jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I guess I have to admit I punched above my pay grade. Because I can't think of a pseudocode that would shed light to those questions.
I hate the idea of not being able to access my own companies brains

I think if one were to invest a little time you could implement a service on par with notion using

https://www.getoutline.com/ and https://baserow.io/
Are math skills no longer required to obtain a degree in engineering?

I know that question might sound a bit trollish but it is a genuine one. I thought along with specialty in a particular engineering discipline all engineering graduates were required to have proficiency in Math and Communication.

Are You talking about hiring a person without a degree? Is the competition for qualified employees that stiff these days?

Maybe paid internships for current students could help develop a group of potential future hires, most students are fine with tests.

You might be able to glean some indication of a persons interest in Math by looking into their online histories but I don't know if such a service is available let alone ethical.
At some point they need to try to differentiate themselves from Amazon or Apple, who could easily out-spend them on licensing music catalogues.

I think Spotify's "moat" is largely the analysis they've done on all the listening data they have, and their ability to provide that to the music industry as a product.

They share rudimentary summaries with customers via stuff like Wrapped but I have to imagine they have much more detailed and robust data products for the industry...

If they're just a giant Dropbox for MP3s with a music player sitting on top, they don't really stand a chance...
Which is unwelcome because Raspberry Pi included a repo for a Microsoft product without informing users prior. It pings MS every time an update occurs. It's one thing for it to be available, but another entirely for RPi to assume users want anything to do with MS. If I wanted to program using VSC, I would download it based on my need for it. I have no need for it since I don't live in a MS world.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/users-upset-as-raspberry-pi-os-no...

https://betanews.com/2021/02/08/linux-based-raspberry-pi-os-...

To disable it using the terminal:

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d

ls to look for "vscode.list"

Enter sudo nano vscode.list

Comment out last line with the MS URL

I don't want to disable it, I want it to go away and never return, but sadly, RPi think they know better than their users and it will show up again if deleted. I may look for another Pi distro because this is beyond the pale. Addind repos is a personal thing beyond the basic repos needed to run to OS and default software/updates. I'm also not a fan of MS owning GitHub.
Yes. Good film.
If you want to explore system calls without C or assembler, I wrote a LuaJIT library [1]. You could port it to another language too.

[1] https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall
Your "good"ness will present itself to you over the course of time. You'll be working at a startup and they'll lay off the entire development team, but ask you (and only you) to come back on a contract. You'll get a call out of the blue from somebody who's putting together a team and got your name from one of your old bosses who recommended you. These incidents might not mean much individually, but over a half dozen years you can assemble them to mean that you're good.

From there, you get something that's definitely not true of any other career (or at least only applies to a few). Doctors and lawyers generally don't get to disappear on year-long vacations and then drop back into their previous career path without missing a beat. Developers can. You can go on to lead the life you want, without having to think about how it will damage your career. It's all good from there.
> Typically via creditcard. Pay a symbolic amount (e.g. $5) to create an account, allow at most 1 account per credit card.

That might work on a normal website, but people around here are likely smarter than that. It's not hard to make "extra" credit card numbers/accounts. Here's one amusing account of how it can be done:

http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/mj-credit-card/index.html

Incidentally, I would also like to note that they were dumb for blurring the credit card number in that picture. The blur is probably guessable (people have managed similar reversals in the past). Hopefully they canceled that card a long time ago, but they shouldn't have obscured information like that when they could have eliminated it.
The problem (at least from the perspective of someone who enjoys games with lots of meaningful choice) is that the public in general seems to be happier with fewer choices, more simplistic gameplay and absurdly expensive graphics. So while it would be possible to smarten up today's games and offer more choice the publisher who did so wouldn't be rewarded in the marketplace.
Are there any other comments? Obviously feel free to check out the iOS app as well: https://itunes.apple.com/no/app/tise/id948050708?l=nb&mt=8
I like that giving the paper to a friend provides an easy way for a friend to be able to access his accounts in case of a tragedy.
Mmh, Dropbox may be at 1.0, but their site makes me download nautilus-dropbox-0.6.7.tar.bz2. Confusing.
Doesn't consumer confidence mostly apply when the consumer is actually paying a company for something? Also, what portion of Yahoo's users even know what Delicious is?
http://www.aol.com

vs.

http://www.yahoo.com
ultraedit is the only text editor i could find that can open a 500mb ASCII file without problems.
You mentioned adding a period for special characters but what do you do for passwords that require capitalization?
Are these people deluding themselves, or just scamming?
To the end of clarifying your message - Given that people don't do, little bits of exercise throughout the day, I need some examples of exercises that I could do at my desk, or in the office kitchen or on an escalator. I simply couldn't visualise what I'd be doing, have you thought of some clever exercises I could do where I would normally feel a bit awkward about doing them? (I know a trainer that has a bunch of these). Perhaps we're just talking about exercises that people are already familiar with, lunges, squats etc. ? If that is the case then I don't think an iphone app is going to change their behaviour in which case I would be focussing on how your app is useful at the times of the day when people usually exercise.
The UI could have been far better :)
> If SQL had a way of picking one row from a group, rather than aggregating over it, that would be immensely useful.

