skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But where is the line between a “learned lookup-table” and “actually doing arithmetic”?

Especially considering how numbers were presented to bees = number of shapes in a square (look at the second paper in my other comment).
Making safer and less-polluting cars is a productivity improvement: it means people are getting better cars -- and everyone else is getting less likelihood of getting killed in a car accident, less health damage from other people's exhaust fumes, etc.
What I find most annoying with lost bags (as mentioned usually due to short transfers) is the byzantine system you have to go through to get them back.

In most likelihood by the time you arrive your airline should already know that the bag didn't make it and is still in a transfer airport. They could just send you a message in their app and have you fill out a form so they know where to forward it.

Instead you have to waste tons of time waiting at the belt, then even more time waiting in line at the completely overworked lost+found counter(once you actually found it) just so you can fill out the details you could have just as well typed in in an app.
> I'd expect to be able to use the resources I bought without risk of being suspended

They weren't bought resources at the time, they were on credit. In this case a false positive for sure.

In the case of an actual cryptominer it's more likely they'll just ditch the account when it comes to billing time. Even more likely is that it's a compromised account that someone else has to pay for
Only 4,183 of 76,000 Vulnerabilities Are Exploited in the Wild
>My parents and other retired people I know feel they've earnt their retirement, when they really haven't.

Hasn't anyone who can afford to retire earned their retirement? What do you mean by "they really haven't"?
Yeah, I've tried a handful of visual programming tools in the 90s before I got fluent in a normal programming language. It seemed very easy to start with the first steps and it was motivating how all the possibilities seemed to be one click away. But in reality the fun stopped really quickly and getting further would require deep understanding of the tool, i.e. reading a lot of - incomplete - documentation.

Another tool, I forgot the name but it's used in certain parts of science, in particular it at least used to be in use at the LHC. It seemed quite complete but complex things would easily be difficult to see, at least in the short time I did something with it.

IMHO Borland Delphi is the furthest visual programming went so far. I never really understood why IDE developers didn't pursue that path any further. (I know there's still a Delphi but almost nobody uses it.)
Québec is an exception to this. Québec do not follow the Express Entry system. Québec has its own immigration system called Québec Skilled Worker Programme which is currently dysfunctional, plagued with delays. Québec gives more importance to knowing French rather than any other skills in selecting immigrants. As a result, Quebec has a pool of unemployable but French speaking immigrants.
There is not a current effort targeting Windows, but the development of the PyQt port will add Windows support, so keep watching :D
I forget where I heard this but when you get a call, pressing 1 or 2 will connect you to a real person. If you talk about Tiananmen Square they will eventually block your number from their end. Can't confirm, but sounds dumb enough that it might just work.
If one is afraid of getting scratched, don't get a pet with claws. Fish are pretty harmless.
Physical labor is harder on the body and takes a toll. Retiring at 75 is unreasonable for them, they can’t continue to work like that into their late 60s
The government already varies state retirement age and pension amount whenever they want. How can you sensibly factor an unknown amount at an unknown age into your retirement planning?
"Using our cutting edge analysis, we've empirically determined that highly-paid employees looking forward to their fat pensions are more satisfied with their working environment than low-paid employees with no benefits. That'll be $2MM for consulting on intergenerational workplaces, thanks."
Probably not, the latest Mac version is a bit flaky, new release coming soon ~1-2 weeks
This is the first time I've seen something that calls itself a "brutalist" web page actually expose its structure, the way I understand brutalism. It also reminded me of reading a literate program. Great work!
Forceps?

I thought that forceps had been replaced by sink plungers. Obviously not the sort you buy in the DiY store but the expensive medical grade. The same principle applies though, suction cup goes on baby's head and with one pull the baby is born!

I thought the suction cup approach was standard now with the benefit to the technique being no birth marks.
Good Omens: Neil Gaiman and creators talk about adapting the book for TV
Even better, don't get a cat if scratching is a problem.
On the contrary, from the quote it seems he has crystal clear understanding of copyright and public domain—not too surprisingly since his adherence to these principles dates at least fifteen years back (http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/freeDistribut...)

He's appealing to ethics, not the law. He says right there that his objection is to the naming of forks. If that looks to you like violation of the public domain promise, you must think the name constitutes the body of the work.

I'm not sure what to make of the DMCA filings, though, since those should obviously rely on copyright in the first place.

From his twitter, it seems he's also convinced by now that the trademark law provides perfect solution for this problem, and has apparently filed an application for a trademark on the OHOL name.
It's called progress. Perfectly good products fall to the wayside.
I duplicate tabs with CMD-L CMD-ENTER combo, which I find passable. I suppose an item in the context menu would make sense though.
If those people would have used their PC only for that game, yes. But that's not the case. People didn't have a PC just laying around thinking "oh crap now I need an OS".

