jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's the fact that many much needed improvements to their core offering are not being taken care of and instead they've gone and done this, which nobody asked for and puts the operation at risk. Not to mention that they integrated a premine scam coin over a proven leader like Monero. Sadly it seems the Signal team has sold out. Really hope their payout for this move was worth it.
That's a good question that has several reasonable answers (also depending on context), so we should run some proper experiments to find which answers are best.

Though from a policy point of view, we don't need to know those answers: different schools should try different answers (including sending all kids to the same class), parents should send their kids to the schools they deem the best overall package.
Not GP, but I've got the Keyboardio Atreus. And I've even modified that to have ctrl, shift, alt etc on the home row. So keeping 'A' depressed triggers Shift, for instance, but a quick tap is just A. Combined with a Programmer's Dvorak layout. Home row ftw!
No internet means fewer distractions and one can do deep work, but this is not permanent. Internet is good but in moderation, too much of it and it starts consuming us.
I'm curious: why did you choose Signal when you care about privacy?
> And, if I want it to be an app I can use some HTML/JS wrapper and be done in a similar amount of time. I can have a new electron app up and running and on 3 platforms in under an hour. If I had more mobile experience I'm sure I could do the same there.

So now you have made a crap UI that is running on 3 platforms. It was quick and easy for you, but now every user has to suffer with a slow and bloated electron "app".

GUI development definitely has gone backwards at least a decade. Of course it can still be done right, but with so many low skill web developers everywhere, electron "apps" are what we get.
We're near a visual turning point.

Conventional math notation coevolved with prevailing display technologies, from cold type to early serial computer interactions. It took a generation for people to learn to chat on a phone, and a generation for the shift from typewriters to word processors to change how people compose text. It will take a similar generation drawing on a digital tablet to change how people compose mathematical thought. However, teaching through a pandemic, this evolution has been radically accelerated.

Apps like Notability fluidly replace blackboards for teaching on Zoom. They however are primitive drawing editors. One outgrows them like a beginner windsurfing board. Apps pioneered by digital artists such as architects support much more advanced algorithmic drawing. Concepts is my current favorite; an example of math notes in Concepts is here: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/S21/Combinatorics/Week7...

Still, these are closed editors. Unlike Emacs, they can't be used to modify themselves. One longs here for Lisp-universe live drawings, a break from the misconception that a static final visually appealing canvas is the objective. Rather, how much thought can we externalize and reify as live doodles? What notion of space will replace artboards and layers, for supporting drawings as live computation, completely accessible as if one had a time-traveling functional programming debugger?

When software supports this, crosses that threshold like a general purpose programming language where users can create arbitrary modifications and extensions in this visual medium, then we'll see more papers like the present.
I'm guessing if they did that it would make the problem a lot more visible.

My office does have changing rooms but they're intended for cyclists.
I taught my 15 year old python programming over summer. We used the material provided by this course [1]. It worked out very well for us.

We took a little detour at one point and I taught her basic skills to navigate around Linux terminal. Files, directories, editors, basic operational stuff.

Then I took another little detour and showed her ropes on git and github.

Then we got back to the python course and now I encouraged her to push everything she practices on her github account which she has been doing since.

Now that the course is over, we have started working on a project that aims to manage personal income tax. I chose that project because it could start simple and can evolve to be as complex as you want it to be. However, ultimately it is all simple arithmetic. The project is going very well so far. We are discovering new things about taxation almost every single day.

We are at a stage where learning vim would really help her so we plan to take another detour next week and start with a vim tutorial until she gets comfortable.

[1] https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/support/training/download...
Gutenberg is a really robust and active project[1] in its own right, separate from WordPress, and I hope that it becomes a cross-CMS standard.

If you've worked on any sort of editor, block system, page builder, etc Automattic are hiring very aggressively for senior JS positions. [2] It's a fun and fast-moving project to work on, with a huge impact. Many others are hiring for Gutenberg skills as well, so it's a high-demand competency.

[1] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg
[2] https://automattic.com/work-with-us/javascript-engineer/
I have 2 kids 14 and 12. My 14 year old has started solving medium level leetcode problems (which I am happy about).

Talk to them often about code, technology etc.One thing that helped IMHO spending a lot of time in solving math problems (AOPS) , which made think through hard problems and had to grind through solutions which took time. My kids love Big Bang Theory and anything that is geeky. I talk to them about the latest things that are happening in tech like the recent hack and the malware.

I recently read this book https://www.amazon.com/But-How-Know-Principles-Computers-ebo... and sat and drew with my kids and,or , xor and nand gates.Building Mindcraft MOD can be another fun project.

