skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even then there is 15% chance of failure. Best option is a really tall building in the middle of a city far away from a body of water. That way there is less chance of your corpse being eaten by crawfish and crabs and birds.
Unicode is such a disaster for data processing that it's unfair to call anyone careless for getting it wrong.
UBI, more research spending, a flatter wealth distribution, and separating necessities from investment portfolios would help to allow developers to develop without living like stereotypical artists.
> adds 20% - 30% in labor costs.

As I said multiple time: In the real world companies simply reduce the salary 20% to 30% in order to keep the final number the same.
It’s actually likely an inverse relationship to this. Suicides are more likely to be successful where guns are prevalent compared to where they are hard to get. Meanwhile homicides are rare so no matter what tool you have access to you can get it done.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/
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The first comment was unsubstantial and I looked for a [-] to hide it and children.... no such thing was available. Really makes me happy that hacker news has kept its simple and functional interface as a priority.
I'd suggest that "Europe" in this context is really referring to Western/Central Europe, which is the "Europe" that non-European Anglophones tend to think about.
Look at the history of public transportation in the US. It is notoriously underfunded, and was intentionally starved in favor of pushing car ownership.
Cities give a lot more in federal taxes than they get, but the percentage of what they give that goes to transportation funding is negligible. >75% of the federal budget is social security, medicare/healthcare and the military, and the next biggest category after that is interest on the debt. Transportation is only ~2%, and almost half of that is things like aviation, railroads and funding for local public transit.

If you want more local money in the cities then there's a lot more to be had by e.g. raising the retirement age than by eliminating federal highway funding, which we still kind of need unless you want to stop maintaining the interstate highways.

Or if you really want to restore state fiscal control, transfer social security and medicare entirely to the states, and make the National Guard constitute more of the military.
how much does the robot (ur3 right?) cost?
Because Perelman.

I mean he wrote Perelman’s name so he must be onto something.
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I feel like gun fans are trying to have it both ways.

Why are semi-automatic rifles common targets for gun control advocates? Well, they make the news. So maybe people need to recognize that handguns are far more deadly. But wait: We don't want those banned either because we like them for self defense. So keeping the public ignorant so we can operate in an infinite "well, actually.." loop is preferable.

But I can see why this research is scary: someone should take a close look at the impact mass shootings have on our social fabric compared to say, random violence. Sandy Hook Shooting claimed the lives of 28 people, most of them children. But afterwards, there's been multiple suicides from the parents of their kids. In no small part because of nutty conspiracy theories that they're all crisis actors. Or, again touching on Sandy Hook, why was Adam Lanzas mother, an NRA-trained gun owner and enthusiast, permitting her troubled son access to dangerous firearms while knowlingly letting his mental health go untreated. Again, I'm not a member of the club, but I'd love for a sociologist to explore and understand gunowner's reasoning around stuff like that.
The alternative is worse though. Characters with umlauts matched with characters with no umlauts. E.g. searching for "rõõsa" will find both "rõõsa" and "roosa", incredibly annoying.
Does it need to? Does it apply to nonhumans?
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Seems like a good opportunity for a white hat to crack the probably shitty security and give this data to farmers for free.
The CDC has a history of anti gun bias. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/...
I've always been mystified at why people take superdeterminism as a good explanation for anything, when it actually acts as a stopsign for thought.

For example, suppose I am betting with you on the outcomes of a coin toss. You call heads, the coin comes up tails, you give me some money. You call tails, the coin comes up heads, you give me some more money. This repeats a number of times.

The common sense response is to start suspecting that I am rigging the game, i.e. that the simple model of the coin flips being independent and random is wrong. The superdeterminist response is to say, "no, your guesses have been superdetermined to be all wrong by the initial conditions of the universe -- keep on playing!"

You can use superdeterminism to explain literally anything (not merely a lot, but actually, literally everything) while gaining precisely zero insight into what is actually going on, and precluding any future insight. Sure, it fixes a few philosophical problems, but so does saying you're a brain in a vat; in both cases you throw out all of science as a side effect. While their paper does address some philosophical objections, it doesn't even mention this scientific objection, which seems far more severe to me.
Spouse is a weird proposal. Has a different roi, with oppt cost of two potentially highly paid people
It would be nice if that were the case, but in my experience it just isn't so. Very few police departments have the resources or expertise to tackle complex cybercrime cases, and all of the examples mentioned in the story are multi-jurisdictional.

Consider that the attackers are in different countries that are beyond the reach of U.S. federal law enforcement. The machines they used to send the spam and remote into the victim systems are usually elsewhere. The money mules are and their corresponding banks are scattered across the U.S. and Europe. The victim's bank may or may not be located in the same place as the victim. And so on. Where did the crime take place? That's a monumental challenge for federal law enforcement, and frankly the local PD is just not up to it, especially when they're up to their eyeballs in fighting crimes (often violent ones) where their jurisdiction is quite clear.
Haha. That's the actual best part. They have those integrated TODAY. They may not have them tomorrow. And they may not have new streaming services either.

I bought a TV 6.5 years ago that could access a bunch of services, including Hulu. Too bad for me, that's not the case anymore. Many icons are gone, including Hulu's. And Netflix wasn't part of the deal originally, because it was either not here yet or too new, and it still isn't available. I'm not holding my breath for Disney+, whenever it becomes available where I live.
this looks very interesting
I'd make it a crime punishable by prison in proportion to the amount paid, or perhaps require a multiple of the amount paid as a fine. If you need to pay 10X the ransom as a fine, then the ransom criminals can extract goes down by a factor of 10.
Ask "how does Oracle benefit?"
Sure. The new bill establishes that an employer must demonstrate the following requirements to hire someone as a contractor (quoting from the bill):

* the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work

* the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business

* the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business

I wouldn't have been even close to meeting those. I had some freedom about how the work was performed, so number one is a maybe. I was doing software development for a software development company, so numbers two and three are hard "no"s. As a college student, I didn't care about insurance, or vacation time, or being a full employee. I came to a mutually-beneficial agreement with my employer, and this bill would have prevented that.

Also of note: California bans un-paid internships in the "free labor" sense. While this sounds good on the surface, it's not. I held internships in middle and high school that were awesome experience when I had time to burn, and those proved incredibly helpful in landing later paid internships, contract work, college acceptances, and salaried jobs. They were incredibly helpful, and I learned a ton, but I couldn't have done that were I a resident of California.

This bill is written to target the gig economy. Many college students I know pay make good money doing gig economy work. And many working-class teens I know who typically work fast food can now use gig economy shifts to fill in when they can't get shifts lined up working fast food or other typical jobs. This bill is awful for almost everyone, because it removes opportunities without providing alternative ones. The state does a great job of taking them away, and a comparatively-horrible job of creating them. Were I a teen-age Californian high-schooler, I'd now be looking at working fast food rather than software development.
You can make helium with fission, too - in fact that's where almost all of the helium on Earth comes from. Alpha radiation is just a helium nucleus, after all!
The trick about business books is that generally they are quite short, like a few pages long. The problem is a three page book doesn’t work on an airport bookshop shelf, so they are padded out. This is even true of the good ones.

Good example is crossing the chasm. An insightful book (at least when it can out) but really is one drawing and perhaps one page of explanation.

Innovator’s dilemma: one graph and a few pages of explanation (it was a non-obvious thesis). Good insight though is it actionable? And some of the examples were...perhaps not really supported.

But at least 99.999% of business books contain 0 pages of insight.
It's not about rearranging menu-items, but rather learning how an individual user could optimally interact with an application and then tailoring the interface accordingly.

If you visit booking.com it's unlikely you'll ever see the same website twice. It's because their product team does continuous design and A/B testing, trying to come up with the best one-size-fits-all solution. If this loop of designing and testing were to be automated, UIs could be designed based on individual user data rather than aggregate.

The premise is that just like our content feeds (e.g. Facebook, YouTube autoplay) are unique, so will our context (i.e. interface) become unique.
Lisps are a highly readable family of languages, so once you know one Lisp it's pretty easy to read the rest, and very quick to get up to speed in them so you can write your own code in pretty much any other Lisp dialect.

I went from Common Lisp to Chicken Scheme to eLisp and found the transitions very painless.

I've also peeked at code in various other Lisp dialects, and they've always been very readable to me.

If you're asking instead about DSLs written in Lisp, then the relationship of those DSLs themselves to Lisp is up to the author of the DSL in question. They can make the DSL very similar to Lisp or very different. It's entirely up to them.

Most of the Lisp code I've seen has stuck pretty close to Lisp itself, which makes it easy to read for anyone who knows Lisp.
99% of the time I want to do the same thing for IOException as I would for NoSuchElementException or a DOMException.

That said, even if typed checked exception handling is important...it quickly becomes untenable.

Thing thing = create();
try {
...
} finally {
cleanup(thing);
}

You might try to abstract this

withThing(thing -> ...)

But what if "..." potentially throws IOException? What if it potentially throws IOException or AWTException?

You have to give up all your exception type safety to make an abstraction like withThing. It's just not composable.
This title is absolutely useless, it says nothing about _anything whatsoever_, its insane you think its a better title.

You could literally change the title to "An article about something" and it would be an equally "good" title.
There's no way this would work practically. For one thing: an escrow system?! Who's going to pay for that? Secondly no politician is going to create a bill which makes electronics far more expensive. That's not corruption, it's simply not wanting to piss off your constituents.
Producers and consumers are equal partners on pollution. If consumers don't want to buy polluting products they must stop, by self-control or by passing laws.
But your brain chemistry is evolved to seek it as a survival mechanism, is all I’m saying
I find this Quora answer convincingly reflects my thinking as to why Superdeterminism can't possibly be correct given Bell’s theorem[1]

Skimming the actual paper[2] I'm not really seeing a convincing explanation, this in particular just strikes me as hard to believe / failing Occam's razor:

The belief that such tests tell us something about (the implausibility of) Superdeterminism goes back, once again, to the idea that a state which is intuitively “close” to the one realized in nature (eg, the wavelength of the light from the distant quasar was a little different, all else equal) is allowed by the laws of nature and likely to happen. However, in a superdeterministic theory what seems intuitively like a small change will generically result in an extremely unlikely state; that’s the whole point. For example, in a superdeterministic theory, a physically possible counterfactual state in which the wave-length of the photon was slightly different may also require changes elsewhere on the past hypersurface, thereby resulting in the experimenter’s decision to not use the quasar’s light to begin with.

"Reality is a giant deterministic conspiracy" is more plausible than abandoning local realism? They do (kinda?) propose an experiment at least?

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-crackpot-scientists-go-aft...
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.06462.pdf
I'm personally incredibly annoyed by just the idea of "Unicode is hard, let's do ASCII", most of the world is non-ASCII, it's just annoying and sad to still see systems that fail when people try to use their native languages. UTF-8 should be the default pretty much everywhere, there are quite easy ways to avoid homograph attacks, those attacks are a poor excuse to discriminate against non-anglosphere.
thanks for sharing !
i feel less of an outlier, i behave a lot like your wife. It doesn't go over well in my experience (in the US & India). But i have formed some beautiful friendships thanks to "radical empathy & questioning" and am just wired to be curious about people and their lives !
It's worth pointing out you can just point Cloudflare Load Balancing at two S3 buckets and call it a day.
I’d be ok with it only if the ceo and the board are the ones going to prison and there’s a minimum mandatory sentence of (at least) one year with no possibility of parole or commutation or anything like that.
Now only if there was a way to take this across channels.
I volunteered at a shelter in a Boston suburb and the problems were fairly small compared to big cities. This was a while ago so heroin wasn't much of a problem; by far the drug of choice was alcohol with crack a distant second. You cannot allow alcohol in a shelter, it is a recipe for disaster.

The problem with simple solutions is that many people don't want to do what you think they should do. They don't want safe injection, they want their hit now. They want to drink until they pass out. They want the freedom to make bad choices.
The best thing about a highly expressive language is that you can do anything you want to.

The worst thing about a highly expressive language is that you can do anything you want to.

Expressive power vs. intelligibility (for the sake of common convention and communication in a team setting) is a real tradeoff, and the "principle of least power" does partially explain the popularity of slightly less-powerful languages like Java, Python, and Go, where there is generally just one idiomatic pattern for accomplishing a given task.
> Have other languages done this before?

Well, yeah, Scala obviously, the primary language from which Kotlin drew inspiration for its syntax and features.
My biggest fear: Taking time off, relaxing and resting
I just finished reading her book, today. Rock on, Sabine!

Anything that makes believers in Free Will or Consciousness unhappy makes me happy.
PBS video buried in the article: https://www.pbs.org/video/kcts-9-documentaries-circuit/

This reminds me of one I saw quite some time ago: The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Poorest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axYKPbr9_MA)

IMO it would be nice to have better circumstances for more Dr. Frankensteins putting more working machines together from scrap. That means big-name equipment and semiconductor manufacturers need to be more open with their tech specs and datasheets and obsolete firmware sources and so on, especially for parts and protocols that aren't even used in "current" machines-- instead of trade secrets in black boxes being the only reason working electronic bits are no longer usable.

Then we can give more "weak" frankenputers to more poor kids and more 3rd world countries, in theory.

edit: Last year I replaced an entire SMPS & CCFL backlight driver PCB from a TV that stopped turning on. I'm not terribly good at diagnosing SMPSs but I found a chip that was getting power and not giving power, so I looked around for a replacement-- and it's not available. Its design was found to be infringing on some other semiconductor giant's patent, so places like DigiKey and Mouser were not legally allowed to sell it any longer. But hey, I can get the whole board on eBay for <$50, so who cares? I care that there's this whole 99.5% perfectly functional board with a dozen now-useless FETs and some nice HV transformers-- and the final 0.5% was strictly a legal matter, an artificial obstacle. Well, presumably. I can't even find out for sure that I was correct to even want to replace it-- I can't even prove that replacing it doesn't help (OK, I could have borrowed the good one from the working board, which I should not even have needed to buy, but I'd rather have it just keep working). All together, that is annoying.
Yes. Sort of. You can buy a commercial display, the kind used for digital signs. But, those probably cost 10x more than a consumer TV.
I agree completely. I might do .+@.+\..+ on the frontend to catch people mixing up usernames and emails, but that's it.

You might not be surprised that regex comes from a Perl module :)
Diversification can mean different things to different people.

If you mean that >30 stocks is pointless, I agree. How much different is the Dow than the S&P 500 or the whole market, even though its methodology is atrocious?

If you mean that even with a large edge, you should take positions that are >20%, I don't agree.
Yes. The best ingredient list is limited to, or as close as possible to the thing you think you're holding.

Yogurt is "milk cream and cultures." What could be wrong with fruit added to yogurt? Nothing if you add it yourself. But if it comes in the package then it has high fructose corn syrup, the poster child of highly processed food.
I wasn't sure about it, but even on a phone you can scroll past it in a flick and the length is a key component of why it's "interesting"
Be aware of your own biases, farmers are just as capable of learning about software as anyone else. You study the tools for your job like in any job.
Based on your summary, the comment you're replying to would be a better solution as there wouldn't be a perverse incentive. Do you think a replacement of rent control with such a policy could happen?
Unhelpful brusque comment. Of course water is a necessity.

Given a choice between a lot of the tap water across the world's cities and basically any strength of beer, I'd go for the beer if I had any doubts about local water quality. That tap water often requires boiling and/or filtration. Overly clever local water sellers often bottle the unfiltered tap water and sell it. I've had that experience as well.
I don’t really consider Red Rising dystopian at all.

In that world what the Golds do to humans on Earth is considered ancient history.

The main character’s rise as a Red is certainly a struggle. And the plight of all Reds and the other colors is equally similar.

But overall the story arc is more similar to the Biblical story of Noah, but with gladiators and space ships.

To be fair, the story of Noah might be considered dystopian to prosperous Jewish cultures a few thousand years ago. But at some point everyone’s plights become history.
"By measuring our heart rate, respiration, pupil size, and eye movement, our AI’s will be able to map our psychology in high resolution. And armed with this information, our interfaces will morph and adapt to our mood as we go about our day."

Totally disagree.

Consistency is one of the primary foundations of UI, and most adaptions made today are really quite problematic.

They haven't really given any examples of either this specific prediction, or even the predictions at large.

Second is the issue of integration - our homes could all be fully automated today if we could agree on a bunch of protocols, but we don't.

Shoot - even our mail is stolen from our porches because we can't get our act together on 'lock box' situations for the neighbourhood etc..

There's no practical reason to have my pulse, sweat, stress levels perpetually monitored, let alone have that integrated into some arbitrary app so they can adjust the ads I see.

So no.

This is 'peak AI hype' kind of stuff.
I don't know what your threshold for "cool" is, but an example of something that's straightforward in Lisp is if you want to generate a hierarchy of class declarations from a schema, so the classes have certain instance variables and methods defined in some regular way; for instance, you might want to auto-generate a method for each class that returns a collection of the values of certain of its instance variables. In most any language other than Lisp, you'd have to define your own schema syntax and write a parser for it and a generator that outputs the declarations in the target language. In a nutshell, it would probably be painful enough that you wouldn't bother; you'd just type in all the boilerplate manually. In Lisp, not only is writing such a schema translator relatively straightforward, but you get incremental recompilation for free.
I have been using Scala in Production for 5 years - microservices to streaming to batch jobs. I recently started working on Kotlin. Kotlin is the better Java than Scala and is much easier for someone to pick up. And like you mentioned, Scala is very easy to mess up. Scala the good parts is tough to initially identify and work with, and one might as well pick up Kotlin if they are not into functional programming.
What application does a hardware-backed root of trust have for more consumer/non-server products like laptops/phones?

Dos this differ substantially from a TPM? Could it be used to verify integrity of a system from power-on to finishing booting say a Linux distro?
hanniabu, this is an excellent suggestion. We were thinking about a chin rest (like what you see at an optometrist) but we didn't like how constricting it would be. I do like the idea of a headrest embedded with some sensors, though.
> Also, who cares about the Dow plunging if it's for such a clear and explicable reason

The enormous fraction of people who have their retirement savings tied up in the stock market, that's who.
Well they should, shouldn't they. Nobody should be able to monopolize and ruin the commons, whether or not they have a home.

The problem isn't the criminalizing of sleeping in public spaces, it's the lack of publicly funded shelters and publicly funded (incl. mental) healthcare for the homeless.

We should pay to give them a place to sleep, and punish them just like anyone else if they choose to set up camps in public spaces.