skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, for me it's the other way around - I'd prefer to read because the videos are so slow; a transcript of a video can be read something like four-five times quicker than the video itself. Lecture videos can be listened with the audio sped up 1.5-2 times (though it really degrades the quality and can be hard to understand at times) but it's still much slower than reading the same thing, at least for me. I mean, the whole notion of proper sight-reading (without mental subvocalization) is because it's not possible to speak as fast as you can read.
So because it’s not the same code base but it is produced by the same company with the same purpose? It’s not “Visusl Studio Code”? Was Photoshop not Photoshop on Windows when the assembly language optimizations were different between PPC and x86?
Democritus might have said that his theory was falsifiable in principle, as there were different theories being proposed by others. All of those theories, however (Democritus' included) lacked any empirical evidence for or against them, so they were all metaphysical speculation, not science (a claim that has been made about some aspects of fundamental physics today.)

I agree, however, that it was not meaningless - that should be reserved for ideas that are unfalsifiable in principle, such as p-zombies

With regard to point 2, if 'only falsifiable claims are meaningful' is not falsifiable, then it might indicate that it is not a scientific theory -- but no surprise there, as it is just a personal opinion, as is whether or not you agree with Popper.

As it happens, I think it is falsifiable, in general - mathematical identities are not falsifiable, if you include the relevant axioms, and they are not meaningless. It's pretty clear, however, that whatshisface's comment was intended in the context of science.
That's very strange, sorry! What browser/keyboard layout are you using?
Our current filing is silent about these features and I can’t be specific with our future plans until we file with regulators. With this approval, we can now work with participants in the market and learn how we can best serve all stakeholders.
Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?
Just to tell another possible path schizophrenia can take. When my mother went off her meds she got significantly worse very quickly and would never quite recover to where she was before hand. But even while medicated she would still get worse each year. In her teens she scored a near perfect SAT(1560) but by the time she was 23 she was no longer able to hold down a job and by her early 30s she could barely string a sentence together that made any sense.
The font size would have been fine in the 2000s. The site is made of tables and it is obviously quite old.
High school to eliminate valedictorian honor over 'mental wellness' concerns
I agree as well. The kicker here is that the resource has to be well developed, comprehensive and use effective ways to teach the subject. Most online courses I've seen aren't comprehensive, don't really have any effective tools and are sloppily created overall.
Due to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 there's a good chunk of vocabulary overlap, particularly for the more formal and technical words likely to be used in State Department contexts.
Maybe it was a typo?
I agree that having a disciplined focus on learning as an exercise...there is more work on your part as a reader.

I think the point from the article is that we have richer ways to convey information. I feel like that is fair. I mean we type out our thoughts, the most ineffective way to share our passion around a topic.

I'd be interested in a seeming statement you are making; the book vs video (or possibly the attempt of mixing and matching).

Ask me again after I try reading their book Quantum Country to tackle this richer repetitive approach.

I work with a lot of those folks that burn through the book a day and exercise their WPM speed to the 6 and 7 hundreds....they talk about the book after but its lost a month later and only fragments remain.
> entonation

intonation
I'm pleased to announce the new release of Komiser:2.1.0 with beta support of GCP. You can now detect potential cost savings of both AWS and GCP in one tool. https://github.com/mlabouardy/komiser
Show HN: Sewing Pattern Generator
Slopers are like a 'second skin', which are the basis for making more custom fitting patterns (https://www.mybluprint.com/project/the-sloper-is-your-secret...)

The only other ways I've seen of making one involve taking a bunch of measurements and doing a bunch of geometry, so this is my attempt at automating that!

Let me know what you think!
As the old saying goes, “very very carefully.”

Just kidding. We will make extensive filings on this subject, coming up soon.

Until then the best way to think about this is as a set of principles.

This next generation of companies believes in
- defining success in generational terms, not beating the quarter or some transient competitor
- considering their impact on multiple stakeholders: shareholders, yes, but also employees, partners, customers, communities
- building products that are fundamentally healthy for humans and the societies they inhabit
His accent is Slavic, but a very slight one. I struggle with the same sounds.
This sounds like I was like about 10 years ago. Wrapped up in a company. I don't do "work friends" anymore.
Precisely why HN is like no other site: no matter what the subject or how arcane the field, SOMEONE reading any post is an expert. It's like one of those companies that finds you an expert for a price, except here it's free.
I meant 14. 24 is basically a PDP11 isa and is great for c
You are no more “pushed toward Windows” with new code you do with .Net Core than you are if you use any other cross platform language.

While I’ll agree that anything that uses any of the advanced features of Entity Framework and MVC is not trivially ported.
I feel you on this one. Definitely an anecdote, but here it goes.

