skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see what kind of tooling Torvalds ends up with. I suspect that bit may have been a joke but you could imagine a 'professional feedback generator'.

Time out might yield positive benefits. At some point (5 years? 10 years?) he will have to retire / take on a different role.
> For swords, I gather that key features are 1) notching or shattering other blades, and 2) resisting being notched or shattered by them.

You're thinking of theatrical fencing. All that cling-clang-cling makes for great visuals and sound but is undesirable in real combat.

Unless you have two knights in full armor clobbering each other over the head (at which point a mace is probably more efficient than a delicate sword) sword-on-sword contact is a means of last resort when you can't move out of the way.

Although D&D may have taught you differently, a "sword block" is a wasted counter-attack. Why bother binding your sword if you could have used the opportunity to slip out of the way and catch the opponent off balance and end him?

In fact, blocking is what sidearms are for. Grab a dagger or a buckler and take down the opponent's sword without binding yours. If swords do touch in combat it's usually at an angle and just enough to deflect the blow without overcommitting too much to risk wasting a the chance to get in a counter.

(full disclosure: I'm talking about European medieval swords and from having watched experienced HEMA fighters)
That's a good suggestion actually, but still probably more anglosphere focused than I'd prefer.
I dont quite understand this reoccurring sentiment about the poor book shops.

Here in Germany the bookshops mainly feature fear mongering books and are mostly in German. Then there is a tiny section of english books (which often happen to be better then the German books displayed).

Maybe this dos not apply to all German book shops but I feel like they haven't gotten with the times yet.
maybe you will laught if i say "pewdiepie" but you know you can learn how to handle fear and be corious about new thing , not only about game ( i play at http://www.maxbet228.com ) but of course in another thing too
Exactly correct, I have similar issues to your girlfriend but continue on with my personal machine on Linux. However these driver issues prevent me from ever recommending Linux to anyone else, it's a very poor UX.
This works the other way too. I know a guy who used to have a mohawk. He also represented his company (a mobile chip maker that was later acquired by ARM) to customers as the chief technical guy. I once asked him if the mohawk wasn't a problem with customers (who were mainly large, relatively traditional, tech bigco's). He said that it gave the customers the idea that "if he's allowed to wear that mohawk on customer visits, then he must be very good".
The author's reasoning is the usual approach, just as it's possible for an amateur to distinguish between Czech and Finnish by eyeball statistical analysis even without speaking either language.

I'm now wondering if it would be possible / an interesting challenge to compose x86 code that fits the "E upper nibble every 4th byte" pattern of ARM...
>stopped telling me how to think, speak and behave

Well they don't directly usually say think this and given that there is 1000x stuff happening over what you can write up on a couple of pages it has to be filtered according to some view point. I'm not sure there's a way to do it with no bias.
I watch him more for entertainment, his videos were for long time my favourite videos on youtube bar none. But he is a grandmaster, it's solid chess content. He's as much comedian as chess lecturer, or he was, he's toned down the constant stream of crazy jokes in the last couple of years. He's recently started his own chess centre in Atlanta, his new lectures are appearing here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqLLqbclDQ6IQg39Wsgy-4w/vid...

He started as occasional lecturer at St Louis, where he made dozens and dozens of great, super-silly videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049NnoR1LGE&list=PLVWaFpMwta...

Also: Peter Svidler does banter blitz videos occasionally for Chess24 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=svidler+chess24... ; he's in the world top 20. And el Divis on chess24 en español; everything he does is great. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTzRQxC3i7GOT4jtiTq4e0w/vid...
If it is not doing harm and making some lives better, the correct response is 'thank you for making the world a better place'.

The argument people tend to make here is that the net change he's creating in the world is not for the better. If 1,000 people have to suffer misery because of his company in order to enable 10 people to get the benefit of his personal charity, that doesn't look like "making the world a better place" to many of us.
But wouldn’t it be more absurd to wait until after someone hijacked a plane before putting them on the no fly list?
Indeed. And that's my complaint about the report itself.
Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down
Seems to me like he's been brainwashed by a bunch of emotional SJWs. I'll certainly miss the old Linus.
I guessed "backwards compatibility. Others might not.

But in either case it means every single reader has to pause and make extra mental effort to save you about one second extra of typing. :)
These recordings are really useful. Does anyone know how representative these are from actual interviews? For example, for the interview question on finding pairs in array that sum to k, the case where duplicate numbers in input array sum up to k is missed, and the interviewer didn't bring it up. Also, the space complexity of in-place quick sort is log(n), since the indices need to be kept in each call to sort subpartitions.
Good question and I don't know the answer, but this unknown still helps to define the limits of what we can definitely say is and isn't taking place.

