skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was about limiting the number of unfinished work items (which take up space and can be a sign that something is out of control).

As it happens, limiting unfinished work items (aka WIP) boosts software development productivity as well. The space being taken up is mental, but is also a bad sign of things spinning out of control.
The 2% is from your linked article. The other number is from the first credible result from googling - use google.
How much money is on the line? Cheating is also an issue in esports, where all serious tournaments are played offline.
And please quote times in UTC and not just US/Canadian Time Zones
Amazing and terrible story
Turning reader view on by default on my iPhone transformed how I experienced being online. So worth it. Especially as you can add sites to a non-reader (ignore) list so stuff like youtube doesn't get caught up in it.

Although it used to fully load the page then convert it to reader view which was a bit annoying on an old and increasingly sluggish iphone 6.
I lean towards symbolic AI + neural models. There is an architecture diagram in the article showing one good example.
I should blog about using Python with Photoshop, that's also a huge time saver for Artists.
The more I read about Gore, the more it really seems American kinda fucked up in 2000...
Sounds like we are Humanity 2.0
Right, I was only criticizing his wealth and not his hypocrisy.
I love his podcast. Episode with Joscha Bach is the best one so far - Joscha is an excellent fit for type of questions Lex tends to ask
If it's a money loser doesn't that just mean that it's priced too low?
> I haven't found anything in my searching

If this story wasn't about sensorship I wouldn't be laughing.
FBI is running a Russia-Russia-Russia narrative to divert attention from Biden
It's also led to lower costs in just about every industry due to the ability to price obscure contracts and lower risk. An example is airlines need to deal with fuel price volatility when selling tickets now, and, if they take on more risk, they need to price that into tickets. Getting someone to hedge against that lowers their risk. The pricing of such hedges and contracts has led to less volatility for pretty much every industry.

For about a decade, as I flew a lot, I met a lot of mid level executives at all sorts of companies. I routinely asked them to describe if their company used any derivative products, and which, and why. I was astounded to learn pretty much everyone did, from pricing plastics, to dealing with international trade variations, to getting financing for projects.

There is a reason the derivatives market has a notional value of ~1 quadrillion, and it's not because the people using them are all idiots. Quite the contrary, this value is there because it adds value across every sector of the world economy, and business the world over voluntarily use these products because they deem it in their best interests, which almost universally is because it lowers costs and/or volatility.

This [1] claimed 94% of the world's biggest companies used derivatives, and this was in 2009. I'd expect more and more of them to use derivatives over time as more products get priced.

All this followed from the ideas in Black-Scholes, for pricing certain contracts, ideas which were later developed to handle all sorts of products. Before this, people did a lot of the pricing mostly by guesswork, making it much harder to design and use all these volatility reducing products.

[1] https://derivsource.com/2009/04/23/over-94-of-the-worlds-lar...
Laterally, I've often wondered if our increasing reliance on digital devices to observe and transmit data from probes and telescopes simplifies the effort required by alien actors concerned with limiting our development. If they can intercept our comms and edit them to their requirement, who knows what sort of 'universe view' they could feed us?

Perhaps the Great Silence is simply down to early Black Hat Aliens who've been feeding fictions to all civilisations that develop beyond straight to eye (etc) optical (etc) instruments?
IHP apps are generally deployed on standard Cloud such as AWS. In the big picture you need to build the binary and CSS+JS and then copy the files onto your production server. There you just need to start the binary and pass some options (such as the DB connection) via env parameters.

Check the deployment guide for more details: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/deployment.html

There's also IHP Cloud which is basically "netlify for haskell". Here's a video of deploying a IHP haskell app in 60 seconds: https://twitter.com/digitallyinduce/status/13134104697854074...
More infos here: https://ihpcloud.com/
Last Week Tonight and a similar German show heute Show are the worst, because the make fun of people from an assumed moral high ground, which they do not have. They really want to show their viewers; "Ha, look how stupid other people are. It's alright to laugh about them, because they are so dumb. Good thing we the good ones!". It is absolutely despicable.

South Park never does this. They just make fun of people or current trends in society, without evaluating them morally. They are more drastic, but never claim moral superiority.
I don't need a home inspector. Short of catastrophic fire or flood there's nothing about a home I wouldn't just fix myself. The problem is the people who need someone to inspect the home for them don't know how to find a good inspector.
Apple TV is a car crash at the moment. The app is so badly designed. I browse through it, see something I'd like to watch and then find it's actually available through a different service I have to pay to watch. The original content is pretty thin gruel and hard to find. It seems a serious misstep from the company that brought us the iTunes and App stores.
This is very important. Farmers with thousands of acres still divide it all into subfields that are around 2500 square meters that they manage separately. They are looking to go smaller than that, which computers allow them to do.

