skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I just wanted to post in solidarity with you about the truly harsh environment (and having to suck it up) of learning C programming in the early 90s. I still to this day tell people in interviews that the most difficult and challenging technical experience of my life was cutting my teeth on pointers in C by myself in the early 90s with nothing but the K&R book.
Complete fluff piece. These sound like isolated incidences of systems with incomplete training. We only find them uncomfortable because we're ascribing human qualities to them.
Hands free multiple kitchen timer and radio/music player has been worth the cost of entry and I find useful on a daily basis.
> * Open-source?

> - Open-source also needs some commercial operations to keep healthy. I'll try my best to balance everything. They are out of my expertise and I have to learn. I do have to settle down and support my family, rather than sleeping lonely on a foreign land.

Note that he said he hasn't open sourced them _yet_. It sounds like he just launched the project, and is going to take steps to open source the code/files once he figures out a business plan.
the grocery picker... makes a bunch of deliveries in one trip

That would mean that the customer who is the farthest along the delivery route had better not bought any perishables like ice cream or rotisserie chicken.

In actual practice, that model doesn't work for anything but dry goods... which means somebody is making an additional trip yet for temperature-critical perishables.

Webvan crashed and burned partly because they failed to think out the "edge cases".
FWIW, I'm much like your wife - I use it to set timers, alarms, and to play music. Occasionally to poke my wife when she's in her studio so I don't have to run down a flight of stairs just to see if she's even there. I've added in a "smart" controller to a hard-to-reach outlet for our george foreman grill (no off switch), and have a set to do so with a pair of lights that are inconvenient to turn off.

So I'd say glorified egg timer AND fancy expensive Clapper.

BUT...I have 4 and expect to get one more. I like being able to do those tasks without interrupting whatever I'm doing physically. Interaction sucks when other people are around and talking, but that leaves plenty of times it is useful.

I'm listening to Pandora on one right now in my office - should I get a call or have an online meeting or whatever I can stop her without having to move or bounce between physical interfaces (far more convenient for me than playing the music on my computer and having to find where to control the music). I have a truly terrible memory, so being able to verbally request a reminder in most any room is faster and easier than even pulling out my phone much less navigating to the right app.

The rest of the options are quite weak (and arguably getting worse - when they first came out you could ask an Echo which was bigger, lake washington or lake union, and she answered really helpfully. Now she doesn't seem to understand anything, and when she does she gives crap answers so often we've largely stopped trying.) For those weaker options either you happen to have them convenient for you, or more likely they are just trying to grab the concept space first, and worry about being truly useful in that space second.

But even without those other features, there is definitely a POINT. Perhaps not a point you need yourself, almost certainly not a point worth the price, but there is a point.
The checksums might be scoped per user in some way, or they are quite brave
So what I said, but with more words.

Okay, Got it. If you can't see why art is useful, I'm not going to try and waste time debating you. Good luck fighting the capitalists.
> B: But how would you do that while keeping the decentralization?

Nobody (in the general sense) actually cares about decentralization; it serves no utility in and of itself. People only care about the ability to easily transact regardless of borders.

> Me: Cash has the same theft-irreversibility issue

I'd argue this isn't entirely correct. A cash holder can insure against theft of cash kept on premises, and in transit to a deposit facility; professional services can be hired to transport cash. As far as I'm aware these protections don't exist for cryptocurrency

> The comment only works if you assume Bitcoin is only used for speculation

At this stage it appears to me that is it's only (major?) legitimate use. Other uses probably include money laundering, and the exchange of value between parties involved in illegal activities, or for the purposes of evading regulations.
I don't disagree, but it's too easy to pull a kind of bait-and-switch using one of these non-religious definitions of faith. You can define "faith" as something like "adopting principles or wisdom for living that isn't empirically verified and is based on personally felt or shared values". Fine; I agree that everybody needs that kind of faith to avoid being a nihilist.

However, this doesn't imply that there's "another realm of truth" inaccessible to empirical demonstration, or that one ought to subscribe to some supernatural dogma. That's a separate definition of faith. The religious aspect is so baked into the usage of the word that we have to be careful that it doesn't get a free ride in on the back of a non-religious definition.
Dangerous “Computer Crime” Bill in the Georgia Senate
EE is a huge field. It's hard to keep up with new developments even if you have a broad foundation. That being said, memtransistors and memristors have been theorized and subsequently developed in research for quite some time now. Memrsistors were first theorized in the 50s and then in the 70s were proposed to be a fourth fundamental electrical circuit element alongside resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
Absolutely. Thanks for the link I will explore.
I'm at a loss as to why this article claims being on the autism scale / weird is only hard for women...?
> have you ever gotten suspend/resume working?

