skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rommel, IIRC, was initilly just one of those kids carrying spades as pretend arms (ok exaggerating a bit). People like him were not near a front during the first war. Hirohito’s men were in some conquest wars, but not heavy wars. So I’m not sure this applies.
Yes. Unfortunately, they tend to use tons of words with a lower frequency than once per a couple hundred pages.

So it's much better for over-learning on known words, and less good at acquiring tons of new ones.
Maybe we've just redefined what constitutes privacy. If we are all suffering from the same condition, why do we need to be secret about it?

If the entire world caught the exact same flu at the same time, would we only trust our doctors? Why are people so concerned with the privacy of their medical records? What good does this information do in the hands of criminals? The only reason medical records are private is so you can hide ailments from insurance providers. One broken system feeding off another.

Don't bother responding to this comment I send all of my online conversations directly to the FBI, on purpose.
that depends on how far along the political spectrum you are. I'm a classical liberal (free market, free speech, pro-equality of opportunity etc) and I have read enough to believe that my political beliefs would not be welcome at many Silicon Valley companies. The particular politics of the California startup scene are pretty far left, to the point that people who would have been considered left wing less than 20 years ago would be seen as hardline conservative in that space. Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry or Sam Harris would likely have a hard time getting in.

There is fundamentally a difference between criticising diversity policies (aka affirmative action) and being anti-diversity or one of the various -isms.

> People who choose to keep their opinions to themselves can still thrive, but dissidents and activists have trouble. It was ever thus.

from the comment I was replying to:

> You may be surprised, but having a diversity of ideas and backgrounds really could improve a network protocol.

These two positions are contradictory, and that was exactly my point. Retric was suggesting that the political policy of SV is one of promoting diversity of ideas, and I pointed out (and seemingly you agree) that it is actually about enforcing and advancing a singular political belief.
Meditate, meditate, meditate. It's a rich world with a lot to learn and will definitely help. You've already mentioned air (nature) and exercise, which I would endorse as well. Try Bikram, hard to be depressed after a sweat like that. Get some sun. Read "the seeing that frees" and "right concentration." GL
Thanks! Ronomon is in private beta. My email is in my profile if you'd like to chat more.
I approve of those wrapper functions in the first few lines... those would have saved me so much time when I was a web dev

I'd say I'm going to copy them next time but there is no license header...
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They all know about VeraCrypt, and passwords for hidden stuff.
#4: Update the Flash

I think Flash can be safely removed. I've been flash free for at least a year and all major content sites are supported.
I get one of your points, that some sites should work in the bottom of Africa. But there is a counter-point here, no? Why should a site be developed for the worst of connections out there? Is there a middle point here?
> A) Maybe the most important is time. You need time in a good environment to actually develop something. Which has become a lot more costly.

I think another way to say this is that the value of time has fallen as the amount of funding available has risen. The prototypical hacker working nights and weekends was a _response_ to the lack of available capital: work harder if you can't hire.

Its like an arms race. Two hackers of equal aptitude start working 120 hours weeks on identical startups targeting similar markets. The one who stops doing that and instead raises a few million to hire a large team and spend lots of marketing dollars is going to win that market (though it may be less profitable).

As more funding chases fewer projects, that point moves earlier and earlier in the process until only a fool would spend 120 hours a week instead of raising money right from the beginning.
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I am a full-time developer planning to switch into to freelancing. I am bit scared/worried about maintaining a constant flow of work to pay bills.

- How did you find your first freelance gig?
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I still prefer owning. When you're renting, you're basically at the mercy of your landlord and you can be kicked out. I think it especially makes sense with a "forever home". The sense of freedom and security is worth the money you may (or may not be) losing over 30-40 years.
An interesting theory.

I don’t know what to think about Holmes. At this point she thinks she just did what every other (male) startup founder did, and that she’s getting singled out for punishment when plenty of other startups over promised and under delivered. She doesn’t seem to grasp that flopping on some shitty social media site is far lower stakes than lying about medical issues, which makes me question her ethics and grasp on reality.
the return of AOL keywords?
Mentally scratched and dented, maybe. Strip the old finish, sand it down a bit, and refinish, and that brain will look just like new.

OP is probably old enough now to accept that everyone eventually dies and becomes forgotten, and it's best to do things for yourself in the present, instead of fueling some invented myth of your own future importance. "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair."

Your brain is just dumping different quantities of different chemicals all over itself, and it's making you think you've gone crazy, just because it's different from what you remember from when you were younger. Well, you haven't gone crazy. The same thing happens to a lot of people. You get to a certain age, and your kids become more independent, your parents die, your pets die, your career hits a plateau, and maybe your spouse has some of the same stresses and blames you in some way for them, and that becomes yet another stress. Exercise and diet help balance your brain chemicals, but then again so do prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and recreational drugs. Some people resort to religion or psychedelics or both. Some people start a second batch of kids or adopt or get several cats. Some start to write books or music, or create visual art. Some splurge on luxury goods. There are a lot of ways to try to get back to feeling "normal" again; some actually work, and some are just placebo.

Ultimately, the common factor is that all these people realize that they are mortal, and their time is running out at the rate of one day of life per day on the calendar. They're afraid they're wasting it. But no matter what you do, you're going to die, and then everyone who cared about you or hated you will also die, and it may well be that your greatest accomplishment will be to spend your entire lifetime just propping up a trade economy with tasks that have little meaning when considered individually. But maybe you and the 7 billion other people also doing existentially meaningless grunt work manage to support themselves for species survival, and also collectively put together a colonization mission somewhere other than Earth, and you contributed more than a 7-billionth share of that accomplishment. Hooray for humanity; hooray for you!

If you can't find meaning in your life, just make one up. If it's a bad one, it will be forgotten; if it's a good one, it too will be forgotten. Your memory might last 2 years, or 2000 years, but it won't be you--you will be dead and gone. The important thing is that your chosen meaning motivates you to continue living your life, even when you have become genetically useless to the species and so many of your former peers seem to have gained more social status than you in the same amount of time. You don't need to be great and influential. Just being is enough, and you can be whatever you want to be, instead of someone else's child, or someone else's parent, or someone else's spouse, or someone else's employee.
It may well be too late already. This article was originally posted in 2016, and things have gotten worse since then: https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...

If we wanted to have a genuine fighting chance of holding climate change to a safe level, the entire world would need to be on a war footing: rationing, mass revocation of driver's licenses, no coal power plants, anywhere.

Nobody will stand for that, there's no political or economic will. Our grandchildren will curse us for hard lives we've bequeathed to them.
Here's a direct link to Nathan Barry's book "Authority" https://nathanbarry.com/authority/
Now all we need is something to let us map shortcuts to open specific containers, e.g. alt+s to open a new tab in the shopping container. (I tried using Application Shortcuts on OSX, but a. they stop working after restarting Firefox and b. they don't work if a tab has full screen video because that hides Firefox's menu bar on all monitors.)
> In certain setups, Fx is known to use more energy in HiDPI mode. Try disabling it

"Hey, your laptop is too good, please cripple it!" is not a good answer, especially considering retina displays have been out for 6 years now (and I bet loads of Moz employees use them too).

I use Firefox almost exclusively, and still I wonder, sometimes, what the %$#%@ the "leadership" is thinking. They keep messing with crap like Pocket instead of concentrating on fundamentals like these.
Maybe. But my objection was to the warped comparison and the fact that no conclusion can be drawn from it ($100.000 Model S vs. $50.000ish Kia SUV).

A bicycle? Where? What makes the BMW M5 attractive is seeing how much a fully loaded Bobcat weighs... :)
about:blank is my favorite web page.

I can add any content I want there.

Then if it phones home I have only myself to blame.
I think it depends on the wildly on the field. MRI has techniques named things like GRAPPA and CAIPIRINHA which are gloriously tortured backronyms, and there is something of a competition to come up with good ones.
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It's also helpful to understand history, and therefor the origin of antitrust law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_antit...
What does "stack" mean in this context? TCP stack or Forth stack?
I currently have 76 tabs open and last closed Firefox approximately 2 days ago. Firefox sits at about 5GB RAM usage and 3% CPU, which I find very acceptable.

In my experience Firefox handles a large amount of tabs very well, while Chrome tends to eat a lot more RAM in the same situation (while doing its best to hide that fact).

On the other hand there are some websites that will easily demand a gigabyte of RAM on their own, or that use excessive amounts of CPU time. Chrome handles those cases much better than Firefox. But those are outliers, and if I have to visit them I just open them in Chrome.
So, shouldn't the business put them in an office where they can control the light?
Thanks! Yea, she's had a ton of awesome milestones, including multiple top 100 books on Amazon. The challenge now is figuring out the repeatable playbook for consistent high launches.
I'd say you need a mixture of methods, and the ratios change with progress.

Flash card-based methods are very fast, especially in the beginning. Reading goes further, but is too slow for the first maybe 1000-2000 words (depending on the language).
MacOS Exploit Installs Malware Remotely via Custom URL Handlers in Safari
> The more software developers there are, the easier it becomes to automate the drudgery and toil of life.

By "easier", you must mean "cheaper", but I don't believe that at all. There are now more software developers out there than ever before, yet project costs are the highest they have ever been and failure rates remain high.

Software developers are preoccupied with creating problems for themselves, which they then get to bill clueless clients for. The more programmers there are (especially juniors), the worse it will be.

Also, don't assume people actually want automation everywhere. Automation means killing jobs. Managers don't want to fire, they want to hire - it boosts their ego. Employees don't want to get fired, when in doubt, they'll come out against more automation in their day-to-day tasks.

If the economy really needed way more programmers, their wages would go through the roof (across the country, not just in overpriced Silicon Valley) and even otherwise disinclined groups of people would go for it. As it is, the wages are commensurate with the effort required to learn the profession.
>Police and intelligence agencies always sound like they are asking for total Orwellian control because they know they'll get only 1% of what they ask for -- so ask big. It's a negotiating strategy.

they have a level of surveillance that orwell could not have imagined. orwell imagined hidden microphones and highly visible cameras. we have all of those things and far more.

you see, if they negotiate 10000 times and they get 1% of what they want each of those times, things move in their direction and eventually they have more than what they originally wanted.
Heck, both DotA and Counter-Strike began life as user-made mods on existing games, and their relevancy has far outlived those of the base games.
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In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

I focus particularly on taking on “weird” or niche data or exploratory projects end-to-end; things that wouldn’t be a fit for a standard web or development agency.

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Can’t speak for OP, but Slack is the first that comes to mind.
Interesting, if a bit long perhaps. Also, I've never heard I/O instructions being referred to as "infrastructure instructions" before, can this be a mistranslation?
Try https://gobuffalo.io/en. This is a web app development framework for Go. May be it will give you best of both worlds.
What is the p-value (in layman terms)
You're not alone :)
When such an error (see article) is presented, it’s a teachable moment not only for the user surfing the site, but also for the owner of the site who is going to field questions about the error message from users.

It would be great if Mozilla would include some wording that instills alarm in site owners about how the site’s information, not just the user’s, is at risk.

For example, most non-malicious site owners probably would not want maliciously altered content served from or made to appear as though it came from their site. Yet most of them are, I suspect, unaware that this is a danger when their site does not use TLS.

It would be great to see Mozilla take this chance to highlight this danger so that the people most in a position to make changes would become aware of this additional good reason to do so.
Generics as builtin typeclasses (in Go)
Well of course it's a survival mechanism! If you live somewhere with a harsh environment like that, you learn to view the environment as a greater enemy than people.

Besides, giving people food and drink when they come to your house is just common sense. I mean, hell, I've never lived in a tent in the desert, but if someone's coming to my house as a guest, I damn well make sure I have something for them. If I don't, I cook, and preferably I cook something nice.

This story about being impressed with barbecue Because Hospitality is a little exoticizing to my eyes, but then again, "Bedouin hospitality" isn't that dissimilar from my Jewish culture's attitude on these matters, modulo the exacting etiquette around coffee and time-limits.
YT recently got choppier for me too, but I put it down to the layout changes rather than FF.
do you have evidence that it is a rare event? we have evidence that it is indeed not a rare event because the agencies have a specific term for it...
There is a cost-benefit proposition to every hire.

Unfortunately, the issue there is that the majority of data scientists don't generate $1 mil of value (exceptions exist of course), and so it's difficult to justify that level of compensation to management, which means the position may never get created in the first place.

