skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could make the opposite argument. In nature/reality there are no irrational numbers.

Say you want to measure the circumference of the visible universe. This is all the space we have, the rest is outside our light cone and we can't interact with it to the point that we can only infer it might exist.

You need about 55 decimals of pi to get this circumference to the accuracy of a Planck length. Or about that many, give or take.

So that's measuring the very largest real thing that could possibly matter, down to the accuracy of the very smallest thing we can conceive of.

So that's it for pi. Any further decimals are strictly theoretical. We can prove they must be these decimals and not others, using math, but it's only theoretical knowledge, these additional decimals serve absolutely zero purpose in nature or reality. You cannot get to them by measuring reality, you can only theorize about what these numbers would be if you could measure to infinite precision, which we can't, because there are limits.

The "Real" numbers is really a misnomer. Even if you don't buy the above accuracy argument, and want to describe nature as something infinite (even though we're strictly limited to interacting with a finite subset of it), then at least agree that it's countable. The real numbers are way too stretchy and insane (see the Banach-Tarski paradox). In nature you can't stretch things infinitely far, nor can you cut up things to arbitrary precision.

And yes occasionally we discover new smaller particles, or sub-particles, but what we don't discover is a continuum. And it would be really weird if we did, because you can do crazy tricks to the Real numbers.
First incarnations of this I heard of were SLAM, Scan Line Access Memory [1]

"A SLAM consists of a conventional dense semiconductor dynamic memory augmented with highly parallel, but simple, on-chip processors designed specifically for fast computer graphics rasterization. "

and PixelPlanes[2].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=13358

[2] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0c1b/8ffdf7074a73883139da41...
And this is why scarcities of necessities (housing in particular) must be manufactured - to keep people competing with each other to see who can best make investors wealthy that they might be rewarded with the ability to barely able afford a decent home (after signing away their liberty for 30 years of course)
For me, it tends to be "all or nothing". I may be totally obsessed by my project, from the moment I wake up until I go to bed. I want to see it working, or complete a last feature, or a cool refactoring. I agree it's draining and not healthy but I feel I don't get much done if I only work a few hours. Besides, sometimes it takes time to warm up, and I don't want to break the flow.

Alternatively, I can be disinterested and I will be slacking for some period of times, could be weeks. I would add some doc here and there, fix a few bugs, discuss with colleagues, learn about new techs. But then, I feel guilty and anxious and overall not happy.

I wish I was able to be motivated everyday, work 7 hours of productive work and call it a day.

I haven't found a working mode where I feel productive and motivated for long period of times.
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You're talking about the territory that formerly boasted the Kowloon Walled City.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
That does seem like a lot of work, but surely there's a benefit in terms of signaling? If you apply to a job, it shows more than a bit of interest.
Have a look = outsider view

Why speak if you have little experience in it? Maybe people with actual experience like the below poster will prove your inferences wrong
I am not worried at all.

I have used it briefly in 2011, and was not impressed at all.

And quite frankly, git does enough stuff, well enough and it's free enough that I am not worried.
>Lots of things are cost centers.

Agreed. If you boil it all down, the only things that are "profit centers" are either Marketing or Sales. Everything else is a cost.

When a company I work for begins putting its employees into boxes like that, I look for a quick exit. It's only a matter of time before the C-level staff start reducing those "cost-centers" to a few overworked, underpaid staff.
Maybe the only constant is that every child is different. We had two close together, and it became a net positive about two years in, when they could keep each other occupied much of the time.

And they'll have a built-in best friend. We talk about our personal perspective, but what do you wish your parents did for you?
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> The poem is by the dauphin (crown prince), Li Xian (655-684) under Wu Zetian (624-705), the only female emperor in Chinese history.

I've only ever heard the word "dauphin" in the context of a French crown prince (starting with Charles V, when Philip VI gave him the Dauphiné region to rule while he was still the heir). Is the term used more universally?
I also see this pattern. I've maintained at least some level of exercise throughout raising three kids, but somehow I have a strong desire to eat, and the willpower required to shed the weight is really all-consuming. When my last (of 3) goes to college next week I wonder if anything will change.
It does not worry me at all. This is the pattern of things. Whenever there are multiple similar things one tends to dominate while the other fades. People don't want both VHS and Beta, HDDvd and Blu-ray, etc... Same with this. Learning and using 2 very similar source control systems isn't worth it for most people.

When something better comes along it will displace Git.
Sure you can.

Tax products that make use of non-recyclable materials unless there is a good reason an alternative cannot be made or unless the product is a durable good that can last for 10+ years or is proven to be the most environmentally friendly of the alternatives.

You can also do things like giving back a deposit on some plastics, cans, and glass bottles. The reason Norway recycles so many of their single use bottles is because of this. IIRC, companies get a tax break for participating in the program.

Fund recycling centers and subsidise them so they are more standardised. Require that centers send plastics that they cannot recycle to a place that can. Subsidise this as well.

And lastly, when problems come up with your solutions, fix them. You don't have to have great outcomes at first, merely sufficient ones or ones that are better than the current system. Things happen, and anyone should be prepared for it.
> the orangered envelope is cherished on reddit

Is is cherished? There is literally a meme that "orange envelope = who did I piss off now?". And granted there is a little bit of worthwhile content on Reddit, but it's basically the equivalent of reading Facebook at this point in time. Especially in what used to be the default subs.
Would Tiananmen Square not be your first guess for any date remotely close to 1989 though, given the context?
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I checked on latest 12.0.2+10 it's still reproduced.
In 2011 he already made comments in support of universal suffrage in Hongkong.

Despite what is said in the media I don't think that this is 'brave' to state this opinion. The key is how to say it and how to behave with respect to China and the government.
I don’t know. Russia seems to have bought McConnell no problem.
It seems like there is so much he could do that doesn't require paying for new assets or more expensive artists.

For example lighting and shadows can be generated dynamically (currently they're baked into the assets, meaning they are inconsistent or completely missing). Or generate edges between ground textures procedurally so things don't look so blocky. Add a particle system for weather and atmospheric effects.

If he did that then he'd be able to carry that work forward into future games, and achieve a consistency of look and feel that extends beyond what he can get by trying to match artwork.
While it's definitely something I wish he was harsher on, I remember him addressing it a few times and raising some good points and contrasts between the two - purely paraphrasing and probably not fully accurate:

* Rogan felt that he shouldn't be "the comedy police", and that his level of fame would make calling anyone out much more difficult. I remember him saying that one of the stolen bits was from Dave Chappelle, and that if Dave wasn't going to call her out for it, he doesn't feel he should.

* While it's hard to dispute that jokes were stolen, most of what she had stole had been from sketch comedy, which happens fairly frequently.

* Additionally, on many of her shows she's had a team of writers, so accusing Schumer of stealing jokes isn't factually accurate when it could've been a writer that stole from CollegeHumor or Dave Chappelle.

* In stances where one-liners were lifted, Rogan echoed the points of Marc Maron, who said that one-liners are largely fair-game, because no routine hangs off of a solid one-liner.

IMO, there are some weak arguments, and some that I agree with - and that's pretty much everything I like about JRE.
People who just a generation ago would have just been classified as weird are now given an actual diagnosis.
Jus sanguinis is more common than jus soli, but the US is far from unique in conferring citizenship by birth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
The A-10 is great as long as the opponent isn't a near-tier adversary.

If there are real air defenses around, the A-10 will soon be a smoking hole in the ground. Even during the 70's when it was brand new, their expected lifetime in Europe was only a few days if conflict started.

Shoulder fired MANPADs and AAA are too much of a threat for a low, slow, non-stealthy beast like the A-10. And no, the armor won't help.
How can we do lean data science?
Rajiv Gauba Named as Cabinet Secretary for Two Years
How many people would use a Rust cloud compiler?

Suppose it cuts build time from 5 minutes to 30 seconds....

Technically, a transparently mirrored file system, a strong compiler cluster (memory, cores, etc). And some predictive ML. But you end up with a binary-equivalent (verifiable) output.

Any thoughts ?
> planning poker meeting that every dev has 8 hours

You shouldn't be talking about hours at all. Points and team velocity help to account for all the overhead in a sprint. Once a team has a consistent velocity, they can talk about items in retro to speed up that velocity (drop a meeting, etc...).

I once had a manager who tried to break tasks down into 15 minute increments. There was a task that he argued was a 15 minute task. And yes, he was right assuming my computer was open, the right editor was up, the right project was pulled and up to date, the project was properly building, there were no updates to apply, and the list goes on.

Hours is just a bad way to plan. Unfortunately those who bill by hour are forced to plan that way.
"Google continues the war against its own users", as someone will write about this article.
Isn't that the whole point of the Senate?
“a widespread and deeply ingrained belief among fathers: that because their bodies haven’t undergone the myriad biological changes associated with pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding, they’re not as biologically and psychologically “primed” for caretaking as women are.”

I doubt that this concern is “widespread”. Sounds like the author creating unnecessary urgency for an already interesting topic.
Great idea, bad execution.

This is a walking security nightmare. Indefinite access to a company's Slack and the data is moved to another company's servers you have no control over. Even with Slack channel "sandboxing", you're still handing over a massive amount of trust to Slack and OneBar.

If this had the ability to be self-hosted, that would be the better solution.
Ask HN: Which Open Source projects are looking for maintainers?
High impact Open Source projects in dire need of maintainers / core collaborators?

Are there any lists maintained of such projects?
> committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death

So they sentenced themselves to death with an unfortunate sentence structure.
the website is down :) here's a copy: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yli5sn... (click on text version link if it cannot load anyway)
I could be wrong but my interpretation was more along the lines of autism has suffered enough from its connection with vaccine conspiracies; the last thing we should do is start associating it with environmental issues without strong evidence.
I wrote some scrapers for a customer a few years back. After about a month I got a call that my scraper flagged a certain URL as unreachable, but the URL did work in a browser.

As it turned out: the webserver returned a 500 for every file, but still served it. So the website rendered flawless in a browser.

I still wonder if it was just a badly configured webserver or if the owner did this on purpose to prevents scrapers and search engines.
I added a comment about a cloud builder. Would appreciate comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767201
That's like getting annoyed when people refer to 9/11.
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> Try to cut that square in half diagonally and things get irrational really fast!

In theory. In reality you have an integer number of atoms in one half and another integer number in the other.

There are no irrational numbers to measure, and squares made from "continuum material" do not exist in reality.
"We would migrate to Gitlab, but it's currently down"
My mistake for confusing Cloud Run and Cloud Run Button.
Sounds like DDOS protection to me. Wouldn't a touch heavy process of application result in equally careful consideration?

In the West everybody is simply spamming everybody, I wish recruiters went through similar exercise before sending me an e-mail or calling me just because a keyword search match my CV.
If everyone is expected to do it, it doesn't stand out.
> in the past decade have been really successful

He makes indie games for 25 years. They feed him and his family. That sounds very successful to me.
Yes, tracking changes. If something gets messed up, by a mistake or by a program trashing it, you can roll back to an earlier version. You also get tagging, to mark particular versions, and none of this clutters up the file system like multiple copies do, as it's hiding in a hidden folder.

I use git for any important private projects, and don't often use it online.
Amongst dozens guides on AI and ML ("how to start"), I found Siraj Raval's YT channel really helpful and inspiring.
“Productivity” means something very different for assembly line workers than it does for retail workers. As productivity has improved over time, we actually have seen the expected reduction of hours, but it varies by occupation. A much smaller number of people work in manufacturing now, while the ranks of retail and white collar workers have grown. People are moving towards occupations where “productivity” is harder to gauge and not necessarily the most important metric at all times. The increase in productivity in some sectors and the migration of workers to new sectors are broadly related, too, since the former requires technological advance, which is the result of cognitive work and creates more need for white collar and cognitive work.
Only game that requires Galaxy is Gwent, and it's free to play.
...as would getting a tattoo of the companies name.
'A suburb of Austin' may not be rural by many definitions. Its another city? Look at a map. See all those spaces between a city and its suburbs, and the next city and its suburbs? That's where 'rural' is.

I can see half a mile in any direction, and not see another human habitation. Clearly this is rural. And clearly, things around here work a little differently from a city. For instance, I pay for fire service (volunteer fire association; I donate). I essentially don't have police service except for cleaning up after major catastrophes (half a dozen sheriffs per 100 square miles). I saw an eagle swoop by my kitchen window the other night, with a rabbit in its claws (yeah eagle! I'm a gardener). When the deer get out of hand harvesting my garden before I do, I'm allowed to shoot them. With one of my guns, a bigger one because the little ones are for varmints like rabbit, skunk, rats, the occasional badger.

My interactions with a neighbor are purely voluntary, because other than annual discussions about fences (and the fireman's ball) we have little we need to talk about. There are no association rules; there are no inspections nor even inspectors. If my neighbor parks a bunch of trailers behind his windbreak in an ugly rusting mess, go neighbor. I guess I'll just plant a row of trees and wait 10 years to mask the view in that direction.

So just call me Mr. Populist Myth I guess.
>It is surely a country from the future. It has so many lessons to give for the rest of us.

I sincerely hope we're learning not to repeat many mistakes that have been made there regards work culture, xenophobia and racism and crippling pressure to conform.
And when is a country ready for democracy? Why was Taiwan ready for democracy decades ago but Shanghai is not?
I'm in better shape than ever, and it’s thanks to free childcare at the YMCA. Getting a break from the children is the most motivation I've had to drag myself to the gym.
Really? To me, that seems as obvious a majority thought as the more general "women are more child-oriented than men".
Lull+Mattress+Savings+Labor+Day
Lots of really good feedback here. Thank you.

In order to ensure quality and qualified job descriptions, i've had to hire the submissions. Unfortunately, philanthropic motivations have not as of yet been sufficient.

That being said, if you want to make a submission for silicon i'd love to see it.
some day doctors will tell you all about the great health benefits of inhaling nano-plastics! :)

http://tobacco.stanford.edu/tobacco_main/subtheme.php?token=...
Eh, no they where quite literally used as human automation.
Shove them into the factory..
> You actually get the satisfaction of doing the physical activity.

Found a guy who haven't done any hard physical labor before. You are confusing a 8-hourd hardcore shift/12 hours hard work under the boiling sun in the field with a 1-2 hour workout in a gym.

> Finally, you might be exhausted physically at the end of the day, but your mind is definitely not exhausted, which allows you to actually do something with it afterwards.

Namely, to lie down and get sleep at once.
I feel the exact same way. I come home and exercise and make food and I feel just beat. All I want to do is sleep by 9pm. I wish I had a few extra hours a day to study or spend time on leisure activities. As it is I study or read until it's time to sleep and if I want to spend time with friends something has to fall off my schedule even though I sit at work and try to look busy most days.

Once my work in a sprint is done my anxiety increases because now I don't know what to do and I'm considered lazy if I can't come up with some fascinating thing to produce. That's the most mentally draining aspect for me.
As a dad myself (2.5 yr old and an almost 1 year old), the negatives do not seem to be exaggerated at all. Going to work as a software engineer is the easiest part of my day, by far. What is not always mentioned are the wonderful parts of it, which is hard to describe. Scott Hanselman wrote something where he said that having kids is 49% awful and 51% amazing, and that 1% makes all the difference, and it really hits the nail on the head. I also think its worth putting into perspective that every week it gets a tiny bit easier. I'm happy I no longer have crying babies in the house, and soon my oldest will be potty trained. It sounds cliche but it is the hardest and most rewarding thing I have ever done.
The article was very specific about the culture of flexible working hours, not a general set piece about social wellness.

All you need to do is set aside the notion that modern productivity equals having everyone at their desk at the same time. What does cultural homogeneity have to do with it?
Resolved, all systems operational, that was quick.
I had similar errors using an updated TypeScript compiler on an older codebase. There was a lot of breaking changes between TS versions and you're either stuck with an older version or you have to upgrade everything (as @types packages aren't usually backported).
I don't really see the problem. If you're not a visual person, and you don't want to be, you shouldn't make visual decisions. He's already hiring freelancers, so he obviously gets this point. The problem is, he should just give a freelancer a broader brief. Like, 'pick all the colours the game will use'. Or even, 'do the art'. I don't see what the difference is between hiring a freelancer to do direction, and hiring somebody to do a couple of sprites.
Yes, it seems I was misinformed. Sorry
No, it's not a 'sorcerer's treasure trove'. It's a trunk full of trinkets the archaeologists don't (yet) know what it was used for. Archaeologists have this incredibly annoying and frankly, quite dumb, tendency to call anything they cant identify 'ritualistic' or 'religious' or apparently now even to do with magic.

Just imagine if someone digs up a jewerely box. Or the box of baubles a child has collected over the years. Or a box of Dungeons and Dragons dice and figurines. How dumb would it be if it would be called a 'sorcerer's box'? Because that's the equivalent of what's happening here.

The box is interesting enough on it's own, there is really no need to try and make it more than it is.
The threshold is not spending all my savings on an additional computer "for science" :)

> accelerated VM inside the leased VPS

Does that work on POWER?

> they can provide lower cost

They can but they won't. They like having huge profits. Even if they offer the base VPS for cheap (Spot instances) they rip you off on storage, bandwidth, IP addresses, etc.

Also, again, desktops. I like developing directly on a desktop workstation. I can't exactly insert my Radeon into a PCIe slot in the cloud and run a DisplayPort cable from the cloud to my monitor :)
I just don't think he has good taste. You don't necessarily need a bunch of resources to make things look nice, but you need to know what you want.
To be snide have they ever actually gone to the highest need areas? It has always gone towards whatever bloc will win them the most influence. The Dustbowl wasn't a major election campaign area - neighboring governors had to be told that they couldn't use the national guard to keep out US citizens at gunpoint.
> with a header explaining that "This study is no longer active. Thank you for your participation."

I think that header is way too easy to miss, because it occupies the same space as the usual pointless cookie or "sign up"-type banners that many websites show. I certainly didn't see it at first.

I suspect that the author of the linked blog post did not see that message either, since they describe that page being a 404 as "probably a bug".
I see posts like this make the front page of hacker news every so often, but I don't recall seeing posts about things like making list outages for something like the LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) or an IRC network like Freenode.
Nice idea! I've already checked and started using it for a blog post. Liked the design and overall experience
I've considered the possibility of connecting this to indeed or monster, but at this point im trying to focus on education not placement. That being said, i'm open to this leading me to the appropriate market. I just want to make sure I help kids choose careers as that's a large part of how my idea came to be in the first place(personal experience).

Glassdoor is a common comparison because they have user submitted reviews, but those reviews are of what its like to work for a given company. As contrast, my site is what its like to do a given job.

Thank you!
I updated my comment above to remove the negative reaction to the general HN sentiment. Of course anyone is free (and encouraged) to voice their opinions.