skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started learning to code when I was 31. Though I did have an engineering degree, but I learnt basically nothing after getting into engg school. Spent most of the 4.5 years worrying whether I was smart enough for this to do this and setting myself up for very dismal results.

Became an advertising copywriter after college and spent 7 years in the copy mines. It was truly a profoundly uninspiring industry (though I continued to doubt myself and never really got to where I wanted to and should have)

Founded a startup with a friend hoping for a fresh start. Took forever to find a developer so in some strange moment of overconfidence (sanity?) I decided I would take a shot at it and started learning Python. Found myself hypnotized by the codeacademy course and knocked it off in 3 days or less.

Some a few started programs then a developer friend came on board as an advisor and told me to pick up Django. In a few months (with him and another good friend doing all the heavy lifting) I got enough into the thing to be able to scrape data, make API calls and develop the admin interface.

With everything I learnt I found a block of that constant self doubt melting away. I had never felt so capable and in control in my entire life.

Startup wound up though and I had to take a job at a design agency. Though I picked up the basics of HTML and CSS there most of my work was managing clients (aarghh) Left in a few months as a writer at this startup working part time.

But within a month of me joining the CTO quit and the company was in massive flux. I just stepped forward and said I would code. The other developers happily took the help and I got my first job as programmer. The next 1.2 years were just full days of writing scripts to automate our workflow and figuring out this danged JS, Node thingy (which I really love now btw)

When this place wound up too and I studied React, now have a big 6 month project at this company helping them automate their workflow with an admin app. Am writing the fullstack code, all by myself. Which is so exciting and empowering.

Programming is awesome. It's my one advice to anyone who asks me for advice these days. It changed my life completely. From being a constantly depressed and volatile guy I am now fairly confident and really rare to anger.

Surprise bonus, I have become far more creatively productive after leaving the creative industry and have written a bunch of songs (that I don't hate) and also started learning to play the Piano, something I always wanted to do.

Next up is Algos and Data Structures the next time I have enough saved for a 3 month immersion. I really do think they are super important. Plus picking up a new language. Suggestions welcome.
As hinted at in this paper, continuations are directly at odds with dynamic unwinding (e.g. "finally" blocks).
Profit and margin aren't the same thing though.
Example(s)?

I read the full details. There were several situations in which I thought they were being too diplomatic regarding the Clinton email scandal (meaning they were being unnecessarily harsh on Clinton).
Ask HN: Do you analyze your AWS Bill?
Out of curiosity does your company analyze your AWS bill on a recurring basis. If so what program(s) do you use?
The SFPD would be happy to look into it in two to four weeks... or for $536 ($134 per hour of overtime with a four-hour minimum), they can look at it right now... /s
There's a difference between profit and profit margin. A cheap restaurant with a low margin can be more profitable due to volume.
How so? They explain their reasoning, and it's independently verifiable.

I was especially impressed by the note at the bottom:

> "NOTE: This story has been updated based on discussions with a number of scientists in the field. It was originally listed as a MIXTURE, but we have now reclassified it as FALSE in response to concerns that our original narrative might have led viewers into taking the results of an activist group’s lab analyses as a scientifically rigorous addition to the debate."
The author is a professional type designer and created some well known fonts - including Proxima Nova and Anonymous Pro. For someone that has spent much of his life looking at and thinking about typefaces, I imagine it's trivial for him to accurately identify hundreds of varieties.

I recommend "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst if you'd like to improve your type identification abilities. The appendices have a good, but by no means exhaustive, reference of some of the better known typefaces.
> It really depends on how you define social mobility. Immigrants in the US often jump from the bottom to top income quartiles within a single generation.

If you read the FA, you see the same is the case in Canada. In general though the US has very low mobility for a developed nation. Canada is fairly average for a developed nation.
I've been there twice and never seen anything like the Cat there. Also if it works and turns on, you can also try the "Living Computer Museum" in Seattle, sponsored by Paul Allen. I don't know their policy, maybe they will even buy it if it works.
I blame touchscreen PCs. Less dense UI is better when you need to navigate with a fat finger. As Windows becomes more focused on touch, people using it will demand that the web becomes so too.
When both parties are in a corporate network their IT policy would forbid using magic wormhole. They'd have to use the file-transfer program managed by their IT department.
This is the C++ trap - you keep piling on more features to the language and then you can answer some criticisms by saying "just use this subset". But this is not how the usage of programming languages pans out. Programmers can't agree even with themselves (=consistency) about what subset to use, or have accidents with it. And libraries / practices in that PL's culture can't rely on those conventions and subsets, so they can't really leverage the benefits. It's basically inventing your own mini-language with borders drawn in the sand and not enforced by any tooling.
For Canada ethnicity would be relevant not race. Racial normativism not a significant part of our culture like it is in the US.
Don't be blind. Culture definitely provides tailwinds and headwinds in certain areas. Ignoring your attack on the strawman of 100% explanatory power the actual degree of effect may be very small but compounded over time.

A simple example is being good at multiplication in kindergarten. This small advantage can become a desire for continuous academic excellence via courage towards math. If a child's parents are stereotypically prudish, another "advantage" is the ability to sidestep distractions of athletics/sex.

If the natural momentum a culture can build isn't appreciated, people become shallow and hoarding. In my family for example, the idea that Asians are naturally smarter and Blacks dumber is common and was the impetus for my thoughts in this area. I see a greed and lack of empathy developing that is difficult to watch.

The most common actual real world usage I get out of explaining this model is more support for affirmative action. Perhaps other people can see it as having other value. No need to trash it. All models are simplifications of reality and thus "wrong".
Im not too surprised. The strength of plywood is well known in aero and racing circles. For parts like stringers plywood is used instead of fiberglass when higher stiffness is required.

Plywood is similar strength/weight as fiberglass which isn't too far off from carbon fiber.

The issue with all popular composite materials like fiberglass, carbon fiber, and plywood is that their strength is highly directional. It takes a lot of skill and testing to make sure your part is strong enough in all directions force will be applied.

There's some omnidirectional "mat" type materials you can get easily for fiberglass but you exchange the directional strength of weave for a non-directional but overall inferior strength of randomly oriented strands.
As a non-Google Reader user, what did it offer that Feedly doesn't on the free tier?
I wonder if there is a link between life originating from the sea and the ability of using our hearing as the main sensory organ to detect other objects.

And maybe we over relied on some senses and made an education system which relied on certain sense organs more than other senses.
But talking about Smartphones,we may be coming to a full circle with Voice assisted AI is gaining ground.

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I would suggest you to read The book 'A brave new world' By Aldous Huxley which predicted how the information overloaded numbness works in a beautiful way
This is not a Java question. If a C compiler can do it then a Java Virtual Machine can do it, provided that the C code of the JVM makes it so. There are many implementations of the JVM so you really should be asking which JVMs do this. Oracle is not the only game in town, not to mention at least two open source JVMs where you could add whatever capabilities that you need.

On the other hand, if you are asking whether or not some magic compiler optimization will take your crappy code and make it run fast on SIMD, not only is that the wrong question but you have already lost the race.

The winners of the race asked the question, "How can we add a capability to our Java application to run computations fast using SIMD?" and they found number of ways to do this without relying on magic. It might be a bit of work to code because you have to do it with intent, like the old timers who placed code and data carefully on their drum memory computers to make the code run much faster. You can code with intent in any language on any platform, but because your intent is stronger than the asthetic perfection of the platform, things can look a little grungy to an outsider. Comment your code and document it well.

And ask yourself whether offloading the computation to a GPU might not be cheaper and even faster than SIMD.
People have a tendency to project themselves onto others and poorly conceive of the fact that it's ok for people to be different. Someone that "lives to work" and someone that "works to live" should be able to work together without thinking something is wrong with the other.
tldr; The article states:

"The superior cognitive capabilities of the human brain over the elephant brain can simply—and only—be attributed to the remarkably large number of neurons in its cerebral cortex."

which simply does not follow. Well, that and we cook!
There are many alternatives now, Feedbin and Feedly to name a couple.
I don't know what you want to say here. Are you trying to argue that NYT and WP is more trustworthy than Fox? How is this related to my post?

Are you suggesting because Google News developers believe NYT and WP is more trustworthy than Fox, like you do, so they always automatically pick NYT over WP? And this is considered as unbiased?

Or, do you mean they have a super AI to determine which news report is close to reality on each single case? So this is considered as unbiased?
OK, so let's take the case of the proposed "includes" feature.

This is syntactical sugar. Replacing indexOf(x)=-1 with includes(x) does nothing else than make the code easier to read, allegedly. The new function provides a shorter way of expressing a single case that indexOf already covers. There are no new capabilities introduced to the language here.

So it's a straight-up coin-toss between "easier to read" and "having to be aware of one more method". I tend to come down on the "no thanks" side of this coin-toss.

Ruby suffers from this, imho. My favourite example is select/reject on arrays. They do exactly the same thing, with the logic on the block reversed. Having to know that there's a reject method (and when to use it) is more mental effort than reading the block logic the other way around, in my opinion.
Yes, and fine dining is typically worse in every metric imaginable. That's why there is no McDonald's of fine dining. Besides being an oxymoron, the business model is terrible.

You turn over fewer tables with more expensive food, more staff, more real estate, more everything. Then the landlord raises your rent, sucks out all the profit, and you're done.
> He would come home drained and tired, and wouldn't be available during the week to do something like watch a TV show together.

Have you ever sincerely asked him if he did it because he had to or because it was his genuinely wanted to?

Some people may find the latter to be absurd, but I'm usually the same way during the weekdays.
Life-long learning is probably the greatest skill
> Can someone please explain to me how this isn't extortion and bribery?

Easy: it's part of the "pay per use" idea that a lot of people seem to think that government should have. Just like express toll lanes or a $7 express bus along side a $3.25 local with three times as many stops, if you want something and don't care how long it takes, choose the low- or no-cost option. If you want it RIGHT DANG NOW, choose the high-cost option.

It's not bribery, it's just business...and people seem to think that government should operate like a business, so we get this fee-for-service setup.
You left out the very next sentence about the chairs.

"But then when people saw them in the space, they liked them."
I don't think you'd know if you'd worked with someone who is just in it for the money. If they're coding just for the money then it stands to reason that they'd also be willing to pretend to like coding just for the money as well.
"Maersk is down."

They made themselves fragile to this attack. It was completely gratuitous.

They are large enough to chart their own destiny and critical enough to care deeply about it ... and they built on top of cutesy new versions of Windows that everyone knows are garbage.

How does that old saying go ?

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a multitude of times, in varying circumstances, over and over and over again for two fucking decades, shame on me."

Something like that ...
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Nitpick: fabric lay-ups are rarely used in industry because the weave exerts shear stresses on the fibers, making them weaker under load. Aerospace composites are all unidirectional.

But fiber blends are very common. It's typical to mix CF, glass, and aramids to get the price and properties you want, though I don't think it would make much sense to mix chopped and continuous fibers.
>A fire department permit worker told Tortosa that it would take him two to four weeks to even look at Robin’s paperwork — or, for $536 ($134 per hour of overtime with a four-hour minimum), Tortosa could pay for him to look at it right now.

This makes me very angry. This is approaching the corruption say in India that Modi is trying to get rid of where every local official requires a bribe for them to do their job. I hope this kind of behavior is severely punished.
Cooking also eliminates a large number of diseases which increases lifespan and health.

Next, you'd want cutting tools to separate your food into clothes parts and eating parts. Use bladders for storing water, which (along with clothes) allows for safer travel and bigger hunting/gathering ranges. Cutting tools also help make good weapons.

With a larger range and easier hunting, you won't have to be as nomadic to find food, so you can start permanent settlements. Find somewhere where plants will grow with regular flooding. Learn to make clay brick and pots in your fire, and you can now store food, seeds, and water. More time now to figure out how to control the flooding process so you lose less crops and can grow on drier land.
Yes. For organizations the harm is compounded because IT and users don't understand how limited AV is. They think AVs have good detection rate, and they think AVs can generally "disinfect" your computer when you get pwned, and think AV doesn't increase attack surface. This leads to the false conclusion that it's an acceptable risk to use Acrobat Reader and open attachments in Office etc.
The concept of "sides" and where the lines are drawn between them are part of the agenda: you're not escaping it. If every morning you're reading Fox News and The Huffington Post, you're getting "both sides" but not much insight.
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I created a git-repository of the scripts I use often:

https://github.com/skx/sysadmin-util

That seems to be somewhat popular on github, but I rarely receive feedback so I'm not sure if people star because they use them too, or just because they suspect they might.
HI agamble,

You can do just that via
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I am a core contributor to this project on github (https://github.com/machawk1/warcreate) and the maintainer/creator of the latest version of WAIL. So I am not biased in anyway ;)
My office had two small nap rooms in the break room. A small bench-like bed, a blanket, and a sliding door that makes a dark room. It's bed really to take a 20 minute break to refresh and refocus.
They should sue the pants off whoever shut down that email address. For many companies it would have been cheaper to pay than to suffer the damage that has already been done. And it would be easier to catch the culprits if people give them lots of cash because in spending the loot, they will make mistakes and make themselves visible to the police.

Now there is nothing to track until they rewrite their code and try the attack again with randomized email addrs
Well then there should be competition. Lol. We could write software that would probably handle that way more efficiently.
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No one gets fired for installing Antivirus on every computer. From my experience enterprise IT is driven by checklist, looks good on paper, cover-my-* decisions. People are not interested in doing the right thing in large companies.

In one company every developer was forced on Antivirus without file exceptions making compilations a huge pain.
One of the things it does is free up our skull to have more realtive space for the brain. Chewing uncooked food requires very robust teeth, jaws, and musculature to power the jaws. By cooking food, it is easier to chew so instead of having massive jaws and teeth, we can have much smaller jaws and teeth and more room for brain.
Take a look at `mr` which allows you to script updating/checking out/etc on a large number of git, mercurial, and other repositories:

https://myrepos.branchable.com/

For example I store all my repos beneath ~/Repos/ so I can update them all, checking out any missing ones with:

cd ~/Repos/
mr checkout
mr update
We've asked you repeatedly to stop posting personal attacks to HN. If you do it again, we will ban you.
I like meditation better. I want a meditation room at work, complete isolation, with options for sitting and lying down. Deep meditation has become useful for me to relax and recharge. Also, when you get good at it, it helps you solve things faster when you get stuck on a problem.
I wonder how long it takes things like work productivity tips on HN to filter out to the real world?
I think that they also had Joan say "the medium is the message" about a decade before McLuhan thought it up, but I could be mistaken.
Exactly. Highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, save Seychelles. Slavery 2.0 meets prison-industrial complex and voter disenfranchisement. The US justice system is the opposite of reform-based systems like those in many Scandinavian countries. It's mean, expensive and reinforces a type of social apartheid.
The point is that even a patent doesn't help; unlike any other patent violation, where courts can issue injunctive relief for a violation, the only remedy allowed for a government violation is a money award for reasonable compensation for the use.

> Could they force someone to provide them with a license due to extreme circumstances?

Basically, the cited section amounts to a blanket delegation by Congress to the executive branch of the right to use patents without license, with eminent domain-like compensation after the fact for the taking. So there's no need for a particular justification, or a license.
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Fill it with methane/natural gas, and you can use the fuel to keep it aloft, and to move it around.
"No, the human brain does not have more neurons than the much larger elephant brain—but the human cerebral cortex has nearly three times as many neurons as the over twice as large cerebral cortex of the elephant."

Does the mass of neurons in the cerebellum give the ele' any greater capability? Longer memory for revenge, perhaps?
While I agree with all of your points, we have yet to see GM being fined in the US. Otherwise VW is probably the worst offender and still getting a pat on the back in the EU. The EU plans to punish VW since 2015. Rather than do that, they went after individual member states (backed by taxpayers) for failing to punish VW.

Ireland gave some big corps special tax deals as it's the case with Apple. It's also used by big corps to pass earnings through as it had lower corporate taxes compared to other member states. This is an Irish feature and a flaw in the tax policies of other EU states, which the EU tried to fix with transfer taxes.

What I am saying is that the EU is failing to punish VW while being maybe a little too harsh on US corps. I think we can all agree VW is a much worse offender than Google: selling cars that poison the air and lie about it vs. a few search results clearly labelled as sponsored ads up on the first page.
Note that having a good multi-generational backup system in place for all machines, servers and laptops, would render this kind of ransomware harmless.

But the state of IT has deteriorated so badly these days because management doesn't care any more. After all why care when you can just take your severance pay and get an increase in salary and more responsibility at another company. Rinse and repeat.

It used to be that the primary job of system admins was to keep the data safe from loss. That was more important than keeping the systems running. How did we lose this?
Theoretically, you can work less. Then again, it's hard to guarantee the market won't tank and hurt your savings, that taxes won't go up, that a minor healthcare crisis won't screw you over, etc. etc.

The notion of "retirement" is a quaint one.
Majority of the people i know just go with individual sashimi they like on the menu, so the average diner is gonna pay quite a bit less than the Omakase courses.

Also it was nice to see vegetarian options in the menu. A couple of times I've been in situations were there was one vegetarian person in the group so we would have to skip over restaurants that don't offer even a single vegetarian dish.
Unless you are eating $20-30 lunches every day, the difference really isn't that great. It really boils down to: spend money to save time, or spend time to save money?

A typical week of lunches for me is one meal out with coworkers (~$15), three meals at the work cafeteria ($6-8, we'll assume $8), and one day WFH that we won't count. Average cost of $9.75 per meal, and no time invested. If I was taking my lunch, I'd probably be looking at $2-3 worth of food per day, and at least 15 min of prep time per day; more if you count extra time needed for grocery shopping and so on. I'm not pulling in a fat SV 6 figure salary, but even so my hourly rate is upwards of $40 per hour, so the meal prep time alone is equal to what I'm spending on lunch.

Personally, I'd rather have the time than the money. YMMV.