skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You would expect that if we were getting it wrong, we would be getting it wrong the other way, delivering early."

How likely is it that a surprise works in your favor? In my experience what you don't know rarely does. So my mental model is that completion times aren't normally distributed; they have a long tail. Additionally a task can't take negative time. This makes estimation tricky because a task can take much longer than the average. At my company we typically report an average and then explain why things took longer.
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Don't forget the "never question us" attitude as well.
Thanks for these! We'll look into the menu issue and polish the site further.

With regards to 2 and 3, I think you might be using the writers' section of the site. That is where writers can add their own articles and use Listle to create an audio version.
It's not dependant on the logged-in user, keystone is a background agent (daemon) that handles Google's updates.

The expected scenario is that the browser is installed by an administrator (a sudoer), and the keystone agent is installed the same. The background agent runs as an elevated process specifically to remove the dependency on the logged-in user .. but with the side-effect that you're now trusting Google not to remove /var. Because, yaknow, we generally assume Google aren't that clueless.

Then we have a layer below that, "System Integrity Protection" (further enhanced by read-only-root in 10.15) which stops processes removing such vital parts of the OS, even if they are root. Which is where the Avid red herring came from. If you need to install unsigned kernel extensions, you need to disable SIP. And it turns out third-party video drivers are popular with the video editing crowd - so they had a much higher prevalence of users running without SIP.
It blows my mind to think about sub-stellar mass black holes can exist. As I was ignorant of their theoretical possibility, I thought the lower bound limit to a blackholes mass was the Chandrasekhar limit [1] (or even greater as that simply is the boundary between white dwarves and further collapse to either a neutron star or black hole).

To learn that the conditions of the early universe could have create sub-stellar mass black holes means there could be tons of small black holes out there lurking in interstellar space.

What would happen if one of them got close enough to our Sun to begin accreting gas from the Sun?

- Could it eat the entire Sun and cause our solar system to go dark?

- As it gained sufficient mass from the Sun, it would switch from orbiting the Sun to them being a binary system. Would that destabilize the orbits of planets?

- Or disturb a ton of Oort cloud bodies and potentially cause tons of comets and raise the risk of impact events?

- At what point would the Sun's fusion stop?

- Obviously this depends on the binary dance of the 2 bodies, but rapidly the sun would be pulled apart.

- Would there be X-rays and particle jets like a micro-version of a quasar?

I really hope someone is modeling this!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit
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Lack of sun and outdoors is a bigger problem.
> Obviously I can't prove this but I'd bet the inability to get into an emotionally stable (or any) relationship is one of the contributing factors to soaring youth crime across the world.

I can do you one better: if you look at history, whenever a society had large contingents of single, young men with little chance of entering into a relationship, that society invariably eventually went to war. Since most big players in the world have become so economically intertwined this is not really viable anymore, so yes, I'd say it is very possibly a factor.

> Care to place any bets on what will happen?

On the short-to-mid term? Nothing. Tech is vastly outpacing our ability as society to adapt. You see this with issues of privacy as well.

Long term? The pendulum probably swings in the other direction hard.
Maybe men everywhere decide to adopt the Japanese way: with the insane pressure on young men there to perform in all aspects of life, a lot of them simply opt out of dating (which ultimately leaves women without relationships).
Or maybe realistic, AI-driven sexbots become a thing: if you don't want kids and don't need a relationship, why deal with all the extraneous stuff? This again leaves women out in the cold.

To be clear: I wouldn't celebrate such a thing. We'd lose something very essential about ourselves if our whole dance of courtship and sex is permanently reduced to dating apps and sexbots.

But to continue, we're in a weird state of flux vis-à-vis male/female interaction. For example, most women prefer to date 'up' (having a good job on your dating profile leads to something like 85% more right swipes), but at the same time most universities are 40/60 men/women, plus women below 30 outearn their male peers. Obviously those two things are fairly at odds with each other.

You can also ask questions like: why are high schools still plastered in posters encouraging women to attend university when the numbers are already skewed? Surely, if back in the 90s 60/40 men/women was bad, the reverse should also be bad? Where is the promotional material to get more men into universities? Where are the special men-only scholarships? Or the effort to combat the male pay gap below 30?

Apologies for the long response- the overarching subject is something I take quite to heart.
> or people have the ability to grow and deserve a second chance at a normal life.