I have a friend who had no music education in his life at all. He decided to pick up piano at the age of 28. 3 times a week for an hour with a teacher + an hour a day of his own practice (on average). 4 months later, he plays better than most kids who started at the age of 6 (like me back then) who practiced for a couple of years, and he understands music theory at the level way above that. When he makes it to a year, I expect him to be at least at the same level as most kids who practiced for about 3-4 years. All it takes is the regular habit of mindful practice. What adults don't have in nearly unlimited free time (compared to kids), they definitely seem to compensate with efficiency of their time spent learning. The key aspect is regular practice, which most adults can't seem to stick to.
My slavic friends also have the same problem. I think it's a particulary acute problem for learners of a language with articles coming from a language without. It was much easier for me, for example, to learn Russian, as a native english speaker. I agree with you that we could probably do without articles, but it's not as if polish and russian don't have any need for them. In Russian этот/эта/это etc. are often use as a semi "the".
I learned this a few years into my career and made major changes to adjust it. I've never felt happier and more fulfilled than this last year where my job is a sideshow and my focus and best hours of the day are spent with my family.
In French I believe that this is known as the “école horizontale”.
Cool stuff! My name kept showing up along with a few others, but I wonder it that is due to insufficient users in my typing speed range. I'll try again later.

Please make commas more visible. The upturned underscore obscures it.
Vega is pointed out because in relation to the galaxy in the picture it allows the author to locate where Polaris should be (above the frame). Polaris being above the frame is a problem because it is never above the horizon where the photograph is supposed to have been taken.
While it exists, this feature isn’t exactly discoverable when you need it most. Who would think of going to the menu for inputting a number or symbol when they want to undo deleting a chunk of text?
For an artist, this might ironically be the most damning thing they could receive.

That would make an excellent title for a book for film: "An Artist Of No Repute".
I vehemently agree with the theme of your message, and of course the fine quote at the end.

But I have a non-trivial quibble -- please don't be too quick to dismiss Richard Dawkins' science
writing. Keeping comparisons with the giant, i.e. Darwin, aside, Dawkins is one of the most eloquent science writers. On par with the inimitable Carl Sagan, dare I say.

A year or so ago I've read The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins (which, I gather, touches the same ideas from The Selfish Gene). He writes extremely poignantly about "cumulative selection", the "immortal gene", "adaptive complexity" (the particular property of living things that is replicable only by Darwinian selection) and many other riveting topics. Not to mention lots of fun and meaningful analogies related to various computer-related concepts (if you enjoy that sort of thing) and to the natural world, to explain DNA and related ideas (refer to "The Power of Archives" chapter). Also, have a gander at Science in the Soul, also by Dawkins, a collection of essays; FWIW, very much recommend it. Some fine writing in there.

(Note to self: Resume reading On the Origin of Species again.)
That paper looks interesting but also seems very preliminary.
Because I care about innovation for distribution of social benefits and environmental improvement, as opposed to profit.
STEM educations generally don't teach you how to read properly. Not "read" as in turn letters into works into sentences into ideas. I mean "read" as in absorb what the author is saying, understand it, evaluate it in context and absorb these new ideas.

I had this kind of education, and I'm still pissed about it. It was such a wasted opportunity and so much wasted time. At least I learned this later on, but it was not easy.

You are right that tell is referring to Selfish Gene and Guns, Germs and Steel as "serious non-fiction tomes". These are pop-science books that are summarizing the actual serious non-fiction works that developed these ideas. And I actually like both those books, I think they did a lot to bring these ideas to the public, to people who wouldn't read about these subjects deeply and critically, they are made for regular people curious about a subject to do a surface read and get familiar with new explanatory frameworks.
Sounds rather similar to GPU architecture.
This is incredibly insightful.

I have two friends who primarily youtube, but their subject interests are cars. Believe it or not, youtube contains an extreme wealth of car related knowledge from top gear all the way down to how-to's on maintenance/uprades of very specific models of vehicles.

They're extremely knowledgeable about their crafts in ways that other mediums wouldn't be able to convey. Now I'm sure reading would help advance their understanding, but in the same way that a purely book read mechanic might also benefit from a deep dive into the massive knowledge base that a platform that is able to host long-tail content like youtube can convey.
>I have always been under the impression that the only reason children learn languages faster than adults is because they don’t worry so much about how they would be perceived if they said the wrong thing, pronounced something wrongly etc.

