skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existence of a solution to abstract equations that involve gravitons does not imply the existence of gravitons. Designing an experiment to measure and confirm the existence of the particle is a different endeavor.
I don't think this is meant for anything BUT soft analysis. Otherwise, the lack of reliability would be painfully obvious to most people here, I think.
If they were still accepting new orders on 11/13 under those promises, that might be fraud. But any of the older backers wouldn't fall under that.

You would have to prove that when the statements to prepare delivery for 12/15 were made, the company had absolute knowledge that no future funding was going to come and that it was guaranteed that they were lying.

If the company was in talks with other investors and thought it might be able to raise in order to ship what was necessary, that's not fraud. That's bad business and everyone should be weary/stay the hell away from any future venture from this place, but that isn't fraud.
This is great, good choice! If you do need overly complex and convoluted ways, there's always java and Python. No need to pollute the simple and direct space.

My personal headache usually go along these lines: Why did I continue pile complexity onto the same codebase for too long, and could I've made simpler architectual and design choices earlier? (Ideas starts popping in for next project => filed)
I understand your point, but I'm not sure those are accurate measuring sticks, as people's expectations of housing, education, and healthcare have changed drastically since the boomers' generation.

Regardless, it's easy to be an economic powerhouse when most of Asia had yet to undergo industrial revolution, and the rest of the developed world was rebuilding from war. I don't think it's surprising that wages are stagnant -- our economic output has competition now.
Re: corrupted ecc files - I have made par2 files covering other par2 files before, for irreplaceable data.

I had, from memory here, md5sums of data, including in blocks of 64k or so; if the media failed, and I needed that data, I could picture a way to modify par2 software and piece together chunks from the par2 blocks.
To answer this I had to remember how to use CVS again because the code was from 2004 ... It turns out that (for reasons I don't recall now) I modified the code to limit what could appear in the spreadsheet and use an alternate algorithm only when there were more than 500 lines in the spreadsheet. The final code was below. Unfortunately I lost the actual change, but you can work it out:

let max_map_regexp = 500 (* lines - see below *)

(* Format of the map_file. *)
type map_file_t =
| Map of ((Pcre.regexp * Pcre.regexp *
Pcre.regexp * Pcre.regexp) *
(float option * bool * Inp.params)) list
| Hash of (string * string * string * string,
float option * bool * Inp.params) Hashtbl.t

let run map_filename =
(* Parse the map file. *)
let csv = Csv.load map_filename in
if Csv.lines csv < 2 then
failwith (map_filename ^
": bid file should contain headings and at least one row of data");
let csv' = List.tl csv in (* Ignore headings. *)

...

(* If the map file is > max_map_regexp lines long then regular
* expressions are banned and a more efficient hash table format
* is used for lookups. Otherwise the program takes far too long
* to run.
*)
let map_file =
if List.length map_file <= max_map_regexp then (
Map (List.map (
fun ((c_name, ag_name, kw_text, kw_type), a) ->
(compile c_name, compile ag_name, compile kw_text,
compile kw_type), a
) map_file)
) else (
(* Regexps banned from large map files. *)
Hash (
let h = Hashtbl.create (List.length map_file) in
List.iter (
fun ((c_name, ag_name, kw_text, kw_type), a) ->
Hashtbl.add h (c_name, ag_name, kw_text,
String.lowercase kw_type) a
) map_file;
h
)
) in
I think higher education in general is valuable for, well, any job. Especially because of the dire state of highschool education in the US due to a combination of factors. That's partly why companies demand a college degree because it's a guarantee of a certain level of performance (and wealth, for that matter).

There are only really two ways to fix this problem.

1. Make college education free. This includes trade schools for those that would want to go that route.

2. Government regulation to cut back on companies demanding higher education for blue collar work. Since this is the result of the free market (companies wouldn't demand that level of education if they couldn't get away with it) then you would have to add some restrictions on the free market to solve it.
A recently penned introduction to Neuromancer (by Gibson, I think, though it might be by Neil Gaiman) points this out, as well as Gibson's failure to predict cell phones (which he is chagrined by).

Just the other day I was reading some early Neal Stephenson, and it made reference to 32-bit personal computers as being on the cutting edge. I guess you could read it as a period piece. Similarly, a novel about a computer that was written in the 1950s describes a machine a city block on a side, cooled by Niagra falls, with 1000 bits of storage, that somehow still forms the pillar of a surveillance society.

Novel writers are not the best predictors of technology, it would appear. That's okay.
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Only in the same way that hand written javascript or ruby is error prone.