Yes, and I should have the ability to judge wether or not they've grown and changed, but I can't do that if I'm not even aware they committed crimes in the past.
This is why I refuse to do stand ups
> Science is all about objectivity, but there's an element of consciousness that is inherently subjective

Yes, that is exactly right. Science is all about that which can be studied objectively and the "hard problem of consciousness" is specifically about the component of consciousness that is purely subjective.

How can you study something that is purely subjective using objective methods?

A. You can't!

Here's another question that science can't answer:

The Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics posit vastly different things about the nature of reality. Unfortunately, they are experimentally indistinguishable from each other.

So, if somehow we could narrow QM down to either MW or Bohm, at this point we are stuck. We can never know which interpretation is the right one, even though the answer to this question is up there in importance with the hard problem of consciousness!
Hasn't it always been like this? When the Model T came out it was concentrated even more I would assume. What other way could it be?
US citizens would be better served by having more oversight and transparency into the lobbying efforts of the NRA and health insurance companies, among others. The civil servants at the NSA have far more in common with 'the public' than any executive at a company that can afford to lobby Congress.
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So let me get this straight. Things like Twitter flame wars and Reddit echo chambers, are the result of media companies creating divisiveness, because that generates anger and controversy and thus higher engagement. This is the ‘cultural viewpoint that there IS a side and that the other side won’t listen’ that you speak of?
28 isn't zero
I have the same question. Can we run the automation while phone being locked?
Probably an as yet unannounced Messages flaw.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/25/predictions-for-2019/

I think he actually predicted that Trump would remain the president, but I've always found the predictions post as strange. It seems like he's making a bunch of safe bets and scoring them safely, and then declaring himself accurate as a result. "What everything thinks is most likely is probably most likely, so you should listen to what I have to say" would be the takeaway, which isn't that interesting.
This is interesting because Apple rarely, almost never, releases updates for old iOS versions, so this Foundation security bug must be quite severe.
Yep. Reads like an american (got the exchange rates the wrong way up), so should have said get reasonable amounts of holiday.
There are actually a very small number of octopus "cities". For one, see: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-obser...

I highly recommend "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness" for a fascinating look at octopus evolution and comparison to ourselves.
The Harvard Extension School is a good example of this. The school wants to make money by offering classes to more students, but doesn't want people to call them "Harvard students" because it would diminish the exclusivity in their branding (the same exclusivity that attracts people to the extension school).
In practice, most people do not actually understand how the boxes on W-4 translate into withholding amounts. There'd be a lot of trial and error involved if done manually.

Regardless, there's a reason why I marked that issue as "not a big deal" -- because it isn't -- the other issues I mention are the meat of it.
For a long time, I have taken the approach of getting up from the table and going to the sink and applying soap vigorously to an oil spot as soon as I notice I've gotten it on my clothes. It seems to me that the sooner the soap or detergent manages to get in contact with the oils, the less time they have to set, and the better the chance that a subsequent wash will remove all trace of my overenthusiastic eating.
Landlords don't want to do that, or else they wouldn't have had the need to rent to WeWork in the first place. Landlords like the risk profile of having an entity in the middle. There are significant operational costs of doing this, and in some cases there may be legal or tax provisions that prevent a landlord from doing so.
8 is ~3rd grade. That’s old enough to look up and understand things that interest them. While I doubt every 8 year old had that understanding, this is about a specific 8 year old.

I specifically remember a science class in third grade that had photosynthesis producing Oxygen and asking my dad for more information. In the age of the Internet someone getting the basic chemistry idea that molecules are made from atoms thing down should not be that surprising.

IMO, it’s plenty old enough to understand why cars get so hot inside when left in the sun which is about as far as the vast majority of adults understand climate change.
Posting pornographic media with the intention of it being seen by an underage kid is a protected right?
Even a significant chunk of educated Chinese with exposure to Western democracy and political system often justifies the censorship with "most Chinese people are not educated and get easily influenced by things on the internet and this results in social instability". I can see the reasoning behind that, and can't think of a satisfying counter-argument.
The entity on the lease is a single SPE that is specific for that one lease. The landlords to not have the We corporation behind the lease itself. WeWork is fully aware of the possibility that their business model does not become as profitable as they've portrayed and left themselves the back door of getting out of leases. Landlords don't like it, but WeWork does not budge on this in negotiations.
For the search, it is possible that the word "php" appears in the first paragraph, or summary of the article.
> How is the SEC supposed to test that you can assess good business ideas/risk efficiently?

Diligence costs money. Legal diligence costs more money. Deep, expensive diligence is pretty much required for private market investing, setting a lower-bound threshold on transaction sizes.

