skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this explanation floated around a lot, but I have extreme doubts that it has any bearing in reality. I live in NYC, and it's not that we're adverse to experimentation. Far from it; we mix and match cultures obsessively until the most bizarre "only in New York" moments come about.

Instead, New Yorkers are more likely to call bullshit on an idea when it isn't good or at a minimum challenge it to be better. You don't have nearly the same survival of the fittest attitude in the Bay Area from my impressions, and as a result tons of crackpot ideas end up funded. Admittedly, crackpot ideas in NYC also get funded (Juicero, oy) so I'm not sure if the difference can totally be attributed to New York's adversarial nature.

Mostly what it boils down to here I suspect is that start-ups just aren't as visible because all of the software devs and engineers realized that they could go work in finance rather than a "tech company" and make millions of dollars more. In this sense, lots of New York's innovative spirit gets channeled into problems relating to designing custom ASICs for HFT and trying to outwit the market.

As another point, who claim that the East Coast is averse to experimentation have a marked tendency to ignore counterfactual examples like BBN and Bell Labs. Even Xerox (in Rochester) and Kodak were pretty deep into R&D before they fucked themselves.
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If I can't buy, let's say... heroine completely anonymously with FedCoin then I think the whole spirit of the initial vision has been violated. Call me crazy but I don't think this is what's envisioned by those that would advocate for something like FedCoin.
I partially agree and partially don't. If the only thing protecting against self-hatred is to believe we're special, then it was a flimsy self image to begin with.

Knowing our worth as developers is definitely important, but having humility is equally important.

I would argue that other professions can be equal to software engineering on an intellectual/productive level, and simultaneously we still do deserve things like flexible hours, unlimited remote work time, planned vacations, and fair royalties.
Assume that the range of integers is limited by the largest positive or negative number that can be written on the limited space of the paper. Whenever the largest positive or negative number comes up your answer will be certain. Turn a profit over a few billion years.
I've had Bose sound dampening earphones (qc20) and I urge you to buy them or similar. You'll be able to listen to your noise sound file at much lower volume while massively improving efficiency.

They are expensive, but if you truly are listening to too loud sounds you need them.
I've been taught wrong and I've done it wrong for 15 years O_o

Thank you.

It reminds me of the idiom of putting "# -- coding: utf-8 --" at the top of Python 2.x files. Which is incredibly useful, but nobody remembers, and googles everytime.

This comes from the fact the first famous tutorials on Python where written by emacs users, and this editor recognizes this idiom.

But fun fact, the regex matching this line is "^[ \t\v]#.?coding[:=][ \t]*([-_.a-zA-Z0-9]+)" (see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/) and accepts many variations (including a vim format).

The simplest variation is the dumb "# coding: utf8", which is not only straightforward and easy to remember, but way less magical for anybody reading the code.

Bottom line, if you are stuck in 2.x, use "# coding: utf8".
Those other sites do it so that they're available offline. Service Workers give you control over network caching so you can return an cached/offline copy of the content.
Damn it, that "for f in *" loop ! This changes everything !
I'm going to say something that probably get me banned from this SJW cesspool that HN have become: his depression is a sign of his gut telling him he is not a real man. He is a soy boy, so obsessed with looking like he is not a sexist/racist/homophobe that he cant appreciate anything else in life and blame others for not accepting him. He just need to man up.
I used to work at a company where the "database" was literally a raw dump of the in-memory array of structs defined in a C program. Had some fun with that because struct padding depended on compiler flags, so different varieties of the program that were built with different compiler flags could not read each other's "database".

I never got over it, really. On the plus side, it was super fast, that I cannot deny. But it always seemed super gross to me.
Sure that's immediate per month savings.

What happens when/if Amazon changes their offering to something that makes your system incompatible overnight? What about your keys getting filched and you inadvertently run 100 GPU bitcoin clusters?

How much would you expend in doing an emergency mass migration somewhere else? Would your company even survive?

People who choose to use Amazon exclusive APIs will get bit. It's not an if, but when. I'm not saying "dont buy ec2 instances or s3 storage instances"... Those in the end are just VMs and storage that you can purchase elsewhere. But whom else runs "Lambda"? What is your migration plan if they they cancel your service/quit offering/not offer it?
A lot more profound than I expected from the title. I recommend reading it if you’ve skipped to the comments :)

I was particularly impressed by the comparison the author drew between aspects of Japanese youth culture that developed during the Lost Decade and aspects of “millennial” culture today in the US. I would be interested to see if anyone has developed that further.
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Yeah, underdetermined/badly explained problems are just irritating. Especially since you don't know what level is the person targeting, or come with a smug answer about some detail that was not specified.

