skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be afraid to fire the client. Be conscientious but don't allow your priorities to be kidnapped.
That's going to be the same kind of problem as with all list living online: it needs curation and dedicated efforts to keep it up to date.
> To them it looked like a
> problem, to me it looked
> like an opportunity.

This is probably the biggest lesson here- finding a reason why to do something versus not doing it is important!

I currently work as a lube tech for a local dealership. (Saving up for the future, and they have better hours and pay than $LocalFastFood.) My coworkers dislike A) vacuuming vehicles and B) doing tire rotations- because both of them take time and effort.

I like doing both of those- they take time- which means I get paid (job security!) and also helps the customer want to come back (arguably more important than any time savings from skipping a rotate or not vacuuming underneath floor mats.)
If you or I could answer that, we could probably raise Magic Leap levels of money to develop it.
while having been a fan of nuclear power for ages i expect we will reach such an excess of wind and solar that converting to fuel for use during off peak times will become to economical to pass up.
Wait. You gotta pay rent and a cut? That’s an insane level of rent seeking.

Well, I guess that’s how rich people get richer. Rent seeking.
Livers too small to be worth it?
Waves break in water depths approximately 1.3 times their height.

So if most surfers surf in waves up to about 6ft, the water depth below a surfer is only about 8 feet.

If the waves get bigger than that, it quickly thins out the crowds. On ten foot days, typically only a few people will be out.

See: https://magicseaweed.com/help/near-shore-effects/breaking-wa...
As many nuclear skeptics are keen to point out, the main counterargument to nuclear is construction costs. In the tens of billions. As Elon Musk has demonstrated though, there is nothing set in stone when it comes to manufacturing costs, the lower bound is only the cost of raw materials. If manufacturing costs go to zero, a new nuclear power plant could cost of the order of $10 MM rather than $20 BN. Elon has shown us that you can reduce manufacturing costs of rockets by a factor of 10 to 100 in a mater of one to two decades, if you put your mind to it.

Small nuclear reactors are the only chance of the nuclear industry to reduce manufacturing costs, but once they get rolling, there is no reason to believe they can't reduce their costs by a factor of 10 at least. For example, this article mentions a cost of $2.4BN per small reactor. A comparable US Navy small reactor (used for submarines) costs around $100 MM [1]. For some reason the US Navy doesn't appear inclined to share its know-how with the civilians, but that should give us an idea of what's possible.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-build-the-rea...
One of your criticisms of spaced repetition is the difficulty of representing associations between words on flashcards. I agree that that's difficult (though you can mitigate it by including example sentences in your deck). However, I think that that criticism expects too much of spaced repetition. It's a very powerful technique for learning and holding onto new vocabulary, but it doesn't replace reading, listening and speaking. You really can't learn nuances of word meaning with flashcards alone, but you can build up and retain a large vocabulary. You can deepen your understanding of the subtleties of the language in other ways.
The worst case is probably that their "free" service has fine print that results in their lawyers handing you a large bill, probably by making it easy for you to accidentally use paid features. (Precedent: VirtualBox extensions)
yup my bad.
It means that it’s no longer profitable for the vast majority of firms that used to do latency arb. Most of those firms have either gone out of business or managed to discover less obvious signals
I just link to another related discussion I know about - you're right, that it is thanks to my participation.
Americans drive ~70 billion hours each year. You don't need autonomous cars to drive that anywhere near that volume to determine whether it is safer than humans. To prove with 95% probability (arbitrary but widely agreed upon standard) that autonomous cars are safer than humans could be done with much less driving hours. This is how clinical trials work. We don't need to give a new drug to every patient with heart disease to conclusively determine it's effective.

> to get the same statistical significance we have on human driving

I don't know what this phrase means.
Remember when EU politicians said that Article 17 (was known as article 13) won't result in upload filters? I remember.

This is yet another example of EU politicians lying to the voters.
The limiting factors are the speed of light and the rate of expansion of the universe (same as the limiting factors of the observable universe).

"reach" is possibly the wrong phrase, since it is the corollary of the "observable universe", one might call it the "observing universe", which is the slice of the universe that light from our present day can ever reach due to the accelerating expansion of the universe and the limitation of the speed of light.
Feels like they are trying to have it both ways.

Complaining that the finder poked around too much while asserting that he had access to very little.
orcas sometime hunt animals that are on the beach. Orcas don’t see humans as prey. In Norway you can dive with wild once in the fjords and there are no recorded attacks in the last 200 years.

https://youtu.be/DWsN63PRCW8
Nice to see the legal system working mostly as intended. The person who received money by mistake has to return it by law.

Given the specificity here, have to sue Barclays to find out whom did the money go to. Barclays cannot take customer money without a court order or disclose customer identity. Then sue the person to get the money back.

I think the lesson here is that person who tried to keep the money is a dickhead. Moreover, it's really lucky that he didn't burn it all and was insolvent.
I think generally people don't like Russia's influence campaigns on Western democracies and that distaste bleeds over; not to mention it's imperialist campaigns against Ukraine.
I was happy to see mention of the airplane reinforcing story, because this whole article reminded me of it. Paying attention to the failures is essential.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21723223
Tensorflow Developer Experience issues are due to the fast deep learning algorithm evolution when it was designed.

Now that the invariants are known, better abstractions have been designed, such as Keras.
It's shockingly high. Most western countries see an average of 26% - 40% ad block rates (by pageview) across the web. Some sites skewing to an older, less tech savvy audience, see between 8% and 15%, while tech heavy sites can go as high as 92% of pageviews being ad blocked. It's actually crazy that adblock rates in developing countries like India and Indonesia can actually be much higher on average because of UC Browser adoption and high mobile web consumption. They don't care about ads and privacy though -- just saving money on their data plans from not downloading ads.

Source: I was briefly a product lead for a large tech company's anti-adblocking efforts and worked with publishers and others globally to measure these rates.
In completely unrelated news, I noticed that a recent Google paper (AugMix) used PyTorch.
> So I was shocked to find that running an empty Python unit test at Dropbox took tens of seconds. Worse, when you fixed a bug and landed it, depending on how the daily push went, it might make it to production within a day? Two? Maybe more?

Is it just me, or does this seem like an extremely aggressive release mentality and set of expectations? Most places I'm aware of might do 2 or less a week, sometimes once a month. This engineer is complaining it took a day to release some sort of bugfix? Are most engineers and companies in 2019 operating like this, where is their time for a dev and QA cycle first? A unit test is only as good as what you wrote it to catch, real life bugs slip through unit tests all the time.
Let's assume something can be called "Waterfall", there's a spectrum on the other side from "Agile":

A) The less you know about something in advance, you want to iterate in small increments in order to learn&fail fast, pivot and have many small gains and something to show early (Agile).

B) The more you know about something in advance (ie. re-implement Z on platform Y instead of X), you want more up-front design and re-use of already established patterns. Since the end result is mostly already known, you don't want to waste time&energy hunting down clever solutions, but spend shorter time on pure implementation.

For a typical golang project you have some idea of scope, or purely convention/convenience, you could decide to setup according to minimal structure. Even though we know java-programmers will want to implement their "architecture" on the project filesystem-level, we don't have to go all the way to the other end of the spectrum either.

A plain main.go file would require more refactoring, but hold the most promise in terms of freedom, innovation and creative input. But the Go-community have started to follow some minimal conventions already, so as to rein in the worst and unnecessary cases of divergence.
Maybe they don't check it.
No One Knows Why Rocks Are Exploding from Asteroid Bennu
"The banking industry promised that from mid-2019 name checks would be carried out when customers sent money to other people"

Wow. So far behind.

"Barclays said it asked the person who received the cash for permission to return the money, but he refused."

There is nothing to refuse. The law in my country would be pretty clear about this. Honestly, just to prevent the guy withdrawing and spending it, it would very likely pay him a visit. But that is me.
They list New Zealand as "open" when that country just passed new laws - almost overnight - allowing people to be jailed for their speech.

So yes, they have a lot of bias. They are pointing out real problems, but they are also ignoring real problems.
Education and games seem sensible and I already said there may be some commercial uses (although I can't imagine them ever being good enough to want to use for 8 hours a day). Nothing else you listed there offers enough of an improvement over current phone and watch based alternatives.

Outside of education, games, and commercial uses, I don't think they will be able to overcome the glasshole factor.

It's going to be a big market, but I don't think it will ever be as big as cell phones are today.
I think I fall into the "don't get it" category. Could you explain what I should be taking away from this?

I understand that being at the leading edge has benefits, but it's not feasible to understand the state-of-the-art across an entire CS curriculum.
Free Wi-Fi Kiosks Expose New York’s Digital Divide
>I am not sure ...//

It's simple greed, people want to be healthy, rich people can interject themselves into that desire and 'tax' health/wellness.

Yay capitalism!
> Nutrition has

-> Always been like this.

