

It was never the case that this was trivial or easy. During the time period he lists (2002-2014), it was extremely difficult to reach mainstream success.

"The party" is as much in swing as it ever was. Which is to say if you're rich or lucky you get to be part of it. It was never easy to have a megahit.
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It used to be that Samsung would also be safe because South Korea is a major strategic ally of the US, but with the US using steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and a tariff on all Mexican exports, strategic allies aren't even safe.
No. I've been a part of five startups, one which I founded, three are still going, one very well, the other two died (including the one I started.)
Discord - publicly launched 2015

Robinhood - publicly launched 2014

Airtable - publicly launched 2015

Plaid - founded May 2013

Nextdoor - publicly launched 2012

Opendoor - founded 2013

Keeptruckin - founded 2013

Samsara - founded 2015

Calm - founded 2012

Niantic - founded 2010, first launch in 2012 (Ingress) then Pokemon Go in 2016.

Quip - founded 2015, acquired by Salesforce for ~800mm.

All examples of ~multi-billion dollar companies founded in Silicon Valley in the past few years solving real problems and scaling fast.

I can keep listing more but I think my point has been made.

Sure the market is more mature, but there's still tremendous potential out there and there always will be. It's too convenient to think all the easy problems have been solved (but yes, many have) and that the big guys will crush you (but when is that not a possibility?).

I think this article is just pessimistic with no substance. It's quite fashionable to be pessimistic about Silicon Valley.
10% on raw materials would be losing money, but 10% on total expense, with the difference going to the workforce is fine to me. I don't see why fast foods shouldn't be cooperatives, they're not exactly capital intensive or high risk.

To be clear, I wasn't referring to the board having a choice in the matter.
> there's enough floor space in the urban core of Bangalore

There's vastly more to India than a few metro cities. A quick google search reveals that around 65+ % of Indian population lives in rural areas.

India is in for some very dark times if the climate situation gets worse. The positive lining in the cloud is that we have some measure of political stability for the next 5 years.
Sure they have. It’s in the iPad, though it only supports two application level windows the applications may tile within themselves.
Alexa smart home skills, such as the one used here, need to be notified explicitly when a device is removed from your backend, otherwise they’ll just carry on as usual.

However, it looks to me that there were two levels of failure here. The first is not notifying Alexa of the device removal, but the second is some clearly broken authorisation code. When Alexa requests a video stream it includes an OAuth token issued when the user first set up the skill, which apparently Wyze weren’t checking was still valid for the camera in question before serving up a stream.
I thought Heron was the Storm follow-up. I'm surprised to see a Storm 2.0.
This is written by some guy who’s out of ideas/psychedelics.
The reason doctors do this is because it does work for many patients. Once you find the right medication the results can be life changing. I went through nearly all the SSRIs before landing on the right tricyclic. CBT works for many people too, but not everyone.
In any case, monarchy traditionally was highly constrained by the nobility, by tradition, by considerations relating to the continuation of the dynasty, by the life-long preparation to assume the throne, by royal councils, and so on, not to mention constrained by the nature of the kind of authority it is just as all authority is constrained. And in line with what you wrote, while someone who ascended the throne could appeal to the right to rule, that right was not rooted in his own merit. If you were a Christian king, you would recognize that your authority was only derivative, and granted through and constrained by the grace of God (John 19:11 comes to mind). Any glory of the king was a glory his people partook in (1 Corinthians 12:26). This belief in the origin of authority rooted in and derived solely from divine will both humbled the king and gave him the confidence needed to act within the narrow confined of the monarchy. Obviously, not all kings were equally morally scrupulous, but the belief that monarchies are worse is highly dubious, if not flatly wrong. Even in Europe today where constitutional monarchies survive, countries with monarchies are socially more stable than those without because the highest uniting figure in the country is above partisan squabbling.