skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried to articulate this same thought earlier. Thank you, this is far better than what I came up with.
The small one person projects with 5 stars have nothing to do with "operating in some sort of strict high score board fashion" or meritocratic evaluation of anything.

Anyway, FOSS makes yearly polls about these topics. It is biased toward more involved projects, but again I don't think someone's one weekend demo is what is talked about here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth

> Growth rate of Muslims has been consistently higher than the growth rate of Hindus, even since the census data of independent India has been available. For example, during the 1991-2001 decade, Muslim growth rate was 29.52% (vs 19.92% for Hindus)[19] However, Muslims population growth rate declined to 24.6% during 2001-2011 decade, in keeping with the similar decline in most religious groups of India.

As the West has learned if you wish to control a population then you must not make them a poor underclass... Poor underclasses always produce more children than richer classes.

But yeah it's true India's Muslims have been growing faster than India's Hindus. My point was this is not going to fix that and it's simply an insult to human rights to be punished using the same methods being used to attack it. By growing the population even more.

In another words to fix the population issue you need to move everyone up the economic ladder so that they become self-indulgent individualists who stop caring about religion and their community and starting caring about themselves and enjoyment of their lives. At which point they will stop having children and the population will shrink. Without anyone suffering from anything except lonliness.
Peculiar. I was born and still live in Lesser Poland, and throughout all my circles, beer and vodka are two staple alcoholic beverages. Especially when we talk weddings - vodka is the one mandatory drink at a wedding. Everything else is optional, but there has to be wedding vodka, and besides providing an ample supply during the event, it's customary for the newlyweds to give a bottle to each guest couple as a parting gift.
Well, whoever wrote this doesn't know about whisky in Scotland. :D
I'm not sure this is really reflected in reality, perhaps aside from the 65+ generation. I grew up in Scotland, and it was very much a beer drinking culture.
> it may be possible for a human brain to experience higher spatial dimensions

The visual system has evolved in a 3D world, in vision science actually the human visual system is considered "2.5D". I don't think we can "visualize" higher dimensions even though we can reason and extrapolate about them just fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5D_(visual_perception)
I read books to find out; what I don’t know, that I don’t know.

When I find these new things I use that a stepping stone for further investigation. After a while I totally switch area for a while.

It’s all about connecting the dots, and having a good time while doing it. For me this is also the way I remember it.
Wow this a game changer for me, did not know you could do this, thanks!
I'm only slightly facetious here, but Twitch and the video gaming industry are already making billions reducing loneliness.. :-)
Adult fraternities. More commonly known as secret societies or just clubs. Theres already a few of them, but I believe it's pretty uncommon to be in one. Make em so they can choose who to accept as well, something at least slightly exclusive is better for everyone in the end. It can really take any form, a clubhouse, house where some people live and others just come to hang out, etc. But what's really important is a space that a smaller group of people feel comfortable in, responsible for, and feel a strong connection to the other people in the group.
I don't know if it's because of the wine belt or the warmer climate, but there is definitely a difference in drinking styles between Northern and Southern Europe.

While living in the Northern countries, I've seen an emphasis on the alcohol content and getting as drunk as you can, just for the goal of getting drunk. In Southern countries instead, there is more of an appreciation of what are you actually drinking, its taste and history. People still get very drink, but it's a more mellow experience, as they enjoy this dionysian rite.

Did anybody else have the same experience?
I suppose adoption would help if Google's 'Carrier Services' app on Android didn't look like someone accidentally uploaded the base example app.

The first time I saw that app in the updates list I thought I somehow had gotten some badly disguised malware...
On point 1, I though Unix philosophy was do one thing and do it well ? So we agree is not unixy on purpose.

The point 2 is moot. I get one SystemD package from my distribution anyways. The "SystemD project" renders my system hard to debug. To the point of having fchmoat syscall working and chmod syscall not working and having no f*g clue why. And nobody can help on IRC because nobody, even the most experienced, understand what is going on. It just is not acceptable !

Point 3 is a recurring argument. Stating that SystemD simply coalesce base system binaries is misleading. It goes way beyond that. Does setting a BPF filter in a SystemD unit result in line stating so in the log ? I bet not. How the hell do I know then ? Seriously, for real, how do you debug those kind of systems ?!

I'm very sorry to say, the last 3~4 year, the 4 most hard to debug issues I've had all have their source in "SystemD, the project".

I have not doubt the SystemD project has good intention. I also have not doubt they do not caring one bit about what cognitive load and work load they _impose_ on others.

The road to hell is also paved with good intentions.
Probably. Everything else seems to broken as well, housing, education, healthcare, justice, and politics. So it seems perfectly rational to think that hiring is broken as well.
Really? I've never been as hung over as the day after I was drinking vodka with my polish counterpart software developers. Granted, they were still living in Poland, so not really immigrants, but they were probably amongst the 5-10% highest paid people in the country.

