skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also say don't restrict yourself just to schools in Socal. There are lots of great schools doing fully online Undergrad degrees (Penn State, Arizona State and Florida come to mind).

https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/bachelors/...
...and eBay didn't have to solve any logistics or shipping problems because they crowdsourced it.
* there should be 4 semesters a year, not 2, people should graduate in 2 years, not 4+

The word "semester" literally means "six month" so you can only have two. What you might want is to have more work during these two period.
OK, this makes sense, good idea
Confused about the link with poverty and stress. A linked article states: "Several teams presented evidence that poverty, disadvantage and stressful life events are strongly associated with cognitive problems in middle age and dementia later in life among African-Americans.

The findings could help explain why African-Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to develop dementia. And the research suggests genetic factors are not a major contributor."

Since there are more poor whites than African Americans, I don't understand why being poor explains African Americans being twice as likely to develop dementia?
Because a world in which many parties have strategic nuclear defense AND sufficient non-nuclear forces is more stable and less conflict prone than a world in which major powers possess only nuclear weapons.

Such was the worry about Cold War Germany: had Russia attacked with conventional forces, the US would have been all but required to escalate quickly to nuclear weapons.

Similarly in Korea. If the Inchon landings hadn't been successful, it's a coin flip as to whether the US would have nuked North Korea, Russia, and/or China. Truman, LeMay, and MacArthur were all prepared to go to the mat for South Korea and Taiwan.

https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-korean-war...
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I was at Citrix when they dropped Octoblu, I agree it was a shame. I remember Chris giving a really interesting talk to my team about Octoblu and thinking it was super cool, and James Bulpin used to do some really cool demos with it around automating meetings and workspaces - there's probably stuff on Youtube actually. Those demos moved to Azure IOT, but I'm not familiar enough with either to talk about how they compare. Interesting that Chris ended up at Magic Leap too!
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Show HN: Traduora – App translation management for teams
Hello all!

Recently I've been working on traduora, a web app that helps you manage the translation of your own project into multiple languages. It's still work-in-progress, but I'd love to get some feedback from you guys (both landing page and web-app if you end up trying it).

I'm currently working on a few missing core features: teams and API access. But you can already make use of it if you wish, it's free with some limits while it's on beta.

Things you can do:

- Add project terms/translations or import existing ones.
- Edit translations and terms.
- Export to various formats.
- (Soon) Manage team members.
- (Soon) Access API directly from your projects to check for updated translations.

Let me know what you think. The landing page in particular will have more info on the product's features soon.

https://traduora.com

Cheers!
Many such businesses have sunk into oblivion in the past century. They were started by hungry go-getters; their well-oiled machinery was handed to much-less hungry people who made poor choices in the face of heavier competition.

The story of Sears vs. Ward ("By the end of the 1930s, Montgomery Ward had become the country's largest retailer") is full of insights. (I was surprised to learn today that 'Wards' is still an online retailer. https://www.wards.com/ )
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This is great. I might just have to vote with my wallet.
Thats a very expensive wakeup call if they cost an average of $4-8k a piece (8-12 classes a year for $40-$60k per).

I'm sure the kids really appreciate the experience four years down the line when they can look back at sophomores in a real job and think "gosh, wasn't it great my first two years of college cost me 3-4 years of my post-graduate income and gave me the wonderful value for all that money of 'waking me up' to how hard college will be when I actually start getting value from it!"
In the US real estate agents do similar. You pay them many thousands of dollars to parade people through the home and pressure you to compromise on your listing price so they can close easier. In my experience, the agents usually can’t answer any basic questions about the home anyway.

I’ve believed this industry has some tech coming it’s way for a while now. Would have loved to jumped on it early but it’s also one of those industries where you’d need an established “in” to make headway (i assume).
I think in this case you want to replace "fetishize" with "pervert." The verb, not the noun, but the word fits.
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Ask HN: Are you motivated by company-wide achievement awards?
My company has a sheme whereby every quarter, a handful of individuals/teams are awarded prizes - let's call them "superstar trophies" - to celebrate innovative working, wide-reaching achievements, exceptional leadership, etc.

While I always feel happy for the winners of the superstar trophies, on balance I find the scheme kind of demotivating. Personally, I don't need the external motivation of a prize, and I'm always left wondering how many people are feeling a little bummed that their hard work hasn't been recognized yet.

So my goal with this question is to better understand how other people feel about these kind of schemes. Does your company have one? Does it motivate you? If not, how could it be changed so as to have a more positive effect?
The vast majority of healthcare costs are not related to emergency care. For that portion, there is indeed an argument for government-provisioned services being more efficient.
Doesn’t replace the bees function in the greater biosphere.
Fine, so eliminate those logistical considerations, what sort of big advantage is there? Turns out, about none. What new applications are opened up? What is now possible? Not much.

