skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also supports a catch-all alias though.
That article does not do a good job of backing up its claims. The CNN article it references makes much weaker claim. The NALS report specifically states

> While the literacy levels on each scale can be used to explore the range of literacy demands, these data do not reveal the types of literacy demands that are associated with particular contexts in this pluralistic society. That is, they do not enable us to say what specific level of prose, document, or quantitative skill
is required to obtain, hold, or advance in a particular occupation, to manage a household, or to obtain legal or community services, for example. Nevertheless, the relationships among performance on the three scales and various social or economic indicators can provide valuable insights, and that is the goal of this report.

So, contrary to the article's claim, the report does not define anyone as being "functionality illiterate".

Furthermore, "functionality illiterate" is not the same as "can't read". It's a weaker standard. It's still a major problem, but that is not an excuse to conflate the two and make claims that high schools can't require graduates to know how to read at all.
I find the nominally long stay brands are increasingly common even in cities. On the other hand, other than a kitchen, they’re not necessarily that spacious compared to a standard hotel room even if they have a kitchenette. But I’m staying at one in downtown Chicago this week and it was cheaper than other hotel options.
or a GPDWIN2 with 4G card.
Yea, he's saying it's suspicious that this didn't get more upvotes. I agree.
JavaScript Code Transformation Survey
If someone sitting in the vehicle can lose attention, there is not much hope for someone watching from afar on a TV (even if you're streaming at something like 4k 120fps --- which would be an immense amount of bandwidth to handle for each car --- it's still not much more immersive than watching someone playing a driving game.)
Nintendo Asks Mobile Developers to Curb Microtransactions
I'm startled that there's no mention of app whitelisting yet.

Code signing reduces ops overhead and latency in environments that are using app whitelisting.

If the code is signed, then the signing certificate can be trusted once. All upgrades and patches that are signed with that certificate can be automatically whitelisted, with no intervention from teams managing the whitelisting.

But if the code isn't signed, then if even a single byte changes in the executable, it must be re-whitelisted - usually manually.

The more signed apps there are, the easier it is for companies to start using application whitelisting, the fewer people are needed to maintain it, and the faster patches to those applications can be deployed. Making it easier for companies to move to whitelisting increases security for the ecosystem in the aggregate.
That seems incorrect. The contemporary fine-art world, or certainly the public-gallery, taxpayer-funded side of it at least, has been dominated by conceptual art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art for decades now: in other words, by people chasing heavily diminished returns on Duchamp's old hack. It's hard to imagine that the people adulating and spending millions on Damien Hirst's bisected shark and other, even slighter stuff are still upset about Duchamp.
Chronologically sorted chaos
For a tiny startup, you might be able to just add http2 support in 10 minutes and everything might be fine, but most of the time it's more complicated. It's a bit like if I said, can I change your app libraries to bleeding edge? It's just a one line change.
The inactive ingredients are different.
I guess I'm the only one who thought Blindsight's prose was delicious from front to back, then? I can see why people would think it's a little overdone, but I like that about it as well.
Writing a Simple Password Generator in Racket
Maybe they can make it more like a video game, where you're constantly saving cars from collisions, and you don't know which is a simulation and which is real. Give them bonuses based on what percentage of collisions they successfully deter.
The survey is meant to find what type of code suggestions and transformations JavaScript developers find useful. We'll share the results in about a month.
We are a small startup funded by the National Science Foundation to explore ways to improve program transformation.
> Is there a shortcut?

A much, much deeper understanding of how humans work.
> 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.

The problem with your conclusion here is that I absolutely agree that people can be incompetent regardless of race or gender. Indeed: that was the entire point of my comment you were responding to. As that was the entirety of your statement, to which I pointed out our agreement, I fail to see how I intentionally warped it. That you ALSO meant: it is therefore not necessary to take any action to counter racism, is not "obvious" in your original statement. Clearly I was unable to read your mind when I replied to you.
You need "sufficient" n no matter what your character pool is, and knowing the character pool of a password doesn't let you reliably predict if n is sufficient.
I Googled it, which was completely uninlightening.

I presume that you meant some kind of a diss on Strunk & White. It may make people insecure about the quality of their writing, but it does so in order to show them how to be better.

As for this essay... you may like it. I want to take away their keyboard until they learn how to stop wasting my time.
Org mode and pandoc work quite well for a similar workflow. The ability to move around chapter trees in org mode is a godsend. It's crazy to see how far the art of "word processing" deviated from WordStar days. MS Word's proprietary doc binary didn't help either (people would mess up formatting and lose entire documents). It's nice to see the focus come back to content and streamlining production with reproducible formatting.
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of A New Elite by Mallaby does just that. A quote from the book:
Although Weymar looked to his teachers for help in refining his mathematical and computing skills, he was unimpressed by their efficient-market theories. “I thought random walk was bullshit,” he said later. “The whole idea that an individual can’t make serious money with a competitive edge over the rest of the market is wacko.”
It happened because one company was greedy, and negligent, - and has the money to pay the bill. The question is, will the jury really make them pay.
Natural language is a serialization format, written and spoken. Algebraic notation is also serial. We like it, are good at it; get used to it.

Assuming natural language is the serialization format of thought (quesionable), we could have non-serial program representation when we can interface directly with thought.

\aside Chomsky reckons natural language is not primarily used for communication, but as an internal linkage between concepts and perception/action. If so, why is it serial? Is it serial? Is a grammar needed if it is not serial? Perhaps structure is all that is needed, and that does not require grammar (though fits with it, via AST).
That's getting pretty close to a personal attack, which is frowned on heavily here.
The idea in the paper is to put up a big solar panel. Simply by absorbing the light, you are propelled. And you use the energy in the light, which is more than the energy you used to send it, to send more light.
Unless there has been a new development, there are no approved crypto ETFs yet. There are crypto index funds with fees of 1%-2%.

That's not a bad option if you just want some diversity with minimal thought + effort. I think this tool offers a different option. With a little bit of thought and effort, you can save on the fees and customize the risk/return profile.
> (I don’t know why Rust was the agent of change in that priority, but I’m very glad for it!)

Mozilla did an analysis of security bugs in Firefox and many of them were memory safety issues. That’s part why they sponsored it, at least.
This is the same sort of promise app.net made
The History and Implementation of React-Redux
I mentioned economics gets dogmatic. Occasionally, we even have economists who attempt to re-define science. Here's a quote from the article:

"Andrew Lo, an MIT economist, said that while physics has three laws that explain 99% of the phenomena, finance has 99 laws that explain only 3%. Not only do we not fully understand how the economy works but also there is an endless debate on how it should function."

You can have your own science threshold. But I think calling economics science is doing disservice to science. It distorts the public's perception of science.
This feels intuitively like it's closely associated with some measure of the Komolgorov complexity of a passage.
> What is not clear is whether or not this task is even humanly feasible

Not watching TV while you’re supposed to be driving is a pretty low bar.

But apparently, humans can’t even be relied on to do this, even when it’s their one single job.
Having a "username" that you login with which is different than the email address would solve the same issue.
«it is possible that the reference graph does not have any cycles.»

It's impossible. An English dictionary defined using English words has to have cycles.
Wow thank you, I think you nailed it. I see all of this now.
A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We'll Believe It When We See It
I tried leaving a negative review once. It was a disaster. I stopped using Airbnb. I started using HotelTonight. Soon it looks like I might have to consider something else.
this is like saying that you should keep your public street address private... you are thinking about it backward. What needs to be done is don't use your email address as a login or worst, as a password recovery option.
New books do, too. It is interesting how one can tell just by its smell, approximately how old a book is. To me, new ones smell more like paint (probably the ink), while older ones I can only describe as "book" --- it's certainly a distinctive smell.
C’mon, you live only once...
From my perspective, the best aspect of undergraduate programs is that you get the chance to study lots of interesting things outside of your core discipline. That is harder to do once you are working in the field.

The worst aspect is the crippling debt, which cannot be discharged even in bankruptcy.

I went to a student loan web site recently and clicked on something like "discharge eligibility" leading to a form that said that you may be eligible to stop making payments if you have "become deceased." I'm glad they sorted that out.
Yes, it was like that. The philosophy was to support learning that tries to come closer to real-life immersion than typical school foreign-language classes did. (From my memory of the preface, the only part in English. Of course nothing back in the 1960s could really approach moving to France -- maybe nowadays you could using the internet.)
I have been reading the comments and I think it needs to be stated the problem itself is misguided. This quote sums up the main issue quite well -

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability and constants, about similarities and normal and kinds, about magical transformations, quick cures, simple problems, and final solutions. Yet the world we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is a problem.” - Wendell Johnson
Completely disagree. Security resources are scarce and should be allocated toward protecting secrets.

Non-secrets, like addresses and SSNs, should be rendered harmless rather than squandering resources trying to keep them secret.
Oh, no, the prose was fine. Did my post come off like I don't like the prose in Blindsight? I just didn't want anyone to think anything else about the book was similar to Stephenson's work at all—for one thing, Blindsight has an entire story that's fully plotted beginning to end, not just a bunch of amazing ideas and great first third that proceeds to go nowhere.

[EDIT] the action writing in Blindsight is particularly good, in fact. Some of the best I've read.
here's a full code example in Idris, demonstrating Dependent Types, that's not completely facile:

import Data.String

-- takes two integers, and a proof that x < y, and yields an integer
add :
(x : Integer) ->
(y : Integer) ->
(prf : x < y = True) -> -- require a proof that that x < y
Integer
add x y prf = x + y

main : IO ()
main = do
sx <- getLine -- read string from input
sy <- getLine -- read string from input
let Just x = parseInteger sx -- assuming int parse is ok, else error
let Just y = parseInteger sy -- assuming int parse is ok, else error
case decEq (x < y) True of -- decEq constructs a proof (prf) if x < y is True
Yes prf => print (add x y prf) -- yes, we got a prf, pass it to add
No => putStrLn "no prf, x is not less than y" -- the prf variable is not available in this case

lets say I mess up the sign of the comparison on the case line and write decEq (x > y) instead... then I'd get a type error

When checking argument prf to function Main.add:
Type mismatch between
x > y = True (Type of prf)
and
x < y = True (Expected type)

there's no way to construct the prf value artificially, or sneak in different parameters that are unrelated to the prf value.

it's either a compile error or it's valid.
Email is inherently weak and should not be used for anything sensitive. It’s weak by design.
Me too! But maybe I was unclear: the only part not in French was the introduction, so it doesn't really matter what language you're coming from.
>If reacting instantly is not enough to slow down you were driving way too fast for the conditions, period. Defensive driving is a solved problem.

Why does our law not reflect this? If this was a solved problem than all roads where people walk near would be 40km/h but instead we have people riding bikes and walking across roads with 60km/h traffic and they regularly get killed. You might be able to safely drive your car and not die most days but its shockingly common for people to die on our roads because we prioritize getting to work 30 seconds faster over reducing death.
You miss something important: If you finance a house on a fixed rate mortgage you lock in your monthly cost. Market rents will continue to rise, the value of your property will continue rise, but your cost will not change (modulo increases in maintenance cost, insurance and property tax).
probably was trivial to do the conversion
If you use and like `ag`, I suggest taking a look at ripgrep (`rg`). It seems to be by far the fastest out of three (`ack`, `ag`, `rg`). And it has a pretty interesting codebase (written in Rust).
So why didn't scientists come out in droves and push back on the anti-egg movement?
>They do this by literally sending the people an email. If it does not bounce, the email is validated.

That's a pretty dumb way to validate an email address. You can just end the connection after a successful RCPT TO and no one needs to be the wiser. The method causes a false validation in the case of an intermediate mail relay that accepts everything but that is such a bad idea that no one does that.
Yeah, it was around 250. But I assumed that with hotel tonight you were getting a good deal for using otherwise unused inventory, not getting essentially market rate for a hotel
A couple months ago, I parallelized execution of thousands of slow batch jobs on a fleet of remote servers. With parallel that was one command, including estimated time to completion and retries for failed jobs. It was awfully nice not to need to install or setup anything or spend time coding built-in features. Once it was done, I will almost certainly never run that exact operation again.

I normally use xargs for simple things and if it’s a regular business operation I’d setup a task queue but there’s a fair amount of work in the middle where it’s nice to have a solid tool with most of the features you could want built in and tested.
If you're curious like I was, it appears that MRAM is susceptible to higher than usual magnetic fields, but shielded to prevent interference up to a certain tolerance.

"Everspin MRAM products are designed to be highly immune to magnetic fields normally
found in commercial, industrial or AEC-Q100 Grade 1 applications. However, if there is
concern that an MRAM device is expected to be in close proximity to a magnetic field, it
may be prudent for the designer to verify that a magnetic field does not exceed the
magnetic immunity specifications of the MRAM." [1]

Also of interest [2].

Careful, they are PDFs, not sure if those servers can handle too much traffic!

[1] https://www.everspin.com/file/206/download

[2] https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN3525.pdf
And subdirectory after subdirectory of folders named "stuff".
Used it in 5 different occasions throughout a 2 year timespan, never found a deal that was cheaper than just booking directly with the hotel.

I'm in Miami/Orlando.
> , but it is convenient, and the barrier to entry (rapidly less so) is relatively low.

Quite the opposite. The barrier to entry of being required to spend 10s of thousands of dollars per year is extremely high and has only been increasing over the last 2 decades.

Perhaps college would have been the best option for getting a "well rounded education" at it's price point a couple decades ago, when it was 1/4th the cost.

But at current prices? I strongly doubt it is the most cost effective way of acquiring that service.
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a, b, c, d, e, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, v, x, y, (, ), and, concatenate.

Some hints:

- "backwards j"

- "a circle"

- "a cross"

- "n, but rotated ninety degrees"

- "mirror of p"

- "vv, except no gap"

- "pixel-wise union n and l"

- "mirror of s, and make the lines straight"

Semantics are impossible anyways, I challenge you to define the word "dog".

Challenge: Do better, make sure you don't have circular dependencies.
> some core set of cognitive axioms

This and the rest of the comment remind me of the Pirahã language, in which there are purportedly two numerals but researchers can't figure out what they are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language#Numerals_...

> Frank et al. (2008) describes two experiments on four Pirahã speakers that were designed to test these two hypotheses. In one, ten spools of thread were placed on a table one at a time and the Pirahã were asked how many were there. All four speakers answered in accordance with the hypothesis that the language has words for 'one' and 'two' in this experiment, uniformly using hói for one spool, hoí for two spools, and a mixture of the second word and 'many' for more than two spools. The second experiment, however, started with ten spools of thread on the table, and spools were subtracted one at a time. In this experiment, one speaker used hói (the word previously supposed to mean 'one') when there were six spools left, and all four speakers used that word consistently when there were as many as three spools left.
This is the bullshit that makes modern art more interesting than painters trying to represent reality on canvas.
Questlii – An app that turns goal tracking into an RPG
Thank you. There is deep importance in understanding where we are from in order to understand where we are.
The goal is to get static time checking of dynamic types. For example, if I take two dynamic length arrays and loop n times, appending (optionally?) an element to each array, can you still provide a compile-time check that both arrays are necessarily the same length. It’s much more powerful than what you describe.
Guinea Fowl have a reputation for warding off snakes but can be worse than chickens as far as the bullying.

They are also stupid and I've heard many stories of them wandering as a group, crossing paths with a dog and the whole flock getting wiped out.
I think it is real, but I don't think expenditures drive it all that much. What does drive it is the perceived value through pricing. If the going rate for public schools is $5k/yr, the private colleges put their nameplate rate at $25-30k/yr. Significantly more, but that higher price sends a quality signal, and the students they want don't actually pay it, so they aren't negatively impacted by the high cost.

When the state school price increases to $10k/yr or even $15k/yr, the private schools can move up their nameplate price to $40k/yr or $50k/yr and it doesn't seem ridiculous anymore, and still retains the signaling value.

There has been some increase in student services costs based on the expenditures numbers I posted (about 4%/yr real increase), but that's not enough to explain the 50-100% increases in nameplate tuition at both public and private schools. That is driven by de-investment in post-secondary education by state legislatures, which directly results in tuition increases by public schools to balance the books, and then the similar increases by private schools to maintain their relative cost.
Paying for a coffee and sitting in a cafe for an hour is rude? I try to be conscious of being a responsible customer by this is completely normal and reasonable in the majority of cafes I'll frequent, like Philz in Palo Alto, or any Starbucks anywhere.
Thank you for sharing this! I have always organized my directories similar to concepts explained here but the introducing of decimals adds that extra attribute that helps with searching records in the future.

I started organizing my local files and Dropbox. I'm hoping to eventually organize my Personal and Work Google Drive as well.
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Yeah. Email addresses aren't secrets. If any one server or inbox gets popped you're fucked.

Though if you run a full domain you can use emails as one-use affairs. Most don't though and, really, what's the point? It only saves you from journalists, not from a motivated attacker.
Actually, I think FPGAs are amazingly cheap compared to what it would cost you to fab a chip of similar specs. A leading-edge FPGA will get you near-leading edge DSPs, memory blocks, SerDes, etc. What you _don't_ get is the frequency of a custom part for the full design (this is the FPGA overhead).

Simple RISC softcores run at 200-400 MHz in modern parts. Couple this with custom softcore accelerators and you can get very performant designs. The biggest issue with deploying FPGAs however is that it's much harder to design for, especially dealing with hard blocks, like memory controllers and PCIe.
> College provides TIME with no or minimal responsibilities beyond your learning. That time for self improvement is the valuable resource that doesn't really exist for most people outside of college.

Sure. But don't you think that there could hypothetically be better ways of doing this, without spending 10s of thousands of dollars per year?

Maybe there is a better "not a college" - college type experience that is more effective at achieving these started goals, for less money.
Nutrition Science, ah yes. What would your reaction would be if I told you that we claim that the interaction of seven billion human beings to many thousands of previously living organisms will be the same for each of those human beings? That's obviously nonsense. In other words, you can't just say consuming eggs does X to everyone. You need to partition foodstuff AND partition humans, the partitioning likely based on genetics but also probably other factors as well and then you can describe how each partition reacts. Those other factors likely include previous reaction of food intake... It's a gigantic mess. Until we know a lot more, I will take every nutrition advice as if a dead cat wrote them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudulen...