skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Help! My mother has expressed an interest in learning programming. How do I do this best?
Keep reading after 'unpermitted', and the answer right there in the article: "...running computer servers far too large for the electrical grids of residential neighborhoods"
Why shouldn't people who live in an area receive a dividend from the resource wealth of that area?

Property owners in cities receive similar dividends all the time, in the form of rising property prices.
>> There’s also been a shift due to online and apps that give women an unlimited choice of men while giving the majority of men nearly no choice

> How can that be? Why would it be empowering for one gender but not the other? What would the underlying reason be to explain that kind of social phenomenon?

Because there are large social differences between how the genders date. Given such differences, a change in how dating is done may favor one gender more than another.

In practice, the most noticeable difference is that men are expected to message women (barring rare exceptions like Bumble). In current online dating, that means women receive a great many messages and can pick between them, while men must send a great many to have a chance at a response.

At least that initial stage of dating has shifted in women's favor in recent years, but as you said, that's not the whole picture and despite all the messages women may have a hard time finding someone they like, depending on what they are looking for.
> On a three-axis chart of holiness, capitalism, and lumbar flexibility, he occupies a point beyond anyone else on Earth.

I don't know why the author thinks capitalism and holiness are orthogonal. Overall the article is full of these unfounded preconceptions.
Unfortunately, matrix multiplication is the kind of thing where you often need it to be fast and scale to huge matrices.

I like simple code as much as the next guy, but occasionally you do need to write fast code.
Fusion.js – framework for universal React/Redux/Node applications
> Is this more Jordan Peterson, “woe is men” shit?

What do you mean?
If you squint your eyes and play the video really quickly, this looks less like the result of thousands of years of directed human endeavor and more like a bubbling cauldron or any other natural physical process.

A couple patterns emerge from watching this. First, there's a lot of entropy in terms of border definitions and leader turnover. The now Italy region had a new leader every year for a stretch, until eventually Julius Caesar. We see as the video progresses, the mean leader reign per country/region seems to go up significantly. Like the bubbling cauldron is congealing.

A second trend that appears throughout the video is the rise and fall of dictators/conquerors. You'll see periods of relative stability, until suddenly a new leader appears and like a cancer, spreads to neighboring regions. Soon enough though, that cancer recedes as the dictator is deposed, almost popping like a bubble (to mix metaphors). You see it with Napoleon, you see it with Hitler. It's easy to see that throughout history, a single malignant character has the capacity to cause an extraordinary amount of disruption.
It was a post or discussion, I think involving Peter Thiel talking about how innovation is in the world of bits not atoms now and that implies some unpleasant things about our society.

Closest I could find was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718654
Absolutely true. This is also why documentaries are generally awful truth telling mediums.
> Still don't understand why so many logins are being publicly exposed there.

• VK is the most popular website in Russia.

• There are many hackers in Russia.

Connect the points.
Sounds like a bug, since this definitely does not happen on any of my android devices.
I don't think so. The problem is you have to be aware of other things he's saying to get at the correct, more charitable, interpretation. Namely, he's calling on people not to blame others or society at large for their problems, but to improve their own life and become a desirable potential mate. That's opposite of what he's accused of.
> Efficiency has to go into overdrive or we overheat the planet.

Just the efficiency of burning fossil fuels. We can afford to be wasteful with eg solar energy. (Efficiency is still great, but not required to avoid overheating.)
Why not simply use Java or C#? No one writes desktop software in JS
While I agree that the message sounds a bit like that, I think he is right about that point. For me an eye opener was Tinder. Where I live it seems like half of the women have something like "Don't even try if you are less than 1.80cm" or something like that in their profile. I am actually relatively tall and happy with my sex life, so I don't take the offense personally, yet I can't help but wonder what would happen if a guy wrote something like that about weight or boob size, for example? (I sometimes consider opening a fake female account to see if some men actually do that...) Also interestingly, a lot of women profiles are just a collection of attributes they don't want in guys, written in a very negative language... instead of, I would expect, just some positive things about themselves. I wonder where that delusional way of looking at themselves--as an inherent "price" to be "won" by the very best in men--comes from? Are men in online dating like that too? In our society we are reflecting a on what "masculinity" means, and scrutinizing and redefining male sexual behavior. This is a good thing. But I wonder if maybe it would also help young women get an understanding of femininity that is not based on these backwards ideas that could help everyone have healthier and more equal relationships.
But as I've already noted in other comments, this heavy-handed interpretation breaks a large part of the modern web, including many common practices that are in visitors' interests and not doing anything shady at all. Expecting every instance of embedding on the entire web, even among freely available pages using freely available services, to go full lawyer not just initially but on an ongoing basis, simply isn't a reasonable approach to take. An interpretation that puts significant extra liability on those freely offered sites and services regardless of whether they are intentionally doing anything shady is how you get extreme reactions like people geoblocking the EU.
Oh, interesting point! Yes let's just use OpenBLAS, no need for anyone but one or two people to understand these things. Sure.

