skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...fair enough. What's the general term for a shebang-ified text executable?
There was actually a discussion on HN a couple of months back [0] about what "Amazon's Choice" actually means. The consensus then was that it's not simply based on sales.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20098157
In full agreement. It's frustrating that increasing paternity leave and encouraging new fathers to spend more time caring for their children is not highlighted as a potential solution.
I designed and built a digital clock around 1976. It has around 40 ICs in it.

It never worked right :-)
Uber layoffs last year were the first big tech ones I think.
It's all about precision heuristics, derived from joint probabilities of inputs and outputs. That, by and large, is how I am increasingly coming to understand the power of neural networks.

Imagine you are given a picture of a candle, overlaid with a grid, and asked to fill in, with colored pencils, colors for the air surrounding the candle representing relative temperature. Of course a human utilizes intuition to rapidly assign high temperature to the flame and decreasing temperature with increasing distance.

A "dumb" finite method would need, even for such a relatively simple problem (for a human), to perform calculations for a series of time steps in each grid until some steady state condition to arrive at a much more precise but still overall similar coloring of the grid cells. You can do the same task much more quickly because you have developed intuition of the physics, which is to say you have learned heuristics which capture the general trends of the problem (air is hot close to a flame and cold far away).

Neural nets take the best of both worlds - by effectively learning probability relationships between input and output pixels, they internalize heuristic approaches to produce outputs approaching finite method accuracies at a fraction of the computation. There's a lot of waste that can be optimized out of finite computation by hardcoding rules (heuristics), but doing so for real problems is impractical. Neural nets learn these rules through training - a far simpler task is organizing the data to teach the net the right trends; much like designing lessons for a child to teach a predictive ability.
like a hole in your head...
>I've noticed the people who most hate those darn Californians moved from California about 10-15 years ago.

If you moved states to escape a problem and the problem followed you you'd be pissed too.
Why not look at how we are all similar rather than a unique attribute to explain the leaky pipe?

The Swedish government order a study a few years ago in order to explain why the teacher profession are so gender segregated. The study found that initially the applications are almost 50/50 men and women, but then every year men start to leave. Once graduated and starting to work, every year men are a few times more likely to leave the profession than women. They even called it a leaky pipe.

They had multiple explanation in order to explain it, like how more academic focus rather than pedagogic helps retain men, and how higher salaries might help, and they also did similar to this study and asked the men who left why they did so. A lot of answers were that the profession did not fit their life, they felt the environment to be alien and uncomfortable, and they didn't feel like they fit in the work culture.

What the study also found was that the remaining male teacher that did stay tended to enter specialties such as PE and STEM subject, and away from subjects like langue and social studies. Many who left did so for similar profession outside of the education system such as sport.

So here we have women and men, both being described as a leaky pipe, both leaving at similar rates, both describing similar reasons for leaving, both finding specialties where they are not a minority. Could there be a common theory rather than two separate theories to explain this?

And the government study had such suggestion. There is research that is now about 50 years old that observed that people who are in an environment as a minority does not feel same confidence in themselves as those being part of the majority. When faced with a failure such as a missed exam, and making a decision to continue, being part of a majority increase the probability of the person continuing. The government study suggested that if you apply this theory over the time frame of a teacher career from the point of student to being a long term employee, what you get is a leaky pipe. It also suggested the solution that mentor ship programs helps in reducing this.

I also recall that a while back a women in IT imitative that said that of all their work, what had actually produced results was their mentor program. Seems like a pretty good evidence to me, and as a universal theory it seems pretty good explanation to explain the situation for both men and women.
You can do the same today, without a jailbreak using https://ish.app/ which is an x86 emulator capable of running on the latest iOS / iPadOS versions. I do actually use it for work. Plus it works with standard x86 alpine Linux packages.
Antonella Barba Prison Interview: Her Fall from ‘American Idol’ Glory
Just keep in mind as the article points out that without "cone mode" is potentially a lot slower, and that's why cone mode exists.
They did. My issue was the timing. They turned off the server and deleted everything, including the backups, in a single day.

In contrast, I haven’t paid Dropbox for years and my data is all still there.
There is an obvious distinction between people trying to socially arrange society and our biology. Pretending otherwise is ridiculous.
Why migrate? Afaict, Digital Ocean isn't going anywhere, it's mostly internal restructuring. I'm sure you posted before the comment by one of the cofounders, so definitely give it a read before you make any decisions.

Personally, I have more instances on vultr and linode, but I still keep an instance at DO so I have a reason to keep tabs on them. I have no qualms about recommending their service to others.
Most of the arguments in favor of the Boltzmann Brain are written before the discovery of the Hubble's law (1929) when most people thought that the universe was essentially eternal and static. Even Einstein was trying to use the cosmological constant to save the model of a eternal static universe.

