skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people have even go so far as to make browser extensions to automatically rewrite "reddit.com" to "old.reddit.com".

The redesign looks... well, I don't even know where to start, but it's pretty clear that users aren't the focus and they've sold out completely to corporate interests.

I'd actually be OK with some of this if they were forthright and honest about this shift in focus, but they're trying to say that the new design is 'better', etc. That's nonsense and lies.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, just remembered: IIRC the failure to link properly to 'old.reddit.com' on links that Reddit have full control over was registered as a 'bug' instead of an obvious way to drive traffic to the redesign.

EDIT#2: This is also what drove people to write browser extensions. The value of reddit has always been in the communities, not the design (or whatever).
This question "What are numbers?" I find way more fruitful to contemplate than any answer I have so far found. And why should we be adults anyway? Adults already know all the answers. Ask this question like a five year old would.
I appreciated a lot about the one I got but had a hard time dealing with the increased friction introduced for non-alphanumeric keys I use regularly for programming.
> https://www.truthordrought.com/holistic-grazing-myths

Based on quickly skimming that webpage, its main scientific source is one article in 2014 in International Journal of Biodiversity. This International Journal of Biodiversity [1] was only published from 2013 to 2018. It is such a small and fringe journal that I can not even find an impact factor for it. Also its publisher [2] has occasionally been accused of predatory practices. Without reading the article, I cannot of course directly comment on the quality of the study. But publishing in such a small-time, fringe journal gives a bad secondary signal.

[1] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijbd/contents/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_Publishing_Corporation
If you used hexagonal keys instead of long rectangles, made the keys a bit smaller, arranged them in several rows but not so many columns (so they were all accessible without excessive arm reaching), staggered their heights to make pressing combinations of them as convenient as possible, split the piano into two pieces and tilted them 30–50° upward toward the center (with the idea that each hand stayed on its own side), you’d get something much more comfortable to play and more flexible as an input device. Optimizing the layout would take a considerable amount of research / feedback from musicians.

However, it is likely that some parts of the existing piano repertoire would become significantly harder to play, or at the very least everything would require dramatically different motions vs. the current piano, requiring any aspiring player to completely re-learn how to play on the new design. But in trade many new types of note combinations would become dramatically easier.

I can’t see pianists who play e.g. 18–19th century piano pieces taking this up in significant numbers, but it would be great for people developing new music.

Even the Jankó keyboard never saw any significant adoption, and that is a much less radical and more obvious improvement of the previous design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard
As stated in the article, 1x refers to the least productive engineer – not the average one.
Right, /p/ in positions where it is contrastive with /b/ is distinguished by both voicing and aspiration. So if someone says [pæt] instead of [pʰæt], those two features are out of sync; the listener can either error-correct it to [bæt] or to [pʰæt]. (And this is why "b" is used in hanyu pinyin to represent unaspirated [p], and analogously "d" for unaspirated [t].)
Sorry to say, but it seems your moral compass isn't working correctly. Not sure its productive at all to continue this conversation with someone who's understanding of that fundamental premise is so completely different than pretty much anyone I know. Hopefully that's something you'll think about.
Don't Obsess over Tools
No matter how it's explained to me, the Oberth effect still seems like magic, or at least some kind of physics violation. Somehow, we use the same delta-V to get more delta-V.
That's mentioned on the Wikipedia page, [1]. What isn't mentioned is that the game Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory [2] from 2003 also contains a map called Siwa Oasis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis#In_popular_culture

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory
Ha, as a web designer I long for the ability to test with even one user before launch day. Rarely do I get room in the budget for that :(
I've had to plug in to quite a number of projectors; I've owned ~5 myself in the last few years. I've used projectors in conference centers, at YCombinator events, startup spaces, universities... Maybe 5% (and that is generous) had HDMI. Almost all of these were high end projectors, in pretty nice spots (in the US/Europe.) Furthermore, as someone else noted, if it's a mounted TV or projector, even if it does have HDMI I've never seen it be accessible.

I think new consumer projectors are far more likely to have HDMI than professional projectors though. A quick look at Amazon confirmed my suspicion that HDMI is a heavily advertised feature for consumer projectors and is almost always important enough to be in the title. Companies, meeting centers and universities are all likely to order from a non-Amazon source. Which is good, because on Amazon I just had to scroll my way through weird advertisements for "VANKYO", "GUDEE", "Dr. J", "DHAWS" and "OKCOO" (adorned with ugly "2019" badges like terrible spam Android apps) before making my way to a single legitimate projector brand.

Even for consumer projectors, though, I think HDMI is fairly recent and will take some time to get out there. When I was shopping for a new consumer projector two years ago, there weren't any with HDMI that fit my modest demands for brightness and quality, but that seems to have changed.
Tillage is killing organisms living in the soil, which are crucial for fertility and resistance to erosion. Permacultures have interesting techniques, like covering the soil to let weeds die and enrich the soil at the same time, not sure how those techniques can scale, even if they are highly productive. There are also the use of livestocks: https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_worl...

other links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsoil#Erosion
http://www.fao.org/3/a0100e/a0100e07.htm
http://www.fao.org/3/t0389e/t0389e02.htm
Fake Weights
There is a trend towards not testing at all! Instead builds are deployed straight to production or canary (mini-subset of production) and then very carefully and closely monitored. If a problem is uncovered, a rollback is performed. If canary is done well, then the problem can be caught before it has widespread impact.
I still don't think it's happening any time soon:

1. Much like during the PPC-to-X86 transition, Apple will need to emulate Intel x86-64 on ARM64 at reasonable speed so that legacy software will continue to function. But we haven't seen any such technology yet. (That's not to say it's impossible, just not in view at this time.)

2. Developers will instantly lose their ability to virtualize x86-64 hardware. No more Docker, no more Windows virtualization. A lot of people, particularly developers, who use the Mac today will lose significant functionality.

3. Thunderbolt is an Intel technology and only works with the x86-64 architecture. Apple will have to come up with some viable replacement for it.
Where can u read about dark? The site has no docs on it.
I frequently run across libs that are more complicated to configure and call than implementing the features myself. I'll often roll my own simply because the lib (even if it's really popular) takes more time to use than that "bit of time to develop".
I see the distinction you're going for, but ultimately it doesn't work.

>Avoidance requires the ability to predict before a negative response occurs

The article discusses the mechanism by which the "avoidance behavior" they describe is learned. It mentions that the downregulation of inhibitory neurons causes heightened sensitivity to stimuli. But downregulation of inhibitory neurons is the same species of process involved in desensitizaion of reflex arcs, i.e. make a certain set of neurons require a higher threshold for activation. Your assumption that "avoidance behavior" requires something beyond reflex activation doesn't follow.

And lets be clear, all learning is predictive. A reflex being upregulated or downregulated is a mechanism of prediction by which an organism's response is modified to more closely correlate with the environment. What you seem to be going for when you use prediction is an organism's mental model of the environment that is detailed enough to associate certain states with negative valence, and behavior planning to avoid entering into such states. In organisms with that level of processing, I agree that an experience of pain is required. But it doesn't follow that any behavior that can be described as predictive requires such mental models.
I am talking about why people might be uncomfortable not nessisarily about changing the law.

I got plenty of negative responses as a tall and very strong young man. That bothered me even if I understood the reasons for it.

People react negatively to guns and physical fitness for rational reasons. I might like shooting and being physically strong, but that’s no reason to discount reality.
I find this interesting because when I applied for a mortgage at Wells Fargo they asked me for my race in the application process.
What did Con Ed have to do to bring the power back? Or did they just "power cycle" it?

Would Con Ed even be able to determine in case this was a cyber attack?
I think this is a great way of looking at it. Coming from the product side of things, I see developers who are vastly more productive than their peers because they have amazing organizational and communication skills. They help keep timelines on track, they keep their peers focused and identify potential issues that a PM without an engineering background might miss. Developers who can suggest small modifications to a product spec that will drastically reduce development time but not greatly impact the overall product are worth their weight in gold.
FSeam – A C++ Mocking Framework That Requires No Change in Code
I did some work for a major telco and we weren't allowed to do user testing outside of the company courtyard.

It consistently blew my mind how "out there" the feedback was with about a half-a-day-worth of testing.

So I don't know about 5-users, but I can say having about 25-50 is good for getting a broad sample.

If you get the wrong 5 users... you're going to get some really skewed results. For example, if you grab a group of 5 people and all of them are in tech your results are going to be dramatically different than if they are 5 people from accounting, or 5 people from janitorial services.
I’m easily 10x most of my team on my current project just because I’ve been living and breathing it for a year (and working on similar technology for a few years) and they’ve only been working on it part time until recently. It takes me half a day to do stories that take them a week or two weeks to do (same amount of story points assigned in sprints). I’ve just given up working on stories recently and have started pair programming because otherwise they’ll just all spin their wheels for days getting nothing accomplished.
Competitive performance for your workload is basically the reason you would buy Intel's compiler, right?
Depends how you look at it. They don't ignore it during translation but that's because they work hard to make the program "ignore it completely" (i.e., not spend a single cycle on the possibility) during execution.
I would interpret that to mean that if memory is uninitialized to a specific value and you're working in a physical rather than virtual address space, then a read from some random pointer to uninitialized data might return an unpredictable value, such as the value of a GPIO register or a word from an RS-232 buffer. There's clearly a defined behavior for that specific platform.

And when they're talking about doing something hardware-specific I would take that to be about the MMU on certain platforms. Platforms with an MMU and where the processor is executing code in a virtual address space can generate an access violation if the program code reads data at a virtual address that is not mapped to a specific segment of physical memory.

Even when a program runs in a physical address space, the processor may be configured with an address space that is significantly larger than the actual block of memory and registers on the memory bus. And this matters because if you have a 32-bit processor but the upper 3 gigabytes of the address space don't map to a register file or RAM then it's hardware-dependent what happens when you read from those addresses.

Some hardware will roll the map over and read from somewhere in the available section of the address space based on the offset, and some hardware will treat that as an error which triggers an access violation. Some hardware will bug out and do something completely unexpected. It's undefined behavior what happens in this case. It has everything to do with how your specific chip, mainframe, or minicomputer is wired. And that's what they're referring to.

Undefined behavior does not mean "do whatever you want," it means "do what the hardware would probably do in this situation, or do whatever can be reasonably expected." And that's important here because that means that UB is not carte blanche to violate the programmer's expectations here.
My family visited here in 1998/99 when my dad (USA Air Force) was stationed at "Peace Vector 3" in Ismailia, Egypt. The Siwa Oasis was a fascinating place - people still lived in the ancient mudbrick houses that have been around for hundreds of years (so we were told). The whole neighborhood looked like Dr. Suess buildings because torrential rains that came once a decade warped everything and then re-dried. Just like everywhere we visited, the people were welcoming and generous, the street food was amazing, and there was more to experience than we had time for. I'd love to go back some day.

Also, we went on a tour of the dunes and salt flats and the guide started his jeep with a flathead screwdriver. That was a culture shock for my 12yo american kid self.
You seem to be aware of index funds but not of buy-and-hold index fund investing and you assume everybody is like you. I say this because an attack of index fund investing based on a prediction of low future returns makes no sense. A major point of index fund investing is resigning that you cannot reliably do better than the average. Predicting a lower market average doesn't change this. Such an investor would say that a slow market average makes it difficult for everyone to make money, not somehow just the index fund people.

I am also bewildered that you'd think buying index funds is good in an up-economy but is bad an a down-economy. You want the diversified gain and the non-diversified loss? It seems to me that if you could somehow make accurate market predictions you'd be better off doing the exact opposite strategy.
It’s a great question but you also need to wonder about the opposite. Was Minecraft successful in spite of Notch’s Java development skills? I know of plenty of products that are successful despite their awful technical prowess. Is the multiplier about making money or technical skill because the discussion around it often mixes both or assumes the former comes from the latter.
Because that’s what people mean by “gun violence” 99% of the time and the distinction is reflected in policy—you don’t ban large magazines and suppressors to reduce the suicide rate, after all.
1. It’s been in place for a long time now...at least since IPO

2. Yes, it’s like hacking the database from the outside in most cases in others it trips alarms and starts an investigation. It all data is created equal here...but generally speaking PII data is highly guarded
Check out Bartlett’s papers and textbook if you want something based on differentials,

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09553

https://amzn.com/1944918027
Neo Cab Takes on Uber and Lyft's Gig Economies via Near Future Sci-Fi
> "type identity" (my own term)

Isn't it just called "type certification"? Why create a new term for it?
Ok, but if you think of a field as existing in space at a given time, then essentially all of it is not in your particular spot.

Just saying "this field has a value elsewhere" means you are talking about something that is not near your given point. And having different values at different points is what I thought a field was.
You can actually set it in your account settings to default to the old design without needing to go to old.reddit.com
A lot of these architecture diagram tools have been popping up lately. Seems like something that could be generated from accessing each of the cloud providers right?
> Yes, but I think it's safe to say that there were a lot more original movies a few decades ago than there are now. Hollywood used to take more risks.

Casablanca was a remake of another Casablanca 10 years before, but I believe this previous Casablanca is now lost.
I experience 0 professional envy. If I see someone who happens to be younger and more successful, it only inspires me. It makes me me want to be friends with that person so that maybe the qualities that made them succeed will rub off on me.
There are a bunch of mathematical artists who don’t do “generative design” or “3D animation”. Textiles, sculpture, painting, architecture, ...

Many of them use calculus in one way or another.

Check out the Bridges conference, http://bridgesmathart.org/
We are drowning in information, which leads us to split hairs on not-so-important decisions.
Honestly your joke did not translate over the internet. It read like you were bragging about being very smart.
I get confused by those they claim some of these ML or NN algos are black boxes and so could be breaking the law. If you’re not inputting illegal info (like race, sex, national origin, religion, name, etc. or corollaries), then it’s not making its risk assessment on that basis. All you have to do is look at the inputs. It isn’t unknowable whether or not it’s breaking the law.
Reddit enhancement suite has vim-like keybindings. I use that, and then disable some of the Vimium keys on Reddit.

I also use a plugin that automatically redirects Reddit to old.reddit.com. I don't know how well RES works with the redesign.
> Corporations like recycling because it promotes growth -- the opposite of reduction.

I don't think this is strictly true. It certainly is not the explanation for why we have most of the recycling programs we do have.

Overpaying for unnecessary recycling reduces growth. Economically efficient recycling increases it.

Both corporations and environmentalists should support efficient recycling and oppose innefficient recycling.

There may be some methods of recycling that are environmentally efficient but economically inefficient, but that would be due to externalities that need to be regulated anyway.

The issue of expecting and engineering unending growth is an interesting topic but doesn't really have anything to do with this article.
btw. in hard multitenant k8s you can even go as wide as using a "master" cluster that contains the control plane of another cluster. actually you need the right network cni for that.
In search of the sea wolf along Canada’s coast (2015)
Sometimes the best thing to do in that kind of a situation is to let the person "win" the conversation every so often.
As opposed to something holistic but still scientific. By “holistic” I mean that western medicine divides specializations too much and anything that doesn’t fit one box just falls outside everyone’s field. Generalist doctors aren’t very holistic either - they tend to just treat very common things or refer to a specialist.

Example: if you have abdominal pains, you will be referred to a gastrointestinal specialist. After some tests and maybe a gastroscopy they will diagnose or rule out the common things: ulcers, celiac disease etc. This is what modern western medicine excels at. They find and cure the likely things quickly. They can often rule out the dangerous things like cancer.

But now imagine for a second that the abdominal pain actually was a manifestation of a back disc issue. Few gastrointestinal specialists would find that and say “I think your back is the real problem and the gut pain is just a secondary symptom”. And you have already been referred as far “down” in the specialist chain as you can.
This is when people start fumbling after alternatives.

Note that there is nothing “non western” about having a more more holistic (less narrowly specialized) perspective on medicine, it’s just something that is hard so doesn’t get much attention. Perhaps the traditional specializations should be restructured? We are now seeing some headway such as the connection between gut bacteria and mental health for example.
No idea whether ICC is still worth paying for

From my experience, ICC is far more reluctant to exploit UB, yet still generates very good code.
Very true, short term is self-interested and you have to be in today's corporate world, especially in the value multiplication/extraction/funding side.

I have no doubt Gavriella Schuster figured it would help her budgets and maybe provide growth through some converted customers. But that is short term as really the licensing model of many systems are dying and no one would ever recommend SharePoint if they couldn't use it for free to develop on and use internally. Some products would die faster without the partner program and the licensing model is ancient due to the cloud in favor of per-use/subscription/SaaS, licensing really only works for consumer products but even then it is tough. Microsoft already knows this as Azure is essentially their main product instead of OS going forward. So this move just seems badly timed.

The other reason people are so short term focused, especially in the management/budget side, is that building value takes lots of time and is risky to budgets. Therefore budgets are guarded heavily to focus on P&L which overrides research and the open mode needed to create products.

Simply doing something that is short term does damage but ultimately brings in short term gains (budget savings), those results can be quantified and seen as a good short term solution while most of these people are long gone before the network effects of that change are realized.

Building value takes time and that is why large companies buy up startups, they are value-focused. Even Apple with the iPhone really used all the R&D at NeXT/NeXTSTEP to move so fast and have such a solid market leading launch. Ultimately value creation rules the world, it is just the value creators are usually overruled eventually by the extractors.
The concept of needing to know the key figures behind each website you use is detached so far from the reality of being a human in the 21st century.
Morris Kline's book "Calculus: An Intuitive and Practical Approach" is still in print. I prefer the paper version because the Kindle version has many formatting problems.
If you have a company of 5k plus employees different teams are bound to use different cloud providers without even being aware of such.
Such companies are also those being interviewed by Gartner or Forrester etc.
We don't observe people removing all barriers for special programmers and letting them do whatever they want, which might be evidence it doesn't work.

Could it be because a complex system or project tends to be limited by its slowest/least productive necessary component?
Those antibiotics are used routinely for specific indications (preop prevention, for instance). Professionals are well-aware of their downsides. Hearing damage generally stems from overdosing.