skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to me a bold claim to me - don't actually teach anything, just demand stuff! And behold, by pure magic (and LOTS of selection) we get a handful of successful students who manage to pass, validating this "teaching" style. Is that really what you have in mind?

I'm actually someone who did and does not have a problem with that style. It suits me very well. At university I mostly learned from non-university sources (e.g. using outside text books and ignoring lectures, and doing my own independent research and work on the side). I also finished over 60 edX and Coursera courses during the last five years (some easy, like history of architecture, many hard STEM and medical subjects) - so I like learning by myself. Still, when I go somewhere to be taught and all they tell me is "this is what we want you to be able to do at the end, but you have to go teach yourself" it makes me pretty mad. I had a few such edX courses - you know, if I have to use Youtube and Google I sure can get the necessary knowledge, but then why did I sign up for the course??

There always is plenty of opportunity to let people act independently. Refusing to teach as a way to teach is just lazy and incompetent.
Another anecdote: I've consumed on average multiple cans of soda a day since I was in highschool, and while this habit has had a disastrous impact on my health I have always had exceptionally good vision (I can read the bottom line on the eye chart).
The government would be a single point of failure so it's cheaper and more secure to privatize. Also, private control of keys acts as a check upon government abuse.
Not one of those languages has a construct equivalent to Haskell's type classes.
So while I sympathize with the overarching view of your comment, the details are too incoherent for its being so argumentative.

> Yeah, stuff was never scarce. I don't know where on earth you got that idea. After World War 2 the US stumbled upon the greatest wealth creation machine the planet has ever known

So how does this mean stuff was not scarce before WWII?

> Big houses and big cars far from the "noisy, dirty" city are expensive

So, given that they'd already been afforded at one point, the real problem is declining income to cover their carrying cost. So let's focus on that rather than a red herring of one symptom. If it's a given that wages will go down forever, then why even worry about regrouping in the cities when that would only stave off the trend for a few decades? Better to focus on the reason real wages are going down!

> Prosperous empires over-expand and over-build and eventually collapse due to endless war, internal conflicts and better competition. Density wins because it is much, much more efficient

These two bits do not follow. If empires collapse due to being trapped into being too spread out, then that implies it is impossible for them to naturally shrink back down and grow denser! Still I would posit this applies in the much more general sense of spread out in the world rather than a single defensible landmass. I'd venture to say those foreign military bases in all of the colonies use a lot more resources (including the wars they encourage!) than people commuting from suburbs, my own love for walkability notwithstanding.

PS You can't bounce back and forth between the economic paradigms of resources and financials. While better competition makes prices lower, that doesn't affect resource usage in a major way - compared to say economies of scale. Don't conflate the two.
Do something before with them and ask them to recommend you other peoples after.
What's the best way to represent 3D data when you might have a large area with sparse geometry? I'm thinking something like a visual SLAM system, where you build up a map of the surroundings while moving through it. In 2D it should be pretty straight forward, but using a 3D grid seems like it would get out of hand fast. Is it a KD-tree with voxels? Signed Distance Fields? How do robots and self driving cars store the dynamic maps they build from sensor data?
How can anyone pay any attention to yet another west coaster who lives in a bubble?

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

If you make $300,000 a year in household income, you are making more than 98.9% of households in the US.

Our household income is a little more than half that, we live in a major metropolitan city, have a 5 bedroom 3-1/2 bath house in one of the affluent counties in the country that was brand new build in 2016 that costs $320k. Our mortgage is around $2000 a month.

We aren't able to max out both of our 401Ks right now, but I do max out mine and my wife works in the education system with a pension.

We are a family of 3 and our grocery build is around $800 a month.

We explicitly decided not to save for college. We are in a state that has practically free tuition to any public college as long as you maintain a 3.2(?) GPA. If our child can't keep that GPA in high school, why would we pay a lot of money for him to go to an expensive college? We can afford to pay tuition for four years out of pocket for him to go to a public two year college his first two years and then transfer.
By default no: It's a block device, so it has no idea what the file system on top is doing. Mounting the same file system in rw mode twice would result in instant corruption unless the file system is built for that. I'm not sure such a file system exists.

What would work is mounting the same file system read only from multiple machines.
Is the diet in East Asian countries (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore & South Korea) significantly worse than it was in the 1920s? As the article details, myopia is increasingly common in China as well. The Chinese suffered numerous famines between 1920 and 1960.

