skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even as the person who wrote the scraping code for the original project, I'm a little suspect myself of the news data because of how similar the two distributions turn out to be.

I think the strong similarity is an artifact of our data collection process, rather than reflecting some very deep truth about the similarity of the two sources. Or of sources in general. My priors are that the distribution should have looked more different, but I just didn't do extra verification at the time.
Strange. My PS3 has been in regular use since 2011 or so (the console itself being a used launch model from 2008), and I don't recall the mini-USB port on the controller ever failing to charge. I suppose I'd have to check the serial number on the controller, though, to see if it's actually that one that came with the console--I may have switched it out with one that I bought later for multiplayer purposes without realizing it.

The controller only gets charged once every three weeks or so, now that I think about it, so it could well still be under that failure threshold.
I have an alternate theory, based on something the comments over there reminded me of:

Back in the mini-usb era, most of my family bought Razr phones. All of them broke in various ways in under a year (one actually snapped in half), because they weren't very careful about handling the phones. Nowadays, new phones last several years and are usually upgraded instead of needing replacement after breaking.

For most of my family, those phones were the first small electronics they had that they kept on them. But my dad had a Blackberry before that, and I had a GBA - we never had issues breaking our "fragile" phones.

I think mini-usb was deemed fragile compared to micro-usb because a significantly larger proportion of the population didn't know how to handle them, and the manufacturers/etc identified the wrong problem.
Fall in surgical residents' dexterity may impair acquisition of surgical skills
Edit, oops I misunderstood your post, now I get it.
Given that they were a 60k employee company: yeah, some parts of them probably were.
This makes me think that it's good persuasion to acknowledge that all anti-vaxxers aren't necessarily fundamentally irrational (some are I'm sure). Most people are anti-vaccine with respect to smallpox for example, as well as the polio example you give. We continue to use the vaccines we do because they improve the overall odds, not because they are a panacea with no downsides.
What kind of deranged argument is that?
You do have to give up on kitchen space. Expect to be disappointed. Pretty much anywhere with single-family zoning, it's going to be illegal to have multiple kitchens. What exactly defines a kitchen varies, but typically always forbids a stove.
Yeah, true. But a higher price would cut consumption as well, and make renewables more attractive.
I agree partly with you but I don't think most users know the extend of information collected from those services, if people saw their profiles as really used by google I believe almost all of them would freak out.
> Sorry but it's weird the core of your political argument is tied around funding a private NGO.

Not OP but I'm all for the government helping people learn about and schedule abortions.
There are more vulnerabilities in FF, or so I've heard. But most people I know in security love firefox, especially because of how easy it is to setup with tools like Burp Suite.
The end of Moore's law doesn't bother me too much from a practical point of view. My phone and computer are about as fast as I need them to be. Why it does bother me, though, is how it's an inescapable reminder that there are hard limits to everything, and sooner or later we're going to hit them. The fact we're hitting this limit so fast is damaging my hope for a whiz-bang sci-fi future. I didn't expect to be alive when we invented strong AI and perfect 3D projection systems and retinal display screens and all the rest, but I did hope we eventually would. Slamming into the end of per-volume and per-watt performance before the year 2100 makes me think maybe those things will never happen at all.
It's a literary work.
It's copying the table of contents, but writing your own chapter text.

I fail to see how it's not copyrightable as such. It appears to be a collection of facts (the interface of the implementation). These are not copyrightable, unless it meets the following:

"the work must be a collection and assembly of pre-existing material, facts, or data;
the work must contain the selection, coordination, or arrangement of those materials; and
the work is created by virtue of the particular selection, coordination, or arrangement of an original work of authorship."

I can't see how "arrangement of those materials" and "virtue of the particular selection or arrangement" isn't obvious here?

Oracle is pursuing the path where this case is literally about the contents of text files with words, which are supposedly well defined and understood under copyright law.
> It's a cash flow problem. It slows down the speed at which that cash can be used to purchase other goods or services.

No. That's what lending is for. Square will allow you to cash out instantly for a 1% fee, they offer merchants a debit card they can use to access the funds in real-time as they're received for no additional fee, or you borrow some amount of float at today's incredibly low interest rates.

As a business in need of liquidity you can even sell your accounts receivable for less than 1% to invoice factoring companies. There's so many options out there.

Or the merchant can open a credit card and get fee-free interest-free loans for a whole month.

