skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What online communities offer a high level of discussion?
One of the things I enjoy most about Hacker News, is the level of discussion.

I would define ‘level’ in this case to mean:

1) Generally, discussions are analytical, emphasising reasoning and evidence

2) Submissions and discussions deal with topics that are intellectually stimulating

3) Many commenters show a high level of expertise around a topic - these comments often float to the top

4) For the most part, people are civil. Those who are uncivil are usually downvoted

Admittedly, this is much easier to foster with a community discussing technology, science and math (with a sprinkling of news/current affairs)

I often use HN as my ‘filter’ to decide what is interesting, and to observe and engage in discussions that offer multiple perspectives on a topic. It’s a much better filter than a social media news feed.

I’d like to find other intellectually stimulating communities - perhaps with a broader range of topics under discussion than the technology/science bent of HN, but having a similar ‘level’ of discussion.
There is no I in AI – the fine line between raising awareness and crying wolf
>As a transhumanist, I see the recent advertisement campaign for device-free dinners as an implicit accusation that devices necessarily inhibit interpersonal engagement rather than enhance it.

They do inhibit it.

I think it's funny that we live in this amazing world of sights, smells, movement, filled with other animals and humans with all sorts of physical and social activities to choose from, but instead we choose to take the blue pill so we can look at a tiny glass square displaying mostly advertising and trivialities, with a horrible user interface.

The only explanation I can think of is that phones are addictive. Smartphones set up a reward system that displaces more enjoyable and useful behaviours.

It's like we've become those people tethered to slot machines at a casino continuously swiping at these devices. They don't even 'pay out' most of the time. It's sad.

I'd prefer to just be a human, thanks.
Even the best models commonly available will only operate at a 3km resolution, which realistically isn't that much more useful than a 10km or 20km grid for ageostrophic winds (wind not affected by the ground). A model might show you have 8kt winds out of the SSE, but things like water, treelines, hills, etc. could have a large impact on a golf ball.

It'd be easy enough to look at the forecast for a 3km model like the HRRR, but the challenging part would be guessing at how the various features on a course interact with that forecast.
Isn't a "super junior developer" an intern?
For confirmation, SFTP is mentioned directly (at least once) in the second article of the series.
signet rings were introduced for two reasons:
1) make sure any tampering with the content is visible
2) people were mostly illiterates at the time so it made sense for them to have something else than signing with XXX
My guess is that as illiteracy in Europe decreased the need for signet rings also decreased
Just out of curiosity, how do you feel with white on blue? Personally it's my favorite (I even have a small snippet to change any website I'm reading to white-on-blue)
Maybe consider the company’s practices when diagnosing its challenges
https://www.pcgamesn.com/counter-strike-global-offensive/csg...

Although this is from the Chinese press conference, and Valve hasn't confirmed it officially, it's at least credible.
1. Be clear about exactly what you want to do in your next role

2. Put your self in the shoes of a hiring manager for that role

3. Edit your CV to emphasise the skills and experience that makes you a good match.

For tech roles, recruiters are everywhere, and uploading your CV to job sites will get your phone buzzing if you have the right keywords.

For professional roles a vast majority of recruiters use LinkedIn, and the site has a setting for "looking for work" which will boost your profile to hiring managers and recruiters.

I'm currently in the process of moving cities* so going through this process myself, and this approach has worked for me.

*Melbourne here I come!
The first known time chart: 10th century
All Code Is Technical Debt
According to a GAO report: young people, newly registered voters and African-Americans were disproportionately affected.

https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-634
What I can't get over is the speed.

Ever since tile maps have become the norm, most of the weather radar services are unbearably slow on my DS(Hel)L connection. This loads fast.

I wonder what they are doing right.
That doesn't make sense. Cal Newport's audience was built from the beginning around one person's efforts to get more work done. It's always been an anecdotal/self-experimental approach. Why quit reading now?

Probably the biggest testable assertion Cal makes is that focus is a muscle that can be strengthened and called on a schedule rather than a depletable, fickle resource. This is consistent with current research: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/03/psychologys-favorite-th...
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I'm not offended. I'm just not going to waste my time reading an article by someone behaving like a child.
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Seconded, I switched to a Logitech M570 and absolutely love it. I was noticing problems in my wrist more than anything.
I'm curious though, how does that apply to other people using your card?

For example, my wife wants to use my CC so we asked our CC company what we need to do to add her, to make her a valid signature.

The answer? Nothing. I can have anyone I want use my card. They sign it with anything they want. It's up to me down the road to claim fraudulent charges, and if I do, the person who signed is the one committing fraud.

This was two cards, both Visa cards offered from different companies.

