skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've switched back to Windows 10 with WSL running Ubuntu 18.04 in it. Works well and gives me pretty great integrations.
How to Start a Cultural Revolution (2017) [video]
Is it possible that this is true and yet applies to only a small subset of people? On LinkedIn this comment got near universal negative response along the lines of "that's impossible." But when you read their titles, it was universally jobs people have to pay their bills and not mission driven work. Why is the correlation between people who change the world and working very hard so constant if it's impossible or false? How could studies show it's false for the typical person but almost universally trust of the most impactful people?
Sorry, I didn't make that clear: Activision got to the name first. I enjoy both Portals. :)
Not really the best way of going about this sort of thing. Voting in elections and referendums is fraught problems and unhealthy incentive structures. Sortition, via the formation of citizens' assemblies, is a superior model of democracy. Leaving decisions up to a representative random sample of the population allows the assembly to carefully consider and debate issues and form a consensus. Whereas elected officials are incentivized not to compromise or plan for the long term and voters are usually poorly informed.
> When scientists are behaving correctly authority is awarded on scientific merit irrespective of politics.

I suppose then one can conclude that scientists have behaved incorrectly since Aristotle's time.
I'm not a current employee, and even if I were, I'm not sure that would be something I could disclose. But I can tell you that in the past Asana leadership has been very good about insisting on clean-sheet terms for investor funding.
That and we're all fools for doubting the scientists diagnosing ADHD https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18562975 /eyesroll
> The people dying of opioid crisis are of all ethnicities.

If you think the opioid epidemic is happening everywhere you have more research to do. This problem is targeted and deliberate.
I wil reduce your student loan debt. – BuckGet.com
I’ve used a 5-port ethernet switch (even lower power than a router) with very substantial coil whine. Like, “can’t tolerate it without headphones” substantial.
Speaking Battery Alert Android App
Agreed, at least pseudo-code can be included.
Very good, very depressing. I felt a strong compulsion to read each chimps bio.
>One person's "droning" may be another person's "rare, illuminating presentation"; we are not all interested in the same things.

You are absolutely correct in that regard. I've talked to many people who hated the textbooks I most liked, and preferred ones that I found unreadable. Just goes to show that what works for you may not work for me.

You are very wrong on the other point: none of what I said is borne out of a view that mathematics should be difficult and "hard" an impenetrable (rather than soft and approachable). Indeed I view this sort of overlong prose as impenetrable and confusing, and the succinct style of e.g. Landau textbooks much clearer (see my other comment).

>The commenter is again taking a minority viewpoint and baselessly extending it.

This is not a minority viewpoint. I'd daresay is the majority opinion among mathematicians. It is also the opinion of prominent computer scientists: Dijkstra, Leslie Lamport, Donald Knuth, to name a few off the top of my head.

It is also plainly true: mathematics is about rigour. It is not an obstacle, nor is it an end in itself, but it is a fundamental part of mathematical study and reasoning. If you aren't being rigorous, you're not doing mathematics, it's just a waste of time. I'll let Michael Spivak speak for me:

"In addition to developing the students’ intuition [...], it is important to persuade them that precision and rigor are neither deterrents to intuition, nor ends in themselves, but the natural medium in which to formulate and think about mathematical questions."

>be aware of such personalities preaching this particular dogma of mathematical instruction: it's fairly common on the internet. But it basically represents the same corner of the mathematics world as that of the programming world where folks insist on using nothing but VI/Emacs on Linux with C++ and/or Haskell

Completely nonsensical comparison (C++ and Haskell?? two languages who could not be further apart), and again, not in the least bit what I mean with my criticism.
The good news for you is that this is also going to be running with 22.2, so you can live in a room full of speakers and watch the Olympics as if you're in the pool yourself.
One of the reasons software engineers in general are underpaid relative to their value to a company is because collectively not only do we not understand the social aspect of employment but we deride it as beneath us.
It will make for some amazing interactive display screens. The latest video slot machines with vertical curved screens are already impressive. Imagine having an immersive touchscreen console for something more productive than gambling.

For media consumption at longer viewing distances is is clearly pointless.
Economics is in worse shape in some regards. Nobel prize winner Paul Romer has called out most macroeconomics as being completely detached from reality because economic concepts and conditions that are talked about in scholarly papers cannot be identified in the real world by any method. [1]

[1] https://paulromer.net/trouble-with-macroeconomics-update/ind...
I think the vast majority of these hacks come from some random office working clicking on a doc in an email and opening it up in a microsoft app, on microsoft windows. we've never really blocked that up yet. I don't see it coming because someone hacked the backend of apple, google or amazon. who knows about facebook.
Well, the worst case of not having garbage collection is crashing due to memory leaks.

So tell me... is predictable latency worse than a hard crash?
Minor correction: When you attempt to kill a cucco (chicken) after a few hits it'll crow for the backup ones which kill you. The first one never dies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFRI3byJgYA
>And how do horses even get drunk??

You know those extra thick milkshakes you get in burger franchises? Try not to buy them from the cheaper places.
Satya Nadella once said, “Microsoft loves Linux”, the three most improbable words that could be unfathomably put together.

Maybe that’s when Microsoft started gaining traction.
Edit2: This is addressed in the FAQ:
https://github.com/algorithm-archivists/algorithm-archive/wi...
I like listening to people talk while I fall asleep, so I'll have youtube playing in the background. I can't fall asleep very easily if left to my own thoughts so background noise I can focus on helps.
I know a tech recruiter in San Diego who started going to the JavaScript meetup I help run who wanted to learn the lingo, a decent grasp of the concepts, and build relationships with us. He was the first guy I called whenever I’m on the hunt for a job (he’s now internally recruiting for one company).
I hope we see legal action over this. Incredibly deceptive.
When I think of CS:S (not surfing) I'd think of de_dust2 and cs_office. But, of the many many hours playing CS:S, my favourite map has to be surf_greatriver.

I've got well over 2k hours on that map alone (and later versions, such as surf_greatriver_xdream)

CS:S is one of my favourite games ever made - but I don't like GO that much. CS:S gave you more of what I liked (skins, maps, decent server browser, active surf community, good surf mods, ..)
Great question!

No, you don't need to inherit or implement which is one of the great features of TypeScript!

In this example, the `greeter` function accepts any object that has a `firstName` and `lastName` property defined, regardless of what the object/type is called. No need for inheritance.

In fact, the `Person` interface is not even emitted in the JS output because interfaces are only used at compile time, not at run time.
Why Black Boxes Are So Hard to Reuse, Lecture by Gregor Kiczales
I also value my privacy more than my children. Seriously, can't we do something so they just don't get sick?
> It's a negative externality, just like pollution

No.

Your leaked data does not hurt me. So it is NOT like pollution.

If you do not like your data on the internet - do not give it to companies you do not trust.

> can only be controlled by regulation

Your claim is wrong.

Companies behavior is controlled by customers demands. The balance between security and convenience -- is not an exception here: customers demand define where that balance is. There is no need for the government to intervene in this case.
I’m actually proud of how far along this sub thread people have kept a straight face!
Yes and no. I've spoken to many folks who believe that deep learning == ai, or rather that the rest of "AI" (especially older stuff) is obviated by end-to-end optimization of an appropriate network. However, I don't know anyone working in AI who thinks that deep learning today is sufficient for AGI. I _suspect_ that many quietly believe that continued advances in deep learning will produce AGI.
You are only making them look more awesome by suggesting attached oxygen tanks.
Then why Java programms still have memory leaks?
An engaging story to follow.

The most effective learning materials I encountered had this.

At the beginner level, two older examples:

"French in Action"

"Destinos"

Once you have some level of fluency, you can pick your own stories to follow.

Also, before this, you can use subtitles on interesting programs. A lot of language learning is the sound of the language. And you will start to recognize parts of what's being said. Well-written, contemporary programs can also supply a lot of everyday speech and idioms that are short-changed in many learning materials.

Just be aware that subtitles often deviate significantly from what's being said. Space and reading speed constraints, but also the quality and effort of the interpretor(s). Even in languages I know less well, I not infrequently encounter and identify subtitles that do not choose the idiom most at parity with the idiom or expression originally used.
Landau-Lifschitz as a reference is also very polarizing. There are people that really like the style (myself included), but I have also met many people that really dislike it, think it is too hard, too brief, too dry, too little description of intuition... . Similarly, the Feynman lectures are loved by some and disliked by others.
Why the downvotes? The article refers to this paper from August this year: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961071...

Signed by 33 authors and published in a peer-reviewed, seemingly established journal. Thanks for the pointer!
Does anyone know what did not work out with phabricator?
local maxima, in other words. Humans being the global maximum, on Earth at least.
I vaguely remember an SF short story from the 50s-60s with a world full of stuff like that. You couldn't go outside without protective gear.
I dunno, can we do something so that they just "grow up normal"? Let's make them all the same. How might we go about stamping out differences among humans?
> The chinese labs wouldn't be pumping out fentanyl if people weren't demanding it.

Unsuspecting people are becoming addicted to Fentanyl because it is being cut into other drugs they are taking without their knowledge. It started with Heroin and has now moved into other drugs. Even Xanax has been found to have Fentanyl in it. So if you think this came about via supply & demand you should do some more research on the topic.
IMHO this has to become a universal practice. If you don’t wanna share code with your publication, how are other researchers going to corroborate your findings?

