skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I for one do not think a trump presidency was a worthwhile trade for sending a vague signal to the democrats that they should "course correct".

>In the last 4 years, I've heard the following sentiment often: "I don't like the guy and his rhetoric, but at least Trump has caused fewer deaths in international conflicts than Obama did"

That sentiment doesn't really say anything about whether it was a worthwhile trade or not. Kind of like a restaurant review that says "the food was shit and the service times were slow, but at least the waiters were nice" doesn't really mean that the restaurant is good overall, or whether they would choose the restaurant next time over a competitor.
Ironic that the page is completely broken on the iPhone XR
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Indian collusion!
Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak
Seems like a fairly concise list of Saas tools for a company of around 1,000 employees.

If you've ever worked for a company 10-100X that size, you'll find this list quite small.

To be honest, I clicked on the comments of this post to check my thesis that HN users would be astonished and was immediately validated.

It's always amusing to me how people who only work in one area of the company (ie. engineers, designers, sales, etc.) think they are the only ones doing "real" work. Everybody else is doing bullshit and wasting money. Without fail, every single time, if you give rank-and-file the opportunity to express this, they will.

Very few people in larger companies understand how the sausage is actually made, how leads are generated for the sausages, how sausage deals are closed, and how the sausage customers are nurtured for continued sausage business.
Only way I’m on board with DC representation is if we give it to Maryland. Maryland would in effect gain a House seat during the next redistricting after.

Easier solution? Kill the cap on the House seats. Doesn’t require a constitutional amendment, doesn’t make a State out of DC (although I’m still onboard with returning it to Maryland, there is precedent for this as DC used to have part of Virginia), and it evens out representation in both the House and the EC without wrecking the Senate and the EC altogether.

Give the States a number of House seats per 50,000 people (preferably: per citizen), actually make it a range between 30K and 50K to make the number of seats as even as possible and always keep it an odd number. You get a House of 6Kish or so members, but the way I see it, that’s Congress’ problem.

You even out representation between the States so no one State is over or under represented in the House. You increase the cost of lobbying Congress. You effectively solve gerrymandering, it can still exist on the fringes but when medium to large cities can have between 4 and 9 Reps all to themselves it is much less of an issue and unlikely to have much of an impact on the election. You bring the House closer to operating on coalition politics.

Fringe benefits include the necessity for dorms and uniforms and satellite chambers for the House that members can vote from. You can even verify their identities through a combination of simple security measures and biometric sensors, similar to TouchID and FaceID.

Then for every additional House member, you also add one to the Electoral College. It’s not perfectly even because the Senate throws the equity distribution off, but it severely dilutes the EC count that correlates to the Senate.
Thanks!! The new yorker article is exactly what I was looking for.
Just want to let you know: irfanview is your friend. I had the same woes with the Ms default, needed to download this to view a texture file for skyrim modding and was kinda pussed I hadn't switched years ago. Great piece of software, unfortunately not open source but has been around forever.
Go will go where Google wants. If you are not Google, you have zero chance introducing substantial changes into it.

JS is not a programming language, it's some nonsense.
Such a pathetic practice from a company that just got a boatload of money to throw at any criticism.
I live in a small town where stuff just doesn't happen.

So the way the marketing works is, I saw it on TV and I assumed there was just one.

So when one is in town it's like "Wow, that thing from the TV is here! That never happens to us!"

And I'm guessing that's the whole point - Make people feel special.

It's less fun now that I'm vegan. Selling meat to children is dystopian. It's like if an oil company had a talking barrel mascot.
in this case, shouldn't the client code be enough to show that bona fide E2E is happening?
> election night, as state results come in.

Not this year. With mail-in ballots, the ballots won't necessarily be finalized until a week or more after the election.

Its necessary due to COVID19. But it will be until multiple days after the election before we know the true winner. A large number of states will certainly be called on election night (because many states, such as California, are far from competitive).

But the battleground states may take some time.
I make no attempt to disprove an entire field, rather to question an implicit assumption, namely that real number rewards are flexible enough to capture all relevant environments an AGI should be able to comprehend. Quite the opposite, I indicate ways reinforcement learning could be modified to get past the roadblock I point out with real numbers.
Both. The book contains an explanation of how to derive the condition system from the primitive operators of Common Lisp, which should be useful both for users that try to gain some intuition or broaden their understanding of how the condition system works under the hood, and for people who want to implement a condition system in a programming language without one - be it Common Lisp or a different language.

