skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an odd one for me, because he sounds like he's trying to argue against the "when all you have is a hammer" approach to ML - but then goes on to describe SQL as his hammer.

For things like figuring out who your biggest customers are, SQL probably is the right tool for the job. Whale-spotting probably gives a decent bang per buck, and isn't particularly complex.

But when he gets onto recommendations, it starts to look like it's the author who's attached to the wrong tool for the job. His example of recommending sunglasses to people who buy sunglasses is terribly blunt. If someone in my locale, who doesn't regularly buy sunglasses, buys sunglasses; they're probably going on vacation - there's not much sun at home for them. Surely there's a whole raft of things someone excited for their summer holidays would impulse-buy, but the sunglasses they just bought are no longer on the list.

If ML can match them up with with a "going on summer holidays" demographic, and BI wants to sell them the only thing we know they no longer need, it's no longer making a strong case for blunt instruments.
hmmm. i dont use any myself (i tried omnisharper and the java equivalent for more quickly finding syntax errors but quickly dropped them as they are unreliable).

here are some plain vim alternatives:

1. goyo: i write markdown quite a bit. it is not necessary to have much for this except perhaps syntax highlighting. hiding the status line can likely be done with a few configuration directives.

2. gitgutter. for the described use case:
<ESC>:new<ENTER>:read !git diff
use the search :/ to go from one diff to the next

3. vim-surround

for a word: (<ESC>wa)
for a line: (<ESC>$a)

depends on the situation, but i'd need more to be sold to use this plugin.

4. vim-autoclose
as described here it might possibly be nice except if you have to write a smiley, an arrow, or similar. if you never need to i can see this being useful, but the effect is quite minimal, as going to the end of the current line is a matter of <ESC>$ and inserting a closing parenthesis after it is a matter of a) .

5. vim-commentary
visual block mode is sufficient for this usually.
java:
(<ctrl>+v)<ESC>$g$0i//<ESC>

6. the gruvbox color scheme looks pretty neat. however:
the built-in desert scheme works well on almost every machine and is included by default, so there is no real need to go to this amount of trouble. if you work regularly under a shared root account via ssh, i think it is wise to stay away from custom color schemes.

7. could be useful actually, i might try it. however find and grep and other external tools can be used from vim as well. the only gain by using this is that results appear as you type instead of after. marginal gains.

<ESC>:new<ENTER>:read !find -name 'bla'
8. i think the preinstalled netrw plugin is just fine for exploring. it can be configured to run in a treemode too with some configuration. and the advatage is that it will be available on your average shared server account as well, so it pays much more dividend to learn netrw over nerdtree.

9. sounds like a simple remapping. you could just use the default key <ctrl>+p . the nice thing is that this will be available on shared servers.

10. importing is pretty easy already. here is how i do it.
importing
<ESC>1giim<ctrl-p> whatever
dropping
<ESC>/import\ what*<ENTER>dd
I think non-critical thinking for the modern society is the default of the human being, and the critical thinking we have by default might not be always suitable (adrenaline, rage, lies/plots, violence, store calories/overeat, etc).
Could anyone comment on how stable/hassle-free Weechat-android is? I see that fdroid only carries the nightlies and the release version on play store is from 2015.
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At least it uses OCAML and functional code instead of the EVM, for which even the Eth founders themselves can't write secure code.
> The original post was arguing against a practical project.

As I understand, it was arguing against business-oriented teaching (i.e.: teaching to experts in the current fashionable web framework/language/ML system/whatever) instead of teaching the basics. It hardly said anything about practical projects.

> Have you never encountered a junior Dev fresh out of college who could talk theory all day long but couldn’t write an implementation of FizzBuzz?

Out of college? No. I've encountered a few who couldn't write FizzBuzz, but they also couldn't talk any theory either!
Is this the next Raspberry Pi?

And does it have real-time support?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
That's not the real reason (source: used to work in adult).

High chargebacks in high-risk industries are related to three things:

1) The goods are digital and delivered immediately. This means that if I just got a hold of a 100 stolen CC numbers and want to test whether or not they're legit before moving on to physical goods, I'm going to test them out at one such service - which shoots up the CB/refund rate.

2) This also creates a secondary market for illicitly opened accounts / access, which is easy money (and anything else you can imagine down the lane on piracy etc.)

