skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few responses have brought up alternate site testing. Have you tried the palm of your hand? The bottom of 1/4 of your palm, below the pinky. It was life-changing for me. Rarely painful (at worst a sting if my palm is sweaty or my skin is dried out), as accurate as a finger prick, and it bleeds as easily as my fingers. I had the same anxiety for years, and now it’s like nothing. You need a special cap (usually clear) for your lancet device. Sometimes it’s included, sometimes you have to call and ask for one.
4chan boards are fine. there’s nothing wrong with the free expression of ideas. you can respond back to any incorrect idea all you want.
It's a $1000 for that HiFive board. That's a crazy amount of money for a hobby board, I could swing it if it was like $500 to 600, but that's not the case. I could build a really nice conventional desktop for a $1000 dollars.
Tesla's delivery team gutted in recent job cuts – sources
RISC-V is very VERY close to Alpha in this respect. There are no flags, everything is communicated via registers (which makes semantics clean and dynamic scheduling cheaper), and the equivalent of PALcode exist (called platform specific SBI calls, executing in M-mode).

IMhO, RISC-V is slightly better than Alpha on a many fronts:
the conditional branches which compares two registers would take two instructions on Alpha (on the critical path), RISC-V code density is better with compressed, the encoding is slightly cheaper for hardware, it ISA is more forward-looking/extensible, oh and it's open of course. The only thing I miss are the POPC/CTZ/CLZ instructions, but the B set will include them for implementations that have it.

UPDATE: more RISC-V upsides
Huh, this is an interesting solution. When I started reading this post and took a look at the syntax, I had expected some sort of sugar that looked like Swift's @dynamicCallable where the "selector" would be passed in as a string and you'd parse it at runtime. This way, you don't have a specify an "endpoint" for every operation, but I guess you lose some compile-time checking?
> Google and a Google Analytics customer may link information about your activity from that site with activity from other sites that use our ad services.

To clarify: Linking your Google Analytics account with your Google Ads account is an explicit feature that the property owner can do to get a fuller view of the conversion funnel.

As far as I know (having worked on that team several years ago),

> they claim that Google doesn't use any data they get from analytics for ads targeting.

was otherwise factual. (That is, Google didn't willynilly take GA data and use it for its own purposes, or even cross-contaminate it in any way.)

Though don't know what might have changed in recent years.
Hi folks, this is part of of larger effort in the Julia community to do a ground up re-think of infrastructure for machine learning. You can find an overview of the entire effort in our recent blog post [1]. Happy to answer questions.

[1] https://julialang.org/blog/2018/12/ml-language-compiler
This is why I'm more comfortable with Fathom; I have removed GA from sites in the past when I realize I haven't logged into view stats for years. But for a few sites it is very helpful to have some data, especially to see if there's an older article getting a lot of consistent traffic (I'll brush it up and make sure it's more current).

I know most people don't care to look back much, and leave old content to rot... but most of the pages with over 100,000 lifetime visits are pages from 3+ years ago (like this ridiculously short post on how to sync a shared Google Calendar with Calendars on macOS/iOS[1]).

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/sync-shared...
This seems almost tautologically false to me. This seems to imply that if you implement SHA-256 in Julia, you can differentiate it and solve it backwards via SGD. Is there something i'm missing here? There must be some limitations.
Have you tried accessing the publications via the on-campus computers in the normal undergraduate libraries? I don't think you need to be in a medical building to have access to the online medical journals.
'meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins in 'The Selfish Gene' in the 70's.
Ask HN: Why are a lot of research papers behind paywalls?
I always wondered why there were so many research papers placed behind paywalls? It seems to counter productive to research?
Yes, of course, I agree. I didn’t mean to comment on Animats’ comment, just that philipov’s usage of the term was technically correct.
Seems like a waste to be a middle manager at Google, but maybe he just wants to be a normal dude.
On HN the Apple-related headlines that make it to the top are 80-90% how glorious Apple's closed source platform is and 10-20% how awful apple's dictatorship of their own app store is. I don't think it's true that we should not post critical articles just because Apple already "gets enough" by some standard.
I took a personality test today. (Really). The results were uncanny. I LOVE learning and trying new things and if it is hard then I might fail. But I if I get up and try again again I might succeed. My Dad used to tell my sister “if you never fall you aren’t skiing hard enough”. I fell all the time.

