skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting article but some of the conclusions at the end of descriptive paragraphs seems to come from nowhere and are completely unsubstantiated;
“But machines don’t correct our flaws—they replicate them.”

“We face a world, not in the future but today, where we do not understand our own creations. The result of such opacity is always and inevitably violence.“
The UK has a weekend like this too (sometime last month) when all the university students in all the university cities move to other digs, or back home for Summer/Good. It results in horrendous traffic full of parents in large cars full of stuff packaged around the student stuck in one of the back seats.

The way around it if you live local is to remember that the parents will not know the local roads, and to avoid the direct routes that a route planner would suggest. If you are driving long distance, then you might be best travelling early in the morning.
Actually, there are some studies that hot drinks ( especially tee ) can start a possible throat cancer. The hotness is kind of damaging the cells , which in time if not let to recover, will have a chance to turn into cancerous ones. [1]

[1] https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20180206/hot-tea-linked-to...
> One military plane

To be fair, that budget is for 2500 planes and their maintenance over 50 years.
Just skimmed the article but underlining only seemed to be one small part of the method.

Understanding by summarizing into Anki cards and then making sure you remember it trough spaced repetition (both "output") seemed to be the most important part.

Distributed learning, practice testing and Interleaved practice all seem to have some scientific backing.
MISP 2.4.93 released (aka ATT&CK integration)
Somebody, please, publish a tutorial something like "Create simple web applications with Vanilla JS", or "How to build frontend-only apps using only native HTML5 APIs".

I can't believe people are still interested about this horrible, overhyped framework.
I thought it was taken down by "the feds", I assume it's being run by some government agency under direction of media rights holders now? These sites seem to survive for some time playing whackamole, but AFAICT law enforcement got all the long running big sites.

It's curious that, again from what I can tell, such sites often get taken over (not the actual sites but copycat domains that Google serve) as copycats in order to serve malware. But somehow that's preferable (for the government agencies) to hosting inert torrent links.
There is money. But for current players, not disrupters. Ads and paid niche content manes the bulk of it.

Source: work with porn people.
I'll take any EP hacker over any MIT hacker. They are just better. Anyone heard of OCAML, compilers, netsec or security engineering? That's where they are better.
I found one more example in this TeX StackExchange question [1]. It's incredibly elegant. But the problem is that it does not seem to be easily reproducible in LaTeX because writing nested lists is such an unnecessary pain (take a look at the adopted answer). Need a package to popularize this style.

[1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/49416/which-packages...
Let me assure you, this does exist in the wild. I spotted it many times, especially in documents scanned 15+ years ago, when space and bandwidth were an issue and people did anything to reduce file size, at the cost of quality. It was rare enough to not make the format unusable, but not just once, making you worry "was it 3 sp. or 8 sp.?"

It seems also that the problem happens more often with cyrillic glyphs which have less descending/accending elements that typical latin ones.
> Why does it seem like so many relevant tech companies are American

The ones that are relevant to you.

To me all but very few of the relevant tech companies are irrelevant, and the miracle of Silicon Valley has not been replicated inside the USA either. So the reason those companies are American is because SV is in the United States, it has little to do with America as a whole, if it did then Silicon Valley would not be an exception within the United States.

Euro nations as a rule are not hostile to start-ups in any way that is different from say Texas or Michigan.

Then, finally, there are a large number of relevant EU tech start-ups. They are working from a slight disadvantage (need to market/sell immediately in a whole bunch of languages if they want to escape their home-territory) but plenty of them do well enough that they end up listed on stock-exchanges all over the planet.

That they are not relevant to you is another matter, but IT companies account for a huge percentage of EU employment and they're all doing stuff that they feel is relevant.

So it looks as if your argument mostly revolves around what you think is relevant and what isn't.

The only American company I can't seem to get around is Google, and they're a one-off even by US standards.

Apple, FB, MS, Twitter and so on can all be done without (at least: I could do without them).

On the hardware front that leaves Intel and AMD, neither of which could be classed as start-ups today any more than you could class Siemens or Sony as one.
But don’t you tend to stay there longer? Whereas here (Australia) it’s not uncommon to move every year – don’t anyone dare argue with me there, I speak from bitter experience – my understanding is that in Germany people tend to lease a place for 5, 10, more years?
what is similar about Brexit and porn censorship? As far as signals of coming dictatorship in UK?
Ask HN: Is this presentation about this totally keyboard oriented IDE good?
For the local industries, if you mean local creators or content producers, Netflix is "just" a new channel. If anything, it can help them have viability where they were before restricted by the size of their local market.
Playing to Win
While Azure isn't great at all the specific issue you have with it happens on AWS all the time.
Goscheduler: a task scheduler library with data persistence for go
Washer/dryer is often included, because the law states that if there isn’t a suitable outdoor area, some sort of drying facility must be supplied. (In VIC it does, anyway.)
Crypto currencies is a solution to this problem and not just in porn.

Some of my friends in the biz solely got interested in btc because of this.

We have still only a few customers using them though, so it's not a success yet.

But for those who thing crypto is a solution in search for a problem: there it is.
I agree and also if I read similar concept in other book, even if I did not "remember it", I feel often dots connecting somehow in my brain and "ahh I just read that in other book". So it is more like gathering concepts than explicitly remembering that concept so I can quote it back when woke up past midnight.

If someone wants to quote book from his head go for Anki and drill, most of books I just want to internalize concepts.
As if the non-capitalist world had cared more about the environment.

Kyshtym, Chernobyl and Aral Sea disasters have no relation to the "cult" of personal freedom in any way.

The only reason the Western / capitalist world had a greater impact on the planet is because they were able to build industrial power faster than the Marxist countries, not because they were less concerned about the environment (looking at the Soviet Union and China, I would rather say the opposite is true).
I am not a physicist, but I think while trying to complete our understanding of matter and forces is certainly an important topic, it would be much more important to finally understand quantum mechanics. Not that those are independent topics but I don't think progress on quantum mechanics is dependent on progress in high energy particle physics. Maybe energy scales at which gravity becomes strong might be really interesting to understand how space and time and particles fit together, but those are out of reach for the foreseeable future.
How does one control runtime operations with this? Ok compiler/optimizer might have a notion of "fastest execution possible" (which most likely have some local time minimums). But what about latency/bandwidth relationship? What do I do if I need minimal latency possible? Or maximal bandwidth possible?
I think there's undue emphasis on "fundamental". Modelling complex systems is important in actually making real world predictions. Condensed matter physics, as one example, is an area that is growing and has a plethora practical implications.
Security issues in the #LTE standard expose billions on #mobile users to attacks
I'm totally on-board with opposition to the pointless 'War on Drugs,' but what I'm not cool with is when pundits and other public figures on the other side of the spectrum PUSH for its wide-adoption and integration into everyday lifestyle akin to alcohol -- like the article's author is doing here -- which I feel is equally detrimental because there have been many well documented cases of people succumbing to the spell of psychedelics and similar substances. [0][1]

[0] http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/only-a-handful...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppm59z/smoking-weed-can-b...
It is a very different model, but my take is that you shouldn't be building anything on one provider that you couldn't easily move over to another. Provider lock-in is scary.
> That won't happen in AWS, where your VM will be automatically be moved to another server on the fly and you won't even notice.

Uh, what? Literally had that happen to a tiny micro a year back. Fortunately it was quick to recover from (I was using elastic beanstalk at the time) but this happens on AWS.
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> Indeed today when driving in a car I don't smell anything, and it's disturbing.

What about people smoking tobacco in other cars? That disgusts me. But maybe it's because I'm a former smoker.
Time in terms of number of blocks is likely to drift over the years, isn’t it?
I'd be more satisfied with Netflix and other streaming services operating in my country if these would offer wider content catalogs not limited by licensing agreements - with ability to rent it, as classic vhs or dvd rental was working (no idea if that was already a thing on Netflix - it operates here since 2016). I had no clue that N. had Family Guy until I read on 3rd part site that it's being pulled out without any information it was there in first place. We're paying same money for the service but available content is different; instead of popular series known and aired in tv, we're getting some cheap uknown fillers. So you see the problem here.

Sadly, such rental it's not going to happen because companies want to hold their deck of "cards" and refuse to share it with other tables in this video streaming casino.
I've heard some good things about
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

To get a quick overview try table 4 p. 45 here

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1529100612453266

I try to follow

* Distributed learning/practice

* Practice testning

* Interleaved practice
Very true! I have a script that automatically commits any DNS changes to source control, so if Route 53 bites it I could quickly move somewhere else, but you're right, on the off chance my registrar decides to vanish, there'll be some panicking.
Trying to improve my own knowledge management, and looking into how regular people who specialize in this area (people who read tons of non-fiction books) handle this stuff, extract and conserve knowledge, I've stumbled upon methods like "Zettelkasten". Does anybody here have experience with it?
With DjVu or with ocr'd documents in general?
There is actually a really interesting story behind this that was once on HN, I unfortunately can't find it anymore but it has something to do with the following process:

1. New content creator enters market.
2. Content gets uploaded to tube sites constantly, take-downs are intentionally slow and ineffective to make this process as tiresome and inefficient as possible.
3. New creator is eventually forced to upload the content themselves in order to generate leads and collect some revenue although this is very little.
4. This revenue is not and was never planned to be enough for the creator, two options:
A. Quality of content and models is reduced in order to reduce costs and remain profitable.
B. This does not happen, studio struggles to stay afloat and is forced to sell, it gets acquired by guess who... the parent company of the tube site.

I probably got some things wrong so feel free to correct me!
The Nature of Nothing in Kotlin
I'm not a physicist either. From what I understand, the parts of quantum mechanics that aren't still fully understood are where it overlaps with relativity. Reconciling the two is still one of the big open problems, and high energy particle physics does help in testing theories.
Maybe:

- Moving to HTML and signed HTML file.

- JPEG > PDF on mobile so people send the first over the later.
I suggest reading some Benjamin Tucker. Regardless of what Marx wanted, Tucker made some predictions about what the outcomes of Marxism would be.

http://praxeology.net/BT-SSA.htm

Many of them seem to have come to pass in the century since Tucker's writing.
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It's also for fire safety reasons that doors open inwards in the UK. It means that the door can't be blocked from the outside.
The Handmaid's Tale is great, and here in the UK is shown on Channel 4 (free to air, only a TV licence is required). Then there's Billions, my current favourite show, which is on Sky Atlantic (subscription, about £30 per month) - also home to Game Of Thrones and everything else HBO.

If you add Prime for Mr Robot and Netflix for Stranger Things, it starts to get quite expensive.
Easy Steps to Expanding Your Mind
the crazy war on drugs and stigma is something I never really understood. Why do I when I take for example mdma, a drug that just makes me feel happy and loved, become a criminal and can go to prison? This just seems so weird. And then we have alcohol and cigarettes which are even more damaging to your body than a lot of things, and it’s completely fine.

I’d say it should be up choice. If you want to take substance x over alcohol, take it.

Controlling and encouraging safe usage is the way to go. People that want to take drugs will find and take them anyway.
While I agree that the author's method likely helps comprehension and retention, I disagree with his premise that it is necessary for these, or even particularly time-efficient. His key factor seems to be "Learning comes from repetition"; though important to he learning process, repetition is neither the sole, nor even the primary factor. When it comes to retention of concepts, rather than raw data, comprehension and connecting to other knowledge is crucial.

In the author's method, these are reinforced with marginal notes (for comprehension) and a post-reading writeup (to connect concepts). I suspect this to be significantly inferior to more in-depth note-taking, as a significant amount of information may be lost in the time between reading chapter one and finishing the book, whereas complete notes should allow for immediate relation and processing. A high quality book will be organized to assist the reader in relating concepts, and waiting until book completion to prioritize this defeats the purpose of reading a book rather than a collection of disparate articles.

Still, the author is absolutely correct in that active reading is a worthwhile habit, and you should try to find an optimal method for your learning tendencies; While for me focusing on repetition and post-read review is brutally inefficient, everyone learns differently, so it may be perfect for you.
Previous discussion around the closed source DDR initialization block: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17392461
Your paragraph on this similar issue conveys almost the same level of info as the whole article and is equally interesting.

I don't see myself as a TLDR extremist, but I feel there's a cultural shift that needs to happen, or I am just personally ruined and doomed to get irked at verbose articles the rest of my days.
Isn't think pretty much what happened in the Netherlands?
Thank you! I think google-drive-ocamlfuse is an excellent product. It is clearly more mature and has more features than GCSF.

I made a comparison between the two projects in sections 4.2 and 4.3 of my thesis [0]. In short, GCSF tends to be faster in several cases (listing files recursively, reading large files from Drive). The caching strategy it uses also leads to very fast reads (x4-7 improvement compared to google-drive-ocamlfuse) for files that have been cached, at the cost of using more RAM.

On the other hand, I arrived at the conclusion that google-drive-ocamlfuse provides a better overall experience, as it already has an active community behind it. My goal with GCSF is to more or less close the gap between the two projects and reach the same level of functionality.

[0] https://sergiu.ml/~sergiu/thesis.pdf
I'm an Aussie also living in Canada. Out of curiosity, where are you? I'm in Whitehorse. Every time I go back to Australia it feels dull in comparison to Western Canada.
Does the Trolley Problem Have a Problem?
Soylent (or its local alternative called MANA)
I visited it's website, but didn't notice any google trackers. I'm using Privacy Badger btw. Maps app is also automatically installed on every windows 10. I think they partnered heavily with here maps in the past.
in a large part the excessive consumerism and concommitant environmental destruction that is characteristic of the 20th century comes from deliberate, centralized attempts to encourage consumerism (e.g. lowering interest rates, inflating currencies) on the part of governments, on "behalf" of the common people, to prop up "figures of merit" such as employment, which is hardly an expression of personal freedom.

The fact that capitalism is able to channel and bring to productive efficiency greener solutions out of collective individual preferences for a better world in spite of the artificial rolling economic treadmill, is a testament to capitalism.
Can the PDF be compressed with, say, 7z?
A Norwegian bank account number has it, so I guess it depends on the country
Student here.

One of the biggest things for me is not necessarily the content of the lectures, but what happens outside the lectures. Some lecturers give small non-graded "challenge" assignments that really get me engaged with the content. A couple of my favourite examples of this:

- "Factor this small RSA key" - I ended up reading a paper on, and implementing Pollard's rho algorithm. It was on the extended reading list anyway, but I'm typically not motivated to read things just for the sake of it.

- "Implement OOP concepts in a "non-OO" language, such as C" - This one was just generally interesting, and helped to dispel some of the "magic" of OOP. It was also a chance to look under the hood of existing OO implementations.
Contrast:

Contrast:

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Archived:

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Who are coders that I’m talking with?
I see a lot of buzzwords (applications of the algorithm that are just applications of anything) and little description about the actual details of the algorithm, complexity theory, and what type of problems it solves, obviously assuming they didn't turn NP into P.
Glee and Grey's Anatomy are from the OP, not my examples. Netflix is hiring the creators of these shows to make more shows, presumably somewhat similar. Breaking Bad is not from Netflix, neither is GoT which was interesting for about 1½ seasons. Even worse, Black Mirror was IMHO better before it moved to Netflix (but to some extent this is true of every show, creators have more pent-up, fresh ideas in the beginning).

While the tidal wave of capeshit is unwatchable and depressing, this is not all the competition Netflix has to contend with. First, you have every movie and tv show ever made. Then you can watch them again. Most shows can't even beat a 7th rewatch of Seinfeld.

Second, you can do something else than watching TV, like hitting the gym, writing a blog, taking your dog for a surprise extra walk, playing with your kids, making a steak instead of having takeout, cleaning your room while listening to Jordan Peterson telling you to clean your room... anything really.

And, I would argue, all of these are a better use of time than anything on Netflix right now.
Surely! Our business is mainly an API that B-to-B customers consume. The strategy is to create identical "pods" in different cities across different providers on identical distros. Between Vultr, Linode, and DO, that's 20+ cities you could place a pod in the States alone. Each pod has a proxy up front, a database slave, and a pair of app server and cache machines.

Ignoring tweaks for international customers, each proxy is in an A record round-robin with health checks via Route 53. US-based requests get forwarded to one of the pods, and the proxy either handles the request with local servers, or points to servers in another pod if it has servers that are down. If any pod has a power outage or goes down for any reason, Route 53 automatically pulls the entire pod out of the rotation. If an entire provider goes dark, all of the pods get pulled out of the rotation, but all the others keep running.
very good mental model for developer activities ..

> across general app development there are 4 specializations, and any given engineer should be able to straddle 2 of them.

> Client Infrastructure | Client Product | Backend Product | Backend Infrastructure
What is distributed learning? Is it spaced repetition?
The way I see it, the higher up maslow's pyramid, the more BS it is, roughly speaking. This in terms of the function of the job, aside from your own survival and having a job.
i don't know about djvu format, but being in the process of writing a pdf parser atm i can tell you there's definitely some room for a simpler file format than pdf. The size of the specification is daunting, and i still encounter weird behaviors for some documents on some major platform's reader ( and now that i've read part of the spec i definitely understand why).

Something a little more up to date and more focused on today's technologies would be really nice.
I would think an 8.9 sec 1/4 mile is everything you need to know, especially when Elon has said that's the base model and there will be "performance upgrades" that make it faster.

If you're not familiar, just google the 1/4 mile time of any fast car you can think of, and then look into how hard it is to go from say 10.5 to 10.0, then 9.9

Obviously I know a lap time needs a lot more than straight line acceleration, but if the 1/4 mile time is anything to go by, this car is going to be the kind of fast we have never seen before. Anyway, time will tell and it's fun to think about.
Augmented Reality Chemistry
Agreed! My take is that you don't have to, you shouldn't.
I have a somewhat similar system but without writing anything in the book, because I use ebooks, and it's not quite as intensive.

An example is here[0] but basically I keep notes on:

Places

Things

Characters

Plot

Nothing too long and it's all filled in in a few seconds in an Evernote notebook/note as I read along.

The main reason this is effective for me is that I can very quickly look up a character/place/plot in one single place in just a few seconds.

Often I don't need to re-read the whole thing, just the 'recent past' bits to quickly remember where I was in the plot after I put the book down for a week or two.

It ends up looking like a lot but it's more a consequence of doing a little a lot of times rather than a large amount of burdensome work.

I'm not sure if it helps long term retention, but it does help short term and it certainly helps comprehension when I've forgotten some characters significance or minor but consequential plot point.

[0] https://www.josharcher.uk/blog/diaspora-greg-egan-book-revie...