By manage separately the same tractor crosses over each one in a field, but each subsection gets a different amount of fertilizer, seed, and other chemical based on all the data they can get. Sometimes they even have more than one seed/chemical tank so they can apply different amounts of each in one pass.

When you have poor and good soil in the same field (all fields have this to some extent) you want to put the minimum money into the poor areas, while it is worth putting more into the productive areas. (People often ask about building up the bad soils - this is done too, but you can't really change the sand/clay ratio)
See my reply above. Here’s an expanded quote of the harm principle by JSM (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_principle):

> “He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute.”

In accordance with this principle, I believe in the sacred right for an individual to smoke/chew/snort/whatever tobacco and chug high fructose corn syrup to their heart’s content (or more accurately, until their heart fails). But you don’t have the right to expose others to second-hand tobacco smoke (a new development in my lifetime!), since abundant scientific evidence says that this harms others. You can drink yourself into a coma, but you can’t get blitzed and operate a vehicle even if you insist that you’re safe driving under the influence.

This has been a fundamental organizing principle of society since at least the Code of Hammurabi.
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I always wondered how painful it would be to clear out my root store and only re-enable root CAs as I needed them. Would I need more than 5% of them?
I've had to learn the perspective that everyone's story is different, and my arthritis is worthy of proper attention even if its 'nowhere near as big' as other conditions.

In the process of switching medications every six months for four years now, with everything working well then fading (the body can work around immuno-modifiers... grr), and my wife's determination to get me to Find A Solution... I've learned to accept that I may never have 100% relief.

Having most of my mobility and only some small bone growths at this point is my current normal, and I understand that I can't control whether it stays at this level or progresses.

(Using the word 'progresses' instead of more negative variants actually helps my frame of mind as well.)

Life is just adjusting to what is and what might be and being grateful for now.
New Orleans is even worse because the Mississippi ought to be changing course so it moves through downtown. They have an extensive series of levies to prevent this from happening.
Fire on the Mountain: Rethinking Forest Management in the Sierra Nevada (2018) [pdf]
This is a report by politicians, for politicians, predicting the massive and ongoing wildfires in California.
I disagree with Martin very much. Programs can be made easy to change without introducing complex OOP abstractions.

There is a simple rule that Martin fails to ever mention.

Use combinators as much as possible and segregate as much logic as possible from IO. That's it.
If you dig this kind of content, they talk a lot about roguelike design + development on the podcast Roguelike Radio: http://www.roguelikeradio.com/
Not many people in the climate change community like Al Gore.

https://i.imgur.com/SXA5sEo.jpg

Miami and Fort Lauderdale should be completely destroyed today according to his predictions. In order to boost his investments and become richer he was predicting catastrophic issues that clearly never happened.

He now has become a symbol of anti-climate change arguments and he has done more harm than good.
To answer your main question - "what level of maths" do you need is more about what topics: a couple introductory classes in Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Discrete Mathematics will make that sentence understandable.

I'll give some definitions and resources, but think about how you would explain multiplication/division/algebra to a kid. At some point, you just have to work through some problems and the math just makes sense. So I'll explain the terms above, but best bet is to just take a few courses on the topics I mentioned above.

Quick definitions:
- Exponential: is the constant e to the power of some number. e, like pi, is a ubitiqous constant in mathematics and nature. You run into pi when doing geometry, and e when doing calculus.

- A function in mathematics is similar to a function in programming, but not exactly. A course in Discrete Mathematics helps here.

- F-apostrophe is notation used in calculus to show the relation of one type of function, called a derivative to another. f and f' are related. How, though, is better explained by taking calculus.

- An eigenfunction exists in a system of equations. Think of it like a 'balance' point. Linear Algebra will help make sense of this term.

Resources
- Essence of Calculus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvTyaaNkzM
- Essence of Linear Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

Those 2 video's will do a good job of giving you the 'intuition' behind Calculus and Linear Algebra. Like programming, though, you just have to actually work some problems out by hand for the stuff to sink in. For that, do something like MIT opencourseware or a local online college course.
FB is a cesspool, it's a stupid platform. Don't build anything on or based on FB.
Interesting: in Chrome I can't search the content of <style> tags with ctrl+f. Seems to work in Firefox though.

E.g. ctrl-f "max-width": zero results in Chrome (but it's used in the final <style> tag).
In my mind, out of every product, IKEA pricing will be e.g.