3) Because the margins are so low due to high marketing costs + competition, many sites (especially in the past) would sign the user up to endless recurring billing schemes which are nigh impossible (or costly) to cancel, also driving up the chargeback rate.
Well I know that there are examples in some of 8k+ djvu files on my hard disk (mostly old textbooks), as I learned about this problem many years ago from live experience. But I couldn't invent a method to find an example deliberately, so you can only take my word that they exist.

To clarify, it's not about OCR errors, where advanced OCR engine could use dictionary, language autorecognition etc.
It's about dvju-compressed text scans without OCR layer. The compression method relies only on glyphs similarity. The compression algorithm could not only mistake '3' as '8' with small gaps left, it would replace this dirty '3' with the image of reference '8' image, so that human reader think that he sees a scan, i.e. an image of page scanned, while in fact it sees 'edited' image, not corresponding to actual page.
What a load of BS! Why does the author assume that all the people want "deep" experiences to "feel" Jesus and other crap until they forget and are afraid of the world they are actually living in?
How does Fuschia compare to RedoxOS, apart from being further in development? Structurally speaking.
The West does this with down syndrome. In the UK apparently 90% of pregnancies with prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome are terminated. (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-wouldve-aborted-a-... for example)
I don't own a kindle but it looks like it's possible to download your highlights.

You could then bulk import them, possibly after some minor formatting manually or with a script

https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#importing-text-fil...

You would still have to go trough them and add cloze delitions.

If it's possible to add notes to your highlights you might be able to specify delitions there and then parse them.

I might actually do this myself for fun :)
DasKeyboard
If you can get it, the cheapest mechanical keyboard is the TVS Gold Bharat keyboard - made in India and is built with Cherry mx blue keys.
Just a suggestion:

If you download Kindle Mate (kmate.me), you can import your Kindle highlights to your PC and export them as a text file. Then you could make a script that parses this file line by line and saves it as a csv-file. Then use Anki csv-import.

EDIT: fixed the link.
The first sentence in the article should be a bell-ringer "Too often the defense community makes the mistake of focusing on the what, without truly understanding the why."

These are context sensitive things that aren't learned by reading a comment thread, if you can't read that article and understand that it shows a multitude of exploits that bypass ASLR and that almost every exploit and contest includes or relies on existing ASLR bypass I don't really know what to tell you other than to keep reading and researching. The answers you seek are linked from TFA.
> Is this the next Raspberry Pi?

It's a 999$ development board, so no. Hopefully RISC-V based hardware will get to mass production at some point, but that's in the future.
* 2007 book
Since cancer is considered "many different diseases" now, this is basically saying these people are studying the entirely wrong disease.

Its like if someone told you they study measles but then you check what they are doing and see its actually heart attacks.
> 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

While I agree that people should be cautious about taking any mind altering drug, from what I've seen alcohol seems to be even more dangerous (compare your first link with the information here[1] and here[2]). The big difference is that there is immense societal pressure to consume alcohol all the time (and this pressure occurs everywhere - you'll even get it at work events). Contrast that with something like this pro-psychedelic piece, which only advocates the potential of a small number of uses of psychedelics in one's entire lifetime.

[1] https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/alcohol-poisoning-deaths/inde...
> whereas a person could only do three kilometres.

I really wonder what they're referring to here. Obviously a trail runner can cover far more than that distance, even wearing the same kind of seed-scattering harness.

Are they comparing the distance someone could cover planting seeds by hand?
Thanks a lot for the tip!
Workaround: https://archive.is/xVmHC
Border Collies loop out and back naturally and would seem to be part of their herding instinct - you don't need to train them to do it at all. They also tend to range a fair way from their owner if not kept in check. Especially if they have a friend to chase or follow around like these do.

You need the shortcoat type for this as our one would finish the day with all the seed stuck in his own fur.
Kindle has this as a feature called XRay. Can click a name for instance, and quickly see relevant info so far.
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Most sane stance I've seen yet.
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I use this method: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/06/30/how-i-remember-what-i-rea...
https://www.hhkeyboard.com/
But given they have normal TV shows _and_ their own content, they are covering more ground than anyone

The real complaint being dog whistled is that there is _any_ content not matching GP's worldview.
Thanks! Yeah that is a great idea. No I actually had no idea that it was a book retailer in East Asia, that's pretty interesting.
That says a lot about your concept of "cool".
Back in 2012 I started a side business, picking up old computer parts (for a fee) from businesses. Apparently, it's difficult to throw them away because of the lead content.

