skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of those physical theories aren't all that old though. While I agree it's pretty unlikely, it's possible that they can be overthrown with more research.
As the FAA finalizes the 737 Max’s return, is Boeing’s jet now safe?
I hold hopes people will discover as I did, the Real real problem with the C language is the C library and the diglossia. Maybe that's a different language[1], but it's one you get with just a bit of #define and discipline.

For example: If you had just put the length before the array buffer, you could've saved a stall in almost every use. That's a problem with out-of-order processing that's hard to fix. Maybe your compiler will get sufficiently smart, or maybe CPUs will collude with the memory controller (or something else amazing will happen), but those things are really hard. However we fixed it ourselves; we didn't need anyone to do it for us, because (due to laziness or luck) C gave us enough of the tools we needed to do what we needed to do.

I think that's a bigger deal than buffer overflows, as unpopular an opinion as that is.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010895
Grass appeared 35 million years ago? At the same time as the first primates? And flowers 120 million years ago? After dinosaurs appeared (220 million years ago)? My mind is blown. What did landscapes look like?
"Optimum" is a moral notion. You're begging the question.
Not everyone can be an engineer (IQ aside, there literally isn't enough jobs like that), but everyone needs a house. How do you square that circle?
The implications of low-code and no-code for developers
Why do every "philosophical" debate ends up with "let's play semantic and never address the question being actually debated?"

Philosophy is about answering real, deep questions, not about trying to find smart ways to pretend your interlocutor is confusing when defining a field that is characterized by the vagueness of the concepts it explores.

Either make an effort to understand what your interlocutor mean or explicit why the ambiguity your perceive is relevant.

I am arguing that morality is something subjective, created by human society, but that can therefore be measured with the tools of human sciences, like economics.

You are arguing that an improper way to measure it would lead to bad outcomes, which I agree with but I fail to see how it addresses the question. Do you think a proper way to measure it is impossible (and the meaning for "proper" here, is, OBVIOUSLY, "that does not lead to the outcomes you outline")? If so can you explain why you think so?
make it like myanimelist or mydramalist, one of those sort of websites....

such websites were created by fans can cater to what fans care for:

1- Finding out what's coming next, in an easy to view format

2- Finding out what's related to the item I'm currently checking, and it's place in the overall verse's sequence

3- Damn simple tracker for the item I consume

4- Simple rating and genre system

In other words, you want to fix goodreads? create a mybooklist.

Because MAN it is SO hard to find out when my favorite author is having a new book coming out, or if I discover a new author, wtf is their flow of their book series, often ending in me accidentally reading the book out of order.
It will encourage lots of things, many good and probably many bad as well. It's certainly going to shake things up. I just wish I knew what direction it would go in.
I have to admit, for most apps I'm happy that it won't work...
>There may be fields where something resembling your argument has some truth to it

The argument that the tech companies back ridiculously high profits off the back of groundbreaking research?

What part of that is untrue? The US tech sector did come out of military research.

The fact that the rest of the world gets to share in the wealth doesn't change the fact that it's disproportionately made a few very wealthy.
I agree, wasn’t using that link as a justification for anything besides the math for the FPS on the NES (which seems correct to me).
Good design in many products does what it is intended to do for all users down to the lowest common dominator. So, sometimes you have to think about users who aren’t super intelligent and might actually be lazy. Still, the author has a point
This is the most significant hurdle to do proper decentralized smartphone applications today. Me and some friends were sketching on something that could be used for grassroots movements and peer-to-peer marketplaces - push notifications is the one thing making it practically untenable.
FWIW, Ethernet supports RDMA also, via RoCE.

> A to B latency is around 2-5 ns (nanoseconds).

What are A and B? and where did you get these numbers? HCA latency is more like ~500 ns.
I still see apps that poll from time to time. Most of them require keeping a notification active to prevent their service from getting shut down. Surely under such a regime you could send a "push" notification to the phone. Not sure how easy it is to listen on android though.
They did a reverse merger, but not sure how much due diligence SEC does until it all goes down. Lets look at Enron, WorldCom, or even Theranos. SEC is also supposed to protect private investors too.
Insiders may have loans secured by company stock, so it impacts their ability to buy another yacht, winery or pay alimony.
never a dull day
I had two repl monitors wake me up and then immediately resolve themselves. Self-healing devops ftw.
It would be very interesting to see proper MCTS applied to 2048. Monte Carlo Tree Search performs well on problems with linear reward. 2048 has exponential reward, with subsequent states having much higher tile scores. This nonlinearity tends to cause MCTS to fall into traps - one rollout will find a state evaluation with a much higher score, and will thereafter bias all subsequent rollouts to that same (potentially suboptimal) path. If there are clever ways around this, such as board evaluation heuristics that scale linearly, then I'd love to see them. In practice, a minimax approach that enumerates all successor states up to a particular depth has worked best for me.
I really dislike the "to save the battery" reason. Lets also disallow games to save the battery ?
> How would we ever know?