After the discovery of the Hubble constant, the Big Bang and Inflation, it's more razonable a low entropy starting point.
> the battle between creationism and evolution

I’ve always found any participation in this debate to be meaningless for reasons that last Thursdayism illustrates, but kinda misses at the same time.

Any debate has to take place within an agreed upon set of axioms, if you don’t have that then any point raised by the other side is simply invalid no matter what. “Earth came to be naturally billions of years after the Big Bang” and “God created earth 6000 years ago” or “Earth came to be last Thursday” clearly don’t share any axioms on which to found a meaningful debate, it’s simply impossible.

I also think it’s not necessary. If you believe earth was created last Thursday, instantaneously summoned into existence in a predetermined state (something you would expect an omnipotent being to be capable of), then studying the state of the universe is a still perfectly valid exercise. You can study what present day information reveals about points in time prior to creation, without compromising your faith that the universe was created last Thursday. In fact a th(ursday)eologian might argue that such study could further resolve your faith by revealing the intricacies of last Thursday’s creation.

Another point (though not directly related to the young earth variety of creationist) is that if you have an omnipotent being, then you would expect such a being to be able to both: Summon the universe into existence in any state it wanted to, or if it preferred, initiate a Big Bang with the precise conditions required to eventually lead to any exact state (for instance the details of Islam’s creation story describe the latter scenario, according to some interpretations).
This is an absolutely batshit crazy idea. I love it.
As a healthcare investment banker that just sold an EHR, practice management and RCM I think it is really good. A lot of smaller doctor practices don’t have the ability to schedule online so this could be valuable for them. I would think about adding a patient facing iPad app so patients can check-in in the office and something to accept payments.

To respond to other comments, this isn’t an EHR so you probably don’t have to be HIPAA complaint.
Nihilist: the payoff matrix is zero, people have been brainwashed to perceive a non-zero payoff matrix

Pessimist: the payoff matrix is negative

Cynic: players refuse to cooperate, so we're stuck playing with a net negative result

Apathetic: this game is boring
Scenery and access to outdoors can be had in many other places. It's mostly about the climate.
I have Apple Magic Trackpad 2 and Dell XPS 9380 touchpads next to each other right now, they're very similar, with the Dell one being slightly smoother. I liked the surface on my old Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro a bit more than both of them though, although that one was slightly less responsive for the very light moves because it required a bit of jitter filtering - Yoga 900 improved on that, but the surface was IMO worse there.

Those differences are very minor though compared to how touchpads used to work and feel like on Windows 10 years ago.

When it comes to how well they work, they're all essentially equivalent. The only reason to get the Apple one is if you care about its quiet haptic feedback (the Dell XPS one clicks very loudly) - and on Linux you can actually make it even more quiet than what macOS allows you to configure ;]
DataOpscience? Learning vs. Doing
It looks very nice. The UI is very intuitive. It's very intelligent to search commits or symbols with the help of dropdown wizard everywhere, cool!

I'm very interested in the built-in CI system, especially you mentioned that no yaml files to write. Actually, it's very painful for me to write yaml files for GitLab. Just want to know is there any plan to build a cloud based service like GitHub or GitLab? We just don't want to manage the instance ourselves.
Your claim about innovation thriving when there is competition may be true, but your examples run counter to that. Commercial fax machines, modems, TCP/IP, Arpanet,and cell phones all predate the AT&T breakup.
For AWS, I was bombarded with recruiters (and still am as its listed) after receiving the associates level certification.

I believe I was hired at the time solely to meet partner level certification quotas of my current company as they definitely didn't need more headcount and there wasn't much to do at the time.

The whole thing really grinds my gears though and I wish it wasn't a necessary evil for me to pursue more of them. I think services such as acloudguru and the like devalued them from a technical perspective, but Amazon puts their finger on the scale with partner requirements keeping them relevant.
This makes me happy. I have so much X11 code written over the past few decades, and I always fall back to X programming when I need to do something fast and in C. I've written a few simple iOS apps, but was frustrated with GStreamer support. Of course I have no idea what Cydia is... off to wikipedia.
And you have significantly fewer opportunities to earn income.
2 reasons: VFS is a fork of normal Git. There is no Linux client.

Also remember that there are many Git clients that work with normal Git repos. Like libgit and others. I doubt you'll see wide spread support for it unless MS can upstream it into the main Git implementation, and maybe some the the primary libraries.

This is one nice argument for Mercurial, where there is only a single implementation, so adding big new changes can be easier.
Sure, but they're still big enough to maneuver well against competitors. I see them competing more with the likes of Vultr and Linode than AWS/Azure/GCE.
Hah, I seem to have the opposite problem them.

I was meeting a co-worker who introduced herself as a "New Yorker" (from Long Island) and I told her about how a there were a lot of New Yorkers here, like one of my close friends from Syracuse.

She gave me basically the same patient response I got here about how upstate was different. So I'm trying to be more conscientious about how I use that particular demonym and the context of it. But truth be told, I tend to throw most people from the north into a pretty broad "Doesn't like sweet tea and sometimes might talk loudly" category - so I'm still not able to guess if someone is from a different part of NY unless they tell me.
I've sat in on some really gross calls in which my CTO at the time berated DO support for issues that didn't _really_ exist in an attempt to get better rates, or practically yelled at them when minor hiccups occurred in our infrastructure. It was very painful to sit in on. They were remarkably patient and cool about it. I suspect there are many people like him out there sucking up their time and resources.
Well, I'm using the dictionary definition:

entitled: to furnish with proper grounds for seeking or claiming something

example: this ticket entitles the bearer to free admission

Being an open source maintainer doesn't mean you're entitled to recognition or praise or deference. You're not entitled to put out low-quality software and have others pretend it's awesome. You're not entitled to make claims that are false and not be called out for it. You're not even entitled to people not trashing your work. When you put your work out there because you want to be praised, that's the downside.

"But that doesn't excuse the people giving that feedback for being rude."

That has nothing to do with being entitled (at least not in the context of an open source project). That's basic human interaction.
Of course! But that's only a tiny minority of wealthy women. Nobody is claiming that, historically, women did not work. It's just that female work was performed in proximity of their young children and interweaved with their care. Which is work in itself as well.

The historical norm of peasant societies is gendered work roles. Roughly speaking, the male works in the fields and the female works around the house / village. This pattern is even present across age groups, not uncommon to see 10 year boys herding the cows to pasture, and 10 year girls milking the cows at home. While I'm aware there are task and/or region and/or period specific exceptions, we're talking of the general pattern of [european] peasant societies here.

Women working away from their house and young children is the prevalent modern anomaly.
This was completely irrelevant to the time frame.

People started changing browser 5 years earlier because Firefox was better than IE (in terms of security). People changed from Firefox to Chrome because performance in Firefox 3.6 was horrendous (browser tended to lock up) and Google Chrome was again better at the time.
> Property taxes are paid on the sale price.

No, property taxes are paid on the assessed value, and assessments don't just happen at sale time. Only CA has this weird freeze-taxes-at-time-of-sale thing.

> It is not a punitive tax to fund new entrants.

No one is claiming it is. Hell, it isn't great even for homeowners who are "protected" by Prop 13, because if they want to move (say a widow/widower whose kids have moved out, living alone in a 3000 sq ft house who wants to downsize), they often can't, because their new property -- even if it's smaller! -- will destroy them with higher property taxes.

All this protects are people who never want to move, and, worse, it protects wealthy families who can pass their property down to their descendants without a market-rate tax.
"Nihilism: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless;" Oxford.

Concise and seems pretty clear to me. While the article is well written, it doesn't really adds much IMO.
Are you sure homelessness isn't as big an issue? I was in Reno last winter and the banks of the Truckee River were basically one big homeless encampment stretching for miles.
> you should actually close the app so that they can open it again

Please don't give them any ideas.
this is unfortunately true. I meet one too many people who had the certifications for a job but not the skills when I worked as a government scientist. Some people can pass any test you throw at them without retaining or learning a thing.
Well, there's half as much, I don't know enough to say there is a linear relationship between caffeine concentration and it's psychological effects.
In my case, it's GCC. The option is `-march=native -mtune=native`.

The trick though is _describing_ the scalar operations in the language and getting the compiler to understand how to efficiently vectorize them. I couldn't get GCC to do it at the time (GCC-5 if I recall, though we deployed with GCC-6); maybe it was just inexperience on my part. But I ended up writing the intrinsics by hand. To be quite honest it was my first dive into SIMD and I thought it was rather fun to do.
I really think this line of argument is going nowhere; you seem to have fundamental opinions on taxation that others here don't share, and I don't think further discussion is going to be all that productive.
I have always been skeptical of the need for the intense career paths in management, law, medicine, finance, and academics. I totally understand the need to put in hours to become an expert, but a lot of it seems gratuitous. I wouldn't call it hazing. I think these careers are structured as championship systems, where the winner takes all, for the sake of the winner.

Winner takes all is a very male attitude, and I think it gets back to men being more expendable because their sexual refractory period is orders of magnitude shorter than women's.

But does it make sense? Does the 80th hour on the ward as a resident make you a better doctor? Does the fifth publication make you a better professor? Does another fifteen minutes of billable time make you a better lawyer?

I don't think they do. I think these careers are needlessly intense and stupidly so. I contemplated going down a couple of those paths and recoiled because it seemed so unnecessary and gratuitous, and I didn't want to spin my wheels fitting into a nonsensical system.
That might not work. Integer division by zero is defined to raise #DE, incidentally the very first in the interrupt vector. Floating point division by zero silently produces infinity or NaN without informing the supervisor.
One party is banging the drums for voterID (and fairly often getting caught when they think only friends are around admitting it's about disenfranchising legitimate voters inclined to vote for the other party), the other party is banging the drums for integrity of election systems.
We're talking a couple hundred a month. That's a small car payment for Christ sake. That's a huge influence on people's monthly budget and likewise a significant quality of life (from stress reduction if nothing else) improvement.
I do not have that plan yet, as product definition for cloud-based and on-premises is very different. To my opinion it is hard to create easy-to-use product for both use cases
I just fact checked myself and found that the half-life is actually 3-5 hours. Sorry about that. But in any case, it's common for people to go to bed at night with some active caffeine in their system.
Labor force does count the actual workforce. They only count "wage slaves". One grandmother was a farmer. She took over from my grandfather when he got sick and he became the house husband. So she would not have been counted. I am not clear if it would have counted my other grandmother since she was a business owner. She owned a beauty salon. She also opened the first health food store in Berkeley with her sister to put my mother and her cousins through college. I doubt either would have been counted as labor force participation. My mother was counted.
Always happy to talk about this stuff!

Have you read any of the essays/papers/anecdotes on jsoftware.com yet? They expand a lot on the history of APL, and it's pretty fascinating.

A fun quote that highlights how many years ahead APL and the companies built around APL were/are even decades later:

Working at IPSA, with its far-flung offices and its Mailbox, it was possible to “know” a person for years without ever meeting the person. Well into my IPSA career, I asked Lib Gibson, “Is Leslie Goldsmith a guy or a girl?”

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm

(IPSA was I.P. Sharp Associates, which long before that ran a huge amount of the APL in the world, remotely. Kind of like a primitive cloud, though then called time-sharing.)
Finally xeyes!
Given some description of the real world that defines how physical states progress through time (like, say, quantum mechanics), aren't we all sequences of such states?
> For a family with $85,000 a year, getting rid of state tax could mean an extra several hundred dollars a month in income.

It could, if you could take the $85,000/year job with you. Pay for similar skills in the lower CoL states is also notably lower, though.
How is it not one of those circumstances? Men find it extremely difficult to make a career as a nursery teacher, for example, because nursery schools and parents of young children don't trust men as a nurturing caregiver. It's a clear cut example of how a sexist view of men - biologically inspired or otherwise - is harmful to men.
Sure, there probably is. But if we imagine that this is a spectrum where 0 means "no say" and 10 means "absolute veto power", CA is at 9, and most functioning communities with healthy housing growth are probably at 5 or below.
Another user provided a patch, the patch got called "boring" by the maintainer, a passerby snapped with offensive personal attacks and the rest is history.
For my hobby projects, I strongly prefer DigitalOcean's $5/month droplet to Amazon's EC2 t2.nano instance (their lowest-resourced offering; ~$4.18/month) purely because I know that I can't screw up the DigitalOcean configs badly enough to get an unexpectedly enormous bill. For simple stuff, the DigitalOcean UI is just so much easier to navigate than the enterprisy AWS console.
in the sense that we could be "brains in boxes" like in the matrix, one could argue that this reality we experience could happen to a boltzmann brain as well. similar to a dream, in which the dream reality is a result of feeding all the senses with data from within.
I sell print on demand books through Amazon, and I see misprinted books occasionally.

I ordered a box of 500 recently. One was an utterly different book, and one had a printing issue where some pages from some random book were in the middle of my book. It's a shame to think paying customers might get one like this, but it's easy enough to return stuff to Amazon, so I don't think it's a huge deal.
> Which ISA did it have?

Business side was considering whether to buy Skylake or Broadwell.
Rather than 'dishonesty' per-se, it is probably closer to 'wishful thinking' most of the time, with a side-order of 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth'.
> i would love for you precisely identify what part [...] is an attack.

It's basically the same as saying "I hate you". You hate them so much that you will go to great lengths to never work with them.

Maybe it's true—maybe you really do hate them—but stating as much is absolutely a personal attack IMO.

> it's an expression of my personal exasperation.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."