skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that 20 hours the amount of time you're billing weekly, or your total work time? I aspire to freelance one day, perhaps soon, and I've heard that non-billable work can easily add up to a full time job. Things like marketing yourself, connecting with clients, possibly administrative things to do with your business.
Can you link to a description of that condition? It sounds fascinating.
> I’m sure it depends on your circle

Agreed, social bubbles are a thing. That's why I think it's credible that the Guardian author comes across a lot of vocal vegan evangelism and might honestly come to think of it as the "prevalent food paradigm" in some ("non-redneck") circles.
I would be very happy to see macOS drop back to bi-yearly/loose schedule upgrades. It’s a mature platform that runs on hardware that improves significantly slower than the hardware iOS runs on; at this point insisting on a new release every year rather than when it’s ready is actively detrimental.
As much as I still get excited by new features and tech, I use my Mac exclusively for work, and rock solid reliability is more important to me than new features.
Link to Reddit thread?
The lack of a large standard library and a decent package manager were key in my mind.

I really love the simple elegance of Lua, but the build everything yourself ecosystem made Python and Ruby naturally better choices for larger non embedded solutions.

These days the package management problem has been solved with LuaRocks, but many packages are unmaintained.

The language is so old that it’s place seems to be set and unlikely to change.
Architects have to know material physics, structural physics and structural engineering, but they don't need to have specialist level knowledge. There are architects who specialize in innovative structural designs and their work combines both.
I read it. It is now history. The glory of the long-haul isnt like that anymore. Truckers dont have free time to read books when 14+10 is broken down into split shifts. The freedom is limited by gps monitoring from the home office, satphones telling you to divert because of cheaper gas, and the use of multiple trailers that lock such trucks onto rails.

Movers are also different than truckers. Movers use a truck for part of thier job. They arent full-time drivers. They know thier loads and pick thier routes. Normal truckers do not. Normal truckers are measured not by the quality of the trip but by what percentage of thier day is driving. Squezing that extra percent or two is all that matters.
This is a good point. It’s like a vegetarian hot dog.
Common counter-argument is "but how will you learn the skills you need", but actually it's perfectly possible to learn everything you need on the job.

Julia Evans has nice list of how people learn at work: https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/08/06/learning-at-work/

And e.g. I feel work is best place to learn new programming languages: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/09/09/learn-a-new-programm...
Marginal cost, I would guess.

When you have a car, but you don't have a transit pass, the cost of completing a particular trip by car is (or at least appears to be) cheaper than doing so by public transit. For example, if I have to go to the city center and back by tram, the cost for two one-way tickets is € 4,60. The cost of one liter of gasoline is somewhere below € 2,00. Public transit only becomes cheaper than going by car if you use it regularly and thus purchase monthly or yearly passes.
As a former math teacher, I would absolutely love this. I've been a fan of flipping the model ever since I first heard about it years ago from something on Khan Academy.
Chez is not JITted. Chez compiles to native binaries that run win the chez runtime (so not stand-alone).
The only appropriate definition of elevated is higher than normal for that patient. Unfortunately, doctors rarely have a baseline to work from, so they use statistics instead. A relative of mine had a PSA test that read statistically normal. Luckily he looked at the actual number and saw that, while it was within statistical normal, it was in fact higher than any other prior reading for him. Further testing came up positive for prostate cancer. If he hasn't been paying attention, that would have been another year of cancer until the next check.
> Linux package management is a rare example of successfully tamed complexity. It's magic: having a single copy of, say, gzip implementation imported and used by hundreds of installed applications.

Except it often breaks and you need to be an expert to fix it. I'll take the hit on disk space if it means I can reliably install software quickly and without hassle.

Containers aren't perfect, but they get the job done.
Question: Could a algorithm in scheme handling anonymous data handed to it by lambda predecessor functions traverse this process backwards- and create cache optimal objects.. that is structures that contain all needed data in the biggest possible density (no dead weight as it is usual in oo-objects)

Because if thats the case- and you put your data out- in a sort of masked union of the input data, you could create a nearly cach-miss free algorithm. Which should outperform everything except assembler altered C..
Sure, but do you use something else? It's simply incredible how low-quality most "card apps" are (Jira leading the pack with awful UX/UI).
FB PM's algorithm:

If a feature is a success, boast about how you created it from the scratch and take all the credit (ofc giving brownie points upwards in the hierarchy).

If a feature is a disaster, claim it's a bug and scorn a developer scapegoat!
Saying that it was difficult to understand if the Quorn you ate was chicken or tuna steak makes me wonder what kind of food you were used to eat...
Seriously, probably even with the mouth full of Carolina reaper I can tell the difference between tuna and chicken..
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If you ignore the "anchor to 5s" part that is ridiculous, the other parts work in other bases too.

D3-A7 = (D3-B0) + (B0-A7) = (D3-B0) + 9
= (D3-D0) + (D0-B0) + 9 = (D3-D0) + 20 + 9
= (D3-D0) + 20 + 9 = 3 + 20 + 9 = 2C

(I swear that I didn't cheat to make the calculation and I made it in the "string" representation of the hexadecimal form, without looking at the decimal form.)

In hexadecimal can try to anchor to 8s, it should work. Perhaps anchoring to 4s may be better?

[Disclaimer: I don't like it, but the method to do the calculation works in other bases.]
Guile is the one I would embed, but it's speed is not yet on par with LuaJIT (and probably never will be, since LuaJIT is in a class of it's own). Guile3 will probably be one of the faster schemes since they are implementing native compilation, but that is still some years away.

It is nice to embed though, and is a lot faster than python for things that isn't only using python things that are implemented in c.
The difference between lasers and railguns is the former would be revolutionary, while the later would be an incremental improvement over an already ancillary system.

If you could fit a multi-kilowatt laser on an F-35, and make it a practical thing (so no expendable chemicals being used up every shot, no having to gut air frame to fit all the laser equipment) it could radically alter how America fought its wars. Imagine a dozen F-35s flying over a combat zone, and killing individual enemy soldiers with literal laser precision - unlike with conventional munitions they can keep doing that for as long as their fuel supplies last. The sustained support laser-equipped planes could provide to ground forces is kind of amazing/terrifying when you really think about it.

Contrast the rail gun. The primary naval weapon is missiles, whether launched by plane or by ship. Guns are secondary (tertiary if you count torpedoes) equipment, mostly used for warding off pirates or shooting down enemy missiles while they're coming in. The rail gun offers to replace the rarely used 5 inch gun on most destroyers with...a longer range gun that's also going to be seldom used. The original idea of using it for "shore bombardment" or that it can be a backup weapon for when the missile magazines run dry are both...kind of dubious ideas now that we're facing a resurgent China and Russia who aren't going to allow our ships to close to within rail range before destroying them with their own missiles.
I think that the SOE have at least built up a lot of infrastructure (power, transportation) that has benefited independent companies. A lot of that would have made it much harder for non-SOE companies to be competitive.
You shouldn't infer that because China has mounted one railgun to a ship that they have some magic breakthrough. There are kids that have made railguns in their garage, but that doesn't mean that they are appropriate for naval warfare. There are at least two approaches to development:

1. Create a railgun as powerful as you desire, then develop the tech until it is suitable to go on a ship.

2. Create a railgun suitable to go on a ship, then develop the tech until it is as powerful as you desire.

The Chinese railgun right now isn't any better than conventional guns.
Ugh - that’s a first for me, auto-play video without any pause/stop control? Seriously, WTF people?
Sounds like good material for a movie.
> You stopped driving for about 10 years. You don't say in the book what you did during those 10 years. Can you give us a sense of what your life was like in the 10 years that you stopped driving?

> MURPHY: Yes. That was in an original draft of the book. Actually, that's going to be my next book, Terry - about what I did. But I will tell you what I did. So I was working for North American Van Lines, and I was getting basically burnt out. And one of the things that I had always intended to do when I left college was to save some money and go into business for myself. And that was really one of the goals. I didn't just quit college and just, you know, sort of flip the bird to everybody. I actually had some kind of a plan. And back then, you could - I could make a lot of money. I was making a hundred thousand dollars a year in 1981 as a mover.

> So I saved a bunch of money. I bought an import company importing - you know those beautiful fisherman's sweaters from Ireland? I used to import those into the United States from the west of Ireland. And I got into the other parts of the textile business and then started importing cashmere sweaters from Scotland and had a very successful business on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts.

...

> MURPHY: So I was on - living on Nantucket Island as a high-profile businessman and citizen and community activist. I was actually chairman of the county commissioners on Nantucket. I was a police commissioner. I was the airport commissioner. I was on the board of the chamber of commerce. I was a successful person, married, living in a small town. And, well, what happened is I got into a relationship with a woman who wasn't my wife. And my life exploded. Or probably more accurately, I took a match to my life and blew it to pieces. And so Nantucket is not a place where that kind of thing is going to be unnoticed or uncommented upon.
This article itself never mentions complaints about money.

Sure, but the point I am making is that it is a material change to established terms and conditions.

Interestingly, one of the standard lies told during acquisitions is that "nothing will change", it's quite unusual for an acquisition target to do something like this. Usually its managers and even its previous owners if they become employees of the acquirer are taken by surprise when head office stamps on them.
Maybe not exactly what you seek, but Microsoft Research China does some really state of the art work in vision. Baidu (that Andrew Ng was affiliated with) also seems to have made really big strides with stuff like speech recognition. There are some serious credentials backing people working there, but all the news I've heard does come out from articles that seem to have a lot of hype behind it.
your father worked for some pretty different projects I guess. I have close friends working in those so called 985 universities and they all had issues when they tried to buy those mentioned special computers when they are needed. there is no special approval procedures for them, they can not buy it without going through the annual purchase procedure managed directly by the department of education. they all gave up and end up renting those required computers from different vendors - apparently it is actually more expensive in long term but much easier in terms of paperwork.

it also worth noticing that Australia is not the best example to use here. e.g. the NBN project would be considered as a typical corruption case under the Chinese laws, in fact one can argue that it is the textbook definition of corruption in Chinese standard. Think about it - there is no ethics showstopper when laying fiber in Sydney/Melbourne, why the majority of residences in those two cities still don't get access to the NBN first promised back in 2007 after billions of AUD of their tax money already spent on NBN? Corruption is just corruption, calling it red tape is not helping. the rules are simple there - if you are not qualified for the job, it is fine, you get replaced/demoted, if you use red tape/endless paper work as excuses to misuse tax money (e.g. NBN), that is corruption and Central Commission for Discipline Inspection looks after you and your mates.

btw, by Chinese standards, the NBN corruption case is enough for many life imprisonment sentences. This week's news on Australian deputy PM living with his mistress (not his partner in his own words) in his friend's apartment rent free is just another good dose of corruption without consequence drama.
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So Tokyo is finally going to build a Skytree made of actual wood this time?
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Yeah it was all a harmonious idyll before those 13 guys got on Facebook.
No, adjective like "haut" change according to the noun it describes and most of the time by appending a "e". A "tour" (the feminine word for tower) will be "haute". An "arbre" (the masculine word for tree) will be "haut". "Cuisine" is a general noun so it does not change, even if it ends with a "e". There are not a masculine or feminine cuisine, it's just a cuisine :).
I don't wasn't Facebook to act as an arbiter and decide for me what's true or false.
Not really, it just means that vegans/vegetarians are more likely to post comments on an article about Quorn, which makes complete sense. You won't see many top level comments from meat eaters because most of us don't eat Quorn.
Aha, well thanks for sharing this far :)
Hussle still means making money in slang apparently: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hussle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_envelope

I’d never heard of this before.
I have worked with experienced software developers- and usually nothing new is tryied. You open your previous solution kit, you grab the most viable sollution and slap it on. Ductape. Done.

At best a little research is done at some experienced user forum, where the problem is declared unsolveable.

There is a reason why many unversity undergrads find such "genius" new approaches - its because they usually dont know that the problem is suppossed to be unfixable. Not professionally blinded, was the term, i presume.

Remember this is the same lab, who did send subs intot a world war without properly tested torpedos. If my assumption is right, half of them is traditional explosive cannon engineers, whos life wor would become obsolete on success.
Privacy is only one dimension, of course. While space is cheap, time isn't, so having less data can also mean less data processing (for example, when possible, using online algorithms to compute what you really care about instead of logging all the things and then computing what you really want on demand). However...

"We might not have an immediate use [...] but we'll ask for it anyway in case it comes in useful later [...] so if we come up with some way to use that data later, we can."

That, at least in my experience, is the major motivator. Unless either the ethos changes or stiff penalties instill sufficient fear in the incorrigible opportunism of the the internet tech sector, the fear of missing out will continue to be a major motivator of the lust for data.
If you can type ``` without breaking your hand.

` is a three-key combination AND a dead key on non-US keyboards.
I noticed that entire building facades on your street are hidden in Google Street View (https://imgur.com/a/NzDZP).

I'm curious why is that so? Is it possible due to GDPR?
This is a reasonable summary of the guardian, IMO. I think it largely has the stature that it does because it is in accord with the cultural and political tastes of a large swathe of the UK, and articulates itself better than The Daily Mail. If you consider yourself a moderately liberal intellectual, it affirms your sense of self and world.

It’s a warm blanket and a bottle of milk, not great journalism.
The question is: how does the number for a steel structure compare to that of a steel one?
The etymology for most of those "cognates" seems quite strained when you consider that even reconstructions of Proto-Germanic roots can be controversial. Especially when you only have a single sound to match, it is very easy to come up with bullshit "correspondences" that are mere coincidence.
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I liked Google Wave.
There are also a lot of counter examples eg. Investment banking, Uber.
You are being manipulated
"Cuisine" is a feminine noun (e.g. "la belle cuisine").
I would agree with this point in respect to Python, but not Node.

I think Node was in large successful because web developers already have to use JavaScript so the promise of unifying on one language and set of libraries is appealing to many.

