skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Responses have ranged from, your doing it wrong to “no”

At one point we had a dozen different Amazon accounts to keep everything separate.
Thankfully the business model was crap, so if resolved itself.
Sometimes I like listening to music I’ve loved since I was in high school, so the album from the movie “Heavy Metal”, or other heavy metal bands from that time, sometimes music from bands like Yaz (Yazoo in the UK) or Depeche Mode, or other work by Vince Clark. Sometimes I’m in a Rush or Styx mood.

I have also discovered that there is a category of music called “instrumental heavy metal”, but I have not yet done much exploring there. I found out about it through the web comic author Jeph Jacques (https://questionablecontent.net/), who also has a one-man-band called “Deathmøle”.

In college, I found I could study best by listening to Johan Sebastian Bach pipe organ concertos. But for being productive in a work-type setting, I find that it works better to have more up tempo music whose words I know like the back of my hand.
> "What percentage of income do you think young people should be saving?"

As much as they possibly can. 16% is thin considering the salaries software developers commonly get.

The awareness that you don't have to tolerate the bad parts of your job one second longer than you feel like is the most liberating feeling in the world. It allows you to do the right thing instead of the most career-expedient thing at the workplace and to try out jobs you wouldn't dared to take a risk on before.

Aside from that, right now the money is good for developers but there is no guarantee that situation will last or your skills will continue to be valuable. Remember when COBOL was a ticket to a stable career? Remember when Flash development jobs were everywhere? A lot has changed over the past fifty years and there's no sign of that slowing down. If you zig when the job market zags, you may find yourself relying on your own savings earlier that you expected.
Hi, Thanks for the input!! I'll definitely try these two things out. Especially the pipeline concept.
There's also the issue of a guest setting up a hidden camera in their rented airbnb without the hosts knowledge. I doubt most hosts are sophisticated enough to even do simple things like see what devices are connected to their wifi networks or cycle wifi passwords on a per-guest basis.
Someone mentioned generic drift but that doesn't really answer your question. By evolution do you mean genetically different from other humans (like psycho genes) or as a human trait that is innate for humans?

Serial killers sometimes change from childhood, or have the triad of problems ( fire setting, bed wetting being beaten for it and animal killing) and some people get molested and develop different personalities, splitting or bipolar. They had to have been predisposed to it, but yes you can get these traits from bad experiences.

The adaptation is natural. I mentioned serial killers to show failures of society, sociopath isn't always successful most are not like most people aren't. It's not a Willy Wonka ticket to success. If you can apply Machiavelli to stuff you can change too (unless it's always been in is, who knows).

The article is misleading to me as well

>Despite future long-term mating desires which are unlikely to be achieved with a narcissistic male and possession of substantial mate sampling experience, females view the narcissistic male as a suitable partner.

They say it as if the personality is the only thing that matters. These men are probably narcissistic because they're attractive, women aren't attracted to ugly narcissistic guys and narcissism isn't likely why they're more attractive. Men are also very attracted to these traits in women, I dated a girl like that and if she was ugly with that personality I'm sure nobody would have given her more than laughter. Imagine if Bundy looked like the elephant man, would he have gotten away? Replace narcism with attractiveness and you'll get a much more accurate statement

>People with dark triad traits will tailor their strategies to obtain these benefits, depending on their social environments.

Spoken as if normal people don't.

I'm sorry but the world is just that people like these combined charactistics. It's like being mad at the laws of physics. You also need to attractive to pull most of this shit off.
There was a recent BBC video[1] where Stacey Dooley visited South Korea and engaged with police experts there who search for hidden cameras as part of a huge 'peeping-tom'-type problem they have with surveillance (primarily of women) for the purpose of pornography. I concluded from that video that I couldn't really on my technical expertise and a thorough physical search to find a hidden camera. Unless I had something that could detect GSM radios or something of the sort.

[1]: https://youtu.be/ggYIsnUgUdU
It seems the best applications would be ones with periodic need of more power and feeding the capacitor from the battery.
I mean, giving money back to investors is the foundation on which the entire stock market is built on. The whole original point of investing in a public company was to get dividends. After all, if you're not entitled to a share of the profits, what's the point?

Of course this has all changed, with many companies not paying dividends. But saying that a company shouldn't return money to the investors through either buybacks or dividends is kind of ridiculous.
> > is the list sorted

If I were the interviewer, this question would almost make me dock points off of the interviewee

Why? Knowing that can be a useful filter to reduce the search time and space, assuming whole numbers only.
I think you're still missing many points of this.

The idea of trust Signal no matter what is funny though.
No, it was sparked by phenomenally bad policy made as the country shifted away from communist economic principles. IMF guidance was to allow banks and other financial entities to operate with little or no effective supervision. Shockingly, 100% deposit interest rates and scams emerged and essentially took over the country’s financial system.

It think it’s reasonable to say that someone like Lenin sparked a revolution against a long standing problematic regime like the Tsar that was living in the Napoleonic era in 1917. This situation was nothing like that.
I'll try adding this soon! Please open an issue if you have the time.
I believe they are not reacting to red, but by the ability to differentiate it from other colours.

I'm colour blind in one eye only. For that reason, I quite want to try them out to see what exactly the lenses do to change the appearance.
this is not convincing at all. we pretend that we can have perfectly isolated quantum systems (a particle, a few particles) and we can reason about and extrapolate the findings. we cannot have isolated particles - they can be regarded as isolated for experimental purposes but the reality is that probably the whole universe is a massive wave function that encompasses everything and we can approximate in some really special cases (ie system above).

we also pretend that consciousness is something special and altering the state a somewhat complicated wetware had consequences on “reality”. it doesn’t.

the measurement problem is an extremely good example of how we think. a measurement does not make sense to a cow. it’s abstract. we made it up. we have conventions that help make it useful, but those conventions break down when our senses (or things we use to amplify out senses) cannot measure what we want to measure.
Academics believe that between 4.4 million and 11.8 million acres burned each year in prehistoric California.

Even the low end of this is several times what burned this year. I’m drawing a blank on how that level of burning would prevent “mega fires” unless the idea is to replace them with “super mega fires” several times larger.
Microsoft Appears to Be Slightly Rebranding Bing
You can still keep the physical sensor size the same but use a smaller process. Of course, if you can use 450mm+ wafer sizes at 25nm vs. 300mm wafers at <=10nm then suddenly it's a massive price difference.
Isn't that a different tangent? Does it matter, when the SaaS codebase is same for all tenants? If you are dealing with different codebase for different clients, then that is a flawed approach in that it is error prone and not scalable as tenants increase in number.
I created a Amazon product research software for Amazon dropshippers
Redid labs.

Click a few buttons it gives me an URL to point my apps at.

Now and then I’d get an email, hey instance X needs more memory, click here to see what’s going on, or just drag the slider to a higher plan.

Worked great, Hardest part was giving good names so I could remember what each instance was for.
In the United States, you absolutely can be sued for more than you own.
Horses for courses, it depends on what you're doing, but I've built Multi-£Bn production systems for the last decade on Puppet then Chef then Ansible (and now none of those) and I can't say that Ansible is very buggy these days nor does it fail at complexity. I mean, we found that provisioning with Packer using Ansible as the engine worked perfectly fine, nothing to do with PR material. Newer definitely isn't better, I would always go with reliable, battle-tested tech, but the old ways are largely pointless for most clients and developers who have long left behind artisan infrastructure. If tons of complexity is needed that baffles Ansible/Salt etc, I would be looking at the architects askew TBH...
Let me clarify: by "illegal", I meant "illegal in the jurisdiction where it's being hosted", not "illegal anywhere on the planet".
That description applies to both the US and UK, perhaps others, and it's hard to be unaware when you're connected to a global computer network. Just google "site:uk mpg".

"Put simply, all MPG does is tell you approximately how far your vehicle will travel based upon a single UK gallon, which equates to approximately 4.55 litres of fuel"

This particular thing, I'm aware of because there is perennial confusion over comparing mpg given that Imperial gallons are larger than American ones. If people just used L/100km....

Chauvinists go to ridiculous lengths to magnify small differences.
Not sure what you mean by "embed a Context within a larger struct." It's certainly possible to have a struct field of type context.Context.
Discussion on reddit two days ago, 350+ comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/iiedk4/energy_f...
Why would only airbnb be affected with this hidden camera problem?
I spent a few weeks trying to do short (10-20 minute) afternoon naps and they did work great for helping me transition from "day job" focus to "work on personal projects" focus.

In my experience, a good nap could take me from 50% back to 90% but other times I'd wake up feeling queasy, dizzy, grumpy or low-mood. I stopped due to those unexpected side effects, but it seems worth trying again in the future.

Working out consistently may be an important part of the picture. One thing I've learned for certain about myself is that hard workouts will destroy my energy level for the next 1-2 days. So no heavy-weight lifting, 3-hour bouldering sessions or long heavy-breathing runs. Adding in light jogging every evening didn't make much of a difference in either direction.

I may try something like a 2-3 mile run each morning and see if the morning exercise makes a difference.
No, non-locality simply means that effects happen at infinite speeds, not that they carry information.

For example, the Copenhagen interpretation of QM abandons both locality and realism - particles don't have definite states, and they also communicate at infinite speed (but in a way that can't carry information).
Based on my very limited understanding it seems that anything that interacts with a system can be treated as an "observer", and thus a chain of observations can occur as one particle interacts with the next, enlarging the system that is in superposition for the next observer.

Do physicists axiomatically treat a "conscious observer" as an atomic unit? It seems the case based on neurological and psychological research that the mind is actually not a single unit but many units working together, and the sense of a singular self is an illusion, which would correlate with the fact that we are made up of a conglomeration of atoms and systems made of these atoms.

When we say that a person is observing a quantum system, could this actually be a cascade of observations of various parts of the mind rather than a singular event, since the mind is not monolithic?

On a side note (and perhaps unrelated), if different parts of the brain/mind could be in different quantum states, could this be a factor in how the mind operates?
A battery breakthrough is always 3-5 years away from coming to market.
I think the title here is a bit inaccurate. The first two paragraphs at that page say:

Banking giant Capital One acquired Freebird, a business-to-business startup whose predictive technology enables agents to sell smarter flight insurance and rebooking services, according to Freebird founder and CEO Ethan Bernstein on Wednesday.

Freebird had stopped offering its service to the public. It had let travelers facing a canceled or delayed flight or missed connection to skip the line and quickly book a new ticket on any airline at no extra cost.
It seems I have found the issue. We were both right. MKL now uses a Zen-optimized kernel for dgemm, but not (yet?) for sgemm. More details:

https://github.com/pytorch/builder/issues/504
Requiring the the quantum algorithm have literally no interaction with the outside world to count as quantum is a strawman.

An AI could use Grover search when trying to find a good enough response. That would be like part of the AI going into and out of superposition for an efficiency boost.

Many quantum tasks are more efficient if certain catalyst states are present [1][2]. That would be like a part of the AI staying permanently in superposition while still ultimately contributing to classical results, again for an efficiency boost.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_catalyst

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01238
Google Cloud AutoML in Production?
Has anyone ever used Google Cloud AutoML in production (https://cloud.google.com/automl)? How do you guys find it?
https://neighborland.com/
The claim back in March, 2020 was that there is no evidence that masks are effective, at all, against the spread of infectious diseases. (You may choose to wear one, if it makes you feel better. Make sure it's an ad hoc home-made one, to save the real ones for medical practitioners; but remember, that those are not known to work, either).

The backpedaling with respect to masks is not due to changes in our understanding of the virus, whatsoever.
Albanian here, and it wasn't a civil war.... more of general unrest against the government, which was forced to resign and be replaced by a transitory one...

A civil war requires several factions, while this was more of a un -coordinated massive unrest....

Most of the deaths happened during the unrests between bands, people settling scores, etc...

This is similar to the June unrests and looting in the US, but squared, with weapons and more... (from army depots, as most of the army refused to try to squash the demonstrations, and just went home)

Also, the money problem was just the spark, as there was some major unhappiness with the government then, that started with election frauds in 1996 committed by the government.

The whole thing lasted about a month or so in March, and it honestly felt something like the movie "The Purge". The government failed, there was no police in the streets, the army went home, people had weapons, looting and robbing were common, by 'masked people', it was not a good month...

Eventually things calmed down. Italy sent some monitoring troops, to help with the transition of the new Goverment...
All the weapons that got out of the army depots, ended up furnishing the Kosovo Liberation Army, and eventually the Kosova war in 1998-99, that ended up with Kosova's independence... (Kosovo, is 90% Albanian, and they were trying to get independence peacefully, after to the Yugoslavian break-up to no avail. The Albanian unrest and some US help helped them out in the end).

So, I guess there was one good thing that came out of the whole mess.

Ps. We just learned this year, from released documents, that Greece was planing at some point to send a invading force to the South, so it could 'pacify' the place (and potentially anex it). It would not have ended up well. Albania at that time had so many weapons left from the Communnist era, and it wouldn't had gone well for them.
If a case like this pops up, how about asking them why they did it like that and then making your judgement based on response instead of questioning their competence right away?

Response 1: I thought it would be clearer with the explicit comparison. (fine, then you can bring in your own opinion and maybe have a nice discussion)

Response 2: You don't need == true? I never knew. (bad)

Another common scenario that is complained about: using `this` with instance variables when it's technically unnecessary.
Not really. Beta radiation is effectively stopped by pretty thin shielding.
Why would you not do this? It decreases risk, and customers mostly care about price. As technology gets better, this is inevitable.
I think golang is in a unique position to make `ThreadLocal`-like communication-by-state a workable solution due to the go-routine process model. You can get the benefits of imitable-ness + type safety of `ThreadLocal`-ness with some simple maneuvering.

This could be accomplished by treating "context" like in-process environment variables. Essentially:

1. My Threadlet Variables are immutable to me.

2. I can create children Threadlets (by default) inherit all of my Threadlet Variables.

3. I can modify the Threadlet Variables of my children Threadlets.

This could look something like this (Java + Golang mashup):

class User {
...
}

class UserSingleton implements ThreadletLocal {
// implements static set() and static get() and reset() or something
}

requestMiddleware(request, next) {
go next(request), Context.with(
UserSingleton.set(extractUserFrom(request.headers)),
DeadlineThreadletLocal.within(1 second)
);
}

This idea is much more refined and further developed in Laravel's facade APIs. They can bind an object dynamically to a "class" and change that underlying implementation dynamically. The benefit of this approach is you can actively distinguish between: 1. who is using your the User class and 2. who is injecting/receiving a User class statically. This allows you to automatically track your "DI". You could also make some syntactic sugar for this like:

class UserSettingsController {
@ProvidedBy(UserSingleton.class)
Optional<User> user;

.... some code here who talks to user ....
}

From a Java perspective I think this should be possible post-Loom.
The thing with feature group D trunks to the long distance network is you could (and still can on non-IP/mobile networks) manually route to another long distance carrier like Verizon, and sidestep the outage from the subscriber end, full stop. That's certainly not possible with any of the contemporary internet outages.
PS: I've been wanting to build this ever since I watched Brandon Rhodes' North Bay Python 2017 keynote! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrMnmLyYjU8

It's a talk about (in Brandon's words) ASCII art animation, software architecture, the mysteries of UNIX terminal settings, and the glories of Plain Text. You should totally check it out!
> if we want innovation to benefit society at large, we need a socialist system.

You should have learned from history that innovations benefited society at lerge only in capitalism.

The first problem of a socialist system is there's little innovation because there's no way for inventors to materially benefit from it.

@wcerfgba "Somewhat related, I wrote a critique of money [1] a few months ago and in that I illustrate how removing the need for money could stimulate advancement in the arts and sciences."

You misundertand "money". It's accumulated wealth. If you today can supply more labor than you can or want to consume, you're left with extra bread, beans or orange juice. Because money is the best means of storing wealth you choose it over those perishable items. By removing the need for money you screw up incentives and mess up the economy (also proven by the fact that all socialist economics have failed.)

"Rather than needing to secure grant funding, research projects would only need to source the raw materials they need"

Who would give them the raw materials, why, and in exchange for what?
Is the manga being right to left the outlier then these days?
disagree on the junior dev part and on the god part.

what you’re describing is called “simulation theory” and it has been proposed and discussed at length

i think lazy evaluation makes sense in that context. i also think that having a few basic rules and after that applying them consistently across your simulation space make sense. if your basic space unit of reality is way smaller than the sims in it can perceive and measure they’re gonna start making stuff up
The problem is with the change and transition, not the fact that solar time doesn't inherently match wallclock time.

Even the actual position statement doesn't have a strong argument for which one should be the permanent time, and is worded as a hunch:

> Although chronic effects of remaining in daylight saving time year-round have not been well studied, daylight saving time is less aligned with human circadian biology — which ... could result in circadian misalignment

https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8780 (emphasis mine)
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More like labour they should not have to do without compensation.
This is cool, but not actually new - we've had nuclear pacemakers for decades: https://uk.reuters.com/article/health-heart-pacemaker-dc/nuc...

There is no need to be sceptical - this is obviously meant for super low-power devices, not cars.