skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, once the human race had discovered roughly this number of words (give or take a few for whatever language existed at the time, and minus the useless words demanded by grammar) then humans had a Turing Complete language? That must have been a crucial point for the evolution of human culture.
I question the accuracy, and that's as someone who has worked in the industry.
That's right. You get up to 1,000 results (Objects) before you have to do multiple requests on the API.
https://planetcom.squarespace.com
I have the Gemini. It works. Have saved servers while in the middle of Siberia.
I live a bit south, so not so bad here, but a fair point. Wintertime + smog is a real bummer.
Boss charters helicopter to find employees in tree over crocodile-infested river
I've been writing on Linux/Unix systems since the late 1980s, including now a few book-length projects. Tools have varied over the years, including some uni work in nroff, HTML, and more recently, LaTeX and Markdown, among other markup languages.

LaTeX strikes me as the ultimate tool, and far less intimidating than most people seem to think (Laport's book is an excellent intro), though for most purposes, Markdown is more than sufficient. In practice, I tend to use Markdown and either include inline LaTeX as needed, or convert to LaTeX and continue editing in that where finer-grained control is necessary.

I'd add pandoc to the toolkit, as well as GNU Make. With the two, I've got a standard makefile that can output a wide range of formats (I refer to them as "endpoints") ranging from ASCII text to standalone or snippets of HTML, PDFs, PS, MS Word, OSX, Mediawiki, and others. Adding a new endpoint is a simple matter of tweaking the makefile.

One piece of organisational advice: Do NOT apply your chapter numbers to your filenames. Instead, allow your principle document outline, using an include structure, to define the flow of the text. Depending on the project size and complexity, I'll either directly include chapters within that level, or have a top level of parts with chapters specified (as second-level includes) within those.

As you decide you need to re-work flow, this becomes much easier to manage and rearrange than if you'd pre-labled the files themselves.
Out of curiosity, do you live in a high cost of living area? I’ve found I have lots of friends who live in places like Florida or Ohio, where rent is cheap, tend to not flinch as much as I do at staying in hotels. We make similar amounts of money, but when tons of it is being eaten by rent/mortgage payments it’s hard to feel open to splurge on anything.
How to Start with Machine Learning
Of possible interest is my open-source, Java-based desktop Markdown editor with live preview and variable interpolation.

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar

* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar/blob/master/USAGE.m...

The software provides a simple way to include variables in technical documentation. It also integrates with an R engine for editing R Markdown files, which can also use variables sourced from an external YAML file. (Editing XML documents that have stylesheets is possible, too.)

My authoring workflow involves Scrivenvar, Markdown, pandoc, knitr, and ConTeXt. As Markdown separates content from presentation, I prefer ConTeXt to LaTeX for the same reason.
No, he's saying the leaked database has an entry for him. Not that his own database of leaks has been breached.
Building your own is not the same as buying, though. What would the cost for that same product be if it came all assembled for you, but the same quality? I'm betting it's pretty expensive.

It's probably also not that expensive to roast your own coffee beans, but it's an extra step that non-hobbyists don't want to deal with.
Because it's the right thing to do.

Maybe I'm just being naïve.
> The exact same Python++ file can be fed in unmodified to a stock C++ compiler and a stock Python interpreter and you will get the same output. The first version of Python++ was developed by William W Wold for the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon 2017.

Sounds about right, but it is very impressive.
This is slightly off-topic, but do indie game developers publishing on Steam have to jump through this hoop to support Windows? Are all Windows games on Steam signed?
> edge-level analytics

Another approach to this using Workers:

https://logflare.app/
Except the reason why no one has an opportunity when put together is because of groups fleeing school systems (see: white flight) due to other issues like racism or religious reasons.

That makes no sense, given there are charter school successes located in those neighborhoods. There are also other initiatives that have focused on the whole environment of the children. The problem isn't racism. The problem is a self-perpetuating cycle of an environment that prevents good education.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Children%27s_Zone

And make no mistake, the entire point of school vouchers is to punish the poor.

