skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HomeBrew (https://brew.sh)
Here’s Jashe Poon getting 158 wpm on a test where his keyboard layout suddenly switches twice so that he ends up typing 20 seconds each of Qwerty, Colemak, and Dvorak: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GK8UQGO-qFA
psychology is a validated science. What you call intelligent people are probably street smart that appear to you intelligent
Plasim climate model – climate model of intermediate complexity (download)
I'm 'fluent' in QWERTY and DVORAK. Learned QWERTY when I was 13 years old, learned DVORAK around college years. For DVORAK I used Stamina Typing Tutor - https://typingsoft.com/screenshots.htm
It was frustrating at first, but within a few months I only made mistakes with very rarely accessed characters.

Since then I've been able to switch between the layouts swiftly. At work I use Dvorak on my external keyboard, but when I take the laptop with me I switch to QWERTY. The switch is a mental flip akin to talking in another language (I'm fluent in Russian and English).

I think the switch is very worth it. If I was re-doing it, I'd probably learn Colemak instead of Dvorak (apparently it's a slightly better choice for some reasons).
I wonder if we can cast the current prequels into the eternal darkness and start with new ones made by a good writer.
Much less efficiently than the private sector could.
Why does the culture that becomes outraged by offending people’s identity also become outraged by China being offended?
Read again, I said It could have been.
Same here. I still use it even though it crashes when closing a tab on latest MacOS. I’ve tried TablePlus and always end up back at Sequel Pro.
Funky! Numbers are re-ordered `40123 76598`
Unlike FB friends, which is a strong moat for facebook, exchanging cryptocurrencies is trivially easy. I don't use facebook but i 'd use libra considering that it opens up a huge audience the same way way mastercard does. And in that respect, FB would have to compete with mastercard and visa for user payment data, which (should be) a well regulated realm.

> that's diametrically opposed to the needs of a currency - a universal token

Currencies dont need to be universal, at least they were not until maybe the gold standard. It's government enforcement that made them look universal, but until then , a currency was of equal holding value as any commodity like gold. That was a good hedge against government misuse imho. And , looking at the manipulation of central govt rates, there is misuse today, worldwide. That doesnt mean the only alternative is FB of course, but it could be one, and i dont see a danger in it being one.

> such as BTC as there is no threat to the universality of exchange

BTC is a direct threat to any government that prints fiat money. It's just too small yet, so your theory gives it a pass.
What would you say it does that Scrivener doesn’t? Or does better?
I use it frequently and have never had a crash. Wonder what that’s about
Great recommendation, always wondered wtf was the story with Time Cube. Can’t wait for mainstream physics to catch up.
Why would you think public utilities are any less beholden to politics than public transport? If anything, utilities are almost always monopolies, transport at least has some competition.
Samsung is already gone. Samsung had foresight and is well diversified. The company started packing up and moving to Vietnam at their peak in China back in 2013. Most of their smartphones now come from Vietnam (and Samsung's Vietnam operation alone accounts for 1/4 of all export from Vietnam).
And so you would leave prediction of human behavior to paranormalists, or to reductionists? Even neuroscience requires a science of behavior to have something to predict.
Contexts allows me to cmd+tab into specific windows, rather than an entire application. Literally did a little dance when I found this, as it was the only thing I missed from windows. https://contexts.co/
Our experience was that the more data you store, the more IOPS you need to search through it at a reasonable pace, and with a large dataset things can really start to crawl.

That said, it's worth pointing out that EBS is the default data store in AWS Elasticsearch, and for people without a ton of data it might actually end up working "as intended"
When we had a local packing plant butcher steers, we'd get round steaks with the ring bone, including marrow. My recollection is that it was pretty tasty. The dog loved chewing the bone afterwards.
Sequel Pro crashes every time you close it (supposedly 1.2 fixes this, but it's still not released yet), and doesn't support asking for confirmation before committing changes (so a typo can accidentally make an unintended change).

I've switched to TablePlus, which is also Mac native and seems better in every way: https://tableplus.com/

(It even has a dark mode!)

(But on the other hand, Sequel Pro is open-source and TablePlus isn't, which might also affect your decision.)
You’re saying it’s laughable to think people would not switch to a web app over an iOS app if the iOS app is no longer available?

There’s no way the vast majority of users would switch. This would be the case for any sort of app. But especially for a chat app.

Also, iOS users generally spend more money and I presume in cases like their China market share, are also higher net worth users. Losing iOS users would be more than just losing their small percent of the overall iOS/Android market share.
You do realize how much money Apple makes right? They absolutely have the money to run these capabilities in America. They also have enough money they could do it in a timely manner. What they know would happen is the cost to actually manufacture an iPhone would shoot through the roof and they would be left either making less profit to sell the phone at the same price point it always has been, or they will have to dramatically reduce shareholder return. They don't want to do either of those things obviously because right now new iPhone cost around 1000$ and it is probably close to what the market will bare. So their only option would be reduce shareholder return and I think that is the only thing stopping them from moving home. Simply put they would not make as much profit.
Have a look yourself in a model created from physical principles:

https://www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/en/arbeitsgruppen/theoretische...

(Expect a stationary state to take at least 50 years to run after starting or disturbance (such as changing incoming radiation or CO2) since the ocean model is a mixed layer and takes a while to equilibrate. In the real world the ocean mixing time is ~1000 years though.)
This was pretty inevitable, given the recent changes announced to Chrome that Google created to fight ad blockers. Why would they limit their fight to just that?
To add to previous comment. "What's to Fear", if author would read that book, he would notice there is still a lot to fear. Synthetic life form, without even mimicking humans could be dangerous. The same as waves in the ocean, even if those waves have no agenda to kill us all, if it is 10 in Beaufort scale you better stay away from those waves.
You do realize that water "is a good thing for humans", but that drowning is still deadly, right?
BTW, some of the later games use Lua for scripting instead. In fact, Grim Fandango was the first major game to use Lua!
> And yet, for some reason, the idea persists in some peoples' minds that climate change is up for debate, or that climate change is no big deal.

Hold it right there.

Anthropogenic climate change (not just that the earth is warming, but that we are responsible) is a scientific hypothesis. Like all hypotheses, it cannot be proven true, only disproven by contradictory evidence.

Doubt is a critical element in testing any hypothesis. Success by doubters in poking experimental holes in hypotheses is how science moves forward.

When a hole is poked into a widely-held hypotheses, that's the stuff of scientific revolutions. Also, groupthink is a real thing and has exerted a powerful hold over scientists of every generation. For these reasons, widely-held hypotheses should be viewed with some skepticism anyway.

Every scientific hypothesis is "up for debate," and the day that isn't true is the day science dies, replaced by yet another form of tyrannical religion.

It's disturbing to see this kind of talk coming from Smithsonian.
> I'm not sure there's anything "clever" about the design they choose for their apps.

That's a feature in itself, though. Being clever usually means you're being at least somewhat unpredictable, which is bad for UI. It's much harder to come up with a simple design than a 'clever' one.
Why downvotes? He is exactly right about crypto (>50% of volume?) being used to move money out of China.
As an engineer and a scientific thinker I agree with having some skepticism. After all we try to “disprove“ hypotheses in science.

However, what we are suffering from as a species at the moment is more related to what Bertrand Russell described as:

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.”
I love this!

Is there an explanation on how this was done? Would love to learn to do this.
Exactly, I was a middle distance runner back in high school and nowadays focus on half and full marathons. I'm far from being an elite runner, but I do alright at local events.

I can barely keep Kipchoge's pace for 1km.
As someone fairly new to Clojure I agree entirely. There's a freshness about the language that has brought a new sense of joy and curiosity back into the programming world. The language forces you to rethink, relearn, and reevaluate the way you fundamentally understand programming. I think for the better.
How is IPFS blockchain based?
Only one of my submissions made it to the front page and that's how it got there.
Meanwhile, the scientists start joining Extinction Rebellion. That should tell you something.
Anything measured improves. The more data and metrics, the better safety of drugs can be observed. It is always a good thing to get more insight and information to help harm reduction and safety.

> Transparency advocates say clinical study reports need to be made public in order to understand how regulators make decisions and to independently assess the safety and efficacy of a drug or device. They also say the reports provide medical societies with more thorough data to establish guidelines for a treatment's use, and to determine whether articles about clinical trials published in medical journals — a key source of information for clinicians and medical societies — are accurate.

There really is no reason why this data should not be more public at the FDA. Transparency improves safety, and that is their stated mission.

> FDA Mission

> The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation
You do understand that what made them right was not the fact that they denied something, right?
Ruby On Rails is an amazing piece of software. I love the fact that solving problems in Ruby so intuitive & expressive - You just have to focus on building the solution rather than constantly cracking the language.

I wrote a post how why one should still learn Ruby - https://bilalbudhani.com/why-you-should-learn-ruby-regardles...
When I applied last year, you said you are only hiring candidates based in the US. Is that still the case?
HN needs a better search function :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232438

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231493

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233041
Yeah, that's definitely a downside to this market.

I've come to accept it. I would have missed out on a lot of really great software otherwise, that ultimately proved worth their price.

(I don't think $18 is bad either, I was a little more miffed that e.g. Fission cost $30 for a pretty basic audio editor. But, again, it paid off.)

Also worth considering: these prices are one-time, unless a new version includes massive changes, and even then you can keep using your old release. I greatly prefer this to subscription models!
I've been using it for the last few weeks and while I do have some nitpicks, I like it! It crashes every now and then when I close a tab and I wish that when manually adding a new row I could select the value of a foreign key from a dropdown instead of entering it manually. But both get in my way rarely enough that I still like it
It's a mistake to think that checking a box that says "CC" means you actually had permission to issue a license.

If you're selling stock photos, you need written consent for everything in the photo--artwork, brands, people. Interestingly, parents can give consent for their kids to be in a photograph, but these same identifiers can be used years later to identify the adults in the photos.

A related question is this: do pre-trained classifiers reveal any personally-identifying information? Or are they only statistics about many, many faces?
If we do that we can get CO2 to 5000 ppm (currently at 410 ppm, cognitive impacts are observed from 1000 ppm (happens regularly in closed rooms full of people)). With that level we can melt down all of Antarctica. Yay.
Could Colemak increase pain and effort in non-english languages?
The training is a mix of: obsession, up to and beyond exhaustion; grit, driven by passion; a relatively 'fast' metabolism, fueled by food and naps. Nothing magic, bootcamp-style.

Basically, working your day thing (studies, work, obligations) then spending all your free time nerding on something. It progressively morphed from goofing around to learning with a professional mindset, building stuff.

It's important to pace yourself; it's a marathon on a daily basis. However in the long run, over the weeks, it's more like an agile sprint: you work a lot for some weeks or a few months at most, then relax, rinse and repeat.

____

The happiness switch

I've found there are fundamental functions in human beings that pretty much describe us entirely. It's a model, deduced from reality, which in turn helps me 'mold' my reality (i.e. aspects of my personality, how I choose to experience things).

This set of skills can be trained; it seems to be 'working' with anyone, but there are 'prerequisites'; exactly which is unclear (for now).

One of the by-products of this is a happiness switch: your emotions inevitably vary, but you are able to maintain your desired "global state" nonetheless. So you do feel sad sometimes, or angry etc.; but at the same time, it's only one aspect of you, one function, namely emotions are the "language of the body", it's just information. They shouldn't drive you, but inform your decisions, your choices. That's one thing you can train. This is where Shakespeare's famous quote takes its full meaning imho: “nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

Emotions are energy though: all our functions produce some 'effect', which may be usable, alone or in combination with others — for instance, cognitively we know that emotions act as a catalyst for memory, to break out of 'RAM' into long-term knowledge. This is a bridge (a powerful one, it's called 'passion' in some cases, 'impression' in other contexts...) between emotions and thinking.

The main sources are Stoicism and/or comparable schools of thought (Zen notably, and a cross-slice of many religions, myths), some critically validated modern 'self-development', cognitive studies (psychology, neurology, etc., e.g. the "hexaco" model), and books/authors/ideas in-between that demonstrate the empirical/statistical 'truth' of some principles (those that endure the test of time, with success). Also a bunch of business/consulting literature that strongly validates ideas, if only empirically — plus autobiographies etc. The spirit of the general enterprise is to validate sources by who speaks — e.g. only take advice from those who succeeded at what you seek, preferably the greatest, including people you don't like — and validate ideas themselves by experience, by real-world application.

So while the endeavor might seem quite intellectual, it's only the tip of the iceberg, the small gate of knowledge — immediately after lies practice, lifelong mantras. That's actual philosophy, what the word meant until the turn of the 20th century: practical advice and repipes for a good living.
> My hunch is that because of the way memory works there is no benefit for non GC languages when implementing threads and concurrent memory over many cores.

I've been pretty happy with Rust on multi-core servers, probably because Rust never allows mutable memory to be seen by more than one function.

I've been using async Rust at work, which turns out to particularly interesting, because most of the async executors for Rust can actually move suspended async functions between cores. So you might have dozens and dozens of async routines running across an 8 CPU pool.

There was definitely a bit of a learning curve involved, but we've only ever encountered a single concurrency-related bug, which was a deadlock. (Rust protects against memory corruption, undefined behavior and data races, but not deadlocks.)
What are some tips and tricks of hiring offshore development?
Curious on what folks are finding to work or not work when hiring offshore software engineers? I'm looking to start small, scale as business needs scale, but would like to make sure I'm getting experienced developers in cloud / AWS at a reasonable price.
Get a copy of The Little Schemer and follow it step by step in Racket, which is freely downloadable. It is better when learning to experience Lisp in this way than to read an explanation of why Lisp is good. It activates a different part of your brain. For many people, it feels like a dormant part of your brain has just awakened for the first time.
I have a completely opposite opinion. I love macOS, I love iOS. But I think that Apple's devices are garbage. I don't like any current Apple device. None. The only reason I'm still using iPhone and I'm still considering to buy Mac is their software. iOS is better than Android and macOS is better than Windows or Linux.

Also, I guess, they produce good design. Their products look good, that's true. Too bad, that I don't care about looks at all.
Yeah this is a minor part of his work. I know people who specialize in personality-health relationships and have never heard them base anything on Eysencks work in that area. Conversely, I'm very familiar with Eysencks work in general but have never heard of this.

Having said that, there are a couple of studies I've wondered about, and this makes me think about a second look at them. They too aren't what he's most known for though, which is more in the area of measurement.
That's probably a very good point. Computational empathy, just about any emotional state, is not some default baked-in property that has to be deliberately removed.

Quite the opposite: a trait like that would need to be designed (dismissing for a moment the complexity or current impossibility of the task). If we're ever able to understand the mechanisms that give rise to our own consciousness, maybe we'll be able to set conditions such that systems develop emergent properties along these lines, but that's quite a bit further down the line than even the perpetual "in ten years..." cycle.
The problem comes when people forget scientific consensus isn’t set in stone. Science is a continuous process of discovery and refinements, not a final declaration. Especially when so many studies are flawed, or their results cannot be reproduced.

But the public at large, politicians, and most business interest desire the comfort of facts, so people have a tendency to want to believe things are more settled and concrete than they may actually be.

I am grateful, by contrast, that my med school professors frequently declared “ten years from now, perhaps half of what we’re teaching you today will have been proven incorrect”. While half is an exaggeration, I’ve certainly been astonished at how much has changed so dramatically in such a short time.

Of course we just have to do the best we can with what we know at any particular time. So if the climate consensus is pointing one way, by all means let’s follow the bread crumbs. But overconfidence can be a dangerous comfort.
What is your advice to do well in the interview - especially about how to conduct yourself during?
I found SO useful, but it is copy-left

https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

So even GPL works need relicensing if they include anything from SO??
> I might be in the minority but I liked the Dune movie.

I liked the aesthetic of the movie (everything was 'old' and worn and staid). I liked the mini-series because it stayed closer to the original story, but (because of budget?) things looked too shiny: things seemed too 'fresh' for a societal structure that had been static for generations and generations.

That was kind of point of the Golden Path: you wanted the Imperium to seem 'static' because of inertia, and humanity needed something to shake them up from stagnation.
I use it pretty heavily myself so I might be mischaracterizing the actual rate.
Is anyone really surprised? Google makes all its revenue from ads. A couple months ago there was an incident where if I recall correctly, someone published a browser on the play store which allowed users to install desktop browser extensions, one of which was an adblocker for YouTube, and it was removed with vague reasons?

Google has been taking steps for a long time to make it harder for adblockers to work on Chrome, and this is only the latest in the trend.

uBO works just fine on Firefox, both on mobile and desktop.
The hysterical reactions you see mostly come from the radical wing of left wing parties, they are rarely in power, and certainly are nowhere near making grant decisions.
CSS Tricks: Create Custom Dropdown with Button
"because I don't have to remember the curl option to follow redirects"
“we have more than enough already”.

I wish more people would adopt that attitude.
Damn! I've recently switched to a Chromebook as my daily driver, so Chrome is my only choice of browser available.

I hope this is a mistake, since I can't imagine browsing the web without uBlock Origin.
Communist reducation for the purpose of demoralizing a country ahead of invasion. Look it up. Same tactic 100%. Now you see why disarming Americans is so important to them.
It's time to switch to Firefox as my main web browser. It's faster and generally more efficient than Chrome plus it has the most important extensions.

The most surprising thing is that the Android version of Firefox is excellent. So good that I switched from Chrome a few months ago when this expected news first dropped. No ads on mobile is awesome.
I guess the tone of your message reflects what you want science to become. ;P

I have no issue with your three points. In fact this simple energy balance model is the primary reason I believe in anthropogenic climate change.

But your claim that the three points in combination makes anthropogenic climate change a “scientific fact” is... just unscientific. How can you know what the climate would have been like had there not been any human activity?
Probably not,
Colemak was designed to optimize English typing
I do not get why it got downvoted. Maybe I should have elaborate more. I skimmed the paper and it does not seem to be the case. They only take into account weather.
Hope. Media backlash is free.
Pretty good overview of why I just use wget for such things.