Implementing a condition system in a Common Lisp implementation is actually a mostly solved problem, since one can use e.g. https://github.com/phoe/portable-condition-system or borrow some code from an already working Common Lisp implementation.
Well, worst man in the world is a quite an exaggeration.
As a marketer, why are you so fixated on the cost instead of the comparative value it may add? Do you know what incremental value it is adding to the mix? Has anyone tracked the time saved from sales people and the impact of the touch point from an attribution perspective (presumably with Bizible, GA, or any other tools and data)?

It could very well be negligible lift, but if it stops a large sales team from having inconsistent, inaccurate, and off-brand signatures, automating and centralizing that could be worth it on its own merits.

Be cautious about being so quick to dismiss a tool just because it's expensive.
Would be nice to see, however I see it coming more from one of the major players screwing up - whether a large scale hack, huge amounts of downtime or a verrrry public issue migrating a high value customer, regulatory break up, or pushing prices just too high.

I would really like to agree with that, but no matter how much they screw up, it won't matter if there isn't a viable alternative strategy anyway. With basically all of Big Tech pushing the same way right now, I think the momentum is too much for any of those things to cause a significant change in direction in the near future.

We've already seen some pretty horrendous failures in terms of reliability, privacy and security. Some of them have come from some very big names. And yet so far I see little if any consequence, other than perhaps some regulatory slaps on the wrist. The big customers paying the big bills are still paying, because what choice do they have? It doesn't gain them much to migrate to a competitor that is still pushing in the same basic direction and vulnerable to the same basic threats, and migrations of key software at corporate scale are financially expensive and have timescales measured in years so there's a big incentive to accept the devil you know.

All of the above being said, it still I think reinforces the point that Microsoft's shift from boxed software to services is superbly well done. Whether or not we want that as our future, they've handled the shift toward the current vision of the future well.

Indeed. As I wrote in another comment, it's tough to argue with success. It's unfortunate that Microsoft's success here doesn't necessarily correlate positively with a better experience for the users of Microsoft software, and the lack of competition for the desktop market is going to leave a lot of people and businesses vulnerable to whatever Microsoft decides is best for Microsoft over the next few years.

Of the possible big events you mentioned, I suspect that means regulatory break-up in an attempt to rejuvenate effective competition in the market is the most promising. But I still wouldn't bet on that happening faster than a grass roots effort powered by the kinds of people who believe in things like rights to repair and meaningful online privacy, and who enjoy writing their own software or experimenting with things like 3D printers and Raspberry Pis. A young generation might take a different view of programming and hobbyist hardware than those 20 or 40 years older who have perhaps become too accepting of the way things are. They might be driven by not wanting to feel trapped by big businesses they think aren't acting in their best interests, or perhaps other concerns about longevity and adaptability driven by positive motivations from outside of pure tech fields, such as protecting the environment. Given the right figurehead(s) to lead a movement, I could believe that might actually happen, but probably over the next decade or two more than the next year or two.
Also for those who didn't know, and are just getting started with them:

They're incredibly handy for a variety of reasons, but can also have unexpected performance impacts. For example, here are functionally equivalent queries written with a CTE vs an inlined/derived table:

WITH cte_foo AS
(SELECT * FROM bar LIMIT 1000000)
SELECT * FROM cte_foo LIMIT 1

and

SELECT * FROM
(SELECT * FROM bar LIMIT 1000000)
as inlined_foo LIMIT 1

Depending on the database you're using, those two could have wildly different performance due to a concept called an optimization fence[1]. In Postgres versions 11 and below, the CTE would have truly returned/materialized 1 million rows, then the outer query would execute and ultimately return 1 row for the resultset. Whereas the second version would have been optimized such that the outer LIMIT 1 would have been pushed into the subquery and not materialized those extraneous 999,999 rows to begin with.

As mentioned in [1], Postgres 12 (and 13) have started to tackle that optimization fence within Postgres. But it's still a concern/concept to be aware of, since many databases that support CTEs have varying levels of optimization fences, and you'll want to be sure you understand what optimization/performance impacts exist for your particular database before you go down the CTE path.

[1] https://auto1.tech/postgres12-a-precious-release/
Wonder if it could be available via a greasemonkey script or the like. The fact it's usable in a web browser with no extension support makes me think it's possible.
Same. It's way rougher around the edges than Pythonista is, but it's moving fast and adding nice support for new iOS features. For one example, from what I can tell x-callback-url is the only way to get stuff into Pythonista (and I haven't found a way to get stuff back out of it), but Pyto natively supports Shortcuts actions. There are lots of other things like that.

Pythonista is much more pleasant today for actually writing code in, though.
This. And it's often not even that much work after all, given the amount of energy that went into procrastination and finding easier solutions. I've know this professionally for a long time now, but only recently "found out" that this applies to my personal/family bookkeeping process too. I've always been looking for easy automated solutions for importing and categorising my transactions until I read an article here on hn about bookkeeping with gnucash. I now enter all transactions by hand, for a few months now, and it has given me more control and insight than ever before.
To see the kind of videos you can create using WZRD, take a look at our Vimeo channel:
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I've wanted something like this for a while, but it's missing what to me is the most important feature: scaling the distance between entries based on the length of time between them.
I disabled javascript. I just think its tacky.
I was tempted to move to Southern CO for the end of summer/fall but its hard to do short-term, gotta be a little self-sufficient due to the isolation factor. Can I ask where you were in Baja? I'm thinking about going there in the summertime.
I did something similar a couple of years ago and found in the process that instead of paying $50/mo for the full Adobe Creative Cloud I could switch to a $10/mo photographers plan which included only Photoshop and Lightroom. Those are the only two programs I use so not was a nice savings.
It says the compiler is "Powered by Cilk". But - what does that mean?

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

isn't Cilk a C-like language with additions for parallel execution? How is that a compiler infrastructure?
> And where's the panic?

I don't understand? You were asking how a fast accelerating car is worse than a bus/garbage truck, so I answered your question.

It sounds like Berlin is doing the right thing. You can get a sports car if you want, but if you kill someone you should be treated as if you murdered someone.
Satya was head of cloud prior to ascending to ceo, though
Indeed. It sounds like the life of a typical politician.
> I don't see any evidence that this was true. Checking the cvs of three randomly chosen very famous mathematicians who graduated in this period (Stein, Atiyah, Mumford), it looks like they all did postdocs.

This was addressed in my comment:

> Postdocs were only for people aiming for a faculty position at a top school.

Don't look at people who are outliers. Pick a random university in Oklahoma, Kansas, etc. Find someone who joined in the 80's or earlier. Check their CV. Did they do a postdoc?
Also on Android.
Judging by some of the replies I don’t believe that it was an innocuous discord about just “gardening, preps, seed saving, canning, alternative construction & greenhouses”
The devil's in the detail though - there are other ways to reduce taxable corporate income other than sensible investing. Examples - pay the money out to the directors - use iffy transfer pricing to have the profits appear to be made in some Irish company (see msft, appl) - set the company up offshore owned by a trust (see news corp) - pay the profits out as consultant fees to a company owned by your daughter (no idea who that could be) etc.
What is broken is not the number of electoral votes per state but the winner takes all allocation system of the EC.

As it stands today winner takes all makes big states like California and small states like Wyoming equally uncompetitive since there’s a snowball’s chance in hell they will ever flip majority the other direction. Proportionally allocating a state’s electoral votes would level the state by state playing field and align with popular vote, but you’d need either every state to agree or an amendment.
Inflating your stock price by buybacks is easier said than done.

In fact according to the CAPM economic model, it is impossible. The assets of the company decrease by the money spent on buybacks, which matches the value of stock bought and destroyed. This should leave the price per remaining stock unchanged.
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I am sure that lots of price scrapers do this, including Google..
People keep getting this problem wrong. The solution is to have bubbles/groups. You join a group of like minded people and then rank/moderate your own content in ways that are less magical.

Subreddits are a great example, or highly specific forums like HN.
It will really appreciate if someone has the same but for Windows install. I help a very poor shop and we had the same problem so we are using activators as Adobe won't help anymore.
Wait wasn't Satya the head of the cloud division before he became the CEO? I was thinking that he had started these things and pushed it further after becoming CEO!
Interesting. I do all side projects because I want to have done them. I don't really enjoy doing them, but they bring benefit to someone, and that might be worth my time. I'm thinking of writing a book for the same reason; I know I'll be miserable writing it, but having done that, it'll look great on my CV, and might bring me some benefits.

For me, most of the worth to be doing category is stuff I don't enjoy, yet I do it anyways for the long-term gain.
It works for me on osx firefox. Here is what it looks like https://imgur.com/a/UjX0Bug
There are actually two papers being cited. The other one is titled Single-particle cryo-EM at atomic resolution: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2829-0
At first I was going to be critical of your point but thinking about it for a minute. I think your right. Apple and Microsoft aren't as innovative anymore. It's sad. But I do think Microsoft is leading this front between the two. Some of their acquisitions of SAS products have grown and improved, where Apple isn't doing something significant to improve the lives of it's users. Does a photo really add that much value? Or an emoji? Whereas many of the SAS products Microsoft has is a business model that is to speed up it's users productivity.

As for losing out on programmers which (my words) essentially reduce the exponential behavior that tech was experiencing. I'll say this. It is sad. Rent seeking is a typical behavior of any company that gets large.

I'm actually now wondering if something is preventing these companies from growing very fast, like a national actor.

If you look at Amazon, they are in numerous industries and have a little market share of them and are trying to innovate in them. Amazon isn't slowing down either. I find it an interesting case study. Only AWS is helping programmers, many other products are actually against user's interests.

Another case study would be Tesla. They are emerging as a most likely monopoly due to their relentless innovation. But they don't harness community programmers either. I believe this will change overtime, since Musk has said this for many years but I doubt there will be a lot of freedom in their system either.

I want to see a company that is innovative and allowing others to innovate on their platform. It would be very valuable to society if we do this.
Switch to the ESR build, then.
It's also possible it's colored by uncertainty in the atomic positions - what crystallographers call the "B-factor".
I would love to read a long story on Dave Cutler. I've heard the name but don't know the first thing about him.
> verified the existence of the Higgs

As a related tangent: we have verified the existence of the Higgs, but only partially.

What was so far measured was the interaction strength between Higgs and W bosons, Z bosons, and the top quarks: these are the main channels of Higgs production at the LHC, and they fit the theory prediction within 20%. Yes, 20%. Not precise at all. What about interaction between Higgs and the other 5 kinds of quarks? Electrons? Muons? Tau? Itself? The data ranges from +-100% to none at all.

In particular the measurement of Higgs-Higgs interaction is an important one: the assumption Standard Model makes about the strength of this interaction is not unique, and others are possible. We don't know yet: not enough data. Moreover models with multiple Higgs particles are possible. Again, we don't know yet, not enough data.

This is why some cautious researchers claim that we have discovered "a scalar particle", "believed to be Higgs", but further measurement is needed to determine all of its properties.

This is one of the main activities at LHC and among the theoreticians at the moment: measuring Higgs interactions with other particles. There is still way to improve precision with more data from LHC, but ultimately there is only so much it can do without increasing the energy.
It was quite clear the people I heard this from did think it was a worthwhile trade compared to Hilary.
No you don’t. You just have to be better at delivering medicine.
>They do also have some almost unbelievable limitations, where what you'd expect to be entry-level functionality simply doesn't exist

Are there any specific examples that come to mind? I recently heard about Afinity and am planning to give it a try next time I need a Photoshop or Illustrator replacement.
[T]he final written output is an educational product that ought to be built and tested around the needs of the reader, not the ego or indulgence of the writer.

Can you expand on this thought further? Who decides what the "needs of the reader" are, but readers themselves? And fiction isn't "an educational product."
It doesn't seem to copy all of the rules?

{
box-sizing: border-box;
touch-action: manipulation;
overflow-x: visible;
text-transform: none;
appearance: button;
display: flex;
actualWidth: 269;
actualHeight: 40;
}

is what I get on the "try it your self" button, but there's a background-color, a color, an animation etc all set on the element that don't appear.

Also, what's actualWidth / actualHeight?
It's useful for customer-facing roles. From a sales context, it means that you can have a dynamic signature that includes a) up to date logos and branding and b) a dynamic list of upcoming marketing events like webinars, trade shows, recent blog articles, etc. put automatically in email signatures.

We don't use one (just have folks copy over the new signature to Outlook every couple weeks), but it means we have a highly manual process that is prone to error for non-technical users. It's definitely worth some money to get right.
Status is relative. Going with the dating analogy:

Girls who are into IT will view Zuckerberg as higher status vs. Brad Pitt.

A girl who's into acting acting will view Brad Pitt as more 'high status' than Zuckerberg.

I think you may have confused "modern society" with TechCrunch/other mainstream tech publications. If this was a politics community, someone would probably say that "modern society considers Biden" as someone with the highest-status role.

I think we under-appreciate the role of context when we talk about status.
Thanks. So is the general industry practice? I read MySql only supports this since like 2004, somehow reading material doesnt seem to be too concerned about these.
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Note that Feature-Policy is being depreciated for Permissions-Policy, which follows a slightly different syntax: https://scotthelme.co.uk/goodbye-feature-policy-and-hello-pe...

Content-Security-Policy is quite powerful, because it limits which origins (domains) that your page can load resources from. It can eliminate some security surprises.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
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>You can counter with "But if everyone did that...", but third party voters could make the same counter argument.

Not really. The reason why third parties are third parties is that they don't enjoy widespread support. It's not like there's a third party out there in the US that enjoys support of > 30% of americans, but nobody wants to vote for them because they're not democrat/republican.