To piggyback on this, as someone learning a language as an adult, one thing that frustrated me the most was the inverse of the phenomenon you described - adults trying to be too polite and not correcting me when I made some mistakes, as long as they could understand what I meant. As soon as I had made close friends and made it explicitly clear to them, that I would really appreciate them pointing out my mistakes, that's when my biggest learning leaps occurred.
One day i would like to work at microsoft. I would like to make some much needed improvements to both FreeCell and Cardfile
I've been told recently by my kid's speech therapist that if kids don't pickup how to properly pronounce harder-to-say sounds like L and R up to 14 yo, they'll probably never learn it. Which leads to the same conclusion, because I guess learning an accent is basically learning how to modify the way you make speech sounds.
That's a "Polish" SIM card. He said a "polish" SIM card which is just a very shiny smooth SIM card.
> Unsafe railing gaps

what is unsafe about a space between railings at a corner that not even a hand can fit through?
Share your habits and patterns that contribute to your success
Could be morning routines, behaviors, diet, anything at all that you believe has had a influenced your success.
I get that, but if that bright dot isn't Vega, then the argument falls apart. How do we know it's Vega?
self-hosted on a $40 digital ocean droplet performance is practically speaking indistinguishable from
Github.

No idea what gitlab.com is like, we picked gitlab because we could self-host.
Can't edit any more, but it's not even a guess any more.

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/contributi...
Shortchanging non-work life for several years is not specific to "tech". The ~30yo dating pool in Boston was a wealth of people who'd been focused on grad school, med school/residency, and making partner in a law firm. Many people consider career focus a good investment, in those fields. (Though many manage to do both, and some others try but fail to do both.)
Liveness is a global property. A cache-aware data structure requires understanding the code that maintains it, but safely freeing an escaped object requires understanding all code everywhere that could possibly be using it, and we can't seem to find anyone who can actually do it without a hell of a lot of proof automation (or falling back to runtime checking).
My point was that we should figure out why one aircrew worked it out, and one did not. If we want to fix the process, we have to consider the humans. I get the impression from this whole debacle that one significant contributor to the accidents was that Boeing's idea of what the procedures should be and what pilots actually do is different enough to be catastrophic. Putting everything else aside for a moment, this has to be a lesson about how procedures are designed and documented. It does no good to decree how something should work if the operators won't, as a practical matter, ever follow those instructions.

Edit: This seems to be unpopular. I am curious how you guys would do it differently? Just document the controls and provide no procedural recommendations? Interesting.
I chuckled at that one, because that is the most common mistake I used to make when I was learning English, because Russian doesn't have articles
I do that pretty often as well, mostly because backticks looks better in plaintext than asterisks, and the text ends up looking more 'programmatic' than bold (italics/underlines are pathetic, and I rarely consider them as emphasis options).

It's also very rare for inline code to be useful (versus multiline), so the backtick is generally wasted in markdown anyways.
Do you really think that if you could buy helium and store it for 100 or 1000 years, you'd make more of a profit than investing the money?
Same here. Not only do I read faster than people speak, but I can skip around much faster through text than through audio-video, and if I'm reading electronic text, I can search it.

Physically attending a talk is still valuable for me because I have the option to ask questions during and after. I usually don't, but the mere act of trying to think of good questions or counterarguments keeps me engaged really effectively. Also, I'm far less likely to get distracted than if I was watching a recording.
Today, I go back and forth between three languages at work - .Net, JavaScript, and Python. For simple prototype web apps or more realistically REST microservic APIs to feed front end frameworks, I really don’t see either being slower to develop.

For larger applications with multiple developers working in the same code base, the compile time checking of static languages is a god send. I would at least move over to TypeScript instead of plain JavaScript.
You don't need any production values - just a recording of a great lecture. For me, it was easier to grasp basic linear algebra concepts from G. Strang's video lectures than from his textbooks. That is because, in a lecture, you get the text content plus intonation/pauses/stresses/all other nonverbal stuff, plus drawing on blackboard [1], plus physically pointing to various elements of equations etc.

In text, all that nonverbal stuff needs to be expressed in a text format (plus illustrations), which is a narrower channel and thus often the content gets technical, awkward and hard to parse. Studying math is perhaps the best example of this - if you have some basic math literacy, someone can convey a new math concept to you in a short conversation, while parsing out the intuition of the same concept from the textbook could possibly take you a couple of hours.

[1] In the textbook, you only get the final illustrations, while in lecture you can see him drawing them, and the specific way he does it conveys information in itself.
No, he’s saying Apple makes hard things possible to do. The person he’s replying to is saying Apple makes things impossible to do. They are in complete disagreement. The person he’s replying to also isn’t “just” adding an interesting and relevant quote, he’s adding commentary after the quote which invalidates the quote in the context of Apple. The quote is also unnecessary to introduce to the discussion because it’s paraphrasing what the person you’re replying to already said. Everything I just typed should have been obvious and intuitively understood by you and the fact that anyone had to articulate it for you is horrifying. Your entire first sentence is a lie and your post is an idiotic exercise in trying to chastise someone for something they never did. I pray you never gain a position of power over other people.
Related and recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19863481
I can only attest to anecdote but both my mother and wife switched in adulthood to a primary language that they had not previously known, and became utterly fluent (larger than normal vocabulary, both written and spoken). One adopted the local accent, the other never did.

