skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically in the context of disabled people, it may not be as easy as you claim at all. Arthritis can make the holding and cutting of things extremely difficult. If it's hard for someone to stand, it's hard for them to stand at a stove. And so on.

> There we're talking about opening a tap and putting a cup under it

Requires a minimum grip strength and coordination.
as far as I can make out, most "smart" devices have garbage UX and reliability, not to mention they'll sell you out to any intelligence agency you'd care to mention.
SSC had an interesting post on the EQ: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/25/neurons-and-intelligen...
Well, honestly that sounds like hell on earth for the unlucky person. I think that would disincentivize inter group cooperation.
It's time to forcibly reform big tech
A standard RPM[1] test should to be a fairly simple problem for a good old-fashioned reasoning system to solve if you first remove the sensorymotor aspects of it! That is, you have to translate the test to a purely logical representation, otherwise what you have is just an instance of Moravec's paradox.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matric...
>>you mean directly burning it? or indirectly from a coal plant that produces electricity and/or heating? why not use wood? why coal of all things?

Directly in coal fired boiler. As to why - because it's very cheap. Like I said, my grandparents would usually buy a 1000kg of coal for the winter, it would cost them.....800PLN? So like.....200 euro? And that was for a big 250sqm house. Wood would be easily quadruple that, but the bigger problem is that it burns too quickly. With coal you could load up the boiler and it would last a good 6-8 hours, so if you loaded it up just before going to sleep it would keep you warm all night. Wood or eco-pellets burn much quicker, that's why boilers for those usually use some kind of auto-feeding system, but obviously it makes them much more expensive.

And no, it's still very common, I'd say on my residential street 2/3 of all houses will be coal fired, unless someone renovated recently and put a gas boiler in(but then we don't live in a city, small town of maybe 20k people).
That only works in the limit where n tends to infinity.

I know there is a lot of garbage software out there, and sometimes it does feel like there is an infinite supply of them. But as bad as it is, it's still a finite number.
In Poland you just order it directly to your home. We have a coal mine in our town so you'd just get a delivery directly from there - a truck would dump it all in front of the house and then it was always a "fun" activity to shovel it all into the basement next to the boiler room.
This is quite capable of producing a high-res image of some license plate, yes. But it's only probabilistic: there's no proof that the license plate definitely has the exact same number as the one in the low-res photo. You have to allow for the possibility of the system hallucinating the wrong result and enhancing the certainty of it. While you could use it as input to a police search it would be grossly unjust to show such an enhanced image to a jury.
> Let me think - the reset button can only work when the light is powered up (and maybe too hot to touch)

A capacitor that is kept charged during normal operation, and that powers the reset circuit which you close with your metal pin once you unscrew the bulb. The circuit flips some bits in persistent memory of the bulb.
Clearly number 1: an unintuitive, unexpected result that is nevertheless true. Other examples include Simpson's paradox, Braess' paradox, or the mentioned Monty Hall paradox.
thank you for the reply!
Serverless Functions with WebAssembly Modules
Who'd-a thunk that attaching an internet connection to a heating element could be a bad idea?

In all seriousness, my (full-size) oven takes 7 minutes to pre-heat. From the much smaller size of this thing, I can only assume it takes less time. What sort of life do you have to lead where being able to tap a button <5 minutes from your house to get the oven ready is a selling point? The pre-heat time is usually offset by the time taken to prepare the food to go into the oven.

This is a toy, plain and simple. Solution looking for a problem.
What. One would think that a reset procedure is binary, it either works or it doesn't...
It is a limitation of democracy. It is a limitation of every possible system of decision making. That, by definition, is it not working fine.
I think what is forgotten is: make programmers work less!

And I can't stress this enough, just how much work in both "dotcom type" companies and corporate IT goes completely to waste.

N out of 10 software features some smart "requirements manager" manager, or an artsy type "product manager" make up usually end up as ballast.

I'm saying that to highlight that the prime majority of companies spending pennies on devs are almost as a rule pathologically inefficient, and that is the root of their problems.

I think there is a wrong image of tech companies among the rentier types as a maintenance free cash cows, and that they can pick a well performing companies, fire all devs, but the "maintenance crew" and secure their retirement in a few years. My own experience with that is a complete opposite:

Companies with well selling tech products only do so for as long as they give good support, and keep money burning on marketing. The moment the rentier type buys the company, and cuts both new developments (which in reality usually are support, and bugfixes) and marketing, they really destroy the only things that were keeping the business going.
no in a liberal democracy you can pretend that you could prevent it so that everyone can feel better about themselves while it happens
It was probably only by coincidence with the publishing of this link that this morning someone from IP 46.123.245.139 changed "Hans Moravec" in the wikipedia article to "Matej Moravec" . Right @gardkor?
Yeah. 12 months in to a job there was a big push to move to the cloud, all devs go on 24/7 mandatory support. You would be required for a week to be on call, rotating in your team, so every 3-4 weeks depending on devs in the team.

