skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site is not reachable for me. Here is a mirror.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181122170006/https://gcemetery...
Cooler by .5 degrees so instead of a 4 degree increase we might have a 3.5
oh hey, thanks! I'm excited this is something people still remember. I hope people get behind this, it's a lot more accessible and there seem to be a lot of people trying it out.

Studios keep pushing the UIs visually but we need to keep up with the ridiculousness
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The depressing truth about deleting your online history
I think “mathematical maturity” is an important aspect of this discussion. Mathematical maturity is basically the ability to read a paper or textbook without assistance. It takes years to develop, and you still have to be familiar with the topic! For example, I feel comfortable reading statistics papers, but I would be totally lost reading number theory. As others have commented, familiarity with the foundational ideas is just as important as the notation.

So how do you get mathematical maturity? A bachelor’s in math, or equivalent. Meaning, approximately 4 years of focused, ideally guided, practice. I don’t think there are any faster ways.

Edit: Also important to know: most papers are poorly written, so that definitely doesn’t help. It’s especially important early on to identify who the leaders are in a field, and focus on their writings. In statistical Machine Learning, I recommend anything by Trevor Hastie, Rob Tibshirani, Bradley Efron, and Martin Wainwright.
> [...] the couples with the best sex life were actually old, married, religious couples.

How did the measure the quality of the sex in religious couples to compare it with the quality of sex in non religious couples? Self report? Gesell chamber? Videos? Some attached sensors?

Are all religions equal?
Would be nice to have a brief description of what each of these dead projects actually was. I only vaguely remember Aardvark. I've never heard of Dodgeball.
What Happened When I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory (2016)
Why didn't they just hash all the words they type if you must(maybe bloom filter?)
The Fifth Estate tried to make things look realistic, so a fair number of CLIs have actually made their way into at least a movie

http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/post/160895580781...
> run by a malicious interpreter

good grief... I live in this world!
Christ. Those social icons and reaction smiley faces are repellent. And a completely unrelated video set to autoplay, right in the middle of the article.

This site is an abomination.
Mostly they listen and try to provide an outlet, offer coping skills, suggest places to turn for help.

And yes, some services will call an ambulance if they think you're in imminent danger. Others don't.
Sure but to you and go: you don't need to spend 10k to get a bike that meets those needs. Anything in the 1-2k range (eg laptop) prices is a very very nice bike.

Both of my favorite bikes are cyclocross bikes. The first one I got used and upgraded the componyts to ultegra and bb7 discs. Was around 900 all in.

I may be a bit hypocrite with my second bike which was a factory replace of the first with a top of the line racing cyclo cf frame (weld failed). But the cost and some velocity touring wheels (which caused the frame failure in the first frame by moving stress off the wheels). So to me that bike cost $1200... But is likely a $4k bike. I don't know if that makes me a hypocrite or just savvy. But a lot of the bikes I test ride in the 1-2k range we're super nice. And there were plenty in the 700-1000 range as well (trick in Seattle is to buy bikes in August when the Google kids and M$ kids are going back to school)
I was similarly stumped, specifically regarding discrete mathematics not too long ago. I was interested in reading Lamport's Specifying Systems[0] but felt I lacked some requisite background knowledge[1]. I ended up picking up Stavely's Programming and Mathematical Thinking[2] which I enjoyed.

While I would recommend either as a primer into discrete math - do you have a specific subset that you're interested in? That might make suggestions more pertinent to your interests.

[0]: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/book.html

[1]: I think, in retrospect, that Specifying Systems actually stands on its own pretty well and doesn't require supplementary material when paired with the video course.

[2]: It is subtitled "A Gentle Introduction to Discrete Math Featuring Python" and it is _very_ gentle, but I'm also glad to have read it, it did wonders for giving me a kind of reference into math terms from programming (which I already knew).
What If Amazon.com Actually…Is a Horrible Website?
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The giant invisible space gears that keep all the orbits in place, of course. Also, that's what dark matter is made of.
I'm all for cool websites but by the time i scroll low enough for the data to show on the graph, the graph is off the page. then i scroll back up and it removes the data from the graph!
> loaded with sunset port.

ftfy. and I'd add that being from the US, I'd expect that sunset clauses on all laws would have the effect of giving the legislators something to do other than raise money for reelection.
The upcoming destruction of inbox will be enough to get me off of gmail. I keep on having google PR people tell me that GMail has all those features. I try gmail everymonth and everymonth I'm back on inbox in less than a day. I created https://t.co/gyeQCX7lnU but it seems no one else really cares about the stuff Id o.
Sumerian and the story of Gilgamesh predated Sanskrit.
This is a popular trick, but it doesn't work well with more than one parameter, and reads unnatural in many languages anyway.
If you thought the author was a “he”, you obviously didn’t read it very closely.
How to Launch Your Product from Early Idea to Revenue
Launching a new product or update? Definitely consider using Product Hunt.