This is not an issue today, or rather, you’re making mountains out of molehills. There are ways of addressing this without crypto or throwing out the existing financial system. But more importantly what how many merchants wait for funds to clear before they go out and buy the supplies to do a job?
As the author of The Tau Manifesto, I’m well aware of this (pseudo-)argument, which is dealt with explicitly here: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#eq-euler_tau_zero
From what I've been reading in this thread the whole issue seems to be related to gifted people believing they are special -- which is not their fault, after all, everyone keeps saying that. If you're special, your life must be special, all you do must be great. That's a very dangerous illusion. At best, it will make you stressed out trying to be something you'll never be. At worst, it will make you completely depressed.

Truth is, even if you are pretty smart for an ape, your 80-90 years in this planet doesn't really matter. All there is to achieve is getting your life figured out. Which is no simple problem. Knowing what you actually want and need is very difficult already and that's only half the battle.
They end up shuffling between homelessness, homeless programs, and family / friends.

A good portion of the children pass through the foster care system and the adults end up in jail or prison for various stretches.

It's a very expensive system, and people's lives are wasted even if they are not out right killed.
Another undervalued skill is speaking well. Since joining Toastmasters my career has undergone a step change. Managers perceive me as being much more effective, even though my writing and coding skills have only continued growing incrementally. It's the best investment of time I've ever made.
I think that experiencing failure and learning from it is under-rated as a skill. By not allowing our kids to fail, and/or putting them into systems that prop up their egos (e.g., gifted schools), they will never internalize what it is to struggle. We all struggle eventually in whatever it is that we want to do.

This story reminds me somewhat of the Billy Beane story from Moneyball. Billy never really experienced failure until he was drafted. All the way through high school, he was a "can't miss" prospect. A 5-tool player. The best athlete on either team, etc. And that went to his head. He wasn't able to deal with failure at all (and this is well chronicled in the book), which ultimately led to his downfall as a player.
Do we now need a Mann act for illegal transfer of protected data across state lines..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act
USB-C has its issues, but it is clearly better than any previous connector.
> my fear of failure – something I didn’t have a lot of experience with as a child – held me back from making the attempt.

It is the key to understand a mind of a wunderkind, I believe (at least in my own case it was so). It is the reason why parents should not praise their child on being smart. When you are praised on being smart at a child age, when your self-concept is being formed, then "to be smart" becomes a part of self-concept. To be not smart means to fail yourself. The worst part of it: it is a very short-sighted concept, it means that to fit into my self-concept I need not to really be smart, but to look smart.

It is like a mask I need to wear. The mask of a smart man. With a hidden fear of being not as smart as it looks from outside. Sometimes with a panic attacks when mask slips for a second (not the real panic attacks, but pretty close to it).

I remember that being at school I was reluctant to ask my father to help me with math homework. He could explain anything, but I never managed to understand his explanations, he was a terrible teacher. I knew that I couldn't understand him and I knew that he would ask "are you understand now" and I knew that I would be afraid to disappoint my father by my stupidity by admitting that I had understood nothing from his explanations. So I did math homework by myself, even if I struggled to understand how to do it. Even when my mother suggested me to ask my father about it.

That situation was projected to a future. It was hard to overcome fear of asking other (and to inform them that I'm "stupid"), it was hard (it is hard) to work hard when I'm suspecting that I'll fail with that. Even if I'm a little bit unsure about my coming success it would be hard.

I used to think that I just couldn't work hard, but then I realized, that I can work hard, just up to a point when I start to doubt my success.
>Because code provides a concrete, complete, formally understandable semantics. Code is not an "abstraction" over different concrete implementations; it is a specific, concrete implementation.

It's not any more concrete than an API. Your Java code compiles to different bytecode depending on the version of Java you use. It then further changes to machine code that differs based on the JVM installed, operating system, and processor.

>While compilers may substitute the code for another variant that preserves the same behavior, they are required to ensure that this substitution preserves observable behaviors (unless those are undefined behaviors), and the behavior that is to be preserved is defined entirely by the execution of the original code.

While [programmers] may substitute the [implementation code] for another variant that preserves the same behavior, they are required to ensure that this substitution preserves observable behaviors (unless those are undefined behaviors), and the behavior that is to be preserved is defined entirely by the [definition] of the original [API].
It is very common and often referred to as jitter.

A variation, called scaled ttl, was nicely discussed in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxMKnx__uso
> reroute the birth canal so that it does not pass through the pelvic opening.

Go on.
Not really, the interface signatures need to be the same for normal Java code to work. There's only one way to write the interfaces, code would be identical even reverse engineered.

This is the same as writing an S3 compatible java client. If you want to be able to substitute one directly for another, the method signatures have to be the same even if all the implementations are different.