Be patient and it helps a lot IMO.

Good luck :)
What you'll get is the same thing as GPT-3: the equivalent of googling the prompt. You can google "implement a scientific calculator" and get multiple tutorials right now.

You'll still need humans to make anything novel or interesting, and companies will still need to hire engineers to work on valuable problems that are unique to their business.

All of these transformers are essentially trained on "what's visible to google", which also defines the upper bound of their utility
I'm wondering why the image comes out non-blocky because transformers would take slices of the image as input. They say they have about 1024 tokens for the image and that would mean 32x32 patches. How is it possible that these patches align along the edges so well and not have JPEG like artifacts?
As well you should be, loud typing is disrespectful and distracting in any environment.
The fact that they do raise money but not as much as they would if people adhered to these ideals indicates to me that the utility function is different. i.e. that it isn't just the life that is being paid for.

And that's fine. I think people should spend their money as they see fit.

It's the bit where people make arguments from fictional moral authority that needs some push back. It's just nonsensical outrage - the opium of the partly-informed.
"Maximum Pressure campaign's goal is to make people so miserable, they'd rather face bullets/wars."

No, Iran, including the 'Regime' would actually be doing just fine if they dropped nuclear ambitions and stopped supporting the overthrow of Saudi Arabia.

It's an odd paradox, because even the Islamic Revolutionaries could be a quasi-ally of the US if they really wanted to. The US cares about security, predictability, trade and cooperation between state actors first, internal issues second.

" the maximum pressure campaign has rendered Iranian people completely miserable" - the Iranian government has rendered people miserable. Stop blaming the US for the bad behaviour of the regime.

Maybe we can have 'GitHub Diplomacy' ...
This article is a waste of time. Please do not upvote it.
What this post calls "brightness," I call "ingenuity"—the process of coming up with good ideas that didn't previously exist. It's not really something society calls for very often (other than in entrepreneurial or R&D positions.) It's also the thing that "manhole cover questions" test—so if you can't imagine a company asking you that sort of question, they probably aren't that interested in you for the ingenuity you command.

Rather, what society wants is "intelligence"—the ability to iterate quickly on a problem, efficiently searching the space of solutions/ideas you already have to find one that is most likely to succeed. This is what is measured by IQ, and mostly comes from the ability to focus rationally on the search, instead of derailing oneself with biases or status-grabs. "Knowledge workers" are simply workers who rely on their intelligence. But look at the average knowledge worker, and you won't see much "brightness."

As a note to anyone who wants to be more "bright", because it is useful to us here at HN: ingenuity is formed by two skills—creativity, and critical thought. If they are developed in parallel (creativity by learning new facts to synthesize—usually by observation, but esp. from books, criticism by receiving quantitative feedback on the values of facts and beliefs—usually from conversation with peers, but esp. in school) ingenuity thrives; if one or the other races ahead, ingenuity stalls. Too much criticism, you get conformity and social anxiety; too little and you get arrogance, and an output resembling the aesthetic wasteland of 4chan's /b/. Take the middle way.
Just like I commented on the article itself, I'm wondering how it deals with pagination and tables that span multiple pages. In Prawn the tables are properly cut, and headers propagated on each new page.
Uniquely annoying for all of us watching on TV.
> 1. That the hardware was the competition.

Apple is a hardware company, that's what they see and compete on.

> 2. Google bought a software company to compete in hardware 3. HTC was not making touch screen phones before.

hardware and software go hand in hand. Google implemented a touchscreen core since the first public Android release and their base design (the N1) is fully touch-oriented. They clearly set up the Android platform aiming at the segment the iPhone also occupies, putting the platforms head to head. I don't see how you an claim otherwise.
Also recommendable: http://baara.com/q10/ . It's Windows-only, though
The gov can kill you equally well with nuclear power as with bad food/water supervision, wrong medical policy (like inoculation strategy), chemical plants, mining operations, waste management, insufficient or corrupted law enforcement, finally by causing some war or economic collapse.
Platforming doesn’t mean guest blogging though, but I think you know already that
Python 3 lets you use the statement 'nonlocal varname' and it will grab it from the outer scope, as well.
I'd be interested to see how processes work at a bootstrapped vs. funded start up. A comparison table would be awesome!
Off by an order of magnitude for many of my sites.
It would be nice if they used Amazon fulfillment for this. Their product is small in size, can be marked up without too much pain, and is desired by people in the US... so it seems like the perfect use case. I will probably forget about this since it's preorder and I don't really need it for anything... but if it was on Amazon, I would have already one-clicked it. FWIW.
>> I guess in conclusion, you shouldn't go around feeling
>> all clever just because you've figured out some secret
>> that you think some intelligence agency didn't want you >> to know.