Wouldn't that be at odds with what you've mentioned here?
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rvagg responds:

https://github.com/nodejs/CTC/issues/165#issuecomment-324798...
Show HN: Pocket Digest – an RRS reader without information overload
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You could run the mass driver in reverse for landing, but you'd have to aim well.
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Hi, everyone, I'm a fan of Pocket, and I've been using Pocket's data to filter the my RSS feed for sometime.
I end up with this idea, and I want to share it with you and the Pocket team.

The basic idea is that, by using Pocket data, we can subscribe as much as possible blogs as possible and end up with better content that we might interested. This was a critical problem for typical RSS readers and now I see it can be solved decently by Pocket.

The full thought is at https://medium.com/@cqcn1991/pocket-digest-your-personalized...
Every single one of these "scoops" carries the narrative "the authorities / the police / people who don't share our opinion collaborate with or are nazis"; laying the mental foundation for further G20 type riots and their self-justification. This narrative is getting quite old for most people these days, even though most support non-violent anti-neonazi and anti-extremist organizations.

Outlets like indymedia and the notorious local establishments appear to be more interested in searching in their local neighbourhood politics for justification to riot than in novel kinds of extremist or outright fascist movements developing on a global scale. This makes it a bit difficult to believe their self-proclaimed goals.
The Novena has a Xilinix FPGA that can only be programmed using proprietary software. I own a Novena and only run free software so I don't use that component at all.
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By generalizing "leftists", you sound like a right-winger who has problems with anything left of your own political views. I'm sure you'll explain how you're in fact a moderate as defense.
Titanfall and Titanfall 2 run on a modified Source engine as well, don't know if it qualifies as "Source 2" but those are 2 recent games
Chuck "SFDebris" Sonnenburg made a great point about this in his review of Carpenter's Prince of Darkness: time travel is the ultimate gamble, because you don't know and can't control how it is going to come out. It's the thing you only do when literally anything else is preferable to the status quo. I don't think the situation of humanity at the end of Episode 2 meets that standard. It's bad, sure! But there are countably infinite ways in which it could be much worse.
Send your clicks/views to a different site with a good write-up: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/moon-ori...
>Also, there's the continuous effort to ban the right-wing party (NPD).

"Normal" right-wing as in conservative would be CDU and CSU.
To quote the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) [0]

>Die Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) vertritt ein auf die Beseitigung der bestehenden freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung gerichtetes politisches Konzept.

The Nationaldemocratic Party Germany (NPD) stands for a political concept aimed at abolishing the free democratic constitutional structure.

[0]
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit...

edit: fix'd formatting
CSV in XML over FTP?

That would look like

<DATA>x,y,z</DATA>

doesn't it?
What incentive to Valve have to make HL3 though, really?

They make a ton of cash on Steam and DOTA2.
It's sad for the fans, in the recent DOTA international tournament, Valve announced a new game to the crowd who were whipped up into a frenzy.

The new game, to the collective groan of the audience, was a DOTA2 card game
IMHO this is the problem that occurs when things are built by committee. You need a strong person who "owns" a creative project, lives and breathes it, and sees it through.. like a movie director or an author does. We shouldn't be thinking of Valve's motivation to make the game, but some creative who defines what it means to be "Half Life".

Valve's structure doesn't feel very supportive of this sort of creative game making even if it's perfect for running infrastructure and creating storyless games like Dota and TF.
Until you want to decode h.265 ... then it will fall over.
In case anyone else was curious about precisely what those numbers measured, I just confirmed that Lighthouse only reports the no-document-write violation when the page actually calls it so those numbers aren't high due to the sites which still have fallbacks left from the paleolithic-era Web (I'd seen that with Adobe Analytics/Omniture where the tracking code injection had a fallback path for Netscape 2/IE3 until very recently).
Ask HN: Is it possible to sponsor PhD candidates or postgraduates?
My company is looking to funding PhD or postgraduate candidates in certain computer science areas that are connected to our core business and require more research brains.

Is it possible to sponsor them as a sole company or via a group of companies?
> I'd assume they'd love to rake in engine licensing as soon as possible

Source does rely on several other technologies (i.e. Miles, Blink, Havok) that you must license from their respective license holders, however Source is free to use if you're distributing on Steam and you only need to license the Source Engine for distribution off Steam or if you choose to distribute the SDK's tools with your game.

So with that in mind, I doubt the rely much on licensing fees as a source of revenue.
If you care about CPU-heavy computation, you care about not using an interpreted language to do it, because if you pay a 10x performance penalty, that turns your 16-core machine back into an effective 1-core machine. (Apparent number mismatch to account for slowdowns and general amdahl's law.) And, with no offense intended to Goby, a brand new scripting language built on top of a language like Go (already ~2x-3x slower than C in general) could easily see performance penalties of 100x or 500x vs C. (Think logarithmic here.)