Okay so let's have a look at OpenBLAS's Skylake kernel. Maybe we can learn some deep wisdom this author hasn't considered! Go and have a look for it, I'll wait here.

Ah, what's that? THERE IS STILL NO SKYLAKE KERNEL IN OPENBLAS? Interesting.

In fact if you do "sudo apt-get install libopenblas" on Ubuntu 16.04 (the one every deep learning tutorial will be recommending), you'll find you get version 2.18 of OpenBLAS. You'll find that this version of the software is quite old now, and it has a bug that causes it to fail to detect your CPU correctly. You'll find that instead of using any AVX instructions, it'll fall-back to the Prescott kernel. You'll also find this is really fucking slow.

In summary:

a) You have no idea what you're talking about;

b) Even if you were right on these points of detail, your point of view is still terrible

c) Please avoid being so beligerantly wrong in future
Please keep in mind that capital's share of GDP hasn't actually increased.

Land is the boogeyman.
In 2010 I decided the Puget Sound region was already too expensive and I moved to eastern Washington state. There is effectively zero software industry to speak of east of the Cascades, but if one wants to carve out a life away from Seattle / Portland / Silicon Valley, it can be done and miners certainly offer no attraction. Quite the opposite - the Port of Walla Walla is entertaining similar offers from miners seeking access to cheaper power, and I am hoping they are turned away.
My thoughts too. In the UK you would have to apply to the local authority for 'change of use' planning consent. Even changing between different classes of commercial use requires consent. This gets posted on the gate outside and in the local press. Anyone is free to write in and make their point known. Finally an official makes a recommendation to a committee of elected representatives at an open meeting.

If approved you now have a commercially rated site and have to pay 'business rates' (local tax based on the value of the property and the use it is put to) to the local authority. Sounds like there is a lot of opportunity to charge potential miners...

I think even commercial electric rates in the UK are around £0.17 kwh, so mining is not likely to trouble us any time soon!
They sell untested, unapproved products. It is a govt backed corporation.
I only counted three; what five were you seeing.

(Yes, blatantly tangential).
What's happening is it's getting a lot cheaper to buy votes on Hacker News. People have offered to do it for me to get the O(n) search papers I resubmit every quarter to the front page. Folks assure me "it's way cheaper than it used to be!"
Doesn’t everyone write desktop software in JS now? Discord, VSCode, Skype, etc all use Electron
One important caveat here to add.
Just as it is not a failing black kid's problem ALONE that he does not have the opportunity to have a stable family and proper education, so is its society's burden to educate these men on etiquette AND provide them with a stable worldview that does not belittle them for not being like the demigods seen on tv (same as how we should not shame women for having body image issues, but rather tackle advertisement instead).

I wont say its entirely society's fault, but we cant just ignore the problem. As that leads to Brexit, Trump,etc.
Did early Rome have a different ruler every year?
It did, but it wasn't a very strong hold IIRC.

By the way, I fully recommend: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/
We live with the mosquitoes as an annoying price of organic gardening. They are a pain, but they are...

The frogs and toads make plenty use of it! Also newts and grass snakes.
The world is not hitting any population limits. Those limits have a tendency to grow just as quickly with advances in technology and efficiencies.
Wow. Once in 8 years. Quite a point you have there /s

You sound young.

It's not unusual for serious code to run for decades without modification. The less it has to be touched, the better it was made from the start.
The hole point of documentation is lost in the concept of something "self-documenting".

Documentation needs to be describing the actions of the program on a different abstraction level/perspective than the program itself.

Something can be easy to read and to understand but it cant be self documenting unless it actually literally writes it own documentation it being a sentient AI or something like that.
Now that you bring it up, from what I gather the "Proud Boy"s like Gavin endorse the no-fap movement because they view committed monogamous relationships between to long term partners as the best outcome for society, and individuals as well, and porn use as essentially a mental poison akin to drug use. It diminishes one of the most powerful drives in men: desire to find a sexual partner and a long term relationship.

The modern view of degenerate behavior where unlimited sexual partners with no commitment is somehow seen as "empowering" is viewed by many as terrible advice, especially to women. The long term consequence is unhappiness and regret when people age out of the primary dating pool, having wasted their prime years either either engaging in casual sexual relationships or heavy porn use.

Young men would do themselves a service to actually look into these movements themselves, and things like "No fap" and discover the benefits, instead of listening to porn users who recoil at anyone criticizing their addiction and lifestyle choices.
It’s pretty interesting to see so many people in this thread repeating the claims of the NYT Op-Ed as fact as though Jordan Peterson is some far right ghoul. From what I’ve read of him, he seems pretty classically liberal and small c conservative, but because he made the pronoun thing an issue of free speech the assumption is that he’s some far right crusader.