I then took those components and either sold them as is or in the case of Model M keyboards - I could make them USB compatible and sell them for $100 - $150 (as opposed to $40 unaltered). I still have a few laying around, which I used through college.

Having worked with innards and written a few controllers for conversion(s) of keyboards. I have to say, unlike many, I see the appeal.

I'm currently writing this comment on a Corsair keyboard, and although there is tactile feedback - I can tell it is not a mechanical keyboard. "There's a clickety-clack, but not a snap" When you have a model M your keys (as shown in the article) essentially, buckle - and it requires more force. To be honest, after using the model M for a bit, you actually get stronger fingers...

That feeling is often preferred, I personally can work on a mac fine, but flat keyboards I can find irritating because I like the feedback mechanism.
Leiter tends to take Nietzsche very literally.

Yes, Nietzsche grasped quite clearly that exceedingly few people have the courage to endure the world "in itself." Most people persist their whole lives trapped in elaborate fantasies. This is something that, Nietszche suspects, has been true since the dawn of time and recognizes it as an essential human characteristic (herd instinct).

Science causes a kind of crisis. ("God is dead.") After millenia of extreme devotion to all manner nonsense (think of the religious wars that plagued Europe) science starts asking some very uncomfortable and very pointed questions. But people will not abandon their fantasies, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Instead they will cling to their fantasies that much harder often with full knowledge that what they "believe" are lies. This metastasizes into fascism [1]. When Trump says climate change is a Chinese hoax he knows he's lying, and you know he's lying, and accusing him of lying would be pointless and that's the point. Nietzsche foresaw quite clearly that this would be the crisis of the 20th century and beyong: in the face of science people would become more willing to deceive themselves.

What Nietzsche proposes against this isn't some tired paean to "human excellence." Leiter here gets very literal and selective here. Nietzsche does not think that art or philosophy or dance can stand against the ever rising tide of fascism. It is what motivates these things -- the will to power -- that is the only defense against self-deception. All fantasies are born of fear, a fear of change and growth and death. But there also exists in some men a desire for change and growth and death. (Indeed Nietzsche will come to believe that the will to power is a kind of cosmic necessity.) The only hope that societies have against falling to fascism is cultivating precisely this opposing force which Nietzsche understands not as some mere "will to truth" or "will to excellence" but a far more primal "will to power" that motivates men to plunge into the unknown and confront their own mortality.

[1] "In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
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The reason for this is obvious, but it's a good point. It's like someone whose personality becomes awful right after you marry them.

I'm actually going to take this back to my company as a principle: "Treat locked-in/subscribing customers as well as our salespeople treat prospects."
I was just speculating, I have no evidence either.

But it's clear that most popular music is straight, so there must be some underlying factor. EDM music, which is arguable the most dance-able music, sounds very weird to me when you swing it.

BTW, I am talking about regular people "dancing", not professionals.
Guess what, I still use a Logitech G11 (display-less version of the above). I purchased around 4 of them for my other workstations. Yes, the rubber dome has a different feel after some usage but you can get used to it after a few minutes. The added 18 custom keys and on the fly macro recording options are great. It's huge, but also spatious. The backlighting is dim and begins to strobe after a few years.

I guess I'll have to look for alternatives in a few years when used ones in good condition will be hard to find, but as of now, I'd still purchase them. That's the thing with tactile tools you use every day - you just get attached to them.
It just means distributing your learning trough time, so basically the opposite of cramming.

I guess spaced repetition can be seen as a combination of distributed learning and practice testing.

I got the terminology from here

http://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z10jaVH/60XQM/full

Here is a nice summary of the results

http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/s...
Couldn’t agree more, I think the Model M is way overrated. The main issue I had is that, for me at least, my fingers would quickly become fatigued. I’ve found modern Cherry MX switches to be much better, not to mention quieter. Plus there’s a whole world of custom keyboards centered around the Cherry MX “ecosystem”.
Yesss, another Model-M post, this always allows me to shamelessly promote one of my pet projects: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

"This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard while typing on my notebook, mainly for the purpose of annoying the hell out of my coworkers."
that would require actually understanding the code. it could be done i guess these days with the async that came in 8.0 but would require some pretty heavy vimscripting.
Interesting..
It's not really bizarre at all.

