skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert here, so pardon my ignorance, but isn't SV helping in a pretty big way just by open sourcing a lot of the tech?
The Alternate Mitigation Device cpu?
How do you propose funding poor people's education then? Keep in mind education is not like a house where you generally pay 20% down and the bank gets to keep your house if you default which they can then resell to recoup some/most of their loan. Poor people have very little money to pay for education and all of the value goes towards their brain which a bank cannot just reposses which is why the government takes ownership of said loans and effectively repossesses your future earnings.
Uber 'to focus on bikes over cars'
We have worked it out. I can say with 100% certainty that there are no jungles on Mars. Nothing above pond scum is alive there today.
I used elm until late-90s when Y2K looked likely to end it. What I've learned since quitting elm is that mutt was better at processing large mailfiles, and then Apple Mail is easier to automate with AppleScript.

This "Elm" is some sort of JS precompiler, claiming a better program's name? Join the post-ES6 scrapheap with CoffeeScript, TypeScript, and every other joke precompiler. Write JavaScript in JavaScript, and if it's not sufficient, file bugs on ES6/7.
Author is probably alluding to a shift to SoC-driven design where they mix and match silicon components like programmers do third-party libraries. They stitch black-boxes together much of the time. With all the synthesis, they also spend more time driving black boxes that generate the circuits rather than hand-making parts of them.

As a non-hardware guy, I'm still wondering why microcode isn't more popular. It's flexibility is great. Especially if the company has a HLL-to-microcode compiler so the users can create custom instructions. I know they like to change microarchitecture around. They could say they refuse to support anything below the ISA with backward compatibility. Customers will have to port their microcode extensions to each new hardware. That said, you can do some neat stuff with it like people did with PALcode on Alpha. You can bend the ISA to your application or even make certain instruction combos atomic. I remember using microcode for crypto gave performance boosts, too.
Unless you already have a family to care for, or can't afford to stop working for 3 years to take classes, or can't afford health insurance, or any of a million other reasons that life may not be as simple as you make it out.

If everyone joined the trades, the supply of trade workers would increase and their hourly wages would go down.
Funding pledge for UK rival to EU sat-nav
Interestingly enough, there were many games in the 8 bit era that you could watch the scene render from back to front (golf games were notorious for this), and going back even further, early video game systems lacked a frame buffer at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

Lojban baseline was completed in 1997 so I think it's too early to tell whether that effort was completely wasted. Esperanto has had its chance but never really reached its goals I assume. But Lojban or something it might evolve into could be the language of the future.
Pip freeze is dead simple and I upgrade packages as needed. I've rarely manually updated requirements.txt. I literally make a venv, pip install what I need and I am off and running. My editor/ide automatically recognizes the environment. I can't imagine how much simpler it could be. I've been doing it for years without any problems. Dependcies, versioning etc are incredibly simple. A couple commands and I am up and running, boom, done. I probably don't even have time to get a cup of coffee in that workflow. I also can deploy to QA and production when necessary fairly fast, although that might take a few more minutes.

Having a proper requirements set of files for production is a 30 second trivial task and can be automated easily.
> They've been experimenting with new technologies for years now

True.

> and they finally have a development kit that speaks to the path they plan to follow in the future.

...which is following the same path everyone else is, except further behind, because all those new technologies failed to work out?
The flagship university in each state actually always has some very very bright students. The very elite schools don't accept many students and the admissions criteria are far from perfect so a ton of students who would be good enough for top tier schools end up going to state schools. I know a couple different people who were top of their high school class and within a question or two of perfect on their SATs that happily went to state schools.
So... you are planning on disrupting noodles in Asia.
I don't know much about the fundamentals of networking and security, just asking - can a Linux server with WireGuard installed to be able be detected by GFW (the Great FireWall) and thus get the IP address blocked?

On the other hand, I couldn't wait for the Windows client.
The main difference is a bank can repossess your house/car/possessions for normal loans thus making back some of the money they leant you (and you losing all of the stuff you bought with that debt). They cannot repossess any bit of the money spent on your education. This is why the federal government steps in because they legally can repossess some of your education by extracting it out of your future earnings.
OWASP DevSlop Season 1 Episode 0 (S01E00)
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Thank you.

I couldn't have explained it better.

> Fooled by randomness.

Selection / survivorship bias
Check out my install script linked earlier. If you already have the GPS unit attached and tested, you could probably be up and running again in a few minutes (make sure to change the GPIO pin in the script to your PPS pin).
I think that's a very fair assessment of how I use Anki. I think if you spend all your time using Anki and no time interacting with the actual language you're learning you won't get very far. Basically every sentence I put into Anki comes from a book, movie, TV show or conversation.

The question about piano chords is really interesting. I often compare learning a language to learning to play the piano. Both are real time skills that require practice, to just learning. I meet someone who loves reading grammar books I say "You can read a book on piano construction 100 times and you won't learn to play the piano.

