skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically the point of the police, imagine this crowdsourcing thing did exist, but instead of everyone being able to see it only a select number of people who had been trained how to capture people and bring them to the courts without harming them could see it and respond. And they got paid to do this by everyone in the local area paying some money for them to do it. That’s what the police should be.
Using virtual reality to digitally alter the skin color of defendants
I have spent some time loving all 3 of those languages, and also, most recently, F#.

I really do think that an ML-style type system is the better way to do domain modeling. The compiler support you get in F#, such as ensuring that your match expressions are complete, are nice. But what really makes me enjoy working that way is that (the non-OO bits of) F#'s type system makes it very easy to create domain models whose intent and inner workings are just obvious.

You're right, it's not correct to cast the differences as "missing features" - it's just different ways of doing things. And each has its own advantages and disadvantages. F#'s set of tradeoffs is just the one that most suits my tastes when I'm building LOB applications.
That's the sound of me having learned it the hard way...
> The goal is to get paid

Not all programmers work for other people
mushy bananas become banana nut bread... you cannot fail this.
Any evidence of actual investors being upset about this? The only actual quote from the wsj article:

"Founders Fund in a statement said it has been briefed on the relationship between SpaceX and the Boring Co. “and we have no concerns whatsoever."
Accreditation, Quality, and Making Hospital Care Better
I used Anki back in 2008 to help me learn Japanese. The best result was memorizing 10,000 vocab inside a 12 month period during my second year of study. That did phenomenal things for my Japanese in combination with decent amounts of conversation.

The power of SRS if you are someone who can take a little bit of pain and who is good at devising learning strategies is off the charts.

I guess the best way I can put it is there are some things for which the traditional model of learning would only take you so far but that through a cleverly devised SRS strategy you could take yourself to places that would be traditionally not attainable for you.

Maybe that's a bad explanation, I don't really think I'm doing it justice.

Something I've settled on attempting in 2019 through SRS is learning psychology. Now SRS is only ever PART of a strategy, it's never the whole thing. But my strategy to get me to the next level that just reading pop psychology books isn't getting me to is that memorize all the replicated and highly cited studies in psychology across as many branches of it as possible. This takes the format of remembering the names of the study/paper, the year it was published, who the authors were, what journal it was published in. The second part is memorizing and being able to verbalize a summary of the the study and it's conclusions.

Think what you will about what that will do for my ability to understand psychology but I can tell you this for sure: rote memorization of all the facts then frees your mind up to get to the next level then connecting all the dots between the facts. People often criticize rote learning because they think learning is more about connecting the dots and that's what we should focus on. It's exactly backwards. First focus on getting all the dots into your head and then inferences start to come thick and fast naturally.

The key to devising an SRS strategy is think in terms of "pieces of information" and to find good sets of "pieces of information" that have extremely good power to weight ratio.

There's two things I'll say there... You COULD use SRS to memorize an entire introductory psych textbook. You COULD. But it would be the exact wrong way to go about it. If you memorize the relevant category of information you can use that to Intuit all the explanations .

The other thing to say is the "pieces of information" should have the same shape. They should be in the same category. They shouldn't be random, but highly cohesive. For medicine this would be like you start with anatomy first and you do all of that before moving on. You go in layers.

The next key is then your search stategy on how to locate the information.

The next key is defining different phases of your strategy which boils down to figuring out which set of pieces of information to after in which order to achieve which specific goals.
take one phone and repackage it in its old box. turn it on and throw it into a amazon box and wait. once you have their address you can slowly exact revenge via subtle methods that dont expose you.
this glitter method would be like kicking a shark in my neighborhood. made a good vid tho i really enjoyed watching it. esp the fart spray parts.
>I would rather see a high-end TV dinner service.

Yeah. Much as I like cooking, there are many evenings when I just want to pop something in the oven. I have a few options. (Have a great local turkey farm and there are a few traditional comfort food staples in the grocery store that I like.) But it would be nice to be able to just buy a frozen lasagna as good as the ones I sometimes make and freeze.
Yes plenty of people do read them.

And very few people do algorithms and math on their jobs.

You also don't learn most of what the books teach you on your job.