I'm sure diet plays some role in eye health, but nutrition has likely improved in all of the countries they're discussing.
Are Americans Overtaxed?
> Oh god no. You don't want all your IDs changing when a user changes their email address.

That's a pretty passionate response, can you explain your logic? What are you doing with your usernames that you can't afford to let users change them?
At the bakery i worked- we used forks - and only little punctures
Weird that they included openpgp and omemo as encryption methods but left out the much more popular OTR system for XMPP.

I get that OMEMO is the future but very few clients support it currently, and as I understand even less servers support the features required to support it.

Oh and OpenPGP just sucks for instant messaging. (long-lived key with no forward secrecy)
My personal reason not to use Pale Moon - and instead Otter-Browser. I also would recommend Vivaldi more than Pale Moon.

If you are creating a browser it is pure illusion to think you can also handle engine stuff. That is such a complex matter - HTML5, CSS3, ecmascript - Take a look in the past. Moonchild, Tobin and the others had to re-base Pale Moon to be able to be compatible with today's web.

And now that should be possible when they are basically just doing it another time? Stuff does not stay complex, it gets worse the more time is progressing.

And if they have been unable to implement promises or shared array or whatever on their own.. how they actually could believe they can implement upcoming features?

If you are forking something, make sure the engine work is done by someone else. That is the only valid way to get stuff done and not becoming outdated.
After reading this article, I think it's borderline cruelty to give adolescents detention during recess for misbehavior. If anything, this enables more pent up behaviors which could lead to myopia.
Amazon has huge fraud and counterfeit issues that you dont have with traditional large brick and mortar sellers. This is going to be a major crack in Amazon’s armor in the same way that privacy was a crack for Facebook. Wait until Amazon sells some kind of counterfeit and tainted baby product that injurers or kills. It will happen and it will be on Bezos because Amazon is clearly turning a blind eye in the name of profits.
Laziest option - buy bread from the bakery.
NBD does not support that. it is a networked block device, the kernel and file systems on top of it do lots of caching. So other clients will not get the latest version if one of them changes a block.
It's never okay to be an asshole. End of story.

But you will also encounter hundreds of assholes in every aspect of your life. If every time you encounter an asshole, you break down and cry and can't go on with your day, the only one that suffers is you, not the asshole.

Also, fearing hurting someone's feelings becomes the lowest common denominator, and leads to everyone walking on eggshells.

Case in point, a fresh grad had her code reviewed by the team, and it was completely professional and non-judgemental. She burst into tears at her desk because she had never gone through this and took the criticism personally.

Were we too harsh, or was she too sensitive? If people burst into tears because of professional code reviews, do we lower the bar as a team to account for her sensitivity, or does she raise her bar and thicken her skin? And who determines what that line is?
Hey, I'm the author. Yeah he's 100% guilty of counterfeiting, pleaded guilty and acknowledged everything up front, faking the discs and everything.

The issue I and others have been trying to highlight is that as you say that Microsoft overstated the value, not a little, but a lot, and also contrary to the basic facts of the matter. Essentially he committed one crime and was sentenced for another.

He was selling recovery discs with no licenses, which are free for anyone to create on their own or for refurbishers to burn as many as they'd like of. They pay Microsoft for bulk licenses then print as many discs as they need.

Lundgren never sold or attempted to sell licenses, which of course create the value of the product. The discs were worth the convenience cost of however much a shop would pay to not have to print them themselves. No Microsoft sales were harmed, if a license was needed Microsoft is the only place to get it, these discs are for re-installation purposes.

Microsoft in this case convinced a judge that a "copy" of Windows is worth the same whether it is licensed or not. That's not true, and as if it weren't enough that this misrepresentation of the facts took the day in court, a guy is going to prison for 15 months because of it — the sentence was directly affected by the value determined by Microsoft's $25-per-disc assertion. If the discs were valued accurately he might have had a fine and probation, or a month in jail.

I wrote another post talking about this earlier:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/how-microsoft-helped-impri...

and for what it's worth regarding the $80K and $28K payments, Lundgren's account of it is the first was for all kinds of stuff his Source Captain company manufactured over there for refurbishing purposes (old hard drive cases, CD caddies, weird screws) and the second never took place because the goods were never sent — all confiscated in the raid on Wolff's place.
In Switzerland you can buy them as "heat lamps".
Code signing and decryption both require access to the private key, possibly through a hardware security module. I don't see why decryption has less exposure.
Then why the hell would you pay them for that when you can just do it yourself?
Right now, yes.

