skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Shopenhauer is saying is that information and the storage of it in one's brain is not the goal of the lecture per-se. It is only useful as a medium to convey something more meaningful. It is useful in clearing up one's thoughts about the world, changing attitudes, raising up questions. Once you have a new question bugging your mind, it does not really matter who or what started the avalanche but only that it's rolling.

You can look at it from the point of view of modern sports. For me, at least, sport would mean having a good time, making new friends or spending time with old ones, forgetting about one's troubles, smiling and being happy about life. But sport as we know it today seems to have devolved into keeping scores and celebrating winners. That, to my mind, is akin to a information gathering activity without understanding what the purpose of it actually is.
What rate do you think is off? For example our rate for an intermediate developer in San Francisco is $160k a year and options. See https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/backend-en...

If you mean we pay local rates please see https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/
AI develops human-like number sense
What I really dislike is designs that sacrifice information density for beauty. I want my apps for the content, not for the whitespace.
Puh-lease. Move to Guam. Everything is built to withstand hurricanes. And they do, 2-3x a year.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is doing just fine in their function.
To make it more obvious: what if concurrently someone inserts Enter on line 3? Executing "line 9 […] insert <Enter>" must not be done on line 9.

Worse, divergence is often invisible! Proof of convergence is hard!

More generally, the problem of client-side sync is a hard one, whatever the product: the client has a partial view of the data, and its UI must not show contradictory information. You want your online video game to extrapolate positions to avoid lag. You want your bank account page to have the balance match that after the list of transactions listed below. As we move away from webpage-based navigation (aka "reload everything on every operation") to PWAs, authors get more complex requirements.
The standard for luxury malls in the Middle East and Asia can be pretty high, so if it is some sort of international play it matters for sure.
Exactly. Engineering the hazard out of the system is a vastly superior way of mitigating it than relying on administrative/operational procedures for mitigation
I did the calculations once and the heat generated by helium production equal to use was approximately equal to the total solar radiation on the planet. Cheap and practical don't make the cut, the physics of fusing hydrogen make it impossible.
GitLab now consists of 31 different services https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html#com...

This allows us to scale GitLab.com and with our Unix packages and Charts it is still easy to install.
That's a Windows guide.
The TLDR is that she got burn out from working in a fake tech evangelist role.
Also check out C++/WinRT - a _pure_ C++17 library facade over WinRT/UWP API's.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-a...
Remember that Red Bull sponsored space free-fall dive off of that platform? Brought to you by helium - that's how he got to space.
You're right, my french teacher was using "the chair is on the window", my brain mixed Eddie Izzard into it :D.
> It’s very true that you will absorb nothing from a book which you do not read.

That's not quite what I mean by motivation. To be more specific I should say 'intrinsic motivation'. I'm assuming the book is actually read in either case, motivated or unmotivated.

Let's take the case of Selfish Gene. You can be strongly motivated to read it because it's something educated people are supposed to have read. This is not 'intrinsic motivation' and will be inadequate—and you're likely to just relay some disconnected facts or partially incoherent babble if asked to e.g. summarize it later.

However, if you were previously interested in genetics and concerned by altruistic behavior in animals as a potential weakness in the evolutionary model—then you're going to easily absorb some important principles from the book which relate to this problem: if you consider genes as what's being preserved, as opposed to organisms, then altruistic behavior makes perfect sense—especially given the way it attenuates based on proportion of shared genetic material (or perception thereof).

Being in that state of already having something that needs to be sorted out by the material you're reading is what I mean by 'intrinsic motivation'.
basic principles? i think that’s a bit far. the plane isn’t inherently unstable is it? i thought it’s just the black box of MCAS that is the problem and MCAS is there to avoid a lengthy type certification. it’s completely explainable.

and it wasn’t seemingly insignificant. it was for fuel efficiency. it was significant and they knew what they were doing.
> It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are possible...

People harp on this, but what changed is that phone screens are tiny. It's just not possible to show all commands and still show content. Also, people forget that "gestures" like the double-click were not intuitive at all and that Macs came with manuals which had to teach the basic concepts of computing (double-clicking, folders, windows, etc.). While young children seem to use iPads rather intuitively (and they don't come with manuals).

> clearly see how to select that action...

Tapping is just as intuitive as clicking... and select-tap for a context menu is no worse than click-and-hold for a drop-down menu, or right-click for a context menu.

> receive unambiguous feedback as to the results of that action...

I see no evidence this is any worse on phones. To the contrary, iOS brought a whole new world of animated feedback that makes feedback even clearer spatially (e.g. an app or folder expanding).