Baron von Hilton went bankrupt numerous times before founding Hilton Hotels. Failure is how we learn. It’s the main ingredient in “experience”.

It’s also a way to find your own path. I tried Angular. It just didn’t click for me. I tried React. At first I didn’t like the idea of JSX. Then everything clicked. I might have never tried it had I not failed with Angular first.
Found the libertarian. Apple profits hugely from public infrastructure, just like every other company in the country. They pay a disproportionately small amount of taxes.
I didn't say their meme output dropped to zero. I said that other websites are the dominant force for generating the memes we see today.
Inkjet Dystopias
This gives a good idea of a very real phenomenon that plays a huge but largely hidden role in the failure, success, and form that technology takes at companies.

It's not just infrastructure. Quality, innovation, speed, efficiency, etc. To whatever degree you believe the old 10x programmer meme, believe this: Change that constant 10 to any value for many employees at once at a company and the impact is staggering.

Good people don't think to they are too good for these types of companies. They think the companies are too constraining and place a limit on their ability to realize dreams or their potential to perform.

They don't prefer to work with less passionate peers. Not because such are lesser human beings to be avoided. Rather, it gives them another edge. Constant, motivating, cross-reinforcement during discussion, doesn't just inspire it creates action.

Finally, most of these companies don't have tech as their core business. That correlates very directly to the fact that the most senior and influential people in the company will care less about you, being willing to partner on ideas, etc. It's not personal, Banks think bank stuff is most important and anything else is less important, even if it's a critical operational component of the business.
Technology in Deep Time: How it evolves along side us
Incredibly influential in internet history? We were doing all those things before reddit and 4chan.
It's not a falsehood. I pay a higher tax rate on some of my income than Apple pays on average.
ONEPLUS 6T, ONEPLUS 5T, MI A1 AMONG SMARTPHONES EMITTING HIGH RADIATION
I was going to say that considering an entire city as a contiguous military target is a war crime. However, a quick search makes me doubt that such a provision was part of any relevant treaty in 1945. Massive bombings were inconveivable when the second Hague Convention was signed in 1907.
Few American cities are very dense at all. Density is more efficient, cheaper in hidden infrastructure costs, better for the environment, and promotes walking for better health.
This is normal behavior for anti cheat systems. It can also be used to see whether or not the game (seperate executable from the client) is running. If I were more optimistic, I would just say it might be some keyword finding heuristic to add scrutinizing weight to anyone who triggers it, but I feel like the pessimist in me is right.

It is yet another tool created with initial honest intentions that has slowly been affected by the need for more and better quality data.

This is just my opinion, but I would not be surprised if most of these anti cheat companies "double-dipped" and sold the data they collected to the highest bidders.
I realized I want to read all of these shareholder letters from 'Day 1'. Luckily some guy has already compiled them all into one PDF that I just sent to my [Amazon] Kindle. Reading about Amazon on an Amazon device lol. Hope this helps you too:

https://medium.com/@austenallred/every-amazon-shareholder-le...

PS: Have any of you read all of Buffet's shareholder letters? Would those be worth reading from the beginning?
Being a layman in more fields than I am an expert, and having a habit of reading journal articles in various fields when the mainstream press reports on their findings, I have to disagree.

Of course, I can't (usually) read a journal article in a field in which I am a layman and understand it well enough to attempt to replicate its findings, critique its methodology, or make a follow-on contribution to the field. That's not the only value one might extract from a journal article.

What I can do is figure out if the mainstream press reporting on the article actually matches what the researchers found. The most common issue I see in mainstream press reporting is over-broad conclusions like "X is a cure for cancer" instead of "X is a 10% more effective treatment for Y type of cancer". Correlation reported as causation when the research did not draw such a conclusion is also annoyingly common.
That is incredibly unreasonable, because

1) Fires tend to spread. Fire codes are not just for your own benefit, they're for the benefit of everyone around you.

2) If you live in a fire trap and it eventually catches on fire, firefighters will run unnecessary risks when they rush in to try to save you. It's not fair to them to put them in that situation.

3) You talk about choosing the risks yourself, but your life is connected to other peoples lives in countless ways. Your choice of how much risk to take on affects many more people than just you. That's why it's totally fine for society to insist on fire escapes.
Just a guess: the author could not be sure that the email address legitimately belongs to the scammer. It could be a hacked account.
Where’s the new photo?
Not psychopaths, more like people who just don't think things through. Arguing against UBI because you don't want to be dependant on things outside your control is definitely something you have to be in that group for.
https://outline.com/KECmzd
I can't find anything specifically about sharing job role, but in general it's against company policy to share employee data. So I don't think anyone can answer you.
Well, the limitations are the usual limitations in mathematical analysis. Despite being differentiable, if your function has a very complicated structure you will get stuck in local minima with high probability.

People are referring to limitations regarding expressiveness.
Greedy Algorithm Overview (YouTube Video)
c’mon, ur on haxxor news and u cant run a windows vm? there’s a free image on microsoft’s homepage, and I bet you’ll manage to get itunes working and transfer the music within the free trial period.
Yes, of course there are limitations. But those limitations are not imposed by the language or the tools; they're imposed by the limits of mathematics.

In hindsight, perhaps my language was too fast and loose. Thanks for pointing that out.
Book Summary “The Goal” (YouTube Video)
Some people got the idea that Google hired him to make an "internal employee's only imageboard" but as far as I can tell there was never any truth to that, or at least any evidence of it. Because Google+ is/was an internal social media of sorts, that apocryphal story of an "internal 4chan" morphed into "moot runs G+".
> Seems like a waste to be a middle manager at Google

Ouch, harsh!
Are you going to spend your whole life on the telephone?,asshole
From the outside, looking in, people tend to mistake 4chan for /b/, (and more recently /pol/). It’s similar to if someone decided to write off reddit, just because of the content on /r/funny.

For one, I think /a/ - 4chan’s anime board is still the largest, English speaking, Japanese culture board out there. There have been animators, authors and directors on /a/, albeit answering questions in broken English. And /a/, unlike /b/, or /pol/, tends to not put up shock crap and humor. Many of the smaller boards are also like this (with the exception of probably /tv/ and more recently /fit/)

The format itself, when not overrun edgy teenagers, is like nothing else. Every post is given equal representation. It's designed to be ephemeral and there's tends to be a lot less community politics. I won't argue that the format lends itself to a bastion of quality - it's a lot of wading through waste to find something good. It's the double edge sword of not having a "karma" system. But when its good - it's good, and when it's weird it _weird_.

I think the problem with 4chan has had recently was moderation. moot made all the rules and was the final arbiter in all things 4chan. What that meant was only moot could really ban a discussion topic without it being overreach by mods. moot coming out and saying “naruto is allowed on /a/“ or “gamer gate doesn’t belong on /v/“ was the only real mediating force that could transform the community. If an anonymous mod did it, it would always be met with a meme mocking mods (“he does it for free”)

When moot was more active, defending everything you said with “free speech” wasn’t really a thing either. Mods could ban you whenever they wanted for mostly whatever they wanted and bans tended to be more public. This mod power had a special hidden power - it was harder to take over the community around some singular meme. Eventually a mod would ban because he was tired of seeing X, and that was the end of that (similar to what happened to gamer gate - even during gamer gate people of people complained that games journalism didn’t belong on 8 of the 10 threads on /v/)

I secretly wish for moot to come back and roll heads just to make things interesting. Currently I think a lot of threads get derailed because bait-politics gets injected into almost everything. Threads get derailed because of "someone who is tangentially related to the subject being discussed is a woman and/or minority and if you support X that means you hate America" type of posts. And I also just wish he'd pop by and tell us how he's doing. I hope he's happy now.
It's does feel odd to exclude C#, yet include F# and VB.NET.
In 10 years I have found very little value in code reviews. I’ve seen orgs expend tremendous amounts of time reviewing their code, and ending up with bug ridden spaghetti and missed requirements.

What’s more valuable to me is design and implementation reviews, where you can ensure people know about and are using the features provided by their language and framework and not reinventing the wheel, poorly.
Shot on OnePlus Contest Winner Provided Photo Which Was Shot on Canon DSLR
Give it some time to mature into a large-scale production. Comparing the cost of what's damn near a developer prototype board to Raspberry Pis manufactured in the millions is like comparing the cost of a yacht to a honda civic.
While I suspect we are going to have different viewpoints, do you employee hundres of thousands of people, contribute massively to the world economy, and innovate like Apple? Just a point, that while their effective percentage may be lower, they have massive impact, and a $59 billion tax payment.
As a voter, this isn't very high on the list of things I'd like to see my representatives being "deeply troubled" about...
If markets are inaccessible, transactions involuntary, and markets rigged, production isn't controlled by private actors, at least not completely. At best you'd be talking about a partially capitalist system with another major element involved.
> But for a few sites it is very helpful to have some data, especially to see if there's an older article getting a lot of consistent traffic (I'll brush it up and make sure it's more current).

Usually my solution for this issue is to use people emailing me about things as a proxy of whether I should go back to something, and I think it works pretty well (though, I don't have the data to compare, ironically ;) ). If something's useful to many people but wrong/broken, eventually someone is nice enough to let me know. This has the benefit of making user consent very explicit, since they can choose exactly how much they want to "share" with me.

Also, I'm enjoying the @media(perfers-color-scheme: dark) support on your website! I usually call these out when I see them, since they're still rare, but it was before sunset when I first commented so I wasn't using Dark Mode then.
"historically LISP has been prevalent"

I learned about it from old books, often on AI, I could scrounge up when I didn't have the Internet or a computer. LISP as in LISt Processor. An acronym. Due to broken memory, I sometimes forget which term to use on stuff that's faded away. I end up about randomly using LISP or Lisp unless its Common Lisp where I usually see "Lisp" in write-ups.

So, good guess.
Bezos discusses how long they take to write in the 2018 Amazon Shareholder Letter [1]:

"... they mistakenly believe a high-standards, six-page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more!"

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518...
There's nothing new about this, except for attaching "AI" to it. There's something to be said for the value in detecting drive-by or opportunistic attacks, or cleaning up after the fact. Though it was a thinly veiled advertisement for his company, Counterpane, Bruce Schneier made the case for this approach in a 2001 paper: https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-msm.pdf

But these pattern detection systems are fundamentally incapable of preventing targeted attacks. For a targeted attack any pattern recognizer (heuristic, bayesian, neural net, army of elite white hats, w'ever) simply provides a blueprint for reliably subverting the system. They could never replace a hard, cryptographically strong authentication factor providing distinct, provable security characteristics; certainly not in environments like DoD facilities which require such strong authentication.
I do know what you mean, but.. I also remember the heyday of developer blogging around 2004-2008 and this eager style of approach was pretty common then! (Some might argue that Ruby's why the lucky stiff might make Julia's style look dry in comparison! :-))

I'm glad people like Julia are fostering this approach and hope the number of developers excitedly communicating about things they just discovered increases again. As an industry, I think we need more of this now, more than ever, from developers of all levels and disciplines.
From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems (2008)
Steam will at least automatically refund a purchase within 14 days if the play time is less than 2 hours.

