skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking the analogy to an extreme, if you went to an all you can eat buffet, it would only be open 24 hours a day and there is only so many times you could go through the line and the kitchen can only cook so much food.

If the restaurant is crowded, you’re going to have to both wait longer to get through the line and the kitchen won’t be able to cook enough to satisfy all of the customers.

There is also a known limit of how much data can be transmitted over a certain frequency and only certain frequencies are amenable to data.

For instance, T-mobile was infamous for not working well in buildings because the spectrum they were using couldn’t travel through buildings.
Therapy is more effective than it has any business being. If you can make it happen, try it.

I’m going to start by saying I have a mood disorder, and I don’t understand anxiety disorders because they’re part of a completely different world from mine. Conversations I’ve had with people that have anxiety disorders have reinforced this idea that I really don’t understand anxiety disorders or relate to them.

The worst parts for me are some times in the past several years when I have moved, changed jobs, changed relationships, and had relatives who passed away. To be clear, when I say “and”, I am talking about many of these things happening at the same time. Having strong relationships, having a therapist, and keeping a regular schedule mean the difference between seeing me as my usual self and seeing me disappear for a few weeks.

I have also decided never again to tell my manager any details about my condition. In the future it is an “unspecified, diagnosed disorder for which I am receiving professional treatment.” I was lulled into a false sense of security by having excellent managers at the beginning of my career and it turns out that I was very lucky; most managers are fairly mediocre and will do damage more often than not if you give them too many details about your mental health. Find somebody else to talk to about it—there are therapists, friends, and support groups e.g. on Facebook.
There is? There is an Ubuntu button on the bottom right but using it to filter laptops doesn't bring anything up for me. Other filter options work fine; I'm in Alberta.
Graphviz was written on Macs and Linux. Its native OSX container was developed by someone now working at Apple. Most of its code is OS independent. Like everyone, we are not thrilled with MacBooks these days (expensive, not great keyboards, useful ports removed, and seeming love-hate relationship with Unix * ) but if you want to run Office and Lightroom, run typical python data science code, what else is there? A colleague tried the Windows Linux system and it kind of works but not well enough for what we're doing. It's the same everywhere.

* Here's a fun exercise: try to dump your iCloud passwords in cleartext so you can scan for potentially compromised passwords on forgotten systems (using shell commands, not a proprietary password manager.) OSX doesn't even generate messages to acknowledge that it's designed to not let you do this.
> Given that RoboTrump could crank out literally millions to billions of words per day, you can imagine how this technology could be used to manipulate opinion.

I don't see it. If someone autogenerate a million fake comments in a million post pretending to be Trump, would this change the elections results?

If someone floods the net with fake Trump quotes, why would people believe them. (Moreover, it will offer some cover for deniability of errors in real quotes.)
The expected value of such a trade is 19.2k. That sounds pretty fucking good to me. Of course, there’s some externalities not accounted for in that math.
What Centrist Democrats Mean by ‘Unity’
About 10 years back, I didn't understand why people didn't put up solar thermal panels on their roof, because it was such an efficient way to convert solar energy into hot water.

But since that time, the price of solar PV has dropped so much that panels + wires + an electric water heater is probably the cheapest most maintenance free thing you could do.

That said, I suspect a hydrionic floor system with thermal panels outside for heat and a groundwater loop for cooling might still be the best solution for heating/cooling because of the energy requirements.
Not dissing your comment, just pointing out that the committee is not just aware of the problem but slowly doing what it can to address them. C++17 and C++20 have a bunch of features to improve both of these factors.

There are also a number of features not really intended for user code designed to help make libraries faster, and more stable. The downside of course is, well, just look at library source. But really the source to the C standard library has similar issues.

I don't like header-only libraries because they slow down compilation, and slowly the trend is starting to abate.
Linux .NET Development in 2019: What You Need to Know
The Process of Rebuilding America After Trump
I have no idea if SEC guidelines limit the amount of unsecured buying power offered to consumers but it does not follow from any such stipulated guideline that a bug in an order entry system shifts liability to RH from its customers. All applications – including other order entry systems – have bugs like these.
My thoughts with this stuff tend to go:

1. What the ... ?
2. That's really clever.
3. That's a really bad idea (see 2)
Can you make a living as an independent Blender 3D Artist? [video]
Just getting rid of metal structural components would be a huge boost, that's why the Cabri G2 has zero life limited parts while the R22 has... many. The state of civil rotorcraft is analogous to that of commercial jets 25 years ago. All metal parts, little to no computerization. This isn't inherent to flying cars vs. conventional helicopter configurations, just due to the extremely risk-averse nature of the rotary-wing industry. Helicopters today are very under-optimized but still work pretty well. Think of how shitty old cars were in mileage and maintenance, but still got the job done, while new cars typically last over 100,000 miles.
Everyone can pay their freedom, but inexplicably only certain people do.
It's not about the moral gravity but about an illustrative example of a particular category of people who have access to devices where buying stuff is possible - children. Our marketplace has at least some customers that clearly are unable to protect themselves and need protection, e.g. these children. This places some contraints on the properties that this marketplace must have - e.g. reversals must be possible without undue burden. And this places some limitations on what technologies can/can't provide these properties and thus would/wouldn't be suitable.
I disagree. I signed up to check it out and they’ll consistently push notifications about upcoming earnings calls. They’re clearly trying to promote a very short horizon mindset
Yes. AT&T now offers "AT&T Unlimited Starter", "AT&T Unlimited Extra", and "AT&T Unlimited & More Premium".

"Available when Stream Saver is turned off. Learn more at att.com/streamsaver. After 15 GB hotspot speed limited to maximum of 128Kbps. Customers may temporarily experience slower speeds during busy times. On AT&T Unlimited & More Premium, if you exceed 22 GB of data on a line in one billing cycle, your speed may be slowed until the end of that billing cycle when the network is congested. All AT&T Unlimited Starter and AT&T Unlimited Extra customers have a limit of 1.5 Mbps (SD quality) when video streaming, and may experience temporarily reduced speeds when the network is congested."

The FTC didn't even make them stop using the term "Unlimited".
...unless those libraries use standard library datastructures, as you point out.
Ah the Inquisitorial system that came out of the French revolution no thank - you a bit to open to abuse and technocratic for my British tastes
I felt that way until I needed to prepare for the new EU credit card regulation that came into effect a few months back and implement Stripe's update for it. There's a bunch of gotchas in the transition - e.g. you can't apply coupons when creating subscriptions with the new checkout flow (needed to handle 2FA), "sources" and "payment methods" show up in the same list in Stripe's UI, but are not fetched by the same API call. I hope they eventually manage to deprecate and migrate to a single way of doing things because right now it feels messy.
Xcode 11.2.1 GM Seed (11B53)
It was chosen deliberately. HN has a wide audience. Of the 4 causes I explicitly listed, most people will shake their heads yes to two of them, feel indifferent to one, and feel insulted by one. This applies regardless of which group you belong to. I have friends that would think "Yes, yes, it's the lazy youth today" and be gravely insulted by the implication that corporate leadership is incompetent; I also have friends (in government) who would agree with both the observations on the lazy youth of today and the corrupt corporate leadership but be gravely insulted by the idea that incentives within our society might not result in the best behavior.

The meta-point I'm making is that every group believes our current problems are somebody else's fault, but what we're really facing is a systemic breakdown of the attributes that make for a functioning society. The other comment on this article, "Every empire has created the conditions of its collapse" has it right. When you're inside of the collapse, the idea that the collapse might be an inevitable result of the empire seems inconceivable, because the empire is all you've ever known. So a lot of people go around looking for a human adversary to blame, usually someone who was your countryman until recently, when really the system that created the country makes its demise inevitable.
Whatever route you go, make sure the monitor you get is a curved one.
Ask HN: What Products Have Documentation?
I'm working on writing some developer documentation and looking for excellent docs. What products have amazing documentation? (besides Stripe, which we all love)

I'm personally interested in cases where the product is especially complicated, but let's keep the discussion explicitly general.
This!

And as I did mention in another comment I still can barely believe the cases of bullying people describe here, they are horrible! I don't think bullying at such a level is a global problem. I suspect such huge bullying problems must be just a symptom of a deeper society issue.
We had a kid with Down syndrome in class for 8 years of primary school and nobody did EVER put a finger on him. By 12 years old I had known my classmates my whole live, quite a few of them also from activities outside school. I didn't like all of them, we had arguments which were not always handled diplomatically, but we had some basic decency towards each other.

Bullying and whether kids should be separated by ability are two orthogonal problems.
First, make sure your expectations are in line with reality. I recently talked with a new college grad that was pissed he wasn't getting $150-200k base offers, he's an idiot. Not saying you are, but make sure your expectations are lined up with reality. If they are, and you were lowballed then either go back with a realistic number showing them you know your value or move on.

Companies will try to take advantage of people who don't value themselves enough because if the person is happy to make 100k even though their peers are making 120k then most companies will try to make that happen. They aren't going to give you 120k just cause others already make it. Usually their range for a position will be broad so they can play these games.

In the end never accept a lowball offer just cause of the name of a company, you'll never get the value out of the name brand if they don't pay you it in compensation.
I spend so much money on Backcountry.com, I get personal emails from a "gearhead" (a rep assigned to me). I have sent him a (very polite) email asking to inform the corporate that I will be suspending my spending until this is resolved.
That is my thinking, that they have the right to deny service.
I'm not against that but what is wrong with using a carrot? It works well.
> Both are much simpler than an helicopter

They are mechanically simpler, but aerodynamically and electrically vastly more complex. These designs are only possibly due to modern engineering, otherwise they would have been invented before the helicopter.
OVH & DigitalOcean have both adpoted IPv6 as a first class feature on their VMs, Google is the only holdout that doesn't offer any IPv6 support on VMs among the major providers.
Going to some kind of life coach.

It helps to talk about my life with someone intelligent who isn't involved in any way.

Gives me some new perspectives.

I'm kinda neurotic (probably normal for a millenial, haha), but it's often hard for me to see the good things in life.
The notation in the code will be very familiar to anyone comfortable with the underlying research and math. The "conceptual" documentation is in the literature.

What you're asking for is the rough equivalent of asking a C programmer to name their loop variables "index" instead of "i." Everyone familiar with the concepts of c programming knows what "i" means in the context of a for loop. Similarly, everyone familiar with transformers knows what "gelu" and "attn" mean.
As in: recompile and works? For sure, see for example a lot of the HEP/NP software which runs typically on Linux, BSDs (incl. MacOS) and I think even Windows.

As in: have the same binary? You could probably use the same object files, but shared libraries and executables probably won't work (without trickery), just because the file format is different.
1. Yeah plenty of non-Americans think this too, _maybe_ if you said “westerners” it’d be defensible, but it’d still be wrong.

2. The nba & activision are selling goods to China, or maybe they put a little money into real assets to reach that audience. They’re not investing in Chinese financial instruments which is what the entire thread is about
Fantastic question. The simple answer is that most people who are involved in community governance skew older, and older people primarily use Facebook as their social media fix, so getting updates about the goings-on in their communities or taking part in discussions about them is a natural fit between FarmVille updates and photos of grandkids.

Reddit works sort of all right for small and medium sized cities, but for most of small town rural America, people just use Facebook, not reddit, so it would likely be extremely hard to move people en masse out of Facebook for community organization. The network effects are simply far too massive to overcome no matter how good the other social network could be made.

Chicken and egg problem for people who work with chickens and eggs.
Contributing your (probably unskilled-at-what-you’re-doing ) labour directly at a non-profit is far less effective than working your skilled, high paying job and donating the money.
So what reasons do you have for preferring an inquisitorial system?
"We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it. . . . We lack resistance to the present" - Gilles Deleuze, 1994
Which is horrible and probably against the first amendment.
Yes they do. In my uneducated opinion, legally, it seems both are responsible for the money.

Whether RH goes after them is a totally different story though. You can't squeeze blood from a rock.
The Eighty Five Percent Rule for Optimal Learning
Hardware-Assisted AddressSanitizer
Help me understand what is interesting about this bug that makes unauthorized margin trading RH's responsibility rather than the customer's? I thought I understood what was happening from the WSB thread, but since so many people here seem to think this is sui generis and clearly bad for RH, there must be something I'm missing.

To me, it looks like a bunch of people on Reddit found a bug and then, extremely ill-advisedly, exploited it flagrantly in real-money accounts they controlled. Based on my understanding of the situation, which may be weak, I'd be a lot more worried to be one of these customers than I would to be RH at this point.
The article couldn't have been shared here simply because the submitter found it interesting and thought others here might feel similarly?
ddpg() takes 17 parameters and is over 200 lines long. I'm very far from being a domain expert, but having worked in other complex domains, I'm pretty confident this can be redesigned such that it's both more maintainable and more pleasant to use.
Buses are slower than a car by some amount. A well designed express bus system isn't much slower than however, for longer distances.

Sure an actual Metro-type system, like BART in the SF Bay area, Toronto (apparently) or the various marvelous French systems that exist, these are faster than a car. But you might not have experienced the worthless, pathetic hunks of junk that Americans build and call "light rail", these can manage to be slower even than buses and more expensive and less reliable. The San Jose light rail system is a prime specimen, a "transit system" that barely manages to be faster than walking.

Of course, when I lived in San Rosa, the bus system also had an expected arrival times identical to walking - I tested this often on Google maps in off-hours. Where I live now, the bus comes twice a day so it's a further world of impractical.

Anyway, in America, it's not just that not much money gets put into public transit. it's even just that cities were created around the car. It's that the state, civic fathers, the ruling/managing group, doesn't really think public transit is necessary so much of the money that's allocated can be passed to the rulers' friends since "no one" expects public transit to work.
I can't really think of anyone that DOESN'T have any mental issues. It can be as simple as self-doubt, especially if you're married with kids. I believe men suffer tremendously but never seek the necessary help.
I'm lucky enough that my employer allows for free sessions, and I have and will continue to seek treatment since I benefited so much.

It's important to note that you HAVE to want it. If you have any bit of doubt or skepticism, it will work against you.

Just accept it as someone looking to really help and it will help!
I wish I had access to a CS-80! Tough I understand what you mean, the thinning is also due to EQing, as each slider must provide room for the others in the mix (so they each are equalized, similar to mastering). So, it was deliberate from me. The middle slider, for example, is anything but thin :
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/november2019SoundscapeGene...
Regardless of the size of the assets of these organizations, the parent's point is still valid that their success should not be measured in $s. So the Vatican has $10B in wealth, does that mean that they are successfully leading people to heaven? I say these numbers have little to do with what the Vatican exists for. If anyone in the Vatican thinks otherwise, I would say their priorities are off. (I speak about the Vatican rather than the LDS church because I know more about it, being Catholic myself.)
Russian warships fired missiles near the coast of Israel: media
nah, a smaller boutique ish futures broker. IB has excellent order execution and absolutely horrible market data, but i used to use IB with CQG data until they instituted a monthly fee to accounts with high risk positions in (i had a small amount of naked puts, but the fee easily became substantial). i do recommend them if you dont write naked puts etc and dont day trade or use other data
Because they don't actually want to stop them from doing these things. It's just a show to make it look like this 3 letter agency is actually doing something.
Yeah but for true anxiety (existential anxiety in this case) this does not work.

It's like telling people "If you're depressed, just be happy instead". If you could just stop thinking about it you would..
For such a thorough and insightful paper, I wonder if they mean this as a joke. Not even a 1W laser is going to burn through any common, real-world materials at a distance.
Up to 2006 gold was priced less than $20,000/kg and after 2010 it has never dropped below $35,000/kg.

Anyone who had any large % of their wealth in gold felt & feels very, very clever. Saying 'tanked' is appropriate for day-trader thinking but for investors (which in my book implies return periods of 5-30 years) looking to preserve wealth they'd barely notice.
How to Detect Fraud Rings Using SSNs
What makes Vedic Indian meditation special?
I wonder if the results would be the same with AI generated content from a well known liberal figure?

Emotion plays a huge role in how easily people are fooled.
Black Friday and CyberMonday 2019 ECommerce Playbook
DIY beehive
It would be better if I didn't have to deal with people all day.
More information is not better than less?
thanks for posting the gofundme. Just donated, I hope others do to.

I had actually been following those Marquette Backcountry Skis thinking some day I might get some. This makes me want them more.
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2019/10/fannie-mae-mortga...
"I expect the serious delinquency rate will probably decline to 0.4 to 0.6 percent or so to a cycle bottom."

Real story: problem housing debt near normal, takes slight tack upward.
I’m confused by your first paragraph. In what way do progressives control the public space? Republicans are far more powerful than progressives in all branches of government (and remember Democrat != progressive).

Corporations obviously dominate corporate space, which is a large sphere of life in the USA, and not at all “public space”.

So what’s left?
Not Harvard, not Yale, not MIT, not Cornell...but U of Chicago? Why would they be able to charge so much more than the other big name schools? It may very well be they have a specialty they are the best in that I'm not aware of.

Also, if you are in Maryland take advantage of the MD program that lets you pay your kids college while they're in high school and lock in the college price as of when you enroll in the program. At the average 8% rate of college price increases you could save around %57 of the money you'd pay otherwise.
Competition only works for similarly sized players in a fair market.

As soon as any portion of the above is invalidated it's time to have a strongly regulated market, rather than just a lightly regulated one (the fair part).
> My justification is freedom of choice. Or, in other words, the reason is "because I want it to, and I am justified in making my own free decisions".

You're intentionally not answering my question which is: explain to me what benefit to society could potentially arise from money being worth more over time?

I'm not saying you can't do it I'm asking you why. It seems you and everyone else can't point to anything other than making yourselves wealthy.
I second the writing. Having it on page, whatever the worry/worries, makes it tangible in a way that can be "solved."
This is not even remotely true. Let's say you have:

std::unique_ptr<foo> m_foo;

How do you pass that into a function that can receive a pointer to foo, but does not require it? The only way to do so is to declare the function to take a foo* and pass it m_foo.get()

In summary, * will never be deprecated until C++ has support for something along the lines of Rust's borrowing and lifetimes.
On the other hand, I recently sold a house that received a lot of offers. Only one person actually had the down payment money. Everyone else's loans were approved, but most were people were coming with low cash and lower income than I would have expected. Some looked like irresponsible loans to me.
Show HN: An Empirical Evaluation of Linear Probing Algorithms
Features needed/useful for kernel development often get implemented as extensions to gcc and other compilers and then later standardized.
Good points. Same holds for any other industry where data is important. Data is power, because it's legal to thwart competition by not sharing data. It's plain to see how without regulation this leads to uncooperative data behemoths.