skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the same for my personal notes. Something like (the actual contents differ because I take notes in my native tongue):

if exists("b:current_syntax")
finish
endif

syn match diaryHashtag "\w\@<!#[A-Za-z]\+"
syn match diaryInlineCode "`[^`]\+`"
syn match diaryLineMarker "^[ \t]*\%([0-9]\+\.\|[*-]\)\S\@!"
syn match diaryInlineMarker "=>\|\S\@<!(\?\%(i\{1,3}\|iv\|vi\{0,3}\|ix\|x\))\S\@!"
syn match diaryInlineDate "\<\%(today\|yesterday\|tomorrow\|\%(\%(next\|last\)\s\)\=\%(mon\|tue\|wed\|thu\|fri\|sat\|sun\)\|20\d\d-\d\d\%(-\d\d\)\=\)"
syn match diaryInlineTime "\<\%(\d\d\=:\d\d\|morning\|afternoon\|night\)"

hi default link diaryHashtag String
hi default link diaryInlineCode Delimiter
hi default link diaryLineMarker Statement
hi default link diaryInlineMarker Statement
hi default link diaryInlineDate Comment
hi default link diaryInlineTime Comment

let b:current_syntax = 'diary'

But this system is entirely unusable for longer and potentially public writings.
This is pretty misleading: a lot of the presented open source equivalents are nothing like the original. For example, comparing HDFS to Colossus is... optimistic? Having used / worked on/with both, the similarity is roughly that they both store bytes.
This would be a lot less misleading if there were annotations and if the "open source/real world" didn't mix together other large companies' products with open source. For example protobuf is open source, but this makes it look like it isn't.
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While reading the thing I could not help but feel like what I'd call "sensible markdown" is both very close and bijective to org syntax. The trouble comes when I need to define what is "sensible markdown" which is a thing I never attempted to do, but pragmatically works very well. It seems like it's CommonMark + GFM (for tables, checklists, and syntax-aware fenced code blocks mostly) + MarkdownLint[0], the latter enforcing stringent rules that makes Markdown very consistent and portable as well as prune the nonsensical stuff (like double space before newline or underline headings). It's fantastic to use with VScode[1] or vim-ale.

Some pet peeves:

I really don't ever get the argument about Markdown URLS. Being able to do both [](url) vs [][ref] is awesome (the latter I liberally use when writing long form docs). If one finds it so annoying one would make the mistake like three times and then it'd be burned into one's brain due to selective pressure. Or just use [][ref] style (which is more readable anyway since you don't have the URL right in the middle of a sentence).

Also, very personal thing but my brain seems to hate /italics/ as it branch predicts into parsing that as a regex.

What drives me nuts though is all the variants and ad hoc syntaxes like JIRA's or this very board's, which sit right in the uncanny valley of nonsense.

[0]: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint

[1]: https://github.com/DavidAnson/vscode-markdownlint
I guess that is a start. I would really like to see these courses enhanced by technology related tools. Personally I think the teaching method that is offered by codecadmey is genius.

I'm personally not in CS so I guess that is why my views are slightly different compared to everyone else here. I work in accounting field. In terms of quality online curriculum there is basically nothing. The ones offered on coursera are basically a joke.
Yeah I use multiple browsers. One that is completely locked down and one for CAPTCHA. The internet is hostile to anonymity.
> Teslas don’t spontaneously burst into flames as often as cheap Chinese EVs.

It is either my calculator is bad or yours.

23 / 300000 = ~0.00001

40 / more than 1000000 = 0.000004
What is value?
But TurboTax has many other incentives besides making tax filings more efficient, including reselling user data, targeted ads for their own products, they might even have reasons to nudge you towards certain options and dark-pattern others.
So Bill Gates proved his incompetence by growing a company to the point of becoming a monopoly, at risk of dismemberment by the antitrust?
So markdown. But standardized. Again.
I thought about this, and I would approach it differently based on who my friend is. Are they a competent person, surrounded by other competent people, not shying away consulting lawyers, and navigating difficult regulatory environment? You might still be right to be skeptical, but if they are have their bases (and backs) covered, even if it explodes under them, it will be mostly a story you laugh about few years down the line (and you will be able to be all "I told you!" ;)

Or they actually pull it off :)

On the other hand, "fraud prevention in charity money transactions" sounds to me a regulatory nightmare, regardless of enthusiasm for the underlying technology. So if your friend and their team don't sound ready for that, I would try to dissuade them, lest their enterprise is just a lawsuit in waiting (or a large fine).

To be honest, the most successful enterprise (mostly because they actually didn't hodl bitcoin :P) in this space I know about, was a small consultancy, doing small proof-of-concept in our local startup ecosystem. As they say, in a gold-rush, money is in selling shovels?
Please don't reply like this, it's not helpful and its abusive. Nobody is a sick fuck here. Robots displacing workers is not a black and white story as a follow-up says, much less gratuitously
> It’s probably the best MS in the world you can get in terms of value per dollar if you’re interested in applied CS.