Even Go, at 2x-3x slower than C, is already not a terribly great choice for true CPU-intensive loads. It's fast enough it can fit in some scenarios, but if you really start to ramp up you're going to want to switch to something else.

Edit: Would someone like to explain what is wrong with the idea that people who care about CPU-heavy computation also need to care about the performance of the language they are using rather than just downmodding it? I find the idea that in one second, someone cares deeply enough about CPU performance to call their load "CPU-heavy" and want to learn how to use many cores to process it, but in the next second is oblivious to the issues of using languages that are very slow on the CPU to do the work, to be a very bizarre shape of concerns about performance. It's like someone asking how they can move ten tons of something from New York to LA as quickly as possible, but insisting that they will only use bicycles to do it. The fact that you may be able to work out a way to do it with only bicycles, even perhaps surprisingly quickly compared to what one's initial reaction may have been, isn't going to change the fact that it sure is weird how one moment you're concerned about doing it as quickly as possible and in the next moment completely oblivious to the performance consequences of the chosen tools.
This field changes so much that if you aren't passionate and investing in your skills continuously, you will find yourself obsolete or in a non-technical role within 5-7 years. Think about that. How many years does it take just to become technically proficient?
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This is why the best creative works in the world are led by individuals with something to prove or to say and not faceless flat organizations.

Valve has released just one game this decade that wasn't built by external developers or by mod authors brought in: Portal 2.
I realize everyone is generalizing but it's easy to lose sight of something really simple: Different jobs require different skills. Not everyone on the team needs to know how to make complicated architecture decisions or write the most efficient sorting algorithm. Personally, I'm happy when there is someone on my team who can do the things I find boring...even if they don't have a "passionate" interest in learning more.
I never understood why official institutions are so concerned about verifications when you're the one giving them money? And they all do this, the same thing is here where I live. I understand the need for a positive identification when you're buying something, but for paying taxes? What, someone will go around and pay other people's taxes? And even so, why the government cares, as long as it's paid?
Of Autopilot or Autosteer?
A range of few miles doesn't make that big a difference on the golf scale. Really, the only deep down information I'd want to have is like down to the 16 directions on a compass. These courses have maps of the holes and you're able to draw arrows on the map of the general wind.

The key part of this site seems like I'd be able to check back every few holes to see if it's shifted enough to change the arrow. When checking for a local course, I can see enough to where I'd trust it, but then again, having more correct wind information would be better.
SMS isn't great for security, but it's better than nothing and it scales well.
This site was originally based on https://github.com/cambecc/earth, the open source version of https://earth.nullschool.net
A UK passport costs £72.50 and is valid for 10 years. For someone taking one budget package holiday per year it represents about 2 percent of the cost. This seems inexpensive to me.
Bought a 119GBP Nomu S10. Certified IP68, EU 4G, all fine, no bloatware. Forget all the overpriced wonders imo.
I love that you posted that.

Fyi, the original paper by Ralph Merkle where he introduces what is later called Merkle Trees is definitely worth knowing. I wouldn't say it is my fav, but it resulted in a key component in some of my favorite technologies.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~raluca/cs261-f15/readings/...
> we can't press back or question him. he would cancel the whole integration

This attitude will not serve you well. There's saying no, and then there's getting more information (requirements!?!) to then guide people to better decisions.
I mean, I don't know if you've seen Black Mesa (the game), but they've done an incredible job at making an HL1 reboot, with some levels drastically expanded, a lot of things tweaked, and it's amazing how well it works.

Valve doesn't have a monopoly in gameplay quality - they're just very consistent about it.
Very nice article. Good resource for memory handling in Erlang.

There is recent config setting since 19.0 to move the message queue outside the main process heap. I have seen decent performance gains from that.

Sometimes for fun I like to describe a running Erlang VM as a modern os - processes have isolated heaps and can be gc-ed independently. Then think about programing in a language with a shared heap and it is a bit like putting that mission critical code to run on Windows 95. You wouldn't do that in 2017, but somehow we still do it at the language level.

Now Rust lets us have both speed and memory safety and it allows these guarantees to happen at compile time. I think that is one of the more exciting latest development in programming languages.
So his story has a.... Happy ending?..
Products have to be maintained, because operating systems update around them. New bugs happen. You need growth to fund the maintenance your existing customers expect.
My point was there are no arbitrary narrative components like computer terminals where you read a dead guy's email that explicitly explains the set up in text format. Or whatever, that seems to be a really common (lazy) way to tell a story.

