skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody only really learns by 'doing'.

They might think they know how to program in C (ferinstance), but they will only be able to prove they truly know how by producing a non-trivial program.

Perhaps rewrite one of your old programs in your new language. It's a method that's worked for me many times.
The Model Thinker is excellent.
Within the cesspool that is lyrics sites in general, Genius seems to be among the more ethical (At least they don't seem to engage in the common practice of showing search results for nonexistent lyrics).
I guess you do an in vivo post hoc analysis then.
>If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish.

Public defenders are notoriously overworked, and are often only allowed a few minutes per case. This is one of many aspects of the justice system that is completely eroded and disproportionately fails the poor.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/this-public-defender-...
All those ancient prions, viruses and bacteria that the world have not been exposed to for eons, now floating in the air and water, may very well be the best solution to the human overpopulation problem.
Mandarin the spoken language has quite simple grammar and is pretty easy to learn as languages go.

The written form is painful though.
4K TVs are incredibly cheap yet good quality these days, and it's not like you need more than one.
She can be impeached by the Legislative Council, which is unlikely given the Pro-Beijing faction holds a majority.
Seems pretty advanced compared to the UNIX ed command I started typing with back in 1976.
Irrational thought is without foundation.

TempleOS is an example of rational thoughts, assembled with intention.

Mental illness and rational thought should not be conflated.
> However, I wonder if projecting the unhelpful parts of yourself as a different being actually works as intended.

I have used that technique to great success in many instances in my life. It's helped me to deal with relationship distress, bad habits, addiction, and personal growth. I highly recommend it as a generally applicable principle.

It allows you to work to kill or reduce the influence of that part of you without feeling like you are losing your identity. It allows you to negotiate with those parts to see if there is a compromise that allows both (all?) parts to have their needs met.

It's remarkably effective and I have never heard it discussed before in general. I'm very curious if it's common practice in psychotherapy in any way.
The 512x342 resolution was crisp compared to the Apple II's 280x192, in part because the Mac had a built-in display, while the Apple II was typically connected to the family TV set using an RF modulator. I remember seeing the Mac screen for the first time. The experience was like seeing your first HDTV images; you could never truly see the older technology the same way again after that.
Not surprising, but it seems to have been hugged to death.
Also describes the interview process this company uses:

> Firstly, how do we hire at R3? We’re recruiting for technical roles around the world as part of building an open source Bitcoin-inspired decentralised database. The interview process for developers consists of, firstly, a piece of code that you’re asked to send back a quick code review of (this is meant to take about 5 minutes), then an 30–60 minute long video chat+screenshare in which you may join from home and some coding is done in an editor and language of your choice*, then finally an invitation on site to meet the team and talk to senior management. The code test sometimes also includes design and ‘talky’ questions, depending on the nature of the candidate and precise job role: it’s not just coding. We’ve found this process to be pretty accurate whilst still being quite lightweight (compared to some hiring processes at least!).
My point of bringing in the pi was that it feels closest to the computers I had growing up. Tinkering was and is the point. Most computing devices, that is not the case.
The lead paragraph of the bill:

> To ensure the digital contents of electronic equipment and online accounts belonging to or in the possession of United States persons entering or exiting the United States are adequately protected at the border, and for other purposes.

50 US Code 1801 defines "United States person" as:

> a citizen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence (as defined in section 1101(a)(20) of title 8), an unincorporated association a substantial number of members of which are citizens of the United States or aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or a corporation which is incorporated in the United States, but does not include a corporation or an association which is a foreign power, as defined in subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3).

In short, it looks like this bill only applies to US citizens or lawful alien residents, not travelers.
I live right down the street from Walmart so we wouldn’t get this, but using the Walmart Grocery app and picking up our order has been great. About six months ago a recruiter asked me if I was interested in moving to Bentonville. It’s been interesting to watch the app improve since then, they’re really putting a push on making it work well. It’s great because this has made us buy smaller orders so we waste less food, whereas before we’d make a semiweekly Costco run and most things would spoil.
I was able to write long novels as a child in DOS programs. I was never able to focus on word processing in a windowed environment. Full-screen “distraction-free” writing utilities attempt to recapture the simplicity of the old days....but it still just isn’t the same as WordPerfect.
Well corporations on the stock market are essentially reinforcement learning hive intelligence agents that are optimized for growth and profit.

So this is exactly what we’re getting. Megacorps chewing up everything to be as big as they can.
What are you using the GPU for? Is it for ML, gaming, game dev?
You're sick.
I’m sorry you went through that, too. Were you also traveling with a band?