I understand what you are saying between the lines. The problem still is i didnt expose a secret when i referenced a unclassified document, which was uploaded by a third party. Also i didnt say that no agency would want me to know.

>> They have layers upon layers of secrets, and some of
>> them are designed to be discovered.

I feel this is a good analogy for this audience. [Edit: a good analogy of people in this audience who work with software stacks.]
Are you any good? :P

Flesh out your profile here and maybe good things will happen. (Note: the "email" field isn't public.)
It's quite possible some of them do, but the performance difference is probably negligible anyway, it's just extra code that doesn't need to exist.
I think slaves have bigger concerns in their lives than being offended to semantic technicalities. That aside, I think you sort of hit the point that even though we DO rely on our wage to survive, it's our choice and we have other options, which is what makes us different than the sweatshot workers.
The Hacker News libertarians (who are, despite our shared nausea, far smarter and more reasonable than the right-wing of any other community, I'll note) believe they will be future technology "barons". Pretty much everyone I've ever met with conservative leanings expects to be fabulously wealthy one day-- the smart ones and the idiots alike. (I once heard a community college drop out making $8/hour defend Republican economics, opening with the sentence "if I make a few million dollars...")

At least 95 percent of them are going to achieve upper-middle-class status but not great wealth or connections. They'll have decent jobs and nice lives, but they won't be dick-swinging robber barons. They won't be on the short list for garden parties thrown by Sequoia partners. When this fate befalls them, they'll swing hard to the left.
Hey, I'm from the team that worked on this at PennApps. This episode was actually our inspiration for the device!
Replace "ads" with "things I don't agree with" and you have quite the filter bubble.
If you're having a heart attack, are you really in a position to negotiate on price? At all? I get that there might be some downward pressure, but what prevents the hospital from just laying an absurd bill on you after the procedure?
I love the idea of being able to scan, modify and print. Am I nuts or does this seem like a steep price to be able to do it?
However, keep in mind that the NSA doesn't employ that many people. Furthermore, these people mostly work in the same area, have been vetted repeatedly, and are watched. The TSA, on the other hand, works everywhere, has many more people, and do not have the same scrutiny applied to their employees.

Interestingly enough, most classified information doesn't get leaked the same way that Snowden leaked his documents. It's mostly due to carelessness. The best example of this is deployment schedules. One of my coworkers was scheduled to go on a Marine Expeditionary Unit (ship that goes around the Pacific just in case something happens). The date of departure was classified. Someone told his wife, who told all of her friends on Facebook. Oops.
oh absolutely, for prolonged escape if you don't take the basic technology of modern civilization with you, you will loose all your time again to keeping yourself clean, clothed, warm and fed. I you really want to escape I think the trick must be to live just close enough to reap the benefits of modern industry - but for me it is merely a desire or maybe a fantasy that seems more attractive on some days than others.
Hmm

How can I block cookies with uMatrix for sub domains like *.domain.com for any site?

PS: I assume that just temporary solution. Because nextsstep is just hosting some js from "analytics" on main domain and/or solutions like cloudflare for e-commerce / google news / etc.

And for filtering that bs we need deep filtering and api inside JS VM
Then run your own DoH server, the same way you run your own pihole.

Shameless plug: https://GitHub.com/yegle/your-dns
Please tell me you plan on going meta and editing the title of this post.
It's still under dev. Also the focus is to cover the end to end pipeline and the best practice tech stack for each component.
I do that now because I'm fortunate enough to live very close to work, but that can be really difficult for parents. If your commute time is too long then commute + work + commute can end up a longer span of time than the gap between breakfast and dinner for the kids. When I lived farther, I drove because that mattered more to me than missing meals with them.
Also, any feedbacks and contributions are welcome :)
in 1 day!??
That's a challenge for whoever is designing the interface. It doesn't have to be that complex in terms of appearance to a casual user.

The first time they encounter a site, the software could say "You haven't visited this site before. The following people believe that it is valid: John Doe, Jane Fox, Sam Smith. Do you want to continue to it?" (Where John, Jane, and Sam are members of your social network or at least your addressbook.)

On subsequent visits it could say something (via a non-modal interaction) like "This is the same site you have visited 52 times before, most recently on Tuesday." You could have some additional validation when it looks like the user is in the process of submitting something sensitive, like an SSN or a credit-card or bank account number.

There are a lot of possibilities in that vein and I've seen a lot of proposals to handle trust like this; you don't try to turn trust into some sort of absolute metric, because that's not how trust works in the real world.