Once even TLS1.2 becomes deprecated, it is time to switch if it would be clear that an upgrade would be impossible from the makers side of affairs.

Or the moment you have to learn from the makers that they simply can't do that on their own.
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This actually doesn't matter and it could have already happened.

Facebook wasn't really affected and it will regain any strength lost shortly.

Amazon has had a counterfeit problem for a while. Maybe if you read some reviews you'll learn about it.

People want lower prices, people want convenience, and people forget about things.
I often ask questions like that because I genuinely assume there is a good reason something was done a certain way but its not obvious to me. Maybe they made it over complicated by accident or, more likely, since I didn't spend as much time thinking about this code I just missed something during review. Maybe there is a way that can better convey that sort of genuine curiosity.
How about a "knot" which implies a structured organization of threads (like a knot of rope), and a messy tangle of threads (like a knot in hair.) Plus, it's funny that it's a homophone for "not".
"Chomsky contributed to linguistics and it was an interesting theory but it turned out he was mostly wrong..."

You've made a very strong claim about linguistic theory while knowing very little about it. The vast majority of those working on phonology do so within the mold set by Chomsky & Morris Halle in 1970, and there are roughly zero syntacticians doing serious work on natural language syntax outside the Chomskyan tradition (whether in GB or Minimalism).

"The religion built around Chomsky is a bit crazy."

You're hardly in a position to judge, with no more than a passing acquaintance with psych 101 summaries of his work.

"Just because you defined something doesn't mean it's impressive."

The Chomsky hierarchy was not "defined" in the deflationary sense that you're pushing. Chomsky discovered that generative mechanisms partake of a special set of related properties relating the range of their output to specific constraints on the formalisms that can exactly describe their grammars. It so happens that this discovery made possible much that happened in CS during the 60s and into the 70s.

I'll leave aside your bizarre comments as to the unimpressiveness of Peano arithmetic.
The article doesn't use "User ID" in the sense of "username" (externally visible identifier, that likely is used for log in), but as in "mostly internal id thats used to reference a user across database tables, services, ...". If you use something that can change in there, you need to do the change across all those things consistently, which is a lot of potential for error.

Or am I misunderstanding your perspective?
Certainly during childhood and adolescence.

For grownups the situation is different though. Many, if not most, works that I admire have been created by reclusive individuals.

A lot of groups just form around a small number of productive individuals and then claim ownership and promote the ideas of such individuals.
Just to throw in another title, Tartine Bread is excellent. The sourdough recipe from that book is the official recipe we used at the restaurant where I cooked in Park City, called Handle.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8185785-tartine-bread?fr...
What I don't understand is don't you have to get the money into an account to actually pay for the product? Even if you are both the buyer and seller?

For example, if I want to launder $100k and I sell a fake book and I'm also the buyer of the fake book, I can't pretend that the "buyer" paid me in cash.
I calmed down a little, had the time to explain what really happened, so here's this post.
It's a bit long but a lot more structured and detailed this time.

https://pastebin.com/8RuRyVQT
The installation was activated with the laptop's COA. That's how they're meant to be used, as a re-installation medium where you re-authorize the OS with your original license key. If you don't have a key you have to buy one from MS.

The Dell stuff on the disc that made it onto the install was just a folder with like support links and stuff.

The install process is on page 31 here:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/2LU...
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That is an interesting question! Whether a 3d grid gets out of hand depends how big you can make your cells. Tree based techniques are inflexible with respect to bounding volume changes, requiring some kind of complex rebalancing technique to stay efficient.

Cars or moving robots still move on a 2d surface, so projecting everything into a 2d plane works for these applications.
I guess OMEMO was their priority at the time, and PGP was quite easy to handle.
You should let him ride his bike freely and not give into your fear-based biases. I'll bet if you look up crime statistics, your town is probably safer now then it was then.

So why would you keep him from exploring and learning how to take care of himself alone and with friends?
My wife has about 20,000 followers on Instagram, most of them fake because she was tricked into buying them through "free" Instagram filters apps.

It's so interesting watching the activity generated every time she makes a post, the number of push notifications that come through within minutes is incredible. As well, the comments are often absurd on her posts.

