skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm absolutely horrendous at remembering both names and faces so would be very interested to hear suggestions of techniques or tools one can use to assist remembering people.

"You can repeat the person’s name back to her while you’re talking to her, Harris says, “although the best strategy is simply to show more interest in the people you meet."

I've tried this with no luck, I will still forget a person's name within 60 seconds.

It almost seems like I have a portion of my brain missing, and I've always been like this for anything involving memorization. Going over a list of names on a regular basis helps, but very little. However, my spatial recall seems to be much better - if I have a seating plan for example, for some reason I can easily associate a person with where they sit, but I simply cannot remember their name even if I deal with them fairly regularly.
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Yes. Unless I read Anarchy wrong, there's nobody to help you. Unless you are wealthy and can pay somebody.
I worked in an office where people were notorious for distracting others. I went out and bought a button, like the one from the Staples commercials that would play a recording of me screaming "BLOCKED" when I pressed it if someone would interrupt me. Interruptions ended shortly afterwards.
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My country loses. I don't like that, so I give my people guns, invade your country, and kill your people.

That's what I imagine would happen, anyway.
I'm building a personal CRM right now. My girlfriend and I kept going to the dog park and remembering people's dog's names, the walk we met them on, or the park we saw them at, but we could never recall details about the person. I'm building something to correlate people, events, and locations that lets you keep notes. There's a landing page and waiting list right now, https://socialite.ooo, but I'm hoping to have a beta by New Year.
Right, so the point is that property owners do not want to have anyone walk by on foot, because they fear they could be trespassers or loiterers that are not welcome in the area? And this is why a cul-de-sac stops not only cars but everything, with a fence.

But then that also stops e.g. children from moving about on their own in the neighbourhood.
Lended is also an Americanism.
I wonder if there had ever been a show in the history of television in which 70% of viewers who watched the pilot made it to the finale. Fortunately, the article states Netflix has no plans to "rejigger" (i like that word, plan on using it more) its method of greenlighting shows. Which probably, despite the enormous quantity of data they collect, still resembles something akin to that scene in "Network," where they consider doing a docu-drama about the Symbionese Liberation Army.

You can count me as one of the 30% that never makes it past the first ten minutes of even the most acclaimed serial content. I just like movies. But out of curiosity I did watch the extended trailer of the 500 Startups reality show "Bazillion Dollar Club." There is a scene where a team is finalizing a prototype with its sourced design consultants. Its all dudes and they select a shape that is, well, let's just say suggestively masculine in its proportion. They decide they need to counterbalance their opinion with the female perspective and invite the ladies on staff to give their opinion. The women choose a completely different design. Soft, with rounded curves. But most importantly they have a visceral negative reaction to the men's choice. But the startup leadership completely ignores what I would consider a very important data point in favour of an arbitrary metric. That "70% of men make electronic purchasing decisions for their households." Completely ignoring the fact that generally, men don't really care about the appearance of their gadgets, just that they function properly. And that women generally tend to make the design choices at home. Obviously a very broad generalization but still.

The lesson here is about letting stats influence faulty reasoning while ignoring intuition. It doesn't appear that Netflix is allowing data to dictate programming. Yet.
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Except for EVs. I think we can trust that Nissan LEAFs, Teslas, and similar are not lying about their emissions! I wonder if this will give them a boost in the market.
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I personally say "by accident" and was born in 86 (during the period the author says speakers are split) and "on accident" has always sounded odd to me, and almost wrong, although when I was in school I do recall people saying both with a pretty even split (as much as I can remember, anyway).
> Does anyone else think that actually sounds kind of awesome?

Is it, really? I've seen themes for the gnome desktop that look prettier and closer to Windows than that. So much so, that I've spent a couple of days working alongside my colleagues until one of them noticed that something was off.

To me, that looks like an amateurish throwback to the beginning of the century. I was expecting some reporting on how they would have Wine pre-installed and customized so that users could run Windows applications effortlessly or something like that.
He may also get another $30M or so in severance package, but that's up to the board.
I've learned to "fake it" so well that I can seem more social than my wife, who is a very social person. And yet, I'm always aware (on some level) that I'm faking it. Life is funny ;)
While the FDA may not be a great regulatory group, if someone at a pharmaceutical were found to cheat like this they could potentially be barred from working in the industry again. This works in some cases, at least in theory.
Here's another one: In New Zealand they say "they are different to us" instead of the American "they are different from us". Always trips me up. Arbitrary I suppose; any preposition will do because the comparison is in thought-space not physical space.
I recommend Wadler's very readable paper "Monads for functional programming" (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba...) which defines exactly what Monads in the context of functional programming are and how they help with IO, State etc.
Or BF Joust:

https://esolangs.org/wiki/BF_Joust
I don't understand what this is supposed to mean.

