skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion just look around and see what the successful people are doing. Putting your head down and working is what I’d do for developing my own technical or something else skills. I.e. studying. Nobody I’ve met who gets high success in an office job does that.

I wonder if there’s not something to read into this a bit beyond my current abilities. Many people work on things that they consider somewhat boring, or at least not at the boundary of their skill set. People above you in the organization spent a lot of time building “synergies” and organizing a team of people frankly (in most cases) somewhat overqualified for the task. It seems like throwing all that out by not integrating enough into the social group is a terrible idea.
Absolutely correct, but it's worse, since they don't truly understand math, they taught in such a way that confused/misled students, no wonder USA had to import so many STEM engineers(and graduate students to fill college classrooms) from other countries, and it's getting worse.

The fix is to have specific teacher undergraduate or graduate degree, or education departments or state-funded full-blown normal universities, pay them well, make teacher profession a honorable career, only then the best will seek a position in k-12 schools and our next generation can keep getting better.
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In this case they were selling skilled labor though so at some point their capacity would be reached. I'd guess that's why they only spent $15 a day.
Pywonderland: A Python project help you enjoy the beauty of math
Now I understand why I felt that scene was so brutal!
This is an actively maintained project by me since 2015. The interesting things are continously growing here. It shows the beauty of math by generating appealling animations/videos/images with python, and the math stuff involved are mostly undergraduate to graduate level -- but you don't need to understand them, just enjoy the results!
Using iex's open() command with Emacs multiterm
I dislike CD. My equipment is capable of 192khz/32bit (some only 24bit though), so CD are pretty much trash at 41khz. Better than MP3, solely due to the info MP3 throws away, but not great.

Tidal goes higher, to 96khz on master quality where available (the vast number of tracks are not master quality, sadly).
"So a rogue group in Boca Raton, Florida—far away from IBM headquarters—was allowed to use a radical strategy to design and produce a machine using largely off-the-shelf parts and a third-party CPU, operating system, and programming languages."

At IBM around this time, Boca Raton was known as the place where people who weren't competent but couldn't be convinced to leave were transferred.
I'm missing the context here. The only arrows I'm familiar with are vector notation and ion spin notation.
You're assuming it (edit: non-emotional intelligence) is one single unified thing. I'd say there are many kinds of intelligence, and many things that feed into intelligence that, if modified, could affect it (very simple example, anxious people may freeze up during exams which makes them look less good).
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when I search for "Bilorphin" or "bilaids" all I can find are a bunch of "news" articles that point back to this site.
> Now, it's entirely possible that there are more accounts wrongly closed than closed for actual fraud. Personally I would doubt it,

Ok, then you can rephrase my argument as "one of the most common examples of financial censorship", or "common enough that it is still bad", instead of "the most common".

It still does not take away from my main point here, which is that it is still useful for people who are breaking no laws, to be able to get around arbitrary financial censorship of their perfectly legal transactions. That was my main point.

> conflates a ton of individual issues in a way that I don't think is constructive

People who are doing the censoring, or support the censorship, usually don't want their actions to be called censorship, yes.

I think it is a good term, though. The reason is because I am specifically referring to financial transactions that are perfectly legal, and are being censored for the political content of transaction.

The examples I gave were donations to WikiLeaks, which were perfectly legal, but were arbitrarily blocked, due to the political nature of such a donation, as well as the example of sexual content related financial transactions, which are also legal, but often arbitrarily blocked.

> it will one day backfire, harming traditional freedom of speech in the process.

I am not really sure how it could backfire, to give people more ways of making perfectly legal financial transactions, that are more difficult to arbitrarily block, due to the political content of those transactions.

If you think something is bad, and should be blocked, then make a law. Don't rely on intermediaries to block things that aren't illegal.
I share your views. TempleOS and Mathematica are monuments to what the human creative spirit can achieve.

Let's not be too fast to pass judgement on their authors while having done 1/100000 of what they did
What does this do that mathcad doesn’t?
For those curious, below are some kinds of primary math questions we model after to test teacher applicants.

In my experience, many kids are much more enthusiastic about this kind of "challenging" problems than the drills in many standard textbooks, as long as the problems are chosen to match their level. They definitely learn a lot more as well.

Note that although they do require a little arithmetic to solve, the challenging part is not arithmetic.

Some problems focus on geometry, logic, patterns, or other kinds of puzzles. More examples can be found at the source below.

"- The edge of a cube is 8 cm. All the faces are painted orange. It is then cut into small cubes of edge 1 cm.
How many small cubes have exactly two faces painted?