I would argue that what you said is all about show vs tell. Which is a good thing for visual media.
It's also unfortunate that everyone defaults to measuring the years that have elapsed since someone's first line of code, instead of hours invested.

"N years experience" loses value as a measuring stick when there are probably 2 orders of magnitude separating how much code the most passionate and least passionate developers wrote in that time frame.
Passwords saving cli tool
>portal popular with leftist readers and activists

The world's smallest violin is weeping. I guess "big government" isn't such a good thing now, is it?
Looks to be very similar to https://builtwith.com/
I feel a bit ashamed for "well actually..."-ing a Slovak speaker on this - sorry!!!
Ask HN: Does this exist?
I have an idea for a service.

Basically, a bot you can voice chat with, in a language you're trying to learn.

The thing is that it would use AI to learn the vocabulary you know, and try to create sentences using only words you know, throwing in a new one knowingly every once in a while, accompained by a dictionary card with the definition.

Compared to reading, you get used to hearing and speaking the language, and it helps build confidence.

Compared to doing conversation with a human being, you don't have to worry if the other person gets bored, and you build confidence gradually even if you're self-conscious. Also, the bot would only use words you know, and allow you to make progress little by little (or faster if it sees that you can master new words quickly).
Not confirmed that entire game will be Source 2 based but they are certainly working on elements of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5olhj4/hi_im_gab...
Holding the interests of your own country above those of others is by definition nationalism, and almost any opposition to immigration is labelled xenophobia.

They are, and have historically been, the policy for the vast majority of countries, and are advantageous positions for a population to have - is that all it takes to be far right?
Huh, I did a diploma in computing (UK) in my spare time about 12-16 years ago and remember covering it in a databases module (and possibly when doing OOP with Smalltalk?) - I'd go with "it's about repeatability, knowing that sending the same request, eg SQL query, will return the same results".

That's a little off the mark, as I've checked, but I'd think a full-time CS (as opposed to programming or computing or IT) student would be able to define it very readily ...?
Co-ops aren't a new idea, and they certainly can survive. But in the two forms I've really seen them in action, they have been a mess.

Form 1: Freelance designer and coder co-op. Top players were continually dissatisfied with performance of their peers and the bargain-basement rates that would result. And their only remedy was to go join a normal company.

Form 2: An employee-owned taxi company with a 100-person board whose response to Uber was, "Oh, we just need an app." However, they couldn't agree to change any of their practices, resulting in people still not being guaranteed service when booking through the app. And no customer feedback or punitive mechanisms for drivers not following through. The system is: Cabbie clicks in on the radio and says "I'll take that fare." After that, if they see an easier-made buck on the way, they divert and grab that instead. The customer doesn't get service.

This is not to say that any given co-op is doomed, but consider this: A community, of which the customer is not part, making decisions in a mostly democratic fashion, will frequently devolve into each member acting and voting in self-preservation within the organization. And with no one to wield a hammer on behalf of the customer, eventually killing the entire organization with a thousand paper cuts.

Were I to attempt something approaching a co-op today, from the ground up, I would want to think very hard about how to create a governance structure that could prevent the organization from cannibalizing itself. Can it be done? I'd like to think so, but I also think it would be very difficult. And dangerous to get wrong.
I am not sure, scientifically speaking, what a statement like "All predators cost more protein than they produce." means or why it is significant. Can you provide a citation to this?
Poor defaults, lots of junk installed by the handset manufacturer, general lack of polish.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/houdini-maybe-the-m...

though I don't know what has became of that project
+1 for having a privacy policy linked from their home page that addresses both their browser extension and their website.
I recently changed jobs and the biggest thing for me was actually connecting with a legit recruiter (Not the people spamming you on LinkedIn). They lined up interview after interview for me before I even had time to check out a job board. I used re:purpose but they are pretty local to my area. Maybe look into recruiters in your area?
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Fundamentally, offline TTS/ASR/NLP is going to be degraded because you can't fit cloud-sized models onto a mobile device.

Could offline models be better? Definitely. But they only way to make them as good as cloud models it to make the cloud models worse.
Right, I talked about this below, but really the main thing is just knowing the which of the 16 labeled directions the wind is coming from, and then checking back every few holes if possible, and then make arrows on the course map with that overall direction.

And yes, trees and hills totally have an impact, but the main impact is the difficulty of having a very in tune knowledge of where the wind above the trees and hills is blowing. If you're hitting a normal full shot, the ball flight will be (usually) only affected by the standard wind direction.

Again of course, there are gusts that make that difficult to time a shot, and ball flight and shot type make a difference as well, but knowing and trusting the overall direction would be really helpful.
To be fair, the same is true of the LWR.
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