New methods of analyzing data, which can be implemented as a script, is also new technology. But it sounds like you are excluding it as a possibility.

Again, what do you call "tech"?

Intel provides most of the CPUs that Google, Microsoft, etc. use. Can't I be equally dismissive and say that Intel provides the tech and Google/MS merely run programs on top of it?
Ah, trolling a comment that is anti-flamewars. so meta-cool!

Sorry, FS, that was indeed my mistake.
Which app do you use?
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> "We create these connections, and then we make an assumption, which is: When someone wants to go from A to B, they look for the quickest path - whatever the mode."

That sounds like a crazy assumption for commuting.

This may be true for some subset of commuters, but when commuting via public transport regularly, a lot of people quickly develop favoured routes that often have nothing to do with speed, and everything to do with flow and convenience and what trains you can get seats on, and what lets you actually spend your time reading rather than changing trains.

Over 15 years of commuting in London, the quickest path has almost never been the route I ended up favouring.
Yeah that's pretty accurate from my experience too. It changes from city to city. Pacific north west cities like Portland and Seattle have a much more balanced view of cycling but on the east coast where I am now it's pretty much like you describe.
The F35/F22 AESA phased array radar is still as far as I'm aware, the best in the world. It was considered so sensitive, that the US wouldn't even let the UK use it. There isn't a closer military partner with the US than the UK, so that says how much the US values some of the components like that.
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how ironic is that? hahaha i had the same thought! He probably should go back to Notepad lol
SQLAlchemy really is great. Alembic (the schema migration toolkit) still lacks some functionality compared to e.g. the Django "South" package, especially concerning the handling of cyclic dependencies (where it just "bails out") and some things that are still not correctly implemented for various database backends (such as Enum fields), but apart from that it's a really really great tool. Recently I have used it to implement MongoDB query sntax on SQL which was not only possible using SQLAlchemy but even enjoyable (for those who are interested in running Mongo queries on SQL: https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb -> see feature/sql_backend branch, which is still not 100 % stable though).

What makes it especially amazing is that Mike Bayer has written 90 % of the code base by himself (https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/graphs/contributors), which somtimes makes me wonder if he is a real person or just a pseudonym under which a group of talented programmers publish code ;)
If you don't like Netflix's ratings recommendations, you might like to try MovieLens.org. They let you choose between different algorithms & provide some additional stats (eg your average rating per genre, unusual likes & dislikes, distribution of ratings by decade).
I actually would say increased/decreased in those situations, but I think most people (myself included) would also say those were improvements--they don't come with any significant costs, whereas large-scale ag does have associated, often negative, side-effects.

Tragically for our "argument" I believe doing less work for the same output is a good thing, at least in general. But even that has associated costs that aren't always "good" given current conditions :/
I've heard "lent" but never "lended".

"I lent a pen off him", "he lent me a pen". Could be a Northern thing though.
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Postscript: You have to love a FAQ that's so old it contains bits like this.

11. I do not have FTP. How do I get all this great stuff?

There is an FTP email server at bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu. Send email with a subject and body text of "help" (without the quotes) for more information on its usage. Note that many FTP email gateways are shutting down due to abuse.
Like many of you, I'm sure, I've been plagued by interruptions at work for years and years. For most of those years, I've ranted about how bad it is, and gone to antisocial extremes like hanging office hours signs on the back of my chair closing the door and not answering knocks, hiding out in quiet places, and more. All of my tactics largely failed, people ignore my requests for quiet because "it's just a really quick question." It's always just a "quick" question, that is never satisfied with a quick answer.

But lately I'm turning around and feeling like interruptions are a sign that communication needs to be happening that isn't, and asking the question, "how can the things we're interrupting each other about be communicated on a schedule we expect and can batch, rather that being surprised by it in continuous small increments?" It might be a failure to manage properly, or it might be poor documentation (say it ain't so!) or it might be that interruptions are necessary and healthy and I've been swimming upstream instead of going with the flow.

