skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think state is the problem. I think the visibility of state is a problem. In most programming, state is some nebulous thing that you really only get to see in a debugger. Otherwise, you're left reasoning about what you think the states are and can be. How many bugs trace down to statements like, "This data shouldn't be here."

That's why Excel works for so many people -- the internal and intermediate states can be as visible as the user needs or desires them to be. And those users seem to have no problem chaining together multiple cells into what is essentially a very complex function.
Do you really think Google has a stake in the wearables market? Last I heard they were ready to pull out with most of the market going to Apple.
You might enjoy https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/. The author uses Legos to describe algebras and diagrams to describe symmetric monoidal categories.
I would argue that the whole purpose of beta releases has always been real-world, production use by risk-tolerant users, just not by the median user in the target market.
But you know neither the chance of the new rocket being explosion proof, nor the chance of the rocket blowing up half the time.

You built the rocket, launched it once, and it did not blow up. What should be integrated to get the probability of rapid unplanned disassembly?
You won't hear "AA/POC have lower IQs" because of the soundbites

You do read a lot of opposition to the validity of IQ testing. There are also attacks on the notion of objective truth and objective standards from the far left fringe as well. Most of my life, I have counted myself as a part of the left, and my Political Compass test came up as center-left when I took it. It's the Far Left I would object to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwZ651i5vls

you definitely hear "Everyone has the right to a safe and stable home life" / "Kids deserve equal opportunity in schools" - all attempts at preventing the damage being cited here (or rather, getting the outcomes seen in the study)

Then why the opposition to school choice?
Moving to php7 would allow those web hosts to host more customers on the same machine, as php7 is faster with a lower memory footprint. Everyone would be better off, even the cheap web hosts.
If... that's exactly what its being used for unless its being used to purchase illegal goods (ala silk road - which i have no problem with) but as a normal currency in the western world no one is going to adopt it so its an asset until it vanishes.
Just got to flipkart.com and amanzon.in,

see the detailed reviews on a handful of products and see the prices. General Amazon wins.

they may have PhonePe but is that a winner? PayTM dominates.
Or both, or maybe even allow the consumer to run their own custom infotainment software…
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> You become an expert on a topic by writing well on it because you're forced to fill in all the gaps as you go, and then people give you the credit because you have a book.

For me, teaching had a similar effect (and, to a lesser extent, blogging).

I worked in IT at a .edu for ~8 years and was approached to teach a few courses as an adjunct professor, which I did for ~3 years. I think I learnt much, much more while I was teaching than my students ever learned from me.
I'm not telling people they're using it wrongly, I'm saying that Mastodon has benefits that they may not (yet) have realised, and that it's not Twitter. This is why I say that using both is a perfectly reasonable option.

And Mastodon is not Twitter. Twitter does have some advantages over Mastodon, and if that's what you want or need, then great.

But if you want a quality audience, Mastodon might be a reasonable alternative, and criticising it for not being the same as Twitter, or using the same metrics that you use for Twitter, is misguided.

I'm not good at analogies - never have been - but let me try one. If someone tells me that their experience of using my car sucks and I point out that it's a stick-shift and not an automatic, that's not my failure to understand them, that's me providing information to try to help them get the most out of an alternative experience.

Choosing an instance that matches your interests is part of the federated/non-centralised experience. It's different, and for some, like me, there is value in that difference.
Very true, and I did actually explain that to him. In my rush to tell a good story I left out the pedantic part.
Brent is one of the greatest teachers I've ever experienced. I used to take classes from him (and TA some others he taught) and was consistently blown away by his enthusiasm and capacity for sharing concepts. He has a great essay on pedagogy as well (https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...)

If you're interested in learning some of the beautiful foundations of functional programming, I highly recommend checking out the lecture notes and assignments from his Penn CIS 194 class (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html)
I play drums, the sensitivity increase by detailed perception of time translates very well to kinetic sensitivity (I can almost sense momentum derivative). Not large scale space though. I do think that most of our senses are first tuned for near future and thus local interactions, not architecture-size understanding?
Hi, Steve.
Hardware improvement cycles are not some the same curves they were 10 years ago. So, short of a massive breakthrough, the improvement we can expect in the next 10 years will much, much smaller than what we saw in the last 10 (which was already much smaller than what we saw in the 10 before that).

They can still shoot themselves in the foot by intentionally buying underpowered hardware, but that won't be the fault of hardware trends, it'll be the fault of making a bad initial choice.
The problem is that there is no organic better alternative to replace them.

Yemen is a complicated situation with a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran neither of them are particularly bastions of human rights or values.

Unlike Iraq there isn’t a substantial enough Shi’a population in Saudi Arabia to serve as an Iranian proxy to fill the void.

The other two major Sunni powers in the region are AQAP and ISIS both of them are far worse than the Saud family could and would ever be.

Pure and absolute moral objectivism is just as bad as pure moral relativism.

While you can assert that we should never support such regimes, let them fall or even actively push for a regime change on pure moral grounds you aren’t the one that needs to deal with the fallout on the ground for years and decades to come.

Regardless of how bad the situation in Saudi Arabia is now it can always get worse, much worse and I don’t think that you should advocate for a social experiment you wont be willing to participate in.
Nutrition is definitely a factor, but probably not the major one.

I think the number one factor is probably access to parental attention.

It's shocking how much better an elementary age student can do when there is a parent to remind them about a homework project that is due. Or be available to answer a question on basic math or the meaning of a word.

Even in two equally driven students, self learning gets stuck at home in ways parents can unblock if they have the time and energy to do it.
Some of these missions are described (in a very suspenseful way) in the book Blind Man's Bluff. What was interesting to me is that the DSRV[1] program provided both a cover story, equipment, and funds that could be secretly appropriated for these missions. According to the author, the DSRV was created by the Navy to salvage (heh) its reputation after the loss of the USS Thresher.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-submergence_rescue_vehicl...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)
I was proposing it as a way to validate engagement by the testing teams, not the mass market.
With or without bots?
Here's a tiny bit of explanation second hand from USN about why the USN does not use them - too much chance for things to go wrong, although that's not surprisng they would say that considering that's what the Soviets said happened on the sunken submarine being discussed.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/04/world/rescue-capsule-save...
Hopefully either of those will still work with latest gadgets 10 years from today.

Think of all the car owners with iPod connectivity crying in their new 5 years old cars all over the world. By the way, today's iPhones do not support iPod connectivity. And I'm talking about protocol, not about hardware port. Which is a hassle to replace in quite a few vehicles too.
Shiny Development from the Command Line
Having now run prediction markets inside companies for over 10 years, we can definitely backup the findings in the paper - especially the revelations of bias among different types of employees. We usually ask people to participate anonymously, and it's often the only outlet people have to express what they truly think.

It's always a surreal experience to sit in a meeting with people and their bosses and hear "we're on track, no issues, the new product launch is going to be great, we're going to sell a ton, etc. etc." and then have a private/informal meeting with the same people who will confide that the project/product/strategy is completely fucked and everyone thinks that. :)
Lisp is perfectly suited for this task due to the minimal and familiar syntax to non-programmers. Math should be taught in prefix notation if u ask me.
I'm a pot-bellied Fred who wears full spandex and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Joke comments: 50% chance of being downvoted

Complaining about downvotes: 100% chance of being downvoted
I'm not sure which multinational company you're distrusting here, Volvo or Google?
Sure. You be the politician who does that in NYC. And good luck on your next election. It's not going to happen.
And if I wanted to message you personally with questions about it for an indefinite period of some weeks or months while I get oriented, are you okay with that?

"Here, Doreen, here's my email address and my phone number. Don't hesitate to contact me. Happy to explain like you are my clueless little sister until you feel comfortable."
Microsoft wants developers to embrace Microsoft 365 and the Microsoft Graph
I'd say it's probably the most common encoding for casual communication. Nobody remembers distance (unless for specific trips were it was read). 500m ? 1000m ? well "2min that way" + some external location to help ballparking.
A car that defaults to braking without any deduction beyond detection will never make it through an intersection, let alone a whole trip, in some parts of the world.
Virtual personal assistant
Do:
* Let me know what you see as 'next steps' based on my current position. This establishes that you've looked at my background and have at least a general understanding of what my current job title means. It may also show you haven't and are likely wasting my time.

Don't:
* Ask my current and expected salary requirements
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I was wondering if there is any mozilla/chrome extension that will do that so my FB activity will be masked some how; I think that breask FB rules but for educational puropose I was curious to ask if you knew anything like that....
This is fantastic. Reminds me of Hofstadter's conversations between Achilles and a Tortoise.

The trouble with most math I've encountered isn't the concepts, it's the quality of the abstractions we use to represent and interpret them.

The best(worst) example I can think of is the Alice/Bob description of cryptographic protocols, where somebody's idea of teaching is, "let's take these symbolic representations and instead of just shouting them at you slowly, I will obfuscate them with a set of conceptually unrelated words and repeat the representation word for word in a more patronizing way."

Great piece of writing.
I thought it was off-topic to my statement, but not completely irrelevant to the topic of "intellectual decline". And, while it might provoke a flamewar, it was not stated in a flame-bait fashion.