> and have the power to reverse that action–to undo it–if the result is not what was intended.

In the most advanced applications, yes. But "undo" was never a universal concept on the desktop -- it was mostly limited to text editing and actions in Office-type applications. E.g. in System 7 you couldn't undo creating a folder or moving a file or an operation in the calculator, you've never been able to undo setting a preference or resizing a window, and you certainly couldn't undo overwriting a file until Time Machine and file versions came along more recently. (And on iOS, things like drawing and text editing apps usually do have undo, same as on desktop.)

I would argue things haven't gotten any worse, because they were never that idyllic to begin with, and that most of what does seem worse is forced by smaller screens, not by suddenly ignoring principles.

(edit: changed "tap-and-hold" above to "select-tap" which I meant to write, e.g. when bringing up the copy/paste menu for text)
What is the endgame now for 737 MAX planes? Every airline using them has had several weeks to totally reorganize to deal with these huge missing parts of their fleets.

Boeing keeps talking about fixing them and putting them back in the air, but I dunno. At this point, it should be agreed the fundamental design flaws are serious, and Boeing should have simply made a brand new plane, with much more modern controls and predictable maneuvering. Yes, pilots would have to be certified for these new plans, but that cost pails to the money lost from these grounded fleets.

I'd honestly like to see the 737 MAX taken out of service and Boeing simply ending this line. The old planes should be stripped for parts and as much recycled as possible. It's going to cost them a lot of money, and it should. Their mistakes lead to the deaths of two whole planeloads of passengers. Airbus, Bombardier and others will probably make a lot out of this disaster, and that's probably a good thing and will help competition in this small/narrow market.
Yeah OP has to develop an LVT mindset. It's not "is the development good" or "is the development better than what was there before", but "is this the best use of the space".

The real good design is the rail yard person who left space for pilings to put something above in the 70s. (Some NYT article led with this fact.)
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I think many young people in tech learn this lesson the hard way. They get excited with all the free food, laundry services, and events that tech jobs offer. They end up spending all of their waking hours at work and work becomes an identity. Then one day something changes and they realize they spent the last N years of their life at work, not building real lasting relationships, pursuing hobbies, dating, etc. It truly is a cautionary tale and startups and big companies alike want their employees to drink the Kool Aid.

Personally, I love all the perks tech jobs offer but work-life balance always comes first.
True, but this seems to sound like, "if we just hire the right people none of these safety procedures would be necessary". If we only had ethical people we wouldn't need laws.

Its more important to focus on the processes rather than the individual people, especially because even great people can have off days.
The most inspiring story along these lines that I know of is that of Sophie Scholl[1], who (along with other members of the White Rose[2]) was beheaded by the Nazis for distributing anti-war leaflets.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose
There are MRI machines that use nearly zero helium: https://www.medgadget.com/2018/09/philips-helium-free-mri-sy...
Lots of fuss and fury about what is basically just another large company. They're not your friends and never will be. Dunno why there's so much surprise here, I guess it's just another youngster hitting the immovable object of the working world.

A friend of mine who went and got a job at Microsoft (a rarity in my circle, they don't seem to be heavyweights in the graphics or video world) and made a smart move. His deal was they he got the job but that he didn't go through any kind of interview rigmarole. The gig didn't last forever but at least someone was spared a bit of craziness.
Swift support for Windows has apparently been making great strides lately; see, for example, <https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-windows/22458>. They're not quite at the point of announcing "official" support yet, but the test suite was "effectively ... fully passing ... (pending patches)" as of April 1 of this year.

Disclaimer: I don't use Windows but read the Swift development forums from time to time.
Just fill it up with hydrogen, that should do it.
True, but I also doubt we'll see new nuclear facilities in the US any time soon.
Startups, how satisfied are you with your banking experience?
And how do you think it can be improved, if you think it needs improvement?
I am working on an edtech related project for a course I am building. My questions to everyone is, based on your experience, what have you found to be a very effective way to learn something new?

For my courses, I do write a textbook for the course but I don't really write the books for the student to learn from. I write it more as a reference book and as a guide for me to teach the course....essentially for me to hash out what is important to teach in each chapter.

I also create the lecture videos and interactive tools to learn the subject. From what I've seen, the preferred method for most people to learn something is essentially by example and then trial and error (doing it on their own with immediate feedback of how they're doing). For my courses, this essentially happens like the following: student watching a 1-10 minute video on a very specific subject/lesson/topic. The video is me explaining the topic, working some example problems possibly etc. After this the student is immediately redirected to an online tool that requires the student to directly apply what they should have learned from the lecture video. For simple factual exercises I just use multiple choice questions. For complex topics (involving calculations or multiple-step procedures) I use simulation type exercises where the student has to work through the problem on their own. If the student gets stuck, they have tips that explain the specific step further. From what I've noticed, people seem to remember stuff better when they are actively thinking about what they've learned and are actively using the newly learned information to solve some sort of problem. When this type of thinking happens, it seems students get more "ah ha" type moments where it suddenly clicks for them. I have also made multiple "learning paths" for students to use. One path, you can just read the textbook and do practice problems, Another path you can do the lecture videos followed by the interactive problem sets and another path where you just get highly summarized study notes followed by the interactive study problems. This allows students to basically use whichever method works best for them without forcing them into a "one size fits all" model.

This is my method of doing effective teaching but my question is always the same: based on your experience, what have you found to be a very effective way to learn something new?
There is an example simple language which may be a good place to start. It’s also worth asking on gitter as most language teams either have some good introductory tasks they can give you, or can come up with something.

It’s very different from working with a bytecode compiler and a normal vm and interpreter, but lots of fun to work with.
If the drivers are contractors, then they can install both apps.

If they are employees, Uber is thoroughly fucked.
This guy seems to be searching for that magic pillow that you put the book under and sleep upon and later wake up with all the information & learning you were after downloaded and integrated into your person.

He says the key to getting there is better understanding our cognitive learning models.

But ask anyone who has mastered 'learning' (plenty such people exist) and they won't confess to you any magic pill.

Each time you want to learn something substantial or new, you've got to roll up your sleeves and do the crazy hard work to take new ideas and information and bring them into your present map of the world in a way that results in a new coherent map of the world. For any self-reflecting person, this is an internal transformation process. It's not a "medium problem"; no new medium is going to make that internal process any easier. And books and pen & paper & lectures etc are all dynamic tools that are each optimal at various times during a learning process.

And I would venture to say that you simply cannot do better than a book at building up and presenting a coherent thesis that can be used by someone in their learning process to move from one position of perception and understanding to another.

That learning (re-constructing your internal models) is hard seems (to me) prima facie a necessary thing. A magic pillow to get from A to B in a snap is just magical/fetish thinking.

Whenever I've gone from an 'A' to a 'B'... to really be able to master it, to wield it, to truly _know_ it... when I look back with self-reflection I do not see 'B' as this static plane ... the whole process to get there is the 'B'. So focusing on the medium is such a silly thing here, imo.
I don’t understand how this would work. Investors own the majority of Gitlab. Wouldn’t becoming a public company in 2020 be a much better return for them that making it employee owned?
Might be usable as freighters like the DC-10s?
ED == Eating Disorder, SV == Silicon Valley
This is quite interesting. I’m qurious whether it can be used for “forgotten password”... maybe not
> it's clear this person doesn't know much about actual design principles, despite criticizing the designers for it

I don't know how you came that conclusion, it seems irrationally combative. He is in good company.

> Klaus Jacob, a professor at Columbia University, has stated approval of the project stems from the "shortsightedness of decision-making" by its developers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Yards_(development)#Arc...
ED = Eating Disorder
SV = Silicon Valley (I think)
Sure. What we need most is for people to try the API and give us feedback, try running various frameworks with fibers and give us feedback etc..
Markov Chain Text Generation
Makes sense, thanks. My buddy said that installing RPMs was easy, but the more I hear the more I think that is bad information :-) The Silverblue docs seem to imply that you're really going against the grain by doing that and that it may not work. You also have to reboot after every install IIRC. I'm still gonna try it out but I may be on regular F30 pretty soon.
I think it has the potential to be used as a 2FA. However, for this to work - much more training data is required.
> There might be a fundamentally novel and strictly superior way of learning, but it's hard for me to see which cognitive bases aren't covered by combining these two methods.

(Author here) I agree that methods like the ones you've described are indeed quite effective when executed successfully. I argued in the piece that this kind of process is often blocked on metacognition. That is: the reader has to regulate and monitor the processes you're describing while simultaneously grappling with new concepts. It's a lot to ask. And of course, the medium doesn't even explicitly ask it of the reader: when people do these kinds of methods, they're instigating that independently.

Even if we limit ourselves to just these methods, can't we imagine a medium which is somewhat more involved in the methods we claim are essential to understanding?

And if we accept that, one more provocation: wouldn't we want authorial intent to carry into the use of these methods? Given that the author is already carefully sculpting so much of the rest of the reading experience, why wouldn't we benefit from them extending their authorial direction to the metacognition around the book?
Been a long time since I visited McMansionHell.com. It seems to have jumped the shark a while back. I used to think it was funny.