That is why they built two of them in two different locations, one in Washington and one in Louisiana. Only results that are measured by both are considered actual signals.
Howdy facial login app for Linux stores pics of all failed and successful logins
You could then take it a step further by ONLY allowing emails to your aliases. Not to your main. So you can basically eliminate spam mail completely.
Both sides have a point. Perhaps your parent runs a shop where ambiguous requirements are one of the biggest problems they face, whereas you prefer to work in roles where the requirements are already established and you focus on working within them.
>Companies don't want to go public to avoid the incentives of the public market, but they also want their stocks to be traded

An alternative way to state this: companies want the liquidity provided by the public markets, but don't want the responsibility associated with having public shareholders.

All of these vehicles in development are designed for insiders to cash out.
You are misconstructing my argument to create an artificial contradiction. Talk about an exercise in futility. If you see a flaw, please point it clearly.
Yes. That problem suddenly doesn’t exist anymore. Wonderful stuff.
Is there an alternative system you’re a fan of?
There's a lot of truth in it, but for a slightly different reason. Almost everyone I work with knows or writes C regularly. They're usually very senior people, and not once have I ever heard them talk about a blog, let alone write one. so there is this large group of C practitioners out there that simply don't know or care about all these other things happening around them. To some degree, it doesn't matter since there are plenty of jobs doing this.
Trains have a few issues:

* Trains have worse geometric constraints: you need larger curves, straighter tracks, longer acceleration/deceleration paths, and lesser grade. It's much harder to add track where none exists already.

* For efficiency reasons, trains want to be really long, so trains aren't dispatched until they're long enough to be worth doing so. Consequently, trains tend to be used only when either the source produces craptons of goods (ports, mines) or when there's no issue letting the goods sit around for a long while before a train picks them up (grains).
Balmer launched Office 365 and Azure, which are two of their biggest product lines today.
Fun to see this! I was an operator in our high school computer lab, which had a Nova 2 with a similar boot process (except we had a 9-track tape drive and 10MB Winchester to load binaries from...that paper tape is brutal). I had it memorized and could just about do it at “8x speed”. :) We ran multiuser stand-alone BASIC with four ASR33s in a room that must have violated noise-safety standards.

This multistage process is still how pretty much everything boots, BTW, except you start with a ROM rather than a human flipping switches. Back in those days a boot ROM was an expensive option you could do without.
You would have to file periodic public disclosures about your ownership stake and transactions in the company. Owning or controlling (directly, or indirectly, e.g., through a private company) 5% or more of the outstanding shares of any one share class makes you a "beneficial owner" under Section 13 of the Exchange Act and you become an "insider" under Section 16 of the Exchange Act if you own more than 10% of a class of a public company's registered securities. Section 16 also allows the company to recover "short swing" profits from insiders within a six-month transaction period so insiders need to plan transactions in advance to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

I'm also not sure what the benefit would be? The compliance/reporting/disclosure obligations would be more or less the same as creating a "founders class" of stock with juiced voting rights.
Yes, but this means that you don't understand the meaning of simple words. Doesn't that bother you?
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Built to assist a proprietary locked down thing, but heck yes
And pipelines are even cheaper (and safer), obviously not everything can go in a pipeline but when it can we'd be much better off doing it that way.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tortoiseinvest/2016/05/13/trans...
On the other hand, when I used Android (2010s), I remembered using tools that required root – or even custom OS builds – just so I could prevent apps (like Facebook) from running in the background and draining my battery doing who-knows-what network activity. In this case, I much prefer today's heavy-handed platform restrictions on background processes to yesteryear's permissive but perpetual battery-drained Android ecosystem.

Edit: the article references this HN thread, which I'm sure we'll end up rehashing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310319
I love Bukowski but reading his work as 'seeing through' things doesn't strike me as a good approach. His 'seeing through' involved a lot of fucked up stuff, among them what seems like a rather unhealthy relationship with alcohol.

An alcoholic plays life on extra hard mode. No wonder the conclusion is cynical!
Fighting game players regularly hit 1/60th of a second frame links.

For example, Guilty Gear XX's "one frame jump" is required to escape some pressure strings. This requires one-frame precision (1/60th of a second), pushing "Barrier" on frame 3.

If you push Barrier on frame 1 or 2, you're grounded and won't jump. If you push Barrier on Frame 4, it doesn't make a difference (because your character's animation is the same by frame 4). Its literally a 1-frame button timing.

Street Fighter IV had a fair number of 1-frame combos as the bread-and-butter for many characters. These 1/60th of a second links may be character specific (since all enemy hitboxes change based off of their relative sizes). They're also position dependent, because wall-bounce vs corner combos are a thing in most fighting games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIXuOx8WbFU

Most people, with enough practice, can execute this. Just most people don't realize that they can. This isn't even elite musician level.

Now what the expert fighting game player can do, is do the 1-frame link reliably during a tournament while the crowd is yelling and overall in a distracted environment.
>SpaceX is the one to get

Hard to say. There are whispers that they bleed cash, which might be the real reason they don't want to go public: publicizing their financials.

It's not that easy to make money launching rockets.
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But to not be misleading, that does not mean you will not get notifications in apps that need them. The F-Droid version of Telegram will still notify you when someone writes you, and mail programs will still show a notification about incoming mail. There are alternative solutions.

And there is microG, to hook into the Google way of doing things.
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Very interesting. I wonder in what type of interviews would these answers be considered ideal? Do people at OpenAI ask these sorts of questions, or is this more targeted toward other industries that require data scientists but are not populated by "stats" experts?

For example, consider "What is regression?".
The answer given is one way to go, but if the job posting would involve causal analysis or more statistical know-how, for example, it would probably be insufficient. I would want the candidate to speak about linear projections, about sampling assumptions, about probability models underlying the process and so on.

On the other hand, I could imagine that it would not be a good strategy to start to lecture about minute details of regression analysis when applying for a standard data scientist position when sitting on front of "applied data scientists" or even HR folks.

Anyone has any insights?
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Uxcel: UX/UI for Developers and Designers
According to science television, lots of palm trees.
Lots of tech and finance companies (particularly those with standardized interview processes) will blacklist questions if they're found online. Those companies will constantly check GitHub, GeeksForGeeks and Leetcode to see if their questions are listed there with solutions.

This probably won't be the case for a question as basic as, "what is regression?" But for any intermediate to advanced interview question involving regression, I would expect companies to jealously guard it.

If you're earnestly interested in building and testing your knowledge, I would recommend you read The Elements of Statistical Learning and Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. Also a good upper undergrad textbook in probability, like A First Course in Probability.
The only crazy part when it launched was the growing storage space aspect, which only seemed crazy because all the other mail providers were so ridiculously stingy. Email as a fantastic data gathering and ad platform made sense from day one.
Are you sure about #3 ?? That seems to go against library lending, Netflix mailing, and the old video rental - blockbuster.
Until our brains' reward circuits are retrained to interpret those emoji reactions the same way we currently interpret genuine in-person laughter.
I don’t see the authors point, battery life is important. A phone is not a Unix server or a desktop PC. This is the same reason iOS doesn’t allow apps to have arbitrary background execution time.

And phones know your location virtually 100% of the time because of cell tower triangulation. That’s part of being a phone, not a google hypocrisy.
Apple makes money by selling to the masses. They let others waste cycles on the bleeding edge and learn from their mistakes.
According to a quick `apt remove python` you still need Python 2 for (on Debian Stable, at least):

* minetest

* mpv

* npm

* qbittorrent

* smbclient

* virtualbox-6.1

These are the more popular ones. I write and don't hate (compared to Python2) Python3 but apparently if I remove Python2 I have to shed all these programs because they still depend on it!
If English becomes national language, you could forget about innovation. A big reason why China and SK are successful is language barrier. It effectively stops brain drain and thus, increase innovation. All countries with either main language or secondary language as English has already lost tech market.

Just look at foreign competitors of Amazon, Google, Facebook etc. Even Russia like country have major tech companies while being poorer than western European countries.
>the same team published a study a year later

And from that paper: "We attribute significant hourly wage increases and hours reductions to the policy." and "Approximately one-quarter of the earnings gains can be attributed to experienced workers making up for lost hours in Seattle with work outside the city limits."

Read the paper. It does not appear that the min wage of Seattle was a net positive for the workers or the city.

>The second study is a survey of what employers say they were doing. It is not terribly surprising that they feel raising the minimum wage was bad.

It's also not surprising that an increase in labor costs results in less labor being hired and an increase in prices.

Feel free to post papers that contradict the findings.

>let's not cherrypick papers

Agreed. Post papers if you think these were cherry picked and not representative of the outcome of Seattle min wage. You don't like the results I posted, which I think are representative (I've followed the academic lit on min wage for a long, long time), yet you don't post supporting evidence for your claims.

Simply type seattle minimum wage into Google scholar and look at the papers. I've found many with results similar to these, and none with the opposite claims.

For those following, the Seattle min wage seems consistent with what you'd expect from price floors: benefits for a smaller pool of workers at the cost of other workers priced out of work, increased prices, a decrease in labor hours, and some workers having to go outside the price floor (here, working outside Seattle) to make up the lost money.
It's funny how he's even imagined implementing his own push server. Only because Android. On iOS people have already taken for granted that you must go through APNS.

Also, this is not just about push. The problem is that Apple and Google de facto own the edge user interface: phones.
T-mobile’s standard plans include 3G roaming for data and calls(?) in Canada and Mexico and 2G data roaming in most other countries. You can also get a $5 “day pass” for 3G data and calls in most countries.

As an aside, their rate plans are all inclusive no extra taxes or fees.
> I'd call it adequate instead.

It's above average for sure. As a counterexample, take the city of Münster, which covers twice the area of Freiburg and is often praised as one of the most bike-friendly cities in Germany. It only claims to have 300km of bike lanes.

> > I doubt any of the 1M+ pop cities I’ve lived in came anywhere close to that

> And this sad.

There are a lot of 1M+ cities that have more than that. Just from personal experience:

* Munich - 1,200 km

* Berlin - 422 km

* Toronto - 973 km

* Metro Vancouver - 4,600 km

But comparing the cumulative length of bike-paths is a bit of a silly comparison anyway.
I like this visualization of Python's release cycle: https://python-release-cycle.glitch.me/
Thanks for this, this should be the top comment.

It's nice to praise Firebug - it's awesome and I agree with all the praise - but none of the praise explains / points to this awesome FF Developer Edition which up until this comment I had never heard of.
I get what the author is trying to say, and to a large extent I agree with it. But...

I have to admit the first thing that came into my head after reading the title was “well actually, some of them are, dude”. There’s a reason why no-one really wants to work the hell-desk and act as the front line for user support. There’s a reason why websites like ‘Not always right’ exist. There’s a reason why Reddit has /r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk...

I think it’s as much a disservice to assume that all users are enlightened angelic creatures, who only need that little pointer to go their own happy way, as it is to assume they’re all lazy and stupid. Sure, start off with the helpful approach, but shutting down people who are only there to scam a deal or make themselves a nuisance would go a long way to curbing that behaviour.

Stupid, on the other hand, is something that needs to be coped with well - and good design can certainly help. Stupid needs the hand-holding, because there’s nothing the client can do to help it. “Stupid” is also often just unfamiliarity, so good hand-holding will prevent a repeat of the situation.

Lazy/entitled I have no truck with. If you’re not willing to help yourself, I’m sure as hell not going to do it for you. I’d never make it past the first day in customer support...
I’d like to add that I don’t want to flick my finger down an infinite feed. It’s easy to convince me to (well it was, until I realized the psychological effects) and I might even do it for a while but eventually I’m going to be upset about it.
Sure, but that’s true of ion propulsion too. It’s pretty common for you to use different motors at different stages of flight; even liquid motors usually have different bell designs for different altitudes. If the emdrive works (if!), then you’d just bolt one on top of a regular rocket.
Can't we move to IPv6 where there is no NAT ?
Sure maybe some people will be able to throw a "working" line of business app together, but if you're giving these tools to people who lack any form an analytical or critical thinking skills its going to be hell. I've about pulled my hair out trying to use some Microsoft PowerApps creations at my company.
This license assumes that "randos on the internet" don't read license texts. Not true---I read every single one!
Wow thank you for the explanation and that picture you provided makes it very clear as well. I did not realize that the world was divided into plates.
Another comment mentioned Grossman, I put Life and Fate down after a particularly brutal, yet humanising scene. I do want to get back to it, it was just all too much. I don’t have the appropriate callouses to tolerate war in the same way.

Conrad McCarthy I feel has staked his claim in what I’d reductively call dark westerns. The Road, for example, is a simple story about a man and his child, but in hell only demons. I’ll have to add the listed one to my growing collection, it reminds me of it.

Communicating the meaning of life through the brutality of it has the distinct advantage about being able to explore the death, pain, suffering, and, the descent into an evil in intricate detail. It is a proof by contraction in some respects that certain personal philosophies derived from existentialism need, but also much more than that.
> Is a pickup truck exterior design and a customer list worth the 3 billion in market cap that GM lost since the news broke?

GM closed last week at $30.00.

GM closed this week at $30.46.

In between those two times, the $NKLA deal was announced on Tuesday and GM shot up a bit. Then Hindenburg published and GM sank to only a small gain on the week.

You can’t have GM take the $3B W on the $NKLA news and then complain about the $3B loss that is paired with it when the details are better understood.

If a company approached you and offered to give you $2B in shares, $0.7B in capex, and a book of cost-plus orders that uses your technology, how much due diligence is required/appropriate? “GM takes $2B stake in $NKLA” usually means they brought money to the table. In this case, it literally means they were given it and agreed to take it.