And most fusion that I've heard does require massive processing to get enough input fuel, just read through all the technical discussions down below.

Take a coal plant (or bigger), and remove the need for fuel and the emissions. What's the big benefit over what we have now? And I say this as somebody who views climate change and carbon emission as the biggest issue of our time. I just can't get the least bit excited about fusion. Solar, wind, and batteries will deliver, we know now that they will be cheap enough to outcompete gas and coal and everything within a decade or two.

I maintain that the only thing that was ever promising about fusion was the potential for cheap electricity, the fabled "too cheap to meter" type of energy. However it's really clear now that fusion will never deliver that, unless there's also huge technology gains in direct conversion.

And we've known this a long time. Go back and look at articles from 50 years ago, and you'll see different criticisms of fusion that still apply today. Today, we also have the decreasing cost of renewables + storage.

In developing countries, we will likely see solar and storage built, without even needing that hugely expensive transmission grid. That's more of a black swan event than what fusion can hope to provide.
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Your right I should have included the disclaimer that I previously worked there.
Perhaps if the attack was done using ASICs, but when done with GPUs it can be repeated indefinitely. See discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/707h3b/can_anyone...
Particularly at Stanford with SCPD, it can be something of a backdoor to a Stanford Engineering Graduate degree.

http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseCertificateSearc...
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Common Lisp is a very pragmatic language, complete with goto, if you want it. This is for the purposes of efficiency rather than because you should use it yourself.

Suppose you wanted a really efficient numerical library written in Common Lisp, you could do it. But you wouldn't want to use map/reduce/remove/etc which are all linear time on the sequences they operate on (which can be lists or vectors). So clean looking code turns out to have poor performance because you have multiple O(n) operations, introducing large constants or if they're nested turns them into quadratic or worse operations. For instance, if we wanted to compute dot product we could, in CL, do:

(defun dot-product (v1 v2)
(reduce #'+ (mapcar #'* v1 v2)))

That's O(n) which is the "best" we can do for dot product. But it actually contains two iterations. In C, you'd have:

double dotproduct = 0.0;
for(int i = 0; i < vector_length; i++) {
dotproduct += v1[i]*v2[i];
}

While for this small example the difference in performance is minor, in the case of a library making many calls to these functions that double loop would add up. And for more complex operations you're introducing higher constants (or worse) by using the clean looking Common Lisp code.

Enter something like Series

Series: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node347.html

See here for a demo of how it tranforms functional code to imperative: https://malisper.me/loops-in-lisp-part-4-series/

So you still (as the user) get the illusion of working in a functional language, but under-the-hood it happily transforms itself to an imperative form. And if you wanted to make something like Series, you could present that functional form to your users and hide the imperative, optimized form.

Main takeaway: Common Lisp has high-level functional aspects, OO aspects, but also low-level systems-oriented and imperative aspects. You get to pick and choose which level you want to operate on based on your domain. And with the macro language you can present clean, functional interfaces to the end-user while using the lower-level features to optimize things for them.
Which is why Microsoft built GitVFS and has been contributing all sorts of interesting performance work to upstream git. Microsoft's devops work with Windows and the git transition is full of interesting blog posts and stories and metrics.
>My philosophy has evolved to this: they’re their own people, not extensions of our own ego, and in the limited time we have influence over them we can help them develop core habits that will be useful throughout their lives.

Well said. This is basically the philosophy my wife and I developed for our now 11 year old. The temptation to hover and guide at every step is strong, but our ultimate goal is to release a fully functioning human into the world. We really can't change the core of who he is, but we can help him develop habits that work for him. We need to help him develop the tools, but he needs to succeed and/or fail on his own more and more as he gets older. Our role becomes one of reinforcement and guidance.
Yeah, completely legit and not uncommon at all (though advances in locale support have probably made it less necessary in recent decades). As an official transliteration, documented and taught in school, it is definitely pronounces the same.

It seems like German could actually be at fault for your bogus transliteration issues in Finnish, then. Sorry about that! 8)
I don’t think that’s the case.

It is not feasible for a farmer to buy feed during the lifetime of the animal. It’s the reason they have huge pastures for grazing during warm months. During winter they are usually fed hay.

All beef is grass fed period. Some are finished at the end with corn or other dense grains (your soy patties).

Here’s an article from a Meat Scientist.

https://meatscience.org/TheMeatWeEat/topics/raising-animals-...
I'm curious if anyone else has stomach issues after eating the Impossible Burger, the Beyond Meat burger, etc.? Something about the protein isolate or who knows what else doesn't sit well with me. I've talked to others anecdotally about the same thing, but is this a widespread occurrence?