On the other hand, if you didn't have a PC back in 1998 you bought one and Windows came with it. Or you already were advanced user, built one from components and installed Windows. Either legally or not, didn't matter much.
It’s contrary to Go core values of simplicity and avoiding slow patterns (using defer statements for error handling). It seems like a net loss and I would expect the proposal to be rejected.
Ouch. Every once in a while I read something that puts things in just the right perspective, and it hurts. You've put that existential angst very succinctly.
link:

https://twitter.com/jasonrohrer/status/1113873478929674240
There is something quite special about Common LISP. I've written about it a few times, you can find a short article here:

https://atlas.engineer/technical-article/why-lisp.org

it also contains some nice links at the bottom to further articles. I'd be curious to know your opinion, thanks!
I'm not sure, and it's strange that this is the first time I read about the recommendation. But for a comparison, many years ago it was usual to add a compound with lead to the gasoline and it was almost banned because it was toxic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead . I'm not sure that the comparison is relevant here.
Reminds me of this speculative post on SlateStarCodex:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-sing...

Ultra-brief summary: it may be that technological progress is actually tied to population growth, not economic growth - and population growth is slowing down. So unless we can figure out a way to switch the driver of scientific and technological breakthroughs from population (more researchers) to economy (e.g. machines that would think for us), we're gonna stall the progress of science and technology too.
Take a look at this table: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-companies-profit-per-emp...

There are no European companies on the list.

Companies that make enormous profits per employee can pay top employees a lot of money.

When people wonder why Americans work so much part of the reason is that these people desperately want to make it to the top where the rewards are lucrative. Is this rational? Probably not, because the top seems to get smaller in every field and most don't make it.

Also take a look at the BigLaw Profits per Partner. Top equity partners can make $4 million+ because they are at the top of a pyramid. Mostly this is in the US
No, This Is Not a Hole in the Universe
The title is poor and there are a few angry typos but overall this appears closely reasoned. I say appears because it would take a lot of unpicking to be sure.

I don't understand why this is flagged really.
Neutering usually reduces sexual urges, evidenced by reduction in mating behaviours like wandering, marking, territoriality, etc. It also extends lifespan.

Independent of whether cats are even capable of feeling regret about not having children of their own, I'd say that's not as bad as losing the equivalent of the tips of their fingers with built-in grappling-hook-switchblades.
Yes, that's true. However, many securities laws exist to protect investors. So, if you knowingly violate securities laws, there's a pretty good chance you are knowingly putting investors in a disadvantageous position. That's a textbook definition of a scam.
Is this fellow not queer. Is he not Latino. Does he have a lisp?
Can you please drop the condescending tone?

The linked article is not research or even data - it's a Guardian article, which has close to zero credibility as far as I am concerned (nothing against Guardian per se, newspapers are terrible sources of knowledge in general).

Even having said that, the article does not seem to have any data on what I was worrying about - i.e. to what degree subsidising homeless people is incentivising homelessness. It instead talks about a programme (not homelessness itself), which seems to be dealing with homelessness by... providing subsidised housing. They don't say how much they're spending a year (presumably many millions, judging by the scale of the operation), and in 2018 their results are... six people who stopped needing the subsidy and went on to live independently. Given the fact that they house 3500 people, a yearly conversion rate of 0.2% seems abysmal, and may actually point to what I was worrying about - i.e. homeless people not wanting to be go back to the society that much, as long as the state is subsiding their housing.

Funny aside, according to the article, 70% of homless in Finland do not actually live on the streets, but with friends or family (but, I am assuming, would prefer to live on their own). According to this standard, there are millions of homeless in Poland. Although I wouldn't be suprised if this particular bit of reporting was mangled and that the truth is more complicated.
Making Our Android Studio Apps Reactive with UI Components and Redux
I use a lookup table for arithmetic. Figuring out 5*3 would take me a long time if I didn’t know already.
I don't know about the flagging either; just talking about the analogy in the title, which was a trick hook.
ps: Don't use the official implementation - it is slow. Go with one of the lite projects like that one https://github.com/kawanet/msgpack-lite
All I ever said was that most mental illness is a product of society. Anything beyond that is a product of your imagination. If you're going to actively avoid truth by taking every chance to derail the discussion, why even bother?
In South Africa at this point I am more excited about air-to-hydrocarbon technology than electric cars. Personally I would love an electric car, but long travel distances and issues with our state owned utility make modular (powered by solar or at some places wind) fuel producing facilities very promising—provided that this technology actually exists!

It seems like we don't know for sure whether air-to-fuel startups actually have a cost effective way of fixing hydrocarbons from the air or whether they are just trying to lure investor money.
Currently, only 8% of wage earners are over the $128400 social security maximum.

