skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you teach mathematics or reading backwards?
Who you calling an official organism? :)
UK TV director's Tesla bursts into flames
By the time we pivot to EVs the travel industry will be sure to prevent any dip in CO2 emissions thanks to social media and its hoardes of mindless consumers.
It's fine if you don't like his style, but the "little substance" part is hardly true. I contribute to OSS on a very regular basis and I was left with four or five solid takeaways after reading the article. The author even admits he isn't good at writing but a lot of people asked him to write the article. I'm glad he did.
Yyyyeeesss... that’s rather my point, that we’ve accumulated so much debt at this point that this doesn’t really move the needle as much as it sounds like when you ignore that accumulation and look only at a single month.

Again, I’m not arguing that it’s a good idea. It is irresponsible, for sure. But the scale of it is akin to somebody with $10k in credit card debt opting to go out for dinner once.
The author observes that self-driven students of very selective parts of Music History are "driven by emotion rather than obligation" and usually start from a passion for some current music. This seems true enough. The next step, however, is a giant leap:

> shouldn’t music history writing and teaching be done in the same backwards direction?

No, that doesn't follow, because we are now talking about obligatory learning of the rest of Music History, which will be what I just experienced for most of the author's text: An endless litany of names, names, names, names, names, some arrows drawn between them, some dates and places attached.

It doesn't matter which order you teach me all the rest of Music History. It doesn't get better that way, although it probably doesn't get worse, either.
I think I am able to develop end-to-end ML projects. However, my question was about building a career in this space, how to move from junior to senior, from senior to being an expert in the field.
Yes, it requires oxygen, which happens to be all around and inside a vehicle typically. I'm not sure what your point is. If a fuel tank is ruptured it can lead to fire and/or explosion. If a battery is ruptured the risk of fire is a lot less. Maybe batteries carry a greater risk of spontaneously combusting, but I don't think that makes them more dangerous than carrying a tank of flammable liquid around
Waiting behind defensive players wont work in soccer/football... Those players are offside. This means they are not allowed to receive the ball from a team member.
Show HN: Deigma, an event sampler for Erlang/OTP
Well that clearly doesn't look like a U2F prompt.

Of course U2F devices should be excluded from the list, and there should be some warning text about "do not allow important devices on random websites", but that doesn't seem like a huge deal.
This is the only application I've seen for a blockchain that isn't totally brain-dead. I'm certainly skeptical, but skepticism is better than certainty it will fail.

I'll be watching it with interest.
People want escapism. Something out of their ordinary lives. Like movies. As someone who is heavily involved in Instagram marketing, I don't see the value for anyone other than dreamers. Which is why my focus is niche, local, and accessible to everyone. In return I send a TON of real customers to places that I choose to promote.
"Backwards" is relative to the original way a subject was taught. My from my experience math is taught formula first rather than by starting with an intuition based on physical representation.

Starting with developing an intuition like 3B1B and then deriving a formula would be "backwards" to how I've been taught in the past.
There’s a difference between government being too weak to address and the voters not wanting something. It comes up a couple times a decade in Atlanta and the suburbs vote against public train expansion. I see parallels with the housing issues in SF and California.

How does a local government do something if their constituents flat out refuse it?
Isn't that what ccache provides? Admittedly it's not perfect but it sounds like it might help your use case. https://ccache.samba.org
"Football" is a very specific term, which means "game played with foot (feet)". The fact that some moron called another game "American footbal" when they should have called it "American rugby" does not justify renaming this beautifull game to "soccer".
This post's title is a nightmare. Original from the article:

>How Netflix sent the biggest media companies into a frenzy, and why Netflix thinks some are getting it wrong
Yeah. If I were to cast it into this framework, you could look at fundamentalist systems of thought as delivering a supernormal sense of understanding. Which causes supernormal confidence, making their views easier to spread.

An actual universe doesn't pack well into the 3 pounds of meat we use for thinking. A system of thought that lets us discard most natural ambiguity and nuance would be unnaturally comfortable. I think this is true both for obvious fundamentalism (e.g., Bible thumpers) and for single-explanation frameworks of thought. Freudianism, Marxism, and capitalism all have groups that are effectively fundamentalist adherents. And I think there's a species of Bitcoin fanatic that is also effectively fundamentalist.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this appears to be on the rise at the same time the Internet has brought us into contact with all the information and all the people.
What is meaning?

What caries meaning.

My realization has been that software development has very little intrinsic meaning to itself, it gains meaning when seen in the contexts of it's application. You need to find a field where you can apply your skills, that has more meaning.
As a company, what format should we supply user data if requested?
It depends a lot on the specific field that you're talking about. I studied both music and physics in college, and I think that teaching the history backwards would work for music, but not for physics. You can understand modern harmonic theory without knowing the details of how it evolved out of contrapuntal theory. It would be easy to learn about the current state of music theory as is, and then extend your understanding afterwards by learning about the context and history which led to the current state. Physics isn't really like that. There's no way that you're going to understand general relativity first, and then learn afterwards that the theory evolved from Newton's laws. Some fields successively build on top of their own histories while others morph and change in such a way that knowledge of their histories is nonessential for understanding their current state.
Ah, the ol' reverse psychology.

By showing people what it's like to vacation in a Fiesta, Motel 6, and Waffle House you'll drive traffic to luxury hotels.
They certainly did lie.

When I created a new (my only) facebook account a few years back, it was clear they already knew that about 90% of my friends knew me.

They probably interpreted “what information do you have” as “give me a copy of my account”. If they still do this, someone in a GPDR country (but without a FB account) should go through this exercise, then report the violation.
I do code reviews backwards. Not sure why. I'm not sure it works better.
The one time I saw Wayne Gretsky play live (ice hockey) I noticed he played in a very similar manner. Floating most of the time but turning on the jets when an opportunity presented.
In this case, a "graph" is an organized way to store and represent data, especially in cases where you want to store relationships (edges) between different things (nodes).

Streaming is just referring to its ability to be constantly updated by incoming data.

So it's like a database but for a much more narrow use case and can perform much better in those cases.
How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners
Not any less authentic than Elon Musk’s hairline. Nobody seems to have a problem with men spraying on hair from a can. Why shouldn’t a woman alter her voice?
This shouldn't be downvoted. Web platform isn't a place for device usage like that, that's a Pandora's box.
Now I am no expert on blockchain and business administration but... Since these CVL tokens could be tradeable, and they grant "a say concerning the projects hosted by Civil"...

Uhm...

Doesn't this all look like, basically, company shares? Doesn't this mean that the problem has just been shifted but potentially not solved ?
I, personally, don't consider Vioxx a failing of the FDA. I might be wrong, but reading the Wikipedia article makes it sound like more of issues surrounding the drug's promotion and marketing- not the drug itself (considering the US and Canada both voted to allow it back on the market). And OxyContin's issues (I think) fall on the DEA and not the FDA. Oxy does what it is supposed to do really well, and the side affects are known.

I just used Thalidomide as an example of where the FDA got it right. The fact that we havn't see other drugs like that pop up, tells me that the system is working.
Note that Messi is, at times, criticised for not playing defence which means more effort running back and forth.
He is definitely doing the right thing when attacking but it depends what one optimizes for.
> People who purchase the CVL token, a form of cryptocurrency, will have a say concerning the projects hosted by Civil — meaning that they can vote on whether one of its websites violates the company’s journalism standards, which are outlined in the Civil Constitution

This features the worst elements of public (e.g. the BBC), private (e.g. the Wall Street Journal) and patronage (e.g. the Washington Post) media.

Letting token owners “vote on whether...websites violate the company’s journalism standards” explicitly removes editorial independence. Worse, it ties editorial control to tokens/votes which are bought with money. Worse still, since ownership is pseudonymous, there is no way to detect someone (e.g. a wealthy individual, company or foreign government) amassing control across disparate wallets. Pseudonymity also makes shaming owners for bad behaviour difficult or impossible.
Thanks for the open source release! I tested it with their commercial version before and it was great for C++ projects.
I work at a midstage well funded startup where I'm paid well, treated nicely by my coworkers, have a great work life balance, and a clear career path for advancement.

But we do the typical tech wankery bullshit, and the banality of it eats away at you. Maybe the goal is to get accustomed to this and accept that my job is better than 99% of the world, but christ if I'm going to spend the next 20-30 years of my life doing this and filling it with hobbies that also don't have meaningful impact, why even bother.
meaning from the human perspective also comes from within, you can complain about the culture at a job, but you also have to recognize that you are a part of it, and if it's not meaningful to you, you can either leave, or learn about people and try to lead by example and determine if they can change with you in a way that respects your own experience and understanding and reflects theirs. This is so the culture can be community strengthening and building, and allows people to grow in ways they choose, enough to feel like they are more than a software component (cog in the machine, etc)
That's what I was taught back in undergrad. I can't quite remember the context, but I do remember having to start at the end and tracing backwards when looking at some simple programs.
With MongoDB the devs said "we don't need a DBA anymore". But what they failed to understand was that the DBA was not the person who knew all the database command syntax, but rather the person who was responsible for the data - its availability, security, and so on. And getting rid of that person didn't get rid of the reason the job existed. I dare say that came as a bit of a shock. Well, serves them right for stabbing a fellow Worker in the back! And it is playing out exactly the same way in Cloud. All the responsibilities still exist, apart from the most basic ones such as "sweep the floor of the datacentre". Now who's going to take them?
Shows how broken the USPTO process is... You can pay a lawyer a nice chunk of change and patent whatever. Then you can hire some more lawyer/trolls to go out and sue people who infringe on your patent.
Gilbert Strang's lectures on linear algebra work this way. He typically first gives a simple example (like for least squares, fitting a line to three points in two dimensions) and then over the course of the lecture susses out a broader generalization / formula from the simple example.

Unfortunately, OCW seems to be having some kind of copyright issue with YouTube, but here's a link to the video anyway. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...
See the relevant smhasher discussions.
Lego works the way it does because one company is responsible for producing every single little plastic brick. The Lego company takes great pains to control the precision of their manufacturing process to ensure the bricks click together. If you worked for Lego and you designed a piece that did not connect to any other pieces, they would not produce it. It seems obvious this approach cannot work over the whole world. However, I think if you look at software made only within a single company I feel like you do see this principle in action, frequently.

Also, Linux distros themselves are the domain-focused packages you want, all built around the "core" of the Linux kernel. There are various "distro building" projects that approach this configuration problem from varying levels of abstraction, e.g. Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu Builder, or NixOS.
> It's not your job to convince your coworkers that your tool should be configured one way or another. That decision is owned by the team. It's only your job to get them to adopt the tool...

"But lo! Men have become the tools of their tools..."

I feel the author has missed the concept of leadership and is still thinking of it like an engineer. The idea of your team's opinions as "dangerous," or as obstacles you need to overcome to get your way, is not indicative of a leader to me, nor is the concept of actions as just a way to earn your team's trust ("Leadership Capital") so you can order them around later. That's a pretty myopic view of leadership bordering on sociopathy IMO.

What is the point of influencing people? So much effort into convincing people, but why do you need to convince them? If you do not have a clear answer, or if your answer describes something about you and your views, sorry but you aren't a leader - you are only an opinionated person.
This applies to cooking as well.
Go Innovate on the Periphery
If you find meaning from digging into low level libraries, that's great. Most people would think of meaning as having shared values with the business you're working for and it's end users / customers. Prioritize finding end-users who you genuinely care for and whose lives you want to improve is one way to find meaning.
Maybe I could become a chip industry influencer. Especially if I could wear a suitably chic factory floor bunny suit.
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A from-scratch implementation of the convolutional neural network
Letting a child wander around the Internet without adult supervision is something akin to child neglect. Way too much clickbait, way too much malevolent content.
I was asking about Usb type c. To my knowledge, Apple, MS, and Google were there just to give blessings on RFCs
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> I have a question, though, about interoperability: you can output Nim code to C++, and mix it. Fair point. But that would be useful to integrate my Nim code into C++ (C++ being the "driver" app). What about the other direction where I can consume C++ from Nim? I have no idea and I ask this question with the best of the intentions :)

I was actually talking about it from that direction, i.e. using C++ libraries in Nim. You can wrap pretty much any C++ feature in Nim: destructors, namespaces, you name it. Because Nim compiles to C++ it can interface with it incredibly well.

Happy to answer any more questions in case I'm not clear.

> You thought very bad about me and the downvotes before.

Apologies. I just saw you reiterating the line I challenged without replying to me and was wondering what happened. Was just asking, not blaming :)
Yes and no. Many of us used S-Video then RGB/VGA wherever available. Though in the case of the original NES our options were indeed limited.
Audio Modem Communication Library in Python
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I wonder if their error function is to sense the user's frustration when the model performs badly.

I have a feeling that actual human neural activity does not generalize well, but that ML models needs to be good at adapting to individuals.
Clickbait title. This is not teaching backwards, it is teaching it forwards but via recursion towards the causal factor. Good luck with that when the stack gets deep.

Same cautionary tale with the use of recursion.

There is a certain way that history progressed (the motivic force, so to speak) and it would make no sense to reverse the order. And given the stack issue, better not be faddish and just pick a time and go forward from there.
The main thing all these guys do is to ship the most trivial thing that will work (is better than competitors) but leave it open for improvements.

Tests are written sometimes second, not first. Specifically regression only testing is pretty good and less intensive than full testing everything. But to know about regressions and problems you need reports and to do that, the software has to be shipped, in use and the report channels have to work well.
Like Steemit, this cannot incentivize production long term unless it has more efficient means of monetization, which it doesn’t. Steem subsidizes content through inflation of a token during a speculative mania. To put it mildly, this is not sustainable. Though the founders did astonishingly well on their exit.

Putting a newspaper on a blockchain, to the extent the idea is even coherent, does not exempt it from the economics that makes journalism unremunerative.

This is not to say that we cannot use crypto currencies to perform activities that were traditionally performed by journalists. However, this will look more like anonymous information bounty markets or prediction markets.

But even prediction markets need someone to subsidize them, willfully taking a loss to provide liquidity. I think there is a good case to be made for using demurrage to do this. But for this to work there has to be actual long term economic value on the blockchain, which most lack.
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I'm skeptical of this as a way of gaining a holistic understanding of music history, although it may be a helpful technique in the toolkit.
I know what you mean - I just have a soft spot for WOW. It really provides the escapism I needed during a difficult time in my life. It was good escapism, though. Instead of just TV and Books, I could check out of the real world and Into WOW and still talk to people, be semi social, and just forget about the fact that I had just lost one of my parents. It was sufficiently active, complicated, social and distracting. That alternate world really helped me.

Full confession: after a few years I had never actually made endgame. I had a lot of characters that were close, but I never had the “efficient play” strategy down enough to really power level any characters.
But the word "soccer" is an English invention. It's not like Americans just made it up to annoy cranky Brits.
If the votes and results are made public, though, they at least reveal the instances in which stories/projects have been explicitly downvoted/killed. Even without knowing who voted for yes/no, that's still insight to what might be covered up.
> Join FAANG and you will get to work on projects that will impact millions of lives.

Yes but that doesn't necessarily you will find your work will be meaningful.

I work at Google and of the coworkers I've discussed this with, their motivation is to retire or support their family. There's a joke inside Google that you get paid to just move protos.

I worked at AWS. There anyone I talked about this said they worked there because it was good for their resume.

I work on a very impactful project but don't really find it meaningful; my immediate work is just a small part of what makes the machine work. Nevertheless, my work funds my other pursuits which I find meaningful. This seems to be true of nearly everyone I've talked to no matter where they work.
I haven't found a usecase yet where a better hash function leads to a faster hash table. Theoretically this would happen with CPUs with extremely slow or small cache.

It's also confirmed with the recent trend to add slower hash functions everywhere, leading to dramatic performance regressions.
What does an increase in self centredness in society mean? Did people in the past do everything for the benefit of society somehow
I must be rare because I wouldn't mind being treated as less than human. McDonald's was one of my first jobs- and one thing I learned there was that I can chose one of two things: (1)be upset that incompetent bosses are treating me like shit and move on to another job without having learned anything, or (2)I can simply not care about Michael Scott-type managers and just focus, like a robot, on getting really good at my job. Then, in the future, I can move up and become one of the best managers anyone has ever seen thanks to knowing what not to do.

In my opinion, people care too much about work politics. Yes people suck, but sucky people will be everywhere. Learning to cope with difficult people is a skill that everybody absolutely needs to learn at some point in their lives.
> In each of these cases, the nature of the conclusion can represent a surprising departure from the nature of the data used [...]. That makes it hard to control what we know.

This article conflates anyone knowing from me knowing in order to generate this article. I don't have access to the crime prediction algorithms, so even if I wanted to know the result for me, I can't. On the other hand, I can pull my free yearly credit report right now. I haven't, so I don't know what it is right now. Injecting AI here doesn't change how I would operate as a human to know or not know.

I would argue AI does not shift the balance of forceful-media-inception. That belongs with cybernetics and direct chip-to-brain interactions. AI just uncovers new information for us to consume through old ways. So choosing not to know is by just using the pre-AI way: avoid certain sites, doctors, etc. Once we have cybernetic implants, that's when we may have to adopt new behaviors to avoid a new avenue from unwantingly pushing information into us.
We should start with Black Sabbath and work forwards and back from there.
Stockholders, especially retail investors, don't typically have privileged access or ability to give input to a newsroom.
Yeah kind forgot about that.
Not just music history, but history in general.

History told forwards is superstition: trying to show that what came after was inevitable, when in fact it was one future among an infinite number of different possible futures.

History told backwards makes sense: look for the seeds of post events, in the past.

However the human mind loves nothing more than causation; we see cause and effect everywhere even where it's not, we like "stories", we don't understand, don't believe in, and outright reject chance.
I think he tried to say that Google was heavily involved with the development of the USB-C variant of the Ubikey (for example, for use with MacBook pros) rather than with the USB-C standard itself.
No, it is close to what LTO, parse caches and precompiled headers provide. No need for daemons to get the same result.