Absent an existential threat to their bottom lines, companies will just muddle on without hiring.

This may be different in high growth companies, but in most traditional companies that aren't sloshing around in VC cash, to increase headcount you need to provide a value justification vis-a-vis salary (unless it's for cost center positions, but even then..)

There's also an underlying assumption that talent flocks to the highest bidder.... but most HR folks will tell you that it's more complex than that. There are many quality of life issues that come into play, like weather, peer-group, spousal happiness, etc. Money doesn't buy everything, and humans aren't optimizers but satificers.

I'm a sample of one, but for me, I would absolutely not move to Podunk, IA for a $1mil salary. I'm happy taking a lower salary living in a city and intellectual milieu that feeds me. The kind of person who would take the $1mil may likely not be the kind of talent you want.
I'm pretty sure that orgmode + Babel would get him a lot closer to what he wants: you could have chunks of code that edit using the natural editor mode and can join them together in an external file (tangle) in any way you want. You can even post-process right from the editor when tangling.

Orgmode Babel: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
Well, it depends on what you want a car for. :)

If you need a commuter car to get you to and from work every day, and errands/visiting people in town on the weekends, getting one with a fuel cost per mile of 15% of normal (or even free if your work offers charging) makes a lot of sense. The 90 mile range is rarely a limitation at all.

If you need a car for frequent long trips out of town, the 90 mile range would be a huge hindrance. In that case I would discourage you from buying a 2015 Leaf.
I disable absolutely everything on the home page/new tabs.

My home page is ~/home.html in all browsers. Thus it's the same in Chrome, FF, w3m, whatever. Much easier than remembering how to set bookmarks/favorites in different browsers and keep them all in sync.
They'll figure it out. They're a programmer, figuring things out is their job.
Indeed, it's not the data but the code to support it. There's a bazillion features in there designed to avoid the user having to do additional page loads. For example in my Gmail memory profile there's 20+ MB of code to support the real-time chat feature in the sidebar. You can argue about whether there should be a middle ground implementation that has the email preloading but not the real-time chat. Developer and project manager time is unfortunately finite.
Indeed, though mildly predictable. If true, which is yet to be seen, They probably saw the money and thought why should someone else get so much money while they continued to struggle.
that's an overly hard and fast rule. i find that instrumental electronic music is amazing for work. it focuses rather than distracts, providing nice mental bumpers. i actually can't stand unnatural or played back sounds of the sea or nature and other such sounds, as i find it too distracting. it doesn't provide any focusing structure and allows my mind to wonder and relax.

and people complaining about headphones don't buy the right ones. i use beyerdynamic headphones and could wear them all day.
I have disabled all the Pocket stuff on my Firefox so I didn't see this, but it does not surprise me (even though it disappoints me) that the Mozilla Corporation is using the Firefox home page to push left-wing news.
Chinese really needs rote memorization. There is no way around it.

I've often heard successful learners would learn by rote memorization first, up to a very high level of characters, and only then start picking up grammar and the rest from reading or conversations.
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that's not the political monoculture I'm pointing out here. I'm strongly for maximising civil liberties, I support the idea that people should be able to do whatever they want as long as they aren't harming others. The monoculture I am pointing towards is the ideological striving for equality of outcome using affirmative action, condemning of people like James Damore who talk about differences between men and women and how that might affect the demographic underrepresentation of women in tech, that kind of thing. From what I understand there's little room for reasonable debate or discussion of these ideas.
We will be able to do so soon:

* NASA Launches $1m Competition to Turn Mars CO2 into Sugar[1]

Energy and food, what else would you need? When the threat of death becomes more pressing, more resources will be put into that research to synthesize all necessary nutritions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17918909
My advice to friends who are chewing on some major decision is always to tell them to flip a coin. It's the perfect way to shut off their brain, which isn't getting them anywhere (or they would have decided already!), and get them to go with their gut. The important thing isn't to go with the result of the flip, but use it to help reveal your preference in a decision you either can't analyze or where the predicted outcomes are more or less equivalent, but different.
It's just insane that they haven't been able fix this issue and get back into good standing with 6 months warning.
It may have grown, but it's still a fraction of Microsoft and Amazon which is the entire point.