I wonder if this isn't just downvote-to-disagree by people who won't "defend their beliefs". (And thereby proving mistermann's point - ironic, that.)
A Word Clock. Google it. Impractical but pretty.
Microsoft Unveils New Blockchain Tools for Azure
This weekend I spent 1.5 hours on recreational coding - at the moment I’m working through NAND to Tetris. The rest of the weekend was spent with my family, watching TV, or reading.

I also do a 3 hour each way commute into the office once or twice a week which I’ll often spend on side projects.
Thanks! That is a great tip about tuning a string slightly flat first.
Like I said, these are especially hard to get right for frequent users, presumably your testing teams would log a lot of hours on these - just like train drivers, which have had this exact same problem.
Just using both sites (on desktop, and yes its a mobile first country) Amazon.in generally beats Flipkart on product selection, price, number of product reviews, and search results.

Can Flipkart succeed? maybe but 2 years from now if they didn't have this buyout I think they would have be a for sure in 2nd place. FK needed Walmart as much as Walmart thinks it needs FK.
Asset Discovery: Doing Reconnaissance the Hard Way
What I'm wondering is does Mastodon and the like fit with Europe's GDPR?
Some more information from an article in the star that came out earlier in the case:

>Officials said about 250 of the documents contained highly sensitive personal information including birthdates, social insurance numbers, addresses and government services’ client information.

>Conrad said the breach was inadvertently found by a provincial employee.

>“The employee was involved in doing some research on the site and inadvertently made an entry to a line on the site — made a typing error and identified that they were seeing documents they should not have seen,” Conrad told a technical briefing for reporters.

>Officials said the documents were accessed through a “vulnerability in the system” and not through a hack. The person went in through the URL and “sequentially went through every document available on the portal.”

>“There’s no question, this was not someone just playing around,” said Conrad. “It was someone who was intentionally after information that was housed on the site.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/04/11/halifax-polic...

It sounds a lot like the sort of simple vulns that many people in security noticed around that kid's age or earlier.
Google Chesterton's fence.
I would say just the opposite. I think a certification is a slight negative signal, it seems like there are too many "paper tigers" who memorize enough to take the test and don't know how to implement anything.

I took the 6 tests back in 2010 to get the MCSD for a Software architect (?) but even then I didn't think it was all that valuable. I don't think I ever used it on my resume. But it was more to force me to learn .Net after spending 12 years mostly doing C and C++.

Currently, I'm working on various AWS certs for the same reason - to force me to learn and a company needs a certain number of AWS certified employees to be an Amazon Partner.

I would have a lot more respect for someone who wrote a book.

But does it really make sense to right a book on technology instead of creating a video for PluralSight, Udemy, etc?
I suppose that's a reasonable argument. Although developing your app on a beta release is probably a somewhat-incredible case of that, as your business may end up dependent on something with no reasonable expectation of reliability or long term support.
Why is healthcare spending in the US so high? (2011) [pdf]
Also, I find patterns and idioms to be more helpful for me on day to day basis than most of these algorithms:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C%2B%2B_Idioms

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming/Code/Desig...

I started reading them as a interview refresher but now I just read them because they are actually useful.
Try learning English and then rephrasing your question.
NPR had a story about how self-driving cars in Pittsburgh wouldn't be adhering to the "Pittsburgh-left":

"Even harder for autonomous cars to master are local quirks; things like "the Pittsburgh left." That's a custom unique to the city that allows the first driver trying to make a left turn to do so before oncoming cars pass through an intersection. It's one thing that Emily Duff Bartel says Uber's fleet of self-driving cars won't be programmed to practice. "We're following the rules on this one," she says."

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/52...
In the US, automation is growing explosively. When factories 'come back to the USA' from India or China or wherever, its not because they're paying enough to attract Americans; its because they automated and don't need (hardly) anybody.

Further, bank teller and fast-food worker are the next to be automated away. Its happening everywhere, with touch-panel counter service.
I think there's a pretty significant difference between mindfulness and spirituality.

Spiritual traditions may well ritualize mindfulness, but there are many other components of spirituality apart from it, and there are secular mindfulness practices that don't intersect with the feelings and experiences many associate with spirituality.
I'm a father of two girls, ages four and nine.

Explaining things to them and seeing the dawn of understanding in their eyes in easily my greatest joy in life. As a parent, I basically get to relive this xkcd[0], over and over, every day.

We take it to an extreme - we unschool[1]. We do our best to treat our daughters as any other member of the family, expecting to act as adults to the extent that they're able to do so. My nine-year-old spends much of her days right now playing Roblox and Star Stable, but even that is punctuated by her coming to us with random questions about things she's interested in. If I'm not head-down on a project I take the time to explain as best I can. If I'm otherwise occupied I always at least take the time to say "Go search for <insert keywords>" and follow up with once I'm free.

The results have, so far, been incredible. Our oldest was a late reader by the standards of the testing done in government schools, but once she ran into something she wanted to do that could only be accomplished by reading, she achieved fluency more quickly than I would have ever expected. For what it's worth, that "something" was an online RPG where she had to do quests to progress. In order to do that, she had to be able to read the quest text.

These days she's engrossed in the "Pegasus" series by Kate O'Hearn, and devouring them at a rate of ~1k pages per week. She'll have finished the series by the end of this week and I'm hoping she'll pick up Asimov's "Norby" series next. If not, she'll find something else that interests her and continue reading well into the wee hours of the morning I'm sure.

0: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
My sleep patterns back then were unregulated so I would regularly stay up late into the night, like every kid wants to, doing anything I wanted. Now my sleep 2/3AM to 10/11AM lol.
Tesla thinking like a Software Company
I'm not sure about having simultaneous visibility of multiple instances, I just follow the people in whom I'm interested, and their toots turn up in my instance. That's part of how federation works. Discoverability is a problem, one that people are working on, but you can find people and follow them, and then others on that instance over there can be safely ignored.

And if there are people who say really interesting things mixed in with stuff you don't care about, that's a problem everywhere. There are a few things you can do. One is that you can use regex's to filter out stuff you're not interested in. Another is that you can choose to follow only people who don't talk about the other things, and trust that they will boost the things that you care about from others.

But it's a social medium, so there will be a mix. You can control it to some extent, but I've found the tools in Mastodon to be much more powerful than those in Twitter.
If you're doing that right it should be pretty low maintenance. I spend more time taking out the garbage in a given year than I do on my investments.
Wow, I must say that was one of the most informative articles I have ever read about the topic. I've known a few technical book authors but none have given such an awesome breakdown of the process.

Thank you!
The actual quote:

"I agree I would short it if there was an easy way to do it"
Title isn't a real quote
I don't think many of the supposed benefits of fasting have been conclusively proven (as much as once can conclusively prove something in science, I mean) but there are some indications that it has a good effect on health.

However, even if that's the case, you still have to prove that the reason fasting was part of the rituals was because of the health benefits.
Google Tests Submitting Question Directly to Publishers in Search Results
Kubernetes Falls to Far-Left Politics
So after spending $25M we still won't know if UBI would work in the US. And we won't know if UBI works for middle class.
I highly doubt it. Even most of Google doesn't have "google problems". (Having to design things for "google scale" when you have no reason to was a popular gripe while I was there.)

You don't go Google scale because it's cool to. You either do it because you absolutely have to, or you don't because, thankfully, you don't have to.
See: Price's Law. User count isn't everything.

Price's well-known square root law states that half of the literature on a subject will be contributed by the square root of the total number of authors publishing in that area....

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222619181_Price%27s...

Mastodon Monitoring Project

https://mnm.social https://dashboards.mnm.social

Also: http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/general

About 1.3 million users, 120m statuses (I believe that's cumulative).

Twitter: https://www.statisticbrain.com/twitter-statistics/

~700m users, ~340m active.

58m tweets/dy.

I'd compare sqrt of both. That's ~1,100 vs 26,000 top users.
This needs some visual feedback when you try turning the knobs.
Less is more, I guess.

Suzuki's Jimny is one of the few (if not the only) 4x4 available that is not an SUV. At least around here.

If you're looking for minimalism, you should take a look at Bollinger's B1 (https://bollingermotors.com/)
Kube is too complex. To derive any kind of business value from it you need highly skilled people. The winner of the container orchestration battle will be the one that simplifies, not complicates.

To me this is just another hype train, like TensorFlow/Caffe before it, and like Hadoop/Spark before that.

These tools all have their uses in specific, non-common cases, but for your average business they are a net loss in time and money.
Dangerous driving can result in damage, injury, or death. That is why people are so volatile behind the wheel. I don’t think there is any system of communication that can prevent or stop road rage. Dampen, maybe, but that’s about it.
Futures aren't the same thing as shorting, but you can also short through various (sketchy) parties.
Oh, I didn't see that important distinction. That makes sense, then, don't see why you would prefer non-stop over stops if it's the same plane you keep sitting in, other than that it takes less time.

I never flew in a plane that had stops, so I forgot that they exist.
The Longevity Research Institute
It seems like it's limited to one update every second.

Perhaps it's a limitation of Idyll[1], which was used to make this. Although I'd guess these parts are done in D3.

[1]: https://github.com/idyll-lang/idyll
Discussed here: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7280
Depends, lets say 2.

Math.

Is it access to a real realm of reality or just a bunch of tools to help us make it in the world?

Yea thats a good question. Looks like a question where my answer is probably "both".