It reminds me a bit of when Frito-Lay tried to introduce Olean into their potato chips and it gave everyone the 3's...
It seems to me that eliminating bondsmen is better. This should coincide with actual affordable cash bail.

Unless you meant eliminating all forms of bail involving money. I actually have no idea how that works here in the Netherlands.
The problem is that the model was invented in this paper itself, and doesn't actually seem to relate to any actual ML algorithm. Admittedly, I didn't read the paper itself so this may be the overreach on the article's part.
A good first step is disabling SSL 3.x and TLS 1.0 in your daily browser. I would also recommend the excellent Qualys SSL Server Test: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
Does it support component-based translation ?
For example, in my project, i have each locales dir collocated and compiled per React component.
Most of translation web app out there doesn't support this. Because it's just a plain en/vi for ALL the application.
I ask myself, do people behind those translation app make real world project before ?
True! "If it ain't rainin', we ain't trainin'."
Exactly. There are a lot of people out there doing Strava art, which to me is undoubtedly a creative work, and more creative than a typical selfie or vacation shot. I believe copyright covers all photographs, regardless of their artistic merit. Why not also location data?

For those unfamiliar with Strava art: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/five-best-str...
Reducing the number of children is an aspect that rarely comes up in discussions about environmental impact (not necessarily about food), even though I find it a very compelling argument. In some countries (hint: not the US, or most of Europe), there is not even a need for much advocacy, as the concept is descriptive: fertility-rate times planetary-footprint is less than 2, so in the long run, those countries would actually be using zero resources.
But they were on pace to have a bomb by now. And they don't.

So the deal is, at the absolute least, better than not having a deal. Or at least it was until we unilaterally tore it up after getting what we wanted.
All of the Linux source code is in a single repo. How is that not a monorepo? How are you defining monorepo if not this?

The entire Windows codebase is also a monorepo. It just happens to be a bigger one.
>but if we have nukes, why do we need new "defensive" weapons?

Nukes are neither purely offensive nor defensive weapon (except low-scale tactical ones). They solve the task of strategic deterrence [1]. There are many other tasks that nukes can't and don't solve.

It seems like your knowledge of the subject is somewhat shallow and hence the scorn. I highly recommend learning a bit more about defense -- its goals, problems, and ways to solve them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
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Hmm, I didn't realise this.

If I see an NHS consultant privately they get a little extra personal income. So if I took a private room where does the profit go in the current system? Treasury?
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Goodness. I don't think I've ever met anyone else who values the slow morning as much as I do. If I could I'd go into work around 10:30AM every morning. I need 7.5 hours of sleep at least. Really 8.5 to be at my best. That means I'm going to bed at 11PM and waking up at 7:30AM ideally.

If I'm going to be at work by 9AM then I have to rush around to do everything. I've cut my morning activities down to do so but I'd like an extra hour or so every morning. An hour and a half would be ideal so I could get the gym out of the way.

But It doesnt look like that will happen anytime soon.
A startup called Lambda started teaching (online) for free in exchange for a percentage of the new graduate's salary. This is called Income Sharing Agreements (ISA).

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/business/dealbook/educati...
> I would imagine the OP you're responding to was referring to the "drawings" of text, which look straight out of one of those kindergarten "write this letter 100 times to practice it" books.

This would make a lot more sense if this was at all what kindergarten handwriting looks like.
By his own reckoning he sleeps for under 5 hours every day. Maybe he's one of the vanishing few who can get by on that amount of sleep (you are not though, so don't try to emulate him), or maybe he's not listing naps he takes throughout the day, or maybe he's just setting himself up for a lifetime of health consequences from prolonged sleep deprivation.

Whichever it is, it's not exactly the sort of routine one should take too much inspiration from for one's own life.
Even if I wake up before sunrise - I do that sometimes for extended periods of time (few weeks/months) - I just cannot work in the morning
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I'd like to know more about the "not getting banned" part.
Reddit communities are notorious for not wanting to be sold to.
what's your approach? how do you articulate the post? maybe you could share a link to an actual post as an example?

thanks for the insight!
There use to retail chain called BEST where the whole store area was a "showroom" and the products were on display outside of their packaging. You were encourage to touch and interact with the product. There was no stock on the showroom floor.

Once you made a decision you would go to the front to place an order, then go to another corner of the store where your item would come out on a conveyor belt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products

Also, the people who owned BEST were really into art and had some pretty groovy looking stores.

http://www.siteenvirodesign.com/content/best-products
I'm not being sarcastic (this time). When crypto people say "store of value" I'm pretty sure they mean (long-term) speculation.

Also consider that people may be investing for a different reason than what they say.
It also gets interesting with proper names. It's perfectly legitimate to transliterate "Herr Schröder" to "Herr Schroeder" (and if you don't have ö at your disposal you have to), but a proper name that starts out with the transliteration, like "Dr. Oetker" can usually not be transliterated to "ö".

In some cases that might be because the "oe" was never an "ö" in this case, even if people might have shifted to pronouncing it that way. But in other cases I imagine that it was intended and did start out as an "ö" sound, but people just decided to write the name with "oe".

(Same with the other Umlauts.)
What are the values that equate to false in an if statement?

false, null, undefined, NaN, "" (empty string), 0

Bonus: An object with a toString() method that returns one of the above won't evaluate directly, but will roughly equal (foo == false).

sometimes I'll ask for a function that returns input as a whole number or null, if it's a string, attempt to parse base 10, return null if invalid, return null if the input isn't already a number or a string. 0 is usually what will trip people up.
>One could use these tones to 'detect' a commercial and avoid it, or strip out these tones entirely to promote operational security amongst devices.

Or one could layer superfluous erroneous tones into every stream to poison the dataset.
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This is the best thing I have read this year. I expect I will still be able to say that next month.
I'm 36 and attempting this right now, with a wife, kid and mortgage. It's a bit terrifying, I am about to start picking up some contracting work. Been 'unemployed' for almost 4 months now.
Could land on someone. My understanding is that a lot of the anti-drone defense systems being researched involve catching them with nets.
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There were several good responses to my message like yours.

A ceo of a tech company has to both grow revenue and cultivate new technologies. A major company working in almost every area like microsoft has to do even more, so they don't get usurped like endless other former leading companies. Microsoft was challenged in a lot of ways. Ballmer did very well on the bringing in more money area.

1. mobile phones (basically completely blew it here - they had all the pieces but couldn't put them together because of both poor execution and more nimble competitors). Ballmer did terrible here. Even buying nokia was a disaster.

2. web - they managed to keep it microsoft centric for a long time where it only rendered correctly on ie3, but it eventually escaped them. they do sell some web server software, but the days where it had to render correctly on windows, both preventing other platforms from being used and being used for hosting web apps are gone. He held the world at bay for a long time, so I'll give him 25% success here.

3. cloud - azure started under him, so I'd give him 50% success. Who would have thought amazon would kick Microsoft's butt so thoroughly. I saw so many good people go to work there, I never thought amazon would succeed with such a different philosophy, people leaving there so frequently after 2 years.

4. Money, growth - 4/4. So much money. Yet at the same time, people started looking for other companies, and the company felt more and more like it was missing out by forcing everything to reinforce windows and office.

Satya has at least changed the tenor of the company, attracting developers back. I do think Windows seems to have turned into a terrible mess, with unless beta releases with lots of bugs. They fired all the testers because they weren't doing anything? Satya was also leading the azure division, so I think he does get some credit for that.
I would doubt genetic reasons until he tries without all the modern light/darkness. It’s insane how quickly my sleep schedule changes when I sleep in a tent and the sun is unavoidable at literally sunrise... I match the sun schedule pretty quickly, and then get out of it really quickly (1-3 days).
You can still build compatibility layer on top of immutable FS. Like being mutable from program(s) perspective while being able to control how these changes are capsulated from rest of the system. You could, for example, see what your

> any OS, application, library, filesystem, device driver, database, nearly everything related to computing at all

-is trying to actually do to your files and operation like reverting changes is trivial. Sure it's not performance optimal and effects what kind of software is ideal to work within such a system. It's just a different approach with different trade-offs.

Anyway if I one day want to build new OS it's for trying different interesting approaches and not yet another 'successful any-OS'.
That will certainly be from a North American viewpoint.

From the other countries perspective, it is a tremendous power imbalance.

The fact that any city of your country could be destroyed by an invading force in 3 seconds at zero cost for the invaders is for sure not very reassuring.

That actually happened in the US territory with native people, they were exterminated by outsiders with superior technology leaving almost not trace behind. This was costly for the invaders because the technology difference being great was not that great.

Right now, with the US(spaceX) able to put a rocket in any part of the world in 30 minutes with a nuclear head, the power imbalance is extreme. They do not have to risk a single life to destroy an entire city or nation!!

This is something that no country on earth should tolerate and they will not tolerate if if they have enough technology.
Reading this, it makes it seem that Sears died because the middle class died. Why did people ditch this middle-of-the-road experience for the cheaper one? Because they were forced to.