This also mirrors how kernel interfaces work. Xen, GVisor, and many others implement the exact same kernel interfaces as Linux because they have to to work. If the API was copyrightable any contributor that designed one of these interfaces could prevent these projects from existing
It sounds like you want to take a calculated risk. I'm not convinced that this is a calculated risk -- it's an unbounded risk. What if it, for example, kills of pretty much all of the insects over a large part of the earth?
30 years were the Unix wars. I wonder what consequence were if APIs were considered then.
Quite frankly, most of American politics is deranged by the fact there is almost a ban on class discourse, my guess a remnant of McCarthyism since there was a strong socialist discourse prior to WWII which almost disappears afterwards.
Is this personally identifiable? I don't see any issue with collecting and selling anonymized observations.

It would be like police setting up cameras and using them to train a machine learning model on drunk driver detection. It's not collecting who is driving, just observing how normal cars subtly drift in and out of a lane and brake vs. intoxicated drifting/braking and using that to train a DUI detection model.
If the exclusion zones were made as excessive as Chernobyl, sure, but most of the Chernobyl exclusion zone is safe today, and most of the rest could be made safe with relatively little additional effort. With even a somewhat more reasonable exclusion zone, if that was the trade-off and we could save those who die from fossil fuel plants today, it'd be an easy choice for my part.

Of course it's not a realistic trade-off - it's "easy" to make plants vastly safer than either.
so only the rich should reproduce? absolutely disgusting mindset. nobody chooses a life of poverty, and the overwhelming inequality of our current society both perpetuates and exacerbates it.
I like that, from now on I'll refer to it as The rise of the Internet Borgs on to this phenomena.
Typically a debtor is going pay their home/car loans first (that’s not a huge surprise).

I agree it’s an astonishing number, and once you begin looking past the data and at the individual stories/anecdotes it’s heartbreaking. After all look at this article people are literally leaving the country.

I have 4 brothers all of us have a bachelors and advanced degree (1 MD, 2JDs and 2 Masters). I had a brother move to Korea to teach English, because he couldnt get a job. He had an undergraduate degree in information science and an MBA, graduated in 08’. People in this thread want to blame student choices and say it’s an issue of majors/skills...that’s not the problem.
I used Medium a few times, but just never felt comfortable providing them with my content.

It's been so long now that I had no idea they'd put up a paywall. Make me feel like I had it right from the git go now.

Aside from that... this sounds like it's got to be close to the dumbest thing they could've done. It's akin to slapping your audience in the face every time they show up.

I hardly ever click on anything from WaPo or the NY Times. I have no problem with them charging for their content, they both do some great work, I just cannot pay for it and it's frustrating to run into their paywall.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'd still have been clueless about this had you not.
Media Guides for Scientists
It has been this way at every job (7 companies now, ranging from huge & bureaucratic to medium & popular to super new start-up). Whether it has been at a major tech company or the latest & greatest start-up, people have universally acted this way everywhere, often while talking at length about how their company culture causes them to not act this way.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/26/russi...
Yes, compare the different pullup standard for men vs women in the Marine corps PFT:
https://www.military.com/military-fitness/marine-corps-fitne...

"Pull-ups

This event is not timed, your score is determined by how many pull-ups you can complete before dropping off the bar. This event is male Marines only.

Flexed-Arm Hang

This event is timed, your score is based on how long you can hang maintaining elbow flexion. This event is for female Marines."
> The only alternative seems to be a hike in rates for everybody.

My naive understanding of the market is that the market doesn't work this way -- you charge what the market will bear. How much a product costs to make has nothing to do with how much you should charge for it; you charge what people will pay you.

So if the market is already buying a product at a given price point, and you find a way to save some money or make some extra money on the side, you shouldn't lower your prices in response unless a competitor forces you to -- and the ISP market has notoriously low competition. You happily take the extra margin and move on with your life.

In the same way, if a margin on a product goes down, but the market still refuses to pay more for it, you shouldn't necessarily expect prices to rise. Sometimes products just have different percentage margins.

In other words, if a company like Apple has good data that people are perfectly willing to buy iPhones at $1200, and they figure out a manufacturing trick that allows them to save $100 on each iPhone they build, they're not just going to drop the price to $1100. Similarly, if Apple has good data that people are only willing to buy iPhones at $1200 (and presumably they do, or else they would charge more), then a buyback or warranty program that loses them $100 per iPhone isn't necessarily going to mean a price increase.

Of course, economic majors are welcome to correct me if I'm oversimplifying this.
Suburbs were in part fallout from establishment aggression against Catholic ethnic enclaves in the cities. But mostly it seems it was encouraged as a civil defense measure:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/713999949

"Though suburbanization in the United States during the 1950s is a well known story, scholars still consider postwar prosperity and basic desire on the part of the American people to move further away from problems of the inner city as its primary causes. While it is true that various factors contributed to phenomenal growth of the suburbs between 1945 and 1960, historians have thus far paid little attention to policymakers' fears of atomic attack as a significant factor in population dispersal. This article examines how sociologists, scientists, and other experts considered the reduction of urban vulnerability a Cold War priority, and worked to encourage dispersion of people and factories as a civil defence measure."
That's on the product advertiser. No one needs my data to figure out that if I'm browsing recipes.com I might be interested in $cookwareSale
Slightly OT: why did it take so many iterations to get to USB-C?
This is what I do on my own sites too.

Of course, given some bots relay the captchas to humans, this arguably works best for a site with a specific niche in mind, since they can ask a significantly more difficult question that only someone interested in the topic would know.

Like say, how a PhD maths related community or blog might ask a university level maths question, a chess forum may ask a chess related one and one about a certain gaming franchise might ask questions about said franchise. Bonus points for keeping out people with no genuine interest in the topic.
IEEE surely does know. I'm sure the point is to imply the marketing ridiculousness. After 1nm they'll need a new vanity metric.
debt. going hungry. going without shelter. going without health care. going without cell phone. going without transportation. it's not rocket science. it's just poverty.
all of a sudden I am not as surprised
I think you're underestimating the average non-tech oriented user that simply uses. A lot of those considerations might be true for users conscious about data collection, but I'd imagine that's a very small subset of users.
>Burman proposes a way to pay for the Universal Earned Income Tax Credit: a new value-added tax of 11 percent.

Pretty steep.
Why is this skill considered "undervalued"? Could it be attributed to the gluttony of the industry for engineers? I have been in a couple of interviews to job applicants who couldn't bother less to fix typos and grammar in the first sentence of their CVs. The mere fact that we bothered to interview those candidates is disturbing.
Are we at the peak of the hype cycle for gut bacteria now?
Let's put it in concrete terms.

I'm going to toss a coin, you call it. If you win, you get $5. If you lose, you pay me $1. You probably do it, right?

Next scenario. I'm going to roll a 100-sided die. If it comes up one, I'm going to shoot you in the head. Anything else, you get $100. Now, would you agree to that? Of course not. Even though you're 99% likely to get $100. It's that 1% chance of dying that stops you.

That's because "risk" isn't just one number. Even at a very basic level, we distinguish between the likelihood of the risk, and the consequences of the risk. You're only considering the likelihood, not the consequences. That's where you're going wrong.
What does this article/paper have to do with "NoSQL"?
I think most people do, do better. 3 cases of people getting very questionable degrees and then running on their loan obligations does not make a trend.
After Neoliberalism
It really didn't take long for libraries to catch up, we already released a Package Set compatible with 0.13, two days after the release. That's a set of the most used ~200 libraries in the ecosystem.

https://github.com/purescript/package-sets/releases/tag/psc-...
I live in a poor area of Southern California. I'd say the majority of the town receives state benefits. There are also stands that give away free cell phones and service (some state program). I have no idea how it works, but its there.
JavaScript Serverless Function Platform
I would argue that there are worse things than the sweet release of death.

Living without dignity might be one of them.

That being said, I'm not sure how I feel about having "cell phone" in that list of things that are considered necessities.
I am definitely not advocating coal power that's an assumption you made all on your own. The options aren't coal or nuclear, the options are limited, but they are not limited to just two.
> Resilient as in despite 10 years of continuous doomsday prognostications,

> It's an emerging technology,

What are the timelines like here? If 10 years is too short to suss out what BTC is going to be useful for, will another 10 years help? Is this a 100 year long thing then?
>"For instance, in Seattle's King County, the annual household survival budget for a family of four (including one infant and one preschooler) in 2016 was nearly $85,000."

An $85,000 "budget" is needed for a 4-person household's "survival" in King County? Otherwise they're dying? Maybe United Way's underlying data explains this better, but CNN's conclusions don't seem well explained or supported.

Edit: What's weird is if you look into the ALICE project's website, their number appears to be $74,052, not $85,000. [0]

Also definition of Survival Budget is on that page, but the definition of "survival" is a bit different than a standard dictionary.

[0] https://www.unitedforalice.org/washington
Or even git(lab/hub)? if too lazy to set up your own.
> What does 'original style' means, though?

Classic 'this concept cannot be 100% unambiguously defined, therefore it is entirely meaningless and anything goes' argument.

There are no definite boundaries between colors - they blend into each other continuously, and there is never a sharp transition as you move from white to beige to red to blue in color-space. So why not paint your office and house, inside and out, bright red? After all, the current color has all sorts of pigments, so you can't really say the 'original' color wasn't retained!