It's worth pointing out, that in many parts of Europe Master's degree is either free, or costs less than 7k. Of course, the quality cannot be easily compared.
> I'm always irked by hns attitude towards women leaders. There so many comments trying to discredit her or trying to shame her for self promotion.

HN demonstrably shows the same attitude towards male leaders as well. Elon Musk is the poster child of this.

This has nothing to do with the gender of the leader, but rather an aversion to self-promotion, hyping, or any other exaggeration of the self or one's accomplishments.
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This is my fourth week at my new job, and this link was the first one I've found that was blocked my the corporate firewall (didn't even realize we had such a policy) - the reason? Pornography. Man, I'm missing out.
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The Dutch East India Company was publicly traded too.
And ideally all these things become properties to a configuration object which is then used to spawn a process.
The movie poster example just shows its versatility. Univers typeface consists of some 50+ fonts and it’s application varies widely.
VOC (Dutch East India Company) was more powerful than most nations at the time. I asked this question on Quora once and got interesting answers [0]. VOC was an incredible enterprise, and there are a few today too, imo, they exist as conglomerates (Samsung, P&G, Amazon), political entities (CIA, CPC), monopolies (Maersk, Google), syndicates (DeBeers [1], NeoAristocrats [2], BigPharma, BigBank, BigSugar, BigOil), and cults (ISIS). These select few have an immeasurable and uncontrolled sway over the globe-- its environment [3], its inhabitants [4], its future [5], its past [6], its present [7].

The greed unrelenting [8], the game rigged [9][10].

--

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-companies-that-are-power...

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...

[2] https://youtu.be/d_zt3kGW1NM

[3] https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208421

[6] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ICN066A

[7] http://money.com/money/3994949/wikipedia-paid-editors/

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-storage_trade

[9] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593764278

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

edit: links
Chattel slavery was horrible and immoral which tends to make people forget that it was also incredibly stupid and inefficient. Wage slavery where people have the illusion of freedom but are still coerced by the threat of starvation and homelessness is a far more efficient form of exploiting labor. Once the slavers were forced to modernize their operations became much more profitable.
It is logical people have this view these days because the early versions of online courses were very weak in quality. Quite literally they were PDF scans of homework, a PDF syllabus, instructions on what to do (what chapters to read, when to submit stuff etc.) and power point slides. That was it. If you were lucky, you got video taped lectures from in-person classes.

There is a lot of potential with interactive media using a computer that never gets applied to these online courses because of the technical limitations of teachers and related support staff. It is hard to make really good online courses.
As I understand it, aphantasia relates to a lack of coordination between different parts of the brain that allows that activation to happen while awake. There hasn't been a ton of research into aphantasia yet, so take that with a grain of salt, but during discussions with other people with aphantasia I have never heard of one of us not being able to dream. Psychedelics work too.
I'm not convinced. Yes, they do, because in Western societies that is the main option (thanks to monogamy mandated Christiantiy, presumably). That doesn't imply it is their preference.

Maybe their preference would by monogamy - with George Clooney. But since that is not an option, the bets are off. In general, there may not be enough rich men willing to take on multiple women for a significant number of women to choose that option.
By far a much better write up of the issue.
Please add to the ledger the nearly 600,000 white soldiers who died in the Civil War, and 36,000 black soldiers.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/civil-war-casual...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Colored_Troops
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There's a lot of fantasy in this article. Most programmers today do very little actually - we don't wield major influence. We basically glue together a bunch of Free Open Source offerings. The most critical skill is that ability to move fast by practicing with our Free Open Source offering tools. We pay (MS, Google, or Amazon) to host our applications. And we perform maintenance on these applications for years. Nothing special, anyone can do it. More and more people enter the work force every years. Since all things are becoming automated there will be enough jobs for the foreseeable future. We get to wear nerd clothes and act smart but generally all one has to do is be able to read documentation and use a computer. I would reckon that the average 13 year old who has a good reading comprehension can do what most programmers do these days. It's like playing a video game. They would probably be better at it too.
I'm more interested in an explanation of what went wrong when she was running Yahoo!.
That's cool and looks like you are more into music. Are you making the transition or are you doing both in parallel? May I ask how you get ML work.
it isn't either for Apple fam
From what I've seen, the theory of degree signaling might actually be breaking down because employers are starting to use more assessment tools to evaluate potential employees.
Guilty pleasures will make you go Ewww
Doesn't every college hire at FANG fit that description?
Yes they are but how to write them?
It’s creative. bOOm.
How can it be that ideologies such as 'racism' and 'identity politics' are only born from people who want to be the elite? (If this is indeed what you are saying) Was not America's founding based on identity politics and racism by white Christian people? How is the genocide of indigenous people and enslavement of black people not racism and identity politics?

Besides that, I don't think racism and feminism stems from 'wanting' to be elite. People who experience racism just don't want to be killed and threatened, women just want the same opportunities and to be able to feel safe and not be harassed randomly.
I hate TC in this regard, so much so that I don't read it anymore and I'm afraid to click their links. If you scroll too much, the page you were reading disappears, you see completely different content. The back button doesn't work. Overall it's really confusing and gives me anxiety because I don't know if what I'm reading is what I came here for.
Unless you use fully homomorphic encryption (way too expensive for machine learning), the model can't learn anything without breaking your encryption. So you fixed the leak only at the cost of making the model completely useless.
But it's not free time at home. It's time cooking and meal planning and grocery shopping. And maybe that's with family and friends, but for many people it's probably done alone.
In the article they seem to use the maximum attained market capitalization during its existence indexed to current day dollars.
Do you object when sports TV channels show ads related to sports or people who enjoy sports?
What we need is more time machines so we can go back in the past and make even more future choices. Because just splitting amongst the choices we have is so .. limiting.

I do kind of wish we only had one markdown flavour. Maybe why we only have one org mode is because of its lack of ubiquitousness? If it had an electron windows version would it be the same?

The commensurate note is, everything here (Bar one) says it's a stalking horse for Emacs
Not really a problem. A more significant thing is not finding incentive to move to a 2-room apartment after kids have grown up, because regulated price of your 6-room apartment is same as the 2-room would be.
I readily admit that I am unfamiliar with POSIX_spawn() and its benefits over fork().

However, may I point out that Microsoft SQL Server benchmarks have been posted that show Linux TCP-H outperforming Windows?

https://www.dbbest.com/blog/running-sql-server-on-linux/

While I am sure that this is wise criticism, it might also be concluded that Windows itself contains no small amount of architectural decisions that limit performance.
Are you allowed to pull over on the highway in the US. Certainly can't do that on a motorway in the UK.
Taken with a potato telescope. I hope they don’t create all this buzz and excite people and release a 4 pixel photo of blackness with some blurry center.

I say this because its been done many many times before...
>or the willpower to finish non deadlines projects and hw

If I could nitpick this particular point (because I agree with the rest), statistically it's true that the vast majority of online courses aren't finished.

But I think, going by my own use of these courses as well as anecdotes from others, this isn't because of a lack of willpower so much as professional working folk primarily being interested in learning a very specific solution-to-a-problem on-demand (exactly the thing Stack Overflow offers) rather than going through an entire course just because lots of other information happens to be bundled with the key information they're actually looking for.

There are of course many exceptions. I wanted to learn how hardware works so went through the entire Nand 2 Tetris course start to finish. But that was because independent of my "professional working folk" persona, I was just personally interested in the topic. But I've much more often used online lectures to get me over occasional humps in understanding specific nuggets of information and this is the use case I've heard from everyone else I know who uses online courses.
the DNS at $JOB here doesn't resolve newer TLDs like .dev at all :(

that said:

DungeonDelveXL is a fully-featured Role Playing Game (RPG), written entirely inside Microsoft Excel. It features a large, procedurally generated world and dungeons, with enormous potential to explore endlessly varying missions with your party of brave adventurers. And all inside a spreadsheet.
There were bonds issued by Dutch East India Company

https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3433724
"Wealth" the government owns is often just "wealth" or "resources" rather than "means of production".
I Can imagine something, but only for one second or so, it's like I can't hold it up.

anyone relates?
> Fonts which are too small or large, or text lines which are too long, are objectively harder to read.

I compulsively CTRL+wheel-up and CTRL+wheel-down all the websites that I read until the "right" size appears, so I do not really care about the font size setup by the author of the site. But probably my behavior is not very representative.
And have been for almost a decade now.
What you describe does not look like the typical software developer job at all.

Certainly not anyone can write software. In fact, many who see themselves as "coders" are not very good at it themselves.

Edit:

I've found it's a bit similar to law in terms of skills and mindset. Some people struggle to follow the text of an actual law. Then, drafting an actual law is an even more specialised skill. In both software and law, if you draft badly you will face problems...
There is nothing really comparable for OpenGL and it shows, really. Awesome work.
A tweak to W4 could easily encapsulate planned filing status.

Tax returns really do take a huge majority of repeat information and a tiny amount of additional metadata.

There's no reason for the vast majority of Americans this couldn't be automated.
Ok what do I need to know to get this joke?
It's a common IRC bot feature. Typically there's a command like:
.tell <user> <message>
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What?!

They don't have to _collect_ it. They can say that we have access to it but will only collect it when you use a related product.
As Linux developer and Windows hater, I agree with Microsoft. fork() is a hack.