It's not like anyone wants or needs more meetings, but a lot of important talk happens on nobody's schedule, and I'm realizing (especially as I get older and manage people & start my own company) that much of how a company runs depends heavily on impromptu communication, and that cutting it off might be wildly bad. But, this post and others are right about the cost of context switching, so clearly we need some balance.

I have no answers, other than I know the entire company has to be in on and agree to any interruption mitigation plan. I want some magical software that will arrange batches of impromptu meetings every hour or so, that everyone in the company would use willingly, just to keep the interruptions from being a constant stream.
That one I understand. It was an exception anyway; lended is more straightforward. Like 'builded' vs 'built'. The sign on our old 1800-era edifice says "Builded 1838" so I guess they used to use that (or at least write it that way)
I don't have a problem with locality being violated. According to relativity, distance is relative and depends on the reference frame. There will always been some reference frame where their is no distance between points.
I love SQLAlchemy because I had formally learnt MySQL in high school and I never seemed to understand why I wouldn't use Excel instead.

SQLAlchemy + Python (preferably using Flask) and the Mega Tutorial by Miguel Grinberg is the best way to get started in web development. I realize every body has different methods that work for them, but not only did this work for me, it also was very well explained by Miguel and also as OP said, the documentation on SQLAlchemy.

It was sad to bid adieu to SQLAlchemy recently, as I picked up MongoDB (you should check out MongoEngine if you haven't!)
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Those photos from that article are truly powerful. It's a shame that media coverage of war isn't more like that. It is brutal and disgusting, and if you are going to support it, at least look it in the face.

I'm not convinced that remote war will ever be a good thing, however. It is still fundamentally about controlling people and territory, and that comes as the cost of human lives, both civilian and enlisted.
The sky diving gives you more utility that whatever else you might spend $200/$20 on. Money is mere a neutral medium of exchange. You might rather express it in terms of liking sky diving more than your ability to pay rent for x period, or eating out a number of times, or buying books for your next semester or any number of other things that might cost $200, and that you then can't do if you spend the $200 on sky diving.
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Could someone explain to me the necessity of the animation? A graph showing the probability distribution for each year would have been much better IMHO.
Just to clarify, core.typed is just a library.
I almost never hear anyone say'on accident' but If I had to guess, it comes from taking sort of a parallel antonym to 'on purpose'. Did you do it 'on purpose'? No, I did it 'on accident'. It sounds weird to my ears but there is some kind of sense to it.
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Not at all. This is the list of problems that exist with an overly slow, early and incomplete type checker.

This has nothing to do with optional typing at all. It's just the expected problems with an early and slow (2min!) implementation of core.typed.

Other type checkers and inferencers in gradually typed languages don't have these problems, so you cannot generalize.

E.g. Optional types in Common LISP on which Clojure is based on doesn't have these problems. Scala has similar problems, but most other non-JVM based gradually typed languages not.
Beginner here.Is this still valid? I saw that one of the questions mentions 1984 as "the last year".
+1 http://stackoverflow.com/a/20799071/552525
When it's native to the language, it's awesome. When it's bolted on as an afterthought, you get articles like this.

Native gradual typing can be much faster and assuming the language has a decent test suite, cases can quickly be added to uncover those troublesome spots.

Aftermarket gradual typing leads to a lot of information that you could use to significantly improve the performance of the language (hey, we have an int, so let's use native types instead of our language's version), but because they're not native, that typically doesn't happen.
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> There's a 1/3 chance of not making it to 81. But then there's also a 20% chance of making it past 91. What do you do about that? You can't spend all your money now. But you can't not spend it, either.

Pensions and annuities, unlike private retirement savings in stocks and bonds, spread this risk out among many people. Your father could get about $650 per month guaranteed for life for every $100,000 he puts in an annuity today.
Computation in mathematics is well represented in the constructive and intuitionistic camps. It was thoroughly examined in the 1930s via the invention of things like lambda calculus and turing machines. It was also subsequently rejected by most mathematicians not because it fails to be equational but just because they decided that they don't really care.

Including notions of computation makes equational theories hairier. That might be very much what you want, and there are plenty of ways in which mathematics talks about (2 + 2) being unequal to (4). Typically you instead replace equality with weaker notions going all the way down to the weakest (most intricate) examples of actual algorithmic computation.

So why avoid this kind of stuff? Because you want to pick a "cognitive abstraction", in your terms, which is most useful. It turns out that for a lot of purposes inclusion of computation is too hairy and obscures what people care about. It also turns out that in many cases what they care about is somewhat unaffected by the computational substrate involved.

I really can't say I agree that your beef with equational reasoning makes much sense to me, but I think it's just because you're shooting too broadly. You can easily have problems with the particular choice of granularity of equating taken by the Haskell community and language... but that's just a much smaller thing.
<aside>I see what you mean, but I don't think it's the implied 'that' that's problematic.

The subject of the second clause is 'the Chinese government', the verb 'to want to', the object 'replace Windows'.

This whole thing qualifies the first clause, 'the OS'.

But the semantic relation between these two clauses ("with") is not established.

It's like saying "A detailed look at the mountain John wants to dance with an elephant".

Doesn't make sense without the "on" which links the two bits.
</aside>

PS: Excuse my pedantry; this stuff really interests me.
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* every differentiable symmetry of an action

(Sorry to be nitpicky, but the asterisk is very important haha)
Cool! But at some point, providing stats yourself is just fudging the algorithm. Why not just browse those categories yourself, instead of diddle an algorithm and seeing if it predicted correctly? Except maybe that's fun too.
I disagree. Typescript is an excellent example of an optional static type system that works great. It has none of the 3 problems the OP describes: it's fast, it nicely encompasses the whole language and the Definitely Typed repository includes a TON of 3rd party library type definitions.
Sorry if this is already evident to you...but the differences between Wikipedia sites is not just about the language. vi.wikipedia.org is independently edited and maintained from en.wikipedia.org. The Vietnamese wikipedia page [1] is not as lengthy as the English one. And I'm not as good as reading Vietnamese as I should be, but the Vietnamese page doesn't seem to have the same content for "Media and censorship" that the English one does...among other differences. So I don't think it's as simple as "Send them to whatever language they used" (though I guess this is one case where seeing Google's source code would be enlightening, so...touché?)

[1] https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Việt_Nam
Did Google invent a squash yesterday?
This is nitpicking, but it's kind of weird that there are tons of genres I've never heard of but no modal jazz.
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I think it is to reinforce the feeling of individual lives. You watch the ball scoot along to 38 years old and suddenly drop, and you recognize that sometimes it just gets cut short. When presented with just the probability distribution, it's easy to ignore the wings and focus on the mode.
The one good thing that may come from all this is a potential opening of code. Maybe not in the open-source kind of way, but hopefully at least in the auditing-so-we-know-you're-not-lying kind of way.
So your first language doesn't distinguish between "being alone" and "loneliness"? What is the word, if I may ask? Or at least, what is the emotional tone? Is it neutral, or negative?
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As an American born in 1994, I have to say that "by accident" sounds a bit funnier than "on accident," which I hear more frequently. However, I feel that I usually say "accidentally" instead of either phrase.
I wonder which industry is the dirtiest: power or fuel processing? (if you include that)
You undermine the force of your argument by saying "when" and "will be" instead of "if" and "could be". All predictions are probabilistic, after all!
Annuities.
Agreed, but it's still frustrating that we live in a world like this. Though something important to point out: This ability to just sue people or smaller companies to bankruptcy is something very American, that's not as easily possible in many European countries. So it's not like utopia that just wouldn't work!
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Passing the test is critical, but making these tests meaningful is even more important: "Some of the emissions measured in the certification cycle differed dramatically from the real traffic emissions"[0].

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Remind me again how a you can buy a laptop without an OS installed and still get bundled crapware?
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Money quote: "if people had just understood and believed Bohr and Heisenberg back in 1925, there would’ve been no need for this whole tiresome discussion"

Prof. Aaronson is teaching a grad seminar this Fall at MIT on Computation and Physics. Here's hoping he makes the lecture notes public ;)
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This sounds similar to security through obscurity.
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What programming paradigm is ordinary css3? Imperative, Declarative object oriented......... what?
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Before cars had software in them, competitors could learn everything by just buying a car, taking it apart, and measuring all the pieces. Yet that was the golden age of the auto industry, with no lack of competition and market growth. So I think it's not a problem for competitors to gain access.