Knowing how to do algorithms and math is rarely what's needed to deliver software.
I haven't made the donation yet for 2018, but I make donations every year right at year's end to at least these two charities:

- Doctors Without Borders

- Direct Relief

Global health problems is where I'm most interested in donating money. I split my money between those two primarily to have a little diversification from idiosyncratic risks to a single operation.

These occupy the vast majority of my charitable giving. I give or have given in the past much smaller amounts to a smattering of other charities: Wikimedia, Give Directly, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Lambda Legal, Girls Who Code.

Also: I'm an avid crossword solver, and over the last year or two some puzzle constructors, as a way of doing good, have started offering packets of crosswords in exchange for donations to a cause. The original, I believe, was Francis Heaney's Puzzles for Progress http://puzzlesforprogress.francisheaney.com/ for broadly progressive causes, but I have also seen Queer Qrosswords https://queerqrosswords.com/ for LGBTQ charities and Women of Letters https://www.pattivarol.com/women-of-letters/ for feminist charities. If it tips you over the edge to donate, do it and go get some puzzles!
What is there to be envious about?
I ran away from facebook in 2015. I maybe check once a month to see if a random cousin reached out to me, and the service fails even at that. I don't understand how anyone uses this firehose of irrelevant information anymore. I check the notifications bar, and it says I have dozens and dozens of notifications, but really I have zero. All of these dozens of alerts and badges are nothing more than "Ashley commented on derricks post" I don't know a derrick at all, or "Jerry liked russian_troll_page's video."

The feed is completely polluted. Out of all the mismatched and randomly shuffled posts from the past week that pop up, maybe 5% are original content from my friends, and not someone liking a page or commenting on a video with 300,000 other comments.

The site used to be excellent when the content was 100% generated by the people I personally knew. Nowadays, I don't know how you get any valuable information out of it without spending hours and hours sifting through the junk. The platform regressed.

I still use social media everyday. On instagram I follow my friends, and a handful of nature pages. Most of the posts I see are from people I know, an interesting story across the world, or a poorly targeted ad. On snapchat I only chat or look at stories posted by my friends; I only click the crap on the discover page if my thumb misses. I don't use twitter, I prefer daily newsletters from NYT, and follow other publishers and magazines with RSS (including this site). I've cut the fat by living within inoreader and rarely straying elsewhere.

You can save a lot of time if you don't have to sift through algorithmic advertising pollution to read the headlines and see what your friend Dave did today. Start now. Drop facebook, drop twitter, unfollow everyone you don't know personally on everything else, and use an RSS reader to filter in the content you actually want to engage with, not what an advertiser wants you to see to buy something, or vote a certain way.
What stops companies from repeatedly reverse-splitting the stock to keep it above $1?
Many have already so he was wrong even before speaking. I think Ellison might have a skewed view of "normal".
He is right that it is rare that companies will reimburse because typically there is no reimbursing to do; that is, they book all of the accommodations similar to how they would for employee travel and relocation assistance.
You can just close your fb account and move on with your life. Good luck doing that with google and its drive/docs/gmail/search/apps/phone/maps/contact manager/chrome
What I've seen in many big cities happening with regularity:

1. City has a good mojo, not too big, not too small.

2. Not too unequal neighborhoods.

3. #1 and #2 attract startups, big companies.

4. Rents rise in the city.

5. Slowly there will be calls to increase housing density.

6. More houses get built, housing density increases, rents go down by $100-$200/month for maybe 1-2 years.

7. Rents bounce back in about 1-2 years and then continue on.

8. Calls to increase density further, eventually the city loses its desirable properties and poor people are still relatvely just as worse off as they were before.

9. The rich tech worker is still in the same position, relatively.

Important thing being, even after doing all these things, the median poor person in the name of which all this densification happened is still stuck in the same relative bad standing as he/she was before, only difference being the city lost its charm in the process as well.

Obviously, this doesn't apply in the case of NYC since it's been a big city for a long long time but the above story is worth keeping in mind for small cities in many states.

It might be a better idea to have companies distributed more uniformly than pushing for high densification of few cities. It spreads economic benefits around as well.
The Equifax link leads to a form where you submit your social security number and birthdate. Cool.
It's funny because I really feel like I had a big downgrade when I moved from Japan to Germany. In Japan they ask you what times you expect to be home and they try to deliver it then. If you are not home, they come back another time. If they try several times and you are not there, then the package is returned. I was shocked when our packages were left with a neighbor here (why would you leave my stuff with a stranger?) and another time was left in the garbage storage area with a note in our mailbox.