It's also possible that the web page design is intentionally ironic.
Collaborative editing is very difficult to implement in a pre-existing codebase. Decisions made during the initial design will be prohibitive to just bolting on collaborative editing in the future.

To me, xi seems like an aspirational project, so this seems like the perfect place to take some time and design for these features up front.
Tail calls will come later. We're focusing on fibers, first (there's a cost/benefit consideration).
I have been to many 'luxury' malls in places in Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and they suffer from the same small insignificant 'flaws' just like the ones mentioned in this article. In fact, many of the luxury developments in Asia and the Middle East (Singapore, Qatar, and the UAE especially) are notorious for cutting corners by using underskilled, underpaid labor to build these luxury developments, causing cut sloppy work. I would say the standards are only 'pretty high' if you only look skin deep.
Had Boeing built the 737 at the time Airbus built the A320 they would've had a taller undercarriage also. For example the narrow body 757 built around the time of the A320 does have this.

When the 737 was built back in the 60s it was intended to be a small regional jet, not the continent and ocean crossing aircraft it evolved into over the years since. It originally came with a retractable staircase for passengers to embark/alight the aircraft, and having a low fuselage also made it possible to hand load the luggage in a time before widespread belt loaders.
I'm actually wondering if the 737 MAX will make it back into service. Every single one of these planes will need to be flow back to one of their maintenance centers (like the one south of Seattle) and undergo retrofits.

Hopefully it will result in Bowing being required to make this a new plane and a lot of pilot re-certification. If it does return to the market, I wonder if they'll be forced to rebrand it. It's obviously not a 737.
Am I not jaded enough to believe this? "in love" is perhaps extreme but I have made meaningful and lasting friendships by being "excited" about my job, moreover earned people's respect by having a positive attitude.
Why Building a Remote Team Is One of the Best Decisions We’ve Made
> So they removed a useful, granular functionality ... without clear explanation

I’m as negative as the next person when it comes to the 737 Max, but this is just a bit to far. Read the rest of the article and you’ll understand a logical reason why this was done and how it was communicated.
Why are there 96M black balls in LA reservoir?
So Adobe has a licensing issue with Dolby or an "other third party" as they put it - and end users who paid for the software as recently as 3 months ago are supposed to switch versions in the middle of a project, or be "subject to infringement claims"(!?) in some IP proxy war?

It seems like this is Adobe's problem. I don't know if throwing their customers under the bus was a sad attempt at fomenting pressure on Dolby to capitulate, but it's really scummy and a bad look for Adobe.
> we almost always want to design for "offline editing,"

Fair enough, a one-size-fits-all solution is ideal. Offline support would be great, especially when traveling in a country like Germany. But I would already be happy if we had a good collaborative editor without offline support before we have a good collaborative editor and offline support. Right now, all the options I know of are all either web-based and licensed (Confluence/CKEditor5), just web based and really basic (etherpad), really basic and occasionally unstable (gobby+infininote), or some tech demo alpha version.
Yep they redesigned it so much that I had to do a custom dashboard for a customer (think of it as a glorified counter from the 1990s) and I had to admit that even myself I get lost in Analytics and Adwords
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Jacob's criticisms of the design stem in broader architectural designs of the structures and how the overall development fits into the surrounding neighborhood. The author of the OP is talking about specific nitpicks of things like escalators and railings. They are not at all in the same company.

If the author wants to talk about how the glass buildings and their shape don't fit into the neighborhood, or that they lack a certain aesthetic, then fine. But he's not doing that. He is arguing against functional design principles that are not only commonplace across many similar developments, they are also in place for a reason.
Someone replied but didn't nest it under your comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19888261
Facebook Is Auto-Generating “Memories” Videos for Terrorist Groups
I believe 1/2 of congress is trying to subpoena information (the house) but the actual people who are responsible for obeying that subpoena are refusing to- and at the same time, those people are the people responsible to enforce any law to punish them for refusing subpoena. So they can essentially ignore congress's demands with no consequences. I think this has always been the case but hasn't happened so distinctly until now?
The first crew had three members.
You might like Blinkist. It's an app that provides audio and text summaries of non-fiction books. I haven't tried it, but I've been hearing ads for it on some of my favorite podcasts.

https://www.blinkist.com/
Why do people owe you their work for you to commercially exploit for free? Open core is bad for everyone else except you?
Was it this one? https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf

Tracing and reference counting are two GC approaches that the paper shows are dual in some interesting ways and can have similar characteristic -- when both are sophisticated enough.