Come to think about it, we actually are seeing something of this attitude applied to javascript among front end developers. You could point to the fashion of complete reliance on NPM for every piece of code over two lines as an example of the same thought process.
Plenty of companies never deliver a product, hence chargebacks being built into our credit & debit systems (and being available for checks in a restricted form)
It's still a little weird for me to see people complain about how Apple keeps 30% of the profits. Before the app store it was the other way around - you got to keep 30% of the profits, and pay for your own advertising out of that. The buzz among small mobile companies at that time was huge. Finally, they had a way to turn a profit. That fee structure was probably more pivotal to the mass exodus to iOS apps than any particular qualities of the platform.

That was only 10 years ago.
Related: in my town in France, I once saw a job offer at a temporary employment agency with the following requirements:

- undergraduate degree

- ability to carry heavy weights

Which struck me as antithetical, but it looks like it's now the norm.
I think homeschooling is an excellent hack given the current constraints of the system. Homeschooled students can move at their own pace (which can be much quicker than the standard curriculum schedule) and take courses at community colleges that double as high school and college credit (or just college credit - but that’s still time and money saved). I’ve seen smart homeschool students graduate high school years early with GE college credits already earned.

Another interesting hack is to go to Europe for college/grad school. My wife got a Master’s degree in 1 year in England, and could have spent only 2 more for a Ph.D. (And college there is often only 2 years.)

Modern university-as-business institutions try to keep students enrolled for as long/late as possible, so any approach that potentially counters that is interesting.
Or we could just not make getting such an education financially burdensome and we can go forward as a universally highly educated and thoughtful society?
More Americans Delaying Medical Treatment Due to Cost
TFA mentions associate degrees as "white collar" which is a bit off. To be a machinist often requires a 2 year cert.

I think some of this should be a certification/licensure process rather than a degree.
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That doesn't make their claim that their results for an Asian country are representative for the US any less suspect. Asian and Western cultures are very different. These are not anecdotal observations mind you - it's well documented that psychological/sociological experiment results differ by culture: https://www.psychologistworld.com/issues/cultural-difference...

It's quite bizarre - if they refuse to name the actual country where the study took place, then why compare it to the US? Why not to Russia or Brazil, or some other random country, drawn out of a hat?

Why even include "old boys' club", in the title, when that's a term mostly associated with the anglosphere? Wouldn't "Guanxi [1]: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap" be more appropriate, given that the study took place in Asia?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi
When using FreeRTOS tasks, any use of printf() requires a substantially larger stack allocation per task. But I don't recall now any massive blow-out in binary size.
The fact that the company's name is "Unicorn" makes this seem like a much bigger deal than it is. The company raised just $150k. And it sucks that they screwed over their customers who paid, someone should be accountable here. But it's not like someone went and blew millions on ads only to realize it wasn't sustainable.
If you are actually interested, there is lot of information here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo... (with sources)

The summary is that Adderall works well to increase focus for basically everyone.
In Montana, you're paying for the liquor license. It's not uncommon to see hole-in-the-wall bars in 2000 person towns go for $1 million. They are quota-ed and similar to the NYC taxi medallion system.
This place isn't just in the middle of nowhere, it's in Eastern Montana, not even the nice part of Montana (the west).

This place shouldn't exist. A mildly interesting story, but small town Montana is a rough existence even if you live in pretty part.

I would not recommend anyone buying this place unless you don't mind throwing away $200k on it.

Edit: All the down votes are coming from people who have never been to Eastern Montana. I have. Multiple times. I lived in Montana. Eastern Montana has nice, polite people, but it's got almost nothing going for it economically other than oil.

There is a reason why people (especially young people) are leaving Eastern Montana for the past several decades.
> Most browsers already do that with local bookmarks, to a degree. (they don't search the article contents, only the bookmark tags and titles).

That’s a pretty big problem- the specific term I remember is rarely in the title or URL. Not to mention all the times I’ve returned to the same bookmark only to see the content have been deleted or the domain expired. Default bookmark managers in browsers are complete rubbish.
WeWork’s Adam Neumann Eyes Potential Sale of Gramercy Penthouse Through Compass
But how is this not a simple rephrasing of the broken-window fallacy? When employers require four-year degrees for jobs that don't, is any value actually being created?
It really depends on the machine.
Kind of an understandable xenophobia, given rhetoric in the US in the early 80's. It's a work that fits the cultural context of the time it was written, in that respect.
But the broader point about lawsuits not being free is valid. Because in addition to filing fees, you need to pay lawyers to do this. And I am not a lawyer, but I don't know many good lawyers would would take on a case to go after a bankrupt company that has no assets. And even then, those good lawyers are going to want a retainer and multi-hundred dollar an hour fees to do the work, so sure. File a lawsuit. Spend tens of thousands of dollars to get a judgment that the defendant can't pay. What good does that do?

Like, to be clear, if you have more money than God and want to spend time making a point, I'm all for it. You do you. But most people don't have that much money or time to piss away when there is nothing to be gained from the exercise.
Tangents are always related at some point. The problem is not where they start, but what they lead to. If they start from drivel but lead to hotter drivel, like internet ideology wars, HN gets much worse. Please just avoid generic ideological battle here.
This is not annoying, I am thankful for your recommendation.
True. But while CARB rules may have provided the impetus for Tesla's battery swapping experiment, I don't think it changed the outcome of it.
That sounds like point in time recovery. Is that what it is?
I've got two kids: 15 month old boy, 7 year old girl. With the boy, the toil is literally keeping him from killing himself. If you put him downstairs, he'll try to climb up the stairs. He'll climb on the couch and fall off the other side. He'll drop things in the toilet. He'll try to pull stuff off shelves. He'll climb up the chair onto the dining room table. He is not content to sit and eat. I gave him cornbread yesterday, and he insisted on eating with a fork. (Basically just crumbling up cornbread to go everwhere.) If you take the fork away from him he cries. He does this 16 hours a day non-stop. He doesn't nap, he doesn't watch TV, etc.

The girl has no internal monologue. She has to run every thought in her head by you. Most of them are pointless and incoherent, but you have to humor her. She will say "um..." just to keep warmed up for the next thing she might want to say. She requires constant attention and affirmation. She wants you to watch her do a cartwheel--identical the previous million cartwheels--and respond enthusiastically. She won't eat her vegetables. We have a rule that we eat vegetables before we eat the rest of the meal. Every meal becomes a bitter war of attrition where she fights to eat green beans as slowly as possible, hoping you will give up. (Between boy and girl, eating a meal peacefully is impossible.)

Meals--when I was single I once went three months eating a turkey sandwich every day for lunch. Your kids will not put up with this.

Getting them ready to go out is a huge effort. They have a million accessories (bottles, diapers, toys, etc.). They have no sense of urgency. You are trying to get to church on time while girl is starting a craft project.

They generate huge amounts of clutter. Markers, crayons, paper, toys, etc. Taking a hard line on toys is little help, because their school sends them home with piles of art, crafts projects, etc.

They are very rewarding. When they're sleepy and both snuggling on the couch, I hug them and think "I will never do anything better than this." My wife and I will look at the older one playing with the younger one and say: "this is the best part of life, it'll just go downhill from here." The only reason we don't have a third yet is accounting for private school tuition. At the same time, my wife and I relish going to work every Monday so we can deal with angry opposing counsel instead of picking up after the kids.
It's a supply and demand problem.
We've inflated the supply of college graduates, so when a company decides to hire someone, they choose the person with a college degree over someone without.
To fix this problem, you would need to stop the supply of overqualified people. You can do this by having more jobs, or by getting rid of the government guaranteed student loans.
European Space Agency to launch space debris collector in 2025
I heard this on Lex Fridman's podcast with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on "storytelling"

Lex Fridman: Microsoft has 50-60 thousand engineers. What does it take to lead such a large group of brilliant people?

Kevin Scott: ...(snipped)... One central idea in Yuval Harari’s book Sapiens is that “storytelling” is the quintessential thing for coordinating the activities of large groups of people once you get past Dunbar’s number. I’ve really seen that, just managing engineering teams. You can brute-force things with small teams, but past that things start to fail catastrophically if you don’t have some set of shared goals. Even though this is sort of touchy feely, and technical people balk at the idea that you need to have a clear mission, it’s very important.

Lex Fridman: Stories are sort of the fabric that connects all of us, and that works for companies too.

Kevin Scott: It works for everything. If you sort of think about it, our currency is a story. Our constitution is a story. Our laws are a story. We believe very strongly in them, and thank God we do, but they’re just abstract things, they’re just words. If we don’t believe in them, they’re nothing.

Lex Fridman: In some sense, those stories are platforms.
> Note that Caller ID blocking (an actual service) did not apply to 800 / toll-free numbers:

Not quite. Caller ID blocking works on toll-free numbers. The issue is that toll-free numbers have access to another system, ANI, which provides the originating phone number. It's also possible to get ANI on non-toll-free lines if you're willing to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identificatio...
Light to moderate alcohol consumption increases cancer risk in Japan
Staging (and committing?) parts of a hunk is cool and I have done this many times myself. However, I am always uncomfortable with it because I am unsure how to incorporate it within the overall workflow. I'd like each commit of mine to at least compile and pass some tests.
That's a pretty tall order.
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> Moreover, it's also important to understand what the second-order results of any state child-care policy are. While parents do mistreat their children, I am reasonably sure that child-care workers mistreat children more often. If so, a child-care policy which substitutes non-parent care for parent care will likely result in increased rates of mistreatment.

I am friends with lots of K-12 teachers and have known people who work with kids and families in various other capacities. I would absolutely not care to bet any amount of money that child care workers abuse or mistreat kids at higher rates than parents do.
Wait. You're saying that the owners of the .org TLD could put restrictions on the use of those domain names? And something like "can't be used for archiving" is a legal possibility?

I admit to legal ignorance, but this does seem over the top.
FWIW, TFA separated by "high school or lower" vs. "more than high school". This includes 1 or 2 year tech school which are affordable and accessible.

To be a machinist or welder can require a training program like this. I'm not clear on whether that's well represented in this article.
Reminds me of this little piece of news from today. They are selling a small Spanish village using Wallapop, which is an app that could be considered a local version of Craigslist. The price: €90M

https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20191209/472142739583/vent...
It can be correct if you are talking about subprocesses/subshells of another batch script/command then yes, separate shell process will be spawned in each iteration.
Elon/Tesla/SpaceX have been mercilessly attacked by the media ever after Elon was outed as a major donor to the republican party.
Efficient finding unique integer
I always wonder about qualifications and if anyone is paying attention what is really required to do a job.

I worked for a tech company that was acquired by some big valley tech company. They couldn't find any of the fancy CS degree folks they were looking for in the valley so they decided to "try" bringing a few of us over from this nobody company (that they had picked up just to absorb customers, we were just the folks left over after the layoffs because they didn't want to deal with supporting those customers themselves).

I didn't finish college, and I was warned that this was high tech stuff and they usually hire some pretty smart people to do it.

So out to the valley they fly me and some others and first day i'm absolutely overwhelmed ... by how simple a job it was they were doing, and some pretty poorly.

They were so invested in their resumes and being in the valley I don't think they really understood that day to day the job was basic troubleshooting. At one point one of them showing me how things worked asked "What do people do in Minnesota for work?" I told him "The same thing you're doing..." He found that hard to belive.

In about 6 months a handful of us from nobody company were churning through work at twice the rate of the other folks and with higher customer satisfaction scores (it was basically technical support)... and engineering was asking that critical cases be transferred to us "for efficiency".

Ultimately the job was customer support some mild technical skills / ability to learn / take good notes / ask good questions / the ability to formulate a theory, test it, and so on.

I knew dozens of people who could do that job at a third the cost, but they'd never hire them.

Years later I change careers and I sit through interviews where they hum and haw about my lack of CS degree again ... for a job maintaining their wonky CRUD app.
He probably meant, the lookup in the list is a conditional lookup based on a logic, instead of a simple key string.
Sure. The people in power should fix this. But don’t advise some 18 year old to go against this.
I don’t think what you’re asking for is possible, and the answer lies more in the realm of philosophy than in physics.

You can always keep asking the question ‘why?’ At some point, either you have just accept something as fundamental, or the answer justifies itself, or you have an infinite regress of whys.
> Or you could fix the real problem and stop the lunacy of requiring four year degrees for positions that can be thought while on the job.

No one teaches at the jobs anymore because those people then leave.

You need to smack the owners and HR departments who can't get their head around the fact that raising someone's salary is cheaper than having to hire a replacement.

Unfortunately, as things stand in American business, if you want to get ahead you have to jump around at least every 5-8 years.
Cute project! Sometimes it's nice to see a simple hack that elucidates perfectly just how amazing it is to actually be able to run our own software on a variety of devices. With Linux support, these devices will be useful for decades to do random things.
Homeschooling as a 'hack' requires your family to be able to afford having one person become a teacher at home as their full time job essentially. For families working two full time jobs, this isn't really an option.

In general that sort of thing would probably be better served going to highschool and taking community college classes on the side, which is what I did when I was growing up.
Ironic considering most tech startups' exit plan is essentially to be acquired by FB/Google/Amazon. They are de facto R&D branches for FB/Google/Amazon with all the attendant risk and none of the benefits.
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Blue collar basically means anything you have to physically exert effort for, as opposed to sitting in a chair and using a computer and attending meetings.

Once blue collar work starts paying more than white collar work, it will become “cool” again.
For Linux distros, the primary responsibility for packaging is actually with the distro maintainers, since packaging is distro-specific.

That said, a well-written app should not present any difficulty for the package maintainer.
> Spending a quarter million dollars on a four wood walls and a door in a podunk Montana town that is about a 100 mile drive to the nearest town

From the OP:

> The Jersey Lilly was the town’s first brick building, built in 1914 as the first bank of a very different Ingomar.

> The nearest town, Forsyth, is “only” 44 miles away. “That’s really close in Montana, trust me.”

If you want to write a dismissive comment, go ahead, but at least get the facts straight (which were clearly stated in the first three paragraphs of the OP).
I think with some equations there is a discontinuity at zero, like tan, but it still makes sense to talk about what happens asymptotically approaching zero and then it matters from which side you approach zero, hence positive and negative zero.