skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) is one such track.
I don't think I understand the desire that something be open source.

I feel like, if I wanted to, I could contribute to the linux kernel. All that I would need to do is submit pull requests, have it vetted, and gain reputation within that community.

Could you say that about any arbitrary pull request for chromium? Even if it was against googles interests to merge it?

Is your contention that I just fork it and compete with chromium with my PR integrated?

I don't view these projects as equivalent at all.
until recently i tried using firefox to quarantine social media and google but the persona extensions would break all the time, leaving me to reconfigure things over and over. Is there another way to quarantine now?
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Try some of the following:

Cold showers

Washing sheets in hot water every 5 days

Using a mattesss protector

Washing pillows and quilt every few months

Shaving with a disposable razor used once (bic hybrid)

Washing face with sensitive men’s face wash and washcloth washed after one use

Nidrozal anti fungal shampoo applied to face

Flossing nightly

Washing face with water and a washcloth before bed or waking up (depending on when you shower)

Eliminating sugar from diet and basic weights excerise (dumbbells)
I made a Swift library, Logician (https://github.com/mdiep/Logician), based on microKanren with the help of these links. I also wrote about how it works with Swift: https://matt.diephouse.com/2016/12/logic-programming-in-swif...

I haven't had the chance to build anything that uses them. But having become familiar, I think there are lots of potential applications. I always thought that Prolog was strange. Logic programming makes a lot more sense as a library IMO.
Amongst other things, know your hardware.

For example, you could read the C++ spec forwards and backwards for a year and know your data structure big O notation just as well, but they will never tell you that inserting into the middle of a vector is faster than inserting into the middle of a linked list in a great many common cases.

Sure, ideally you'd measure, but you need to have some idea of what options to even compare with your measurements.
Just seeing the chir.ag domain brought back pleasant memories :)

I also spent an unreasonable amount of time in that era at dofi blog playing many other variants.
I humbly submit a lamentation: the tabulated format is inconvenient to read on a phone, since the right column gets very slim and tall. Simple paragraphs with headings would do much better―the olde HTML 2.0 without tables generally has excellent usability on phones. (However, on desktop it's recommended to limit paragraph width to ~80 characters, to not make the eye travel too far back and forth, losing the next line.)

Also, just in passing, I'm tempted to note that afaik few fonts are generated automatically, and vast majority are still done by hand―partly, I think, because computers aren't trusted to do the right thing for different sizes and widths, but likely primarily because font authors don't seem to be inclined to learn all the necessary mathematical parameters (of which Knuth's Metafont has ~60). There are some automatic features in font renderers, but that's far from full generation of a font.
Those are some phrases I have heard before. And I agree that those posting them did come off somewhat intelligent, usually. Unfortunately, I don't quite get the intended meaning here.

How is a declining market threatening a profitable company that, at some point in its past, bought back shares? There are no on-going financial commitments a company has that are tied to the daily fluctuations of the stock market.

Even if they have taken on debt to finance a buyback, a future decline of the stock market has no bearing on them, except to possibly make it less lucrative to issue new stock.

As long as they make a profit in their core business, and those profits allow them to pay the 3% or 4% interest on any debt, they are completely save. A rise in interest rates does have a meaningful impact here, yes. But (a) interest rates have been rather stable for going on 40 years now, and this is a well-known risk that is an obvious part of any decision to take on debt. It can, and often is, also be hedged by agreeing to fixed interest rates, or hedging.
I work for an auto-repair chain in the midwest, and my bosses have repeatedly insisted or suggested on hiring "seasonal associates" to help around the shop. The most cringe-worthy and condescending reference to them came from a general manager who once called them "santas helpers" in a presentation.

Everyone puts off auto work until they need to go somewhere over the holidays and either relents to the shop time (and the shop rate) or is towed off the highways after an accident or breakdown during holiday travel. holidays and post-holiday are our most stressful and busy time in the shop. You need to tune out the Michael Bublé in the front office, pay extra close attention to detail, and try to stay sane.

What people forget about places like Amazon is they are a shop floor. You might not have tire mounting machines and drill presses, but you have fork trucks and conveyors. You are in an industrial setting, and if you'd like to keep your fingers and toes, you should never rush the work.

In my professional opinion there should never be room for a seasonal worker in a shipping warehouse. You either have enough capacity to perform safely or you do not.
> paid by the company

They might be getting paid by someone else, but the comment I quoted specifically talked about getting paid by the company.