- the cheapest possible one at like $5
- a pretty OK one at $20
- some really fancy ones with brass handles or sth at $40 or $80

The $5 products I bought fell apart, but the $20 ones are still perfectly fine.

So I guess depending on what everyone refers to as "typical IKEA stuff", their mileage might vary by a looong shot.
The context here seems to a Yahoo Group dedicated to rethinking computing from the ground up, called The Feyerabend Project https://www.dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Feyerabend.html

Given the intentionally radical thought experiment nature of the group, the hyperbolic language takes on a somewhat different flavor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsioIw4bvzI

Well that didn't happen, nor even close.
There is no way I'd buy anything rural without extensive inspection of well and septic, foundation, property, etc.

In the last 15 years I've purchased in both Toronto and in rural Ontario with the full set of conditions; financing, inspection, etc. As a buyer I simply won't do it otherwise. We have a 6 acre hobby farm near Hamilton.

But I also just don't bother to go look at properties with language in the text like "Accepting offers on...". We won't play the multiple offers game. In Toronto maybe this is the only way to get a home, but we were able to avoid it there back in 2005 by just hunting in areas that weren't "cool."

My experience is there's always almost other places that come up, where the seller has more scruples.

We might sell our hobby farm soon. I would fully expect any potential buyer to demand inspection.
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I've come across the period-as-negative idea before. I communicate in text media to audiences ranging from people in their early twenties to several decades my senior. I strive to communicate similarly to all. This includes capitalization and punctuation. I've discussed the negative period with several folks in this range, and none indicate that they view my communication as abrupt, brief, or negative, but that they do sometimes notice that with others.

I ultimately come to this conclusion. A period is a tiny piece of a message. If something so small makes your message seem in some way negative, then your communication is already on the margin. You should look at other areas of your communication to improve.

My default view of messages in what seems quickly to be becoming the common text style (all lower-case with abbreviations and no punctuation, written in fits of stream-of-consciousness) expresses laziness and a sense of self-importance on the part of the author. I find that assuming good intentions of the author is a much better stance to take. Thus, I choose to interpret positively what might otherwise seem negative to me. If someone else is incapable of looking past a period, then my communication must be very poor indeed, and I must make efforts to improve it.
I wonder if they also own AirAnA, AirCnC, AirEnE...
Some feedback for what it's worth:

The reason I won't take a stab at this, as badly as I want to get into D&D, is that I have an unreliable schedule and can be pulled away at any moment (I have young kids). I won't even try because the possibility of letting others down is paralyzing.

I'm not sure if this is even something you can fix, but, there it is. And maybe there are ways to handle this gracefully without me letting the rest of the party down. In that case, maybe this is a communication/education problem.
No, they are ad hominem attacks because they only attack the credibility of the source and not the information.

As I’ve said, the NY Post is hardly a bastion of journalism. The thing is, neither is The NY Times, the Washington Post, or basically any media source other than CSPAN. They are all biased and anyone paying the slightest bit of attention over the past four years has noticed this. So to somehow claim that the “real journalists” would have done otherwise is absurd, considering that they’ve done the exact same thing repeatedly.

Everything is on the level of Fox News now.
For those who don't speak warspeech:

EW: Electronic Warfare; any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults

CIWS: Close-in Weapon System; a point-defense weapon system for detecting and destroying short-range incoming missiles and enemy aircraft which have penetrated the outer defenses, typically mounted shipboard in a naval capacity. A gun-based CIWS usually consists of a combination of radars, computers and rotary or revolver cannon placed on a rotating, automatically aimed gun mount.

Wild Weasel: an aircraft, of any type, equipped with anti-radiation missiles and tasked with the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses. In brief, the task of a Wild Weasel aircraft is to bait enemy anti-aircraft defenses into targeting it with their radars, whereupon the radar waves are traced back to their source, allowing the Weasel or its teammates to precisely target it for destruction.

TTP: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures; The role of TTPs in terrorism analysis is to identify individual patterns of behavior of a particular terrorist activity, or a particular terrorist organisation, and to examine and categorize more general tactics and weapons used by a particular terrorist activity, or a particular terrorist organisation.
This is a sad example of techbro subculture. Clever enough to write code, but utterly alienated from culture and institutions.
I don't know about your electric drill, but after assembling two sets of shelves with mine, I know which torque setting is "about as hard as I can do by hand".
Why? Just because there is a slippery slope argument to be made doesn't mean we have to actually do what it says needs to be done to get to its theoretical end point.

Sure, we _could_ remove everything until there's one left, but why would we? If you just want a smaller, publicly vetted list of roots that you can trust because the org that curates that set is explicitly on a mission to keep the internet free, open, and safe for all, then there is no "next step", this is the first and also last one.

Is it a good idea to do this? Highly depends on what you do and what you need, but the idea that "we can just keep doing this until there's only one" is super flaky: how many more sets of root certs, vetted by orgs that can be trusted to have privacy and security in mind, are there? Because no org that fits that bill will have a list that is "just the one". There's going to be 100+ certs in their lists.
> The odd thing about Lisp was that my programs almost invariably worked (modulo a mismatched paren) the first time. I've rarely had that happen in other environments.

Is that not simply because you thought it all out beforehand and made sure to check the code an extra time before submitting it because you wrote it on paper and had to go through a lot of effort to get it executed on a machine?
Poe's law was alive and well in 2002, it seems
Did you read the "Exceptions to verification requirements" section?

You may be able to avoid the external audit based on your use case
I feel that SOLID doesn't even work well with OOP. Overall it's just saying "be more modular" in a programming paradigm that's one of the least modular styles ever created.
Recently started following this project. Looks really promising, and I’m excited to see where it goes. The one deal breaker for me (aside from bugs) is cross-platform syncing. I need to be able to continue conversations on my laptop from my phone. It’s probably very difficult to implement, which is understandable.
Diabetes - since my mid-30's - now am approaching 50. Have maxed out on all pills. Very soon will be put on insulin. Did lot of running for a decade or more. Diet control is my weak point and toughest to be disciplined about. Not that I gorge on sweets/candies - but rice, fried food is something I cannot do a clean breakup with. But as and when I can - do regular exercise (running) and diet control. Very difficult for me personally. Hope once I am on insulin - I can still lead reasonable decent life past 80. Not sure if I know anyone who had diabetes in their 30s and lived past 80s with reasonably good health. :-)
Not sure, because the Apple II was easy to copy and it was very popular to buy a Pear computer without roms and just insert the copy of the EPROMs to have a full functional Apple II at a bargain price.
I would never have guessed Lex would get so much hate here. No one forces you to listen to him and his guests. And it is probably not despite his interviewing style but because of it that so many excellent people talk to him. Can we please discuss the content?
I have one hour to go and Julia has not been mentioned, though it seems to check many of the boxes they are talking about (high quality libraries that feel like they are part of the language, compiling natively to accelerators...). I think it is one big competitor (in the field of HPC / scientific computing) to „Swift world domination“
was that belive at the end intentional?
Why Is American Airlines So Infuriating?
It wasn't some sort of culture clash. The new people simply did not understand the implications of the medium. As a result they would ask the same questions over and over again without looking at the FAQs. They were suckers for trolls and would waste everyone's time by engaging in manufactured arguments. In time they would learn how things worked but there was a constant stream of new people.

We seem to be in such a period globally right now...
Couldn't disagree more. The first thing that should always be done is answer the question as asked. Do what ever you want after that but anyone who doesn't should have their post removed.

The issue is this: it is completely irrelevant why the person asking wants to do X or A. Stackoverflow and others are public websites and anyone who ever will want to do X/A will probably only find that page as an answer. It is beyond arrogant to assume anyone who could ever ask the question is just missing your guidance on what they really want to do.

To be concrete, I find myself in these situations due to company restrictions that I simply cannot lift. So I need to do something I know very well shouldn't be done or fail (and someone else will do that or worse anyway). So I search all over the web and find a Stackoverflow page... that tells me why I shouldn't be doing it. And since it's been "answered" no one else will ever bother, and if I ask anywhere I get linked to that page.
I found the book "An Introduction to Lambda Calculi for Computer Scientists"[1] to be a good intro to these concepts. For those who want to go further, books by Henk Barendregt[2] are widely considered to be a reference to lambda-calculus and combinators.

Fresh out of college I was really into lambda calculus and combinators, and wrote a pretty similar blog post to this article, maybe just a bit simpler: https://log.kv.io/post/2008/03/02/ski-calculus-in-haskell-sh...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0954300653

[2] "The Lambda Calculus — Its Syntax and Semantics" and "Lambda Calculus with Types"
nice! I had one where I failed an inspection. Inspector comes out and signs off on the new job. "hey isnt this YOUR signature from the first time? Why did you sign off on it then if it is so wrong now?"
Thanks, never heard that name but I will definitely listen to the episode!
Russian agents gave Steele dirt on Trump. Their motive is unclear. But I think its a bit naive to think Russian FSK agents were betraying their country to Steele for no real reason.

>Were they expecting it to be released before the election (it wasn't)?

It wasn't openly published before the election, but it was used during the election. It was given to law enforcement and major media outlets. Mother Jones wrote about it before the election.
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