You can do this with a LATERAL join, if you want to avoid the jankiness of window functions. Lateral joins are just a programmatic way to introduce a correlated subquery. For example

SELECT department, first_name, gross_salary FROM
(SELECT DISTINCT department FROM salary) depts,
LATERAL (
SELECT first_name, gross_salary
FROM salary
WHERE department = depts.department
ORDER BY gross_salary DESC
LIMIT 3
)

This uses a limit of 3 to show off top-3 instead of just argmax, but you could clearly set that to one if you wanted. This construction can be pretty handy if you need the per-group rows to be something other than what a window function could handle.
Besides the obvious downside of not being meaningfully encrypted (even pointing out transport encryption as just "encryption" is borderline deceptive marketing these days, IMO), until recently it also had a very dubious business model.

It now seems to be pivoting towards ad support, but isn't this exactly what people have been trying to get away from Facebook for?
I've wondered about this for forever. Thank you!
Strava's gamification is real, but it also functions similar to how FB used to work, as a way to check on friends. I would check it daily to see what my friends were up to.
Actually yes. The EV industry doesn't want hydrogen to succeed, since it is a threat to their business.
It's a joke man, why downvoting? :)
Emacs has org-mode, and org-mode has tables with formulas which can invoke calc-mode. calc-mode also has units:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Uni...
You rarely need to write your own sort or hashmap, but you should absolutely understand at a high level how those algorithms work, how to analyze them, and the key concepts that go into their design.

The point of the undergrad CS syllabus is not to teach you specific algorithms, but to give you a toolkit for solving problems. The goal of a SWE interview should be to test your ability to apply that toolkit to a "new" problem.
Personally I "think" I want to just code forever, but I migrated from coder to more of an architecture role. However, for me, the growth is just not there. It is in the cross-collaboration, mentoring and industry influence is how you develop. In some companies time in grade is a factor in layoffs. Due to ageism companies might not be looking for someone at a certain age and experience to just grind out code full-time, but to work on a product holistically.
Yeah same, it's pretty nice that like Messenger app and their site Messenger.com exists to just totally avoid the feed and everything aspect of Facebook.
Similar to Option/Some/None in Scala which is immensely useful
> exports its manufacturing labor to a country that apparently has a much lower standard of living for its workers than ours

Well that's a stupid argument. That's exactly what we SHOULD be doing. The BEST kind of charity is finding someone a job.
It may have made more sense if I mentioned I'm on mobile. Maybe I'll make the repo when I finish doing laundry.
S.O.U.R.C.E.?
Blockchains and privacy are antithetical. The whole purpose of a blockchain is to keep track of transactions so that everyone knows how many coins everyone else has in order to prevent double-spending. You can try to achieve anonymity through obscurity but this will never work in principle or in practice.
Then ignore it? How is this a problem when this person is stalking you in the first place?
> C++ does not have an equivalent, it's completely decentralized which results in more messy situation.

That is the role of the ISO C++ committee, is it not? They are the major stakeholders. They would just have to care enough. They cared enough to release C++20, didn't they? It's not like they never get anything done, which seems to be the implication a lot of people make in this discussion.

> Instead of a top down decision it's a negotiation between the various actors.

My understanding is that the various committee members represent the disparate interests of the broader C++ community. I agree it would be very much like a negotiation.

That doesn't mean that it can't be done. This whole thread is discussing things that have been done by the C++ committee: C++20.

> But the last thing we need is for the C++ standards committee to standardize a package manager. That would take forever to do, would result in a messy tool that tries to compromise with all the actors in some ways, make it very hard and slow to evolve over time and would likely result in a lot of pain, etc.

You just summarized my feelings about C++ in general. I would much rather people use Rust or Go or any number of other languages instead of C++, depending on project needs. Such opinions are rarely taken well in threads like this, though, so...

I've been trying to be optimistic and point out that C++ could get package management. If the C++ committee process works well, then the package manager should also end up turning out well.

I'll leave the reader to decide how well they think the long term direction and guidance of the C++ standard has been going and apply that to their feelings of a hypothetical future package manager.
This article is like 60% talking about how awesome the author is, 30% about how everyone should be as awesome as him and 10% accusing someone without naming them and without any evidence or anything.

