skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more I think about it and reflect on my (computer science) education I think more and more the lectures are awful. It is only the ease/ubiquity of creating them that has kept them around.

Fancy graphics is by no means an indicator of good information, but neither are lectures.

It blows my mind that I can be taught programming concepts, say data structures, on a PDF. That is insanity, it is a total divorce from the idea of computer science to begin with, to hide data and information in a non-executable environment. Someone has the quote that "pdfs are where data goes to die". Give me the data structure, let me ask questions of it, hold it in my hands and inspect it at the pace of my own thoughts. This is not what material provided in "lecture" through "slide decks" provide.

The information density of lectures is also low, why are we anchored to the low bandwidth channel of voice (I could say the same about text writing or a textbook)? Give me the information, let me have it, then let's talk about it in organized discussion.
Do you remember which one of you applied for it first?

To me it seems odd that married couples, filing jointly, get separate credit limits from each other at all. Aren't you one economic entity?
Hollywood Revisits Battle of Midway–With Backing from China
> What evidence?

Similar evidence to that that does not suggest eating lettuce reduces baldness.

> It's strong relative to the most popular programming languages in use today.

On an expressivity scale, as far as functional correctness is concerned, if Python is 1, Java is 2 and Agda is 100, Haskell would be at maybe 2.5. Sure, stronger, but not enough to suggest it has some real impact, and, indeed, none has so far been found.
Mr. Luo, the Starlight CEO, said his company was drawn to a war film that would show “how the Chinese people suffered.” A note at the end of “Midway” acknowledges that some 250,000 Chinese were killed by Japanese forces in a campaign launched in retaliation to the raids...“We want to use Hollywood stories to tell the Chinese story to everyone in the world,” Mr. Luo said."
I desperately wish that I knew a different word for the negative impacts that harm the lives of so many women. Both allies and others seem incapable of hearing that I would like to see better outcomes when the only word available is sexism. To far too many people, that words means "It's done on purpose by evil people with a heart of darkness." This actively interferes with effective communication because "good guy" ally types don't ever want to hear that some behavior of theirs is part of the problem and needs to change.

It helps make the problem insanely intractable.
Does anyone know if Ginko Bioworks has a replicable process? Or is each synthetic organism built ad-hoc? Whats their special sauce / unfair advantage over others, like universities?
A lot of people point out that telecom companies should do something but aren't because it's lucrative for them or too expensive to fix.

Are telecom companies not realizing how much they are hurting themselves with this in the long term? People will stop using phone numbers altogether. Using the phone has become such a pain, at least in the US, that whenever I can, I used different ways of communicating. WhatsApp, iMesage, Skype, etc. The incessant robocalls have definitely motivated me to move away from traditional phone calls faster than I would otherwise.

Lastly, maybe this is what these companies want, i.e., that I just use their data plan, but then that makes me way less likely to stay loyal.
Early Motherhood Has Always Been Miserable
I find the point about "ugly" syntax interesting, because I'm generally quite indifferent to that sort of thing, but my experience tends to indicate that it's very important to people.

Facebook created ReasonML, which is just a different syntax for OCaml (I think the AST parsed from it is interchangeable with one parsed from OCaml), purely because it's less alienating to people who are used to writing C-style code.

I'd say though, that generally, people who are interested in "niche" programming languages are less likely to be put off by syntax than people who have only been exposed to the more mainstream languages, which is why their preferences are less likely to be the ones reflected whenever mass adoption is a goal of language designers.
Noor II CSP is a 600GWh solar plant which is 2.6 square miles or ~1700 football fields. That's space permanently lost if the powerplant is run forever. A nuclear waste dump is tiny in comparison. Land use of solar is gigantic.
What about returning a call? do you dial your sip number and input the number you want to be connected to?

I think calling folks back from a number different than what they dialed to reach me.. might defeat the purpose. Thanks for sharing your setup.
> In the absence of enough studies I find it difficult to draw any hard conclusions.

Me too, which is why I say that it does not seem to make a big positive or negative difference (big differences are easy to find; there haven't been enough studies about the correlation between eating lettuce and baldness so we cannot draw any hard conclusion about there being a correlation or not, and should continue assuming that it's likely not a big cause for baldness nor a definitive cure).

> I think type systems, such as Haskell’s, strike a good balance between formal and informal specifications such as unit tests or diagrams of boxes and arrows.

I agree. Haskell's type system is OK, and I think most other languages also strike a balance that is roughly equally good, albeit not necessarily through the type system, which is why Haskell doesn't appear to be doing much worse or much better at the bottom line. So I definitely see no good reason to suggest Haskell should lead to drastically lower correctness, and if someone said they cared about correctness and want to use Haskell, I wouldn't think it's an exceptionally bad choice.

I think (simple) type systems have many good benefits (code organization, documentation, tooling, AOT-compilation performance), which is why I like them, but correctness just isn't one of them. And why should it be? Theory certainly does not suggest simple types should have a big impact on correctness. The strength of the Haskell type system is such that for most uses of it, for any well-typed Haskell program, there is a very small finite-state program that satisfies the same type (expressible as a very small program), yet clearly most of what the program does -- as well as its code -- lies well beyond its type-equivalent small FSM. So any argument that says that the type would still have a big impact of correctness despite the theory saying it shouldn't would also need to explain why other techniques, like tests without a type system, aren't at least as effective (cost/benefit-wise).
That is actually the hint it isn't a problem. It is being treated as though it isn't a problem and that is working.

If it were actually a problem, someone would have to do something about it. The volumes are so small they can simply be stored in an ad-hoc matter.

It is a mystery why people get so fixated on the waste. It is very hard to articulate a problem apart from the fact that it goes away eventually (unlike most waste which sits there pretty much forever). We produce a lot of dangerous substances; nuclear waste isn't the worst of them.
Improving Go code: An introduction to the static analysis tool Staticcheck
And waste is far from a solved problem.

"This is the €25bn deep geological storage facility for France’s high and medium-level radioactive waste... [France] produces enough toxic radioactive waste every year to fill 120 double-decker buses (about 13,000 cubic metres worth, or 2kg a year for every French person)." [0]

[0] 2016: "Nuclear waste: keep out for 100,000 years" https://www.ft.com/content/db87c16c-4947-11e6-b387-64ab0a670...
> Sometimes the dumb solution is better than trying to be clever

It's astonishing how often this turns out to be true, which has been probably the single most important lesson of my career. I think it's that clever solutions tend to depend on more assumptions, which rarely have P(true) = 1.
> The only thing important for a CEO is their effect on bottom line and stock price.

What? No. Legally that may be true for C-corps, but AFAIK that's explicitly why people started doing B-corps; to have other metrics of success than just those two. And even for C-corps, doesn't it still depend on what the shareholders want?

And after all that, you've still got to consider that if you're only looking at "ends justify means", well, why do you think you're at an end and can even measure it?
One thing I’ve discovered about not having layout control is that the resulting graph complexity can help give you a hint about the correctness of your solution.

A couple of years ago I was helping to architect a new system and I decided to use yUML to start showing snippets of what I was thinking. Ultimately everyone starting adding every detail and the picture was unreadable. As we kept iterating we kept updating our yUML text and one time the graph came out beautiful. That actually ended up being really close to the solution we implemented.

yUML uses graphviz with the layout set for minimum line crossing. So when your graph looks good and is easy to layout without tons on lines crossing you can use that as a hint that you’re on the right track to a solution that you can keep in your head. And it’s always easier to engineer what you can keep in your head.

It’s been a good heuristic for me over the years.
Extending the benefit of the doubt, I interpreted the statement as recommended maximum daily intake, which makes a lot more sense.
Ignoring the ethics of hiring someone that almost certainly will cause psychological trauma to their colleagues, I just want to say that narcissism is hardly a "personality type".
> There are people who only have one name

My wife for one. At the very least make the last name field optional.
Which makes it a valid reference for bash.
Yes but they are not all equally bad for you. This is not debatable. Its self evident.

Cigarette smoke is not equal to pure tobacco smoke which is not equal to marijuana smoke.

All these false equivalencies. Its irresponsible and flies in the face of reason.

It is self evident that tobacco smoke and cigarette smoke in particular cause cancer.

You dont have to be in medicine or read pubmed to know this. We have real world examples all over the place.
In 1995 Germany estimated 3 - 5 billion Euro to dismantle one of the old DDR nuclear plants that was decommissioned in 1990 by 2012. The work has not finished yet. About 1000 people work on this project.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Greifswald
The orange is native to China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)
And they produce about 2x as many oranges as the US (or about US + Spain combined), 2nd only to brazil.

China's about the same size as the US.. and a bit further south. So their climate is as varied as the US.
Effects can keep track of resources, such as open files, not allow writing to a file that was open for reading, and force the caller to acknowledge error conditions.

It also doesn't have the issue with monad transformers and having to lift all over the place. Nor out-of-order transformers, such as StateT Reader vs ReaderT State.

You can also label effects, so you could have the equivalent of StateT Foo StateT Bar ... without having to remember which one to lift. You just simply refer to the state you want by its label.

It also introduces people to dependent types and shows some amazing concepts in a practical example.

Not that monads are bad, but once you got the concept down about a glob of data and lambda functions representing code you can run, Effects open you up to a whole new world.
The constitution literally describes IP as "for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." with "for limited times" clause in many, many court cases being taken to mean that everything eventually enters the public domain. That's why the CPEA couldn't extend copyright indefinitely like originally planned as constitutionally it all must enter the public domain eventually. The "forever minus a day" thing is their dubious legal hack that's blatantly at odds with the constitution.

None of this is really in question.
Bet campaign contributions are going great though
I don't doubt it, but I think it's far more complicated than that. I think a great deal of potentially low hanging fruit is actively overlooked by the tendency the world has to go looking for ill intent.

In cases where the explanation is something like "No, seriously, she simply cannot afford it." efforts to root out presumed bias are not only unhelpful, they are actively counterproductive.

I need more income. Period. If you were to approve me for a mortgage this minute for the $550k building I desire, I simply cannot make the payments. It's not going to fix anything.

First, get me the money. That's the one thing no one on this planet seems seriously willing to help me with and there is always some BS excuse.
> they cannot follow that many usernames relative to the size of the community

By a quick estimate I “know” a couple hundred people on here: their usernames, some trivia about where they work and what their interests are, and what their opinions have been on previous topics; this subset leans heavily towards regular commenters and people who I interact with. On random topics this usually means that maybe 10% of the comments I see are from this group, but on specialized topics (security, compilers, UI toolkits) more than half of the comments I see are from them.
Thank you - Great idea! This is now a potential future feature. My goal is to focus on ensuring do-it-yourself NDA generation is easy and quick.
I'd love to see more mainstream discussion about what gui approaches we could take.

Personally I'd like to see something like IMGUI but with more of a focus on data structures, you should be able to cache the result of a function much more easily.

I guess I'm asking for a more functional-programming styled API for IMGUI. Allow me to get the benefit of a retained GUI by caching the results of functions.

At least for the few small toys I've made I think IMGUI is by far the easiest GUI paradigm to work with. I don't know how it would handle something more complicated though.
It’s much more likely a series of ifs and else’s, not a fancy ML model. Companies have been doing automatic credit decisions for decades and there’s no evidence that GS bank is doing anything different than all the others.
I think Starbucks was founded in 1971, but I do agree the visuals for Nature's 150 year anniversary page are beautifully executed.
Yeah, I get curious about the latter. I get it, those jolts appear to help sometimes, but ideally we'd treat it with the seriousness it deserves whether it was presented kindly or unkindly.
Most of my interactions on Instagram are via stories, which don't have like counts. In fact, going through the feed has become a chore because I have to like almost all of the posts (from people I like at least, I usually don't bother with big accounts that already get tons of likes on every post). I'd rather not have to bother with all the double tapping. If I really, really like a post I can always leave a comment.
Lol, that’s not the definition of “powerless”. There are many ISPs more than willing to reject peering with dumpsters.
What time scale? The bottom line next quarter? 3 years from now? 10 years from now? 20 years from now?

If it is impossible to plan precisely enough to determine the bottom line 20 years from now, perhaps fostering a dynamic, healthy culture with a powerful vision is a more effective way of creating a successful company than narrowly looking only at the amount of profits. Obviously, the business model must be considered. But a business model with no value system or vision will likely crumble as conditions change.
Cellebrite is listed under whoareus, but with a bunch of pseudonyms.

Is that the same Cellebrite?
> accepted behavior models/characteristics around personality types across medical fields

Of which probably none of those surveyed are trained to recognize.

Heres a typical response: My boss is an asshole thats why everything went to shit. Is he narcissist? Oh yea big time.
I think this a great challenge to propose to the HN crowd. Who wouldn’t pay for a system that truly eliminates the annoyance of spam calls? What about a private network that people could subscribe to that uses a decentralized social credit system? Or one that uses a monitoring gateway to track the number of calls originating from a number (either internal or external to the subscriber group), and treats mass callers with extreme prejudice. A blacklist of known spammers could be applied first as a default (rather than as an add-on app). If you wanted to get really creative, you could give subscribers the tools to add numbers to their own black list far more easily than they now can, and maybe even block whole geographic regions.
Fun stuff!

If you like this kind of thing, we are developing a very powerful and flexible reverse proxy with load balancing into Caddy 2: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/wiki/v2:-Documentation#...

It's mostly "done" actually. It's already looking really promising, especially considering that it can do things that other servers keep proprietary, if they do it at all (for example, NTLM proxying, or coordinated automation of TLS certs in a cluster).

If you want to get involved, now's a great time while we're still in beta! It's a fun project that the community is really coming together to help build.
Hacker News does frequently upvote popular opinions, just like Reddit, but I’ve found that substantiated “unpopular” or surprising opinions aren’t treated as harshly. Often they actually do rather well!
For example, consider Steve Jobs. I think you could reasonably describe him as being self-centered, egotistical, and mean. In some ways he superficially resembles many descriptions of narcissism; he even had a similar type of charisma that many successful narcissists share. Except by all accounts, he actually did care passionately about lots of things in the outside world, he cared about music and art and design and beauty. I think fundamentally, rather than being a narcissist, he cared entirely too much about certain things to an unhealthy degree. I don't think it's helpful to lose your temper, but whereas a narcissist will lose his temper when it comes to his own ego, Steve Jobs lost his temper when it came to the world around him not living up to the high standards he was trying to hold everything to. And, not coincidentally, Steve Jobs was a successful startup founder regardless of his personality flaws.
Definitely not performance [1]. Maybe aesthetics?

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Why would the binary representation matter distinctly for storage on disk versus storage in RAM? If you need a fixed width representation, why not do unions like C does?
Depends on the drive. Game consoles and computers tend to have CAV drives. Early 1x speed 'media player' drives tend to be CLV though yeah because they're working at the margins of acceptable bitrate as it is with real time constraints.
If solar covered one percent of the UK it would meet the country’s entire power demand. That's a guarantee of making a huge part of the country uninhabitable if the UK went all solar.

https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/news/if_solar_covered_one...
I am going to say something I know will be controversial: none of those should matter.

For one, his ability to evade justice for 10 years should not allow him to get off easier.

Nor should things like having a family. Why should I go to prison for longer just because I decided not to have kids?

As for working: that's what you're supposed to do. You don't get extra credit for that.

Everyone is willing to discuss racial disparities in sentencing. But what about family structure disparities? What about people who want to go live in the woods Unabomber style? Sentencing should not be a popularity contest. When someone is pointing a gun at you, you probably would not care either.
To be honest, based on what I've heard about it my impression is that the way the US patent office handles patents is a large part of what enables patent trolls (here used as an umbrella term for all patent abuse discussed so far) to do their thing.

Namely that it's relatively easy to get a patent, and that the validity of it is then tested in court. However, often the threat of going to court is what is abused by patent trolls.

In most other countries getting a patent is the hard part.
> The difference is most likely the organization and the complexity of a network. Neural network doesn't have free will because it is too simple and can't even pass turing test.

I don't see what the Turing test has to do with free will, but it has been beaten multiple times already.

> But what is the evidence for "deterministic and computable" implying "no free will"?

Deterministic and computable universe would mean the entire existence of a human would be deterministically determined by the point in space and time he was born. If you re-ran the simulation from before the person was born to their death, the universe would progress through the exact same states.

> So even if you can compute what the human will do, you can't predict, because the act of computing is the same as human doing.

That's like saying if you ran a random program without knowing it's source code you could not predict what it would do until you actually ran it. I don't see what that has to do with free will. In a simulation free will would be the ability to change your choices between runs of the exact same universe.
RNNs (LSTM/GRU) tend to have issues with scaling. Attention-based models like Transformer on the other hand scale extremely well.
No problem. Pass it on, because there's an endless stream of people saying 'smoking is smoking!!! It's all the same!!! Period!!!'

Maybe one day a collective light bulb will flicker and turn bright.
What I always find odd about this argument is that almost all of those animals wouldn't even have existed if we weren't going to eat them.

If you believe in sentience, and the value of it, given their low awareness, either you support never even letting them live or what?

I can understand supporting low suffering, but non-existence seems even worse somehow?

Easy to wrap yourself in weird arguments and end up in the absurd, a la Douglas Adams Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
A cloud provider billing system is quite a beast, often overlooked and mostly under appreciated. I built one from scratch and led the team responsible for it.

I kept a detailed list of all the things you needs to keep track of at https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-billing , and indeed, it's glorious.
Even stranger is that birth certificates are the foundation for all identity in the United States, yet there are >14,000 forms and very poor standards around them.
Absent some solid evidence, I just don't buy it (based on a fair bit of experience as a paramedic). Speed bumps don't slow you down that much, and "seconds" really aren't that important.
> This is what originally made Reddit awesome but the reversal of which has been slowly killing the fun. Mods have hijacked Reddit and turned all of the popular subreddits into their own pet newspapers which they are the chief editors/owner and only they themselves decide which content the users will enjoy.

That is true and I hate it.

A handful of people should never get to decide what millions can talk about.

But compared to oldschool forums, at least they don't butt into conversations too often and make things awkward.

It's definitely time for the Fourth Age (counting NNTP as the first), that combines the best things about oldschool forums with the best things about Reddit.