As for your case, what is the skill you want to learn? Playing the chords right? Then that has to form the main focus of your practice. By all means, use Anki to help memorise chord names and chord patterns but be careful: You might just get really good at seeing a chord and saying it's name rather than seeing a chord and playing it!

Also, sight-reading is a very real-time skill. You have to read those chords and then play them on the right beat. If you practice chords with Anki you might get good at seeing them in Anki and then playing them a few seconds later, but it's not the same as doing it in real time.
It is interesting that the tourism income from FAST telescope, has far exceeded its construction costs.

From https://www.guancha.cn/society/2017_08_25_424435.shtml :

> 据悉，平塘县依靠旅游观光，上半年的营收达46亿人民币，较去年同期增加了40％。

> It is reported that relying on tourism, the revenue of Pingtang town in the first half of the year has reached 4.6 billion yuan, an increase of 40% over the same period last year.

From http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2017/10/03/socialnews-144514.... :

> 7天80万人贵州看“大锅” 五星酒店最贵一夜4888

> In 7 days, 800,000 people went to Guizhou to see the "big pot". Most expensive room in five-star hotel has reached 4888 yuan.
specifically with vim.
I'm surprised about the downvotes, for me the following arugments can't be taken seriously?

"gold is pretty easy to find, not that hard to buy for the average consumer; BTC is anything" ... You can buy BTC with your credit card no KYC needed or you can mine it yourself. Are you gonna start mining gold? If you want to buy to gold you need a trading account, or you order gold and it gets delivered to you, not as simple as buying BTC at all.

"gold is physical in form and securing it is not hard" ... You need a safe and/or insurance, much more complicated then using a password/cold wallet.

"gold at least has some kind of floor value" ... The floor value is really small if you remove the speculative aspect of gold.
Wow that's a lot of problems I've never had.

Why would I care if a requirement is direct or a dependency? If it's a dependency it's a requirement. Period.

Speaking of dependencies, NPM generally has a lot more and they are deeper and all too often for little shit that never should have been an import in the first place IMO. More parts == more stuff to go wrong and all too often it seems to.

Pip isn't perfect and granted I use it more than NPM. And once in a blue moon I do run into troubles and wind up installing a package manually or editing requirements.txt by hand. But it mostly works. NPM on the other hand seems to blow up quite often. At least for me. Versioning, this is different than it was a week ago, oh, this dependency only works on Macs, etc. etc. Plus it just feels about as trustworthy as gas station sushi. Only my opinion and experience, but I've spent a lot more time fighting with NPM than pip.
"A phonetic spelling is always going to be non-phonetic for some speakers."

Only if there is a single "correct" (or canonical) way to spell each word.

If every speaker uses a phonetic alphabet to spell their words the way they speak them then there will be no problem reading them back phonetically.

Now, understanding these phonetically spelled words might be a problem for some readers, but that's no different from the problem in understanding they'd have when they heard someone speak in a different accent.
So how does this compare to carpalx[0]?

[0] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/
I wonder how much of this backlash against Venmo would have materialized if it hadn't been for the public-by-default transaction setting? I'm sure it contributed to their growth, but now it might end up helping bring them down (or at least out of first place).
> The 6/8 time wheel gives a heavy bass drum on the four count. I don't notice such a thing in the waltz every other measure.

Here's 6/8 beat hierarchy:

Beat 1: Strongest

Beat 2: Weak

Beat 3: Weak

Beat 4: Strong

Beat 5: Weak

Beat 6: Weak

The first beat of the measure is the strongest. Beat 4 is strong but typically not as strong as the first beat.

Now here is the 3/4 beat hierarchy for many types of pieces that are in 3/4 time:

Measure 1 Beat 1: Strongest

Measure 1 Beat 2: Weak

Measure 1 Beat 3: Weak

Measure 2 Beat 1: Strong

Measure 2 Beat 2: Weak

Measure 2 Beat 3: Weak

The first beat of the measure 1 is the strongest. Beat 1 of measure 2 is strong but typically not as strong as the first beat of measure 1. These two measure groups typically continue for the entire piece, as in a waltz.

The two are functionally equivalent in terms of rhythm.

It's confusing because there are three variables: the number of beats in a measure (top of the fraction), which duration gets the beat (bottom of the fraction), and the tempo (how long each beat lasts).
More context on the big differences in selectivity between colleges: Minnesota used to have "General College"[1] which, by design, admitted every student regardless of qualifications. That was changed in 2005, but the legacy of inclusion over selectivity lives on in some places.

I can say that CSE was very selective when I was there, and getting into upper division was even harder. But overall I don't think acceptance rate is a very useful statistic because program size affects it so much.

[1] http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/06/10_ap...
GoLorry (W16, Based in India) Is Hiring a Full-Time Django API Engineer
A bit about GoLorry:

GoLorry is a service provider for medium- and long-distance Indian trucking. We don't own any trucks ourselves, but rather work with independent operators and existing trucking companies (most of which own less than 10 trucks). Our goal is to standardize this market by bringing it onto a single platform, similar to how AWS has standardized compute power.

What you’re looking for:

At GoLorry, we try to provide three core things that we believe talented people seek at their workplace

1) Working with other talented people: We always try to hire quality over quantity

2) Capturing the value you create for the company: We try to make equity a part of everyone’s compensation

3) Autonomy: Your job description is what you make it. As your job expands, you hire your own team.

What you’ll do:

Develop our API using Python and the Django REST framework.

Work with the front end and operations teams to design new features and improve business logic.

Shape our engineering culture, decide on engineering processes, and share your knowledge. For that reason, we're primarily looking for on-site over remote candidates.

If you are interested or know someone who might be, please contact me at jonathan@golorry.com
Would that be a return, or a visit? I imagine that it could be quite difficult without the language skills.
There's a huge difference in the effort required to learn shorthand vs something like Shavian or Quikscript.

I learned Quikscript in less than a week. From what I've heard, most shorthands take months or years to learn.
Silk Road project!
quality assurance positions
Outside of space-limited desirable locations where house prices are the result of a bidding war, the problem of house prices is related to expectations and the resulting regulation.

To get an FHA loan, all sorts of stuff has to be present and in good condition. Zoning requirements, building codes, and the ADA have all jacked up prices. You can't just build yourself a shack anymore.

Example location: Sommerville Massachusetts, where you can't legally build the city today. Nearly everything is in violation. The same applies in Manhattan.

Example feature: We now have to have arc fault interrupters and wired-together fire alarms, even if you can't stand them. For decades we got by with low-cost circuit breakers and battery-powered fire alarms.

People who are living well start to see expensive things as being important, and so they feel that the features should be mandated, and it seems like only a trivial cost... but just like software bloat, it adds up over time. Sellers of the features push for it too. We end up pricing less-well-off people out of the market.

I am simply prohibited from building a house that would have been good-quality construction in medieval times. I can't even build an ordinary house of the 1980s... and even last year's design is often illegal to build. There is a ratchet effect here. Requirements keep getting added, but none are ever removed.
I've been struggling with this myself recently, about the ethics of eating meat and whether animals have a "soul".

My argument for a long time was that animals have no ego, therefore death is insignificant to them. Animals are incapable of forming abstract concepts, of thinking about the future or the past in concrete terms, of forming feelings and emotions.

However, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that at least the more intelligent mammals, such as whales and dolphins, as well as apes, do have an ego. Plenty of people argue that it's unethical to kill whales and dolphins because they do have an ego and can form abstract thoughts.

So apparently whales are off the table, but cows are fine? Where is that line drawn? I don't have that answer, so I've gone off eating meat in general. The concept of killing a living, possibly thinking being in order to eat it seems a bit fucked up to me these days. I can't say with certainty if/what animals do have an ego, or if they are capable of abstract thoughts, but it for me it seems safer to assume they do and avoid eating them.
> If student loans didn't exist, colleges would have to drop their cost or not be able to fill seats.

For lots of colleges, I agree. However, lots of people who come from well to do families have their entire colleges paid for by their parents even today with high tuition costs and thus top colleges could still increase feas as rich parents can afford it whereas poor people would have to grind out for years in low paying jobs just to afford the chance to go to the rich schools. Without guaranteed loans, poor students would practically never have the opportunity to go to rich schools.
Obviously Java's type-checking compiler is a benefit for large projects. How could JavaScript ever address its lack of that? Well JavaScript is a dynamic language, it can check types at runtime. Combined with unit-testing that can go a long way without requiring that "everything must always be type-checked". For instance it makes sense to declare the types of public interfaces of a class, maybe not so much every variable used in their implementation.

Cisf.js is one attempt at providing simple run-time assertions to serve the purpose of (optional) dynamic type-checking.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/cisf
I did joke once that a full time job is, in essence, a really warped insurance package. You still get paid if the business does poorly, and some cash if it fails entirely. But the insurance premium is that you get paid much less than the value you contribute.
It just says “developing”. I would imagine this is code for “writing papers about”. I’m sure those papers use whatever technique is currently hot and will produce a decent publication. I doubt they use simple statistical approaches, because that’s likely not novel or publishable.

This is all fine. However, the problem is suggesting that this is a somehow reasonable/tenable solution to solving the noise issues...

Maybe the noise can be removed by other methods, maybe the noise doesn’t matter, but magic doesn’t solve the noise issues.
You would get all kinds of interesting packet reordering issues, which can cause performance problems all their own.

I've sometimes contemplated just faking the TCP protocol entirely. Do the TCP handshake, then send "TCP packets" but interpret each payload as a datagram, acknowledge everything up to the latest sequence number regardless of whether any of them were lost and don't bother with any flow control or retransmissions.

It's a terrible hack but it would probably work at least some of the time.
The ecosystem integration is valuable for personal computers, but I don't think it matters so much for professional use.

Think it'd ever make sense to spin _that_ off? Just the pro market?

I guess then they wouldn't control the means to producing iOS apps, so probably not.

Imagine a world in which ApplePro exists independently and isn't compromised by AppleConsumer's priorities. Would we have waited so long for a MBP update? Would the pro desktop ever be permitted to go years without an update? Would thin & light still be prioritized over repairability and upgradability? Would we have a touchbar?
> Now those constraints are lifted, the article argued that web designers should adopt a more typography-centric style.

Constraints might be lifted but web fonts are downloaded on a per page/site basis. If that font has fifty languages and many unicodes then it is bloat or with characters falling back to a system font.

Given that some fonts haven't changed since 1066 then it seems a bit silly to check with the server on a per page basis if the fonts have been a) licensed and b) updated lately.

A benevolent dictator is needed, e.g. the E.U., to mandate some means of insisting that a good selection of fonts are baked into every device for citizens to be able to read government published stuff in order to solve this. Or maybe the holy blockchain could solve it so that font creators get paid properly for font usage. (I jest about being able to pay font foundries with this alternative licensing model).
It's not clear which aspect of the pairing makes it tiresome for you.

Do you feel that you are the 'typer', or that you feel pushed, or being corrected too often?

Maybe for a change you may reverse the roles, or swing the pairing partner. Besides, it's not like the process is set in stone, each pair's dynamic could be different. Some pairs don't match well or wear out.

Bring it up, after all it's not a policy for its own sake.
> The US and Europe also don’t have inferiority complexes where they feel like they have to build the tallest or biggest anymore.

Wasn't the whole space-race and moon landing a, excuse the language, rocket-waving contest?

As you point out, it is easy to not have "inferiority complexes" or "grow up" as you put it, when you have once established credibility. Don't dismiss achievements just because it is by others.
Do they need Silicon Valley's help? They have all the money to buy hardwares, the only 'help' they need is talent.

They can just set up funds, I am sure there will be plenty of SV people willing to take that money and work for them. Even for Google, partnership presents as a problem for SOME of its employees, but definitely not all of them.
Yes, but none of those problems requiring building a really really big radio telescope.

Sure there are some common data analysis techniques, but they are common to a lot of applications.
Perhaps "NextStep" in this screenshot is being simulated using Linux/Gnustep/WindowMaker?
> Humans DO have a history of degrading the inner lives of animals and it's a problem

Humans have enough a history of degrading the inner lives of fellow humans, let alone other animals.
Weekend project: wireless outlets at home with ATTiny85 and ESP8266
I guess I don't understand what's in it for the guys doing the actual construction: longer, stressful days on a tight deadline, and less billed hours because the project takes far less time. More people on site seems like a major headache. The articles talks about pulling these guys from other companies, so I'm guessing that they have work to do somewhere else.

The "little league contribution" as justification to bust your ass just seems a little suspect.
Did we? The history of monetary policy crisis were not related to the metal as much as to the instability of banking. Bitcoin cant go broke like a bank can.
You have to consider that most probably, the advantage of the location had savings of over 150% or possibly made the project possible in that kind of time frame to begin with.
They OP isn't wrong in regard, the kind of research you mentioned here, you are unlikely to find too many engineers from Silicon Valley that can handle it. AI for majority of the engineers, is just neural network/trial and error.
> "you can have ... v3 and ... v4 existing at the same time, at runtime"

That's exactly what Java ClassLoaders do...
For anyone who was scratching thier head about how a plane filling curve gets mapped into a sphere; what S2 really does is project the sphere onto the six sides of a cube _and then_ fill each face with a Hilbert Curve index.
As I mentioned in another post in this thread, an advantage of Shavian (and Quikscript) is the speed with which one learns it -- less than a week for me, vs months or years with Pitman (or Gregg).

Also, the wider adoption of Pitman (and Gregg) is an advantage only if you want others to be able to read what you wrote. If you prefer privacy (for, say, your personal journal), then the rarer Shavian or Quikscript are better choices -- though, of course, for more security you should use a code or cipher.
Looking at https://www.quetree.com/branchview/v67n, the only difference from a typical, threaded forum appears to be the "Q" or "A" label on each post. Am I missing something?
Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk (8/15)
It's always odd how failing at most things leads me to ask "how am I doing this wrong?" and overcome, but I never asked this about Anki. Thanks for the link.

I was not aware till this moment that type erasure was something that C++ also has. I thought it was a specific gotcha for Java like the whole "no == for Strings" thing. In that context, I've only seen it connected to generics.