Unpaid internships are a lot more common than some people appear to believe. I initially believed it as well, because my internships were well-paid, but then I realized our industry was the exception rather than the rule.
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The atmospheric CO2 levels were considerably higher back then.

https://phys.org/news/2011-04-araucarias-gauge-ancient-carbo...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171127152109.h...
The way we treat animals is so repulsive and sad. As the article says, take a moment to think about how your meat, fish, mill, eggs are made and how much suffering and pollution they cause, then see if its worth re-evaluating your food choices.
The way to make backpropagation work properly (for "Deep Learning") was only worked out a few years ago. However, this article dates it from the first idea.

Perhaps similar to how relarional databases weren't practical until SQL and weren't workable until B-trees, but it's dated to Codd (which is fair).
Another example: on Android, look up scores of an ongoing sports event on mobile Chrome, and mobile Firefox. Mobile chrome gets you a box saying what the score actually is; mobile firefox just shows you the links to sports-league and news sites that you see under the score in mobile Chrome.

Click the "show desktop view" page on mobile firefox, reload, and suddenly the score is there. They're not discriminating that aggressively against competing desktop browsers. Yet.
I'm most definitely not an Apple fan, but the thing they have is every phone is quality. You don't need to wait six months after the device is released to see if the early adopters had major problems.

On the other hand, the apple ecosystem doesn't have fire sales like Android does, getting last year's hip kick-started flagship got $200-300 isn't so bad, even if you need to do it way more often. See Amazon fire phone, nextbit Robin, essential phone; these were all a great value when they went on sale, although the fire phone has no back button, so it was more terrible than the others, but also cheaper.
This is by design. They list all the things they do to de-googlify Chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... including removing the translation code so that information is not transmitted to google. See also this thread on ProtonMail+Chrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18490458
Paging Terrence McKenna... :)
Tuesday may deliver a triple-header of big launches to cap 2018
Hmm...looks like a lot of seemingly miraculous longevity turns out to be...less than miraculous.

First one I heard of were the Japanese, who actually weren't long-lived but scamming the state for pensions:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071

And so of course the health benefits of the Japanese diet turned out to be, not as beneficial. Still delicious, though.

Last I checked there were similar issues with the so-called Mediterranean diet, though I can't find the reference now.

Sixth Sense, anyone?
Did you not search the document for "ASCII"?
Mostly agree, but I don't like the characterization of stock issuance as being just as easy as stock buyback.
I would guess this would be relatively easy to check if you exhumed her and a few members of her family to do DNA checks.
There's another interesting story about Knuth that's worth repeating here.

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...

The tl;dr is that Knuth wrote an elaborate implementation of a program to solve a particular problem, and Doug McIlroy replaced it entirely with a six step shell pipeline. (Knuth's program was written using his literate programming tools, could be typeset in TeX, and involved some precise work with data structures and algorithms.)

I love this story as an example both of Knuth's genius and perspective, but also as a way to show what his level of dedication can achieve. It's an amazing intellectual accomplishment.

I also love this story as a demonstration what those of us without that skill and dedication can achieve using the advancements built on the work of Knuth and others.
Well they do give away browsers for free.
Can you dive in a bit deeper... what do you mean with 'Don't buy the BS?'

Design Thinking to me essentially is user centered design, I don't think you're saying UCD is BS.

What I'm reading is that without getting buy-in from execs, engineering etc - 'design thinking' is useless.

What did you do, so the 'design thinking' piece transcended into execution / desired outcome.

Or did you only work on projects where the value of 'design thinking' was already understood, i.e. design was seen as an executive priority.

EDIT: typos
They use a polyfill for Firefox on Youtube because of a never-standardised feature too: https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021649116391075840
On the other hand, with 6-7 Billion people, a 1:130K chance is not going to be much of a hindrance, statistically.
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Just pointing out that the question about ownership (freedom of usage) is countered with an answer about copyright, which was specifically addressed as not being questioned at all.
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> If someone can correctly explain a position but continue to disagree with it, that position is less likely to be correct. And if ability to correctly explain a position leads almost automatically to agreement with it, that position is more likely to be correct.

Wow, really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Two thoughts:

First, the low-hanging fruit has already been picked.

Second, it can take time - possibly decades - for an idea to bear enough fruit that we can see its importance. Look how long the idea of hypertext had been around before it became a household name.
It's worth calling out the systematic distortion here. As a rational investor one may buy into a stock under the thesis that the company is going to perform buybacks with debt. As you can be long until the debt buybacks end, and the company implodes.

A smarter investor would acquire large stakes in companies capable of issuing debt and lobby the boards to perform buybacks, allowing a form of corporate raiding with less capital invested and dramatically more reward.

Both of these strategies rely on the greater fool hypothesis, but in a period with historically low interest rates and an implicit hedge that the fed would stimy any wide spread defaults it's a valid investment strategy.
It switches analog phone lines, so it could (and I'm sure did) act as a control plane for modem links. (Over which it was possible to send TCP/IP, etc.)
I once had to write a program for a class didn't have access to a compiler. I wrote it all in notepad and double checked everything more thoroughly than I ever would have done otherwise. When I got the computer lab the compiler found one or two type-o's and the program ran perfectly the first time. The experience changed how I write code. It's worth trying out at least one time.
Of course another variable is whether there will be another bailout if this goes off.
A couple of suggestions: Immutable Data Structures. And perhaps something that captures the kind of type inference Haskell/Elm/etc. can do. Not sure if they're big enough to compete with something like B-trees :-)
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This really is a no brained. With such a small fee with such a large investment you’d be extremely hard pressed to beat that performance (if all you wanted was to match an index).
I think you are operating from a seriously mistaken assumption of how stock buybacks work.

When a company buys their own stock, there are simply fewer shares free-floating, in the hands of owners. The company's profits therefore are divided among a smaller group, and each share receives a larger percentage of those profits.

Imagine an extreme case where McDonald's buys every single share but one. That remaining stock-owner will therefore own 100% of McDonald's, and get every last profit made from the world's obese.

All this requires no ongoing buybacks from the company. You do it once, and because the denominator shrinks, each stock appraises. After that, as long as profits remain stable, earnings per share will, and so should, absent external factors, the stock price.
There's a position like that in my company, open to new hires (only bachelor's needed). The goal is to optimize algorithms and data analysis models that run on our HPC cluster. It basically boils down to changing compiler settings and seeing what runs the fastest.
Initial reaction when it was first announced where mixed to negative. NLP is used for keyword stuffing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503729
How does this differ from Pale Moon? Are the developers/maintainers now working on 2 different browsers?
Donald Knuth's 24th Annual Christmas Lecture: Dancing Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cR9zDlvP88
Earlier discussion https://mario.nintendo.com/
The EULA is a contract. The CEO just lied. Know the integrity of the corporation by lies of its chief executive to the public.
The coming death of home satellite service in US
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> The company can't make a contract with the universe. The interest payments, however, are a contractual obligation.

Debt restructuring and bankruptcy are things, too. A contractual obligation isn't immutable or inviolable.
But A is in the money business, they should have no interest in X and Y.

- A loans $100K to both B and C at 10%.

- B makes X and Y, C make Q and R.

- B and C can produce and sell X,Y,Q, and R to one another to their mutual hearts content, creating a lot of value, but in the end A can only be satisfied by $220K. Either B or C is going to end up short.

Why would A accept X or Y when it's detrimental to their business interests to do so?
Considering how many wealthy (and not so wealthy) voters are invested in large public corporations, I assume bailouts will happen.
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No way; I worked for him from 1978-1986, and never heard him say a naughty word. Also, I tagged along when he went to Apple to meet Jobs, who wanted to show him a late prototype of the Mac, and don’t recall hearing any such thing at the time (and it would have shocked me).
If that were the case, then those insights would be remain insightful when taught to someone who isn't on the drug. And if it isn't teachable, it's neither demonstrably true nor valuable.

Alertness is a state of mind. Insight is not.
Juuls = e-cig/vape brandname
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> I would be very very nervous just dumping my billions in a S&P 500 ETF. At that level of wealth, you really ought to have a portfolio manager who can slice and dice your exposure in advantageous ways.

Why? A couple of billions should still be a tiny drop if compared to the market cap of S&P 500. What do those active portfolio managers provide to you?
If it’s just 3D without heat mapping, why don’t masks work?
Microsoft's trademark on Pocket PC is most likely dead, as it hasn't been seen in commerce in a long time, so you can probably call whatever you like a Pocket PC
Ideally you have a reference to an EDGAR filing for this?
Tbh my observation is both sides demonise each other. ‘Abortion is murder’ being one example of the inverse.
I like these two quotes of Knuth where he lets us know how hard he worked.

--

From this small interview [1]:

"When I'm working on a research problem I generally begin by filling dozens of sheets of scratch paper with partial calculations. When I eventually get to a point where I can think about the problem while swimming, then I'm often ready to solve it."

--

From this other interview [2]:

"So I went to Case, and the Dean of Case says to us, says, it’s a all men’s school, says, “Men, look at, look to the person on your left, and the person on your right. One of you isn’t going to be here next year; one of you is going to fail.” So I get to Case, and again I’m studying all the time, working really hard on my classes, and so for that I had to be kind of a machine.

I, the calculus book that I had, in high school we — in high school, as I said, our math program wasn’t much, and I had never heard of calculus until I got to college. But the calculus book that we had was great, and in the back of the book there were supplementary problems that weren’t, you know, that weren’t assigned by the teacher. The teacher would assign, so this was a famous calculus text by a man named George Thomas, and I mention it especially because it was one of the first books published by Addison-Wesley, and I loved this calculus book so much that later I chose Addison-Wesley to be the publisher of my own book.

But Thomas’s Calculus would have the text, then would have problems, and our teacher would assign, say, the even numbered problems, or something like that. I would also do the odd numbered problems. In the back of Thomas’s book he had supplementary problems, the teacher didn’t assign the supplementary problems; I worked the supplementary problems. I was, you know, I was scared I wouldn’t learn calculus, so I worked hard on it, and it turned out that of course it took me longer to solve all these problems than the kids who were only working on what was assigned, at first. But after a year, I could do all of those problems in the same time as my classmates were doing the assigned problems, and after that I could just coast in mathematics, because I’d learned how to solve problems. So it was good that I was scared, in a way that I, you know, that made me start strong, and then I could coast afterwards, rather than always climbing and being on a lower part of the learning curve."

[1] http://authenticinquirymaths.blogspot.pt/2015/11/maths-in-sc....

[2] Transcript from here: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
That's beginning at age 105, so it's closer to 300,000 people (316,600 people over 100 in 2012 according to Wikipedia)
Depends on risk tolerance and how flashy they want to be.

Donald Trump, if his public finances are to be believed, would have roughly the same net worth had he just invested the money his dad gave him in mutual funds. Instead he managed to create a series of failing companies and questionable ties... but managed to live the high life and stamp his name on bloody everything.
As a Tokyo dweller, I'm also quite excited about the QZSS system which has a constellation of 4 satellites one of which is always in a near zenith position and provides a GPS signal even amidst the highest skyscrapers.
> Interest is determined by the risk inherent in the debt.

That's the supply side consideration of the price of debt, but interest, like all prices, is determined by intersection of supply and demand, not supply alone.

Demand side consideration is “what new income in the future does taking on this debt now enable?”
Buying back shares is not unsustainable in and of itself. Buying back shares to artificially inflate your stock price is.

The unsustainable part is giving investors the impression that, while the Dow plunges 500 points, your stock remains stable. Then when your buybacks stop and your shares plummet with the rest of the market, it gives the impression that something suddenly happened and your company is in a dire situation.

Either you keep buying shares to inflate the value (which gets expensive) or you stop and accept that your shares will go down (which looks worse now that your stock price has not declined with the rest of the market). Either way, if you're using buybacks to keep your stock price up in a market that's down, you're going to get burned eventually.
Thanks for sharing this. Definitely made my day :D
In German text, it was still very fashionable, even into the 1900s. It is also the reason for the "sharp" or double s, ß, which is the result of a ligature between two of the long s letters.
With brave you can make money as a publisher here https://brave.com/publishers/ Essentially, people browsing with brave who have put some amount of money in a wallet will disburse at the end of a cycle some funds to each publisher based on how much attention they spent on each site.
Only if 130k of those 7B life to 105! (They don't)
All browsers on iOS have to use Safari, so Firefox for iOS is just Safari with Firefox's UI and Sync.
AFAIK, countries that have tried loosening the laws on drugs have made good experiences. You would save a lot of money on law enforcement, plus you could tax drugs the way alcohol and tobacco are taxed now. With all that money, you could offer some reasonable therapy facilities.

Also, I don't think the stigma would just disappear for stuff like heroin. Heroin is terribly addictive, and staying away from it remains a good idea regardless of its legal status.
Fantastic!
For those wondering how such a program was printed (and then had to be typed by hand from the magazine), here's a scan cap of the page in question https://imgur.com/a/Mng21o3

And here you can find the full issue:
http://8bs.com/aumags.htm
maybe buybacks aren't done with an interest in being sustainable - don't they provide a good opportunity for shareholders to exit their investment at a higher price than they entered?
I agree that it's not a good habit to start, but my wife quit smoking by switching to a vape and gradually reducing the nicotine to zero (over years). So all I can say is mileage varies on that.
I was mistaken, sorry. Those unpackings work as of Python 3.0 due to PEP 3132 "Extended Iterable Unpacking" [2]. PEP 448 is just for those examples in the second half of my comment.

[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3132/
the guy definitely looks 36
Does decriminalization do much to stop the crime and violence on the supply side of the illicit drug market? I'm assuming decriminalization makes possession of small amounts ok, but dealing and importing are still major offenses?

The dealer still has to import the drugs the same way as he does now, build a network of street dealers, etc.
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What will Microsoft gain if they Win? Nothing. Google has the upper hand in public image. Microsoft is still evil outside of Dev Circles. And IE did some ass moves as well in IE6 era, think about the PR mess this would lead.

It is not the best time to strike now, once the timing is right, I am sure they will.
Maybe not with the current Us administration however..
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The kicker is that these buybacks were financed with debt,