skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This another definition issue. Traditionally a solution is defined as that expression reduced to the simplest possible form. Your definition of solution is more describing the process of reduction.

How about this. The problem is:

4

Create a solution that is equivalent in value but has 7 primitives. (Using your definition of "primitive" to include operators).

1 + 1 + 1 + 1

Under both definitions of "solution" and under my example definition of "complexity" the statement that the solution cannot be simpler than the problem does not hold.

Problems like find every permutation of a string "abcdefg" has solutions more complex than the problem. Disregarding definitions I believe your intuition is a bit off here.
Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?
Suspicious Discontinuities
Can you be more specific as to what you mean by industry analysis data?
This is ridiculous. What has anything of these to do with time? If you live at the east coast of the US, just set your time to GMT, and you can enjoy waking up at noon.

We need a culture of encouraging school student to go to sleep early and wake up early, and not overtaxing their health by staying up late and wasting time.
He married someone from India and the UK Home Office wouldn't grant his partner a visa initially. I think it's all sorted now and she's now living with him in the UK:

See the pinned comment on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8EwYOwplyw
Why should we focus exclusively on low level henchmen when there's a huge Saudi influence on Twitter like that one?

Why should we believe that owning the single largest stake--one even larger than the Jack's--isn't relevant when discussing how they influence Twitter to get what they want?
The guys on the Grumpy Old Geeks podcast are always laughing because the hacks they envision when looking at new products (software, IoT, SmartAnything) often show up some number of months later. I wonder whether we'll see this in a newspaper headline in a couple years.

https://gog.show/
The important part is the segmentation of inflation between the whole economy (consumer goods, industry, and also the basics) and the price of just the basics: housing, health care, transportation, education. If those basics were the basket of goods used to define inflation, then the numbers would be very different.

$1000 in 1985 dollars buys $2300 worth of consumer goods in 2020. But you'd need $3,110 2020 dollars to buy the basics you could get for $1000 in 1985.
Just buy your mattresses from Costco, no sleaze in sight.
> Prediction: no actual "self driving" (to a point where driver can legally be asleep) on public streets till > 10 years from now

We already have "driver-asleep self driving" on public streets: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/9/21000085/waymo-fully-driv...
The car examples are particularly misleading because the same brands are moving upmarket over time. A Honda Accord is targeting a much more premium market segment today than in 1985.
The World According to Peter Thiel
As a pedestrian I often use eye contact for the opposite reason: a multi-way stop where I’m worried if I cross I’ll end up pissing off several cars, and despite that they’re all being too polite and won’t just go, even though it would be fastest and safest for us all.

So what do I do? Get to the corner and stubbornly refuse to look up at any of the cars, and don’t really face my body toward any possible crossing. Not being able to wave me on (I’ve always found being waved in front of a motor vehicle somewhat menacing, tbh), the drivers quickly clear the four-way stop and I can cross without worrying about causing a jam.

Anyways, the AI will have a lot to learn of the crazy habits people build to keep from being lawfully murdered because “but cars”.
Absolutely true. Cynics often jib that school is glorified daycare, but it’s very real that without schools many people would simply be unable to work. Inflexibility around parent work schedules is a significant factor in why later start times is difficult.
Ikea sells different types of mattress (spring, foam, latex), each with different thicknesses and price points.

I've bought ~10 Ikea mattresses, avoided the cheapest ones of each type, and been pretty happy.

I can understand why a foam topper would feel hot. It's main purpose is to provide a sleeping surface that's the same shape as your body, so of course this means it maximises the amount of contact between you and itself. So no space for air to circulate

But I don't understand how a foam topper can screw up your back, unless your mattress is too soft to begin with. A bad/cheap foam topper will compress pretty easily, and provide no additional support, but I don't see what harm it would do.
> But, if you're a family that needs to buy a minivan, while it's nice that the 2018 Grand Caravan ($26,300 in 2018) has many features the 1996 Grand Caravan ($17,900 in 1996) did not, you still face the problem that you need an extra $8,500 to buy one.

> A key assumption of our inflation-adjusted analyses is that old products are still available. Don't like / can't afford the $26K 2018 Grand Caravan, go buy the $18K 1996 one instead. Except you can't.

But you can.

Tons of used cars available within 50 miles of SF for under $15k (https://www.cars.com/for-sale/searchresults.action/?prMx=150...) including a 2018 Dodge Caravan for $13,999.

There are certainly good points in the thread, but this isn't one of them.
Are you arguing that the ramifications for society of correcting for this issue are net negative? I would guess the opposite and think that we are going to see ever more schools pushing back start times in the next several decades. We are already seeing some acting.
It is still my very firm belief that the primary motivation for the use of ORMs is backlash against gatekeeping DBAs. People keep looking for (literal) tools that keep them from having to deal with a (figurative) tool who won't let them use the damned database that belongs to the business to support business initiatives.