- What is the greatest possible number one can get by discarding 100 digits, in any order, from the number 1234567891011121314151617…57585960?

- Eleven consecutive positive integers are written on a board. Maria erases one of the numbers. If the sum of the remaining numbers is 2012, what number did Maria erase?

- You must color each square in the figure below in red, green or blue. Any two squares with adjacent sides must be of a different color. In how many different ways can this coloring be done?
Figure at question 11 here: https://gato-docs.its.txstate.edu/jcr:450cce10-3b6a-4ddd-a19... "

Source:
the Primary Math World Contest (usually held in Hong Kong)
https://www.txstate.edu/mathworks/PMWC/previous-pmwc-tests.h...
the way I learned it, it's just a notational difference. either way, you are dividing the divisor into each place of the dividend (starting with the most significant digit) and carrying over the divisor to the next place. short division is just a more implicit way of doing this that saves space. the shorthand version doesn't really work for divisors with more than one digit though.
Sounds like you're more interested in GNU stuff than Linux stuff. Most of that is available on Android probably because it's also running Linux.
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Next can we identify the reason for flops? In the last 10 years it has become a terrible component of the game, so much so I've stopped watching.
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Too true. Survival of the company = the show must go on!
> None of that is explained by things like rates of cancer (low in Japan),

??? Not for Stomach cancer or CRC.

CRC: High in Japan vs most other countries, and significantly more prevalent with men: https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-trends/colorectal-...

Stomach: https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-trends/stomach-can... men get is almost 3x more than women in Japan and Japan is the top 3 worldwide in incidence.

And overall death rates by cancer for men in Japan are quite a lot higher than for females: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4929724/figure/...

For suicides in Japan it's predominantly men who commit suicide, with a ratio of 2.53 vs female: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

Before making blanket statements you may want to check the data...
"My degree is in Mathematics, not arithmetic." was a common one that I'd hear from friends with Math degrees or in the Math department.
Another little know fact that I only discovered this week while listening to the coding after work podcast, is that some of the multitasking effort from DOS 4 (which apparently went nowhere), was actually integrated into OS/2 efforts.
Most likely the algorithms that chooses whose ad gets shown are optimized to not have to look up each persons spend for that day, as syncing that between all servers on every page request would be more expensive than all other steps combined.

I'm not sure how they could let you overrun by several times your budget for a day however, syncing these every hour shouldn't be a problem.
Pretty much all mammals engage in play. Play is practice for important life skills.

Eg tickling is learning to protect vulnerable spots on the body
Da, comrade.
Hilarious people downvoted me even asking why the other guy was getting downvoted. I guess people are so upset by even seeing this guys name they feel the need to lash out at it no matter the context. My inquiry was a sincere attempt to understand what had happened with Scott Adams, but I guess even mentioning his name is enough to justify a downvote. Hacker news used to be able to discuss things without everyone trying to silence and censor anything they disagree with...
To me an industry-specific TLD just says "We couldn't think of an original name."
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The url can be found in the first comment.

To scratch my own itch, I created a simple tool that should be helpful to many of us who are under constant distractions. If anyone uses this and finds it effective or ineffective, please kindly share your experience.

Below are some ways I think it can be put in use:

1. Before we start a work day, we can use it to clear up random thoughts and anxiousness.

2. We can use it regularly to increase our attention span.

Note: This was posted several years ago. I only made very minor changes since last time. I'm reposting it and hope to see some feedback on its usefulness. Sorry if it is a waste of your time.
It will not be obvious for some while whether the author is revolutionary or misinformed, but, historically, revolutions have usually depended on painstaking groundwork of the sort the author disparages in this statement. The discovery of gravity built on painstaking and thorough astrometry, and the discovery of evolution built on painstaking and thorough taxonomy. In neither case could it justifiably be said that these precursors "couldn’t possibly generate insight about the things we care about."
https://gcao.github.io/fffocus
SOM was much more advanced than COM and nowadays it is almost impossible to find any documentation online.

WinRT is closer to it, but still lacks the metaclasses capabilities that SOM had.
I suppose it just gives me perspective that “this too shall pass”. And that these conflicts take longer than one lifetime to win...

More specifically, the years since the civil war up until the last few decades have had this post civil-war reconciliation that was rooted in trying to let bygones be bygones amongst whites. But it also setup an environment where post civil war problems of blacks (ie lynching, suppression of civil rights) were ignored to forward reconciliation. Republicans switched from a party focused on civil rights to one focused on business.

In the post ww2 period - in the past few decades, since the civil rights movement has partisanship gradually grown to its current conflict. There’s a lot clearly rooted in white identity/status in GOP needs for power (a definition of “whiteness”, btw, that would be alien to Americans 100 years ago)

There’s a constant connection through US history between coded ethnic discrimination and partisanship. But that the country goes through cycles: between of ethnic division to conflict to integration into more unified identity

So I have a skepticism that “partisanship is bad”. Rather I’m wondering how the cycle continues. This point of conflict, is a chance for building a new/different society with expanded human rights. Fighting for human rights is a fight beyond any one election, generation, or lifetime and it has to be fought with that attitude.

I would recommend the new Frederick Douglass biography as well as learning about the abolitionist movements in general. Talk about a seeming hopeless struggle against entrenched interests...
The flop or the charge? A charge is getting in position and having the offensive player tun into you.
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> The test includes competitive exam questions focused on mathematical understanding and problem solving skills, rather than advanced math knowledge.

Seems like it might be close to a subset of the sorts of questions one encounters on an IQ test.
Awesome work. I have great respect for anyone who has the patience/discipline to write an entire parser in C or C++.

The language looks cool too, and could (probably?) host itself pretty easily.
Back when I was in the ads org, there was no month without a big important future launch, that was supposed to make us make less money in the short term.
I registered my personal domain in the summer of 1999. I vaguely remember that Network Solutions was the only option (you had to fax them) and for .org I would have needed to provide some additional justification. Maybe that changed after the monopoly was broken?
Imho, if you're successful without working hard, you have "hacked" the system, and like any form of hacking this should be punishable, in this case e.g. by degradation.

If only we had a system where (special) judges were able to determine who works hard and who doesn't and from there decide who gets what amount of pay, and who deserves a promotion. We could actually have a fair society.
That is exactly why i dont use display. Eventually you can set reach with frequency set to 1 and lowest cost per view possible. And each our ban all junk. There is a lots of it, so it is impossible to remove all. But after two, three days, you get a nice list of websites where actually you want to display ads. Than you can show ads only on these pages.

Other way is to use keyword setting. Not as topic or observation, but page containing a keyword. With good set of keywords it is possible to rule out baby clicks
Have one of your team train and take a cert like CISSP. Even if you don’t believe in certs going through the process will show you exactly what large organisations consider to be “best practice”. There will almost certainly be a CISSP at your client who will take you seriously once you are “one of the club”. And it will be a nice bit of resume padding for the future anyway.
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> Because: It isn't really about Git anymore. GitHub used to be a Git repository hosting company. But now, they are about providing other software development and management infrastructure that augments the version control. They might as well change their name to Hub at this point.

I agree fully, but the one "feature" missing from drh's analysis is GitHub's social aspect. Getting code out in front of people and allowing them to interact with it (directly, via commits and PRs, or indirectly, via issue comments) as a feature of a social network is their differentiator.

GitHub's choice of git wasn't germane to building a social network: GitHub could have been successful using svn, excepting that git was ascendant at the time.

Fossil's feature of an integrated web server is an anti-feature to GitHub; it defeats the purpose of having a centralised "Hub."
The onus for that would seem to fall on the licensing exam and on the police.
I have explained it in other comment above. Its not technical issue. Its by design
I think they're talking about this, which appeared in a front-page HN post from yesterday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation
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This sounds like much more of a hell than sometimes having to chat with a coworker you don’t like (judges monitoring you and punishing you if you don’t work hard enough).
I didn't work for Microsoft, but I don't believe that Windows NT and OS/2 Warp had much significant in common, other than starting as a nominal "OS/2 3.0". The relationship between IBM and MS had fallen apart before 2.0 was released.
Actually yes. Google wants to have advertisers who spend fixed amount each month without going much into details. They dont care much about anything more

For example keyword targetting gets broader.and broader. If you target.for keyword you want to target it precisely or with synonyms but you want to have control over it. But Google changed it lately to make it harder to narrow down keywords.

The result is you spend budget on bad keywords. And it seems like ok,if i get money from it overall.

But actually not only you loose budget but others too, because they need to bid higher.

They need.to bid higher for keywords you dont care about but they care. For Google its additional money.
Fidonet and many of the other message networks based on another standard, QWK, were awesome. One of the better things was to be part of the collective you had to prove you set up your BBS to handle the proper packet transfers:

"This is why node numbers aren't given out "word of mouth", or at other sysops request. It has to be done directly, as a test."

I remember struggling getting the old WWIV software to handle the message transfers of Fido, but when it finally worked it felt like I cracked the world.

Of course, there were elitists on the Fido side that sneered at WWIV BBSes, but that is another story. lol
Holy shit, I didn’t realize the shorter way of writing long division that I invented in early elementary school because I got sick of taking up so much space and introducing copying error potential had a name!
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."
> To avoid this, the proponent of the spectrum model must in fact be assuming that gender is both a binary and a spectrum. It is entirely possible for a property to be described in both continuous and binary ways. One example is height: clearly height is a continuum, and individuals can fall anywhere along that continuum; but we also have the binary labels Tall and Short. Might gender operate in a similar way?
Do you have a way to disable apps' ability to pop up the camera?
Undergrad/grad major subject correlates with IQ. The population of teachers that majored in math should have a higher average IQ than the population of teachers who majored in other subjects, controlling for university. I would be shocked if teaching ability didn’t correlate with IQ. I’m sure it’s not a perfect correlation, but it should be there.

And yet, I cannot find anything on the subject. That is very suspicious. It’s like no one wants to look into it. Can anyone tell me what’s going on here? Did I miss something, or is it just common sense that the intelligence of your teacher doesn’t matter?
PS If there is bad code, there should be no excuses not to improve it. Code that is not fixed means more bugs, that are created because other people are not aware of these "features". FFS, if the bad code is the only thing that newcommers are laughing about - just fix it and carry on. Fixing others is completelly different problem.
> Imho, if you're successful without working hard, you have "hacked" the system, and like any form of hacking this should be punishable, in this case e.g. by degradation.

> If only we had a system where (special) judges were able to determine who works hard and who doesn't and from there decide who gets what amount of pay, and who deserves a promotion. We could actually have a fair society.

Why should pay be based on how hard one works? I know when I started my career I had to work _much_ harder, because I had not yet been around the block so to speak. As time went on I became much more efficient with my time, experience makes it easier to see patterns, etc.

So if the metric is how hard one works, as I get better at my job I'd actually get paid less?
To me, this doesn't seem more technically involved than many DIY software projects that wind up on the HN front page. The big difference I see is meat operations require workspaces. A laptop isn't enough. Control of suitable real-estate is probably the highest barrier other than ordinary commitment. A shop makes making things easier or a lab for doing science.
Where to start... You know this site is called Hacker News, right?
It’s notation only. I “invented” it as a kid to save space on division problems and reduce the chance of copying errors. It’s the same method as long division (and TIL it already existed!)
I've only worked at tiny startups; I would say in the majority of cases, work speaks for itself. One thing to consider though, if you're producing good code... why would you be promoted to a position of mostly managing others? The company would no longer benefit from you as an IC. At tiny startups, even the CTO is spending a lot of time coding.
Odd to see Moniz' 1949 lobotomy prize omitted here.

See https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/articl...
And the best way to test you really understand all the details is to teach a computer the algorithm.
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Why? Your boss is judging you and your coworkers all the time. A real judge would at least make it a fair judgement.
Good point. But if we notice, there is no new consulting company that has grown big like KPMG, Infosys, etc in the last decade. Is it because achieving that scale as a consulting company is no longer possible?
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Does Facebook have an office in Singapore? How is FB "legally required" to do something because of Singapore law?
What do you use to tell you when the best time to open a window is? Sounds super useful.
A lesson I found helpful is with regards to the need to build a network of mentors, supporters and followers. This won’t apply to all fields but maybe some people will find it helpful.

Mentors are people who you can go to when you’re stuck on a topic, regardless of what it is. They help you navigate through your org (politics, context behind decisions, etc). These people can be in your team/department or could just be someone you’ve met by the water cooler and developed a relationship with.

Supporters are similar to mentors, but more committed. These people will take their own initiative and go out of their way to create opportunities for you. They consider your success as a part of their own success and therefore will do what they can to help you grow and develop.

Followers are people who you’ve either worked side by side with, or who have worked for you. You may take on the mentor or supporter role for them. If you switched teams or departments, these people would want to come with you.
There is a method known as the the method of 'long-division' for finding the square root, that was what I was alluding to.
Eh, there's a big difference between the two. Levandowski basically stole files from Google and gave them to Uber. Cutler just transferred his knowledge of building VMS to building Win NT. I suspect that's why it was settled out of court because the case was much much weaker that Cutler had stolen something tangible from DEC.
It was around 16ms on an iPad mini 5. Computers are fast.
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