I think Europe would have been a lot cooler if I had moved from the US straight there instead of coming from Japan :/
Detroit Flying Cars WD-1 Crashes During Test Run
I read the article. The only thing I could think through most of it was "that sounds like a terrible place to work."
Peel and freeze your bananas before they go bad. Use the frozen bananas for smoothies, or thaw them for cooking(eg banana bread).
I'm not really sure where you see this "deification" — but as for me, I simply have a lot of respect for him. Mostly because every year or so he comes back with another solution to one of my problems. I don't agree with all his choices (I find some of his naming compromises particularly bad), but I still respect (not "deify") him.

Listen to some of his talks and you will see why people respect Rich.
Move fast and break things or Bait and Switch or Just lie, because who cares
It may be genetically distinct from animalia, but it’s definitely acting like an animal. It moves independently, senses external stimuli and hunts prey.

Actually, it’s probably the closest thing to an actual alien life form that we’ve yet encountered. This is what that kind of convergent evolution would look like.
In my experience, when someone asks you what you really think of them, they already know.
Well, chunks of it are tree-like and chunks of it have less well-defined structure. The tree still works very well. We still teach the Bohr model of the atom, too.
People wouldn’t mind paying taxes as much if they knew where it was going, instead of it going into a black box and no one really sure if it all makes it out to the needed services.
Panoply CEO Issues Statement Challenging Airbnb Decision on Israeli Settlements
Changing Your Way of Thinking to Permanently Regulate Stress
PsychENCODE: Mapping Neuropsychiatric Disorders to Brain Architecture
Spaced repetition is so effective. I'm surprised it's not more ubiquitous.

I recently published a Chrome extension to review knowledge in a new browser tabs after trying and failing to use Anki post-graduation. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forgetmenot/nncbpj...

Check it out if you have the chance. I'd love some feedback (and for more people to use spaced repetition in their everyday lives)!
How wonderful, yet disappointingly sufficient. Coincidentally, as suggested in the rules, writing “Live scorpions” will probably deter people anyway.
Instagram game: Guess if images posted by AR expert are Real or AR
Generally, yes, but in Python, no; there are at least 2 good ecosystems.
Kind of like on a related note, I like how the Internet raises the bar. I guess it only applies to certain kind of people, but at least I am constantly amazed by the engineering efforts in my field, of which I learn through here. Just as of today, I felt like I still know nothing, which certainly helps to keep pushing forward and to excel, even while there's no pressure for that in my day to day life.
Is this typical of startups that are funded by "insiders"?
I've wondered if Sullivan set up the bomb on Sculley, basically daring him to fire Jean-Louis. Sculley is a lose cannon that fires anyone that gives him needed feedback. Jean-Louis is important enough that firing him will bring that into sharp relief.

Sculley fires Jean-Louis, the resulting blowback doesn't convince Sculley of anything and Sculley is too dumb to know he needs to leave. So two years later the board is forced to can him.
My computer has at least three different Python versions installed. I'd say that's a pretty big backwards compatibility problem.

There is also Perl 6, and I've recently read about Go 2. Swift changes every couple of months in incompatible ways.
Netflix Standardizes on Spring Boot as Java Framework
I never understood why we were taught the Bohr model. If it was a history of science class then maybe it would make sense, but IMHO it just lets students develop incorrect intuitions.
Cool, very interesting. I need to look into Coq again! Maybe it's closer to what I want than I thought!
Eggs last for quite some time. Yeah, herbs are an issue if you don't grow them. But not all recipes that call for them really need them. And you can also freeze leftovers that are useful for some purposes. I cook for one during the week. I do eat leftovers but I also repurpose ingredients, freeze things, and definitely don't eat the same thing for days in a row.
I primarily use F# over C#, and I would prefer the interface version over the functions in many cases. An interface makes it a bit more explicit and self-explanatory what is expected to be passed. A Func<List<int>, List<int>> is not very meaningful and potentially ambiguous. Obviously, anywhere you expect more than one function, an interface is more desirable because it avoid the need to pass around multiple objects.

