skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, this conversation sounds like one I once had in university.

Here's the secret: Causality itself, that is, the notion that things have causes and A-->B (A causes B), is a concept that only makes sense within a system that has causal laws of physics and, in particular, a notion of ordering such as time. It applies to "event"-type objects such as A and B.

Since we humans live within a universe governed by causal physics, with a sense of order given by time and entropy, we observe events always having causes. But this is a property of events within our universe.

To ask whether the universe itself has a cause is a reasonable question, but to assert that it must have one, due to causality, is another TypeError. Universes, as a class of objects, are not governed by the same laws of physics as things within a universe. Time itself is in a sense a member variable of our particular universe, remember. So universes are not subject to causality any more than they're subject to gravity. Causality and gravity both apply to things within universes.

It might be that there are other laws that govern the formation and structure of universes. But we won't be able to infer very much about them by performing experiments within our universe.

To help you visualize this concept, think about a cellular automaton like Conway's game of life. That game has particular laws of physics, and can run on a PC. The evolution of the game state, though, is not closely coupled with the PC's environment. The PC can pause the game, or run it at 100x speed, or run it backward (if it has reversible laws; Conway's doesn't), but from the in-game perspective, it wouldn't be noticeable. Within the game, it would perhaps be possible to perform experiments to discover the governing rules of the cellular automaton, but there's not really many experiments that a one could do within the game to learn about how the PC works.

You can even build a Turing machine within the game, and have it run another kind of program. There wouldn't be a way for an AI within that program to distinguish that the Turing machine running it exists as a cellular automaton, as opposed to any other Turing machine, let alone to discover the PC at the upper level.

There's no reason to think that the same laws of physics apply at higher abstraction layers, and so it's entirely possible that our universe has no cause, because causality itself is an in-universe concept.
Is the location randomised? Over lots of data points, your precise location could still be pinpointed, I'd imagine.
plural of anecdote is data :)

I see loads of articles about people talking around permissions. Much much more than for tools on desktop computers. I believe that the higher visibility makes people noticing much more likely.

Of course the hypothetical "don't care" person won't notice.... but definitionally they won't ever notice!

I think it's fairly undisputed that the little lights on webcams that are on when the camera is enabled has totally worked, and the location service blue bar on iOS has worked well too IMO.
I have ADHD (diagnosed from childhood, retested multiple times since).
I do DevOps/SRE type stuff. Used to do dev as work, and found it didn't work well with my condition. moved to sysadmin, and then DevOps/SRE type roles and it is much better for me.
I have Ritalin, by prescription. It helps with the precision, boring, routine stuff.
I do not take it when I need to grok a whole system in my head, or do creative problem solving.

As others have recommended, repetitive music helps. The prodigy, Infected Mushroom, cowgirl, combichrist, etc are all on my work playlists.

I found keto really helped a lot for me to get sustained focus, YMMV.

If you do get flow, ride it.
This is a capex vs opex question. Raise minimum wage enough and firms cross the border to investing in capex such that they replace employees.
For people who would like a more concise source (in ES6 & a bit of functional style):

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The Scandinavian implementation is not the only option; although it would still be an improvement. ~$700 is about what people pay for 'Bronze' plans before their deductible. For someone with a chronic condition, the average out-of-pocket would be much higher to access any amount of care.

Alternatively, the Canadian system does not require any sort of insurance-like payment to access all but a few parts of the healthcare system. While wait times are a bit of a problem for non-emergency care, Canada pays ~1/3rd of what America pays for healthcare. That leaves significant funding available to improve on that system simply through more doctors and and better equipment availability, while still being much more cost-effective than the current system. It should also be extended to dental and drug insurance, but again, there is ample funding available to accomplish that and still remain cheaper than the current system.

Medicare For All is most similar to the Canadian 'insurance', and the best candidate for healthcare reform. There are some important conditions for it's success however---the restrictions on price negotiation must be removed; equivalent private insurance must not be allowed; and taxes must be increased to appropriately fund the system. Ignoring any of these will allow the system to be corrupted by wealthy interests (of HN includes many), and could result in a system deliberately designed to fail. Rich people _must_ use the same healthcare service as poor people, aligning incentives among all socio-economic classes, ensuring the system remains effective and well-funded.
> I spent the extra $1,000/mo. to live within a couple blocks of work

My understanding of communing was people commute for longer for a 'better' house, but don't realise a 'better' house doesn't create happiness as much as a shorter commute.
The Charlie Bell ops review meeting (and the various 'make sure you don't embarrass us in front of Charlie' pre-review meetings) is especially critical. It's not just about having the techniques for doing ops well, it's about leadership prioritizing it through both words and actions.
So you agree with the other poster that is is possible to pull a gun and point it at them without killing them. What a roundabout way of pretending to disagree.
I think we did, but I have no direct knowledge.

In your shoes, I wouldn't be afraid to propose it - but only to a potential employer that you think is serious, but the work gap is a real issue for them.
If they’re on the fence already, then they should be doing it. A few hundred dollars a day means next to nothing to McDonald’s, and everything to the workers. Don’t hold the threat of automation over them, if it’s gonna happen rip the bandaid off.
This is more promising than many "intermittent fasting" findings, since this paper's 10hr feed window is simpler to adjust to than every-other-day-eating that some papers call "intermittent fasting".

Since I eat only brunch and dinner, I already qualify under this paper's definition.
Neat! I’m wondering if you’re looking to monetize this, and how?
I’m working on a curated list of [not software] and wondering about how I can monetize it.
It doesn't make much sense. But compare it to the past state of the art – starting with Markov chains, proceeding to things like [1]. They were only able to maintain coherence for a handful of words. Full sentences were almost always nonsensical; you might be able to make sense out of them, but only with heavy application of "the human mind's natural inclination to make associations". Now compare that to GPT-2, which generates not only sentences but entire paragraphs that are most often fully self-coherent; most of the examples in this thread only start to break down across multiple paragraphs.

That's still not enough, and GPT-2 in particular has been heavily overhyped, with fanciful claims that people might use it to generate fake news. (What would the point of that be? You don't need N fake news articles to reach N people, only one, which can be written by a human.)

But it's progress. GPT-2 still feels like science fiction to me. What if a future text generator, maybe even one or two decades down the line, surpasses GPT-2 to the same extent that GPT-2 surpasses the earlier attempts I mentioned? What if that system extends the length of coherence to reliably cover entire articles and essays? What if it gets better at synthesizing the information about the world represented by its training data, so that its output on nonfiction prompts is factually true, rather than mere plausible-sounding nonsense? Is it possible? Perhaps not. But it seems a lot more likely to me now than it did before GPT-2 was created.

[1] http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
I wanted to complain that there was no link to the paper but it's there on the right side. Hope this helps someone else: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30964-X
In 1999, teams known as
Special Collection Elements
infiltrated Afghanistan to
monitor al Qaeda training
camps near Khost.

...and not only did they pry open completely fruitless observation channels that led to absolutely no action taken, but they also blew their chance to predict and prevent the singular moment in American history, in which America transitions, like some deluded transexual thinking that multilated gentials make for an attractive woman, into a disgusting, malignant villain that embarks on superfluous wars that churn up and displace refugee populations across the Middle East, resulting in cancerous loads of impoverished, angry, miserable Muslims metastasizing across continental Europe, where they feel so alienated and lost that ceaseless friction leads to broader unrest and simmering racist sentiment for perhaps generations to come.

Thanks a million, you fucking useless peeping tom shit bags.

Watch me jerk off into this Taco Bell napkin, after I finish this grade F beef burrito, faggots.
> It’s not the role of every job to provide a livable income.

It’s the role of the economy for someone to get a livable income if that’s what they’re seeking. If it’s not working then it needs a nudge.
Yes, but you are conflating local effects with broader trends. A housing development may result in the partial or total habitat destruction of a couple of species, climate change is causing the destruction of a double digit percentage of all species across the board.
Please re-read my comment, because your response came across quite poorly. I didn't say I only got grief from a few people (quite the contrary!). Clearly you read into it what you wanted. Here's the gist of your response, without knowing anything about me or my background:

- "you were lucky."

- "thank your lucky stars"

- "You got off easy"

- "It's brutal if you have to work such jobs for a long time"

I worked retail, bused tables, and waited for almost 3 years full-time, and I'm certainly not claiming to have only gotten grief from a few people. I never said anything even remotely close to "few people" in my comment. I suggested that there was a trend to the people I got grief from, in agreement to the GP comment. Note: a trend, not an absolute cut-off.

In addition to the comment I was responding to, there are other comments in this thread making similar assertions, so I'm not the outlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717225
On example under UK law is if you work abroad for a year and deemed non UK tax resident then you could receive income tax free during that period. The K2 scheme that Jimmy Carr took part in got a lot of coverage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2_(tax_scheme)
US is not whole world. It will be interesting to see when smaller nations (outside of G8) become truly energy independent. THAT will turn everything upside down once more.
My wife and I (both Americans) got married in Italy, have lived in Spain near her family and visited France to see friends we made when our children were in French school together here in the US. In numerous visits we have rarely met anyone in Italy, Spain or France who speaks English as well as my wife speaks their native language. A classic that never gets old for some reason is the reaction when she tells French people that it would be better for all of us to speak French rather than English.
So when you got into that habit, did you feel any noticeable change?
Exactly. When I'm using an application called a browser to view a document on the web, I don't want the document to try to become part of the chrome: that breaks the "web page" metaphor. There is a very small subset of websites, such as Figma, that feel more like independent applications than web pages, and for those I get more annoyed by the presence of the browser chrome, for basically the same reason.

What's worse, almost no sticky header has any useful items in it. Take StackOverflow as an example. It has a link to the homepage and a searchbar, in spite of the fact that many frequent StackOverflow users have never visited the homepage and never used the built-in search. The top of the screen is the most valuable part, because my head is usually above the screen, so it's more comfortable for my eyes to rest around the top of the viewport. So if you put something there, it had better be important.
Your examples are services, but the argument is about economies of scale for manufacturing.

As for resource constraints, don't forget substitution.
Conveniently left this off of the title of the article:

> in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

19 whole people, too! Another big scientific win for the IF crowd. Can’t argue with that.
"How many people on HN wouldn’t have a job at all if their company wasn’t subsidized by VCs?"

VCs aren't taxpayers. We're not getting equity or an upside in McDonalds paying below poverty wages.
That can be dealt with though. Could be like Safe Mode in Windows was/ used to be, where your wallpaper gets replaced by text saying you're in unprotected mode.
I think the only time sticky headers are ever acceptable is when you need to regularly refer back to them. Long tables without sticky headers are the worst
That, for all your viewing of religious people as being irrational, you are not actually thinking here. You're looking at this as coming from "them", and therefore you don't have to think or consider it. You just reject it as coming from "them", and "they" have nothing worthwhile to say.

Which, ironically, fits the argument of the article.
Ive noticed in the last month people mounting their phones on their steering wheel or dash and watching tv. Full on Korean dramas or whatnot. As bad as that is there is a special place in hell for drivers who make eye contact with the passenger they are talking to while driving.
This is a very good point. Beating people down rarely results in their most productive work. Any good manager knows this.

Hell, I generally enjoy my job but go though legitimately lazy periods. These are well-contrasted by productive periods, but 9-5 work is a strange thing and people aren't machines.

My point was mostly that even if these imaginary lazy people exist, it doesn't invalidate the need for real economic freedom where you can choose not to work. You were fair to call that out as a lame take though, and I appreciate the perspective.
“Ultra Wideband technology is an industry standard technology and is subject to international regulatory requirements that require it to be turned off in certain locations,” the statement continues. “iOS uses Location Services to help determine if iPhone is in these prohibited locations in order to disable Ultra Wideband and comply with regulations. The management of Ultrawide Band compliance and its use of location data is done entirely on the device and Apple is not collecting user location data.”

Ridiculous. The phone always knows very well what country and what regulatory region it's operating in. Otherwise, how could it know what cellular bands to use?
I find it sad that Google bloats the web with all its analytics and fonts, and then offers a solution to fix the bloat by providing AMP instead.

And there are so many other third-party elements that are detrimental. It's sad that we have to use things like Firefox's tracking protection to remove all this bloat that people insert on webpages just because it's possible to do so today and it wasn't fifteen years ago.

It feels like a Pandora's Box at times. We can complain a lot but nothing is stopping you from adding just one more JS package to your app if you want to, because it's as easy as 'npm install' and you don't see the downsides.
$100 billion? Maybe it's in there somewhere, but I didn't see the projected ridership for this. At 10,000 riders each day for 10,000 days, ($10^11/10^8) that's $1000 per rider-trip.

Even neglecting interest, maintenance and fueling, and the optimism, that's pricey.

How, for example, does that $100B compare to taking one lane of existing pavement to move a 'train' of CPU-coupled, road-powered electric vehicles at half that (250mph) speed?
> Please share your opinion about the state of the software industry .... where do you see/feel/think the field headed?

A world where no consumer device works without the blue sky alignment of internet availability, vendor goodwill and security uneventfulness.

This is based on trends I've observed on most (but not all) new consumer devices I've purchased of late [1]:

* Requires internet for setup (always) and operation (usually)

* Only supports wifi (ethernet ports are rare, thus no easy VLAN option)

* Vendor mobile apps required (HTTP servers are crippled if available at all)

* Depends on MDNS / SSDP / proprietary multicast for discovery

* Requires a vendor user account (and rarely supports family access)

* Sends telemetry and updates firmware without any opt-in

* Service addresses are unconfigurable (eg NTP, DNS, MQTT)

* Documentation does not publish ingress or egress ports

The pendulum has swung too far toward plug and play (at the expense of reliability, security and privacy). Perhaps someday there will be an "ethical device" self-certification brand to promote those vendors trying to be more balanced.

In the meantime I mitigate using different SSIDs, VLANs and email accounts per vendor; relaying discovery protocols across IP subnets; logging traffic and denying by default; rewriting destination IPs for certain ports like DNS and NTP; local DNS to 127.0.0.1 attempts to call home; disabling options if given etc.

[1] Solar inverters (Enphase), house batteries (Sonnen), irrigation controllers (RainMachine), speech assistants (Amazon), amplifiers (Sony and Sonos), alarm panel (Paradox), EV (Tesla), SIP ATA (Cisco), home automation controller (Hubitat)
> relatively new

sticky has been around since at least 2014
GoboLinux: a Linux distribution that redefines traditional filesystem hierarchy
Sure, but think outside the scope of a single style. If you compare two pale ales from each region, the west coast pale will undoubtedly be more hoppy than the east coast version. To the point where many west coast pales can easily pass for an east coast ipa.
Don't forget fire extinguishers! There's no reason for a regular subject to have one of those, better to leave it to the professionals.
in other words: "yes we can have your location at any time, and we are not collecting the data, I promise!"
Seems like an excellent opportunity to apply Hanlon's Razor.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I have a couple of small websites. Rather than inflict Google Analytics on my occasional visitors or pay for this, I just do without.

Besides, I think the only stance that genuinely respects the user's rights is the one that says no data should be collected, ever.
Catalina constantly crashing when going into sleep
They're not OK for desktops as they break page scrolling.
They've been doing it for two years at minimum:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15423936

Two years and three domains with the typo? It's malice.
"Suddenly Nic Cage grabs you by the arm and throws you into the wall. You hit the ground hard and scream." made me laugh out loud
It's worth mentioning that this exists in Beijing down to the subway station level. Every station (at least the ones I passed through) had a security booth with an xray machine. It felt distinctly dystopian, but it was a fairly quick affair - bag in, bag out.

International rail from the UK to the Schengen area also requires an airport style security check, though it's much more laid back.
A guide to machine reading comprehension in production with allennlp
sticky was originally added to Chrome in 2014 behind a flag, but that implementation was removed and the feature wasn't reimplemented and released to stable until 2017.

Also "relatively new" is still accurate in web terms, which has specifications dating to the 90s.
Emergent AI. No single component is smart but as a whole it's smart enough to enslave humanity. Fun.
You are Markus, a knight living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a steel longsword
and a wooden shield. You are on a quest to defeat the evil dragon of Larion.
You've heard he lives up at the north of the kingdom. You set on the path to
defeat him and walk into a dark forest. As you enter the forest you see a large
black dragon flying through the sky. He looks down upon you as you approach.

"I am the Dragon," he says. "My name is Nolazir".

> Hi Nolazir, how are you?

Hi Nolazir! How are you? I'm doing well. What's your name anyway?
Nolazir, that's it. Nice to meet you.
What do you mean? You're not a wizard or anything

> Have you heard of Larion?

No, but I've heard about dragons. They're pretty big.

> Are you a dragon?

I am not a dragon. I don't even know what they look like.

--------------

hmmm...maybe this is a trap?
How does this differ to https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint ?
> I think that the main reason for that is that they have their own French speaking view of the planet in which they happily live.

Americans also live in their own universe. And so do many others...
Sure, but there are ways to do this that aren't forcing every single job in said economy to provide that type of income.
I did intermittent fasting for 2 months, did >36hr fasts at a time about 3 times a week. I felt amazing and saved a bunch of time and money on food. But then I tried doing a 48 hr fast and broke my fast with a big burrito and got refeeding syndrome and was hospitalized for a day.
As I started reading the code my very first thought was "Well obviously the function we aren't being shown is free to wreak havoc". And it duly transpired that thirdparty_process() was indeed wreaking havoc. Any C or C++ function with a parameter can take the address of that parameter and use it to overwrite random stuff on the stack frame if it wants too. In this case it's even less surprising as the parameter is already the address of a stack frame variable. Nothing really surprising here.

Thinking about it more you don't even need the parameter, just declare a local variable, take its address and go crazy. With great power (it's a systems programming language) comes great responsibility.

Wow, this is the most Hacker News comment I think I've ever posted, maybe I need to quit Hacker News :-).
This is why avoiding a conflict of interest is generally seen as the right thing to do. Not everyone will (knowingly) take advantage of such a situation, but questions will always be raised that cast doubt on the whole thing.
Now that I'm on the side of "I know what a monad is", let me just say 95% of what people say monads are is complete trash and unhelpful. This includes calling them "semicolons".

I don't think this analogy sets up anyone for success. For a long time now I've wanted to do a series on "FP for OOP folks".
>finetuning the entire model from scratch

This is amusing