(Swede here.)
Reminds me of Tumbler's stealth mode.

https://youtu.be/gYHKHDuXYWw?t=30
As most of those bullets point out, nearly all of these are good indicators for some people and bad for others based on what kind of person they are or what their environment might be. It seems like the ideal would be to allow candidates to choose what format they think would best showcase how they work? Choose-your-own-adventure style?

Assuming you had some way of making comparisons across these different formats (easier said than done, I'm sure) it seems like you would end up with "truer" signals. It also seems like you would get an extra signal based on what the interviewee chooses. For example someone who prefers live coding/pair programming sessions might be someone who leans on and thrives more in ultra-collaborative/brainstorm-ish settings. Whereas someone who prefers take home assignments maybe is more productive being able to sit on a problem and iterate, then collaborating after being able to articulate the specifics in a code review type setting. Neither are wrong, nor are they mutually exclusive within an organization but in terms of team placement or general "culture fit" (whatever that means) it seems like something that's useful to know ahead of time.

Of course you might also allow people to choose which route they think they can hack more but I think that problem is more of an implementation detail of any given method. Asking for a solution to find the perimeter of a group of pixels at a video streaming company is better than asking someone to invert a binary tree at virtually any company. Asking someone to build something real-ish with a hundred valid solutions is better than asking someone to implement a trie with a thin search interface on top. And so on.
Good luck finding a job creating artisanal fruit preserves at a research station in Antarctica
“Serverless” is not magic. The minute you need to attach to your VPC (I refuse to say “run inside your VPC, that’s not correct), you still have to worry about multi AZ. If you are using RDS, as opposed to DynamoDB, you have to configure it for multi AZ.

I use lambda all of the time and I’m definitely not afraid of the “lock in” boogeyman, but I always architect my lambda’s to make moving away from lambda to either Fargate or just an EC2 instance as easy as possible.

On another note, it’s just as easy to architect your regular old EC2 instances running stateless servers to be AZ failure resilient. Just set up an autoscaling group with a min/max of 1 and configure it to work across multiple AZ’s.

Also lambda comes with its own set of limitation - maximum runtimes of 15 minutes, cold start times, temporary storage space of only a half a gig, limited CPU/memory options, etc.
Really? I feel like that's been going on for about 5 years or so now
Perhaps it differs from country to country, most Eastern European immigrants I know are Jewish people who immigrated in the 90s. But most of the more recent ones are also not really drinkers
Like all problems in the real world, I doubt there is a single, simple explanation like that.

Other factors that I imagine contribute: the rise of social programs (e.g. Social Security) mean that families aren't responsible for elder care anymore.

Young people are encouraged to leave the house asap after graduating high school. Failure to do so is seen to reflect poorly on the person and their parents.

Even among middle and low income earners, sharing households is less common in the past.

The rise of extreme parenting and related reduction in parental friendships.

The housing wealth of previous generations allowing them to sell a house in Boston and relocate to Phoenix, putting grandparents thousands of miles away from their children.

The rise of both spouses working meaning the non-working spouse can't lean on the social networks of the stay at home spouse.

Widespread air conditioning leading to death of outdoor neighborhood life (e.g. sitting on the porch)

The rise of college education and the increase in going to school further from home. (As recently as the 1970s over 55% of Stanford's students came from California.)

Those are just a few off the top of my head. I don't disagree that moving for work plays a role but back in the 1930s lots of people moved around the US for work (more than today) and work was far more all consuming (having only 2 days off the entire year was not uncommon, e.g. working every weekend, no breaks). And loneliness appears to have been less prevalent then than now.
> The following year, the lab hired Ritchie, a Harvard grad whose father was a Bell Labs alum, and Ken Thompson, a self-described army brat who, by his own admission, spent at least a month actively dodging the Bell Labs recruiter on the Cal-Berkeley campus
It used to be the norm in game development to sync with the refresh rate of the CRT.
I don't think the article is saying that everyone must match to that level of specifiety, or that your preferences must match your own characteristics. I'm sure some people would try to find people just like them, but you could just list your "must haves", or even exclude people like you.

A good example is OKC (the dating site), which asks you a bunch of questions, and then lets you choose one or more "acceptable" answers, and how strongly you feel about that. You can choose to accept all answers for most questions, or to say the other person must answer exactly one way, it's up to the user.
Same as Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia or anywhere albanians live. New generations will drink it less and less, and become beer countries as well
Which they never made money from.

So we should adopt a "standard" which Google profits off of? More specifically we should rely on something for which Google's profits are the primary goal? No thanks.
I wonder how much of a problem this is. Anecdotally:

I've spent my entire career - about 5 years beyond university - working in a cloud-only environment. My dev machine is an ec2 instance, whose environment my company provisions appropriately, and we have tooling for managing the application environment end to end where I rarely have to worry about linux primitives.

I can put together some pretty impressive things on AWS, reasonably comfortably, but I know that if I ever leave for a company that still runs their infrastructure classically, I'll be at a disadvantage. I've even stumbled around one-off linux environments for personal projects, most of the concepts are still foreign to me.
Ask HN: Does London or Even the UK Have a Chemistry Hackspace?
I'd like to do some experiments with chlorine, is there a hackspace that might permit this? Or perhaps a university that might allow me to use a lab? My plan B right now is to rent a storage container and use that.
More details about what?

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/13/sable-starr/

The Star magazine referenced in that piece is available at http://star1973.com
Yes, it was a visual hallucination, and so constrained to two dimensions plus perspective. But I clearly recall the sense that I was seeing a 2D projection of a higher-dimensional image.
Start dancing. I started swing and jazz dancing a couple of years ago. The community is awesome, and you get to meet loads of people. There are regular events all over the world.
The Unreal game engine is built on C++... There is a huge industrial sector using this for simulation and training, and unreal has plenty of content on YouTube for Livestreaming different topics.... People are always looking for c++ programmers because you can essentially do anything in the engine directly.
Bad Customer Service Is Profitable
It's kind of spooky that M-Theory (a unified consistent version of string theory) has 11 dimensions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory

Simulation much?
It says it's a fruit brandy, and traditional brandy is a spirit made by using wine. Things don't neatly separate into three groups, but it's not completely made up.
> Consul/Nomad/Vault/Fabio

This is not very much easier to implement than kubernetes, in my experience, and you end up with a less capable system at the end of it.
Those microcontrollers aren't reliable anyways. If you design those in you have to accept that if they have persistent state they will eventually brick themselves. If they don't have persistent state they will hang and require user intervention on a regular basis.
I loved this when I moved to Italy the first time. I was pretty young, but not really interested in getting drunk, like many of my peers in the US.
Anpther issue is one of copyright: obviously the student is the author. And we all know that the ML scoring subcontractor is keeping copies, with human ratings for later retraining purpouses.

At the time the student takes the test, he should be prompted with the informed choice asking him to grant either 1) no license to keep a copy for training purpouses 2) a non-exclusive license, and the website where he can get a copy of his own essay 3) a public domain license, again with the relevant domain linked so he can find his own and other's essays. 4) any of the above or other as a function of the resulting grade!

At the same time he should also specify his desire for or against attribution, again probably best as a function of the resulting grade. And under what moniker he wishes this contribution to exist.

These options to be filled out during exam time should have no default options (no opt-out), and preferably should be standardized by the community and lobbied for to be mandatorily enforced at state or federal level (forcing examinations to present the student with an informed choice)

A public dataset of legally obtained essays (without scores or names) would already be a very important first step to invite others to make actual performant ML grading systems.

I don't believe the current datasets in these "non-profit" organizations actually comply with copyright law, organizations who don't profit from the grading service towards the state, but do provide a stable ML job on the income from charging the people with financial means to test submissions, enabling a stealth class based society.
Thanks, that's clarifying. You can do this sort of "lightweight" verification in basically any theorem prover. The difference you observe sounds like a difference in community emphasis rather than capability?
I read on computer or phone. If it's literature for work, I need to practice and not only read. I read something and trying to do it, as a web developer. If it's other literature I read it on my phone, when I have free time.
If I read literature for work it takes a lot of time to thinking and doing exercises (if they exists). Spending a lot of time or reading and practicing helps to remember information
> I’m also a believer in keeping research and writing a little separated so I don’t end up writing more backstory than actual story. Personally I use a self-hosted wiki (Dokuwiki) for my research and exploratory writing, and use Ulysses as my premier writing application when I’m getting down prose.

This is an interesting perspective that I hadn’t encountered before.

It seems that in recent years narrative-format journalism has become more popular. I wonder if some of this can be attributed to journalists switching from traditional pen-and-paper note taking to electronic solutions, and consequently reducing the cognitive separation between the research notes and the actual story.
I agree, but what I meant is that there is an obvious hypocrisy in the way the West behaves.

Civil rights seem to be mentioned only when the countries which don't respect them are poor or weak.
When there is an economic interest they seem not be so important anymore.
We already have a decentralized/federated social network with millions (probably billions) of users. It's called email, and it works pretty well--though not perfect, email illustrates that there's nothing intrinsically impossible about such systems.
OKC itself lets you say you're only looking for friends. Whether that discourages creeps is anyone's guess.
Can you explain what "variable transaction cost" is?
I really dislike the "herds not pets" analogy. It implies lack of attachment due to necessity of slaughter - it also implies lack of attachment to your craftsmanship (as in you care less about each host). I find it jarring every time I read it and think the analogy is fraught and totally unnecessary.