When I put myself in the shoes of that woman who approached me about her son, I find that I would want that school voucher! The entire point of opposing school vouchers is to preserve the urban bureaucratic status quo. Why not give those parents a choice? Do they currently trust the public school to provide their children a good education? My impression is that a lot of them don't.
I think anyone who hires purely for race or appearance or physical diversity is absolutely incompetent. Having a fully conscious bias that intentionally hiring people physically different from you just because they’re physically different is pure, undiluted incompetence at the highest level and absolutely against equality since it gives preference to specific groups.

In that sense, yes, we’re in full agreement and you intentionally warping my obvious meaning to guilt me into your line of thought won’t work.
Yes, it is based on Debian.
I make a SF-level income, and swapping SF rent for living in hotels full time doesn't break the bank if you enjoy spending time around the world, in many places which are significantly cheaper than SF. I could save a ton of money by renting at local prices instead of staying in hotels while I travel, but I like the lifestyle so I'm not bothered by the cost differential. Basically I compare my lifestyle of luxury hotels around the world, compare with SF apartment surrounded by filth in soma, and at a similar price range the former makes me much happier.

My average nightly spend is about $119 all-in (I track it all in a spreadsheet). Market rent for my apartment in SF would be $4,500, i.e. $148/night, assuming every night is used. If you do any amount of traveling, the cost per night used of your apartment increases.

$125 can buy you some really really nice hotels. I've stayed at 5-star properties in Bangkok at that price. And if I'm willing to go limited service or 4 star (but still nice, I have standards), I've done stays as cheap as $45 in Bali, $65 in Kuala Lumpur, $80 in Bangkok, $125 in Taipei, etc. In China, I've stayed at St. Regis and Ws for barely over $100. I can pretty much always get something nice for under $200. I learn the tricks to lower rates through promotions and other programs like Citi's 4th night free or through TAs who have access to special rates.

Given how much time I spend in hotels, I have top status with three different chains (Hyatt, Marriott, and Hilton, and mid-tier status with IHG). That means I always get the best room available, and I've gotten some absolutely ridiculous suite upgrades (twice the size of my apartment). I also usually get free breakfast, access to a club lounge with free afternoon food and booze, late checkout, welcome gifts, and other perks.

With Hyatt and Marriott I have a dedicated team member to take care of any issues or requests. Basically, I get treated like a king by all of them, for the same price as my rent in SF.

For me, living in hotels full time, vs. $200+/night used in rent in SF… the decision was a no-brainer.
No, he's adding this email dump to his DB. And I don't exactly understand why, I mean is there any evidence that this mongodb was actually harvested? Other than by security researchers.
Facebook, the future, and Zuckerberg’s new privacy moves
> we need a "Yelp for labs"

It exists: https://www.gradpi.com

There was an article in Science about it last year: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/02/crowdsourcing-goe...
> events that don't truly unfold until far into the story

Aka "the last 100 pages, where something actually happens."
Well, in the Bay Area yes. Many do think meritocratic systems are bad because they often produce results that don't reflect the broader population. Some go so far as to say that advocating a meritocratic system is an act of racism and sexism.

To me at least, I don't think it's fair to make the blanket statement that meritocracy is bad. It's all a question of values, namely whether someone values equality of the process itself or equaity of the process's outcome. Different people have different values so they'll inevitably have different opinions on meritocratic systems.
Yes, although it not really "promised". A 200A residential service isn't a promise you can consume 200A 24/7, it's just the "never exceed" rating. If you need significantly more power than normal residential needs, I'm sure the utility will be happy to talk to you about your requirements.
We had chickens when I was a kid and they can really be mean to each other. I witnessed bullying and the killing and eating thing happened once as well. They were always happy to see me because I was the one that fed them.