Normally I think the Times is pretty solid, but they led with this distorted claim equating enforced monogamy with female slavery (irresponsibly, I think) and seem unable to rationally parse what Peterson is saying because of his infamy for being on the “wrong” side of the pronoun debate.

It’s a symptom of the age that no one wants to do the work of thinking through what people say and it’s exactly this looseness and lack of critical assessment that, ironically, permits demagogues to say and do outrageous things.
On an unsinkable ship? That's ludicrous.
Also, male sperm counts have been declining consistently for 30 years now (they are less than HALF what they were 30 years ago). Nobody has figured out why, but the best guess is chemicals.

This could a contender for reduced sex.
> Most likely they did not have the means to collect data on it rather than the means at which they do so today.

Or what they're looking at is diagnoses of erectile dysfunction, which might have some connection to drugs being approved and heavily marketed for it.
When I run the tests, am I supposed to get an indication of whether my attempt passed or failed the test?
Whilst I agree that it is a sinkhole, I also hold a fraction of a bitcoin just-in-case I am totally wrong!

I don't want to say to my kids, "in my day you could still buy a bitcoin for only $7k."
Two different rulers, the consuls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_consul.
> he has plausible deniability for journalists.

Do you have any evidence for this? Or is this just your imagination?
Or you should be investing in stocks rather than collecting usury.
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I thought that was one of the most interesting parts of the map - those regions weren't writing, so we knew nothing about them until the Romans started making inroads to the rest of Europe and crossing swords with those out there, and writing down the names of the rulers they were fighting with. So as tendrils of Rome go out on the map you see a scattering of rulers around those tendrils.
To the person that downvoted this - anyone can use DuckDuckGo, Apple Map, Dropbox, Airtable, any one of hundreds of email service providers, etc to avoid Google. It’s actually fairly easy to avoid.
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Not Every Hobby Has to Become a “Hustle”
I don't pay attention to digital advertising, and have seen no ill effects in my own life. As for driving teenagers to suicide: what is this about?
disingenuous, pretend, doesn’t, dubious, negative

If you count the "but" as negative then it's 6
I absolutely agree. I was responding to parent who was posing this elaborate hypothetical whereby the person who goes incel (or whatever) is somehow absolved of the responsibility for their situation.

I would argue that there are profound differences too between institutional racism and male sexual resentment.
The data for the rulers I can get from WikiData <3, but are the land coverage polygons open source aka available somewhere? I would love to use them in my own projects.
First steps to weaken Facebook and take back the web
Thank you so much this is exactly what I was looking for
https://youtu.be/IpKqCu6RcdI

So you can just directly watch the video.
Practical Creativity
They sort of are:

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/04/28/australias-dirtiest-co...
It is interesting as video but would be much more interesting as individiual maps, to look at when reading about a specific episode in history.
Most likely, but potentially still quite useful.
Oh poo, corruption like paying off inspectors is clearly something that could be done. There is no need to start the discussion of tainted products with an appeal to bureaucracy.
Maybe this is the article you are searching for -- It's Okay to "Forget" what you read (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15146715)
>I don't know where to begin with this Bitcoin crap; it's gotten crazy that so many naive people are into this plopping their hard-earned money into a well-functioning sinkhole.

George Soros said it best, " All of financial history is one lie and deceit after another, your job as a speculator is to get on the lie while it is being propagated and get off before everyone finds out".

I feel like a lot of folks are going to get burned but what do I know? I could be full of shit....
The stagnation represents the end of peak globalism, right before it flips back to growing nationalism (underway now). This cycle will continue to repeat. Increased nationalism will bring about more war, general national conflict and invention. The easy gains from globalism for this cycle have been mostly tapped out. Tension and competition between nations will spur a new wave of innovation. Just as one example, the US and China will increasingly race each other for every advantage they can manage. Globalism is increased tranquility and a lowering of friction at a cost of dynamism, nationalism is a nasty irritant that produces pearls at a cost of stability and peacefulness. Despite the desire by some to view nationalism as evil, it's as natural a part of the cycle as globalism, and just as required. The nationalism flip occurs because as you get toward the end of the globalism expansion cycle, the entropy hits lows, the possible gains from the globalism cycle get exhausted, and the people that were comforted by the prior gains, grow restless in the stagnation. High levels of entropy are a requirement for great technological leaps forward and great societal change, as people prefer to go to sleep in their comfort otherwise, stagnating. Globalism spreads comfort (distributes gains - technological, process, etc - made by some nations across most nations), nationalism riles survival responses and increases desperation.
I read the article past that statement, but saw no reference to regulation or ToS that states this is a violation of any statute or local law -- "far too large" is what, exactly?

