skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I get that the author is trying to shake things up common-perception-wise, and really loves the f word.

"So the average person would likely wash daily at home, but once a week or so they would treat themselves to a bath at the communal bath house."

This needs support. "Average" person would go to the bath house once a week? Across all of Europe? That's a pretty extraordinary claim.

"In fact soap is a motherfucking medieval invention. .... Medieval people? Oh you better believe that they had soap."

Let's say soap actually is a medieval invention. (I see this debated, but the author seems to emphatically feel it is an important point) Doesn't that mean, pretty much by definition, that some medieval people didn't use soap? Unless they invented soap on the actual first day of the middle ages and it immediately went viral.
There was a period in my life where I suffered a severe psychotic break and spent several weeks in a mental hospital. The thing that got me well enough to be discharged was a portable cd player and a handful of mix cds one of my friends brought me, but what allowed me to fully recover was spending the next 3 months at my parent's house mostly watching the wind ruffle through their collection of Japanese Maples.
I am going to give this a shot.

Thank you!
I guess the borging of those entities is in full swing now.

Golden Handcuff periods ended.
I moved earlier this summer. My home office is situated in front of huge bay windows looking out into the canopy of a forest of 120 foot maple trees that my house is in. It has made a huge difference, especially when I'm doing tedious programming work.
I only brought up ground (in the Earth ground sense) because I've heard people think that antennas in general work by using the Earth as a second conductor, with EM radiation as the first. Antennas are conductors that are part of an un-closed electrical network, relying on the capacity of a conductor to hold an oscillating non-equilibrium charge (though they can be modeled as an RLC network). My previous comment was written out of a reasonably common conception of a closed circuit being a loop with constant current flow, but capacitors break such a circuit. (I don't mean to imply what bsder said was in any way wrong, just not necessarily the whole story depending on how it's interpreted.)

The realm of electrodynamics is pretty interesting, and it's where seemingly basic concepts like electric potential begin to fail -- it becomes path-dependent!
actually doesn't vmware use the "old" isa emulation to add floppy drives as config drives?
I realize that, but the companies I’m referring to - the VC backend companies and the YC backed public companies aren’t cash flow positive.
Facebook does own them all, so this is just them disclosing that fact.

If people were using Instagram or WhatsApp over Facebook branded alternatives because they didn't want Facebook to have their information, then all this does is demonstrate that that ship has sailed.
It's possible for a group to have more smart people despite lower mean IQ; I learned that in college (hint; it's about the variance). Anyway, college is basically a badly formulated IQ test and DEFINITELY a vanity measure. I mean it costs a hell of a lot more.
I mean, you can still go to a record store, and due to the analog nature of the stored audio, and the fact that you have to rebuy albums to format shift for the vast majority of people, meant that vinyl records far outlived the time they were technically required. I listened to a vinyl album last week; when was the last time you saw, much less used, a floppy disk? Do you think it's crazy out there that large swathes gen z legitimately has never seen one?
This is especially clear when you look at the special case of health care. So many people would like to start a business but can’t leave their job because they need the health insurance that comes with it. This was especially bad before the ACA, when someone with a pre-existing condition would be completely screwed without being part of a group plan. Now they’re just mostly screwed because the plans are too expensive in general.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-36-gdpr/
The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...
I dunno, probably about as good as Zuck is doing.
Most definitions of "medieval" or "middle ages" seem to reference Europe. It's considered the time between the Western Roman Empire and the Renaissance / Age of Discovery.
The article is: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

As a correlational study, and as with any study like this I'm worried that something they're not controlling for, or not sufficiently controlling for, is the actual cause. They say:

> Self-rated health, depression, anxiety, and risk of psychological distress have been previously shown to be associated with green space in some cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. A range of socioeconomic and demographic factors are likely to confound these associations by contributing to mental health outcomes and to neighborhood selection. Previous research suggests that these factors are likely to include personal socioeconomic circumstances, such as how much money people have, whether they are employed, and their level of education, and other factors, such as age, sex, and relationship status. Accordingly, in this study, we adjusted for baseline measures of age, sex, annual household income, economic status (eg, employed, retired, or unemployed), highest educational qualification, and couple status.

There are a lot of measures that affect human wellbeing that this doesn't take into account, however. For example, wealth and class aren't present. I understand why it would be hard for them to adjust for everything, but that also makes the study much less predictive.

I wonder if there are any natural experiments we could look at where blights or storms that caused sudden reductions in tree cover in a mostly independent fashion?
The community is brand new. It's managed by Steven De Keninck (enkimute), the author of the ganga.js framework (https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js).

Check out some examples

https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples/coffeeshop.html...
That is not specific to big companies vs small companies, which is what I was asking about upthread.
You can do that with quite a few pen and paper systems today, without being to verify what you voted for after the fact.
Do you really need to be able to "invert a binary tree" to move a button in gmail to an even less convenient location? It's not even that you need to know all those things to work at many positions in FANGs. It's about making sure that someone who can do that does not, God forbid, go somewhere else and does something actually useful for the humanity.
My experience has been that many younger engineers don't want to work closer to the metal as much. They want to work on the bleeding edge, sexier technologies.
It depends on what your biggest concern is. Large scale metadata analysis is a concern that block-level encryption does a better job of than "file filter encryption" does. Authenticated encryption, which prevents people from bitflipping your init scripts into bindshells if you lose access to your laptop for a few minutes, is something that file encryption addresses and block encryption basically doesn't.

The important thing is that you don't really have to choose; a true encrypted filesystem can give you both things. Block-level encryption can't.
Don't worry, that's only the in the US. In Switzerland, for example, many people are paid a lot. They also pay a lot.

In The Netherlands, psychiatrists have a higher entry level salary than the average CS grad.
Thank you, and sorry if that came across as snarky, that wasn't my intention...
If the goal is to keep score, you can do that directly. A score tally sounds a lot more satisfying than a hoard of rotting food.
Quantum Logic Gate
Trees are expensive to maintain if they are between closely packed houses. Wealthier suburbs have more trees than poorer.
Lyft lost the trust of DeleteUber women who thought it was ‘woke’
One of the truly great essays of the 20th century. It’s too nuanced and complex and terrible and wonderful to summarize but I strongly suggest taking some time to read it in full.

God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time! has stuck in my head since i first read this essay in high school.
This seriously worries me. Every generation thinks that what they do is disposable and not worth preserving. Source code from even just 20 years ago discarded and lost, priceless and one of a kind computer systems thrown into the sea, old movies and books completely lost. While nothing has really changed in regards to the value current generations place on current production, what has changed it seems is our ability to rediscover these lost artifacts. Newly printed books will rot away in a century or two, the memories and data we keep on company servers will be thrown away either on purpose or by accident (just look at myspace) or be otherwise inaccessible. No longer will our kids be able to find old pictures of their dad or an old diary from when we were young.

Hell, I don’t even have anymore all the code or essays I wrote in college, and I would give a lot to get those things back (not even including the 25btc I carelessly let get destroyed).

Archive is doing a great job, but as more and more content moves behind unfindable and unindexable corporate pages, it’s nowhere near good enough.

It would be really cool if such a technology exist that you could write data once on to some chip or piece of glass or whatever that you could read again and again forever. It’s really important that we try and solve these problems, if not for us, but the people that come after.
I've just updated Lagukan so it'll play from tracks you've uploaded to google music. I've added instructions to enable google music to the docs: https://lagukan.com/docs/
All of what you are saying is true. However none of that is dictated by doctors or a direct result of doctors' salaries being too high like OP suggested.
Submit a patch. It's easy to moan about a missing feature, but isn't terribly productive.
No one does of boredom in rural or suburban environments. They die of meth and oxy.
> I don't expect those flash floods to happen again

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix... It already happened again multiple times after Microsoft.
This reads like a summary of a conflict from many Chinese novels. It also gives an explanation why such a theme is popular in those stories.
Personal conspiracy theory: these tech companies are sitting on their piles of cash waiting for the next recession so they can go on a shopping spree for all the cheap startups unable to raise any further rounds and unprofitable IPO'd unicorns crashing on the stock market
What would the world look like, if the calculus had been discovered two millenia earlier?
Following the orders... but with insufficient enthusiasm?
>> In the meantime, though, every single older developer I've met has been extremely knowledgeable and frankly much better at the craft than myself.

This may seems strange from where you sit but trust me. If you stay in the field that length of time, you will probably become that guy. You don't need to set out to be him. The only thing it requires is time and a refusal to stagnate.
So if your house burns down and your "paper trail" turns to ash as a result, you automatically lose copyright on all your publications?
I mean this is the most positive way: you are a bona-fide nerd.

I would would also be really intrigued/interested to learn that. But my experience with teachers is that most of them are not nerds - the ones that are tend to have that beaten out of them by the profession. Not all though.
I would call income tax a good problem to have, one which these companies don't have
This ridiculous symptoms come from ridiculous regulations and their unintended consequences. Apart from emergency care, I think the health care industry actually needs very little regulation.
I'm glad.

I'm tired of dragging my friends around various messaging platforms, but it needs to happen. This will help.
This issue arises because, if the site allows any public sharing, the "create filter" UI gives team members the option to share a new filter with "Everyone", which sounds like an org-local scope but is in fact a public/non-logged-in scope. The org-level scope is called, "Open", and is not part of this UI. Sigh.

To prevent this issue as a site admin on Jira cloud, go to:

Jira Settings -> System -> General Configuration

and disable "Allow users to share dashboards and filters with the public." This doesn't affect existing filters, which you have to manually fix.

In true Jira fashion, if you try to reassign a filter after flipping this setting, it will deny the operation and ask you to edit the ACL, which there is no convenient admin UI to do.

Jira is a disaster of UX.
If anyone has the ability to confirm your vote, either without you or through you, you can be compelled or paid for it.

Imagine constructing a system that can thwart a abusive, tyrannical father who insists that his wife and children vote for a particular candidate (to make it concrete.) If you can get past him, your voting system passes the first test. Now imagine someone is offering $50 if you vote in a particular way. If there's no way to figure out how someone would claim it, it passes the second test.

The abusive father can literally just fill out all of his family's ballots, and the $50 could be claimed by filling out the ballot in front of the buyer. You could thwart this with allowing multiple votes but only accepting the first, but then the father or buyer could just have the ballots filled out immediately at the first legal moment.

I don't know that it's a thing that can be done without totally private environment around the voter and the record; meaning that the actions of the voter cannot be observed.
Go play some CS:GO or Overwatch and get back to me.
Maybe not replacing lack of tree with exotic invasives trees
For $26,000, you can buy a home on Amazon complete with a kitchen and bath
> But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also been frustrated that Facebook doesn’t get more credit for the growth of Instagram and WhatsApp. Associating those apps with Facebook could improve the overall companies’ brand with consumers.

Something doesn't quite add up here in my mind. Facebook is the one brand of the three that stands to benefit from this. Are Instagram's and WhatsApp's brands strong enough to buoy Facebook's brand?

> While studies show that Facebook’s brand has been tarnished by its many privacy scandals, and that users are increasingly becoming more aware of the firm’s data collection practices, Instagram and WhatsApp have largely remained unscathed. Two 2018 surveys conducted by the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo found that more than half of Americans didn’t know Facebook owned Instagram or WhatsApp.

Once the word's out, prepare for their reputation to be scathed.
> The USA needs more people who know how to build things.

USA? The WORLD needs more people who know how to build things.
Not quite true with regards to local and downstream environments.
The best case here is probably to identify deforested areas that are geographically constrained - ie difficult for seeds to be blown or washed away, and plant there - noting that iot's now a sacrificial area for decarbonising forestation.
Good point, it's a bad example because we assume we're just combining covariance which is intuitive.

Nevertheless, I have a point because:

1. Things get harder with contravariance.
2. Things get harder when you mix covariance and contravariance.

The prototypical covariance class is Producer<T> (with method produce() returning T) while for contravariance that's Consumer<T> (with method consume taking a T as parameter).

Assume each class has a superclass (Consumer0<T> and Producer0<T>) and a subclass (Consumer2<T> and Producer2<T>). Assume V extends U extends T.

Can you list the subclasses and superclasses of Consumer<Producer<U>>?

Personally, I have to think carefully about this for a minute or so, and I've been there before a couple times.

This is not an especially complex scenario either. I've seen things get worse in practice.
That's not a conspiracy theory
We've got a lot more than that for medieval Europe - archaeological remains of more commonplace objects, business and administrative records (oh lord the things you can learn from an inventory sheet or an invoice), etc.
Well, seems like you should do an AMA on Reddit!
Fixed link for more details about the Search team: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/0de0db4b-971a-4d1d-ac90-9681f97...
I think you made the right tradeoff there.
> This will leave a gap below the elements.

Recursively apply same logic to rest of page!
They also have a lot more training and responsibility than the average CS grad.
Ethical theory is a tough subject for high school-age kids, and even a Jesuit high school isn't going to get too deep into it. There's more to reasoning about this stuff than you think.

In this case we're talking about a professional engineering ethics class that will be somewhat lighter on the theory and heavier on the case studies, I would suspect.
A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable
Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years
I like this analogy for a separate reason. Many musicians can relate to hitting a ceiling in terms of ability. You might have X years playing any instrument, but depending on talent, you may have plateaued for some period of time. It is highly likely for anyone that has stayed in one role (in a mature industry) that has not actively sought extra-curricular technology to experience this.
Is that milliseconds? Aren't those values in the non-noticeable range? I tracked a paper recently saying that users don't notice feedback for less than ~96ms (a bit less in some scenarios).
The consumer only exists because of these "greedy companies". You can't consume what doesn't exist.
Indeed you have it right. In fact the PA did go through a whole set of range of motion and "does it hurt" tests which all indicated no fracture. The tuning fork was just a last check to verify that, and of course I had the option to go get an X-ray if I wanted it regardless.

I just didn't see any need at that point, since the treatment would just end up being "take it easy on your hand and don't engage in any sports for a while."
Raft is not going to be the last consensus protocol.

If that assertion is true, then the replacement will exist because something in Raft is difficult or impossible to do. In which case consensus is hard, for some quantity of hard.

The one that's most obvious to me is that Raft violates one of the 8 Fallacies of Network Computing: the network is homogeneous.

The star topology of messages means that some messages - identical messages with different destinations - will be competing for bandwidth. It also means electing the slowest machine on the longest network link is probably a bad idea. I've certainly heard of this sort of problem happening.
I would use a drum instead. You can make the scanlines near-perfectly linear if you look from a right angle.
The aspect that it identified that this was about American Football and not say the rest of the World football is interesting. The name of the team gives that away.

What does stilt it is the superfluous repeating of football as if the context was unclear in which for a human, it is. Then to clarify that further by stating "american football", does kinda add to the stiltedness. Then to state the location even further, as a football fan who was aware of their team, would be aware of other teams, because they are a huge football fan.

The more human way of responding would of been more along the lines of:
I've always been a Steelers fan myself.

Though, banter and smacktalk of competitive sports fans, for an AI to blend in with that and get the balance right, that will be interesting to see play out as is. Expect the AI to go into parenting mode and ask why all the negativity.
I suspect that our inventory of digital media will survive as long as people do. It would take a complete technological collapse to expunge all the random TV shows and internal discussions floating around the infospher, and even under the worst ecological scenarios, technological collapse everywhere is unlikely. Future scholars will be able to just spool up our mass entertainment as we do. They might even read this comment.
If the economy was hyper-inflating large institutions and corporations would be the first to trade their cash for other securities and assets like real estate.
Romans did have soap but they mostly used it to clean clothes not themselves.

The article title is correct but whoever wrote this uniformed garbage needs to go back to grade school.
> The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494

Again! Ten years ago I met my (now) wife in Venezia (Venice), and since then I've become really interested in Venezia's history, inventions, etc.

It's incredible how many ideas, inventions, trends, important people are inextricably linked with Venezia between the 14th and 17th century. It was never a huge city, but it has been deeply influential, in a way similar to today's concept of "alpha city" [0], but not just limited to economic importance.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
We took our daughter to a children's hospital (CHOC, a pretty famous one), went through triage, and got put into a room. A nurse came in, asked questions, said the child needs to pee in a cup, and left. Two hours later, still nobody had checked on us, and no doctor. I had asked more than once for an update during this time to no avail. Also, we never even got the pee cup.

So we left. They billed us (something around $600?), we sent a letter explaining they didn't do anything, but they still demanded money. We never paid and it eventually went to collections. We explained what happened to collections, and surprisingly they went away.
Bulletin Board System. You connected via telnet over dial-up and could chat and participate in discussion threads with others, play games, download files. A lot of people hosted their own BBSes on their home computers. BBSes were largely out of style by the time I got a computer so I don’t have first-hand experience from the golden age of the BBSes but I’ve read a little about it on the web.
Possibly. What the article specifically states is that US Southern Command (Southcom) is using the same supplier as Project Loon:

> Raven Aerostar, the company that is supplying the balloons for Southcom’s tests and launching them from its facility in South Dakota, told the Guardian that it has had balloons remain aloft for nearly a month. Raven also makes balloons for the Alphabet subsidiary Loon, which uses them to help deliver internet and cellphone service from the stratosphere.
The point of providing those links is that a basic look at the data provides no support for the hypothesis that higher education is a scam. I was responding to someone who, without evidence, claimed that an unbiased look at the evidence would show the opposite. There's a massive academic literature on the topic that finds the same thing.
Ok, we've changed the title of that post from "Human Interest (YC S15) is not hiring 10x engineers" to "Human Interest (YC S15) is hiring non-10x engineers", which is surely more accurate anyhow.