OpenResty and Lapis are quite capable in the web space, but they haven’t seen widespread adoption.
This is so bad that I don't even know where to begin. It's incoherent, completely ignores any accepted method of linguistic analysis, makes absolutely no explanation as to how conclusions are being made and it doesn't even attempt to support them in an way.

It's literally just gibberish.
As a former inner city math teacher, I feel you. Getting students to do _anything_ outside the classroom was practically impossible. What worked for me for homework for a little while was having the students do 5 push ups for each day they missed homework in a row. I suddenly was getting 90%+ participation on students completing their homework! It was fantastic until someone told the VP, and the VP asked me if I was actually doing that, whereby they informed me that it was corporal punishment and absolutely against the rules. I could rant about that for a bit, but I'm sure you can guess what happened after the pushups stopped: homework stopped.

As for the shift needed in the culture of education, I totally agree. There needs to be a shift in accountability for the students, their families, and for schools. While there were parents who hoped their kids would do well at the school where I taught, there was a pervasive home attitude of school will get you nowhere. Many of the kids had no role models in their life where they could see any value to education. One VP I knew, in a neighboring district, married into a poorer latino family. They valued hard work, but only really understood hard manual labor type efforts. He was constantly hounded as he was going through schooling by them. "Why are you wasting this time at school? Why are you not doing more to provide for my daughter? Go get a real job." After finally becoming a teacher and then a VP and making more money than any other member of the family he married into, they started to see how education could be an investment. I don't know how you do that on a scale where the majority of socio-economically depressed families and communities can be exposed to the value of education.
Good info but ACH rejects can be up to 180 days
I agree from a legal standpoint, but from a cultural standpoint, I think it sends the wrong signal, from a teenager, not writing in cursive. It seems to imply a certain level of immaturity.
It sounds like the ethical review you’re talking about is IRB approval. It doesn’t just happen at Princeton. In fact, most journals won’t accept work that hasn’t been demonstrated to be conducted ethically.

See for example Nature: http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/experimental.html
You are correct. There are a couple chapters on some of the techniques in Quake such as BSPs, surface caching, lighting, etc.
In the last few months the organizers of the meetups I go to have been complaining about changes to meetup, and noted that it is obvious that the changes are being made by people with no clue about what organizers need or how they use the platform. I've been using Meetup for at least a decade, and I've never heard this topic raised before.

The conversation continued about alternatives and only Facebook was considered a viable alternative.

This could be a big opportunity for a new player.
Investment banking is largely driven by sales, as far as friends in the industry have told me. The company simply needs to support an effective sales culture, not a product one.
An index of refraction of 3 is relatively high (like silicon carbide). Glass and a lot of optically transparent materials are only ~1.5.

But, if you look at IR transparent materials like silicon, gallium arsenide, or germanium, you can get up to and over 4.

More to the point, diode pumped solid state lasers are a common thing these days so photons interacting just isn't news... (edit) however if (and I can't tell without reading the original paper) it is actually the effect of photon mass (eg due to light density) on the photons itself, then it's a significant technical achievement! Just not how I'd have phrased it to a technical audience.
> Imagine a dozen F-35s flying over a combat zone, and killing individual enemy soldiers with literal laser precision

While I kind of agree with your point on the rail gun, manned aircraft loitering in any modern battlefront are essentially doomed. Anti aircraft missiles are a lot more effective and a lot cheaper with modern computers.
I believe Google only got in trouble for sniffing the IP traffic content inadvertantly. The probe/broadcast traffic (aka your phone saying “hello I am IDENTIFIER!”) is not unlawful to capture though.
what’s fight club?
lol, story time!

I joined a new team where the members never eat lunch with each other. I don't like to eat with co workers every single day but I do want to chat with them casually once in a while. So I organized a team lunch.

I'm not sure if anyone enjoyed it. =/
Thanks, this is more useful than an Amazon link to a book which isn’t out yet.
Agile is a good case study for how good ideas get perverted quickly by consultants and companies. Object orientation also got changed from message passing to elaborate inheritance schemes. People always get confused when I tell that you can do OOP without inheritance besides a few cases.
I connected Developer Support several times and suddenly it have helped. I wish good luck and to be brave for everybody with the same situation!
Most languages have common utterances for mother/father and other family members. This is because these are easy, early sounds a baby can make. Some variation of da, ma, pa, na occurs fairly universally.

There’s a pretty good episode of Lexicon Valley on this topic (see cavebabies say ‘mama’)

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html
This started off interesting and very smoothly transitioned to being fully incoherent to me.

Do the random italics and French-style quotes mean something that I just don’t understand, or was the whole thing actually just kind of insane.
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> it’s not positioned as a way for the casual user

Indeed. Any crazy ideas on how to remedy this? :)