One thing that makes it a bit nicer in F# than in C# is that you can define object expressions wherever an interface is expected, so there's no need to declare a new type in the static scope somewhere (similar is possible in Java).

DoSomething { new ISortAlgorithm with
member this.Sort values = ... }
values

In terms of how they work, there's not really much difference. If something expects a function and you need to capture some local variable within that function, the framework will create a new type for that closure anyway.
"hedge fund" is kind of a misnomer these days. They started out as actual hedges, but now refer to basically any fund that makes use of complicated securities and active management.

But, yeah, it was likely a sucker's bet.
I met all my girlfriends including my wife in nightclubs. I didn't even like nightclubs but wanted to meet women.

This probably sounds as quaint as arranged marriages nowadays.
Tip: For your own safety, you should never Check for Updates in Windows 10
"If you value being able to feed your family, learn to love your boss and his ideas."

Or, even better, find a position in a company where you don't have to "learn" those things.
A related note, taking the point about negativity's correlation with being perceived as more intelligent: I've long wondered whether Hegel's notion that thought itself is fundamentally negative is true; it seems to make some intuitive sense and also gels with findings like those article opens with. If this is true to some extent, it's perhaps not that positive thoughts are less intelligent, but that meaningful positive thoughts are more difficult to obtain—as one necessarily has to pass through the negative first (thinking) to reach them. Outright positivity is not thought but simple satisfaction. If something doesn't disappoint us we really don't have any reason to think about it aside from the way in which we think about wants and urges, which isn't really thinking so much as it is desire. Really, only those poetic spirits seem to have mastered thinking purely positively—that is thinking desire.

In other words, it is not negative thought that's praiseworthy, but critical thought—thought that questions—which must begin negatively. Often this questioning begins (and unfortunately ends, for most) by questioning a thing on its aspects that disappoint or dissatisfy, that's after all what urges the questioning. To emerge from that position and to be able to, in turn, acknowledge the positive qualities of the thing is to dwell in that serene and moderate realm called reason, not too negative, not too positive—reasonable.
> Public class fields

As a TypeScript-user, I hadn't really realized this wasn't just plain, regular Ecmascript yet and thus assumed it had to be something else.

So I had to read the blog-post to see what it was, and find out that I no longer know regular Javascript ;)
> "Eggs milk peanut-butter" sounds different than "Eggs milk peanut butter"

True, but I've never went to the grocery store to buy a singular peanut.

I've bought a bag of peanuts, but not just one peanut.
OK, bullets then. At any rate ... a one-line of code solution is a flimsy excuse for a product placement.
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6k was the bottom and then a black swan event happened, at the worst possible time, when Bitcoin Cash forked again and the owners of the two forks had to childishly sell tons of bitcoin to fund their hashpower war. I don't think that was a predictable event.
Weird though when the author mentions the desire to rewrite Python functions in C.

The whole section about references was very confused. Especially for someone who supposedly knows C.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/201...

It might be a bit spurious but that is a fairly strong trend.
My usual question for decentralized storage system is "who is paying".

The DPAGE page says:
"your data are by default stored on a free Blockstack’s Gaia storage hub". When I looked at the Blockstack, their page says "Personal data lockers built on Google, AWS, and Azure."

Does this mean that my data is stored (encrypted) on Google/AWS/Azure, and that Blockstack is currently paying for this? So if Blockstack runs out of money, all the pages are gone?
Please, you do what we have been doing for the last 100 years. Freeze the extra. So you get 1 meal that is fresh and two that are frozen you can eat in a couple weeks. Do you honestly think that when you go to applebee's (or similar) the food didn't come out of a freezer?

But maybe the real problem here is lack of "cooking" knowledge. Grinding that cilantro up and mixing it with some garlic and olive oil will extend its life in the fridge for weeks. Or just freeze it, or dry it. Yes, food waste sucks, but that is because a lot of traditional skills have been lost. My wife thinks I'm weird for taking chicken/turkey bones/necks/etc and making stock, but it turns a pile of bones meat scraps into a nice soup.

This is also how to (apparently) run a profitable restaurant. Food rolls down from the fresh vegetables/meat, through the casserole stages until it ends up in a soup somewhere.

Really it doesn't take much effort, but really after a day of work + driving/etc I'm lucky if I have the motivation to tear open a frozen bag of stir fry.