I don't waste much time with them to be honest.
Be careful with damaging your hearing. A common side effect is tinnitus, which is basically hearing a constant distracting noise that you basically can't do nothing about. If you're prone to be distracted by noises, and want to do work that requires focus, tinnitus will likely be a life-altering catastrophe for you.
Unfortunately, flipkart seems to have been put on a backfoot w.r.t Amazon in India for the last few years. First, their search is broken. I rarely find what I'm looking for on flipkart, while on Amazon, I almost always do. Second, the shipping cost - I subscribed to flipkart's version of prime when it was launched, but when I found what I wanted, it wasn't eligible for free shipping. By contrast, most of what I've bought on Amazon, has been eligible for free shipping under prime.
As these kind of stories are so popular on HN, I recently started curating a list at https://github.com/Jimnotgym/Hacking_Depression

I hope it helps someone one day.
> Is the news that they want to use ML in the trigger selection now?

Not quite (and that wouldn't be news). It's using ML for track reconstruction. Not even LHCb does this.
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It says in the title that the study is talking about adults admitted to... that suggest they already had the deficiency
uMatrix is very nice. Gives you fine granular control over scripts like noscript does.
I do that. Security professionals will whine "security by obscurity is not security" but the fact is it cuts down these attempts by a huge factor.
It has stopped now (I simply removed port 22 from the whitelist except for connections originating with my home ISP, which is a local ISP where abuse reports actually work)
I remember at university the professors had doors on their offices. When they were working on something they'd lock the door. Its more difficult to do when working in an open plan office.
Yeah, that's why Germany has maglevs and high speed rail and California can barely get it's own HSR off the ground.

That's a truly awful saying that's emblematic of the stupid prejudices brought about by American exceptionalism and the even more obnoxious (to me) West Coast exceptionalism.
Having witnessed this, reminding me of luxury work camps supressing exploration, creativity and then dealing with distractions. Burn out happens faster.

The company doesn't have to provide Google style free lunches. Just flexibility. The same as any office worker. Should the worker need to exercise it without feeling pressure.

I've been in places where developers sit next to customer service agents who have remote work rights while devs do not. The excuse? Devs work too closely with operations.

I'm not sure devops should always mean devs are physically next to ops. The amount of interruptions the two deal with are insane. Smallest incidents needing devs attention.
I always liked the prisoner box question, but I prefer the phrasing where the prisoners are assigned a number and the boxes are numbered. I feel like the "prisoners have to come up with a name to number mapping" step just gets in the way of the interesting part.
I'd say there are too many factors to guess.

People sitting inside all day in offices and when people get home. Driving everywhere so barely outside at all only briefly. Various levels of skin pigmentation each would block various amounts of sun especially in northern latitudes. Clothing style covering more to block sun exposure to prevent skin damage or prevent skin cancer, or after a skin cancer diagnosis.
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Multi-branch discussion / Private group / File sharing / Versions / Markdown & real-time preview...
Most newspapers are also "marketing expenses" for their owners. Editorial independence has always been a challenge for the press, either from "philantropist" owners or from big advertisers.
Website for residents

Forum

Document storage

maintains emails lists

Track who's paid

+ more I don't really use it

There are a bunch here

https://www.capterra.com/hoa-software/
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Welsh police wrongly identify thousands as potential criminals
Thanks for the link. Seems like the posted study’s results are very similar to the deficiency rates for the overall UK population in winter. (Their data was collected between February and April.)
Those with pale skin naturally produce more vitamin D. This is because the pigmentation in your skin (Melanin), which protects skin from sun damage, also reduces vitamin D production.

Pale skin is in fact an evolutionary adaptation to living in less sunny climates. That's why Vitamin D deficiency, in an un-sunny climate like Britain, is more prevalent in British Asian and Black British populations than in White British.

This "redheads" association is due to red hair often being associated with pale skin, and not specifically due to hair colour. Some of the genes associated with less skin pigmentation also result less hair pigmentation (blonde or red hair).
> Author lost me on doorman. Doormen absolutely bring value and saying that doormen is bullshit job is the same as saying that waitress is a bullshit job - in the end customer is fully capable of bringing the food from the counter to his table on his own.