We can't say "we're definitely not experiencing displacement in X dimensions" if we don't definitively know the rules of displacement are homogeneous in every dimension. Since we don't definitively know the number of dimensions, we also can't exhaustively test these rules.
How's that going? To the best of my intentions I've only managed a goldfish, a turtle and a horse.

Kirth is a good boy's name, by the way ;). Good training in patience when explaining the pronunciation.
The crisis, then, is that people take results as truth before they've been replicated.

The more reasonable expectation is not that the results will be successfully replicated, but that the experiment can be replicated. In other words: That there is enough detail that someone else can try to confirm the results.

The problem is we've come to rely on first publication of results far too much. A first publication of a result should be seen as "here's an interesting result; someone please confirm." Not as "here are some new facts for you."
Noise-cancelling headphones? The volume seems to vary by city, it was low/background in a city location with plentiful floor space when they were at 20% capacity, super loud in another city where the location had much less square footage and were at 90% capacity. Could be a crowd control mechanism.
Fantastic. If I ever run a DE again, I'm running this.
You just shifted the goalpost.

Google's going to maintain a root store either way. The parent I replied to was worried that Google becoming a CA would be a power play to eliminate all other CAs and then Google would get out of the business. Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla have the power to drop Google's CA from their root stores and make Google-issued certs worthless on a huge number of devices worldwide, which is how they act as a balance against unilateral moves by Google-the-CA.
One person should not choose where and to what social services need funding. That's why we have government and not kings and queens.
I hate to break it to you, but that's the given standard of science.

There's pretty good evidence that a mixture of publication bias and p-hacking very likely leads to the majority of studies being false:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

Given that in most fields publication bias and p-hacking is standard and basically written into the way science is published (i.e. you only publish your results after you've done your study, so noone knows what you intended to study when you started) it's normal to assume that most things published are simply wrong.
It's a bit terrifying how "alive" the crisis of 2008 still is. 10 years have passed and it doesn't look like the economy has recovered, not by a long shot. There are strong points in this article, I can't recall exactly, but I think it was the idea of Slavoj Zizek, that the strongest point of ideology is to define something as "non-ideological". Exactly how the crisis was communicated, like something natural, a hurricane or something. Not the ideological mechanisms that allowed for the bankers to take huge risks in their loans, for sure not Henry Paulson with his bank bailout. The link to the far-right seams scary too, thanks for sharing.
You can be super nice and not upset anybody without compromising on technical rigour.

That's the ideal. In practice there are always people, a minority, who can't or won't separate criticism of their work from criticism of themselves regardless of how nicely it's put. And then you have a problem.

Fortunately these people are mostly outside the technical realm, where direct criticism of work is very rare.
https://stuver.blogspot.com/2012/06/q-what-would-gravitation...

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/45n0sz/how_clos...
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I increasingly see "long hours and a lot of work" as a cargo-cult of startups. Almost everyone talks how this should be this way if you want to be successful, but where is the data?
Alas, the only counterexample I know is Basecamp built with DHH spending 10hr/week on it.
Cool, I'll use it, at least until the hosted site gets a take-down request :)
> the money supply inflates around ~10% per year, whereas most crypto will inflate <1% long term.

Money supply is not the same thing as inflation! Inflation is an aggregate measure of the level of prices and wages, and since almost all crypto transactions are pegged to fixed underlying USD values while the crypto price level floats, it's not at all possible to say that the purchasing power of crypto varies.

You've been lead astray by the virtual goldbugs.

(Also, Apple etc are not going to get on board with a system that doesn't support refunds by design, and the most likely attack on PoW is declaring that it's the biggest environmental threat since tetraethyl lead or CFCs and putting a global ban on participating in it)
With the current Publish or Perish zeitgeist in science this number can be seen as high.

Also, even if assuming legitimate significant results, it's hard to control for every possible confounding variable: Maybe part of the effect is due to some sociological parameters of of the test group, maybe it's the heat/cold, maybe it only happens on Tuesdays. Even the same stimulus can change its meaning over time (like the Williams video). Humans make for finicky test subjects.

IMO a single scientific paper shouldn't be considered much more than a small indicator that an effect might exist and it will require further work. I think popular media does Science a disservice by ignoring this and headlining single papers as "fact".

So given that, 60% is not that bad...
Uh...yes? You think you can just open a business in country x, break their laws, then shrug your shoulders and say "Well it's legal where I'm from"
> not far enough to not get fried by EM radiation

Aww, this is not the answer I was hoping for. :(
The Mac toolbar is thin and neat - not sure how that qualifies as "horrid"? I am using a 27" monitor.
I'm not sure I'd allow the delivery times and customer support to be attributed as a real thing to Amazon.

Both were meant as audience capturing tactics and were basically unattainable by most all other competitors due to costs -- Amazon only avoided it riding on a large wave of money and eating costs for years until it was the only game in town.

Now you can't have a thread about Amazon without constant complaints about the 2-Day shipping never really being 2-Day shipping, the constant fakes that plague the Amazon inventory (with a seemingly blind-eye from Amazon itself on it), and so on.

These weren't really public goods introduced by Amazon, as plenty of stores handle the customer service side just fine in most cases, and the delivery stuff was mostly just investors subsidizing the costs for a time, which appears to no longer be a major focal point.
The primary purpose of criticising the charitable work of the very rich over, say, similarly wealthy people who aren't philanthropic, is that it is a form of PR.

As other commenters mention, Bezo's overall contributions to the world are a net negative, but it's not just the his philanthropy doesn't make up for his other negative activities, it's that it also acts as a way of soliciting public forgiveness for the other indescretions, which shouldn't be accepted.
Even non-commercial BBC seems to be going clickbait, apparently scared to death of declining relevance.
So we should put a gap on wealth and redistribute it beyond that in a fair way?
Because most jobs require correlation of schedules between roles, or suppliers and vendors, a minimum viable number of staff, or deadlines which need to be met. A cashier, for instance, can't simply decide not to come in to work for half the week, or to only work overnight when it's easier. Everyone would do that, and the business would lose money.

>This seems like a good idea especially given more automation and more higher level jobs.

Automation means fewer jobs and less flexibility, not the opposite. The more work machines do, the less value human labor has, the harder employers have to squeeze their employees to even make a profit from them. One just has to look at a company like Amazon to see how that trend leads.
> numerous places for you to profit from such stupidity, if you are confident enough to put your money up.

I'm confident that betting on an unregulated asset on an unregulated exchange is a good way to get my money stolen.
I'm not really interested in hashing out whether you think Snowden does or does not support Putin by your personally chosen criteria of the meaning of 'support' and proof. I'm happy to agree that you think he doesn't in advance.
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I don't understand. Which point are you making: that it is a "conspiracy" that Russia is doing it, or that Russia is not the only one doing it?
Just eccentric and annoying to you. This entire discussion is largely about the fact that different people interpret the same style of feedback either as offensive or as refreshingly direct.

For instance, Page one told someone that what they did was boring. Eccentric or abusive and jerkish? Probably the latter. What about the time he suspended work across the entire company and told everyone to work on latency because their products were fat and slow, and there was no higher priority than latency? Probably not offensive because it was targeted at the whole company? But if the same feedback had been given to an engineer one on one, maybe offensive.
You will enjoy journey for sure if you are aware about running progress of company and where else you can contribute to make it a successful company. I have been part of two start-up for 6year. Spent 4.8+ year in first one, we start with 7 and reached to 70. I have to take a break of 15 days because of some reason and this is where company took steps to start with new in-house project. Everything was so speedy that I could not be able to understand core and just started to work wherever I can add some value but that was the worst decision I made. By the time I could not be able to summarise my folio and ended with some low value communication with founder.

But nevertheless it helped me to improve lot as professional. You must be aware about work you are doing, it just should not be labour work for long time. If you thinking to have 9-6pm job then that's the only Dark-side I would say; else everything is fine.
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It's not just rewarding luck, but luck is a massive part. For every college dropout that goes on to form microsoft or facebook, there's 1000 college dropouts whose business fails because they weren't in the right place at the right time.
Okay, but what if you are the most pleasant and caring cab company in the world, and suddenly a giant, well-funded bully comes into the scene and starts competing with you? Do you just fold and go into a different business("refuse to participate in any sort of society with them"?)

How do you plan to educate everyone to be cooperative when you need to disengage whenever you meet bullies? You will need a closed-off society that ostracizes its members when they stray from the golden path.

At least your solution doesn't require global dominance and authoritarianism to bring everyone in line, which is a big plus.
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IMHO, this reads like an email from someone who finally grew up and regrets the mistakes of his youth ;-)

I think it is a good sign that Linus tries to improve upon his people skills and hope it will end with more than just 'a tool' (as building a tool is probably the wrong way of solving such problems).

Nevertheless, I also hope it won't water down his ability to give clear feedback. I mean, his rants were often too personal causing massive emotional damage to some humans, but for the technical side, it was probably beneficial to have a clear sentence about a given topic.
It seems you can't be charitable without someone telling you you should have given more or given to someone else.

Spending money on good causes is great. That's to be definitely something to be encouraged. Putting all of the decision making about which causes are 'good' in the hands of one individual, or a small group of very similar individuals, is very, very bad. That's how entire segments of society get ignored.
> The main flaw in todays linux environments is the lack of focus on professional niches outside of devops and sys admin tasks, especially professional designers.

This is a trait of UNIX culture, which never cared about doing cool UIs and GUI oriented development stacks, with NeXT being the exception.

Maybe Sun as well, if we consider how cool NeWS was before being killed.

Steve Jobs while at NeXT did not have the UNIX CLI culture in high regard.

"They said a Unix weenie was code for software engineers who hated what we were doing to Unix (the operating system we licensed)—putting a graphical user interface on it to dumb it down for grandmothers. They heckled Steve about his efforts to destroy it. His nightmare would be to speak to a crowd of them."

https://www.cake.co/conversations/rZXhqtP/that-time-i-had-st...

In a way, part of ChromeOS and Android success story is due to providing a full stack story to the developers and users, where Linux plays an invisible role.
By what measure are Bezos' contributions a net negative?
That goes way beyond OSS. Remember early Windows 95? When every Office release revamped the style guides (button bars are now flat!), Borland applications looked entirely different and there was a plethora of badly mashed together VB5 shareware?

Heck, I remember Amiga-heads complaining about MUI applications…

It's rare that you get something consistent once you throw enough developers at it, especially if different tooling is involved. And this only increases with the age and popularity of the platform…

Most programmers can't design. And designers are only marginally better at it.
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I am currently using it for a university course.
It is a simple language to learn. The most troublesome part is to install the right drivers on Linux. It can provide significant speedups and is simple to use with other languages.

For an alternative you could look into Accelerate for Haskell: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate
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Those are good points. From Stephenson's Mongoliad, I get that binding the opponent's sword, and closing, are key moves. But I'm most familiar with Japanese style, from studying Aikido. We sometimes practiced with wooden bokken. And yes, any blade-blade contact is glancing.

But still, stuff happens.
With this release the Isochrone module is open source.
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The headline sounds like a start of a sci-fi movie (or Onion news).
The machines needed rebooting because of bugs further upstream in the stack - these were the bad ol' days of DOS, and each system was really being used as a client to the database backend.

For whatever reason, the sysadmins decided to reboot them daily as part of their shutdown procedure - if I recall, it was because of a bug in one of the myriad TSR's that were loaded to make the systems work properly on the network, something to do with not getting accurate clock settings from the network - and indeed, they were all networked over 10Base2 .. so maybe that was it.

It was a really fun and easy hack to make. ;)
This might just be my perception since I spent a lot of time in college towns in the US, but book shops are kind of like coffee houses in that many people seem to get the idea that they'd be successful in running one, and often enough you see a bookshop pop-up for a few months then just vanish after it fails to gain traction and sustain.

Bookshops in the US, however, tend to be way different than you're describing and instead are pretty much just a repository for dumping books. Most (unsurprisingly) double up on the dream and also become coffee houses, and they also try to act as an arts hub for the community, doing like talks, workshops, etc.

So that's mostly what people are commenting on I would assume.
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Yes. And we do exactly that through taxation. A portion of Jeff Bezos' fortune is derived from Amazon's ability to increase it's profits by (legal, and arguably justifiable) tax avoidance. That's part of global business these days, but it's not unreasonable for people in regions where Amazon minimizes it's tax costs to say Bezos is doing something bad for them.
For me there was a lot...
Being pushed around by members of the founder's entourage who are untouchable, especially incompetent people who would never be hired at the same level elsewhere.
As a new grad coming in fresh out of school, realizing your equity is probably worth 1/10 what you thought when all is said and done.
Dealing with the middle management takeover and dodging accompanying political bullets as the new VPs and Directors try to clean house and eliminate threats to their authority / careers.
Dealing with underdeveloped HR that mishandles issues like sexual assault and harassment.
Seeing some early coworkers who play their cards right get fast tracked in their career and go into management shortly after graduation, and feeling like a loser for remaining an IC / little person.
The worst one is realizing you worked somewhere for the equity, only to discover that you are X years behind in your professional development because you spent most of your time hustling and rushing your work.
It's sort of retro, but it's very clean, at least IMO. What's your idea of a clean and nice UI?
Except that you can still just as easily buy things from normal retailers. They're not dead. People choose not to because the value of obtaining things from Amazon remains higher to them.