skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it never ceases to amaze me the people who won't follow a recipe then complain it is not a good recipe. the number of people whom I led down the road of cooking; this is especially true for techies who seem adverse or even scared to try; is quite long and it came down to one thing.

start with simple recipes.
follow exactly.

then work your way to complex items and personal variations but the key to understanding cooking is to follow a recipe and see why it works.

if you want to scare yourself later go play with browning butter, reducing, and for real fun making candies
1. Know when to ask for help. Figure out task deadline in advance, set a timeout, ask for help if you haven't made progress in interim. (Longer version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/12/07/asking-for-help/)

2. Understand your goals: why are you doing this task? This will help you make tradeoffs. Also, try to have multiple goals for a task; this will help you stay motivated.

3. Write everything down. This will help you get back to work quickly when you are forced to context switch.

(Longer version of 2 and 3: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/03/stay-focused/)
I disagree, I feel like around 30% of HN works at a big company, but most are at startups nowhere near the scale of Amazon.
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I dunno, MS ported the Mac version of Word to the Atari ST but by the time it got there (late, and buggy, and overpriced) indigenous ST developers had made their own superior products.

Interlace video for hi-rez modes on the Amiga also made it non-ideal for office type applications. Maybe if Commodore had bothered to include a scan doubler by default?
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git-sizer uses the -C option, which was added in git v1.8.5:

https://github.com/git/git/commit/44e1e4d67d5148c245db362cc4...

RHEL7 ships with git v1.8.3.1.

There might be other compatiblity issues, e.g.: https://github.com/github/git-sizer/issues/18
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Tought herself Amiga "demo" programming 30 years ago in C and BASIC because she understood computers as a medium, and she can also use it to create art by programming.
What a pile of shit. Biggest waste of time of my day so far. Let me summarize: "Drumpf said he is smart, no he can't be smart because people can't know themselves! [bunch of filler crap about studies with poor methodology] but just in case he takes an IQ test and turns out to actually be smart, that doesn't count, because he said he was smart!!!"
This needs some major work to be packagable into a library, esp. for non amd64 hosts. There's also no src repo, as with all his previous hacks.

Who will do the autotooling and repo hosting? I've added some sugar in my fork on github https://github.com/rurban/libbf/tree/my
but I'm not sure yet if I will use it.

But the low constant overhead for small numbers, the small size, no assembler tricks and the MIT license makes it very attractive.
Is there anyone similar to Thompson who has such an interesting take on business topics? I have been looking for a while but this is really hard to find!
Dangerous Prototypes offer SLA printing for $0.95/gram. They also do very cheap laser-cut acrylic panels.

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Or maybe the whole morning person vs a night person is nonsense and it change with lifestyle, day program etc. And maybe are people rarely in two completely distinct groups, but rather on continuum - meaning your need for company vs loneliness, how much tiring it is to be in company etc is a.) rarely in the extreme b.) vary with circumstances (unless you are one of those extremes).
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1. China with its vote in UN security counsuel was a major suppord for Burmese government to do what what they did without fear of being punished. Google "China Rohingya" theres plenty of articles.

2. Are you literally justifying building island in other countrys sovereign territory? There is absolutely no excuse for this. How would Beijing like it if France or US moved their aircraft carrier 1 km outside of Shanghai?

3. China may not be capable of attakcing through convential war, but they are doing more nastyness without it. Supporting the Sri lankan governments assault on the tamils literally killing 60 000 people in the last weeks of the war in 2009. Imprisoning nobel pieze price winner till his death? Punishing Norway economically for awarding nobel peize price? Suppressing the muslim population in their country (Uyighur?)
Stealing technologies and preventing any outside countries from enforcing IP-theft lawsuits.

The list is too long to mention.
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I sort of wonder how much of a problem that is any more. I have exactly zero clocks that aren't NTP enabled, radio synchronized or just dumb battery watches.

Still an interesting "problem" non the less.
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There's a link to the code from the game, but here it is for anyone who missed it:

https://github.com/nullobject/risk
be tempted to do it with buying bcash.
What i learned after going through 150+ Rejection
I was rejected 150+ times before i get my first job offer as a software developer.

Getting hired in tech is a tough game. If you think your technical skills or a degree from elite university is enough, You are wrong.

Technical interviews are much more then skills and qualifications.

There is a world hidden behind various simple to complex patterns. You need to learn about these patterns.

All you need to succeed in technical interviews is a warrior's mindset, unshake able confidence, and a professional athlete level preparation in doing technical interviews.

