skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am lucky that my early education was focused on reading and writing, and that I was a natural reader and writer at a young age. I believe that those who can write clearly are generally able to think clearly. Being a decent writer means you can summarize complex ideas with a small word-count. I'd suggest focusing on those basics first - being able to summarize complex ideas in a way that a child can understand.

After that, I gained experience breaking tasks into smaller actionable pieces and delegating the pieces to others. It's hard to say how you can learn to do this. I learned over a long period of time by living life. I did do sports, and I was in the military and learned a lot as an NCO.
People are lonely because corporate culture - including, but not limited to, work culture - is outrageously demanding and often insane, not because they need an app to remind them to phone grandma.

Everyone - who isn't financially independent - could benefit from shorter hours and more creative freedom and financial security. Apps that try to parent us are not a solution.
These are called "Reacher numbers."

http://recursed.blogspot.com/2007/09/mathematics-in-jack-rea...
Base 10: https://oeis.org/A023106
Base 2: https://oeis.org/A256590
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The crypto wars worked out well from the NSA's point of view. Obviously determined individuals, foreign governments, terrorists etc were not deterred by it from obtaining strong crypto. But mass adoption of strong crypto was delayed by many years, enabling mass surveillance.
The list of mistakes with links to the segments in the video:

1. Thinking CSS Grid is everything:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=6

2. Using only percents for sizing:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=93

3. Assuming you need breakpoints:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=189

4. Getting confused by numbering:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=250

5. Always using 12-columns:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=314

6. Ignoring the power of rows:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=384

7. Reaching for a framework:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=508

8. Waiting for IE11 to die:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=639

9. Hesitating, instead of playing:
https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0?t=768
A brand new Ford Raptor will clean the air in most cities. You'd have to drive that 465HP fuel guzzling toy over 3,887 miles to equal the particulate output of 30 minutes of yard work with a 2 stroke engine.

So not as much of a discount as you might have thought.
The second line in the article:

> Prices cut by $2,000 to partially offset shrinking tax credit.

At that cost range I don’t know if I could ever know my customer well enough that I would be confident that a 3% price break would get more sales but what do I know. Also, this feels more like PR.

What fraction of the cost of a Tesla is the battery pack? Weren’t those supposed to be getting cheaper due to all of the automation?

When your costs decline you lower your prices, add more features or increase your margins.
I hope it's proved that Trump didn't do anything substantially wrong. Then - instead of the world having to have overcome some terrible problem - I would only have to overcome the shame of having made a mistake. And I've been mistaken many times.
Usually this kind of visual programming breaks down with large amount of data/operations. A simple test is trying to program a quick sort in it. I'm not sure how this solves the problem.
Tesla is definitely hitting the demand ceiling. It's a good thing Musk isn't producing 10000 M3 per week. The current rate of ~4500 per week is enough to meet demand.

In fact, expect continuous price drops from Tesla as it struggles to drum up enthusiasm
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I'm not an expert by any means, but yes you could put Batman on a shirt and sell it. I'm not sure how it works for movies, but with audio the actual recordings are still copyrighted for some time after the music itself is in public domain.

It would be my guess that any works created after the first one still have copyright on the content itself. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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I'm not so sure the 30% pay increase with every job hop is necessarily the norm either. Maybe at first when you're moving up from entry-level to senior. But in some markets, you hit the regional salary cap after four of those and you're stuck with 2-4% annual raises -- even with in-demand skill sets.

If I posted the job offers I've received for having experience with Spark/Hadoop, building / productionizing machine learning models (since 2011 even), an AWS certificate, and 15 years worth of other worthwhile skills, people here wouldn't believe me because they are so low. Definitely well below the startng salary of someone at Google. Yet I've had three, all of which were basically identical.
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Hi, I'm the author.

I'm honestly seriously torn about this. There is a serious tension between pedagogical needs of students in formal classrooms and the pedagogical needs of self-learners. I've chosen to aim for the former. Yes, I know it's a bummer.

(From experience) providing solutions interferes with the learning process of my own students at Illinois. I have to change up homeworks and exam questions every semester, because otherwise students will look up and copy/memorize the answers instead of trying to figuring them out, which means they do worse on the exams where they HAVE to figure things out.

Also, a significant majority of the requests I get for solutions are from university students who want to cheat.

I do provide solutions to the homework and exam and lab problems I assign in any particular class, after the fact. (And I release those solutions publicly, despite the protests of colleagues at other universities, until the semester ends.) And I have started proving model solutions in the homeworks, so that the students know what kind of answers I'm looking for. (See the course materials page, under CS 374.)

In practice, my stance is becoming increasingly moot, as more of my official solutions get uploaded to places like CourseHero and Koofers and their many foreign-language equivalents.

I am very likely to include solutions for a subset of problems (maybe three or four per chapter) in a future edition. But that will take a significant amount of time, and I wanted to get something out the door.
It’s no mystery. In the early-mid 90s IBM was ramping up on Smalltalk believing it to be the language of the future enterprise. In the late 90s they realised that jumping on the Java bandwagon would be more profitable so they ditched Smalltalk almost overnight. The same reason IBM does anything, including Linux.
Yup its having issues https://www.githubstatus.com/
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I feel like "each level should provide more abstraction" is at odds with "encourage passing simple types like strings, numbers".

Also, I'd go further than "pass clones of objects instead of active instances" all the way to "only use mutable objects when performance demands it, and keep the scope of the mutability small".
The production and delivery numbers they came out with were very good and higher than most had expected. These numbers will allow them another profitable Q4 likely higher than their Q3 numbers.

The price cuts are likely to impact margins, but is in line with what Tesla had done with the Model S and X as production efficiencies allow them to reduce manufacturing costs.

The reaction looks like a big overreaction as the market is apt to do. Seems like there is a lot of Tesla hate on the internet for some odd reason these days.
I have to say, the short description of arithmetic circuits in elliptic curve finite fields in this blog post is probably one of the clearest and most concise I've seen. Bravo!

As for the problem of user-agent sniffing, well, it is done for a reason. Probably there's less of it these days than there used to be as browsers got better and more standards compliant. I'd be interested to know why Vanguard restrict to YubiKeys, perhaps someone from the FIDO alliance can find out.
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I managed to get a A- in Ericsson’s 373 as an undergrad (grads took the same class but had their own curve) in 2001. Great class, great experience, great teacher. Pushed me to do algorithms at a difficulty I didnt hunk possible.
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Lining up the 0.1in grid is a great lesson I wish had been learned by the Arduino inventor. I'd like to name them but it's unclear to me who to credit for an otherwise very useful board.
Another thing is the pre 2017 car-pool stickers for electric cars are expiring in the bay area. The newer stickers have income caps of $150k (single filing) or $300k (joint filing). I wonder what the impact will be on Tesla? The first change helps them but the second hurts them.
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Company focuses on new computational photography use cases and neural network acceleration on edge devices.

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Looking forward to the post mortem. GitHub tends to have informative ones, and it's been a while since their site has gone down so it's probably an interesting problem.
Here, something you might find even stranger than aphantasia, a stark contrast in visual thinking between people WITHOUT aphantasia, i.e. between people with a functioning mind's eye:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f1c0/e09b9909a751de4f1c15cd... Spatial versus object visualizers: a new characterization of visual cognitive style. [2005]

Here's an imgur album of the two most important figures from the paper, which might very well already summarize the majority of it for you:

https://imgur.com/a/6C7WcWk
Show HN: A well-architectured, trivial browser engine
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Your example of US Treasuries might work out, everyone elses examples of other sovereign treasuries and non-financial corporate bonds might not.

Thats what this is about, not some personal finance blog’s conment section where you broke away from the herd to say “hey debt can be good”
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I went from hyperphantasia as a child to complete aphantasia in my early teens. When I was <= 7 y.o. my favourite past time was playing and directing vividly realistic movies behind my closed eyelids. Sometimes I could even visualize things with my eyes open, creating a kind of "extended reality" with imagined things or creatures interacting with real ones. This ability started to gradually disappear around the time I went to school, and now I'm completely unable to visualize anything (other than occasional involuntary hypnagogues before falling asleep).
Most distant world ever visited is shaped like a peanut
The last I heard from Thunderbird in 2018, the story was Mozilla making preparations to divest themselves from the project and spin it off to "the community" (a.k.a. Apache graveyard).

This post makes it sound like the Thunderbird team has been growing within Mozilla during 2018, and is targeting another 75% headcount increase in 2019.

I mean, that's awesome, as someone who wants there to be a viable desktop email client option out there. But geeze... what a muddled mess of messaging and pivots from this organization.
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Nope. Anything I publish will be available free.
Absolutely if the candidate is upfront about it and has a plan in place. Depression is nothing to joke about but it’s a condition that can be overcomed with a support and proper treatment.

Don’t get frustrated if you will hear no a lot. It doesn’t mean anything. Seek supportive and welcoming environment. Focus on the positives and celebrate any progress, no matter how small it is.

Good luck!
Forum for discussion is actually one of my highest priorities for this month! I'm not settled on whether to use something like Discourse, phpBB, a subreddit, a mailing list, a custom forum, or a GitHub repo with Issues enabled. This requires more thought, and maybe more discussion, but it was on the todo list since day one of writing Autumn.

I will look into reacting to Mac notifications, that sounds like it could be useful but I'm not sure I understand what it means. Could you elaborate?
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I have read the submission, but have you? Did you somehow miss the complete absence of substance in it? Which part of it should have me convinced? That Taleb said so and did so emphatically? That you are now repeating it emphatically?

Please remain civil and refrain from calling me ignorant. I have read the submission and disagree with its (lack of) argument.
Now API and Gists are out.
How is paying for licenses career building?
> refreshing hn when github goes down
Obviously a Y2K(+19) bug
I would agree that words like "obvious" or "trivial" can be disheartening to a learner.

If it's obvious to the reader, they know it whether or not you tell them it's obvious. If it's not obvious to them, then they will try to figure it out. Telling this person "it's obvious" only serves to make them feel bad about not getting it right away.
Might be a gut microbiome thing?

Do you know which exact antibiotics? Some antibiotics have psychoactive effects.
Demand ceiling for the US or for the world? I suspect they've hit the former, but that there's a lot of demand in the latter.
This actually a price increase because of a loss of the federal tax credit... the title is bogus and should be changed imho.

"Moving beyond the success of Q4, we are taking steps to partially absorb the reduction of the federal EV tax credit (which, as of January 1st, dropped from $7,500 to $3,750). Starting today, we are reducing the price of Model S, Model X and Model 3 vehicles in the U.S. by $2,000."

http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla...

Edit: the mods changed the title. thank you!
That was a pretty great post, if only for this line:

> Extra credit: explain why nobody cares.
There are 4 posts on the HN homepage that links to github.com. All of them are leading to the page with unicorn.
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