skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wouldn't that require the phone to always be on wifi, to avoid hitting the monthly data transfer cap?

True, but unlimited data plans do exist and I've found that more often than not, one laptop finds another laptop over the internet than using the fallback of using cellular data over the phone to sync.

I just installed the F-Droid android client yesterday, it syncs over both Wi-Fi and cellular data by default since until you add devices/folders, it won't spend any mobile data at all, which is when it prompts you to make that choice.
Are you dense? These are actual David Bowie lyrics. Do you need to hear him say them? He was not the only rock musician to rape Sable Starr before she was 14 but he was the only one to brag about it on record.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8i2NetVBzIc
This is not a Hindu-Muslim issue. This is a Assamese-Bengali issue. Numerous Hindus have not been included (or excluded depending on the frame or reference).

There are more muslims simply because of the bulk infiltration from Bangladesh which is a muslim majority nation.
Probably not exactly what you’re talking about but you are aware of the indie game “Miegakure”?
For technical books, I often try to build something as it goes along, usually not exactly following their examples, but making something slightly different, which seems to require exactly understanding things and not just grabbing the code examples.

For math and computer science books, I definitely like to write code to do things. Particularly in math I have the hardest time remembering which greek letter means what thing in which context, and well formed programming language variable names make things much clearer.

For other stuff, I try to build an outline of the theory of the book and come up with some actions I can take to see how the ideas would work in the contexts I have available to me. It's a little difficult to take notes depending on the context, particularly with audiobooks. Sometimes I will read other people's summaries to see if I missed something.

For fiction and poetry I don't really do anything special except copy down particular quotes I enjoy.
That seems like an unusual first project. Any reason you chose it? Were you more interested in the language semantics?
If they're 50+ and live in rural America, yeah good luck.
> If you want to read a tonne of papers on the subject, google "desirable difficulties".

I do. I memorize a lot of stuff (I'm a medical student) and my life will be way less stressful if almost remembering something means you're on the right track.

You probably aren't reading this, but thanks for the pointer.
I couldn't find online if Anderstorp High has Student IDs, but assuming that they do, the school already has a photograph of every student.
Provided you or the arbitrary interviewer have the technical background to evaluate the answers! I once had reason to view the resume of a former colleague who took all credit for a major project I implemented. This project involved parsing and a particular parser generator. He worked on it after I implemented it, but he claimed it all. And he was knowledgeable enough to back that claim up!
Want to Ride a Holographic Elephant?
I've seen more than three dimensions with LSD. At least, I've seen what looks a lot like those rotating hypercube images. Except more complicated, and looking somewhat like Mandelbrot sets.
In the UK SMS was about 5p prepaid. Even that was expensive. It's ~100 bytes.
If you liked that you might like this. It's a DPLL† SAT Solver based on George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form implemented in Python.

http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Correcet_Programming.html#Dav...

One of the interesting things about it is that you don't have to put formulas into conjunctive normal form.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Putnam%E2%80%93L...
Pop must be minute, Bowie was only around 5'5"
There are lots of places where you can live like a king off the service of poor people in a country with a bad economy. (Hell, you can do it in the States)
Here is a guide to reading articles in the modern world:

https://link.medium.com/30JQJa3KBZ

Synopsis:
1. Use a reading list
2. Pay attention to reading environment (what app/device, lighting, noise-level)
3. Use a dictionary
4. Talk about it
5. Follow journalists
6. Increase quality, read less
I haven't done much metaprogramming stuff, is this just the nature of using macros or can it be solved with careful coding?
> One big big big thing I learned from the book is to not read a non-fiction book like it was a novel.

Do you mean to say: "is to read a non-fiction book like it was a novel"?
Personally the best abstraction I've seen for how the brain works is a "pointer and cell machine" similar to how people introduce s-expressions. It works well with how I find myself thinking about lists (like the alphabet) where I have to "cdr" down it to find any of the items.
An argument for paper ballots in voting, thanks to Apple
This was a tech trial where 22 students and their parents (both separately) opted in to take part over 3 weeks. The teacher also opted-in.
USD does not work in all regions, believe it or not. Moreover it cannot be sent without an intermediary that is heavily licensed and regulated. Contrary to maximalists, we do aim in our Apollo phase for BAT moving on-blockchain with anonymity and low fees. Current blockchains and USD do neither
Running

aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region us-east-1 --output text
Symlinks agent common on Windows, though, as they require administrator access/elevation to create. Junction points are more common.
> Since all structures are Trees [...]

Wat. No, they're not. Counter-example: triangles. Triangles are not trees.

I did, however, notice that you've been spamming all kinds of threads with posts along the lines of "Apropos topic X, Tree Notation will totally revolutionize X. Follow tree-notation-URL to stay up-to-date with Tree Notation, once [if] we ever find a way to explain what makes Tree Notation so different from other notations!"

(where X is a random topic which is mostly or completely unrelated to Tree Notation)

It's quite annoying.
Progressive taxation of income/wealth would seem to have the same effect, but for everything you consume. No need to tax the goods if you can tax the income first.
This site reliably crashes my iOS browser. Anyone else?
Multi AZ is actually fairly easy to do, only difficulty is in some special cases. Multi region is a bit harder due to higher latency.

IMO you should do everything you can as multi AZ and if there are some services that are harder to do and you don't need it, then put them in a single AZ.

Thing is that if you keep everything in a single AZ it will be much harder to change when this requirement become important.
Why wouldn't a person be able to answer those questions? You were on the standups, you know whatever issues they had, you were on the design meetings, you know what alternatives were considered and why they weren't chosen. Being able to walk through someone else's thought process is a lot easier than doing the actual work.

The end result is that you will hire people for high level roles like tech leads or architect who are very mediocre at what they do since they sound like a star performer at the interview. All you need to get a good career in such an environment is just to job hop a lot and at every job you mostly try to gather impressive things people around you do in order to sound impressive in the next interview. I bet a no small fraction of CEO's went that route, and I think it is a pattern we should avoid since it is so easy to test actual coding skills in tech.
You can construct any number of hypothetical evils that might plague your team; I don't really see why you'd let that shape your perception of engineers when you hardly ever run across people like that though.

Most people are fine, and if you run into a toxicity then go take care of it like an adult and talk to your manager/HR/whatever.
there‘s no better alternative.

no, please don‘t tell me about android. that‘s a fucked up mine field altogether.

we need to remember that there is no and will never be 100% security. while not open — which is worth nothing to the average user — we get pretty close with ios given all we know.
Why don't you just checkpoint the model every n steps? NNs fail for a myriad of reasons, you can easily reduce risk by routinely saving state.
Western Democracies, Islam and Feminism
That wasn’t what I was querying. My confusion was because I misread the GPs post and thought he was literally quoting the saying when he said:

> not all publicity is good publicity.

...rather than that being part of his own commentary on the saying.

It was really just a parsing error on my part rather then a disagreement with the point he is making.
Facebook, which has eaten the world, started in college dorm rooms. I'd love to see a not-for-profit social media option that emphasized connecting people to join up in the real world, to solve real problems, rather than encouraging addictive behavior. You could start with a social network for your college only or your city only and work from there.
This is both very cool and goes along the lines of the way I imagined deep learning would advance the state of the art in songwriting. YACHT's got a special place in my heart for "Psychic City" which sounds like a lost child of Talking Heads, not to mention all the other great music they've made.

Secondly, it's interesting how they used the tech to stretch their existing material: they basically notated their existing corpus of work (82 songs) into MIDI, chopped it by part into loops, fed that into the MusicVae deep learning model, got out thousands of loops, and reintegrated the output material into a full album. This is probably the way things can and should go.

Exciting times! I want to have a go with this tech with my own music.
I first read “musical” registration system. Left me wondering for a bit.
This was an April Fools joke.

https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/april-fool-s-joke-raw-...
Do you feel ISAs (income share agreements) are a good way to do that? Or do you think there should be other better ways?
I would love a simple electron wrapper around this, perhaps with offline capabilities slowly added over time.
The retention problem is one that bothered me as well. So much so that at some point I really cut down my nonfiction reading. I figured if I would retain only 10% or less 6 months later, then in reality I'm reading for entertainment, not to enlighten myself.[0] If that's the case, why not just read fiction?

So I decided to take notes. But then I thought of all the notebooks I filled in school (and still have some), and never looked at after the semester was over. Notes in a notebook are not much better.

So I made a blog, and for every book I read, I make blog posts with the highlights. The idea is that it will be on the Internet, and I can review them whenever and wherever I want to. I did this for a while, but noticed I never went back to review my notes. Still, I considered this an improvement.

Taking serious notes, BTW, slowed down my reading probably 3-5x.

Along the way I realized I can't always be near a computer while reading. So I started taking notes in a notebook and transcribing later. Fountain pens for the win!

Anyway, since I still wasn't reviewing my notes often, I decided to take it one step further. I used org-drill[1] to make flashcards of things I would like to retain. I started using flashcard software for other reasons in November, and I can say it's been wildly successful when it comes to retention. I've not done it for much of my nonfiction reading, as life has been busy and I've not read much. But I do plan to make flashcards. I still make more refined notes and put them in my blog, though.

Making flashcards is not a significant effort. Mostly it's copy pasting material from my usual notes blog.