As far as I know you can't get a refund if you don't like an article, but I may be mistaken. If you had that option, paying for a journal article might be slightly more palatable.

The quickest legal way to get a copy of a paper that isn't already accessible as a pre-print is to email the author(s). Usually they don't mind. Hint: email the student, not the prof and you're more likely to get a reply. You can also do this via ResearchGate.
I clearly stated:

> in the time it takes you to "research" whether a book is worth your time or not, you could've already read a couple chapters of it

Meaning that there would be no actual trade-off in the time invested for you, to take a slightly less superficial approach when evaluating books.

To compare the approach I proposed to a literally impossible task of evaluating every single book ever written (as if anybody would actually even be interested in reading all that) is quite disingenuous. This entire HN thread and article are already excluding most books in existence anyway, by the simple fact that everyone here has been mostly talking about "english non-fiction" books specifically. They may still tally up to a large number, but there's no point in exaggerating their quantity when we're all still just as hopeless in trying to read them all anyway. All you did by pointing out this impossibility is just needlessly restate the obvious, and has nothing to do with what I said.

I'm already more than satisfied with the amount of books I read, and get a lot out of them without experiencing any existential anguish over it, so I don't understand why you're trying to throw my reading habits back at me as if they're "not good enough" or something all of a sudden. Or is that what reading is about these days? a mere measuring contest? Am I supposed to feel ashamed I didn't meet some internet stranger's arbitrary criteria for a habit that's supposed to benefit me? I proposed a viable alternative for evaluating books that works more efficiently for me than the one presented in the article, in case others are unsatisfied with their current reading habits. I didn't claim it was something that was going to win you the "reading olympics". If anything, I clearly supported the opposite by emphasizing that people should feel less obligated to finish the books they start, because feeling like you have to finish them is just going to cause needless anxiety about the way you've invested your time.

Besides, who cares if your entire lifetime of reading could've been published in a day? Is your goal in life to out-pace authors and publishers, or is it to get fulfillment out of books? Because in my experience, reading a single chapter out of a bad/mediocre book is a lot more fulfilling than reading a bunch of amazon/goodreads reviews.
Espionage is nothing new. Trump or US govt. ordering this is an attractive idea to Trump haters. Self serving for Bezos btw. But I think unlikely. No need.

Like other smear attempts for instance Wikileaks on the Clinton campaign and also why its unlikely Mueller will EVER get the smoking gun on Trump. You don’t need to order these things, your allies will do it without your knowledge. Deniability.
Outsiders to 4chan would probably also be surprised at the site-wide outpouring of genuine sadness, nostalgia and gratitude when moot announced that he was stepping down.
> Is there any specific recomendations for: "Meanwhile, you can give people a real understanding of basic quantum mechanics with high-school algebra and a bit of simple logic"?

I had "Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum" in mind, but I forgot it used some simple calculus, too. It's easy enough to bootstrap from high-school algebra to the kind of calculus it uses, but my statement wasn't correct for that book.

But I'm being unfair: The volume on quantum mechanics is the second volume, and both differentiation and integration are explicitly explained in the first, on classical mechanics.

And there's a difference between using an equation and deriving it. If you don't expect to derive equations, you can still understand quantum mechanics in terms of state vectors, matrix operators, and complex amplitudes turning into probabilities without explicitly using a Lagrangian, which does unavoidably require calculus.

(And, yes, I consider basic matrix algebra and complex numbers to be high school algebra.)
Small tool I wrote to check for leaked passwords. Feedback appreciated
It's in the Photo Gallery to the right of the main photo.
Right? But I guess complaining about it on HN gets you more fake internet points, so OP did that instead.
How does one comment without opening the article?
Here's a video of one of his prosthetic arms in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrWckNLgshc