skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two approaches that work well. The first is to embark on the standard, formative curriculum. The second is to start with a handful of problems that interest you and go pick up stuff piecemeal on the way to solving those.

Approach 1. Decide if you want to learn physics or applied mathematics. They're not the same. The math you describe is more on the operations research side of applied mathematics, and not terribly relevant to physics. You say your goals are physics. In that case you're in luck. The curriculum is utterly standard and consists of four passes through the material.

The first pass is one or two years long and is roughly what's in Halliday and Resnick or Tipler's physics books: Newtonian mechanics, some wave motion, some thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, and a little "modern physics" (special relativity and a bit of quantum theory). Meanwhile you study calculus of a single variable, multivariable and vector calculus, and a little bit of ordinary differential equations, and do a year of laboratories.

The second pass is a semester of classical mechanics covering Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, a semester of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, a year of electromagnetism, and a year of quantum mechanics, paired with a year of mathematical methods (linear algebra, special functions, curvilinear coordinates, a little tensor calculus, some linear partial differential equations, and a lot of Fourier analysis) and a year of more advanced laboratories. Here ends the undergraduate curriculum. At this point astrophysicists tend to separate off and start learning the knowledge for that domain instead of the second semesters of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. Their labs are also different.

The third pass is the first couple years of graduate school, and goes through the same subjects again in more depth. No labs this time. A mathematical methods course only if a student needs more help. Quantum field theory for those going that direction. General relativity for those going another. Advanced statistical mechanics or other special topics for those going into condensed matter.

The fourth path is the student by themselves, integrating it all in preparation for doctoral qualifying exams.

If this approach sounds like what you're after, start by getting a 1960's edition of Halliday and Resnick's physics (which is better than the present editions and quite cheap used), a Schaum's outline of calculus.

Approach 2. Pick a handful of problems. What actually interests you? Not what sounds fascinating or what seems prestigious. What's interesting? Cloud shapes? Bird lifecycles? What are you actually curious enough about to spend some time poking at?
Cambridge University Achieved Highest State School Admissions Ever
Not in my experience. But doing an on-site interview in India is the exception, not the rule. (Note: I’ve done both). And when an “on-site” interview is done, make sure you’re the one who is on-site, and not an Indian agent. Their caste system makes it hard for “others” to be people, and we all know what happens when you dehumanize others.
He's a contractor. That's the difference between him and an employee: He chooses the time, place, and manner of his work, including subcontracting it. If he's not allowed to do this, chances are you have an employee.
Where Hollywood Goes to Get Its Restaurant Sets
Doesn’t the original article say fish isn’t safe?

> Fish is easier to use correctly, but lacks a safe mode. Prototyping in fish is therefore a good idea, provided that you know how to translate correctly from fish to bash.
You mean like verify past employment dates and only verify the last employment date after they are hired and no longer work at their last employer?
I really wish WHOIS would go away forever. There is absolutely no point to it. If you don’t pay to get your name private, you get SPAMMED to such an incredible degree, it’s absolutely awful. Literally 10+ calls a day, emails voicemails. So you have to buy the “privacy protection” thing, which defeats the whole purpose anyway. All WHOIS does is create an industry of people selling privacy to WHOIS. This whole narrative about “journalism” and it being used for research sounds like nonsense to me. Something tells me these people have a vested financial interest in this. Would love to hear an alternate point of view on this.
It is an interesting phenomena that when 'easy' crime is eliminated the criminals move up to more violent things.

There has been speculation that the legalization of marijuana has led to an upswing in petty theft and muggings because of the loss of jobs as 'drug dealer' (well at least for pot). And the weird thing for me is that if you think of criminal activity as a job market it sort of makes sense, what is your low level criminal to do to earn a living?