The problem with PGP's network of trust is that it tries to boil down very complex relationships into an integer value. It's not just that the interfaces suck, the concept doesn't mesh with how most users think.
I'm not sold on the efficacy of clinical decision support systems (like Watson) in healthcare.

Here is a recent study comparing quality of care using EHR/CDSS and without: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/archintern...

"Our findings indicate no consistent association between EHRs and CDS and better quality. These results raise concerns about the ability of health information technology to fundamentally alter outpatient care quality."
For better and for worse, the tools that have come along with the information revolution foster what seems to be a much broader, yet more shallow perspective.

For example, lets consider the fact that it takes .19 seconds to find someone's personal distillation of Darwin's Origin of Species. I can now get a summary of one of the great scientific discoveries in less than 1000 characters and be back to reading Facebook updates without blinking an eye.

I didn't read a single word from the original work. I never touched on the years of toil, thought and research that become obvious only after you hear it in Darwin's words. To draw a relevant analogy, its like we are adding layers of abstraction to information. Wikipedia is just the high-level, interpreted view that hides all the nitty gritty details we don't need to worry about anymore. So how often will we need to dive into the inner-workings in the future?

The question becomes is this satisfying? Is it "good enough" to just read the cliff notes? I hate to say it but I think yes. We will end up with an increasing number of "instant experts" who know a little about a lot. And the craftsman - the true specialists - will probably just fade away with the rest of the irrelevant details.
I don't like it, it feels to corporate or maybe its the 'world' in the background.... maybe its just cheesy.
How do these traffic stops work? I think someone is exaggerating something.

"Hello I stopped you because you were going 85 in a 70 mph area. Please give me your license, insurance, and cell phone"?

What laws govern police asking for things?
Looks like the phone in the picture was on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.
I agree with all the comments, but one question remains: would the interviewer think like we do? You could argue that you shouldn't want to work there in such a case, but the interviewer may not be representative of your direct colleagues. How large would that risk be?
While interviewing recently I realized that I was spending ~20 hours per interview picking up pieces of the software stack that I haven't worked with before. The cognitive burden that a candidate has to bear is very real.
Yes, at the expense of someone else.

It can still work as the amount invested grows, if you are in a position with a reliable feed of such information. See Plunkitt's "honest graft".
There’s also a discussion on /r/haskell:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2toc3j/ann_halcyon_...
Interesting article, and I'm glad to see some progress has been made. I look forward to the repo when its available.
Let's hope they aren't using MongoDB to power the exchange platform. The Coinbase careers page seems to suggest they still use MongoDB[1], though to be fair, it also lists postgreSQL (I'm only aware of Toshi[2] using postgreSQL at the moment).

I'm not saying it'd be impossible for MongoDB to be used effectively for a trading platform, but it'd be a lot more difficult than other options.

Not trying to spark a debate here about MongoDB (it's great for certain applications). This has, however, been brought up previously as a concern about Coinbase (and they've denied accusations of lost money relating to it). Whether or not it's actually been a real problem in the past, I believe the concern is still valid.

[1] https://www.coinbase.com/careers/9275

[2] https://github.com/coinbase/toshi

EDIT: Downvoters - care to explain why such a key piece of infrastructure for an application like this isn't a valid topic for discussion, or at least why my opinion isn't valid?
You are right, sorry about that, should have named it 'More descriptive title' instead of 'TL;DR'.
Mark Chu-Carroll plots it on the Archimedean spiral in his post about the Ulam here: http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2010/06/22/the-surprise...
"Paul Graham has a very special announcement - please read"
It's not directionally correct. It's not correct in any sense.

If he doesn't think he can do psychotherapy very while while he's a "public figure" (his name being in the paper a single time), why is he opening up his own practice?

I have already posted his own quotes in this comment chain, where he admits his case is weak and that anonymity is merely his preference.
I was referencing a razor scheme. when you sell something cheap but the part you need to use it is locked down and expensive. Like the blades for a razor, or ink for a printer. Or filters for an air purifier.
Yup, I write data analysis tooling but still one of the first things I get asked is "can I have all the raw data in a CSV?".
Fixed wireless uses directional antennas, too. Towers can have sector antennae, and you can have multiple towers servicing an area, too. (Indeed, small LEO satellites' ability to spot beam is limited, but sectors on fixed wireless can provide a -lot- of densification).
I have no info, speculating: could it be to reuse the existing programmer's knowledge and code corpus when porting Unix from PDP-11 to x86 machines?

This is assuming that AT&T valued similarity with existing Unix assembly codebases more than it valued similarity with existing external x86 assembly codebases.
A dumb pipe company.