skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Side projects by themselves can't get you in. They boost your chances significantly but there are other things that can keep you out. (I'm not endorsing this/any practice, just trying to state reality).

- Knowing terminology of the field is important for quick communication in the team. E.g. We're going to do cache invalidation with LRU is harder/imprecise/longer to communicate without those words even if you have implemented it in practice.

- Sounds like you spent 2 years full time building projects. You can't call them "side projects" that you did for fun/learning, they sound more like real attempt at making an indie business (good for you). It's a significant time investment. You need to be able to talk about your project intelligently. Know everything you have used to get there: build tools, web frameworks, database schema, OO design & how it all fits together. They won't ask "point" questions about your demo, they don't care. More important is what all you have learned from the projects and being able to articulate it is important.

- Finally, why swim against the river flow? If you are smart enough to build social media platforms by yourself (with no CS background), you can very easily pickup a few books and learn the fundamentals of Data structure, algorithms etc. It's not very hard to excel at white boarding (if that's what they want to see).
I think the problem is that current OSes are too complicated. What does a common user really want? I'd say text editing, making presentations, multimedia, and browsing. While these sound like simple things, text editing usually happens in a Word-like format, which - from what I've heard - is ridiculously complex. The same thing holds for browsing (simple browsers don't exist anymore, and many use the same back-end for rendering). For multimedia, USB is very important, which is a very complicated format to use correctly. Then, there are tens of codecs and formats for multimedia, each with their own idiosyncrasies and ambiguities in the specs (or deviations from the spec that are so common that they are expected nowadays).

The case is even worse when your OS is supposed to run on different hardware. I think this is the main reason that Apple, in general, has a much better UX: They only have to support a limited set of hardware.

Casey Murati has a great rant about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk
This got so prevalent in England, that the law was changed UK-wide to require all deposits to go into a third-party deposit scheme so that the landlords didn't have possession of it themselves. Any repairs need to be justified and it can be contested. It is a drastic step to take, but when a significant minority of landlords were abusing their privilege, it was I think a reasonable solution.
Ask HN: What public domain books are worth reading?
I recommend this excellent podcast on the same topic https://www.thisamericanlife.org/544/batman
How long did he take to repair it? I’m amazed he isn’t backed up for months. Hell, my local cobbler is really good, and it takes a fortnight to re-heel a boot. I couldn’t be without my laptop for that long.
It is in most of the UK rental agreements I've had. If they have to hire a cleaning service to clean it up, they recover the cost from your deposit. You're supposed to leave it in the good condition it was when you moved in.
Thats just comically funny. "Hey cellmate, I need you to punch my face in." "You sure dude?" "Yeah, they are gonna make me unlock my phone today...gotta make it fail!"
Feel free to PM if you need more specific recommendations since it was really hard to try and come up with a concise list. I've seen a lot of friends and colleagues struggle with some specific popular books. Sometimes its OK not to like the way someone writes even if they're really smart and super famous.

My two favorite applied ones are

* Data science from scratch because it's one of the most concise and logical expositions of most ML algorithms in simple python that you'll remember and be able to reproduce from scratch if need be https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Scratch-Principles-Pytho...

* Deep learning with python as a next step since it covers more complicated neural net architectures using Keras so not from scratch but with clear code that you'll again remember

* Designing data-intensive apps because it'll prepare you for most challenges you'll face as a data engineer

On the theoretical side

* All of statistics: it's been recommended here on hacker news many times and for good reason. Its scope is very ambitious and it avoids the trap that math books fall into of leaving too many seriously hard steps an exercise to the reader. https://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-...

* Convex optimization which will give you the theoretical foundation to understand mathematically supervised and unsupervised learning http://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/

I'll also add a reference to a Reinforcement Learning resource because I'm trying to build a game AI company using its ideas. Simple RL with TF because being able to program virtual robots to do stuff is really cool and this is one of the easier ways to better grasp RL https://medium.com/emergent-future/simple-reinforcement-lear.... Probably worth studying in conjunction with RL an introduction which is more theoretical and has a Q&A like approach to understanding the material which was interesting.
> then it's her choice

Well, yes, but that doesn't mean it's a choice between two roughly equivalent options. C-Sections are invasive surgeries and come with added risks. I would argue a healthcare provider's duty is to advocate against them unless there is an appropriate medical reason.
AR glasses apps where every individual you meet has a bubble on top with its unified internet karma and credit score.
There's a simple term for this entire issue - evolution. Evolution does not mean good, or progress. It just means that traits that are beneficial to passing on one's genes will survive. Those that are harmful to passing on one's genes will tend to fade. This is self evident with genetics, but it's no less true with culture. Cultures that prioritize characteristics beneficial to their own survival and heritable reproduction will thrive. Those that don't, won't.

We've created a society where people who recklessly reproduce with no concern for the consequences or anything except for themselves, will not starve and will mostly go unpunished for their awful decisions. At the same time those in the middle who are more educated and socially conscious tend to be much more cautious and judicious with reproduction. Even those on the top who are capable of 'responsibly' reproducing are increasingly choosing not to. This is going to lead to an interesting future...
This reads as EU/UN propaganda - or a threat to Italy if they don't cowtow to the globalist will. Why shouldn't they become more nationalistic and self-sufficient? I didn't see any real arguments as to why the low tax plans wouldn't benefit Italy and help it continue to recover.
Yeah I totally understand. I need as much constructive criticism as I can get. If I can find product/market fit for this project I'll take it as far as I can, and if not I'll pivot or move on to the next one, I don't get too emotionally attached to this stuff.

I stepped back from development this week and I've been having ~20 conversations a day with potential customers, it's been very enlightening.
How did bump actually work without NFC?
That has got to be the most expensive fuckup by a technician ever.
> Because my intuition would be, if you loose normal matter into a gravity well, it will clump, even if it doesn't interact with the source of the gravity. Am I inferring correctly?

Now I have a little of Newton for you: look at our Solar system: you see the planets, and even more interesting, all the small asteroids circling around the Sun? Can you answer why don't they all fall to the Sun, but move in the orbits?

The way the gravitation works was not "intuitive" before Newton, 300 years ago, and now it's obviously still so for many non-professional readers.

What's actually happening, according to the dark matter model, and the dark matter actually more easily fits much more of our cosmological observations than anything else, is that there is a lot of dark matter but it is simply much more "spread" around the volume of the galaxies. And just like all the visible stuff of the whole galaxy doesn't fall to the galaxy center (like the planets don't fall to the Sun!), the dark matter remains "around" the galaxies, where more of dark matter is "outside" (as in "in the outer regions of it") than in the "inside" of the galaxy (and in the case of the "Bullet Cluster", that I've mentioned in some other comment, dark matter is obviously lagging all the movement of non-dark matter! (1)). That dark matter that is in the inside of the galaxies actually initially "clumped" somewhat, but that "somewhat" is, according to our estimates, significantly below what we are able to measure, when we're interested in the gravitational effect on the Solar system.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#/media/File:Bul... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#/media/File:1e0...
Most of these are a bit pop sciency. Idk why people say they like Lolita.
> The proposed budget has exposed the seams in Italy’s governing coalition, where one party favors small-business-friendly tax cuts and the other enormously expensive welfare programs.

this has not really happened, the choice by the government has been: "let's do both tax cuts and expand welfare, finance it with debt, growth in the next few years will fix everything".

This is the worrisome bit, not that there is any widening seam in the government; the governing coalition is granitic until now, even in the face of things that the electoral body thought would never be compatibile.
Our open office layout was so quiet it felt like working in a Library. Half the time I was scared that my headphones were too loud and disturbing others around me. It was very difficult to actually talk to another person in my area because it echoed and I felt like I had to whisper everything. Maybe if we would have had a noise canceling system or something it would have been different.
In Russian media it's always portrayed that a professional pilot must be in the cockpit during any maintenance operations to avoid exactly such things.
Why would such a plane even allow firing a gun when not in air?
My "bargain" is my choice, and the choice of anyone who wants to make it, and no one gets to rip that away from us because they're afraid of some boogeyman who will never come.

The real conceit comes from people who think the rest of us don't know what we're doing; we do, and we don't care because it doesn't matter. Those people have no special information, and they're not smarter than us.

There is no boogeyman, there are no "dire consequences", and the people peddling that nonsense are tilting at windmills.
I mean, it successfully created a social network I find enjoyable enough to be my primary social network, and which is sufficiently active + growing that I don't see it dying out the way Diaspora did, so regardless of whether they accomplished a lot, they certainly have accomplished enough
But then, disaster strikes!

It transpires that when encoded into quaternary, and thence to base pairs, the joke "What lies at the bottom of the sea, shivering? A nervous wreck!" encodes a viral sequence for a novel but entirely deadly pneumatic disease.

When one of the rockets misfires and detonates in a Bernard Matthews turkey farm, all human life on this planet is quickly extinguished.

100 million years later, a crashed alien spacecraft is discovered by the inhabitants of Gliese 15s, triggering a cultural revolution involving terrible puns and mildly amusing logical inconsistencies.
Yeah, I definitely saw this technique in Intel sample code demonstrating use of BMI before HSW was released. Probably 2011, maybe 2012.

That said, we worry too much about who the first person to have an idea was. Any idea worth having is come upon independently by many people, and putting the idea to work and communicating it to others are more valuable contributions anyway.
I've actually worked in a small team environment several times and I really love it. At one point we were in an old vault with no windows and concrete walls, and it was great. We all had the same taste in music so we just cranked it up and let the sales guys outside do their thing and they left us alone.

In another case I was in a room with 8 people arranged into 2 "pods". We all worked on similar projects and would often turn to each other to get help, show something off, etc. I got sick more often that year (I think the ventilation in that room was bad) but we were very productive and I really enjoyed working there.
I took a look at the US Air Force subreddit[0] and lots of people who maintain these jets are skeptical as to the accidental nature of this incident. According to several comments there are many physical failsafes that would need to be deactivated in order for this to happen. The incident occurred in Belgium but it’s hard to believe their F-16s are significantly different.

[0] https://reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/9nyorn/belgium_techni...
Its quite rare across all software devs across all countries. I started on $30k.

Not all would have invested in the stock market during the biggest boom it has had. Many people like myself software has paid cost of living plus some modest savings to get a deposit on a house.
read something about it a long time ago, so fwir : the accelerometer gives you a motion angle of the « bump », and finding the symmetrical motion in a given time window gives you the other phone involved in the bump.
Because any system which attempted to prevent that would have a nonzero chance of preventing shots while in the air, and it's quite easy to imagine the cost of that being much greater than what is saved by the intended effect.

That's not to say that there shouldn't be safety systems that would prevent accidental firing, just that “never shoot if system thinks we're on the ground” is very likely not a good one.
Wait!

Such matters as non-scientific as "autism" are published on Ycombinator.

Autism is not a disease, and it is not pathologically proven.

It is a behavioral disorder voted out in the assembly of American Psychiatric Association.

Of which many members are receiving money for unproven and not efficient drugs they are using.

And now they advertise on YCombinator.
As a Belgian I find this hilarious. This might be the most Belgian thing ever.

By the way they are investigating whether this was an accident or on purpose. The chances of this being an accident are quite small.
It detected you bump your phone, sent your GPS location to a server, then looked for someone else who bumped their phone in the same location at the same time.
Surely there must be a checklist to follow before maintenance like this that involves either locking the fire buttons, unloading the ammunition or with some kind of reliable software switch.

Either possibility, that such a procedure is not followed, or that there is no such procedure, is worrying.
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Depends on what you focus. What makes it an intelligent story may be the consequences of ships traveling months, or consequences of UBI. What makes it both intelligent and sci-fi is why ships travel months, how do they travel, what particular technologies are imagined and how they solve the problems of space travel, why UBI is needed, that UBI is UBI and not slavery, etc.

Interpreting sci-fi stories as just normal stories with fantasy props robs them of half of their value.
Now I don't know about fighters, but I used to work on C-130s. Countermeasure systems (flare and chaff) rely on a weight on wheels microswitch completing a circuit when the aircraft is in the air, safety pins being removed from a panel to arm the system, an on switch, and a guarded switch being activated before the system can be used.

Now sometimes the weight on wheels switches need to be bypassed for testing a wide range of aircraft systems. Perhaps the aircraft was on jacks (tyre replacement?) or some sort of EMI occurred... But ultimately there really is a great deal of safety layers that had to be compromised for this to happen, including human factors.

Like with software development, you can't predict every possible action of your users (air or ground crew), and sooner or later you'll encounter an edge case nobody had considered.
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So tempting to make dutch - belgian jokes now
Yeah, for accidentally hitting a button... I wonder if that characterization is accurate. Cost would be up there with the economic cost of Hawaii’s accidental missle alarm button click.
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"the time for jacking around with Tesla coils and ball lightning in the garage is over." -Abe, PRIMER

Few additions http://amasci.com/news.html The Trafficwaves article made the WSJ, even with video. And Crown Flash (leaping sundogs) is now all over the place (see my upcoming bit on TV show Strange Evidence.) Magnetic analogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-CAhtXBfQ

Fortunately (unfortunately?) I only posted examples of my somewhat-kid-friendly magic. Nobody died in microwave oven accidents. That plus a couple of minor inventions (made public as a test to see how fast the idea-thieves would pounce on them.) None of my frightening demos using vacuum pumps and Spellman supplies. Well, I guess I did write about our hypergun which fired a small plastic slug through a clay block twelve inches thick (a spinoff of the very first quarter-shrinker capacitor bank,) and no little kids yet tried building one: http://amasci.com/amateur/capexpt.html#shrink

An unexamined backwater is at http://amasci.com/weird/wtext.html

I still haven't tried out the giant version of Lord Armstrong's water-bridge, from an eyewitness report where a liquid "snake" several feet thick was extending itself thousands of feet across desert land during a thunderstorm. If such things are possible, then an HV supply of a few hundred watts and a couple hundred kilovolts should produce something similar (the recent water-bridge experiments use 10 to 20KV supplies at under ten watts, a 2cm bridge, a mm or two in diameter.) Rainwater or ddw on very clean sand? Needs a big Cockroft-Walton diode stack http://amasci.com/freenrg/wasser.html