For this you where required to always have internet access, return a phone call within 10mins to acknowledge a issue then be investigating within 20-30 mins. This means for 7 days if you wanted to drink you could not, you could not travel to a place without phone signal, you always had to have a laptop and phone on you. Essentially your personal time was not personal time, you are severely inconvenienced and for 168hrs you where essentially at work. For this you got 200AUD extra in your pay packet minus tax. It was non negotiable, this was no small company but at the time a recently IPO’d company with a shit load of cash. If you look at it as 168 hours for the week on call due to loss of personal time it’s a massive pay cut. I would of come out significantly ahead working minimum wage for just the sat/sun and loose less personal time.

Discussing it with my managers how I did not want to loose personal time and was happy to do it for free on a best attempt I’ll answer a call if I get it and available vs being absolutely available and accountable resulted in “but you get free lunches here, take it for the team”, the perks where used as leverage. As you said the cost of lunches to the company was peanuts, worse than that I had special dietary needs so never utilised it.

Didn’t stay long after that
This article hits close to home. I've been working with Xamarin for almost two years now. It has done its job and provided a quick avenue to prototype a concept and deliver a product. However, as the article mentions, the maintenance is a bear. Here are some of the issues I face:

- The developer experience is awful. Visual Studio for Mac causes so many issues (crashes, mangled project files) it hinders productivity. About once every two weeks I spend half a day wrestling with a VS issue.

- As AirBnB's article mentioned, to be effective in cross-platform development, you need to know three platforms well which is a difficult task.

- Xamarin's performance on Android has notoriously been poor and only has marginally improved. Try using a Xamarin app on a cheaper Android device or an older version of Android.

- No mobile engineers want to work on Xamarin.

That said, the good news about working with Xamarin is that it exposed me to C# and the .NET ecosystem. I'm truly impressed with these technologies.

EDIT

I forgot to mention that I think the complexity of an app ought to determine whether a cross-platform technology is a good idea. Xamarin is a great solution for prototypes and simple apps.
Another good trick is to pass blame diffusely upwards. If you believe that your boss is fighting as hard as he can do get you the raise he 'wants' to give you, but the powers that be above him is blocking it, then you'll be far more accepting of the fact that you didn't actually get that raise. Hell your boss might even be 100% genuine in his desire to get you that raise, that's even better.
Here's an article on that:
https://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2019/05/sulphur-dioxide-e...

And another one from NASA:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/36063/sulfur-dioxid...
I've been building something with Svelte 3 for about 6 months now.

- As should be clear in the article, it's very easy to pick up. In the first couple of weeks I got compiler errors, and kept having to look at how props and binding worked in the tutorial, but now I just make components without having to really think about Svelte.

- TS support is on the way (yaay)

- I'd like to know more about server-side rendering on Lambda - ie, Sapper currently wants to use something persistent like Express, but that really shouldn't be necessary.
The whole of the Scrum methodology - funnelling all access to users via the “product owner” - is explicitly designed to disempower both end users and developers and concentrate power with the project managers and other managers. That’s why it’s so popular.

Even better some developers have even been brainwashed into thinking Scrum is for their benefit!
Reuters news flash: https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1V50DQ (has picture!)
France being a net exporter isn't a positive of nuclear, it's one of its drawbacks. Every country can't be a net exporter, so Nuclear in France is subsidized by sales to countries who do not have their own nuclear.

If those countries built their own nuclear then neither they nor France would be economic since everyone would have the excess power at the same time. We can't export power to other planets, so nuclear is not an economic solution for the whole globe, it only works at small scale when the rest of the system can absorb the inflexible power.

Note that wind and solar have similar issues, which require geographic spread, oversupply and storage to meet. They can do that and still be cheaper than nuclear in an apple to apples comparison.
Maybe. The NDA re: wages. It might be against public policy because it prevents employees from collective bargaining (union activity).

The other "agreement not to hire competitors' employees" stuff is definitely illegal under the Sherman Act it's both the basis for a lawsuit and criminal.
This has got to be satire. There’s no other way any sane person could really mean this. I took it all as comedy.
My urge to put this in our slack "general discussion" group is huge.
You've actually got it backward. FVMSS regulations in the US require airbags that are more forceful than the UNECE regulations in place in Europe (and other countries which follow Europe instead of the US). You're correct it is about seatbelt use, though. No seatbelt requires a faster airbag to restrain the occupant.
Maybe merely a quality choice! If you want to buy a nice car, you go for a German brand, if you want fine wine, go French, if you want software, go American, if you want an orwellian mass surveillance system, you go with the country which speciality it is!
Keep them amused and distracted with addictive technologies and substances and the majority won't notice. Asia is no different from anywhere else.
Facebook Isn’t Ready for 2020
I have to take some issue with this paragraph:

>But you can also see how Max Roach was wrong when he said they applied the term “jazz” as an insult. This was advertising! “Come see this lively, exciting, JAZZ music!” It would have made no sense if the word were perceived as negative. Did the word have a sexual connotation in some circles, as he claimed? Absolutely: any word for energy eventually has sexual connotations, it seems. But that connotation came later, and in any case it probably wasn’t the thinking of the white folks who named the music. On the other hand, did the word stand in the way of many “respectable” people, white and also religious black Americans, from accepting this new kind of music? Definitely so.

I'm somewhat surprised that a jazz scholar would overlook the possibility that the tropes used to promote black music in the early 20th century could be deeply derogatory. The popularisation of jazz came very shortly after the peak of minstrelsy. Contemporary descriptions of jazz by white authors often segue rapidly from terms like "lively" and "exciting" to "primitive" or "savage". Early jazz sheet music covers were far more likely to feature a racist caricature than the image of a black artist; the marketing of early jazz records is often barely distinguishable from the marketing of minstrel troupes in previous decades. The sexual connotations of the term and the music cannot be separated from the sexual demonisation of black men at that time.

http://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/1512237
There are plenty of parties interested in preventing nuclear: oil producers, coal producers, gas producers, owners of oil and coal power plants. Also bear in mind that in the 1980s, when the anti-nuclear power movement became a serious political force, Russia as a state didn't exist. OTOH, the Soviet union was heavily invested in nuclear power.
Watching this from a distance, I vaguely understood Docker. Then everyone was talking Kubernetes, and I vaguely grasped it was some kind of meta solution for something or other. And evidently really complicated but really buzzwordy. And then came Serverless which seems to really mean 'sortof stateless' and reminds me of MTS, an early Microsoft effort that let you run COM objects as a service on an NT server, but only if they were stateless. And now this thing, which I can't begin to fathom. In short, I am lost, but I'm beginning to wonder if all the cloud complexity might one day wrap back around to something very simple again.
> Or that you can keep mostly dead bodies alive by some means and not, say, get (...) taken apart for transplants.

That would actually be the reason for doing this in the first place, wouldn't it? Or did I misunderstand your comment?
Struggling in Silence: Postpartum Depression in Men
Should be very simple to switch the samples in the lab.

Compare how sneaky Russia gets about putting drug-addled athletes through the Olympics, and there's nothing but vainglorious national pride at stake there.
yeah, see what happens to the economy if half of the people take this way. Let me call bs on that.
> To be on the safe side, you can disable the relevant function in Kaspersky's software: Click the cogwheel icon in the bottom left corner of the main window, then click Additional/Network. Finally, uncheck the "Inject script into web traffic to interact with web pages" option under "Traffic processing".

So it wasn't exactly hidden, it was just a bad solution that could be disable deep-down some menu (but not hidden, as it was in the apropiate options).
Few is better than none, and at least for muscles, you could simulate the "stresses of everyday life" with machines.
Either that, or the engineers are trolling everyone and admin is too dumb to know it.
Very interesting. I’m not sure whether that fallacy applies.

Hard to find authoritative statements on it. There is a thread on aviationexchange where some say that an underslung helicopter is actually more stable than a conventional one, but I haven’t been able to verify this.

With a multicopter, the situation might be different still.
"just decide for them and announce your decision to show who is in charge."

That reminds me of a conversation I had with a CEO once when I was a VP Engineering:

Me: "I think we have the scope of the new version pretty well understood by everyone and things are looking good for delivering on time"

CEO "I know for a fact that you don't understand the scope"

Me: "<confused>Pretty sure I do"

CEO: "Well I've decided as things are going so well we can add a few additional features"

Me: "Arghhhh..."

NB This was a while ago - my rookie mistake was having everything under control and everyone working calmly and productively and letting the CEO know, whereas the CEO favoured the "everyone must be near to panicking at all times" school of management.

Edit: Of course the features he mentioned were daft and were never implemented - he wasn't actually interested in them, just in unsettling me <sigh>
That’s all contextual. If you work in adtech you are probably linking your work to the targeting performance.

If you’re in a research function it’s probably patents trade secrets or publications

Those for me are the two examples on opposite ends of the spectrum.

And usually yes I need to explain value but it really depends on what level that discussion happens. If I’m team lead looking for budget it’s gotta be measurable, if I’m a IC in a team it’s more did I help the team he successful
Is there any relevant difference between the subcritical and supercritical ones?
>That is not a new "Amiga", that's just a nostalgic upgrade to an old Amiga computer.

It's a standalone board that runs Amiga Firmware and boots the Amiga OS. As such it is a new Amiga.
It's impossible to have zero hierarchy in a group of human beings. It is, however, possible to have an illegible hierarchy within a group of humans, one only available to the most socially perceptive and/or sociopathic.
P.S

Goldreich demonstrates the problem by showing that our abstractions of electrical circuits don't in themselves preclude circuits that violate computational complexity results or even decide halting, but that alone is insufficient to show that such circuits can actually be built.

There are certain formalisms that make this kind of error harder to spot: actor formalisms make it easy to hide impossible "computation" in a collaborator; some typed formalisms could hide computation in the syntax (which requires a lot or even infinite computation to decide).
I don't think WeWork is a co-working business anymore and I think they silently pivoted over the last few years based on exactly the business reasons you've laid out in your comment. This is my working theory after having spent the last 2-3 years working out of a lot of different WeWorks and having a lot of friends do the same and having friends who were in the coworking business too.

WeWork and AMEX are currently offer a deal when if you get an Amex Business Platinum card, they give you unlimited hot desk access to any WeWork in the world for a year. You can work for an entire year for free (even in super high cost places like NYC, SF, London, etc.), even if you are already a paying WeWork member. All my friends and I cancelled our WeWork memberships and moved to AMEX. It's saving me >$6k this year and I get a better product than I had as a paying user.

This has led me to visit a lot of WeWork locations:

- In my experience, most of the WeWorks in the world don't have that many "coworkers". Most of the people in the buildings are at traditional companies renting office space. The companies renting space are frequently giant corps like Netflix or Facebook getting spill-over space when their main office is full. (There are exceptions like the WeWorks in downtown SF where there are lots of coworkers, but it is not the norm.)

- WeWork places so little value on the income from shared desk "coworkers" that they will give away the product completely for free as a loss leader to grow the brand and entice more people to try out the product and rent a larger space.

- Entire WeWork locations will just "shut down" to the public if WeWork manages to lease all the space to a company like Facebook. See 125 Shaftesbury Avenue in London. Obviously they care more about leasing to a big company than running shared office space.

My take is that they are trying to be Starbucks for renting office space. This product is very convenient and it has a lot of value, but I don't think it is a "tech company" and I don't think it justifies the current valuation level because the margins aren't there. But who knows what the market will think.

But two things are crystal clear to me:

1. I would get out of the coworking business if I was trying to compete with WeWork. I couldn't possibly offer the quality of product (pretty good) at their price point (as low as $0) unless I had unlimited piles of VC money to burn.

2. If you are doing independent consulting or remote dev and don't need traditional fixed office space, you might as well help them spend their VC money by using their space.
To be fair, you have been taught what the symbols 2, x, 3, and 6 mean, and what multiplication means, and how it can be thought of as n sets of m items. 2 and 3 are small enough numbers that subitizing kicks in, which does indeed appear to be an evolved, hardcoded mechanism. But what about 7x9? Most of us have either memorized it, or have to break it down into more elementary operations, using an algorithm that has been, again, taught to us. Never mind something like 435x928.

It is certainly possible to teach a machine how to reason about algebra from the first principles, allowing it to solve much, much more complex problems than multiplying small integers. The program doesn't know how it is executed, either, but it does have a much better understanding of what multiplying actually is than most humans.
It is meant to be as such.
A GUI-based 64bit 'hello world' application with LispWorks on the Mac is around 13MB in disk size.

A mocl application might start around 1 MB. But that's an unusual whole-lisp-program-to-c compiler.
For me, his data that the old people he interacts with are XYZ are both comforting and a motivational existence proof.
> Maybe one day there will be a platform that makes following blogs as convenient as following youtubers

There was such a platform: the RSS ecosystem. Unfortunately, Google managed to attract something like 80% of the market to its offering, Google Reader, and then it shut Google Reader down, which basically killed off RSS. RSS does remain today, but it is a shadow of what it once was.
Spotify to Sell More Expensive Subscriptions in Scandinavia
Isn't that one of the reasons some brands are working on creating tires from dandelions?
Proof it works? If there anything other than MB word?

If it works, why isn't the military using it.

It's an old idea (2015 at least) there should be some data?
Reading your responses up on the thread, where people are also like: "Free my WhatsApp contacts" and your only response is: "Would you give me your username and password?", you're thinking about this in too basic a way.

Legal and safe ways to help users export their own data from other platforms could be the innovation of your entire company.

I might not give you username and password, but if you gave me an Electron app to run (with source code I could verify, executables for the newbies) that would read, using machine vision, certain websites, WhatsApp desktop app, etc. you could get a lot more data without breaking the TOS. Since it is I the user who is initiating the data transfer.
I often see this vague and unsubstantiated "quality content" mentioned in relation to this, but seeing this immediately after and counterpointed to independent, information rich blogs is even more puzzling. I see it mentioned, but I'm at a loss to what this financed quality content is.