skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> C#, Java and Swift do it, too.

Welllllllll

In the case of C# it is/was more a matter of picking the -correct- Dictionary.

'OrderedDictionary' has been around since Net 2.0 (2005 or so,) as has 'SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue>'

But for some ungodly reason, there is no 'OrderedDictionary<TKey,TValue>' included in the framework that you can use. All you get normally is the non-generic one (where you have to type-check everything...) There are internal implementations used by the framework, but you'd have to do some hacky things to even get it to work.

However, in my 12 years of C# programming, I've only run into the need for this _once_, and it was to assist interfacing with a VB6 monstrosity.
> The French watchdog said iPhone owners "were not informed that installing iOS updates (10.2.1 and 11.2) could slow down their devices".

I think that's reasonable. I doubt many people would've cared if Apple had TOLD us that's what they were doing, and also made it an switch. "Hey you can slow down your phone so the battery lasts longer now that you've upgraded" or something like that. It still feels like they made a deliberate choice to not let us know what they were doing so we'd buy new phones.
They could have found the money if people weren’t opposed to the route the money would have enabled. The university was very strongly opposed, NIMBY residents in north Austin were opposed to having nearby transit, and lots of people who owned or rented commercial land along the route were opposed because businesses would lose a lot of business during construction. Many of the people who were opposed found cost to be a convenient grounds for opposition, and the cheaper alternative happened to conveniently coincide with making the least number of people upset.
I'd rather be at the mercy of _relatively_ objective metrics than at the mercy of whoever my boss happens to be. (I happen to like my current management chain, but people come and go...)
65 F.
Ballpark numbers from google:

recommended words per slide: 20

recommended time per slide: 2 minutes

Average academic words per page: 600

nobody is sitting through a 10 hour ppt deck either.
I think my main issue is the shift in focus away from a transaction (people paying for a product or service) to reducing people to simply being sources of money.

Also, the idea that fans or admirers should be converted into people who pay you money. My concept of a service like Patreon is that it's a way for people to give you money if they (independently) want to, rather than being pushed or cajoled to do so.
> Condorcet Paradox: a special instance of Simpson’s paradox applied to elections, in which a populace prefers candidate A to candidate B, candidate B to C, and yet candidate C to A. This occurs because the majority that favors C is misleadingly divided among different groups.

I found this really interesting because I have never thought of a Condorcet Loop, or a Smith Set, in the context of Simpson's Paradox before.

I've also enjoyed Judea Pearl's points about how Simpsons Paradox scenarios sometimes don't even have a correct interpretation until you are clear about what your assumptions are and what you are trying to measure.

I've always suspected that the Smith Set might just mean that the electorate isn't ready to decide yet, and that another round of elections might be warranted, but it's interesting to consider that a Smith Set might also give clues on what questions to ask to better determine the winner.
Freedom to arrange my workspace in whatever form makes me the most effective, productive, and comfortable sounds like freedom to me.

But most importantly, I'm 100% sure my expensive ($1500-ish?) audio setup has been a competitive advantage for me. I've had numerous people comment that they are relieved when they find out they can comfortably converse with me, and how outside the norm that is. From my own experience, I can attest that most people are oblivious to the discomfort they can cause by not putting reasonable effort into the quality of their team or client's experience.

Two things annoy me greatly enough to want to avoid having to work with someone.

1. Being late / unprepared / distracted in meetings

2. Having to tolerate a literal headache due to background noise, awful sound quality, or constant technical issues during a call.
No. See the enormous volume and consistency of anecdotal evidence for ineffective medicine. Most of China has believed and recreated the same false anecdotes about their TCM for thousands of years! Remember bloodletting? astrology? praying to God? If you don't apply methods for protecting yourself from human bias, then you're bound to fall victim to human bias.
I can write programs but can't solve problems. What is going on?
Here's the deal: I've been programming off and on for most of my life (currently in my 40s). While I've created a few basic web sites for money, it has mainly been a hobby for me, and one I greatly enjoy. I've written simple 2D video games (C++), simple chatbots (Python), quiz-generating systems(JS-PHP-MySQL), etc., so I'm not totally clueless about this stuff. However, there seems to be a very real, and quite frankly disappointing limit to what my brain is able to do. For example, I have recently joined HackerRank, and have been working on several of the problems. I don't know what it is, but for some reason even some of the problems marked easy are incredibly hard for me to figure out. While I've successfully answered the majority of the problems I've attempted there, there are some that, based on the number of successful submissions and the rank of easy MUST be simple and yet I've spent sometimes 2 hours on those and cannot produce a program that passes all the tests. That's very discouraging because I want to become a better programmer but I feel I may have reached the limit of what my brain can do. Has anyone experienced anything like this? If so, were you able to figure it out and improve your problem-solving skill set? Thanks for any advice you could offer!
To save you a click: 65F.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22266966
The reason for warnings on 11 was that the landing was done in what was essentially an unsupported configuration. Still the “kernel” behaved as designed, didn't run low priority task (that was not supposed to be running in the first place) and raised an warning about doing so.
A barely legible email dump with 50 concurrent answers is supposed to be the clear official statement?

Not to mention that developers just begin migrating to python 3 in 2017 and code still had to work on 2.7 that doesn't order.
How would Koch see a mechanism where neurons or other cells in a human brain are sequentially replaced over time with synthetic components that simulate their function, is the consciousness lost along the way? Is there consciousness as long as there is at least one biological cell left?
> The USA does not build nuclear weapons anymore, instead it invests heavily in diplomacy to prevent other countries from building nuclear weapons. For some reason, few people seem to consider that we could take the same approach to AI weaponry.

Because it didn't work with nuclear weapons. Just look at North Korea to name the most recent example.

> Yes, wealthy, powerful people at the top ranks of politics and business in this country, who stand to gain more wealth and power via the development of these weapons, support Google developing them. However, your position that since they're the authority figures, anybody who questions them is not an "adult", strikes me as extremely asinine and highly dangerous.

And your reflexive attitude towards "authority figures" strikes me as extremely adolescent.

Extremely intelligent people developing sophisticated technology for military applications is not an inherently bad thing.

> Arms races benefit military contractors but few other people. The 20th century taught us lessons about arms races and we should learn from them.

Indeed, but I don't think you've learned those lessons yourself. During the Second World War, if it weren't for the countless Allied scientists and engineers who designed weapons, broke codes, designed manufacturing processes, invented such things as the Mulberry harbors--the war would have, at minimum, lasted much longer than it did, and may have reached a much worse conclusion than it did.

I agree that evil dictators would probably find some profitable uses for AI technology. That's exactly why evil dictatorships are going to develop that technology anyway, regardless of whether we do or not. Oppenheimer, von Neumann, Feynman, and others refusing to help with the Manhattan Project wouldn't have made a whit of difference to whether or not Heisenberg was going to develop an atomic bomb for the Germans. And if Turing, Browning, Garand, Mitchell, and others refused to build weapons for the Allies, Heisenberg might have had the time and resources necessary to complete that bomb.
Indeed. But "make it harder" isn't about them (it won't change their behavior). It's rather about the poor and disabled for whom public transportation isn't their best option. It's a message from the elite telling them that their suffering doesn't count.
There's this probably never widely played shogi variant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi

"Each player has a set of 402 wedge-shaped pieces of 209 types. The players must remember 253 sets of moves."
If you, the manufacturer, put a sticker on a vehicle and it says "FSD" and names a price, and I buy that vehicle?

I _have_ paid for it. I may not have paid list price or as much as you like, but you can't say "Oh, it wasn't paid for".

"Includes FSD, $x"

"Sorry we meant 'does not include FSD, $x'" _AFTER_ two sales.
I've got a 256 thread machine under my desk at the moment, I find myself frequently disabling threads because i'm out of memory.

I don't think people fully grasp that lots of applications memory requirements scale with the number of threads. Just running gcc against C make files can burn 1/2 a GB a process, multiply that by the 8 cores most people have and 16G of ram leaves plenty of memory for Firefox/etc.

OTOH, 128GB of ram in a 256 thread machine, is borderline out of ram. Build a project where its more like 2G of ram per process (looking at a lot of recent big public google projects) and its more like I need 1/2 a TB and a bunch of swap to keep the project from OOMing.

So at this point I might use that as a general rule, 2G per thread. So your looking at another ~$1.5k+ or so in RAM for this machine for most purposes.
Thank you for the reply, once we loose the last of our 2.4 devices maybe I'll re-try in AC only.
Or he could just use DuckDuckGo and not worry about random people trawling through his search history at all.

This seems to be a pattern not limited to murder cases. Not sure I like every divorce case and lawsuit being able to trawl through people's most private data (and have it entered into evidence).

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mdbv/a-judge-just-order...
Most of them had expired. Wavelet is something that looks good in theory but in practice couldn't beat the millions man hours work put into standard DCT.
>but part of the overall struggles of print journalism.

which not coincidentally is also related to another platform economy, the shift of advertising revenue from publishers and distributors to the large platforms, Ben Thompson writes about this all the time.

I think it's largely detrimental to independent creators, it treats the independent creator of artistic work as an afterthought in the name of aggregate consumer welfare and price. It's centralizing power in the name of efficiency and people talk gleefully about it because it robs the distributors and taxi companies, and movie studios and so on of their perceived ill-gotten power.

I think that's a huge mistake, the centralization of power streamlines all goods and removes all diversity, takes agency away from everyone but the large platforms, it turns open spaces into proprietary walled gardens because it's the only way for platforms to defend their content, and we're going to really regret it in a few years if we don't already.
Light rail is the right investment when the existing buses running every 5 minutes typically have > 80 people on them. Most US routes didn't prove it with the bus first though which means they have no idea if it is true.

There is only other reason to run light rail: you are doing bridge over a route that doesn't have any road bridges and want to ensure drivers won't take the bridge over.
> Is there a way to train your voice to become more comfortable for others to listen to?

This is something I struggle with too honestly.

I've recorded 400+ videos and I still think my voice is -ultra- cringe and I feel like it gets worn out after talking for only maybe an hour straight.

So what I usually do is record for about 45 minutes, then edit for a few hours and then go back to recording when my voice is fresh. I drink plenty of water while editing too.

I don't have any professional advice since I'm just a dude who records screencasts. But I think my biggest problem related to getting worn out is I tend to talk slightly louder than normal when I'm recording because I still internally link loudness with tone variance and "energy". So maybe talking less loud, raising the gain on my mic and learning how to have more tone variance without talking louder would be something to look into. If I were to guess this is probably a common problem for many folks.
> MAC: D

> ... But I don’t know a single expert Mac user who is not seriously annoyed by the heavy-handed security design of Catalina. Not one. Every single expert user I know is annoyed. That is a bad place for MacOS to be. MacOS 10.16 needs a serious course correction to fix this, and if 10.16 goes the opposite way — growing even more heavy-handed in restricting professional Mac users from just using their machines as they want and expect to — I genuinely fear for the future of the Mac as a platform for serious computer users ...

Rightly said. This is the exact fear and worry I have - that if the macOS is turned into a highly controlled and restrictive environment like the iPadOS, I have wasted my money by investing in a mac. I won't be updating my macOS for another year to see whether Apple sees sense.

It's a pity that the Mac Mini too has been turned into an iDevice with no scope for real upgrade without paying the exorbitant Apple tax.
This guy has been in a bubble since 2005, it's kind of amazing how out of touch he is about how the world at large works, how capitalism works, and ultimately how little most people 'care' about any of that in the 'real world' ... Good on him for taking a moral stand, but it feels pretty shallow to me.
Ok, so what standard of evidence for anthropogenic climate change would you accept?
Looks like next Hawaii hearing was moved to ...2050.
Why did it take 15 years for him to have this stance? Could salary, bonuses, 401K, home ownership, vesting, millions made have anything to do with it? I don't counter the arguments being made but the message is disingenuous to me. I ask why 15 years, because I knew Google was evil to a lot of markets, people and businesses well over 10 years ago and I don't even work for them. They have ruined people's livelihoods by simple business as usual decisions and it's nothing new. I wonder how these worker revolutions would hold up in other countries like China? Privileged people on their soapbox don't send the messages they think they do, regardless of the position. The common folk are just trying to survive and feed their kids and aren't exactly fond of the idea of doubling of their gas tax. They don't have millions of Google dollars in the bank.
I feel that problem solving isn't a skill, problem recognition is. You have issues with how you categorize your information.
Same here, but recent versions are much better. If you take a screenshot when running one of the scaled modes on 4k it's actually rendering at a far higher resolution, which then gets scaled down. Almost 6K IIRC, which on a laptop is pretty much insane.
There are various approaches here, and there are some FOSS tools that you can use.

Some links:

- https://blog.taadeem.net/english/2019/01/03/8_anonymization_... – description of methods, and a tool for Postgres, postgresql_anonymizer

- https://habr.com/en/company/yandex/blog/485096/ – not for Postgres, it's for ClickHouse (open-source DBMS for analytics) but covers the topic very well.
I always end up hitting Firefox’s readability mode button when reading Dan’s site. Normal browser width is just too wide for wall-to-wall text.
> useless lets-grow-salad-in-space-oh-look-its-just-salad timesinks

This is called basic research. It's geared towards building greater knowledge of a study area without specific concerns towards application. That's how science works. We don't just fund the stuff that's immediately profitable (though things are shifting that way).
It is told as a story, to engage the reader. It is very well presented. Perhaps you can do better, are you a journalist or a UX designer?
Mike Bostock (mbostock in this thread), D3.js is awesome!
There is no reason any of those objections need to be true. They typically are, but you can make a train even worse than a bus.
This is exactly what I've done for the last 5 years or so. I'm currently running a T460 I picked up almost two years ago for under $500 and is now running Xubuntu 18.04. My wife's running an X1 Yoga gen 2 that I picked up for around $400.

I've come to the same conclusion that it's generally not worth the premium cost to buy a new laptop when good hardware is so readily available in my neck of the woods.
Some BSD userspace only, and with few of the things most BSD people like about BSD.
You may already be aware of this, in which case I apologize for stating the obvious, but Mr. Bostock actually authored the comment you replied to.
:o)
I knew about it, because everyone was talking about it.
The origination of the actual information is irrelevant. It was basically interesting gossip for a few weeks.
If anything, private ownership of intellectual property is far more defensible under socialism than real property. Intellectual property is all the product of someone's labor. Real property, by contrast, involves dedicating to private use something that was pre-existing that nobody personally created.
7 year car loan? I paid off my home mortgage in less time.
Corollary: Searching for "How to cover up a murder" is okay, searching for "How to kill someone" not.
> It lacks 802.11ac.

Why in the world would it lack support for one of the most ubiquitous, not to mention fastest, wireless standards? I mean, it’s been out since 2013.
Is tasking developers with creating detailed estimates a waste of company money?
At that rate you would exhale around $38,500 worth of carbon every day.
Why probably a milestone in the tech labor movement end-up as a pure Virtue Signaling like that?
Again you fail to contribute anything meaningful in your comment. Can you actually have a meaningful conversation? That's kind of the standard here. Drive-by putdowns are kind of frowned on here.
Room temperature is about ~300 Kelvin (and of course 1 degree Celsius is 1 degree Kelvin). Temperatures rising by 1 degree Celsius is about .3% average absolute temperature increase. It's hard to imagine that over 150 years, a change of .3% is particularly significant.
Jeremy’s here at Observable, too!
They are.

I would personally define desalination efficiency of 100% as a perfectly-reversible reaction that establishes an equilibrium between fresh water and oceanic salt water.

Since adding sea salt to fresh water until it has oceanic salinity represents a theoretical maximum of 0.810 Wh/L (a maximally efficient osmotic power plant, situated where a river empties into the ocean, could get about 0.75 Wh/L). So 100% efficiency would be adding 0.810 Wh to one liter of seawater to get one liter of fresh water back. 100% is an unachievable goal, thanks to the laws of thermodynamics.

So to figure your solar desalination efficiency, from a solar panel that receives X Wh/m^2/day of insolation energy, you divide by 0.810 Wh/L to get L/m^2/day. Whatever fresh water you can produce per day, divide by that number to get your efficiency.

An MIT roof gets mean 4.59 kWh/m^2/day of solar energy, so 100% efficiency for them would be 4590/0.810 = 5667 L/m^2/day. By the numbers given, their process is about 2% to 3% efficient (by my definition).

They could be a lot more efficient if they didn't have to overcome the huge heat of vaporization that water has, which is exactly why reverse osmosis is so much more efficient than multistage flash distillation. They are stacking so that the evaporation energy can be recovered from the condensation, which deposits the same amount of energy on the next layer, but it's better off all around to just never evaporate in the first place.
I am a "panpsychist," or whatever, and I don't really see the silver lining in any of this, either. I really don't care if DeepMind or Stockfish are enjoying how much they can drag me through the mud, because I already don't. It's a huge non sequitur to respond to such things with "it doesn't matter, it's just fake thought." And it is one the most embarassing things to see people going down that lane, alongside that other road, of "but can machines make art?"
Thanks, just followed her on Twitter.

Can you imagine Dorothy Parker being on Twitter? It would have been made for her...
DHS skirting Supreme Court order by using purchased location data
> This appears to be leaving out copying Gemfile.lock so you have no real idea what versions of dependencies are being installed here. This is not safe.

As someone who's only touched Ruby for a few years (and not even Ruby on Rails): I wouldn't have even known to look for a Gemfile.lock.

Perhaps the author doesn't know either.
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Natural law is the same thing as natural products. Impossible to define at best. Law needs enforcement to be law, otherwise it’s just words.
San Jose man attends gangstalking seminar but does not join. Gives Intel
Well you are free to go live your life under the rule of the Taliban or the Iranian mullahs if you really think they're the good guys in all of this.

Edit: There's a flagged-dead reply that says, "I don't, but I also don't think the Haska Meyna wedding party were the bad guys in all of this." Well, I don't think so either, which is why I think it's good to develop technology that improves the ability to accurately recognize drone targets!
> Nobody will be convinced of anything by this sort of nonsense.

This is clearly false. Anecdotal appeals to emotion convince many people of many things, and the history of the climate change debate so far tends to suggest that appeals to emotion are much more effective than actual science.
Davy Crockett (Nuclear Device)
The docking (like find your way back to the mothership radar) was still turned on, so the CPU was receiving the data and having to process it.

The CPU was throwing an I'm overloaded signal, but dealing with it, as the process priority put docking radar as less priority than the landing sequence.

So the CPU was complaining but still doing it's job.

All this is from memory :P
Except I'm used to thinking that "product owner" is definitely not a technical role. It is for you? It's possible anything really can mean anything.
Yes, the extension just supply a UI for related API. You can't do anything on Web if no api behind the scene.
Consciousness is “magic” then.

That doesn't follow at all.
Have been running Linux on Lenovo laptops forever. A T500, then a T440p, now an X1E Gen2 (can't remember what I used before the T500).

While I still am not able to buy a Lenovo laptop without Windows preinstalled, at least Lenovo is open enough for other OSs (FreeBSD, Linux, etc) to run relatively flawlessly on them.
It may supply 40% of electricity demand, but when climate change causes widespread systemic social and economic collapse, I can assure you that your precious solar panels won't be much help. You can't eat photovoltaic cells.