Someone who can’t make that minimum size will thus either invest (a) more than they can lose or (b) based on insufficient diligence. The first leads to getting screwed and second leads to getting screwed.
I think it is a story. The internal reorg and promotion of a huge class of 80+ psyops into leadership is a really good indication that the US army is changing and solidifying their combat strategy.
Maybe you're right, it's not a grand conspiracy as in all the fashion people met and decided that, but the general tendency and the reason behind it is the same: sell more.
Spotify has previously complained that there was no API to transfer music to the local storage of the watch and play it back from there, but after the feature was added in last year's WatchOS update, they failed to add support for it.

Now that cellular music streaming has been added in this year's WatchOS update, we'll have to wait and see if they will update their app to support that feature.
You can be socialist (in the European sense) and Capitalist at the same time.

Just like capitalism doesn't have to be Laissez-faire, business knows best, let them do what they want. So Socialism doesn't have to equal Communism.

The labour movements of which you speak, often formed political parties, in the UK that was the Labour party. Industries were nationalised, employment rights were given, the NHS was founded. Nevertheless the economy was fundamentally capitalist.
Also: genetically modified squid in Stephen Baxter's book 'Time'.
The gall! Do they think they are a University Title IX Office or something?
> It is really starting to look more like a religion to me than a science, and I don't say that lightly.

One of the biggest things that bugs me about the talk from the public about climate change is that it is all focused around what politicians say. Last week I heard graduate students talking about the major effects of plastic straws. My dad (a Fox news watcher) constantly talks about Al Gore. As a scientists I don't care about those things and those things aren't talked about in the scientific community. We're all confused at the right for not believing in it and we're confused by the left because we have prominent politicians (like Bernie and Warren) saying that nuclear and sequestration are false solutions (but these technologies are highly encouraged by the IPCC and every single climate scientist I know. Only Yang and Booker are pro nuclear?! AFAICT only Yang is pro sequestration?! This is ridiculous. All of them should be! They're all claiming to be listening to the scientists!). So I get your sentiment. Personally I just don't understand why this is happening and what we can do about it.

> The same people telling me the world will spiral out of control in just 12 years

If it makes you feel better, the scientists are talking about decades. And different events in different time spans. Some of the predictions have already come true, such as more intense storms, more fires, and more droughts. This will only get worse. But the spiral out of control is much further off and is more related to food/water scarcity. That's where the 1.5C-2C warming is a huge danger.

As to the racial and economical aspects to climate, there is truth there. But I think the conversation has gotten out of control. Countries like India are already being hit really hard by climate change (a lot more of their land is vulnerable to floods compared to 20 years ago). But the talk here should be really focused about how we can't just ask/expect other countries to not grow their economy for using the same tactics we did (i.e. coal, oil, and natural gas). The US is only 15% of the problem (Europe 10%) and all of us going to 0% isn't solving the problem. We have to go negative and/or ensure that there are cheap enough technologies that developing countries can use that don't pollute. At least I see this as a more humane alternative than shutting down other countries growing economies. IDK about you.
Solar is not a viable path for powering the energy needs for the world, it doesn't count as a solution.
Neither is my car, but something has to happen to make it move.

You addressed none of my questions. What, in your opinion, is the trigger for the shift?

Edit: You edited in the part about permafrost. I did some quick googling because I had never heard of the causal link of gas cavities causing the melt. I've only seen the papers on the melt causing gas to escape which then exposes underground cavities... Still can't find any sources on cavities causing surface temperature to rise - care to share some sources? That sounds interesting!
It's amusing to see such an uneducated statement be the top comment in a thread on HN. Apparently the quality isn't what it used to be. It's blatantly disengenuous to say git gives you everything offered by blockchains.
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There are a lot fewer people living at the poles.
Ready Player One's Oasis, here we come. I know John Carmack has been talking about something like this for a while, and I'm interested to see how it is.

I was an early backer of the original Oculus for the promise of something like this. I've been excited about the idea of a programmable VR world since reading Snow Crash.

I'm just a little disappointed it's happening via Facebook, which I don't use, but at least they have the resources to really make it work.
You can call it 'arm chair legalese', but there is a sister comment that has an example of someone being forced to take down an article they wrote.

And forcing search engines to remove the content is certainly, in my opinion, infringing on my right to share my story.
Thats a slippery slope that leads to the abolition of children's rights. (because they don't need to be protected either)
That would probably also have the effect of reflecting some of the energy leaving Earth back down onto it, essentially increasing the greenhouse effect.