That's why you don't self-publish this stuff if you're an amateur. It throws under the bus anything worthwhile you might have had to say.
"Rare-earth elements" is a name for a set of particular elements. Cobalt is not among them.

Despite their name rare-earth elements are not that rare either. They occur in rather low concentrations though and never pure either (i.e. always as compounds) which makes mining and processing them complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element
also r/chubbyFIRE
Well yeah, if the service can't treat people decently and make a profit of course it should shut down ...
That’s the hope but remember that it’s irrevocable: you’re gambling that they got the implementation perfect, the network is operated securely without practical side channels or timing analysis, no unrecognized attacks will become practical, and that your clients will not have any bugs or backdoors — for the rest of your life!
You are of course quite right. It wasn't a ban in any legal sense. Though I do think it highlights that the method is already frowned upon... and as and when the public becomes more aware of the fact they are walking around broadcasting their location there will be more pressure to restrict the collection of the data.

That said. CCTV does not appear to be going anywhere, and there is very little difference between processing video footage to track people and tracking a MAC address. The only difference in this particular case is that 'sharing' of the data between retailers is touted as a feature (which of course it is).
Their speech wasn't suppressed. It was simply that they didn't want to hear reality. CNN almost never turns away national politicians. The Sunday politics shows constantly have balanced or right leaning panels. They aren't being silenced. They just want to go somewhere that tells them what they want to hear.
I've been caught out by doing date comparisons in Spark SQL using string yyyy-mm-dd against string yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00. It's easy to think that the trailing 00:00:00 will have no impact on date comparisons but it does! Lesson learnt: use substr(date, 1,10)
Google encourages this with feature modules and app bundles. Apple doesn't allow it because they've always been against downloading executable code that doesn't go through app review. Same reason they don't like game streaming or downloading react native at runtime.

I'd like to see them open up this possibility in a controlled way one day. Something like a review process for feature modules that could be updated in a similar process to full apps.
Some of the smartest people I've met are also the most modest. Being excited about or even proud of one's own work is different from being arrogant and obnoxious about it.
> When you are playing chess, at some point you make a mistake, you may go back several steps that were “correct” to find the one that was wrong. When you fall off a bicycle, you think of when you lost your balance. Deep learning does that. The credit assignment in a deep learning exercise can be tens, even hundreds, of levels deep.

This sounds like reinforcement learning. Anyone know what he's talking about, some RNN with 'tens, even hundreds' of levels of feedback that hasn't died away?
Really? I found those examples to be laid the most compelling and interesting overall.
mostly marketing
You can build bots for Whatsapp. There used to be lots of libraries and samples on github before the DCMA takedown. There were libraries in C/C++, PHP, JS and Python.

Here in Brazil we do have Whatsapp and SMS spam. Whatsapp spam is rare but it happens and it will only grow.
Sculpting in Virtual Reality :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnqFdSa5p7w
I wonder why that kind of CEO tends to be chosen in the first place.
Why does everyone assume paypal has no support? There's a contact link right on their homepage with email and phone support options. If Google wants to be in this game, I believe they should have to offer the same, especially in cases like for Android developers who have to wait a month to get paid.
I haven't tried to do that myself, but django-compressor has a management command if you don't want to use template tags, which are really just there for the convenience factor:

> The concatenation and compressing process can also be jump started outside of the request/response cycle by using the Django management command manage.py compress.
Ah gotcha, thanks - assumed he meant that the price was listed on the page.

The points about 8 vs. 2 cores still stands, though? Add to that that spot pricing isn't really comparable to guaranteed pricing (on demand is more comparable since dedicated servers are on-demand, you can cancel and get your month prorated).
Or the Humble Bundle, for that matter.
http://www.humblebundle.com/#contribute
It looks like you can drive it into a lake and then it turns into a submarine. I bet he's gonna unlock that feature a few months after people bought it, and why the windows are "unbreakable"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeBqf6bYZak
A lot of people complaining that this wouldn't be able to hold the load of the original thing like that. I'd argue that all platforms attempting to be all-encompassing is a big problem right now. Maybe a single instance of a platform should really just accept as much load as this could handle in this form. They could federate with eachother to replicate the massive connected structure.
Even physics is not so simple as that anymore. The proof that the Higgs boson exists was a statistical test on a sea of noise. And CERN was recently recruiting machine learning experts to help them find other patterns in that noise.