We had similar tactics applied by Border Agents in Arizona just past the California-Arizona state border last September. This time, I was driving and I knew they were full of shit when they surrounded us, talked about bringing dogs (they always threaten with dogs?), and claimed they smelled drugs in the vehicle. It didn’t go on for as long, they didn’t make us get out or go through our stuff, and copping to something we didn’t do didn’t enter my head, but it felt too familiar.

The stakes in these situations were low, we knew this was par for the course when crossing these borders and it was STILL stressful and frightening. I can so easily see how people in more serious situations break when under more intense pressure.
I'm curious to know what she is using. Allowing access to the app store is not something I'm encouraging, for what feels like obvious reasons.
There are probably good points in there but please let's not have unmitigated rage pieces on HN.
That is news to me. Thanks! I'll have to look more at it.
I recently listened to a podcast where they were talking about using the same eGPU with Windows, Macs, and Linux.

https://coder.show/357

My gut opinion is that an eGpu wouldn’t work as well with Windows as it would with Macs with Apple having tighter control over the operating system + driver and seeing that Apple has bet heavily on eGPUs. It seems to be more of a niche with Windows.
If you want to be really strict in the definitions there is a difference. There isn't really unsupervised learning, but there are unsupervised techniques - clustering etc.

In self-supervised training you use some kind of measurable structure to build a loss function against.

But in common usage people say "unsupervised" to mean "self-supervised". For example Word2Vec is usually referred to as unsupervised when it is technically self-supervised.

I think this is really because the self-supervised name was invented well after the techniques became common-place.
> Sure, they put themselves between users and content, and then they decided they should serve the content too.

Not that I'm a huge Google fan, but without search services like Google, users wouldn't know where content was.
This article is exactly right. There is so much criticism of Musk today because people are evaluating him by the wrong standards. But let's add in he is also a technological genius.
The same issue also comes up a lot when dealing with data that can't be copyrighted. For example stock quotes, sports statistics, and maps are all statements of fact and therefore no one can copyright them. However you still have to end up either gathering the information yourself or licensing it from a data provider. Simply scraping it off someone else who has already done one of those two is a quick way to get into legal trouble.
> Did you know that there’s a relational database hiding in your Unix shell?

No I did not know this because there isn't.

There likely happens to be a 'join' program installed on your computer and like any program it can be invoked from your shell.
Pythonista (http://omz-software.com/pythonista/)
I'll be using it mostly for Creative Cloud and some gaming.
> it is only natural to assume, that that person does not represent the will of the people. So it makes sense to impeach.

Is that what impeachment means? To remove someone because they've lost popular support? I thought impeachment was rather about charging a public official with some kind of crime or wrongdoing. Being unpopular isn't a crime.
I refer not to confidence in the currency, but rather confidence in their ability to remain employed.
Requiring that a company provides access to the consumer doesn't preclude the existence of regulations ensuring safe usage.

If a user/team of developers were able to develop their own AI system which could operate to whatever safety constraints are set out by the law, on what grounds would you deny them from running their cars using the AI?

Similarly, we can all execute whatever code we want on our laptops, which also allows us the potential to cause harm by attacking other systems, but doing so would still be illegal.
There’s at least one pot based drug on the market. So I think there must be some way to profit from medicines that were known anecdotally to be medicinal in herb form.
Rust’s slice:windows is cool
>important question to ask--which I haven't seen the answer to--is did the AFP obtain the source of the leak from the raids or not?

The AFP already knew who the source was!! As I understand it, he confessed before the raids even happened.
Could someone please explain what the long-term goal of the protesters is? Best case scenario, HK and Chinese government postpone the integration until 2047. What then? When the borders come down, what will happen to all those who openly talked against Beijing government, held candlelight vigils for Tienanmen Square victims, and rallied and protested against a government who does not like people protesting and does not shy away from killing thousands or putting millions in concentration camps.

Do all protesters in HK plan to emigrate before 2047 or do they think they can convince Beijing to keep away even after that date?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20196080 and marked it off-topic.
Do current satellite internet services not work?
> Things like SwiftUI and React are showing that declarative UIs can be built by tying the style to the layout

That's what we call JavaScript and CSS. You can do that without React and my company has been doing that for 15 years quite successfully--with separation of the elements and styling.

How do you think SwiftUI and React do such things? With JavaScript and CSS!

(Sorry if I have factual errors about SwiftUI cause I really don't know anything about it.)
That's interesting, I figure all of Walmart Labs was located in San Bruno. Or was this a non-tech position? If the pay is comparable to San Bruno and you can tolerate living in... Arkansas... I bet that money would go pretty far
Still is (all that 'licensed not sold' bs aside) but the manufacturer isn't obliged to support your activities (outside of right-to-repair type legislation). Just like they're not obliged to give you engineering drawings or internal specs or to explain principles of operation.
I have definitely seen them do this before with just an empty comments page. Genius is very very deep in my "shitty practices" pit.
Retailers are chasing amazon on variety, and delivery, but I actually think the next evolution is curation.

The loyalty my wife and I have to Costco (which, btw also has an incredibly cheap deliver option which is NOT a subscription) is pretty incredible. It’s gotten to the point where we trust the things they’re selling just by virtue of the fact that Costco sells them.

Amazon, Walmart, etc all seems to be sprinting as fast as they can in the other direction. Their online stores for instance, feature an enormous variety of products, most of which aren’t actually in stock at the storefronts, which are a crapshoot of quality.

I personally hope the future of retail looks a lot more like Costco than amazon and wal Mart.
I like Raspbian enough that I run it on my production laptop just to stay consistent with how I compute at home and in devel. It's ancient, but Raspbian breathed new life into it. (ironically, same speed and number of cores, but 4 times the memory so it smokes the RPis when I need a little more juice.)

My main devel RPi is running clfswm (so you can probably discern my language of choice), but other than the way it looks and handles, even it is pure Raspbian underneath.

They're a little slow to the bleeding edge, but that's why I'm not afraid of the update cycle.

My desktop (which sits alone in my office because of how bloody loud it is...) is a decked out Mac pro, but even there I have Raspbian running on VirtualBox.

It's quite a good distro. They put a lot of work into it that shows in just about every aspect. Stable and consistent is all I ever ask for once the durn thing is working for me.
Dresden was 44/45. The blitz was 1940. Please explain.
Why does everything have to have some long term goal? Everything is transient. Life is fleeting. Fight for tomorrow.
But does this service give you the exact same prices you get in the store, including sales and coupons? Because that often seems to be a hidden cost.
What's the produce selection and quality like?

I tried Prime Now, Peapod, and Freshdirect so far. FD is the most reliably good, but there's no same-day delivery, and it's the most expensive. Peapod also has no same-day, often misses items, and isn't That much cheaper.

Prime Now has the same-day, but so far, on three occasions, they've delivered subpar produce I'd never have picked myself, super stale bread, and damaged-during-delivery produce, for only slightly less than the cost of freshdirect. I like same-day delivery of goods, but not same-day delivery of bads.
Really? My understanding was crosses were to be allowed.
I work on one of the densest power grids in the world (NYC) on the team which does emergency transformer replacements and can possibly answer questions about this. From failure to in service for a single transformer in Manhattan is down to 2-3 weeks. That includes design and engineering (my part), permitting, and construction.

For fast transformer replacements we rely on two paths, either system spares (identical units, sometimes refurbished or like in kind replacements) and more recently mobile resiliency transformers. Resiliency transformers are trucked in on semis and can operate at 69, 138, or 345KV in our case. (There's some lightweight reading on them here: https://www.tdworld.com/overhead-transmission/siemens-introd...)
In my first job I worked with a lot of Chinese Malaysians, and I remember one time we were in the car going somewhere for lunch. We'd all been conversing in English - for context, this is in Australia where English is the overwhelmingly predominant language, and I was the only non-CM in the car - but when a couple of them started talking directly to each other they started chattering away in... something else, and others joined in it was all incomprehensible.

I said something about them switching languages on me and they said, "No we didn't." And apparently they were still speaking English but when conversing more directly with each other that in the group their accent went so thick and fast it honestly sounded like a foreign language to my uneducated ear. They were totally unaware of this and were really surprised when I said I couldn't understand what they were saying anymore. Made for ongoing jokes for a month or two.
Flex is great for one directional layout within a box. It is not great for two dimensions which most layout is concerned with.
Apparently you need $715,000 in an SPX index fund in 2000 to reliably pull $24K/year ($2K/month) out of it. I made a toy model for that : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pBoa2mikeKQ4zPHOHu6L...
They are idealists, their parents and grandparents were not subjected to Cultural revolution and rest of the brutality of PRC. They think they can keep the city they love as it is.

Realistically their only hope is collapse of PRC. Never say never and who knows they might help it happen.

I have quite a few classmates back from university (end of 90s start of 2000s) whose families saw writing on the wall, had enough $$ and got the fuck out while going was good.
Boeing's share price hasn't gone down, therefore they haven't actually damaged the company.
We're so used to 24fps movies that it's become a subconscious cue for identifying 'realistic' film. Higher frame rates like like video games because all of the high frame rate CGI we see is in games.

(IMO this is just something we have to push through. I hate the low frame rate of movies.)
Just to be clear here - the bill has not passed the Legislative Council, however the bill is expected to pass if and when it is listed for a vote due to the pro-Beijing majority. (Lam's announcement on "suspension" rather than "withdrawal" means that debate on the bill will not be resumed indefinitely, however if the government changes its mind again it could list it for a vote in the Legislative Council immediately.)

LegCo's impeachment power was dead letter law from the start - I can't think of a circumstance where the pro-Beijing camp would ever use it, short of perhaps some situation where a previously pro-Beijing chief executive has gone rogue and refuses to resign...
Goals are rational within your own value system and beliefs. Wanting to be famous or not wanting to be famous can both be rational goals within different belief and value systems.
Naturally most people do things they think they can continue doing in the future. The more HKers value their way of life and defend it the more difficult it will be to tear down the walls just like that. Facts on the ground influence political outcomes.
I'd recommend reading Matrix Logic, by August Stern. It's an approach to logic using vectors, aka matrices. This article doesn't answer why the math works out such that some gates are universal, but Matrix Logic does.
I used to order from Walmart a lot, and then they raised prices online vs. in the store.

Now I don't trust them, and hardly shop their website. Their store is far enough away that I only go monthly or less.

They need to regain my trust and have the same prices online and in the store, or at least make it visible so I can decide if the "shipping" fee is worth it to me.
Some Apple ][ games used A,Z for up down and left, right arrows for left and right.
Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning[1]

This isn't really a unsupervised or self-supervised technique at all. It's a combination of supervised learning with reinforcement learning (which is a whole other thing too).

[1] https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45826
A-S-D-F was probably chosen because the Vectrex has the four buttons 1-4 in a row.
Lenovo ThinkPad P Laptops Are Available with Ubuntu
No. The Google technique was reinforcement learning based and didn't use evolutionary algorithms at all.

https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45826
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

is all anyone needs except the standard itself.
One Country, Two Systems actually stipulates that Hong Kong shall enjoy a high degree of autonomy for "at least" 50 years, there is nothing that state what will actually happen afterwards.

Therefore it is conceivable for Hong Kong to remain somewhat autonomous after 2047, after which, it is possible for mainland China to further develop politically and legally so that integration would cause less of an issue.
Washington state waterfront owners asked to take dead whales
Maybe their target audience doesn't primarily consist of entry-level devs relegated to maintaining legacy eCommerce web properties and back-office portal/intranet systems?
Surprised this comment isn't higher.

OP does indeed sound like the discipline they're looking for is Research Software Engineering.

Some reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_software_engineering
"Research software engineering is the use of software engineering practices in research applications. The term started to be used in United Kingdom in 2012, when it was needed to define the type of software development needed in research. This focuses on reproducibility, reusability, and accuracy of data analysis and applications created for research."

https://software.ac.uk/

https://rse.ac.uk/
Do You Really Need Dark Mode?
> but I actually think the next evolution is curation.

Curation has value, but not here. I shop walmart because they have everything. Costco has a far more limited shopping list, because there's tons of stuff they just don't have.

Same for Aldi and Trader Joes, they are great for what they have, but it's not enough for my complete grocery needs.
> their only hope is collapse of PRC

Not necessarily. A respectful and long-term oriented Beijing would be fine. (The CPC would need to change, to prevent a dictator-for-life like Xi from re-emerging.)

There are a lot of win-win outcomes between the subjugation of Hong Kong and collapse of China.
I guess there is a place for both. But for non curated stores I find eBay more pleasant than Amazon by now.
i think you're a little biased. Best case the tax rate is about the same. I found it to be higher. It's all situational. For example, you can't file a joint tax return in Australia. You can't deduct mortgage interest.

I found pay to be comparable to USA metros while the cost of living (in Sydney at least) is much higher than most metros. The exception being SF/Bay area

There is no tipping but you end up paying the same or more because the wait staff is making a living wage.

With regard to the quality of goods and services. I found the quality of things like whole foods to be much better. Australian produced consumer goods on the other hand we're usually complete crap and overpriced. As for services, it was pretty much the same. Some people care about doing a good job, some people don't. The one notable difference is restaurants. Service was usually much worse.
Europe’s Dream: Escaping the Dictatorship of the Dollar
I'm wondering the same here, as instacart gives different prices online (usually not by much, but it adds up over an entire order of course).
No, standard <video> tag everywhere. Apparently Chrome doesn't have that feature.
You can use Xbox DVR on your PC to record Netflix....
What I have seen of arkansas was actually pretty nice.