And the infamous invisible wall at the 3M factory, recently someone claims to have seen an example caused by electrodes connected to a reversed pole-pig transformer, where coins would bounce off the empty space. This is silghtly conceivable: a corona in air may develop a stable annular double-layer with a significant space-charge and pressure-gradient of air. But would a metal object bounce off? Or just short it out? Plasmas do tend to avoid cold bulk metal surfaces (Tesla managed to make an opaque "neon sign" with a metal tube rather than glass, but skeptics refused to believe it was real. The plasma in near-vacuum can travel many inches through thin metal tubes without leaping to the metal! Try it, it's really weird: pipes full of glowing "electricity" rather than water.)

Speaking of PRIMER, did they actually base the plot on meissner maglev "null coils," placed in a circle rather than parallel rows? Then, put it all inside a "One Atmosphere Plasma Globe" full of argon? But then, where do platinum catalytic converters figure in that? Or maybe they were just huddling inside a styrofoam version of the USS Eldridge hull, covered with active magnetic shielding coils, but not turning invisible.

:)
You could argue that Pinker too is a pop-science writer.
Both phones send a precise timestamp of the "bump" to the server. The server finds bumps that happen at the same time, and "connects" the phones.

If multiple bumps happen at the same time, the server would probably use approximate geolocation or something like that additionally, but the better the resolution of the time stamp, the lower the probability of collisions between bumps.
How does Apple win this game?

Louis Rossman is famous because he’s bloody good. Not many people are as good as he is.

How many Rossman’s would Apple need to employ? Where do they come from? Does Rossman want to work at Apple Doncaster, the store in the mall 20kms out of central Melbourne here in Australia? Didn’t think so.

If you’ve been in a store recently you know what it’s like. It’s madness in there. They must see a hundred people an hour, from people like us who know exactly what we want, to the elderly lady opposite me last time who was being taught, patiently, that it’s okay now to charge her phone overnight.

I’ve worked in support, I’ve done my time there, and the volume of support they must field boggles the mind. It’s very easy to criticise, especially a case like this, but think about it. How would you run it? You gonna employ 10,000 Rossmans and have them all out the back inspecting pins? It’s just not realistic.

As others have said here, the fact that you can walk in to a store* and have your thing fixed, often while you wait, often for free, is amazing. I think it’s amazing. It’s one of the many reasons I continue to buy Apple kit, despite cases like this one. Because what’s my better option? I don’t believe that I have one, because I don’t live within walking distance of Louis Rossman.

(*After making an appointment 3 days before.)
Nice job. I'd also suggest picking a different name. Maybe a prefix before graphql or something like that.
I don't think the "angle" of the bump played into it, since accelerometers only give you relative angles, not absolute values. And the compass isn't precise enough.
They should attach JSFiddle links.

Edit: Just tried the first one in JSFiddle and it looks kind of bad. https://jsfiddle.net/n2fole00/ewurbgdn/
I wonder if Pike would still stand by that paper now, or if it was a product of his personal headspace in the immediate aftermath of plan 9 not quite catching on.
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Yes, you're right. Your comment is much appreciated. I'll certainly act upon it and work on improving my (personal project) marketing skills.

BTW, put simply, qdochat.com is Pomodoro technique for Slack teams.
Well, I guess they now know how effective the cannon is...

This is going to be one hell of a rough couple of days for the technician(s) involved.
I wouldn't be surprised if technicians trained on a specific piece of equipment are more broadly skilled at operating the controls than a pilot or other operator.
The loop works like this: you start drinking, you get drunk, too drunk to drink more so you buy cocaine, happily drinking and doing cocaine until the next day.

It goes hand in hand with alcohol and if you're developing a problem with booze it's easy to continue with cocaine.
Maybe he was speaking of one of the guys that reverse engineered iPhoneOS and who managed to write iPhone apps before the SDK was released?
> Idk why people say they like Lolita.

Why not read the pdf Pinker linked to then [0]. It's a very interesting psycho-analysis of a fictional character.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/3y1c9mbe8x1v51y/Brown%20Lolita%20R...
Something tells me that the space program is on hiatus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kim_Wall
Life didn't start out breathing oxygen, oxygen was actually a waste product and the introduction of oxygen into the atmosphere was a disaster for a lot of the life existing at that time... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
Why does everyone claim to know things they don't know? The more I know the more stupid popular opinion becomes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine
Argentina is a mapping of France ;-)
Please add reddit.com/r/cablefail and reddit.com/r/cableporn (same general category, one examples of "don't do this", the other "do this").
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