[edit: and that almost all network traffic is now L7 routed because of gatekeeping firewall administrators in the late 90's, so everything had to go over :80 or :443]
I purchased a Purple 3, thinking that if I loved it, I'd just stick with it. I did love it, but I couldn't justify spending $2k on a twin

I don't understand this -- you loved the mattress and you knew the price when you ordered, so what other outcome did you expect if you couldn't justify the price to yourself even if you loved it? It seems that you'd have been better off going with a more affordably priced mattress from the beginning like a Leesa or Casper?

Otherwise you're just guaranteeing yourself a lot of hassle to send back a mattress that you know you don't want to pay for. Plus, now you know there's a more comfortable mattress out there that's out of your price range. It's kind of like test driving an $80K Acura when all you can afford is a $30K Honda, sure you may love the Acura, but if you can't afford it anyway, why bother?
No. Like Github, Dolthub is closed source.
Doesn’t inflation as measured in the US omit most of the big things that drive the majority of people’s expenses like housing, healthcare, and education? It seems like as soon as the cost of some good starts growing out of control, -poof- it’s omitted from the inflation measurement!
But this is not how generators work. They generally produce samples in the from

G: Q -> (X,Y)

where Q is some prior from which you are sampling. If they are not invertible then you straight up cannot get P(X,Y) out of the generator. Even if it is invertible getting P(X) requires integrating out the Y which might be infeasible (since the model is not integrable and is sufficiently fast changing that you need very, very many samples).
Is Selenium less crashy nowadays?

Back in 2017 when I had a testing automation job, I wrote a test automation system using Node, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber and Vagrant.

It worked well once I managed to set up a Vagrant box that would take Cucumber tests from a local directory and keep a Node, Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber install cached, but WebDriver never really stopped crashing unpredictably.

I had to implement very coarse retry logic. Tests would take way too much time just because each run a few of the tests would keep crashing for a minute or more, until they finally succeeded.

I parameterized the Vagrant box so that testers could run subsets of tests by running the "test" command with parameters, not because we had that many tests (just about a 100) but because they were so slow.

It wasn't even that complicated of a SPA, and the backend engineers even added nice classes and ID's to elements that were to be tested.

The binding of Cucumber to JS to WebDriver was flawless, adding new testing functions (e.g. "do something with some particular type of list of items"), it was just that the browser component kept crashing all. the. time.

I longed for a deterministic means of automating the browser then, preferably by hooking right into the browser code and integrating with it, so I would know why the thing kept crashing. That hasn't happened yet.
I think having shorter cert lifetimes is generally a good thing and with tools like Let's Encrypt its becoming easier and easier.

If anyone is aware of how Safari came up with the 398 day number I'd love to know.
> If I invent a machine that passes out six thousand flyers per second, and allow people to feed text into it at will, then yes, it is insane to describe these as my "speech".

I'm not following how having a machine do the work absolves the owner of responsibility. It seems like the same kind of "normal thing, but with a computer!" that folks in tech circles usually mock when it shows up on patent applications or when someone decides we need a new law to cover something that's already covered by existing laws, simply because now it's with a computer.

If you manage to replace all the components of an ordinary publisher with robots, seems to me the owner of those robots ought to be treated just like an ordinary publisher. Accepting, storing, reproducing, and distributing as broadly as possible (oh and don't forget slapping your own ads on) others' work sure seems like publishing to me.
They won't be able to read the data on our HDD or SSDs that are in use today, but surely important data will be copied several times over onto new media. Not to say that much will not be lost, but people 7000 years from now should know a lot more about us than what we know about people 7000 years before us.
Thank you so much for posting this. Its amazing how many real economic issues seem to be hidden behind the progress of the computer revolution and Murphy's law.

Just as we consider TV's to have dropped 97 percent in cost and use this in our inflation estimates. I remember seeing similar analysis that was done on US manufacturing output that showed that productivity boom of computers was hiding an enormous loss in US manufacturing jobs in official US metrics.

I feel like some people are starting to wake up to this. Its just so hard for these kind of official metrics to change when those in charge have every incentive to insist the US economy is doing great and just keeps getting better.
One example is that it could require a significant amount of human legwork - e.g. Google street view. Another example is it might require significant dev effort to clean and combine several raw data sets into a refined output data set.
Wow. How do Palantir engineers sleep at night? Later in the article, it describes how LAPD uses Palantir software - tracking almost everyone in poor neighborhoods at all times. All of this use is completely without warrants, and the police know to avoid mentioning Palantir in court documents so that its use won't be challanged.
Show HN: Fun Blockchain Drawing Game with a Twist
Please try at https://dcasso.app/

We built on Blockstack infrastructure, which provides decentralized storage where you’re in control of you own data. Blockstack apps implemented a header called “can’t be evil” which essentially blocks all cookies-sending or 3rd party assets
Altho the app isn’t one of those privacy-purpose utility app, we think it’s a fun game and we don’t /can’t sell your data. App is also open-source
> Yes and industries only make money if they get customers to give it to them.

That only works if you have choices that aren't just the same megacorporation with different names. In reality, most people have less voting power in their wallets than it appears.
The UI is very nice. As a fellow founder, I'm putting this on my docket. We might try it out in the coming weeks.
Is Signal supposed to be more secure than point to point TLS?

That doesn’t sound correct to me, and makes me wonder what the complaint about email is.

TLS encryption over a relay network seems like state of the art security, and something I’d trust much more than Signal to hide my metadata — which is how you’ll actually get killed in a “life or death” situation.
There's a very short chapter in one of the books I like, Working Effectively With Legacy Code, entitled "We Feel Overwhelmed. It Isn't Going To Get Any Better." The chapter offers little more than hope based on seeing turnarounds happen -- once you get some control over your code, you start developing little oases that are pleasant to work in, even if the rest is crap.

I see something similar with large software systems. A 'system' is something that can stand alone, but very large software is logically composed of many subsystems that could in theory stand alone even if presently they never stand apart from the full system or if their components are so intertwined that the logical subsystem is only a potential abstraction. While the full system might be a ball of mud, and you have little to no control over what Team X does with their subsystems and their relations/interconnects with the overall system, it is possible to rework your own subsystems in a way that they themselves aren't balls of mud and stay that way indefinitely. (I suspect this is part of some of the optimism behind microservices -- followed by pessimism when people realize the full system that interconnects everything can still easily become (or start as) a ball of mud, one even less pleasant to work in than in a monolith design.)
Google can still get Trump's endorsement, just write him a check and he'll back Google instead.

Worked for a pardon, Paul Pogue's family just wrote a $200k check and voila, he's pardoned.

The office of president has never been more transparently for sale (ahem, "open for business") and there's absolutely no chance the Senate will perform any accountability here. He could literally murder someone on 7th avenue and there would be 51 votes against conviction.

Sad that it's come to this, but if it's $200k vs an industry-destroying precedent getting set, well... google should suck it up and write the check.
They have changed already in some districts. If you want them to change, you can help inform the public in your area and work to legislate something healthier for our children.
Some color blind users can't detect the difference between orange and red. Color is a useful design extra, but you need to take all users into account.

There are lots of ways to do it. You could just include a page in the manual: "These icons indicate emergencies. Those other icons are just warnings," and expect color-blind users to memorize it. It's not optimal, but it's better than nothing.

Emergency icons might be larger, or perhaps flash (gently). You could include a octagonal stop-sign border around icons that indicate emergencies.

Using color as an additional channel for the 90+% of people in the world who can see it. But the remaining set (over 10% of men) are a sizeable audience.
My LG G8 ThinQ was made in Vietnam
Returns on bulky items are a mess.

I ordered a fridge and dishwasher from Costco. They were scuffed up during delivery.

Costco asked me to bear with them... send pictures... write up a report...

Once Costco was able to stick the delivery company for the bill, they sent me a new set. They didn't care about the original set.

At one point a guy showed up in a pickup. No uniform. Not in a delivery van, or truck. Just a guy with a dolly and a beat-up F150. He said, "I'm here for the old fridge."

When he saw they were new appliances, he was like, "Yeah, {the original delivery company} told me to take them to the dump... let me sell them, I'll come back with a U-Haul." And he kept texting and setting times and not showing. I had a Fridge and Dishwasher in my living room for over a month.

I asked Costco what was up... I asked them to get it take care of ASAP... they were like, "Uh... I mean, I guess we can... or you can just sell them..."

In the end I sold them to a neighbor, for half what I paid... he called the brand repair place and ordered a new door. Which is all I was expecting anyone to do in the first place.
The Cost of Thriving
How to get hired as a Machine Learning Engineer
Unfortunately it's more complicated than that:

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/08/Labor-Force-Parti...

While the employment rate for "Married women, spouse present" doubled from 1955 to 1990 (which may be what you're referring to), the rate for "All women" between 1985 and 2005 went from 55% to 60% (and falling).
I'd rather they allowed alternate browser engines first!
Only the geeks cared about the “do no evil”.
FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
Now if people would show a bit of support for Google Music I would be a happy fellow. I know it's unlikely to happen, but it's really hard to avoid the fact the Google Music comes with ad-free Youtube Premium for free. Definitely a USP that none of the other music providers have.
The movie itself alludes to that toward the end when the cowboys bust through a wall into a studio dance number, Dom Deluise as the studio's director tries to regain order, and Slim Pickins proclaims "I'm workin' for Mel Brooks" and socks him. Which is a great example of what Mel Brooks thinks is funny.
Feet on the Street: Tech Companies Prepare for Covid-19 Fallout
Housing is absolutely included in CPI and PCE calculations. I'm less knowledgeable about how education and healthcare are accounted for but they are also included.
If you're adjusting for inflation you're not understanding the thread. Read it to the end...
I tried some Ikea mattresses when I was mattress shopping, and none of them felt comfortable even in a short test period in the store.

I ended up buying a Leesa and have been very satisfied with it over the past 5 years.
Looks great! Quick q about geofencing: given the android device and OS fragmentation, what's the best way for PMs to create effective geofences that work consistently?
Would the Underwriters Laboratory even certify this nonsense?
> The classic solution to "too little data" is use a simpler and/or less discriminating model. It's still the only one with a good track record.

Kind of, transfer learning is an important tool that people should use more.
Adapting the Microcontroller for AI in the Endpoint
"Undisclosed until now was that RSA received $10 million in a deal that set the NSA formula as the preferred, or default, method for number generation in the BSafe software, according to two sources familiar with the contract. Although that sum might seem paltry, it represented more than a third of the revenue that the relevant division at RSA had taken in during the entire previous year, securities filings show."

10MM was also 1/3 of the revenue of that division; that's a big chunk. No reason to think they'd stop that cashflow
Resource creation requires work, and technology increases the rate that resources can be created. More people means more available work and better technology. We aren't at the point where less people means more resources.
See: flying cars
Non dilutive financing is great.

Congrats to Dropbox for being denied credit worthy. There is a parallel world at the top where money is free for the credit worthy, they are one step closer.
So what’s inside the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip? [video]
The Gremlins in the Machine
>The two don't need to be related, but they are

There's nothing to indicate they are.
> Having a compromise in this case, makes it not a solution for anyone.

Drag n drop is surprisingly slow and limiting to use, it's also hard to implement etc.

I think this DSL is approachable for non-programmers. I envision bosses/clients using this to write tests for parts of website to make sure it works.

If they need more functionality, they can move to more complex browser automation later... if they need it

A specific use case, but I can see demand for it...
This point is explicitly addressed. Come on.
Inflation is calculated via the Current Consumer Price collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. if he has a problem with the methodology they use, he should talk about that, but as far as (4) is concerned:

> 4/ For example, our inflation-adjusted data say car prices have not increased since the mid-1990s. Obviously, that's not remotely true. What economists are saying is that cars have gotten better so the higher sticker price doesn't reflect inflation, it reflects higher quality.

Wait, what's not remotely true? That inflation also affects car prices? Is he being serious here? At the very least, can we agree that prices are comparable?
Appreciate the reply Moisey.

I don't disagree that debt is a normal way to fund a business; arguably, it is the best way to fund a business once the business has been derisked. As you mention, you're not suffering dilution to get access to the capital, and as long as you're able to generate a multiple of value using that debt, you should take it on. My comment communicates pessimism about the value that debt will be able to generate (I'm not debating the present value already inherent in the business, that's already obvious and proven based on revenue).

The argument breaks down when you compare DO to AWS; DO isn't in the same class as AWS, Azure, or GCP. These are top tier cloud providers; not only do they have access to capital markets (or firehoses of profit from other business lines) at terms most startups could only dream about, they have world class sales, account management, and technology teams. They are able to generate an immense amount of value from the leverage they're obtaining with their available capital resources. I agree there is growth left for DO, but not at the same rate as the cloud providers I mentioned, and the growth remaining is the value up for discussion when considering 1) what DO has already raised in equity and debt and 2) current and forward looking revenue.

It's kind of a moot point: if I'm wrong, you still end up wealthy. If I'm right, I get...internet points with no value. I hope your common shareholders are able to realize upside from the value they've created (I have friends who worked at DO), but I'm not optimistic based on how common shareholders make out, historically, in venture backed orgs. This is my chief concern: common shareholders (who put their most precious resource, their time, into the business) getting blown away because an org overextends itself attempting to reach an unattainable target.
Depends. Clothing you can wash. In my state, outdoor outfitters aren't allowed to sell used sleeping bags because of hygiene concerns.