Based on my experiences i have created a guide. To help the community understand the technical interview process. And to prepare effectively to crack it.
I think people are hesitant to over-criticise academia. Maybe they can already hear the resulting anti-science sentiment, and fear losing hard fought ground if academia is called into question.

However, I think there are serious signs that we should be looking for radical changes to the metstructures of academia. They're not necessarily related, but they point to something being really wrong.

First is the replicability crisis. Have we actually been accumulating knowledge in fields where this is bad? Do we know more about human behaviour due to the human behaviour research done in the last generation? What's the point of all these "more research needed" conclusions. The process of academic publishing and peer reveiw directs this whole thing, and it doesn't seem to be all that well directed..

While we're on publishing, everyone in academia complains bitterly about the publish-or-perish problem and about grant/funding politics.

One of the big complaints about grants is that senior academics spend all their time on grants and administration. Success in many fields is more a function of being good on administration and politics, than being good at research.

While we're on administration... the number of administrators (not teachers or researchers) has skyrocketed over the last 2 generations.

Ultimately, I think that the "scientific method" in practice is in large part embodied the academic publishing system. ...the algorithm determining how science works.
The biggest problem with funding ideas - they fail more than proven conservative projects. When you select idea that fails, you can be accused of wasting funds, and not selected for next funding meeting.
> Maybe 10 years ago, I had solid answers to all of these, but now I don't.

My experience is that as I get older I get less certain about many things, not more. I think this is mainly due to experience teaching me about the complexities that can hide below the surface of seemingly simple things. My younger self didn't know this - which is ok as he had other things to do.

So it is possible that you just know yourself better than you did ten years ago, and that's the reason that the simple questions about yourself don't have simple answers anymore.
I agree. I think JD are taking a much better approach here and seem to care much more.
> I know a bunch of really successful people...

You are mixing up money with success. I do think you know some successful people, you just not realising, who they are.
Sorry about the late reply, didn't get any notifications about it. Will do a Show HN after a little more testing :)
It depends where you are. I know for example that the Australian standards require an accumulated time error of less than +/-5 sec on the mainland (+/-15s in Tasmania).

Looking at other comments, it seems that we're a little weird down under and most places don't track the drift.
> he has perfected the cheesecake

This assumes convexity, no? ;-P
> Anyway, you delete the file(s) and / or clear your browser cache

If you are in possession of evidence of a crime you are supposed to report it to the police. If you delete it you are destroying evidence of criminal activity.

For an alternative scenario: suppose you find a dead body in your living room. Should you A) call be police B) hack it up in your bath tub and dump it in the river.

Even if you do B you probably won't get convicted of murder, but you are probably going to be under investigation for a lot longer than A.
Agree. I think there's some (a lot?) of context about /why/ the article was written. It sounds like some[one|thing] has wound the author up.

Also it's a post from another blog... I'd wander over there and try to figure it out, but lunch beckons...
That's exactly my point - Etrade already does all the tax forms for me, I don't understand why they won't allow me to have a full account. Probably some "blanket policy".

As for Amazon, I would expect them to eventually expand globally if they were to offer such services (which is not what I expect from most US brokers).
I used to believe I am a night person. Once upon a time I would remain awake until 2 a.m., sometimes until 4 a.m. too, hacking away on some interesting technical problem with no fixed time for when to go to bed. It was impossible for me to wake up before 9 a.m. My professional working hours were between 1:00 PM and 9:00 PM. Since I was working remotely, this scheduled worked fine and led me to believe I am a night person.

About two years ago, I got a non-remote regular job where I need to travel across the city to get to my office. I began waking up early at 6:00 a.m. to reach office early before the traffic begins to peak. My professional working hours are now 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. My personal hacking hours are 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. I go to bed by 10:00 p.m. I have become a morning person and I see no difference in productivity.

If I had to choose if one is better than the other, although it would be a difficult choice, I would choose being a morning person is better for the sole reason that I go to bed at a fixed time and I don't keep hacking away at problems indefinitely until 4:00 a.m. when both body and mind are tired.

But at the same time, if my circumstances changed and I had to turn into a night person again, I don't think I would have any difficulty doing that.

I think human beings cannot be categorized into such black and white categories for many things. We are, by nature, adaptable species.
Not, is for osmotic pressure. Cells are burst by that water. Is a simplification, but is a "mechanical damage"

Any strong acid able to "dissolve tissues" will kill cells of course (causing apoptosis), but is not the only way. Distilled water is not so acid.