Publishing your research and not the code is only like taking a step behind. Even Yoshua Bengio is a staunch proponent of code sharing with publication.
CS:S was after my time. I played CS from beta4 until ... I don't know.

I liked italy and dust the most.
What percentage of methane, btw, which is a much stronger greenhouse gas?
My solutions would go in two broad categories.

A. Worker methods.

1. Tell workers to scan (count) the inventory more often.
2. Do some gamification to actually get workers to scan more often. Not really sure about this, could easily have perverse incentives or turn it into some dystopia.

B. Non worker methods.
1. estimate inventory based on sales data and restocking data. 2. Rank the sections by profit to prioritize high profit sections.

I don't think my ideas are particularly great. Besides, nobody listens to me, I'm just a lowly programmer. I just do what they tell me ;)
There's been a couple reports of this happening (I think I've heard of exactly 2) and only in the last few years. They live very solitary lives, even if they're occasionally alone together.
Foobar is currently down for extended maintenance
Though I agree with the end effect, the reality is closer to “let’s pay a landscape company to take care of this thing that isn’t our core business” (perfectly rational) and then the landscape company figures out the most cost-effective way to accomplish that.

If that lens is correct, asking people to forego landscape services isn’t the right response, but rather to better educate and/or regulate landscaping services and their chemical use.
Satya Nadela was the primary agent, for transforming Microsoft into the profitable and successful business that it is now.
"wtf is wrong with hn"

One thing that's wrong with HN is that perceived "negativity" often gets condemned in exactly the way you have done here.

It seems as if a significant number of HN readers have never really participated in a spirited discussion with arguments made from multiple different perspectives. Maybe any kind of apparent conflict scares them, maybe they project their own aggression onto a comment that seems to go against the grain of the discussion. It will never change.
It's not about any one particular product. I used to be excited about Google products in general, and was eager to try them out. Now I'm not.

This was genuine good will that the Google brand used to have, and they threw it away -- the blame here lies squarely with Google.

The core principals of the company seem pretty firmly rooted now. There's everything related to the advertising and tracking side of the business, which nobody really likes and which they try to keep hidden, but that pays the bills a hundred times over.

Then there's the "cool new technologies" side of Google, which used to be run by sensible intelligent people. This was the glamorous side of Google, so a lot of the attention seeking sociopaths ended up here. Most wannabe-Googlers are interested in this side of the company, not ads.

So now this side of the company is full of bozo politicking PMs with no original ideas other than to make shitty clones of everything Apple does, and the smart people are either frustrated or gone. Google corporate dangles the most ridiculous, foot-shooting promotion structure anyone has ever seen, and so their non-ad product roadmap is a complete circus.

So it doesn't matter that this particular product happened to be around for three years before getting axed. Google's non-ad product strategy is essentially that every product will get killed or replaced by a "new and improved" product, designed by a completely different team, that's demonstrably worse. Fuck that.
Where is his attempted murder conviction?
The ones that are small enough to keep as pets don't even live a few years.

Octopus keepers usually keep a second aquarium to grow the octopus's food. So add that to the expense.
Privacy: You pay Google with data, Apple with cash
> But a year later when he was arrested for his participation in what many assume to be a brawl, the knights imprisoned the artist at Fort St Angelo and expelled him from the Order.

For the only things I know Malata now are gambling, as a tax haven, and for the assassination of a journalist (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/malta-protecti...).

Not so much to do with the idealized world of knights and gentlemen.
How much of an impediment to technological progress would not have being able to tame fire have been?

You probably don't need the warmth underwater, but cooking facilitates nutrient absorption ("exodigestion"?), wards off predators, post-sunset light, and (later) smithing, smelting, steam power etc.
Electromagnetic defence task force (EDTF): 2018 report [pdf]
Do some searching; there are many free or subsidized milkweed organizations.

One example - https://monarchwatch.org/bring-back-the-monarchs/milkweed/fr...
Might want to add Neil Degrasse Tyson to the title :)
They weren't allowed the Intel/AMD64 ISA in all the previous years; but didn't steal it - some IP is much harder to get away with stealing than other IP.
>wtf is wrong with hn.

I believe you must have mistaken me for someone else. My name is andrepd. Is this "hn" a friend of yours?

>you should learn to keep your feelings to yourself when the only function they serve is to denigrate others and derive cruel satisfaction for yourself.

It never ceases to amaze me how some people are so perceptive that they can confidently deduce the intentions and personality of a person half a world away by reading a short text online. Are you available for therapy sessions? I could use your valuable insights.

Also, I was under the impression that I was making constructive criticism. I made concrete points and showed examples of books that in my opinion did those things right (see my other comment). I regret the "very very poor" phrase at the start though. I've changed it to just "poor".

>everyone claims to appreciate formal purity /after/ they've learned something but when you're /learning/ none of that matters because you're just trying to develop intuition

Oh, I see you know more about how I felt learning stuff than I do myself! Lovely.

I can tell you that I found it was almost always reading the most succinct treatments that I truly understood the greatest insights. Although from your tone I suspect that none of this will make a difference about how you feel. I won't repeat myself. You can (re)read my other comments if you're interested (and if you find I didn't explain myself well I'd be happy to discuss it more), and also check the examples I've mentioned.

>shame on you and i hope you're never in a position where someone depends on you to teach them absolutely anything

>an author whom i might add has done infinitely more for the math community than you have with your pedantry and vitriol

>jeremy was originally a math ed phd student so i trust his opinion of the right way to teach math infinitely more than i do yours mr random internet physics guy.

I am doing a maths PhD and (woe is you) I teach undergraduate classes AND I've been tutoring students of physics, maths and computer science for over 4 years now, online and in person. I can say with no false modesty that I've been repeatedly complimented by students on my ability to teach and explain concepts.

What Nobel prizes have you got, since that seems to be so important to you?
RTS Game Build planets, send ships, automatize ships and conquer the universe
That's equivalent to having a lower p threshold in the first place though.
I assume you're talking about the Iraq war? You don't think that was about supporting allies? (Saudi Arabia and Israel)

(To be clear, I don't think any of these are good reasons)
It's easy to laugh now, but in 2007 this was spot on.

It was 10 years before Microsoft managed to drag itself up and do something useful with itself.

It's really remarkable that Microsoft managed such a big turn around after such epic failures (like mobile); others (like IBM...) are still struggling to do it.

Just goes to show, competitive pressure is a good thing. :)
I find Memrise to be what duolingo ought to have been. I used it to learn about 800 words of portuguese which I then used to travel around parts of portugal where english was rare. I wasn't having in depth conversations but I could ask for and understand directions, order food, go through stores, etc. I also did some speaking with people on hellolingo and a couple lessons on iTalki which were both a big help.

My main gripe is that there aren't any places in the current memrise implementation to use the memorization in practice. It would be great if they would add a "test your knowledge" part for each section where each of the vocab words you just learned are used in ways you haven't seen or combined with stuff you have already learned. I think that's the one thing it is missing to make it a top notch app.

Otherwise, I've learned that doing grammar exercises isn't really that valuable until you have a lot of vocabulary and speaking experience (at least for me). memorization and speaking are much more valuable initially.
> Indeed. Fentanyl is used thousands of times per day in the medical setting because it is a safe drug.

It's the painkiller I was given in the recovery room after a shoulder surgery and let me tell you, I can see why folks would grow fond of that feeling. There followed possibly the best nap of my life.
I don’t understand why YouTube hasn’t implemented Patreon as a feature.

That’s one model that’s clearly working at some scale, and it could be easy expanded to “subscriber only videos“
Who said _you_ have to love it? Some people do love JS. Those people will appreciate using it in embedded systems.
> If you wanted to find a "most efficient" language, you'd compress samples, maybe normalize them with the uncompressed length because it's hard to get the same thing written in different languages.

It's been generally done, just by determining how many syllables are necessary to express an idea; it also turns out to be pretty easy to measure IIRC, because people express ideas at a constant rate across cultures, so if you speak a less efficient language, you speak faster, and if you speak a more efficient language, you speak slower.

Romance languages aren't very efficient; English is pretty efficient, and again IIRC, the most efficient common language is Vietnamese, which can express ideas in about 2/3 of the verbiage that English needs.
What makes you think the writer became an avid listener? There is nothing in the article directly about listening to a podcast episode that wasn't airing one of their ads.
Not to take away from this point - but I was always curious - Anyone have a summary of how these “rote inbuilt behaviours” work Hardware-wise in living things? Is the research even far along on defining and demarcating behaviours easily based on this?
One theory why primates evolved big brains is because they had hands. Big brains for an animal like a gazelle don’t pay off because, without hands, there isn’t much a gazelle can do with that big brain. Better it use that energy for bigger leg muscles. Primates evolves hands so they could better grasp branches, but, once they had hands, there was a lot more they could do with them, like make tools. A bigger brain for a creature with hands is an evolutionary advantage, because that bigger brain allows complex behaviors that can be carried out with hands. I bet octopuses are intelligent for a similar reason. Its body is like one big hand, and there are lots of complex behaviors it can carry out with those tentacles. Similar for its color changing skin. There are many complex and useful ways that skin can be used, so it pays to have a big brain. The important point is that the bodily appendages came first, and those appendages made it actually useful to have a big brain. I find it more surprising that dolphins became intelligent, but the article is right that living in groups capable of communication and cooperation can similarly make big brains pay off, because the animal can engage in complex group behaviors.
RF snooping has traditionally been done by "fishing trawlers".