I imagine dinosaurs behaving like chickens, and that's a scary thought. Chickens will eat pretty much anything organic and a giant chicken would have no problem eating people.

They had a fenced outdoor area they could wander around in, but they always ate everything that grew, so it was just dirt. We did let the chickens out of their pen in the late fall and winter when we didn't have a garden planted. They were really happy roaming around and pecking at things. They'd all wander back into their coop in evening to go to sleep, so all I had to do was close the door at the end of the day.
Ask HN: Is There an Inverse Correlation Between Ambition and Skill?
Because from what I've noticed in online communities, it always seems like the people with the least skill at anything tend to be those coming up with the most outlandish and impossible ideas for projects, whereas those with said skills seem rather uninterested in actually doing anything flashy with them.

Is that a pattern overall? And why would being good at something (like say, programming or art) make you less interested in wanting to the change via it?
Arguing over the morality (or even constitutionality) of such a measure was not the point of me bringing it up.

So what? I was asking how you would feel.

The point was that there are compelling arguments to make that both greatly liberalizing school choice and greatly eliminating school choice would improve things for those who are economically disadvantaged.

Eliminating choice is generally about centralizing control.
I also get an emotional response to Pollack, similar to the emotional response I get to the painting of a colored square done on the TV show "House Refabbers" where they take a canvas, paint a background in one color and then a square on the background in another color.

It's not a deep emotion, of course, it's a fleeting sensation, really, like smelling a flower or listening to a "boop boop" sound effect on the tram. It's a trite emotion, which is the best way to describe the reaction I get to Pollock - trite.

I think that particular Pollock piece would make for a great panel or wallpaper in a basement. There's a certain movement and a not-unpleasant interplay with the colors - again, similar to the "boop, boop" on various public transportation system sound effects.

You can call it "art" sure, I think "craft" would be better, or perhaps "decorative arts" is probably the best way to describe Pollock. I recall a youtube video of the painting of a countertop in a kind of "hip, modern" kitchen that had a similar aesthetic.

Of course those Soviet paintings of WWI are far more meaningful than Pollack's visually not-unpleasant background color mix.
It's nice they support FOSS, but both the CA process and Microsoft's tooling for this are stuck in the year 1999:

• The registration process is painfully manual (including e-mailing scanned documents). It's like an "Enterprise" CA from before Let's Encrypt.

• The website wouldn't send the final cert to any browser other than Internet Explorer.

• Microsoft's signing tools are a hot garbage. All options default to "subtly wrong". To get a working signature you need a half dozen flags in an exact order, different from what the official documentation uses.

• Microsoft's docs are either: a) plentiful but only tangentially related vague introduction, or b) scraps of incomplete technical information, mainly for Windows XP only. It's as if they've tried to improve it many times, but every time gave up after rewriting the first chapter.

• Signing can't be automated or used remotely, because its weirdo software wants a PIN entered from the local keyboard.
No, of course, I won't delete my messages or emails I sent. In the end, their security is so loose, it is very easy to prove in less than a minute how easy to enter their servers with no credentials even if they blame me for anything random.

I am moving on! I hope this thread helps the next person who is having somewhat similar situation.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2593296/why-is-prob...

Automatic differentiation is something that you get for free if you use dual numbers. Lie theory describes the relationship between the discrete and continuous spaces. Probability has this deep connection to Lie groups.

To give you some intuition (and I'm really rephrasing the stackexchange post above), the only way you can only measure randomness (or generate randomness) is if each draw has a "reference" to some global object that has the global, normalized view of the discrete space.

Are you familiar with Vovk's foundations of probability? That brings you from probability to game semantics. Duality is right next to it.
The people I'm thinking of would read "Too Clever by Half" and think, "Obviously what I'm doing is a hole that needs to be filled [I won't admit it, but it's really because it would enrich me or make me more powerful], and so the rules and regulations shouldn't apply to me, it's just for those asshole raccoons."

A reasonable reading would interpret the article as praise for what the "geniuses" are doing, and lament that if only the idiots weren't so greedy, the geniuses could reap a justified reward for their fiendish cleverness.
> while at the same time not adding any “behind the scenes” magic (e.g. garbage collection)

Stuff the compiler does statically is still magic. Anything which makes it more difficult to see the assembly language through the code is magic.
Paradise Lost in the Solomon Islands
Ah, got it. Like, Troy is a real person who has his own email address too :)
Ha! I was an accounting undergrad and graduate finance/banking student before transitioning to software many years ago. I skimmed the article and still have many of the mentioned books and authors on my bookshelf. So, he's probably got a pretty good guide here. Although, I'm not sure why someone would want to learn all of this - it isn't a particularly stimulating subject - and probably overkill for managing personal investments.

I personally wouldn't advise option-trading as part of any personal investment strategy, unless you're doing it with a limited amount of money strictly as a hobby / educational gamble. It's just too complex a topic to risk money on without serious research - and that cost time (money) too.
I've seen this pop up a couple of times now as well - are there any other similarly thought provoking articles anyone recommends?
Ask HN: Was Elizabeth Holmes just a face controlled by people in the background?
The more I read about Elizabeth Holmes, the more implausible the whole thing seems.

She drops out of Stanford to start a blood-testing start-up. Plot-twist, she has no background in blood or testing.

Her company makes various blood testing prototypes. Plot-twist, they're actually glue-guns bought off Amazon.

Her company gets a contract from US's largest pharmacy chain to do blood-tests. Plot-twist, her company doesn't use its own machines to do this, but uses off-the-shelf machines that are already standard.

Her team files over 200 patents. Plot-twist, she's a co-inventor in 98% of them.

There are a lot of recordings of her talking. Plot-twist, they all consist of word-salad talking points, about using technology to change the world, without anything substantive.

She dressed like Steve Jobs, lowered her voice artificially to a baritone to sound more "deep", and used cool-sounding branding like "Edison", "nanotainer", "Theranos", "Balto". Plot-twist, her head-scientist committed suicide.

When she was 10, she wrote in a school year book that she wanted to become a billionaire. Plot-twist, she became one.

I have 2 hypotheses:

1) She was a face (a front) for a group of shadowy fraudsters (VC's?), who almost managed to pull of one of the biggest heists in history.

2) This is very common. Any "media hyped" startup out there fronted by an attractive founder with an implausible origin story is suspect.
This sort of reasoning by a hiring manager would be a great example of bias against white people.
Right, I agree with you that in the case of NYC you're getting a great deal, but in other places you do pay a heavy premium for a hotel. For example, I checked a few places where I know you can get a 1br for $500ish a month, and hotels there are mostly more than $100/night, which is ridiculous.

Furthermore, I wouldn't say that the concierge or security are worth mentioning. I know personally I feel about as secure in a hotel as with an Airbnb - or at least I'm always aware of the possibility of theft from hotel rooms.

I understand labor costs etc are a big part of the price, but I wish there were more low-cost hotel options. Not hostels, but an actual room to yourself. Why does that have to be expensive? Just cut the room area in half and half the price! Yotel is nice, but they're still not cheap, and don't have many locations.

If there were low-cost hotels available, for $30 a night or so, I'd spring for them much more often. But when you can grab a nice-looking Airbnb for $25-30, vs a motel for $50-60, it's hard to justify the motel.
What do you mean by stateful in this context?

Http/2 is multiplexed, unlike http/0.9-1.1, and while that has some overhead, it being a binary protocol probably makes up for it.
What happened to open source (in 2018 and beyond)
jq's a useful utility, but I'm curious as to how you're using a JSON query tool in writing.
I remember back in the 2000s there was a huge fear of work being outsourced to India. It makes sense: since you can get engineers for 10 times less cost. But these fears never really materialized. there was still so much hiring in the bay area for the last 20 years.

Certainly low-margin businesses that need to compete will be hiring in India. That's probably why you don't see many web development body shops in the bay area. But, for monopoly businesses like google or facebook, the cost of labor doesn't really matter much for them.
It looks like he's talking about developers, in the sense of individuals or teams that build content sites (read: deploy and configure Wordpress or other CMSes) for customers as a business.
> If you have your own domain you can use a catch all/wildcard address, eg. @mydomain.com

I've done this before. You will get a shitload of spam. I recommend suffixing the user of all addresses with something you want to go to your inbox.

E.g. I use *.r@mydomain.com (r for "real"). Anything that doesn't end in .r@mydomain.com never hits my main inbox.
I saw another study where they found phone numbers for mental health professionals, and they called and left a message, asking someone to call them back to set up a first appointment.

The had other people rate the voices as "sounds black" / "sounds white," and "sounds white-collar" / "sounds blue-collar."

That way, they measured the correlation between "sounds black" and "doesn't get call backs."

As you can imagine, "white" sounding people got more call backs. And "white-collar" sounding people got more call backs. I don't know if they reported which was more beneficial, sounding white, or white-collar.

My point being, if you have a large enough collection of names, and you measure how the candidate appears to them, you can then correlate the appearance with the outcome, showing the bias against that appearance.

You don't need to have the researchers generate their own candidates.
When I was growing up on a farm, my Aunt Hattie had chickens and it was normal when we went to her house for dinner to watch her chop the chickens head off (on a farm, such things were fairly common and not at all shocking when you are brought up with it).

I remember asking her how she decided which one to take. She said that when she went out to get their eggs, whichever one pecked at her the most would be the next one to go. I asked her if that worked, did it send a message to the others. She very flatly said no, they are too stupid to understand that but it makes me feel better. I just thought that was funny and somehow is something I remember.
After realizing how easy it is to parse sexps, and how complex some language syntax rules have become [1], i’ve wondered why we tolerate such complexity.

I’ve realized it’s because we are still stuck in a text-file-oriented way of writing programs. We are hand-editing the serialization format of our programs. All of these languages with complex syntax is an attempt to optimize around that use-case.

If we had better tools which allowed us to leave behind text-file-oriented programming, there would be no need for all of this complex syntax.

There would be a few other benefits as well. No one cares whether photoshop .psd files use tabs or spaces, or whether the curly brace should go at end-of-line or next-line, etc.

[1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/parse.y
Additionally, after spending most of the 2010s in software development and learning several languages and software engineering practices, I can't say I remember much of what I learned from any of those books or courses I took in my past life. My brain has been saturated by technology and other interests. I guess you have to continue reading and staying up-to-date on any topic in order to keep it fresh in your mind.
That "idea" has been around since the 1980s.
> I'm just pointing out that the nature of Airbnb's business means that there's no real-time, no streaming, no billions of concurrent users, etc.

I guess I’m not sure why it is necessary for a tech company to be defined by these criteria? That’s just me.
Review of Secure, Privacy-Respecting Email Services
If you live in hotels you earn status, status gets you upgrades to large rooms. Room size is a non-issue for me.
Just as an aside, almost all Google apps have at least a serviceable keyboard control layer that you can find by pressing '?'. This has helped my productivity using say Gmail tremendously.
Thanks for the tip about gmail's "+" support. I'll start using it. I don't think it does anything to keep your email address private, though. Recovering the original valid email address from "John+uniqueidentifier@gmail.com" is trivial.
>John+uniqueidentifier@gmail.com

Isn't it elementary for a bad agent to scrub those? Your actual e-mail address (john@gmail.com) is too visible.
Camelford Water Pollution Incident
> absolutely against equality since it gives preference to specific groups

Clearly we disagree significantly. But I mean, really: When reality is not equal, preference must be given to achieve equality. This is just obvious.