Of course, all Windows APIs are terrible, but that doesn't make complaints about fork() any less legitimate. The concept of Establishing empty processes, instead of cloning yourself, is much more sane.

After all, the use of fork() is 99% of the time just to call execve(), and anything done in between is just to clean up the mess from fork(). Having a dedicated way to just create processes in a controlled fashion would have been better there. And, the other 1% is usually cases where pthread should have been used instead.
What do you even mean? It sounds like a witty metaphor for something, but even for what?

DEIco is a real historical enterprise with well-documented operations.
Confirm Australia is becoming SUV-dominant.

Too many Australians will laugh smugly at the America portrayed by Family Guy because they never look in the mirror.

Disclaimer: I have a seven-seater. I hate it, but I'm not the one that drives the kids and their friends around with startling regularity so I don't get a say, and only reap the rewards of its presence despite talking it down.

Would happily re-draw from the mortgage for a BEV to replace it once they're actually available in Oz at remotely practical prices.
Just because you put it in the ToS doesn't make it legally or ethically acceptable. In addition, very few people will read the ToS of random websites they visit that begin cryptomining, resulting in non-consentual mining.
Aha, thanks for clarifying that. I actually read that article, but the earlier comment got me confused over whether it was merely validating the final forecasts, or all forecasts over time.

Makes sense that it was written as an explicit rebuttal to Taleb -- but without mentioning him directly. :)
Google already parses purchasing information from emails.

Alphabet Taxes doesn’t sound too bad.
Following someone around all day taking notes would be considered stalking.

I think the fundamental problem here is that people in the EU will choose privacy over the ability of companies to make money. Its a different outlook on life. When its my interests versus the interests of business I choose me.
I know it's a "design" website and all, but can't they just show an A-Z so I can look at it?

The official website has better representations, but is still full of a load of flashy animations and videos before you get to the actual font
https://www.monotype.com/fonts/helvetica-now
this article is kinda misleading, norway is still drilling for oil CLOSE to the arctic, it just stopped short of the 'natural wonder' areas.
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The Commoditization of Scobalization.
Couldn't you just phone them and leave a voicemail? Use your cars bluetooth so you don't need to touch the phone.
How is P&G a conglomerate? Samsung and most large Japanese companies are conglomerates but P&G does not fit the bill at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mGXLgGqkY
I bet there are a couple of armies and corrupt goverments on the payroll of some corporations, tracked down as business expenses.
It happened for me too, is it a security breach or a bug at google?
Slaves aren’t hired.
That's not a good definition of value if you enter into a phase of speculation.
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I’m absolutely not defending academia as an industry. I did my time there, and I would never go back.

To say that the overhead goes to flashy buildings and fat admin paychecks is a bit of a misrepresentation. Those buildings almost always have a major donor and a substantial endowment component. The academic (especially physical and biological science) divisions do actually need to pay for office space, lab space, heat, staff to run it, clean it, make the computers go, etc. If you think my salary was ballooning while building and running everyone’s HPC clusters, I can assure you it wasn’t in any sense other than perhaps slowly deflating over time. Compared to whatever the football coach and president are being paid, there are thousands of people on staff who aren’t getting those fat paychecks.
Agree. It's almost like google made their captcha to ensure browsers continued to allow fingerprinting rather than to tell bots from humans.

As you say perhaps sites can get a kind of "entropy budget". If they ask for my screen size that's X bits of entropy. If they want to render things to a canvas and read back the result that's Y bits of entropy (Y >> X). Once sites reach a certain budget that users can set themselves, they get fake or invalid data. Worst case if I set the entropy budget too low is I get a captcha or an incorrect layout somewhere.
This is in no way applicable, so just stop.
It depends. If you are single and doing it without massive financial risk (if you get good support or if you have independent wealth) then I would say absolutely. I was extremely lucky and landed a assistants job at a small uni and this allowed me to scrape by (actually it was ok, just not long term sustainable).

If you have a partner that could be good or bad depending. Your relationship will be stressed, I have seen several relationships flounder due to the process and pressure, but also I've seen several come through ok, and a couple blossom. Alot of these observations correlate with normal tracks for romantic relationships, life is full of surprises and challenges, but the big fact is that people who have lost lovers and spouses during Ph.D's often blame the Ph.D (in my experience).

If you have (young) kids I strongly recommend that you think really carefully. The difference here is that no matter what happens you have dependants, and you will have to be very lucky not to get compromised by this relationship and the Ph.D process. Something will have to give, and this might mean that your work is devalued or derailed.

Always remember that a Ph.D is a gamble and an indulgence. No one needs one, and no one is guaranteed success. On the other hand it gives you skills and training that I think are very hard to get any other way and for me it was one of the best periods of my life (one of!)

Good luck.
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