With History Search I went through the phases of Early Idea To Revenue.

Product Hunt has become an essential component for me, that’s why I’ve trimmed several months of preparation and notes into a few easy to understand key-points:

1. What is Product Hunt about
2. How to Build an Early Beta Audience
3. How Do You Know What’s the Right Time to Launch — on Product Hunt
4. How to Get Your Launch Story Right — with a clear message
5. How to Leverage Your Launch to Get Press Coverage

Also included are lessons learned about:

-What type of content do you need and how to align your messages
-Tips and facts about small things that could break or make your launch (for example OG images and file sizes)
- How to structure and plan the launch day (I’ve included an Airtable with our examples and planning—for you to copy and reuse)
- Most importantly, how you can use your launch to think together with hundreds if not thousands of people.
- Finally I cover the 3 things I found most valuable, and will try to focus on even more in the future.

I'm adding a link because it contains a lot of images and gifs — and copying them over would be a bit of a nuisance. The article mentions and is focussed around a product I created and launched myself. You'll notice it's not a promotion but serves the purpose of giving real-life examples.

In the article you'll also find the link to an Airtable I used to plan our launch with real-life examples.

Hope you guys like it, put in a lot of effort to make it useful. Feel free to ask any question below, I'm ready to answer share things I learned.

See: https://medium.com/swlh/product-hunt-101-how-to-launch-your-...
It is missing the disappearance of "don't be evil."
It’s funny that regarding this comics content, checking if you have a bird on the photo is like one repository away, nowhere that 5 years and a research team mentioned.
Presumably the main benefit is:

... capable of scaling to multi-core Cloud TPUs.

This is Google after all.
Its interesting that these sort of offences can lead to life sentences - in the past I believe it was a capital offence ie hanging.
I'd be more likely to sign the petition on change.org, for what it's worth.
There may be a border, but it's still China. Did you miss the handover ceremony?
Ask HN: Is Google failing at UI/UX/design simplicity in its products?
The 2 google products which I have to frequently use are gmail.com and chat.google.com. Google chat has very bad user experience. And so is the new gmail update Which focusses so much on fluffy design that it diverges away from simple yet powerful gmail.tasks in gmail are unhandy now. your thoughts!!
Frankly, I don't think you can without it being specific to the field you're learning. That's why having a symbolic reference is always amazingly helpful in textbooks.

For example, the lowercase sigma symbol is used for a half-dozen different things depending on the field you're working in.

In Machine learning, if you use a logistic function as your activation function you'll use the lowercase sigma symbol to represent the sigmoid variable. However if you're working in Physics, the lowercase sigma symbol is the Stefan-Boltzmann Constant. So any good text or otherwise will explicate what the function symbols represent.

Some algebraic/calculus functions such as sum over set, divisor, sets etc...should be the same, and I haven't been able to learn how to crack that specific question as to generalizing all of those operations that isn't "go back to get a mathematics degree."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_function

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_const...
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My mother, a nurse, likes House. She says there's plenty wrong, but enough right that it's not too distracting.
Office on Mac is garbage - I had someone told me that it remains single-threaded on Mac which would explain this.

I find my Pixel (v1) surprisingly fast given its age and have no plans to replace it currently, although the share menu slowness is weird. It happens any time the device has to enumerate the list of installed apps—like loading the apps page in settings—, which bizarrely it doesn't seem to cache.
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Wow, never knew that after using it for years.
Wankers tend to be good at password remembering.
I use emacs org-mode for organizing various things. Its pretty neat.
Quantum Adiabatic and Quantum Circuit algorithms proven equivalent
USPS took a year to fix a vulnerability that exposed all 60M users’ data
How about just installing Linux and i3 window manager?
Was `Coordinate` a class or a struct? C# structs generally [0][1] don't force use of the garbage-collected heap.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2010/09/30/the-... (ignore the usual comments telling the reader they are wrong for wondering about whether the garbage-collected heap is used)

[1] https://jacksondunstan.com/articles/3453
Search for "gabor mate ayahuasca" on Google/YouTube and watch some videos, Mate is quite familiar with the biology of addiction. There is a reason he isn't being combative against the status quo also, as it gains no one's favour if you're simply engaging someone in 'combat' - causing their ego mind guard to go up to protect one's present moment indoctrinated knowledge, perhaps we can say that knowledge being tied to their sense of meaning and their tribe, so they are reacting with the strength of defending their tribe.

Suggested to watch:

Gabor Mate talking about Ayahuasca (6 mins) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScP2tIJJ2BA

David Suziki The Nature of Things episode on Ayahuasca (45 mins) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTEGrB5_ZE
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Wave, for all it's novelty, interesting parts and hints of genius ... was simply a terrible product.

It's I think the prototypical example of over-thinking, over-engineering.

Most successful things are essentially simple.

Slack is embarrassingly simple.

... it's simple, and getting quality, end-to-ed experience, and getting 'the small things' right, and maybe being great at some things while forgoing others, i.e. 'having an opinion' or 'focusing on a segment'.

I remember not being able to explain wave to anyone ...
I had to when I changed jobs change it into the name of my new employer. But that was probably because I changed jobs before a year.
"Can't" and "don't want to incur the opportunity costs of" are different things. And hypocrisy is a rhetorical failing, not a logical one.

BTW: HN doesn't usually cotton too well to this kind of YOLO ideolatry that you're tossing off.
GitHub search? Try nytimes.com search.
ECCploit: ECC Memory Vulnerable to Rowhammer Attacks After All
> Rigorous proof

> Now, Biao Wu and colleagues at Peking University have shown that the two types of algorithm are even more similar by publishing a “rigorous proof that quantum circuit algorithm can be transformed into quantum adiabatic algorithm”. This means that if one type of algorithm takes time t to solve a problem, then the other will take t multiplied by a constant.
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> Wu told Physics World that the result is good news for people trying to build adiabatic quantum computers: “In principle, any quantum-computing problem can be solved using a quantum adiabatic algorithm as efficiently as using quantum circuit algorithm.

This is likely good news for companies like D-Wave that are building quantum annealing systems that execute quantum adiabatic algorithms. Whether it means they can run gate-model code on top of some abstraction is beyond me - would love to get a take on it from some of the quantum folks here.
You could just as easily be writing:

"Google __completely__ botched the beta. In having an open invite, they were unprepared for load. Since it was a brand new system, with a ton of interested users, the system completely bogged down. This was completely predictable with a new protocol, a new app, and Google's prestige. Why they didn't restrict the beta is beyond me."
This is a cop out to be honest.

Just because you can make an airplane that works bereft of the working principles of a bird does not mean that the same fundamental principles of the biological system cannot lead you to further breakthroughs.

In fact, all your analogy really suggests taken to it's logical conclusion is that we shouldn't look at a system already created to solve new problems. You could just as easily say "There is no reason to build a helicopter or hovercraft like a plane." At the end of the day, the same working principles are at work, and there is value to be found in the process by which the essential characteristics of one design are distilled and modified to give birth to another.

A hovercraft can be inspired by a turbofan. A helicopter or or bird can lead one to the conclusion of fixed wing flight, just as the fixed wing can lead you to rotary flight.

In short, it is a shallow person who stops looking because airplanes don't flap.
Tell HN: Aldous Huxley died on this day in 1963
'Assur protects him' might actually be a better translation for an earlier Assyrian king, Aššurnaṣirpal, 'Ashur is the protector of the heir.'

Ashurbanipal is the rendering of the king's name from the Hebrew Bible; in the Akkadian it would be more like Aššur‑bāni‑apli, which translates to 'Ashur is the creator of an heir.'

Akkadian names were like full sentences, and make sense when thought of as the joyous exclamations of a parent upon grasping their newborn baby.
> I'm no longer fully convinced that language and metaphor generates consciousness though.

It might just be a subset of what generates consciousness.
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> All this tells you is if the candidate can code. If you want that, give them a test, look at their Github history (if they have it).

I try to get all information I can about the candidate, including reading through their Github or Linkedin profile, or looking them up on StackOverflow or on social media just to get a deeper understanding of what kind of person (and coder) they are. But I was consistently surprised by how difficult it may be to find relevant information about a candidate before an interview. Many do not include links to their code (Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, whatever, just show me how you think) in their resumes (admittedly, we did not have it as a hard requirement, but one would assume that a programmer would include them). Resumes often contain spelling or grammar mistakes that bias me against the applicants (and I need to tell myself that these mistakes don't necessarily matter).

Our process is a screening interview over Skype with a simple coding challenge. Followed by an hour-long in-person interview, also coding-heavy, but relevant to the work that the candidate will be doing (no brain teasers, no CS algorithms). I feel that at least this gives me some objective datapoints to assess and rank the candidates. Asking about previous work or interests in and out of software feels too subjective to be useful for subsequent comparison, and is prone to false-positives (we once talked to a candidate with an interesting background and all the right buzzwords in their social network who did not even pass the screening challenge). Although we certainly do ask.
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The margins may well have shrunk significantly by the time the "long-term" materializes though.

Cloud computing seems to me like an industry at high-risk of being commotitized after the initial gold rush -- similar to smartphones. If that's the case, I'm not sure it makes sense to prioritize the future over today.
This is an interesting article to me. I'm professionally a scientist but this year I've set about to helping my partner start her business/website. I have a CSCI undergrad and a strong basis of computational/coding skills.

I find, in trying web development [I'm using Django], that everything is very simple and clear except for the debugging and problem solving. The tools are simple and the way you glue things together is simple but debugging things throwa you into the unholy mess that is how web apps are actually smashed together. I spend 80 percent of my webdev time trying to figure out how to figure out my problem. The rest of my time is crazy productive. If anyone could point me to ressources for people skilled in all things coding/NIX to get these sorts of troubleshooting skills, I would be grateful forever.
The only master for EKS is an HA master (to be precise a 3 AZ master).
First: Having nuclear weapons is, for the most part, highly undesirable in a modern geopolitical context, for anyone but a few rogue states. (the ones who fit into the small niche of wanting the tech and having little to lose can trivially achieve it and regularly use it to play the superpowers like a fiddle, see Iran, NKorea, and Pakistan to a lesser extent) In the current world order most small countries would much rather rely on a superpower to "have their back" than attract the undue attention and costs of developing their own nuclear power. (and probably force-of-international-law as well, likely a far more powerful lever in terms of nation state behavior than lack of technology transfer, especially seeing how one can find most of what used to be "nuclear secrets" on the web or via "nation-state-IP-transfer")

"you are expected to avoid helping the other teams win."

This to me describes most of, and most of the darkest, parts and mindsets of human history. Hard as it may seem to believe there's another path, I refuse to resign myself to a nationalist mindset.

And honestly? The short term matters so little to me, outside of selfish concerns. Over the next few thousand years superpowers will come and go entirely regardless of what silly code I write. "winners" and "losers" will be chosen on tectonic scales. But if perhaps a slight bit of increased communication can move human progress forward as a whole over the next millenia? I'll risk much for that goal.

Frankly, I don't see technology as the differentiator you think it is. Overall economic horsepower, yes. Technology, no. Back in the day, the Germans had jets before we did. Better rifles, at the start. Better tanks, too. In the same way, some AI models likely won't make or break a future conflict. The ability to have 300 million people turn their hands to war will.

I'd keep hammering the point as well, that we _have factually loosened crypto restrictions_ and the world has not ended; in fact we've gotten far better consumer crypto utilization that have canonically improved our access to new capabilities, tools and products, and our "great enemies" from the days of restriction aren't suddenly more empowered to talk behind our backs. The whole effort was moot.
Ever think that has to do with how it was handled politically? What assistance did these people get from the west?
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I love phone screens. It tells me early on whether I need to waste my time taking off work, going across town etc.

On the interviewing side, I have had 6 phone screens with different companies in one day -I was able to “work from home” to do it.

On the interviewer’s side. I was able to screen 6 people in one day and bring in only two.

A “resume fit” means nothing. People say all sorts of things on their resume but they fall apart when you actually talk to them.
Aw I'm sad to not see my first Google product on the list: the old SOAP search API. 2002-2006 RIP. I wrote a bit about it when they shut it down: http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/googleSearchAPI.html
The future of organizations
I always thought that communications/behaviors are not a problem once parties remain anonymous or unidentifiable.
As something of an anecdotal rant, I did a take home a couple weeks ago, have a few code contributions on my github to a well known open source project, and was asked to go on site. They proceeded to ask trivia question after trivia question and whiteboard scripting questions without ever revisiting the homework assignment or asking anything specific about the details of my code contributions, and now I’m glad I was rejected for not “being good enough at scripting (on a whiteboard)” because of how poorly they did that interview and likely would’ve said no if given an offer. This is similar to how I’ve been interviewed at other companies and it’s rare where the interview actually represents how well you’d do the job. The current company is one of the very few where they actually asked me to go over the code contributions I’ve made and do an applied task in person without whiteboarding a scripting task or too much trivia nonsense and has been fantastic gig overall. It really is a two way street.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm mostly looking to hire in Finland - you're not located there, are you?
I’m on my phone so I haven’t checked. But my biggest grip with vim/emacs is discovery of new commands (for noobs or experts).

What are you doing to solve that?

Sublime Text fixes this by allowing you to do fuzzy search to access all the commands (command-P). Once you find your command it also displays the keyboard shortcut next to it so that next time you can use it instead.
A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook
This is the key quote: “I don’t know that you could build the infrastructure to evacuate an entire town that quickly,”

I don't feel like this is thought through, not for the wildfires, not for the hurricanes. How do you move 100,000 people out? A little paper exercise should suggest the scale of this problem, and how unprepared everyone is.