It is a really awkward way to indicate that you need to think of things on a service and resource basis as apposed to a hand-crafted machine basis. Do we need to bring animals into it at all?
I'm sorry. I've found a Neo Smartpen (with tweaks) to help back up my notes.
Here are a few simplistic observations:

1. Let's consider 2 type of users to which ads could be served. The premium segment willing to pay have a certain profile. By removing the premium segment the entire group will have less value in the eyes of advertisers.

2. Google offers plenty of integrated services. They have only a few profitable when taken separately. Most of them are to support the few generating profit.

3. Would you pay separately for email, drive, search, ...? Probably not, so a flat price for all would make more sense. In this case you might be more valuable as part of a bigger pool of ad consumers. Remember you're a "premium" user willing to pay for certain services that you can have for free. A gold mine for advertisers. I should keep your contact for when I'll have some saas to sell.

4. If sold separately, each service will have at least one competitor specialized on a single product. Eg. Dropbox for Google drive.

5. They will probably have more premium/freemium services. People were missing the incentive to pay for something that could be free. Not anymore.
We have an alert service for schools. SMS average deliverability is only 88%, and in high traffic events it's even worse. For comparison, voice is 97%.

So SMS is actually not that great.
Papanek's 'Design for the Real World' might be good inspiration for you.

Here is the pdf - http://playpen.icomtek.csir.co.za/~acdc/education/Dr_Anvind_... - however I'd strongly recommend getting yourself a dead-tree copy of it.

As for problems, can you come up with some sort of device to pop zits that flare up right in the middle of the back? I just nearly dislocated my shoulder trying to deal with one.
I feel like there's a bootstrapping issue here, though. What do I read in order to learn to read How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler? Or do I merely read that book once, in order to learn the technique, before re-reading it?
It used to be the same in Romania (we did tuica and palinca, same as pálinka), but lately people drink mostly beer in the summer and wine or spirits in the winter, it is a highly seasonal pattern.
Same in Bulgaria, beer is very popular in warm seasons and it has a seasonal pattern.
purely Audio Books in the car. I have a wishlist on Audible and some bookmarks for other books that aren't on audible that I have to find elsewhere.

I've had enough recommendations on HN and IRL to fill up my wishlist for some time. Beyond that, I usually go to a "top 100" fantasy/scifi list. After I've had enough fiction I'll throw in some learning material.
That's a tough one. I had a similar situation, though not that bad. I made the mistake of creating an adversarial dynamic, for which I learned two great lessons, one in communication and one in leadership. My bossome awesome is fantastic.

If you're interested, I'm happy to get on a call to talk this through with you. I'd also be keen to chat about an alternative to off shore development. My email is in my profile.
This blogpost makes it sound as if using a deep learning library for a task like image classification is difficult, while it is just a matter of copy+paste, annotate, and run.
> 1) It will take you longer than you think 2) It will be harder than you imagined 3) It’s harder to find people who know it

Just so people have an idea of how hard it is to find people. I've got just about 1 year of experience getting kubernetes into production at a very large (multi-billion dollar) company. I have so many job offers coming in that I'm not even talking to companies offering less than 350k total comp. I don't have a college degree and 5 years ago I was making $50k a year. That might be just the generally bubble-ish nature of the tech industry right now, but if they're throwing around that kind of money for someone like me, I imagine that small shops have no way to compete.
> You can't lie your way into good programming.

Agreed. There's so much more that goes into programming than just knowing a programming language or two, so even if someone does know basic coding or has medium understanding of a former coworker's acxonolishments, there's so much more in the domain that (in my experience) liars, fakers, and overhypers are exposed very quickly after hiring. Granted, understanding this doesn't help weed them out before the fact, but still I think most interviewees know this and are wary of spinning their stories too far out of control.
Messaging systems (like emails) and social networks are not the same thing. Maybe mailing lists would be closer, but those are actually centralised.
What is your responsibility here? I'd focus on what you're responsible for. You have yearly performance reviews with your manager, right? Well that's what's important.
Biohacker Explains Why He Turned His Leg into a Hotspot
This is a Sager Notebook NP8156. There are newer models, including better NVidia cards. Up to 64 GB ram. I bought mine with 16GB and added 32GB. Very expandable. Battery life is 2-ish hours, though can be increased by reducing brightness.

Lenovo has a 32 GB max model, and HP has a 64 GB max model.