Yes I think so but it broke again. However I don’t use suspend/resume either way so I don’t mind though I used to use it so I guess I just got used to it not being available.
> My callouses are starting to become a bother

You can always do what climbers do, and trim them with a razor and a steady hand.
Totally fair point -- that was indeed my naivety talking; opiates aren't something I have any experience with outside of a hospital.

And you're absolutely right to point out that all of this is skewed by the fact that different categories of (current- or former) drug user will tend to be more covert about it than others, for a wide variety of reasons.
You didn't mention her being inebriated, only (allegedly) fearful of you because of your apparent ethnicity.

Generally, drunk people are not fearful.
Source? (not nitpicking, genuinely curious)
I think it's just that people who drink some coffee sometimes or get sleep some days better than others, just don't have much to say, because well they don't really have a strong opinion.
GitHub Desktop 1.1 is now available
Really cool! May be a bug: I tried Martin Luther Ling -> Elon Musk and it showed me a link from MLK -> Mark Zuckerberg -> Musk. But I couldn't find a Zuckerberg link from the MLK page.
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Martin%20Luthe...
What’s wrong with the movie?
Maybe I should stop looking at jobs in the Bay Area as an almost NCG?
Hah! I didn't even know we had Terminator quotes in there. Our adorable little Pagedog's inspired by a different... uh... buuuurp.. uh, high concept, sci-fi comedy universe ;)

Did you get to https://pagedraw.io/tutorials/basics? It's the button in the first section that says "Continue to demo"
China Launches Propoganda Push for Xi Jinping After Social Media Criticism
All the kids I know pick huge amount of behaviours the way I described. Not all of it, not complicated stuff, but definitely a lot. They also tend to like what other kids like - without them trying to imitate interest as strategy. It just happen naturally.

Especially things like smiling or crying to get something (depending on circumstances) etc - they do it before they have logic and before they have ability to plan. Two years old has tendency to do stuff adults around find cute and react to, but it is not conscious plan. Autistic kid won't or will to lesser extend.
“You never fail until you stop trying.”

― Albert Einstein

I'm doubting this attribution is correct but the quote itself summarizes this approach nicely.

Mistakes do come naturally. Life is a probabilistic game of guessing what outcomes we will reach after making actions with restricted knowledge of the circumstances. Failing is imminent sooner or later. The sooner the better or loss aversion kicks in and we end up doing nothing, which most often is the worst action leading to a pit of cascading failures.
Andreas Antonopoulos Thoughts on IOTA and DAG – Not Decentralized
Surprising!

1. But does that mean now that Goldman Sach will allow their clients (or their own internal) to at least allow investment in crypto?

2. How to know if there are not manipulating the market?

3. If Poloniex suffers liquidity issues (if USDT is invalidated) then is Goldman going to take care of the situation?

I genuinely wish now, DEX platforms should be promoted like the one we have for BitShares. Centralised crypto exchanges are beating the purpose of decentralization.
My callouses are starting to become a bother and my hands are pretty raw for any other lifts later in my session.

In gymnastics and archery, there are special gloves and stuff. In archery, I had a leather worker make me a custom grieves when I could not find one at any store (back before online shopping was a thing).

Hoping you can find something that helps.
Why would a criminal not just pirate the software? Wouldn’t even have had to spend those $150 then. (PS I am not encouraging software piracy in general - just saying why would a criminal care?) (PPS there are some cases where piracy is ok and it is not all negative, let your moral compass guide you.)
I don't.

I'm pro-centralisation in the sense that it comes with regulatory protections that are a net good for the average person, in my opinion.

If decentralisation comes with the risks that cryptocurrencies presently present, I'm not really interested.
This is pretty huge, as it ensures that once net neutrality rules are repealed, the FTC will be empowered to go after ISPs for unfair and anticompetitive business practices. The largest issue with assigning ISPs as Title II is that they become exempt from FTC regulation, a status that I realistically, don't think any company should be granted.
I moved out there for two years - lived in Alameda (highly recommend), left 8 months ago. I loved some of the aspects of the bay area. The weather was awesome, there was always lots of technical events, career wise there was nothing better (for a new software engineer).

Now with a couple years under my belt, I was offered the opprotunity to help start an office in middle-of-nowhere Illinois. I took it, helped setup a team, have tons of connections in the company, and am more capable because of it. I have a nice house, two cars, etc. And eggs are $0.50 a dozen (I hate the cost of the Bay Area).

Would I go back? Perhaps, I would. I want my company to be successful (https://projectpiglet.com/) and to do that I'll likely need investment or I'll need to tap connections. My wife is getting her PhD in Neuroscience and there are a ton of tech / biomedical companies out there and it's a great fit.

Honestly, there probably isn't a better place for us on Earth (from a work opprotunity standpoint).

And that's the rub, there is no way anyone can get away from the Bay Area. Even if you have people leaving (like myself), there's always more to replace them. Every single person I know from CS wanted to go to the Bay Area (or LA), Seattle or New York. With a heavy lean towards the Bay (>50%). I can't see that changing unless the entire industry shifts.
CPUs are in the same ballpark. They are all recent generation Intel Xeon with a lot of cores. The providers each have a few different builds, you'd need to provision the machine and check the model number if you want the details.

SoftLayer is a disaster on lower tier servers. You only go to them for higher tiers.

The market is very competitive and moving fast. Both Google Cloud and AWS have been rolling out high memory hardware recently at a reasonable rate.

Hetzner is amateur tier. It's cheap second hands servers with no ECC. It's not comparable to enterprise infrastructure.
> What does it mean for nature to implement an algorithm?

It means that nature, in this case the ants, perform the steps of the algorithm.

> assumptions about the universe being mathematical,

Parts of the universe can be modeled with mathematics. If you extend mathematics to include algorithms and not just equations or systems of equations, then even more of the universe can.

I don't follow what your confusion is, exactly. Could you try explaining it differently please?
This is a lot of fun. Thanks for doing this.
Or your business, which would probably (should?) have insurance against cash theft; time-delay safes; and professional cash transport services.
This is hilarious, from 'Riemann manifold' to 'Grindcore': 196 paths with 5 degrees.

[0]: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Riemann%20mani...
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Frank%E2%80%93...

This isn't really the best measure though, because it only counts # of paths at the minimum depth level.

edit: although I found some deep searches with very few links: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Frank%E2%80%93...
I've just moved into a new house and have spent quite a few hours smartifying it. What I'll say is that, though there will be competition, once a user chooses an ecosystem, they are locking themselves into one side of a 1990's Mac vs PC-esque death race.

Using Home Assistant and jumping through some hoops, I've been able to force onto the same system some devices that really put up a massive fight to play nicely together; and I have even more manual work before I'll be able to use Google Assistant to control it all with my voice.

The competition, though... it's really, really bad for most users.
It's not just effort vs no effort. Here's my personal anecdote with autism.

Every conversation I have I run every input someone says through a decision tree to determine what the appropriate response is. I do this in my conscious mind. I didn't realize this wasn't normal until much later in life.

Unless you're displaying a caricature of "happy" or "sad" emotional expressions I have no idea what your emotional state is. I'm completely blind to it. I have to consciously analyze the shape of your mouth, where your eyebrows are, compare it to the context, etc. to try to determine your emotional state.

Not only am I blind to other peoples' nonverbal communication I don't express my own naturally. Every emotion I express through non-verbal means is largely "acting" on my part. I have to consciously make my expressions match my emotional state.

My anecdote may not match exactly what another person's with autism, but that's the kind of difference that's meant by doing things "automatically."
Stanford Crypto: Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More
Show HN: Jobs and side projects for effective altruists
Google Home + Chromecast can turn the TV on and off. If you're Chromecasting, you can say "set the volume to 60%" or "rewind 35 seconds". When you use the trigger word, it even turns down the volume automatically so it can hear you better.
For me, it's not surprising that they got acquired. Ever since the co-founders left/got ousted, the reviews of the leadership/management have been pretty dismal. And most of my professional photographer friends usually just use Instagram to market themselves or still use Flickr for showcasing super high res versions.

A shame, I was hoping it'd be successful and benefit Toronto's startup scene.
Timers, reminders, alarms – oh, my
It's unfortunate that the article (and Wikipedia, too), use "state machine" to refer to a finite state machines. In program semantics and formal verification, the term state machine is a common term of art, but it refers to either a finite- or an infinite- state machine, with infinite being the presumed default unless otherwise stated. If people come to associate the concept of a state machine with the useful but more limited narrowly applicable concept of a finite state machine, they may miss out on this important and general concept.

In program semantics and formal verification, a state machine is a mathematical mechanism for describing an often nondeterministic discrete (software or hardware) system as a mathematical relation, →, on states, where if `s → t` (i.e., the pair <s,t> is in the relation), then a transition from state `s` to state `t` is possible. For example, both Turing machines and the lambda calculus are often naturally described as state machines. A finite state machine is just a state machine with a finite number of states.
It uses a pre-downloaded database of links [1], so presumably certain pages that were once linked have been updated.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427
I've used neo4j before and it likes to consume a lot of memory.
I prefer Anki, though I started using Mnemosyne.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

https://mnemosyne-proj.org/

Both are good. I created most of the cards I use myself, as I only add what is relevant to me.

There's also a lot of value in learning about how human memory and learning works. Some parts are like learning how to program your brain. Your brain works well with certain data structures. I'd recommend this book for those interested:

https://www.amazon.com/Your-Memory-How-Works-Improve/dp/1569...
Because that's how humans are. We're terrible with statistics and great with stories. This is reflected in every aspect of culture and human decision making (it's why the field of Game Theory even exists, to demonstrate better systems of choice).

What about conflicting statistics? How do you decide which is better? Answer: a deeply complex personal series of metrics, built on your opinion of logic.

There's no perfect choice tree for a person. You're always affected by emotion. You can try and pretend that doesn't exist, or you could use it, but you can't eliminate it.
Yes because you don't have to inheritance "all the things".

I am suspicious any time I see inheritance in my C# code base. It's rarely needed and causes a lot of pain when used extensively. I'm looking at you Credit Note and Invoice!
You do not know how many good candidates are filtered out because you have bad hiring practices.

I was tricked into a code golf challenge which was a hiring test. The result was good I was surprised that slacking off could get me a nice discussion, and the company got to pitch their positions. I've never done a hacker rank thingy for hiring and probably never will, I loathed them in school. They do not tickle my mind nor can I scratch my itches with them.

I know this sentiment is shared by many high value employers I've had the pleasure to work with.
In case you receive the following message

"Sorry internet hipster, this little side project requires JavaScript."

here is a quick example of how to get the pages the "traditional way"[FN1]:

#/bin/sh
test $# -eq 2||exec echo usage: $0 source target;

exec curl -H"Content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"source":"'$1'","target":"'$2'"}' \
https://api.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/paths \
|exec sed '
s/\",/\"\
/g;s/,\"/\
\"/g;s/:{/:\
{/g;s/}/&\
/g;s/\"pages\":/&\
/'

It appears the author is using the Wikipedia API. I did not add any HTML tags, etc. to the output, although this is very easy to do.

FN1. The original "web browsers" needed no GUI, no Javascript.
Just implemented this with a quick hot fix[1]. Hopefully I didn't break anything else in my hurry to get out.

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/6e42e06488a592784e5d3d2...
yes, using composition instead of inheritance, as well as a "Structure of Arrays" (SoA) instead of an "Array of Structures" (AoS), to form a loose collection of arrays one can iterate over very quickly, and add properties to at run time, to program games is a mature game architecture described by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system which has been popular in the last decade.

Oddly Eric never mentions ECS or SoA in the series, even though it solves the problem. (He only suggests in part 5 to use a Rule Engine, instead of inheritance)
The big question is how demand responds to supply, and price.

In extremis this sort issues blinds people to asteroid mining; there’s only so much demand at a price.

This is a great toe hold though, I doubt there’ll be enough demand to fund and run an orbital industrial facility, but it could play a part in that.

If a portion of all this surplus capital that is sloshing around the world could be profitably directed to space then momentum will build.
A photographer could accidentally upload or AT SOME POINT labelled his/her photos in the free domain, but ALSO upload with a license to a paid photo stock site. This is usually the root cause of most issues. Another possible reason is the photographer's harddrive got hacked, camera stolen etc, and the photos in full resolution was uploaded maliciously to free CC0 websites. Both scenarios are hard to trace and hard to attribute when an infringement happens, because it involves too many party to do diligence and collect evidences. Most likely the party that uses the photo will have to pay.

Canon and Nikon still provides no on system encryption although photographers have been asked for it for years, so basically if someone stole your camera, they also owns the copyright of photos from those RAW files.
I get a similar case with Donald Trump - Banjo Kazooie
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Donald%20Trump...
Force creates counter force. That's a basic law of human nature. I'll repeat, there is no force without the counter force.

Also, the terminology is arbitrary. Water can surely create endorphin when you are really thirsty. Toxins are problematic, but even water is toxic in high quantities. What's really toxic is dogmatism ... and narcotics that numb senses, which is the opposite of stimulation if you think about it. Only, it's not black and white like that, if the body is stimulated to feel less.

Anyhow it's pretty simple to see which side f the equation is the extreme negative. Fiding the middle is difficult and hence dangerous.
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> Maybe if I had a full smart home with lights and whatever.

Even though I love my Echos - I've never gotten the appeal of the current "smart home". Sure, controlling some lights that aren't convenient to reach is helpful, but not a major selling feature. Turning on the TV is great, but rarely can you change the volume, and if you could, you're talking over the show. As I jokingly called it in another thread, "a fancy expensive Clapper".
Otherwise...you get what, ability to turn them off and on remotely? Again, not useless, but also not a big deal.

When they are SMARTER I'm all aboard. Recognize who I am, the volume level I like, and adjust for whatever volume is coming out of the TV. Give me 'mood lighting' on command. The ability to get answers to even marginally complex questions. Read my email and tell me when her flight is coming in. Know to remind me to clean the place up a day in advance without me explicitly setting it to do that. Generate playlists dynamically based off of more than one term, and build up further definitions based on my reactions. ("No, that was too mellow. Something calming, but still with a beat" results in it adjusting what I meant by 'easy-listening' compared to what others might mean).

I can be excited about the potential, but not about the reality of this aspect.