As a very smart bio professor once said to me: the half-life of a nutrition paper is about 2 years.
More likely it was the vision of one person who didn't need to worry about others figuring out what they did.
Robots in Finance Could Wipe Out Some of Its Highest-Paying Jobs
Actually, my experience is that APL in the wild (as practiced by those who are just trying to do their job) is not very terse at all. It looks like an old-school procedural language. Since APL is an incredibly proprietary community, it can be a bit hard to find public examples of "industrial" APL style, but this looks similar to what I remember is written at places like SimCorp: https://github.com/Dyalog19/SA3/blob/953e591eace72bb1c147d19...
the gordian knot is more of a brutish non-solution to a hard problem. "thinking simply" is more about developing intuitive understanding to the point where you can also explain it simply
OpenAI Solved Rubiks Cube with a Robot Hand
> all corporations are alike

lol.

> "what you think of Oracle is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle"

> "this company is about one man and his alter ego and what he wants to inflict upon humanity"

> You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2318&v=-zRN7XLCR...
The Average Cost of an Illegally Purchased M16
You can’t make less than a cent per trade in most markets. The bid-ask spread can never be less than a cent. I guess you could make less than cent with commissions, but you certainly can’t make $0.0000001.
In my dream world, all open source software would consist of a single binary and the only third party need would be a DB (preferentially Postgres or MySQL).

Must be why I like Go so much
> The longer our son is in primary school, the more we see the deterioration of his willingness to learn anything school-related

Been there myself.

Most school systems have been developed to produce workers, not scholars and researchers.

Hence, rota memorization in prioritized.

Getting people to hate learning is not seen as a serious failure of the school system.

Also, students are never encouraged to question the information they receive or the decision around what is important to learn and what is not.
> Pirates aren't stealing nuclear fuel from operating reactors.

They don't need to steal the fuel, just find a buyer for the ship and the fuel that comes with it.
Maybe it's because by default, you get like 6 JSON files with almost nothing even when they store 250MB worth of data you only get after many emails and complaining and a month of waiting.
About perception - it's out of discussion if time does exist or not. Perception is one thing and time existence another.

All of us know mechanisms why we perceive time - neural networks are consisted of units which current state is shaped by previous mutations. All physical objects are constantly mutating - but some of them have abilities to remember previous states.
I’m working on exactly this but I don’t have a clear estimate on when we’ll be able to launch. If you are interested in beta testing check out license.io or email me at steven@quantus.io
> innovation has slowed to a crawl

This is so typical of Apple criticism. They did do well with the iPhone and Mac that now any new innovations seem boring in comparison. It’s wrong.

The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more than an “accessory.” It’s a new platform, new OS variant, etc. It’s dominating smart watches.

The AirPods are pretty innovative in terms of the fine grained details that have made them super successful.

Latest OS builds included evidence of stereoscopic glasses in the pipeline.

Remember Apple isn’t always the first with stuff, even smartphones. Their innovations are more around key details and hardware/software integration that makes the whole system work like magic.
> I would explain that what makes a startup promising, not just in the eyes of investors but in fact, is growth.

Growth is like cancer. Eventually a company will get big enough to bully others for the sake of growth.

Last night I had dinner with a friend who is building a (yet another) language learning app. Simple fact about language learning, or learning in general: You must practice almost every single day. Even if it is only 5-10 minutes.

PG himself said, if you don't die (aka give up), you will eventually succeed: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

To me, the best, most sensical way for learning applications to measure success is to delete user accounts with > 3 days of inactivity. This way you can measure the absolute effectiveness of your program. Students who stick through with your application should 100% become fluent. Target the users who actually want to learn, and measure your success by how many users you made successful.

"NO no no", he says. You'll have no users if you do that.
Case Study on Benchling
Drugs are the only cause of psychological and physical affect of the inflammation in the brain
I wrote this a while back to build and run my own apps in containers:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2

It's not really ready for general use, but I'm still glad I wrote it for myself. It hits all my use cases, taught me a lot about the Docker Engine API and helps me put up new self-hosted stuff really quickly. I might use it to deploy some stuff from this list.
Yep, and if you want to pay monthly, go for a rootserver, but for those the cheapest is the 8.99EUR one I originally referenced that I have.
So what did you charge them?!
Most of shark attacks on surfers are mistakes, so perhaps orcas are just smarter and see better, and can make a distinction between seals and humans on boards? But then again I've heard about orcas sinking sailing boats and trying to attack polar explorers by breaking the ice below them, so it's not like they're completely uninterested in attacking humans. It probably depends how much contact with humans they have. Being predators, it's only logical that they will eat anything they can catch when the hunger strikes...
Plus, most "successful entrepreneurs" happen to come from wealthy and politically connected families.

https://fortune.com/2015/07/17/entrepreneurs-family-money/
Quote from the article:

> Often, as we revel in stories of start-up founders who struggled their way through on cups of ramen before the tide finally turned on viral product launches, high team performance or strategic partnerships, we forget how many other founders did the same thing, in the same industry and perished…

You're getting the wrong takeaway. It's not that people who made it with few hardships are bad examples, it's that anyone who made it is a bad example.
You're smart enough if you can already program. In a lot of ways APL is easier. It's just frustrating for you as you probably can't remember how long it took to learn your first language.