Also, assuming you need to reflect 2% of the incoming light, and using 8ft diameter balloons, you would need approximately 2,744,628,480,000 balloons.
Release notes -> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html
No one said it was easy. Regardless, I'm not sure this particular example is relevant: you cherry-picked something that actually _is_ hard to decide about.
I think a custom DNS server could help but I'm not sure how to set those up
No man is island. So even if you are just harming yourself by drinking or taking drugs you are also ruining your family and indirectly society by making that behavior more socially acceptable. So there shouldn't be absolute freedom in anything.
Isn't herd-immunity concerned with those who aren't immune, so in this case, who aren't vaccinated?

Which just brings us back to worrying about the concerns of others.

What does herd immunity have to do with the lives of the vaccinated?
You'd still need to lift them to L1 and equip them with propellants to counter the solar wind.
Almost certainly, but I cannot confirm without benchmarks.

HTTP1/2 = TCP, which has dedicated hardware to offload major parts of the protocol overhead.

QUIC = UDP, but re-implements some features of TCP in software, leaving the CPU to handle things it didn't have to before.
Good point. There is a technology treadmill and a “moving around for work” treadmill. I’m in my 40s and have been ok with the moving around treadmill all my life. Not for everyone though. Landed in SV ten years ago and haven’t run into the need to move again so far. Fingers crossed the bull market runs on...
the costs for other countries are higher. For greece alone the cost is estimated at 200M
2600 still fits that weird niche about hacking and advertisements for grey market tech
Fracking isn't renewable and causes massive local environmental problems.

Solar needs better batteries.

One of these things is not like the other.
I haven't quit yet, but I certainly want to build a company. There isn't enough time in the day to do it on the side.
Facts disagree with your theories: non-white people disproportionately live in parts of the world that are prone to droughts, flooding, famine, etc.
In common language you might call a software house a tech company - but in the context of business it is good to have a term that would distinguish companies that are good candidates for facebook or google like growth. The "What is a tech company" article is an analysis of what that means.

I kind of agree that Stratechery does a bit of word juggling - "aggregators" are a good example of this - but I still like his writing because there is more in them than just that :)
I think the trick is here:

"In our proposed method, we devised a model to predict the performance before simulation and only simulate those samples which have better predicted performance."

In other words, build a model for the system, use that for (cheap) sample point evaluation, occasionally check (doing an expensive circuit simulation) and adjust.

P.S. back in 80s the guys doing simulated annealing were not claiming to be AI researchers, and the actual AI researchers were doing other stuff (neural networks and knowledge-based systems, among others).
To me the question is if the octopus is subjectively experiencing the dream. I guess there's no reason to think it doesn't. Dogs definitely seem to dream and wake up scared shitless at times...cephalopods seem smarter than dogs.
Hi, Lennart. My question isn't related to what you were answering in this comment but it's related to some problems I have to deal since I'm constantly moving my /home folder from a distribution to another.

I always have to delete files like ~/.local/share/applications/.desktop because otherwise it will show stuff that shouldn't be available in a freshly-installed distribution and it makes me think it's "contaminated"*. I wanted to know how this new implementation deals with those cases.

BTW, congratulations! You made a systemd "hater" like me agree with you. I would be really grateful if this solution made me forget about cleaning up my home before a new install. Have a nice day!
This is the nature of the primary system. Right now, Democrat candidates must appeal to registered Democrats only. That changes in the general election.
>then it should state that.

It will be ignored. StackOverflow guys and all participants have put an enormous effort into making it at least partially trusted source of snippets, and I hope it will never be outranked by sites like this.

(to creator: sorry for this, but in a long run it only harms everyone, unless you “die” for it)
I don't. I much prefer a chain-able functional approach to multiple mutating loops.
I think what happens with this is too much context is lost and in the end you can't really describe what the "right way" to do things is.

Is the right way to delete a file

result = os.deletefile(path)

or is it

try { os.deletefile(path) } catch (ex) { log(ex) }

and what is the difference? Both may be valid and idiomatic in the same language. With more context such as a forum dialog or a StackOverflow question, these things are usually ironed out. But trying to do the same thing in Haskell (where you might have monadic error handling) or java (where you might have some exception handling chain) is very different even though the same function call is used in the end to actually delete a file.
I dont know about snakes, but affection is absolutely visible among the elephants, as I saw them often during my childhood. Baby elephants act a lot like toddlers; curios, playful, affectionate towards things they like, not caring about other things, needing their mother (or any female adult in case of elephants)

They can't read and write but they do react "emotionally"