It's so obvious to a non-Instagram user (ie. me) that there is a tremendous number of bots going around, the fact that Facebook doesn't do something to eradicate the bots indicates to me that they're afraid to reveal the true numbers to their investors and advertisers, otherwise it would drastically affect their income.
I use my smart-phone to listen to audio-books and pod-casts while I walk.

In that respect it would improve my chances, though not at my age.
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If you are looking for that feature set in a mature product, check out Gajim.
I've lived in Atlanta GA for over 20 years. During that time it has never taken me more than 3 weeks to find a job once I started looking - always paying more.

In 2012, I walked out on a contract job on Monday during lunch (long story), called a recruiter and I had a job offer with what was then a Fortune 10 company by Thursday evening making 10K more.

In late 2014, I called recruiters and had two job offers making 25K more.

Earlier this year, it took 10 days and now I'm making yet another 20K more.

I'm no special snowflake. I'm still just making the median salary for Atlanta, a lot of my former coworkers can tell a similar story.

When I'm looking for a job, usually I'm juggling between 5-10 opportunities. I always use recruiters, so I am not blindly submitting resumes.
What has he done to deserve it?
That's exactly it, and the article doesn't talk about user-facing usernames, since they're automatically incrementing ints.
There is an article someone wrote which roughly titled 'why your city is poor'. There answer was that the tax and service revenue needed to support the long infrastructure is about 20% of needed. And it's a big deal because families are paying $1000/yr when they need to be paying $5000/yr.

So suburban cities are living off depreciation of those long term public assets.
My understanding is that myopia onset is linked with natural light exposure in preteen-adolescent years. While there is always going to be some segment of people who stay in (who are likely overrepresented on HN) there would have been plenty of children playing sports or playing in dirt who nowadays are on their mobiles, probably indoors because the sun glares the screen.
In addition to competition, there were also safety issues with proprietary chargers. I personally experienced this, when I had an emergency and my LG Lotus was dead. I tried using a borrowed microUSB charger at the hospital, only to be presented with the message, "Please use an LG-branded charger."

The power rating was identical; but, they had some kind of crazy, DRM-like scheme in place.

I'm very glad that I can now use or buy a cable anywhere and use pretty much any block, even an inefficient one.
The problem with the question form "why didnt you just do ___ here?" is it's loaded with the assumption that the other party should have known to do this other thing instead.

A better approach is to use the less loaded "have you considered doing X here?".

If you find yourself needing to demand others not take offense at your questions, you might wish to try a different approach.
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Click on the link.. and I get no content, only

> Make informed decisions. Become an FT Subscriber.

Okay - no.
I don't foresee that happening for a while, if ever - even if we could make a plug-and-play vaccine framework, all it would take would be one benign-or-otherwise infectious organism coming up with a mechanism to effectively minimize vaccine response going forward without too much selection pressure against it, and then those infected would need some treatment beyond simply informing the adaptive parts of the immune system where to nuke. (And that's ignoring the faster-than-realtime simulation requirements at a truly staggering scale to keep up with the microorganisms involved.)

The thing I find most promising, these days, are results that show fundamentally different types of treatment (like phage therapy, or some of the stranger results with internal parasites) can be used in combination to weaken antibiotic resistance of resistant strains, and then you can wash out the remnants with those same antibiotics. [1] [2]

[1] - https://news.yale.edu/2018/03/08/bacteria-hunting-virus-fish...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
It's much larger than that, really -- if you know that the user is definitely looking for a hash that's present, there are 381 they could have been looking for. But here we're just as interested in elements that are outside the set, and there are a lot more of them.
Unless you have some kinda smoking gun, dont act on this. Move on.

If stealing your customers is as simple finding out who they are and reaching out to them, then you dont have a sustainable business model.

Focus on building your business. Get back to work.
In that you are right. Moonchild, Tobin and the other ones may be able to solve browser internal issues, but everything which is reaching a certain size is "patches welcome".

And to make it worse, they are rather rude against Seamonkey developers or Mozilla, or Brave or Vivaldi or against guys who dare to fulfill not 1000% the branding rules of Moonchild when creating an own version of Pale Moon/Basilisk.

While i would defend Pale Moon against Firefox trolls as i am in support of minorities, i am less than appalled to see how they are acting towards certain Linux guys or even own users who are insulted for creating forks for XP.

The whole Pale Moon project is a double edged sword.

https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86

That says more than anything.
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