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

The social security tax is actually regressive to an extent. If you make between $82500 and $128400 your marginal tax rate is higher than someone making between $128400 and $157500. So there is that.
My employer froze pension benefits at current salary level, freezing people out of 20 years of salary growth. I switched 17 years ago to the portable pension plan (annuity), which was probably the wise thing to do. At least I can convert that lump sum to an IRA, or choose a pension (won’t do that).

The really dirty thing they did a few years ago was promise medical benefits to those that retired that year, then promptly pulled them a year later.

At least I have been maxing out my 401k for 20 years.
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California has too much solar power. That might be good for ratepayers
bees can link symbols to symbols?
Because those species already exist and we are changing the ecosystem (by introducing micro-plastics everywhere)?
The Joker should have been a woman and she finally went insane because
Is this fellow not queer? Is this fellow not Latino? Does he have a lisp?
> I wanna see the brain of JavaScript developer compared to a Lisper, Rustacean, ...

Even more fun: polyglots as they work out problems in different languages!
Controversial U.S. bill would lift Supreme Court ban on patenting human genes
The youngest boomer, on these calculations, is 54 going on 55. With some luck he or she has established a career.

At the mid-millenial age of 31, I wasn't happy about my pay, cause it wasn't much, or for part of the time about my work, because it was tedious and needed a change.
Concurrency with No Locks: TPL Dataflow in .Net Core, in Depth (Part 2/2)
Having seen episode 4-5 now, I think the last episode was pretty good, and the technical breakdown was actually great.

However, episode 4 also wasted an unacceptable amount of time; the intro with the old lady and the pet hunters' parts were heavy-handed fillers, and the time should have been much better spent on expanding more on the different operations (mentioned in a pitiful few sentences in the beginning of ep 4!) and also the biorobots.

One part of my general feelings is summarized well by this article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-cher.... This is basically about grafting a western-style disaster movie narrative onto the story. The other part of my feelings is that they simply did not make good use of the runtime; they wasted most runtime on lackluster invented dialogues.
you don't need many neurons to do MNIST.
Many many universities open their doors for international students, frequently with courses in English. If you rank the schools here [1] by "International Students", you'll see universities primarily in Europe, the Middle East, APAC.

Often, foreigners pay more than domestic students.

Most countries strictly control employment opportunities for non-citizens, of course.

[1] https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-un...
I think people will be wondering in amazement that we were so wasteful in ferrying around 200-lb bags of water and flesh in 1-ton carriages of steel, when buses and trains and bikes and scooters where already well-known about and available.
I always think what the perspectives of a being that could live for millions of years and had the computing power and memory and sensors of all of Earths machines would be. I don’t think we could even comprehend the thoughts of this being.
The chart that showed which generations work most in which fields showed that gen-X and boomers work in areas that are less precarious than those populated by millennials.

I use the triad of "money, stability, and prestige," to weigh the value of a role. Young people are naturally attracted to the money-prestige roles, where older workers want stability-money roles. People who value prestige-stability roles tend to be in academia, where prestige-money roles are in the arts/media/politics/non-profit sectors. I am sure there is a gender/sex axis for these preferences as well.

In terms of what you need in a role, admit you need prestige to increase your profile that gets access to greater opportunity. Commit to valuing stability if the things that are important to you are not in the marketplace, and if money is truly your goal, recognize it's almost always made by forgoing prestige and stability - those things come after, if at all.
He is a lawyer, bilingual speaker, master of 2 martial arts, intelligence agent, prolific outdoorsman, and president. He also sings, paints, and plays the piano. Is this not enough to qualify someone as a generalist?
Well it is probably the highest number that still fits the threshold for under five. Under five itself is also arbitrary in that it is "show how the demographics have gone older".
I'm sure he'll get it resolved.

But come on people, "in the cloud" doesn't mean it is safe. If you care at all about what you're storing in the cloud, make copies to store locally and offsite.
Distributed among consumers (via price reductions) and via _owners_ (via profit increases). Those graphs you've probably seen showing that the richest ~1% of the population owns an ever-increasing fraction of the assets suggest that quite a lot is going to owners rather than to consumers.
I have never understood is why there is no security around the pickup of bags on arrival. What prevents someone from simply picking up my bag from the carousel, knowing that it's not theirs, and walking off?

Or are airplane passengers invariably saints, so that this never happens?
I really think that social media and the broader internet has accelerated the collapse of the old world order. The institutions that were owned or partly controlled by a small minority no longer have as much control over national narratives.

There will be a period of chaos as the old world and new world duke it out.
Machine learning is to science what funny animals are to comedy
Sure, it works. But it doesnt really inform the overall theory of comedy. Funny animals are a black box whose output is human laughter, Does that dog really understand what he is doing?

Know that feeling of guilt you have when you click a funny cat compilation on Youtube? That's the same feeling i get when instead of inventing a cool logical algorithm i just let the machine figure it out by itself
> The brain handles them very differently on the lowest level, but what’s interesting is that we can use spatial representation to represent temporal information and vice versa, and, actually, often do precisely that.

The author of this article would probably really enjoy diving into research regarding sign languages, which are by there very nature both spatial and temporal languages - in other words: kinematic languages.
Individual marginal efficiency arbitrage is the wrong mental framework for analysis of the problem at hand. We are not trying to burn carbon more efficiently, we are trying to stop burning carbon. We are not optimizing, we are solving for zero. An EV run on coal today will automatically inherent the solution as we decarbonize the grid.
> quality of life has changed too.

"changed" is the keyword here, not everything got better. At some point you hit the diminishing return law. Did Uber, Facebook and Netflix had a greater impact on human life than hot tap water and fridges ? Do we need 3 new versions of iphones per year ? Same day delivery ? Did food delivery really upped your quality of life or are we just getting lazy and fat because we consider walking 10 minutes a chore ?

Technological progress is automatically assumed to be good, but when you take a few steps back and look at the big picture we're not much better than 50 years ago. We have more useless activities and gadgets to spend our hard earned money, that's for sure, did it make the world a better place, that's another question.

> However people have chosen to use the extra time automation gives them to develop more luxuries in life.

I don't think "people" chose anything, the elite are very happy with the status quo. Look at wealth inequality stats, it's very easy to see where the money is going, and it's not in the interest of "the people".
I think the only email services that are not going to mine your emails for valuable data are paid services that have made strong commitments to privacy. This was an interesting podcast interview with founder of Fastmail https://overcast.fm/+Hbyc810T0
When you put it that way, it doesn’t square with lived experience. Are the 25M lost or just misrouted? Nearly everyone I know who flies has had a bag misrouted at some point.

1-in-172 seems surprisingly low to me.
Man is this so true. Years ago I had a daughter spend some time in a hospital and they wanted to change her diaper every 2 hours...during...the...night! Sure the child who is recovering from brain surgery should have their sleep interrupted 5 times to change a diaper. I am fairly certain no sane parent wakes up a perfectly sleeping baby to change a diaper. My wife kindly told them we didn't need that and they obliged.
The article rests on a fundamental logical error. They claim to be measuring “millennials” versus “generation x” versus “baby boomers,” but actually they’re measuring 18-35 year olds, etc. Those are different groups. (Millennials will continue to be millennials even when they’re retired, for example.) Obviously, younger people will have less belief in the organizations mission, for example, since largely they’re still not the ones setting that mission. That doesn’t mean that millennials as a group find work less meaningful than their parents did at the same age.

Indeed, there is reason to believe the opposite. Millennials are generally more conservative than the baby boomers were at the same age: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/health/millennials-conservati.... That may carry over to attitudes towards things like work.
Sure, if A ⊇ B, max(A) >= max(B), but that does not imply that max(A\B) >= max(B).
Personally, I also have the feeling that I remember points better, if I write them down instead of digital notes. Nothing beats Pen&Paper.
My goal with this 3-line pseudocode snippet was not to reproduce a banking loan administration system in its entirety, but just to show a place where it could make sense to divide by currency.
Although I'd argue that a lot more people could manage with carry-on if they just brought what they need for a trip rather than everything they think of.
Michael Pollan actually talks about this in his book Second Nature. His father never cut his lawn and the neighbors had the same reaction, but his dad fought back as well. Really cool book if you want to read about gardening and how society looks at nature especially the lawn and garden.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nature-Gardeners-Michael-Polla...
Where they're going to put them all.
While you're swinging that legal word around, have an armchair lawyer skim DO's Terms of Service.

> 9.1 Subscriber is solely responsible for the preservation of Subscriber's data which Subscriber saves onto its virtual server (the "Data"). EVEN WITH RESPECT TO DATA AS TO WHICH SUBSCRIBER CONTRACTS FOR BACKUP SERVICES PROVIDED BY DIGITALOCEAN, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, DIGITALOCEAN SHALL HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY TO PRESERVE DATA. DIGITALOCEAN SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY DATA THAT MAY BE LOST, OR UNRECOVERABLE, BY REASON OF SUBSCRIBER'S FAILURE TO BACKUP ITS DATA OR FOR ANY OTHER REASON.

Summary: Do offsite backups n'all you dinguses
Genuinely curious, why are Japanese people cutting things so often that this became a thing?

All I own is one absolute garbage pair of scissors, and I use them so rarely that it doesn’t really matter. I don’t think I’m an outlier, in the US.