I learned German informally (by speaking it continuously at home with said wife) as an adult and am typically considered fluent BUT: A> accent is atrocious and B> any fluency is rich and deep within a few domains; outside those domains I flounder like an experienced beginner (which is what I consider myself).

There are varying degrees of "fluency" but I certainly know plenty of people whom I would consider fluent in a language they learned as an adult. Articles that claim that it's impossible have always puzzled me.
The Czech Republic borders on Germany, and even though the number of German speakers in Czechia has been declining, about 20% of Czechs still speak some German. In Kafka's time many places in Czechia still had Czech as well as German names.

On top of that his parents spoke primarily German.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about his upringing:

> His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi Jews. [...] Kafka's parents probably spoke a German influenced by Yiddish that was sometimes pejoratively called Mauscheldeutsch, but, as the German language was considered the vehicle of social mobility, they probably encouraged their children to speak Standard German.

Also all the schools he attended taught in German. That is elementary school, Gymnasium (secondary school), and the university he attended.

It's really not comparable to authors writing in a language that is not "native" to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#Life
I find Xavier Amador very engaging and convincing on how to actually help schizophrenic people who say "I'm not sick, I don't need medicine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lstn6WNnCRc
Nice, I forgot that one. BearSSL is one of only two TLS implementations (if I recall correctly) that wasn't vulnerable to the most recent Bleichenbacher attack variant.
These planes cost at least $100 million each. They will fix them and get them flying again.
> Nobody who could chew through research level algorithm problems all day would willingly write Java 8 CRUD apps for Windows Server 2000

Why do you assume it's impossible to have a fulfilling career writing Java 8 CRUD apps for Windows Server 2000?
Now imagine if Boeing had created a brand new design instead of the 737 MAX and it had some mysterious fatal flaw as well? Second System Syndrome is something every engineer should understand. There's just no good reason to suspect a brand new design would've been bug free or easier to debug than the 737 MAX.

The 787s or A320neos could start dropping out of the sky at any minute. Maybe their carbon fiber panels start disintegrating midair after some number of pressurization cycles. The 787s almost did drop out of the sky due to battery problems. Because of the complexity involved, the only hard proof of an aircraft's safety is many years of successful flying.

Other planes have had fatal flaws that took a lot more work to discover. The silver lining of the 737 MAX's MCAS problem seems to be that it is at least quite straightforward to fix, as far as aircraft bugs go.

IMHO Boeing should payout millions for each death they caused, fix the mistakes that caused them, reorient their culture towards safety first, and return the 737 MAX to service. If they work very hard and learn from this mistake there's no reason to think they can't regain the public's trust within a few years.
In my opinion the parliamentary system has proven to be more effective. In this system the Prime Minister with a majority has near dictatorial control over both the legislature and the presidency so that he/she can move quickly.

However the backstop is the no confidence vote which operates like impeachment. This is not a theoretical power but is exercised relatively frequently in parliamentarian systems. Failure to pass a budget is also by default a no confidence vote making it very rare one isn't passed. I think deep down the US feels that as well. The democracies they have created throughout the world do not mirror the US system of government.

The problem we face today with the US centralizing power in the presidency is that impeachment is seen as a "nuclear option" and therefore is not an effective backstop.
> and that most of what does seem worse is forced by smaller screens

and us being so familiar with the desktop that we can no longer see what is unintuitive about it for newcomers
He most likely learned it as a child as he grew up in the Austrian Empire.

In another comment I point out that I consider (due to experience) the idea that adults cannot become fluent a myth -- I'm merely pointing out that Kafka is likely not an example. Conrad is a much better example: a pole who leant English as an adult and published exclusively in it. For a Czech, consider Milan Kundera (French); Beckett is another example of a writer in French, a language he learnt as an adult.
HTC Says Its Next Smartphone Will Run a Full Bitcoin Node
Shielding by enough to throw any common network off is certainly feasible. Metallized non-opening windows (reflect IR from the sun to save on HVAC), metal plates or thin meshes on the outer walls and either rotating doors or a combination of rf-absorbing walls and a convoluted path to the inside that prevent radio waves from getting in through the door.
I'd assume you can feasibly add 60 dB shielding to a building with that. More is obviously possible, there are conference rooms with advanced shielding of >100dB against industrial espionage. They use fiber optic communication lines to the outside because you want all electrical connections to be very heavily filtered to prevent conducting radio waves through them.