Now this all may seem overkill, and perhaps literally killing the joy of reading books. But as I said, if I'm not remembering 80-90% of a book I enjoyed, then the only reason I'm reading it is entertainment. And fiction provides for better entertainment.

[0] Here's an extreme example: In 2014, I was reading Willpower. It was amazing. I recall several times saying to myself "Wow!". After reading it, I decided to reread Thinking, Fast and Slow and take notes. I had read it less than a year prior, but had not taken notes. Still, I did feel I hadn't forgotten much. What did I find out? Over half of my "Wow!" moments for Willpower were in Thinking, Fast and Slow. So not only had I forgotten so much within a year, I did not even recognize it when reading it again!

(Let's ignore the question of whether most of Willpower is junk science).

[1] Most people use Anki if you don't want to use Emacs. Org drill has the benefit that I type up my notes in Org Mode anyway.
A butler charges $9k+ per month? That's about two-and-a-half times the median graduate salary in the UK: how does one become a butler?
I'm always reading about 5 books in parallel, depending of my mood, the context and my focus.

Usually:

- biography or fiction book that I listen to while driving

- hard science book when I know I can focus for a few hours. (I.e. Quantum mechanics or advanced algorithms)

- 1-2 business or technical book that I read on kindle (Either from PC, ipad or my iphone)

- various blog or pdfs open on my pc / iphone

The business / technical books are the ones that I read the fastest because I can skip useless chapters and they're always one-click away when I have a few minutes to wait.

The hard science are the ones that take the most time.. sometimes it can take me weeks to read a few pages, and I often need to do side research to understand what I'm reading.

I think the fact that I have different choices help me read more because if I'm not in the mood for one thing there's usually something else interesting. If I don't have interesting books then I'm more likely to waste time on reddit / HN / twitter. (I still browse HN from time to time when things are compiling though :D)
When I read fiction I used to read like you, one after another, always had to have a book on the go. I ended up feeling like you did so I haven't really read a fiction book in a few years now.
I literally don't understand how do you get the knowledge to write an exploit like this. I'm a c++ programmer working on game engines, so manual memory management is my bread and butter, you have to have a detailed understanding of the underlying hardware architecture to do this job, but I don't understand how you go from where I am to writing a low level exploit like this.
I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere the argument that because Snell standards involve a higher speed impact, that there might be a tradeoff and they would be less cushiony for a lower speed one. So maybe more stringent standards are not necessarily better; it depends on what standard is the most realistic wrt the average crash.
At least in the US you're only required to investigate DMCA takedown requests which (I think) have legal ramifications for frivilous use. That's reasonable.

What youtube does is significantly more aggressive and automated. I think one of the most ridiculuous examples was a performance of 4'33 that had it's audio removed because their bot decided it violated copyright law.
Only vote if you're actually willing to understand what the policies are and what is currently being done. Otherwise you end up having people vote based on superfluous surface level details -- e.g., I'd have a beer with them.
Yes, it's all about the tooling now.
No, they just don't use it for your specific scenario.

Disclaimer: Work at MS. We use Excel plenty, we just tend to do things differently than many other businesses as things that shouldn't be done in Excel we don't do in Excel (since we have other tooling available).

The challenge is that in reality, people are diverse and will use Excel as long as they can as they don't want to buy other software, lack skills to implement it differently, or for some other reason need to keep data in Excel.

Software like Excel has been around for so long and has so many edge cases in how it is used that the dev teams could spend 100% of their time adding features and still probably not touch some potentially large user base ones.
Yeah it's pretty easy to tell where a senior engineer is at if you're in the same domain as them. Just discussing projects really provides much more insight than leetcoding them to death. It's shocking to me how many places are leetcoding senior engineers before talking to them about their past work or discussing design.
Is it because we want to have hiring automated? Is it because of discrimination? Why is the leetcode interview process so widely adopted?
That could just mean news junkies are upvoting the dopamine outrage porn first because they check the front page more often than the majority of users who happen to flag it later because they aren't 24/7 on HN.
LLVM's MLIR does apparently fix some of those problems, e.g. being a generic medium level IR rather than just an assembler
I lost my Commonplace Book with all my notes from my previous readings in a trip to a hospital. I'm still devastated even though I have a partial backup from photos I took before hand with my phone.
We built on Bitcoin from 2016 onward, and shut it down in favor of BAT in 2017 fall. Fees in 2017 hit 90% for users doing small buys to goodwill-donate, confirmation times went to days, and we had no moneybags funding grants to users. Drive by maximalists told us to “use LN” or (when reminded it was not usable) “wait for LN”. That solved nothing then and solves nothing much even now.

Most of the 250K creators at https://batgrowth.com/ do not want any crypto, never mind bitcoin. Running an LN node looks like it will require licensing, and in any case LN is effectively custodial in tying up coin. Our model is to pay users, not tie up their coins keeping a few channels open to a relative handful of sites.

Bootstrapping in the face of Metcalfe’s Law is hard enough without obviously bad advice and then ill will from maximalists.
In school, I would, chapter-by-chapter:
- Underline & make notes in the margins
- After finishing, write a "précis" of that chapter on an index card
- Below the précis, go through the chapter again and copy over underlined passages, notes I had made and questions I had come up with while reading

Then, I'd end up with a stack of index cards for each book, which I'd keep for reference. I rarely looked back at these notes, but the 'chore' of doing this for every chapter really helped the complicated stuff sink in.
Yeah, it appears that Iran is the country not wanting in on this one. Go figure.
How can someone get this training outside of their job?
Not specific to this question, but I've enjoyed the episodes of Parent Driven Development that I've listened to: https://www.parentdrivendevelopment.com/
I was thinking more you could blue up to provide insta-protest-cool.

No I'm the <strike>messiah</strike> protester
Join a non profit working on something you believe in
Yikes! spraying people with random DNA fragments?

That sounds like a great way to end up with viri/cancer. Plus a lot of the chemicals used in manipulating DNA are extremely carcinogenic.
The car dealer model is extremely bad for consumers. It seems weird to herald it as some kind of achievement.
My recent innovation was using a notecard as a bookmark, and writing on it page numbers and begginning word of excerpts I'll take down to my notebook later on. This way, it's still portable, I don't dmaage the book, and I'm able to take notes.
The OP reinvented S-expressions and is overly dramatic about it.
Right. In other words, it has nothing to do with the human brain creating structures in 11 dimensions. It's a total misreading of the science.

This particular claim has been making the rounds for quite some time. It's total rubbish.
I did Xt in college for a Unix Graphics Programming class and it felt so alien to me. The examples in the books (3 or 4 books) we had never seemed to work right. When compared to plain Xlib, OpenGL immediate mode and 3D mode, Java’s AWT and Swing, or even the tiny bit of Win32 I picked up via NanoX/Microwindows, Xt always just felt like dereference vomit, arcane property setting in unrelated objects or contexts and an event loop that magically picked up some events but not others. It was like there was some undocumented state machines that backed the event loop.
I am always surprised when I see that vegans/plant-based dieters may be lacking one or more nutrients in their well balanced diet. Most of the time you should only be concerned about getting all vital nutrients if you're following non plant-based diet.
> The school could simply use RFiD cards for tracking attendance.

They actually studied this as well as the facial recognition system. Two different classrooms over an 8 week period.

The biggest problem they found with the RFID system;

> During the first week of testing (week 41) 38% of
pupils didn’t bring their tag at each lesson, while in
the second week of testing (week 42) 47% forgot it. [1]

[1] - http://pages.tieto.com/rs/517-ITT-285/images/SummaryFutureCl...
Facebook Parse Acquisition (Part 1)
Did you ever faced a situation where you or your clients needed more compute power and a cloud scalability would've been more convenient/cheaper?
Well, I have my answer. A lot of child rape apologists here. Go party with Jeffrey Epstein.
Do You Need a Virtual Private Network?
While hiring is broken, let's certainly not pretend it was in a workable state in the past. Let's further appreciate things we have now that we didn't in the past. Previously, if you wanted a job in another state, you'd have to move there and hope you got a job before your bank account ran dry. Now, you can safely apply for jobs while at your current job until you get something.
I used to be like that. I usually read fiction in the subway during my daily commute. I think my average is below 30 minutes of reading per day. After a few months of doing this my mind stopped wandering and I was able to zone out and focus on reading without any effort.
A small GUI to monitor your Netgear Router's attached devices
> My confinement caused me to enjoy Berlin for the first time: not going out into it, I couldn’t be disappointed, frustrated or cheated. From the hotel room, the city seemed so full of potential for adventure. Through the window, everything looked so interesting!

Full of potential for adventures you'll never have. What good is potential if you never act on it? Just stay at home and replace your real window with a TV screen.

I'm clearly not the right audience for this—but I don't get it.
> Explore the problem you are facing with quick prototyping in the repl and see the blind spots, the unknowns, the shape of data received from flaky integrations. Mold and shape your functions as the problem becomes clearer.

This is a great way to end up with undocumented code with no tests. The repl definitely encourages this process, but you should be doing this via quick running unit tests rather than the repl so that when you are done you already have a set of tests. Otherwise tests are an after thought and usually after thoughts are either not done or done poorly.

edit: you can always run your unit tests via the repl too, if you'd rather not use a fast test runner.
Exactly my thoughts. Growing up in Bulgaria in the 90s - that was the thing. I was (and still am) into heavy metal so did not care a bit, but could still "feel" the pressure...