Modern physics uses many of the same methods as softer fields like economics. The problem in economics (and other soft sciences) is the low standard of evidence they're willing to accept.
Any further resources on this phenomenon? Seems very interesting as an area of theoretical exploration.
I wonder what Mu will offer that Rust does not.
> always assume that FPGA is a whole another subject

This has been my assumption as well. I looked a while back at learning FPGA development because it seemed rather interesting, but quickly decided to go another route after seeing and talking to some FPGA guys. From what I saw it does not in any way resemble what I'm used to as a software developer
The US is a very wasteful society. It makes sense that they'd want to burn twice as much fuel as necessary to get themselves around. Watch Wall-E again to see where we're heading. Those "SUVs" are quite literally obese versions of the cars of the past. Obese vehicles to carry around obese, useless bodies.
> Of course, there are many other reasons why children from different countries might have different mathematical abilities, including how maths is taught and attitudes towards education. It’s normally hard to control for these factors when studying people from different cultures – but one language offers a fascinating solution.

I read that as: of course, we know there are other possible explanations but we won’t dive in the research literature and we’ll instead indulge ourselves in this Sapir-Whorf based article because it’s good click bait.

The only interesting fact presented is that there is a slightly performance penalty in execution (not result) on some arithmetical tasks that never happen in real life based on the way to express numbers in subject’s native language.
"The group has not yet settled on a name for the mystery material. Jena calls it U-carbon—U for unusual. But Therrien, inspired by medieval alchemists who sought in vain for “adamant,” an unbreakable lodestone, is calling it adamantia."

Is adamantium trademarked?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/next-graphene-shiny-...
There are many people who vote in America who are not ready to pardon the administration.
for the sake of argument let's assume there is a God. and let's say He was better than all the things He created. better than that awesome sunset that you saw that took your breath away; better than that favorite meal you love -- you know the one. love is giving the object of your love the best... the best you've got. what if God giving Himself was Love defined?

just for argument's sake...
That's what I was thinking. It shows how important marketing and UX are when launching products.
My thoughts would actually be to eliminate the labor, such as having backup key storage kiosk in apartment rentals since I guess people with homes would be prudent enough to hide keys and luxury apartments have doormen.
> “Well, first of all, I don't think there's anything bad about playing a game. Unless the game is non-free — then it's bad for you, if you play it.

I get that Stallman's shtick is being as hardline as possible about free software, but it really feels like sometimes this hurts the free software movement.

Imagine trying to bring in a normal, non-technical person who plays video games as one of their hobbies (describes a lot of my friends at least), and they see this quote. Immediately, it feels bullshit and dumb to them - non-free games (which make up 99.999% of the market) are "harmful for them"? It's hard enough for me (a trusted friend) to explain the free software movement to them after seeing stuff like this, imagine a random person just stumbling upon it.

And yes, every community has their super-idealistic members that make extreme hyperbolic statements, but the problem is that Richard Stallman is one of the most influential and respected members of the movement (and the founder of it!). Sometimes I feel like we could get a lot more done for free software with a tiny bit of pragmatism - for example, in the video game space, pushing for Valve to open source the Steam client, which feels like the most likely high-impact goal to push for rather than the lost battle of trying to change the entire industry at once.
It definitely makes sense for me to reserve 1-letter commands for the user.
tldr: paper is an attempt of applying crypto/blockchain related ZK-SNARKs to network security.

But modern network security and firewalling is completely different and became very advanced. Nobody is blocking http port by port nowadays. Modern NGFWs are capable of decrypting/encrypting TLS traffic transparently for the end user and server and inspecting traffic for policy compliance based on any attribute in the request payload. and it runs on dedicated ASICs on specialized network appliances in realtime.

Just another crypto tech looking for a problem to solve
I recall reading that the biggest driver of the current inflation are used cars; fuel; new cars, housing and food.

If you have a house/appt and not buying a car - plus in tech and working from home , it is likely will see only impact on food. But then not that dramatic vs the high numbers being reported.
Unreal isn't built for 2d, you can tell the games they were built for (Unreal Tournament, Fortnite, etc).
Regarding 1, something I've noticed on HN is the overuse of some adverbs. "Absolutely" comes to mind. "I absolutely agree" could as well be "I agree".
This is why diversity of thought is important in teams. Some people will be the “ship, ship, ship type who make sure that the team is meeting its goals. Some will be detail oriented, may frustrate the first type but will ensure the team is producing quality results. Some people like to be on the bleeding edge and bring you techniques to the team. Others like to clean up tech debt or bring incremental improvements to old solutions. All of these are valuable even if they at times frustrate each other.

These are generalisations. There are likely far more “types” and different people will act as different types in different situations.

Having a mix isn’t sufficient though. The team also needs to find ways to prioritise and manage conflict to get the best approach in place for any given situation.