My problem with that statement is that it doesn't actually answer the question -- it smacks of journalistic supposition and no root facts.

I can run two refrigerators, two freezers and an AC unit all day and night and push myself into the top tier of energy usage, being the equivalent of a closet full of computers running 24/7, but all that would do is push myself into the top tier and cost me lots of moolah -- what's the line between authorized and unauthorized?
> (source: I develop linear algebra libraries)

This is something I'm interested in contributing to. Can you name a few libraries (especially ones implementing new and interesting work) that would welcome open source contributors? Alternatively you can just contact me (via my profile info) if you're working on something in particular but would rather not be identified publicly.
Salaries in Europe are also very low for software developers. In Germany you will make on average 50-60K euro per year as a senior software developer. After tax this is less than 3000 euro per month. Similar situation in the UK. This is the reason why not a single company from Europe reached the TOP-10 in the world by market cap. Talents are moving away from Europe. According to news I read, 140000 people leaving Germany each year, especially people with high qualification.
That is what we have stock options for .. to align the best (longterm) interests of the company and the employees. It is much better vehicle to build value for both parties than a bonus culture.
I actually agree with you, society does need to acknowledge that members are in trouble.

I don't think anything that has come out of the MRA/Petersonian fringe is helping though.

There certainly is problems with men/masculinity in society, it's both sad and tragic, as illustrated by the tragic suicide of Scott Hutchison a couple of weeks back. I'm convinced that all these people who think they're sticking up for men are only making things worse though.

The answer doesn't lie in blaming female empowerment.
> First, there's a lot of entropy in terms of border definitions and leader turnover. The now Italy region had a new leader every year for a stretch

This is one way that illustrations like this, while cool, are misleading or at least obscure the situation. Rome under the Republic was ruled by two Consuls who served a joint one-year term, hence the seemingly chaotic turnover when in fact the Republic was more-or-less stable for centuries under this system. The yearly turnover was an expected feature. This animation makes it seem like a period of eternal war where rulers are constantly being overthrown.
This is the hallmark of cult (or any organized religion's) literature. Also how therapists operate. Be vague, and let your customers project the meanings onto your words that they most want to hear.

If you actually gave people answers, their quest for meaning would be complete and they wont come back next week. You lose engagement.
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This code did not compile using g++ 4.8.4.

g++ -o hazem_saleh_suckarank hazem_saleh_suckarank.cc
hazem_saleh_suckarank.cc: In function ‘std::string encryption(std::string&)’:
hazem_saleh_suckarank.cc:20:43: error: variable-sized object ‘grid’ may not be initialized
char grid[lowerbound][upperbound] = {0};
^

Fixed by:

- remove: " = {0}" from line 20

- insert after line 20:

memset(grid, 0, lowerbound*upperbound * sizeof(char));

Question: Am I missing a flag or other compiler setting? I was able to fix the issue by zeroing with memset. However, cppreference.com [0] states that post-C99 "some-array-declaration-here = {0}" will zero out the structure.

[0] http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/array_initialization
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The German men and women who are descendants of the raped and tortured German women, victims of the Red Army, which Solzhenitsyn wrote about, as well...

I don't write this to be insulting, but to point out that untold millions of people were affected.
"I would argue that there are profound differences too between institutional racism and male sexual resentment."

Of course, institutional racism is several orders of magnitude more severe.

(Update: wow, I get downvoted for this. Nice!)
It may interest you to know that in addition to running on ZFS, the rsync.net platform also has the option to 'zfs send' and 'receive' (over SSH):

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync...
I looked for something like that a while back but did not find it. It would be great to have. It is also interesting to think about how a data model for evolving geographical boundaries would look. Preferably as a set of "patches" rather than yearly snapshots?
Not sure of the historicity, but would have helped if the empire/kingdom/ethnicity was also mentioned.
If you consume more power than what the electrical company can supply your main breaker will trip.

Unless those people are bypassing breakers I don’t see what’s the big deal. If the electrical company tells you that you can draw 20A and gives you a 20A breaker then you should be allowed to use it.
Whoa! This is amazing.
Ask HN: Any good online Discrete Mathematics courses?
So a bit of a disclaimer: I've already tried the MIT Math for Computer Science, and it was difficult for me to be motivated to take it, perhaps because it was a slightly too advanced for what I am ready for at the moment.

I have also tried reading Rosen's textbook, which I found much more approachable. (problems tended to be easier, relatively easy to read the textbook, etc) My only issue is the shear volume of chapters and problems, making it difficult to figure out what to learn in a reasonable time.

I'm giving myself five months to learn introductory discrete mathematics. What is a good online course that I can take? I am willing and able to pay for a course.

Thanks in advance for the help.