Portugal have made the decision that although drugs are bad (in their opinion), the users of drugs are not bad people, but rather the victims of bad people (the dealers).
The small city I grew up around has a weeklong street festival that is a primary fundraiser for all charitable groups within 50 miles - every church and marching band and sports club political group has a food booth, Boy Scouts sell parking, etc. Move away and get confused at everyone having these small anemic standalone pancake breakfasts and ice cream socials, find out the Fall Festival is like the second biggest street fair in the US after Mardi Gras.
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German for "The Keyboard" is "die Tastatur".

In German the word "das Keyboard" refers to the musical instrument.
I agree; The film pouches used by PillPack look to use significantly less plastic than those orange bottles.
It is a hit or a miss now, they are using Long Hua blue switches, which are Cherry MX Blue clones.

If you can find an old one for sale - that is more likely to have Cherry MX.
It sounds like he is merely paying lip service and doublespeak to ethics, rather than actuakly behaving as if he feels their lives are equal.

Put a chicken and a human in front of him. Tell him he has to slaughter whichever one he wants for dinner.

His real preference will be exposed. I would rather starve.
Definitely not the case in Amsterdam, there are some fancy shops there (even though there are the more shanty tourist traps as well).
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The grandparent comment makes a nice point. Humans imbue their lived environment with meaning and functionality.

Our lived environment now includes a whole different element, that of being ever connected in the present to a global information network.

This means that there is a real loss, to society, of the utility of previously physical common spaces. People derived meaning and value there, and it has gone away.

Losing something meaningful and valuable is sad. The fact that it happens a lot doesn’t make it less so.

Obviously, the WWW offers all sorts of opportunities to create meaning and value, perhaps more.

But something fundamental has changed, in that we now engage in important social activities through telecommunications and mediated is experiences. This is devaluing sone types of social infrastructure that previously provided these functions.

I think we have crossed a “social singularity,” from which there is no going back. Similar to other technologies that changed human societies profoundly, and permanently.

The other I was trying to recall what it felt like to “not have the internet,” and I couldn’t get the feeling back, even though I lived half my life like that.
For video we can hope for free AV1 decode hardware possibly from Google. As for normal GPU functionality, I think the way Esperanto is going will be an option. They want to use thousands of RISC-V cores with vector instructions to do graphics. For general desktop compositing and simpler 3D this should be possible with fewer cores. However well that works or not, even that will be a while. In the mean time I think getting LLVM-pipe or the equivalent working well with RISC-V is important and may be the only viable open-source graphics solution at first.
> This lets you send and receive SMS on the computer and share the history with the phone

Google has added support for this to their "Android Messages" SMS app on the playstore. They call the feature "messages for web". It's pretty slick actually.
> If I can build an ultimate keyboard, I would say a combination of the capacitive buckling spring of the Model F + the modern layout of the Model M + Windows/Command key. Alas, no such product exists and I think the benefits of the modern Model M layout supersedes the slight benefit of the capacitive buckling spring.

There's a company at least claiming to do that (but I don't know how true to the original these capacitive switches actually are): https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

Ordering seems to have closed yesterday, but given it's a weekend, maybe you can still sneak one in?
I've been using DDG since around January this year and am continually blown away by how infrequently I need to turn to "The Big Guys" (Google, Bing) to find something I didn't find on DDG. It's been maybe half-a-dozen times relating to forums on some obscure software package?

That combined with DDG showing the top StackOverflow result inline on my search has kept me a very happy DDG user.
Why? Nietzsche gets it right, assuming there is no God. There is no objective morality. There are no forms. The world is entirely material and all things are subjective. Even the uberman is just a subjective fantasy that Nietzche told himself to find meaning in a meaningless reality.
Question: in open offices, what's the consensus of the etiquette regarding the use of loud keyboards?
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Nazi killing was cultural thing, quite literally. Also, they were not independently living group of people killing among themselves, Germans attacked nearby countries. They were threat to everyone else, Nazism was not some kind of cruel internal thing.

That comparison does not work at all, regardless of whether you think tribes should be left to do what they do or not.
Quite right. I was at the bank at the time, and couldn't quite believe what my colleagues had done. It was most disappointing and inexcusable. These guys should certainly be punished even more heavily, but in reality, the antiquated system that defines LIBOR must also change as it is wide open to manipulation.