Wouldn't it be odd if UBI was a solution to criminal activity? (or would that narrative be more paying off the criminals?) Interesting things to contemplate.
Interesting link. I've also noticed, while wine shopping with friends, that people tend to prefer a bottle with a cork over a twisty even if the twisty was priced higher.
No need to reinvent the wheel. There's already Comic Sans.
we potentially already could have but didn't because why would we, what's the use? There's already plenty of fish in the sea, so to speak.
You can barely even have a flee market without a card terminal in Sweden, if you expect to sell something.
I find it very telling when someone refers to "pro employee/pro consumer rules" as "red tape".
Client HTTP header I don't want:

* referer
* user-agent

Happy to be wrong, but these shouldn't be mandatory to browse the web, which they kind of are.
Why would you do this? Either you can do the job or you can't... I guess if the entire job is remote you could outsource the work to someone else?
The obsessive pursuit of anything is usually interesting, but I haven't felt like noise was a real problem with any computer I've had in the last 5 or so years. They're silent nearly all the time, and they're still quiet the rest of the time.
Thanks for posting this, because if you didn't I would.
That said, here's a remix.

https://soundcloud.com/wugazi/03-another-chessboxin-argument
"ZQ"?
One of the two that I mentioned there, the Laphroiag Quarter Cask, is, in my opinion, the best bang-for-your-buck whisky on the market these days. It's super peaty. It's apparently now about €35 (for better or worse, whisky has become more trendy, and there's been a sharp uptick in the prices -- 3-4 years ago you could get said bottle for €22). It's seriously better than a lot of whiskies that go for twice that price. Basically, in a hackery-way -- they exploited that smaller barrels (with higher wood-to-liquid ratios) age whisky faster. That means they can produce better stuff on the cheap.

Another old standard of mine is the Talisker 10 year old. It's about the same price. It's not very complex, but has a powerful single taste. (When booze tasters say "complex", what they mean is that the taste changes over time from the moment it hits your tongue to the last bit of aftertaste. Something that "only has one note" isn't complex -- it means that it tastes the same in the aftertaste as it did the first moment. But "complex" isn't a euphemism for "good" -- it just means "changing".)

If you want to splurge a bit, two whiskies at about double that price are:

- Ardbeg Corryvreckan: in my not-so-humble opinion, better than Uigedail (that exelius remommends below; I have open bottles of both). It's so packed with flavor that it's a bit overwhelming. Also bottled at cask strength.

- Ben Riach 17: Not from the islands, like most peated whiskies, but has a mix of tastes of Speyside and Islay. Sadly, looking now, this has also recently gotten a lot more expensive. A couple years ago it was about €55, now it's €95.
Is it just me, or is the design motif that airbnb is adopting in this post fairly similar to dropbox's? I'm also reminded of it in the new gmail interface.
I have done this in a node app that acts as the intermediate / proxy between your frontend and the prisma service. Infact you can even run it as a serverless endpoint just fine to keep it lightweight.
There are counter intuitive consequences of the Axiom of Choice. There are counter intuitive consequences without choice [1]. There are weaker versions of the Axiom of Choice, like countable choice. Here’s a statement that is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice: The product of non-empty sets is non-empty. It seems clear, naively speaking, that the product of non empty sets should be non empty and believing this means you accept the Axiom of Choice.

Whatever you decide to believe with regard to the Axiom of Choice you end up with weird stuff happening when dealing with uncountable sets. The intuition with dealing with countable sets does not extend to uncountable sets in many cases.

[1]. https://mathoverflow.net/a/22935
I keep telling you, it has been tested, and disproved — countless times. That’s what “contradicted by Dirac’s equation” means. If you insist on ignoring that evidence then, yes, you are absolutely ignoring physics.
and iOS 11
Companies can get registered fairly cheaply; a company with almost no assets or value could do it.

The expense comes from meeting the requirements to be registered on a large exchange like NYSE or NASDAQ (both of which are non-governmental entities). This is why small companies that have public stock are traded on "penny" exchanges.
From a recruiter in NJ about an opportunity in CA?
>If they engage in outright fraud, then they are criminals, and they've probably been criminals in the past.

You're assuming that they were caught and convicted.

Displaying this pattern of behavior w/o a criminal history doesn't mean they won't continue said behavior in the job. It's a terrible idea to have hired this candidate and I'm not entirely certain what your motivation is for arguing otherwise.
I find this kinda sad since both speck and simon are really nice algorithms. The analysis that has been done also shows that seem secure. Moreover, they are simple I have made several implementations, and one that runs simon on a FPGA. It honestly would be hard to sneak a back door in my opinion.

Also keep this in mind the US government also wants to use these algorithms. Why would they use a broken symmetric cipher?
Whenever I hear or read "wine", I interpret it as "fermented juice".

The more you keep in mind that wine is just fermented juice, the less susceptible you are to snobs, enthusiasts or people selling you $100+ juice.

Then, listening to a snob feels like listening to a fortune teller fraudster. e.g.: you are "cursed" until you try this elixir called wine that will change your life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_telling_fraud
OK, it happened to me just now, two years after telling them to not contact me. But it was a different group, was gaming, now is AWS.
> This is not a catfish. This is a person lying on their resume

I agree, the author uses "Catfish" because it's cool to use a word that you know your reader will have to google, a bit like using a TLA.

Anyhow, "Catfish" is a cool word nevertheless, and I am proposing we reserve it to people who climb the professional ladder exclusively thanks to their online identity. Typically, an engineer who does a lot of public speaking, who uses github to host repos of files that actually contain not a single line of code. A mini celebrity of engineering that end up going from companies to companies, generally hired without being whiteboarded, who at the end of the day is just a dud.
Yep, you could lose the domain. It would be a big risk to take if there's any chance someone wanted to go after the domain.
That image comes straight from their own announcement: https://airbnb.design/introducing-airbnb-cereal/
But Euclidean geometry is physically impossible. So it isn’t obvious, is it? Is it more obvious than hyperbolic geometry? The two geometries contradict each other.
"How long HDMI cable do I need to call this a cloud?" :))
Buy based on the region.
Enterprise. A lot of Enterprise applications are required for work, and require very old, very stubborn browsers.

Most emulations don't work.

You need the old stuff (IE), for the old applications to work, and as long as they can force it to, they won't update said old application.

I've even had to touch systems which required IE 4 in the last few years, from before Trident became the rendering engine.
How can you have an article about diving below Budapest and have effectively zero underwater photos in a photo gallery on that subject?

Is there something I'm missing here or is the BBC just messing with us all?
It's a lot more than the ability to interact faster.

Prior to the internet, the paradigms for mass communication were the telephone and paper mail. Either slow, or expensive, over long distances. Mass media was entirely centralized and corporate owned, and information meant finding physical references at a library.

Now, mass communication is nearly instantaneous and multi-paradigm (text, images, video, documents, whatever) and pretty much free, or at least no longer priced as a function of distance. My Australian in-laws Skype almost daily with my family, something which would have been, at least, prohibitively expensive before the internet, and wouldn't have involved video at all.

Mass media is dying out to web content. Instead of subscriptions to newspapers and magazines, and whatever is on television, we have literally more content than is possible to read, watch and listen to, on every conceivable topic, professional, amateur and archival. And thanks to the internet, media is no longer tied to physicality. You can watch movies without a DVD, play games without a cartridge, etc.

I would argue that the internet has been more revolutionary in terms of the way the common person accesses and harnesses information than the printing press. The mere fact that an ordinary person can publish to the web, as opposed to, say, printing out flyers or a zine or being lucky enough to write for a mass-print publication, has been transformative.

I don't really see that as a "wash." There have been some negative effects, and damage to privacy and personal liberty (as one could argue there are with any form of mass communication) but I struggle to think how the negatives would equal, much less exceed, the positives.
>Their caste system makes it hard for “others” to be people, and we all know what happens when you dehumanize others.

Since I have little experience with outsourcing to India, the implication here is mysterious to me. What are you getting at?
>You would do much better job by first learning what the world outside your country has to say about those simple ideas of yours.

1. This sounds a bit condescending

2. E.g.: Switzerland just voted to keep theirs. Seems to be seen as desriable

3. OPs problem wasn't that they are an outlet for a political faction, but that they struggle to finance themselves and are almost forced to pander to an audience to attract advertisement

4. Living in a country where the state financed media is heavily status quo biased (germany) but also produces and finances some of the most scathing criticisms of the same (Boehmerman), I feel we need to be wary of false equivalences. State financed media isn't a perfect panacea to political pandering, but it's definitely better than the cesspool that comes from having only private media sources (or depending on the 'good will' of billionaires)
And a turbo button for my PC
Yes, one of the great things about the "don't use your proper name on the internet" was the ability to let go of the past if needed. Much much harder now.
Steve Jobs dream machine.
To be clear, there is nothing wrong from being "from concentrate", other than probably a huge PR campaign by major OJ companies to make you think juice "not from concentrate" is somehow more healthier or something. Fun fact is those are the same PR companies that Kellogs used to coin "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" which still as of today many doctors argue that actually your last meal is the most important because as you sleep your body regenerates and besides it will be left for the time of your sleep (8 hours?) without food or water.

Anyways there is nothing wrong with orange juice from concentrate. Its always been like this: 60% OJ concentrate, rest water. As that a good healthy ration. "Not from concentrate" is a PR gimmick. Think for yourself: A glass of "not from concentrate" orange juice would have 4-6 grown oranges squeeze to fill it in. What was the last time you ate 4-6 grown oranges at one sitting, and do you really believe thats healthy? If anything it makes your liver works super hard to put all that extra vitamin C into your bladder so you can rush to tha bathroom.
Depends on where you measure it. A client on a decent connection will never notice. If you're serving billions of hits, 20 bytes in a header is something you will definitely notice on your bandwidth bill.
Just as importantly, whoever sold the paper to Smith is guilty of the exact same thing he is. They're both trying to make as much money as possible off a dying business. And, to be honest, how much can you blame either?
Try it blindfolded some time, with both wines at the same temperature. Unless one of them is a super-sweet wine (moscato, gewurztraminer etc), you might be surprised at the result.
If you're open to trying new experiences, go to a group blind wine tasting event with actual trained sommeliers (you can find such events on meetup or elsewhere). It's a very interesting learning experience and it teaches you a little bit about how trained professionals methodically determine by taste, smell, and sight how to identify what a wine is. Now, they are very unlikely to be perfect, given that our palates are very unreliable and noisy sensors, and a given bottle of wine is itself a very noisy expression of the grapes it was made from. But there is a process to it, and it's not just a made-up pseudoscience.
Yes, but I still wish they mentioned how well the candidate did technically. Wtf.
See also crt: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
I built an app called Read Across The Aisle that offers a variety of news sources across the political spectrum and has a timer that tracks the aggregate political bias in your news consumption.

The app is free — and provides free access to the WSJ, thanks to a generous partnership they offered us.

http://www.readacrosstheaisle.com
So you lie to your coworkers and customers, because someone else lied to you at some point? I'm not sure I quite follow...
For gaming I occasionaly rent an instance on Paperspace and play through Parsecgaming client (1440p@60fps, <10 ms lag). Totally quiet when a PC is in Amsterdam datacenter :).
Also the processor the Sega Genesis uses, so you can learn to make your own Genesis game!
Had we established the first Moon base in 1988 as NASA had on its roadmap in 1970 we would know all about this ice and other aspects of the Moon as well :-).

I also agree with Tomas who opined that for a long time it was presented that water was 'rare' and somehow special. And while we can agree that the triple point is pretty narrow set of conditions that have to exist, we now know it flowed on Mars at one time, is probably currently flowing on Europa, and that ice is literally everywhere.

Time to rewrite our Science Fiction tropes.
Not for some, but for others it is so. I'm blue-black colorblind, which makes everything of that kind rather painful to view.

However, the HTML is well-formed enough that a Reader-view, whichever your browser supports, should work to be able to view it.
I am willing to bet that whatever is eventually found will be remarkably similar to what we are familiar with on Earth, assuming a liquid-water environment, and the constraints that implies. Single-celled life appears to have arisen so rapidly that it predates the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment, after all.

(I'd be thrilled to be wrong about this, of course, just as I would be fascinated with any xenobiological discovery at all. But I do think the 'endless forms most beautiful' are also strongly constrained by simple physics, and thus the solutions found by an evolutionary random walk will resemble what we already know.)
Not true, limitations on subcontracting (or at least limiting it to approved subcontractors) are allowed and common. Just because he’s a contractor doesn’t mean NDAs are meaningless.
On a related note, RZA is big fan of chess.
Doesn't surprise me to see the Wu-Tang clan have a chess themed song.

In a 2007 interview [2] he says that, based on Josh Waitzkin's appraisal, his (unofficial) ELO rating would be around ~1400 ELO

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/music/07clan.html
[2] http://www.uschess.org/content/view/7924/349/

Edit: Updated with source
It was also a much much bloodier sport, for what its worth.
Any short term upswing as a result of idle criminals is likely to be drowned out in the long term by reduced financial feasibility.

Also a 15% increase in crime for a country with a fairly low crime rate could just be a statistical fluke...

For example, if the 2 bank robberies becomes 3 next year, I'm not sure it's fair panic over a 50% increase in bank robberies :)
I think a better example is carjackings started after cars became hard to "jumpstart"
No, I haven’t. Is dishonesty something you’d like to defend?
If this is true in Europe, I'm curious what the implications are w.r.t. GDPR.
I was going to say, I can hear coil whine if I stick my ear into the machine, but it doesn't make it out past the acoustic dampening panels in my case.
mine as well (albeit 4th edition, 1984). which is sort of weird because i never saw or touched an M68k HP; i only ever referred to it when debugging stripped binaries on Sun 3s.
I strugle to follow the authors point, but the topic goes to two interesting problems I'd like to pick out to see if there are any opinions on them:

1) Once a person has decided they have enough evidence to form an opinion, they form the opinion then forget the evidence. This makes it excruciatingly difficult to change their minds, because they can no longer check why they formed their original beliefs.

2) Debate will likely be one of two cases:

- A factual debate, where one side who is 'wrong'

- A values debate, where both sides are necessarily focused on different issues

Both of these are very delicate situations where empathy, moderation (as in mildness) and consideration are quite important in getting to a good place. Unfortunately, if participants suspect the audience perception is that they are losing in a factual debate rather than learning about others in a values debate they get very defensive very quickly.
Many of them are still fanless: https://chromebookdb.com/search.php?fanless

My Samsung Chromebook 3 gets a touch warm but never uncomfortably so like my 2012 Retina MacBook, which lets you really feel it when your code is inefficient. (Granted, the Chromebook is a lot less powerful)
One of my former bosses said he always told people calling about references that bad employees were great because he wanted them at his competitors.
Giardini continues to offer non-answers and condescend>
The (large) company I work for also has this policy. If a potential employer contacts the company, they will confirm dates of employment, but that's all. It's a liability thing.
You're right, with a caveat. While it's true that 320x200 VGA DOS resolutions didn't have scanlines, arcade games and home computers did, and generally looked much better. A MS-DOS arcade port for example would look very blocky, while the Amiga counterpart would be fine in comparison. Scanlines are integral to that correct old-school look IMO, so it's very cool to have the option of replaying old classics like the Lucasgames stuff with that vibe.