Waitress is a bullshit job though, just like a butler. In a truly egalitarian society a job like that wouldn't exist. It's an artificial construct that can be pretty annoying especially when you're waiting for your check for half an hour. :)
One thing I've found amusing is you can cut down SSH hacking attempts to almost zero (at the cost of compatibility with legacy systems) by using very progressive encryption. If you force use of ChaCha20/Poly1305, ED25519 and so forth in sshd_config, you'll see these attempts almost disappear. There's probably an observation to be made about just how overwhelmingly many of these attempts come from fairly old software setups.
That certainly depends on the amount of computing power you can throw at it and what level of accuracy you are trying to achieve. But the most naive attempt using a Hough transformation will probably take a couple of milliseconds on your average computer. However, the accuracy will be far from good enough with such a simple approach.

I have no idea what amount of time state of the art algorithms will use, but I could well imagine that it is essentially a tunable parameter that is chosen to get the best accuracy given the amount of data you have to process and the time available to complete the task.
That could be the case but my theory is that it's about control. Investors funded a solo founder before and then when they said to take some action (sell/pivot/scale up) the solo founder didn't do it.

They said damn this guy owns 70% of the company after Series A, we can't make him do anything we want! Now if there were 2 founders each founder would only own 35% of the company, and if they could convince one of those two founders they could get what they want. All investors want cofounders because they want more leverage. So if some investor is urging you to team up with a cofounder to 'complement your skillset' it might actually be that they aren't confident in your leadership and want an option to override you.
Because I don't want to hand over that much control over my life to a large corporation. (I run my own email server.)
The whole point of having a national currency is that the money administrators answer to Congress, not the businesses who borrow and lend money. "Decentralization" means taking power away from Congress and giving it to Goldman Sachs and the other big banks.
From what I've heard, the amount of pile-up ATLAS and CMS can handle is limited by the CPU time it takes to reconstruct events, which can be alleviated by throwing more resources at it, but it is much better to develop quicker reconstruction algorithms.

Towards the end of last year, they had to start levelling the instantaneous luminosity to 75% of what they could achieve,† primarily to reduce the load on the grid.

† Edit: the maximum peak luminosity is still 200% of the design value, so the performance is beyond initial expectations.
I can of course only speak for myself, but having an app feel at home on my platform is very important to me. Being consistent means I have to spend less time adjusting to your design. The "New" or "Create" button should be in the upper right, "OK"/"Cancel" buttons on dialogs should be in the right order and location. Apple spent quite a lot of time and money creating a design that feels at home on their devices, and I think most developers should defer to their expertise in this regard.

More emotionally, I chose iOS in part because I like the design. In general, I don't want any app I use to try to reinvent the wheel with their own design language unless it is very much warranted, and I never want to see material design on any product I use since it was one of the reasons I chose to discontinue using Android.
I have written and published two non-fiction books (about e-commerce and education) and I code. Interruptions during coding cause more disruption to my flow of work than during writing.
I don’t hate the mouse but moving my hand from the keyboard to the mouse repetitively hurts my hand and shoulder.

It gets fatiguating after a while. If you are doing lots of selection, moving around, insertions, etc it accumulates.

I only use vim for any text editing. I also use a vim plugin to navigate chrome. And several other keyboard shortcuts to navigate macos. The accumulation really helped.
I highly recommend this talk by Richard Feynman on Los Alamos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-u1qyRM5w. His personal anecdote on some interesting details while he was working there.
I agree, good point. See m4burns’s comment, which includes a link to broader UK data.
I've enjoyed your posts in this thread but I have a question. How are the projects you allude to fundamentally different than PayPal, iPay, GooglePay, Venmo or just strait up Visa or MC?
It depends on what is racing. If you have the same/dependent information in two (or more actors), you're going to have a coordination challenge.

So try not to do that. On the other hand, everything that happens with state within an actor is inherently non-racy, because an actor is sequential code and no other actor can mess with its state.
Um, the post literally has a "So what's the problem?" section.
I am glad western civilization invented internal guilt instead of external shame.
More nuanced take: men are finally acting like women have told them to act for decades: talk about your feelings, open up, be in touch with your inner self... not realizing that only works for women because women's feelings matter and verbalizing them often enough will cause others to take action sooner or later. The reason men had the "irritating" habit of offering solutions is because it was inconceivable to most that you'd complain and expect that to actually accomplish anything.

It's like an attractive person telling the ugly that they just need to approach the world with a more positive attitude and good things will come in return. No honey, that's only because they want to have sex with you. Other people don't get shit for free.

As Warren Farrel said: men's facade of strength is their weakness, women's facade of weakness is their strength. When a man displays weakness, he forfeits his right to get help.

Two generations now have been utterly miseducated on gender by a feminized education system that treated masculinity as a condition to be medicated away and passive femininity as the role model, not realizing boys need adversity in their youth to prepare them for the complete heartlessness they'll receive as adults.

"But I love my husband!" Yes, until the marriage is over, after which he'll be devastated and pining for years, while you'll discard him like an old pair of shoes, still getting alimony, the house and the kids.
> But was there ever any indication to the contrary? How did we as Americans convert to the myth that our government, let alone our "intelligence" agencies, have any inclination to protect us or advance our interests?

I don't think this is giving public servants enough credit. Politicians are a little more self-serving than those working in the agencies, so don't paint all public servants with the same brush. The problem is that what public servants believe is in the public interest just doesn't align with what you believe is in the public interest. There's always going to be a little give and take like this, and this evolution is what makes democratic societies effective.

That said, there can't be any given and take without oversight, and that's the real problem here. No doubt NSA employees believe what they're doing is important and effective, but is it really? That's a debate we simply can't have because of the secrecy, and public trust in these institutions has eroded sufficiently, possibly with good reason, that the public can't simply have faith in the NSA.
Try electronic music, or on Spotify there is a "deep focus" playlist. On YouTube and Spotify there is "No Copyright Sounds" which is also this kind of music. I play this stuff all day at work. It sets a tone and keeps that part of my brain entertained but does not invoke distracting emotions (which is what good music is supposed to do.)
Thanks for your concern but as a kid I had constant ear infections so I have had tinnitus all my life even now a high pitched ring is constant. I don't even notice it unless I think about it I'm so used to it. But the loud static certainly won't do it any good!

This tinnitus mitigating trick on reddit somewhat works, it's odd: https://np.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3l3uri/these_guys_light...
Because you can hire JS “coders” for ⅓ the price of a native software engineer.

Also, management just can’t help themselves but fall for the bait whenever someone promises them “write once, run everywhere”.
It would be nice if the author got to the point sooner. And even that point is not immediately clear to me.
You've never heard anybody talk about the design nightmare that their comment section is?
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Thanks for the tip, that would make sense. Actually one of my classmates uses noise cancelling headphones in class.

Actually in the entire program I've noticed many people use full entire ear covering headphones I bet 80% of the students. Now I know why.
Someone posted what looks like a very nice summary of domain knowledge:

https://www.kaggle.com/pranav84/beginner-s-guide-to-cern-s-p...
I remember when this was actually a feature of web browsers. In the File menu you could just click "Offline mode" when you were offline, and it would return everything from cache. And then one day that menu option was just gone. Now the web has an opt-in way for sites to do this themselves. It feels pretty convoluted. Then again Web 3.0 feels pretty convoluted in general. It's as if the iPhone SDK came out and suddenly set the standard on how convoluted development ought to be, and every other platform followed suit.
I actually really enjoyed living in Ithaca personally, and it had the advantage of being only a 2 hour drive from where I grew up in upstate New York. I moved there after college to try to find a good balance between cost of living and economic opportunity, basically using it as a stepping stone to move to NYC (although I'd consider moving back if I were going to raise a family or wanted to retire).

It was definitely a world of difference from where I grew up, even though it wasn't that far away. My experience in my hometown (Utica) was that it was a constant uphill battle fighting with idiots to try to get sensible policies in place to make the quality of life there better (context: It's a rust belt city with 0 industry or jobs, but a sizable amount of the population there actively makes things worse for themselves). For me, moving to a liberal area wasn't just a tolerance thing, it was a "I want to be around like-minded folks who actually care about improving their city and have the competence to do so". I don't want to come across the wrong way here- there were some people in Utica who really did try to make it a nice place to live, but I always felt like they were drowned out by fools.
Resharper might offer better refactoring tooling, but it doesn't offer anything else over what it means a full Visual Studio experience

R# doesn’t offer anything but better refactoring, better navigation, a better unit testing interface, better code analysis, more shortcuts for taking care of boilerplate code like creating an equality override for classes, better Nugget integration (Find this type in Nuget) - ie everything a developer does on a day to day basis...
> I live in the UK where we get some limited news about attacks stopped by dragnet surveillance.

But there's no way to verify this, correct? Like, they could have used human intelligence and simply reported that dragnet surveillance was the source.
I'll give it a shot, thanks for the tip.
In general, simulation doesn't agree with data perfectly. The more the variables (and their correlations) aren't reproduced faithfully, the more the efficiency determined from simulation is likely to depart from the truth. It's even possible to accidentally train an algortihm to discriminate between simulation and data rather than signal and background.

It's common practice to check data/simulation agreements between variables before using them for training. Reweighting procedures are used to improve agreement.
Lets just say "problem solvers" and avoid the semantics. Problem solving is abstract reasoning. It requires flow state.