Every subsequent language you've learned has been built off of that (Ex: once you know Perl, Python isn't that hard to pickup in a couple of days if you have StackOverflow to help you translate). You still think in lists, hashes, for loops, while loops... etc. You just need to learn syntax and idioms. With APL, you have to start from scratch and realize knowing Ruby is of limited help.

Here's the cool part...the symbols, what they do, and even their location on the keyboard is easy to learn. It is especially important to actually write code as you're going through the Dyalog book. Similar to Forth, all the individual pieces of APL fit together seamlessly. With Python you have these Lego blocks (for-loop, dictionary, list... etc) that are the fundamental building blocks you can use to assemble any computation. With APL, you need to learn all those symbols and then you have many methods to combine them.
Love is human concept, for all we know
That doesn't quite work, because the premise of accessing a router setup page is that your internet connection doesn't work yet. So your router has to be able to prove its identity to the client entirely offline.

(You cannot special-case "This server is untraceable", else a repressive government could blackhole that server and trigger the relaxed validation rules.)
> Orcas working in teams to knock seals off an iceberg with waves: https://youtu.be/g1VEwsI4SlY

At the end of that clip, she gets so excited about seeing something that "no one had seen before", yet at the beginning, she talks about them hoping to see this because of reports of it happening. Huh? Contradict yourself much? I hate these overly dramatic reality type documentaries. Otherwise, some great footage, and could have been so much better without the overly produced interview.
Yes, Harris hawks.

I'm not sure how deep the analogy goes but a falconer told me that they "hunt like wolves".
> Russia's government is relatively new and people are still getting used to capitalism and democracy.

No they aren't, because, among other things...

> Russians like a strong leader; for most Russian people, this is more important than democracy itself.

Which is among the reasons why they have a strong leader and not anything with more than the superficial veneer of democracy typical of most 20th Century and later authoritarian regimes
are they stored as strings or 16byte blobs?
Why not use a materialized view?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/sql-creatematerializedvi...
an IPO or acquisition without proving their market value should count as startup failure.
This is one of the reasons I quit academia and am skeptical of much of the research coming out of universities. As a grad student, at some point, it became pretty clear that I would have to choose between doing good science or doing career advancing work (by ignoring biases in my research, p-hacking etc.). Universities have self selected for people who do bad but publishable science.
> I'm not sure I understand what you're asking or what you're responding to.

lihkg.com being down is the negative consequence of this code running, right?
I think it is characterized by using the ideal solution
> I'm waiting for the entrepreneur who will say he doesn't care how much money he makes or how many customers he has, only that it's worthwhile and needed doing.

I believe this is the role of the nonprofit sector.
100% right, and the corollary of this is: you don't actually need to make a great product, if your sales&marketing game is good enough.

Or, in other words, a lot of successful business - including startups - is exactly the "test hacking" PG urges founders to unlearn.

I'm honestly surprised by this essay arguing that "hacking the test" is the wrong approach in startups/business. "Hacking the test" is essentially what your marketing is supposed to do. These "non-authoritarian" tests like selling things are just as hackable as school tests; you just have to discover how the system really operates.

The whole authoritarian/non-authoritarian split doesn't carve reality at the joints, IMO. Football match is really an authoritarian test - it tests who wins under the game rules, which are given from the top. It may be hard to hack, but that's because passing that test is usually synonymous with the terminal goals of the test takers - i.e. they want to win the game. You'll note however that, once money gets involved, people are sometimes made to deliberately lose games; in these scenarios, there are usually other people involved who are absolutely hacking the test.

The best way I've found to carve the reality at the joints is to talk about terminal and instrumental goals. Learning useful things isn't the terminal goal for most students, getting a good career is (and/or not pissing off parents by getting bad grades).

So I'm ultimately surprised that PG argues that building good things, not hacking the test, is how you win the startup game - I would think most of the startups have products as instrumental goals; the exit is the terminal goal. And building a great product isn't the best way to achieve that goal.
I had German courses in middle and high school, but forgot most of it to the point I could barely understand simple sentences.

I started re-learning it on Duolingo a year ago, and rapidly caught up at the level I had in high school (which was very low, but still), and now I'm making some progress. eg. I can read a newspaper article and have a rough idea of what it's about.

I can't say whether or not I could learn a new language from scratch with Duolingo, but at least in my case it was helpful.