Your questions are too over-specialized, too vague or too complex to be answered in a few lines. I can understand the lack of motivation and answers. How much electrolytes are there in a single "bite" of "any particular food"... is an example of question impossible to answer. A mouthful is a variable and undefined amount of matter, and "any particular food" has an almost infinite range.
If this is not the coolest video I've seen on YouTube in some years, I don't know what is.
Peer review is not about funding the best science, it is about funding the best connected and ensuring those that have climbed to the top keep their position even if they are out of ideas.

More seriously, the problem with approaches like this is the people who are chosen would be mad to actually work on the idea they put up. At most the funding is for 18 month and what happens if at the end of that time you have nothing?

If you want this idea to work the funding has to be for at least 10 years so that people can afford to take real risk and have enough time to build a track record if the idea doesn't pan out.
I am absolutely a morning person. I know this because I absolutely prefer to get up before the sun rises. And I prefer going to bed earlier than most people. I have more energy in the morning and like to get important things done then. My wife is more of an evening person, but has adapted quite well to my schedule and it's not nearly so clear for her.

My wife is absolutely left-handed. She has trouble doing things with her right hand. I'm mostly right-handed, but I have no trouble doing things with my left hand, so it's much less clear for me.

My point is that everyone has some things that are very, very clear, but not everything is clear. Don't expect to be able to put yourself into pre-made categories for everything.

And don't be upset when you're more adaptable than other people. Failing to classify yourself isn't a problem. Being adaptable is an asset.
> That is way beyond the scope of what Best Buy's employees should be permitted to do

"Best Buy itself is authorized by customers to search the devices"

According to the article customers sign a contract specifically giving Best Buy authorization to do this.
> One: If you want people to really know you, weekly meetings don’t cut it. You need deep dives with them in high-intensity situations.

I'm sure most people experienced situations in a company where things were rocky and others in the company were experiencing the same situation. I haven't spoken to certain co-workers in years, yet I know for a fact that if I e-mailed them today saying I'm coming into town, they'd be excited to meet for dinner.

> Two: Looking under your own hood at what makes you tick and writing it down can provide a useful reference.

That's also where mindfulness can be very helpful in that you build up the sensitivity to see what's going on within yourself.

> Three: Put yourself in situations where you can’t ignore feedback from multiple sources.

If only I had design critiques / code review for my past life decisions.

I think for much stronger beliefs (e.g. "I'm intelligent", "I'm attractive"...) it takes repeated blows over a course of time to update the error. It wasn't until I got my ass kicked from learning STEM subjects over a course of a year and got rejected A TON in online dating until my priors got updated to a more accurate calibration.
Yup! Please!!
Been thinking about this as I setup web hosting for my clients sometimes. Suppose I'd need some way of getting someone to transfer ownership of the web hosting account to the client in case something happened.
This is really heavy pdf. Try llpp or mupdf.
DCF77 surely cannot be that bad indoors on the Continent?

When living at what was then often quoted as the extreme fringe of the coverage area - Trondheim, Norway, on 63,5 degrees of latitude - I had reliable coverage as long as the clocks were kept in window sills (hence, effectively outdoors)

However, just moving down to my current home (on 62 degrees, or -roughly speaking- 11% closer to the transmitter site), I now have reliable coverage everywhere (granted, in a wooden house - but the DCF77 alarm clock in the basement synchs every hour, too)
There really is some amazing work done on the Atari 8-bits, still. Especially in eastern Europe, where there's a very vibrant enthusiast community. Some really great expanders (VBXE adds Amiga-quality hi-rez graphics, and there's expanders that bring it up to 1MB graphics, high clock rates, etc.).

I was a Tramiel user back then -- VIC-20 then Atari ST. But as an adult have gone back and played with the other lineage (Atari 8-bit and a bit of Amiga). The A8s were great machines. In some ways a far better architecture than the C64 -- the SIO expansion bus a precursor to USB, very novel powerful video hardware, etc. And what's amazing is that the 400/800 came out quite a bit before the C64 (albeit for far more money)
I see, that makes sense now - thank you.

It's mind-boggling for me that a hundred-plus year old house costs that much, frankly.
> forgetfulness doesn’t always occur (Princess Leia’s prison cell block number: AA-23)

Sure, when it's the start of the Fibonacci sequence.
Cool! I didn't know about mbasic.facebook.com

I don't want to use Mesenger but I need to use FB to keep in touch with my family abroad. I always have to make the browser render the non-mobile site.

I've just changed my bookmark and I'm not looking back. :)
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>And at Morning Star, employees get to write their own job descriptions based on how they plan to contribute to the company’s mission that year. But they have to get their closest colleagues to buy in on it, and then their coworkers rate their performance and determine their salary.

Sounds terrifying. Payscale linked to your coworkers opinions of you.
Four rules for how to effectively collaborate with me and people that agree with me.

One rule for how to effectively collaborate - talk to the people you are trying to collaborate with about expectations and then follow them. Try to remember along the way that you are all human.
French grid data from RTE is available from http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/

I took the frequency data from the last 1200 days, and calculated the cumulative drift. The raw drift graph, assuming 50Hz is nominal, is here:

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/drift-raw.png

This seems bogus; there's a constant drift.

If I compensate for that drift by assuming the nominal grid frequency is 49.9972Hz, the data looks a little more sane.

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/drift.png

You can clearly see the 6 minute deviation this year - it's pretty striking, and certainly nothing this drastic has happened in the last three years. But what's with the positive offset over the previous year? Not entirely sure how much I trust the RTE data.
I imagine the difference between DCF77 and a 50Hz clock is similar to the difference between a $40 clock and a $10 clock. :P
Another option: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/38200-twitter-engagement-m...
here is an infographic with the history of the popular blockchains by types

https://github.com/ciocan/Blockchain-Files/blob/master/the-h...
Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?
Do you have some good advice or know any useful resources to learn in a proper way how to code in C++? For the context, I know some C, but C++ seems a different kind of beast, and it's easy to get lost in the huge variety of features and libraries it offers.
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If Amazon wanted to move into Asset Management, I think they'd have to show financial experience/competence first for the trust to be there. Wouldn't it make more sense for them to open a bank first?
Awesome work, thanks!
Umm..

I'm Australian, so I follow the South China Sea closely.

The US seems to have completely abandoned doing anything in the South China Sea.

I mean - Trump talks a lot about China, but has done nothing to slow the Chinese build up there.

Here's a recent article about how the Chinese have finished their fortifications on one of their artificial islands (which are pretty impressive!): http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/photos-reveal-c...
This rather depends on what you're doing - anything which relies on controlled impedance or high-speed digital is a pain in wire-wrap and even more so on a breadboard. If you can stand the delay a PCB can be a cheap and reliable way of getting started. If you leave enough space that you can green-wire over PCB errors you can have the best of both worlds.
The panel found that China’s claims of historic rights within the nine-dash line, which Beijing uses to demarcate its claims in the South China Sea, were without legal foundation. The panel also concluded that Beijing’s activities within the Philippines’ two-hundred-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), such as illegal fishing and environmentally ruinous artificial island construction, infringed on Manila’s sovereign rights.

https://www.cfr.org/councilofcouncils/global_memos/p38227
This is a fascinating point. Perhaps the cleanest way to fairly treat your option value is to not compensate you in expectation, but to allow you to "sell" your idea internally when you have them. Employees could get a royalty, say, for a successful idea. Pricing the royalty is difficult, but it's still an interesting idea.

As I write, I realize this must have been tried somewhere. I know at one point Sandia Labs allowed employees to start spin-offs using tech developed there, but that's not quite the same.
Thank you for taking the time to write a substantial reply!

You might be right about deep learning having stumbled upon something deep and
profound. Or it may just be the case of "big machine performs well at task
that is hard for humans". Like you say, we will have to wait and see.

It's just that we won't be seeing much, unless the field focuses real effort on
the task of coming up with some kind of "calculus of (deep) learning". As
things go right now, it might take more than ten years to see the progress
you're hoping for.

On a personal note, I should say that I do quite like your idea, in principle.
But that's because you're proposing a grammar of design spaces; I think we
should use grammars everywhere :P

On the demonstration of your technique in other domains than vision- well,
that would be really interesting to see. I watched a presentation by a
gentleman called Willem Zuidema recently, whose work is on computational
linguistics. His team had worked to interpret their deep learning models by
visualising their hidden unit activations; he said that it was extremely
painful and didn't scale well (he was talking at CoCoSym 2018, a workshop that
featured much work on the prospects of combining deep learning with symbolic
techniques, mainly for interpretation). If your method can work well in other
domains it will definitely be useful to many people. It's still not the kind
of theoretical result I'm hoping for, but it would be nice to see a principled
way to extract symbolic representations from a continuous space - if that's
what you're talking about.

Anyway, I'll keep an eye out :)
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