skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If you are an ACM member, you can use the Authorizer service to enable free access to your papers. The service creates a special link that you can use on two web-sites - for example your institutional web-site and your personal web-site, so that visitors to your web-site, will be redirected to PDF download of your papers.

This effectively allows open-access to your papers, as long as you have a web-site.
How Big Is the Space Economy?
> “ This should prove that numbers speak towards the idea that bad hires are very costly.”

Why? I do not agree that Google’s hiring practices have anything to do with “bad hire” costs.
I am an ACM member and I am not American, and I was not asked if I agree with this. I feel this is an abuse of power by the ACM leadership and will speak against this internally.

But, as I mentioned in another post, ACM allows it's members to use their Authorizer service to allow access to their own papers for free via their institutional or personal web-sites. This means that papers will be in-a-way openly accessible, but not via the ACM Digital Library - as a visitor you should try to go to the authors website and see if there is a free link to download the paper.
Really? This page might be older, but it's a pretty "modern" page, no tables for layout, no Gimp-Fu created header, just some text styled with CSS.

Not late 90s Dreamweaver/Geocities, more early 2000s CSS Zen Garden (the copyright notice extends to 2003, so I guess this was written then). If not for the subject matter and its date, this could be a contemporary blog post.
Why do you say this? I'm close to people in finance and they derided the videos and said they were the equivalent of showing off how fast he could parse filings into Excel when real pro have scads of solutions that automate it at scale. The view is that he's a criminal with a folk hero reputation for people who were dazzled by his attitude and his facility with Excel.
This is nothing new though. Look at things like the Hayes Code or the Comics Code. It is business as usual trying not to offend or alienate important demographics. But as values and power structures change, the feeling you have to accommodate change.

If you feel like this is getting worse compared to those times, it might be because you belong to a demographic which is losing cultural power.
The screening process is what generates the true/false positives & true/false negatives.

Any policy about the relative importance of true/false positives vs negatives is a policy about screening processes.
That correct - throttle control should not be split between consoles. I don’t believe that’s even possible - it was not in the system I worked on. I suspect the article is not exactly correct in this. The controls normally are ganged so they don’t have to be individually changed but for maneuvering individual screws can be commanded separately on the same console if they are not ganged together.
Yes there are various themes to pick from if you go to the settings menu, click the cog icon on the top right
Speed Reading: Speed Reading for Beginners (Book Notes)
The policies in question have worked well for me doing team building in 4 companies, 3 were medium/large ecommerce companies (~1000-8000 employees), one was a 40 person start-up.
"Third to last"
Because you can teach someone markdown in five minutes. And even if they don't know all the ins and outs, the basics are pretty foolproof (paragraphs, headings, bold and italic).
How to Manage Money as a Techie [YouTube]
Would engineering be able to keep up with something like Meltwater Pulse 1A [1], when sea level rose at 50mm/year? Could climate change cause another pulse like that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltwater_pulse_1A
I am not an electrical engineer, so I don't feel like joining IEEE. If you have other and better suggestions, please say so.
There's one from him that might be adequate in my public folder on keybase.
The Throw Keyword Was a Mistake
The intermingling of economic-focused and academic-focused educational systems is the core cause of this issue. Universities used to be for scholars, whereas apprenticeships were for tradespeople. Over the past century, universities have essentially replaced the role of trade school/master and thus you get the intellectual abstraction process applied to professions which have very little use for it.

There are very worthwhile areas of knowledge which have no economic value in the current system. Ergo the apprenticeship model makes no sense for a field like literature or philosophy. They belong in the academy, not the workshop.
I too have been very disappointed in Tesseract for "simple" OCR (converting subtitles).

For communication, Turbo Codes[1] for example have the decoder produce an integer value for each bit, rather than just a bit. The value is a measure of how likely the value is 0 or 1.

This is then used with previous bit values, which includes parity data, to make a "hard" decision.

I wonder if something similar has been tried for OCR? I imagine the OCR front-end could feed a number of probable hits, along with confidence, into a spellchecker. Or something along those lines.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_code
Hi all, this is an article + video describing a simple 3-legged investment strategy for techies (bonds + index funds + real estate). All the terminology used are described with quotes from Investopedia.

If you want to read or contribute, you can the article version of the video at: https://quanticdev.com/articles/how-to-manage-money

Outline of the article/video:

• My Wealth Distribution as a Software Engineer

• Why I Invest as I Do?

• Real Estate

• Index Funds

• Bonds

• Cash and Other Liquidity

• Others

• My Failures

• Conclusion
Student membership allows access to nearly all DL resources.
Professional membership does not, and you have to pay extra for all the other costs.

This year I paid around $250 for the membership to all the group I was interested into. This is 1/2 of my monthly salary that I get from my government. My government or university does not pay for this, they do not even pay for library access, I do it myself.

Plus I write peer reviews, for free.
ACM and IEEE are organizations run by academics for academics. I've belonged to both. At this point, with all the resources available on the net, there's little point in a practicing engineer or computer scientist to belong to either.
Whereas I wondered the precise meaning and original tongue of this insult.
You probably mean air. Inhaling pure oxygen is generally bad, sometimes even harmful.
This is an awesome update, really like the new component APIs and the ergonomics for manipulating the DOM!

I mostly worked with React and Vue, since Ember had quite a learning curve in the past and wasn't really an option for me. But this new edition seems to be much more straightforward to start working with. Looking forward to build my first Ember app over the holidays :-)
It looks like people are disagreeing with you without providing any rebuttal. Classy.

I agree that the "nicbacco" mindset is fallacious and not well-reasoned, but also that while vaping is significantly better than smoking, it's not better than not vaping.

For adults who want to derive the benefits historically gained through tobacco use without incurring the full extent of the damages, certain types of vaping aren't a poor method.
That sounds like ancient Jewish law. The whole point of Christianity is that the ancient Jewish law isn’t valid anymore because of Christ.
The argument seems to be that access to research should be unrestricted because "scientific publishers represent institutionalised theft of tax payer money", i.e. that theft of tax payer money is bad. In that case, why should people who live in tax havens, low-tax countries, or countries that don't adequately fund academia, have their access to research subsidised by people who live in high tax countries and who fund the research via tax? This seems like the same issue except at a higher level, i.e. sovereign theft instead of institutional?

I have no problem with open access by the way, I'm not advocating for restrictive publishing practices here.
I have had thoughts around that same idea as well. Could be a start to just define a subset of existing good semantic HTML elements to use for a blog, a news site etc.
My dream is to be able to browse a subset of the web, that only uses this kind of document format. Something like docuweb.example.com or whatever :)
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Silicon Valley Seasteaders Go Looking for Low-Tax Sites on Land
These are the dying throes of a industry that knows its days are numbered.

In biology, we now have biorxiv - arxiv but for biology papers - and the growth of papers there has been exponential (source: https://twitter.com/cshperspectives/status/11922084840136744... ) Biorxiv is free, not peer reviewed, and accepts any format the paper is in (except reviews and rebuttals IIRC).

IMHO: Papers posted to biorxiv are, currently, of higher quality than what you get as a peer reviewer from journals, because authors rely a little bit on the peer review process to clear up any remaining problems. Sometimes this actually happens.
Once people are getting used to biorxiv, we'll see more low quality stuff getting submitted there, but still - biorxiv has shown us that in the Internet age, biology doesn't really need journals.

HOWEVER funding bodies, universities, people who have to judge your scientific work still rely on the stamp of journals 100%. My current employer wants us to submit at least 5 papers per year in the top 10% impact factor (IF) journals of our field. If we get into a really large IF journal (Nature, Science), we get a small financial bonus. Universities are, in turn, judged based on in how many high-IF journals they publish (think uni rankings). The higher the ranking, the easier it is to advertise to students, the more money you get in fees.

As long as these people can't find a different measurement for quality of scientific work we're stuck with journals - but once we have a different measurement, we can toss journals out the window immediately.
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Due to ACM protecting American business interests in cases such as this, as a member I give priority to people not from USA and if there is a choice, people not from EU.

Most researchers from USA and EU do not understand that $15 per paper for reader access is way too much, that $99 for professional access is way too much, that SIG groups should not organize events in USA only, and when they organize event they should choose places that well connected to most of the world, and that do not have too strict visa requirements for researchers visits to scientific events.
Stenotype's current role as eccentric curio is largely due to its unattractive onboarding time costs. Even though stenotype is objectively the speediest keyed input system afaik for English, there's a steep learning curve, the initial stages of which will find you unable to type much of anything at all for the first few months of use, vs almost instant, if plodding, output on standard QWERTY.

If you had initially learned Stenotype rather than touchtyping when young, it's likely that your WPM would be 160WPM minimum, a tad shy of a 'court-ready' stenographer. I'd guess most programmers can probably average 110WPM steady-state. Online typing tests using short paragraphs tend to overestimate your real 9-5 typing speed by nearly 30% because you push yourself into "bursts" for the 2-3 sentence test.

Barring 99% accurate NLP dictation, how much text do you think your lifetime output will be? Or even if dictation is viable, how hoarse can you stand to be from vocal overuse?
Viewed this way, stenotype's typical gain of over 50% output to typing speeds is likely worth the initial time investment when leveraged across the lifetime of anyone whose primary instrument of work is a computer. But oof, the buffering period is shite.

And as a more qualitative assessment: I have heard there is a very special joy as your stenotype speeds crest 200WPM, because you begin to be able to "think onto the page" (there's probably a German word for this idea). You merely think, your hands move, and your thoughts appear onscreen.

A friend who is more laconic than I put it: "Pen and paper; dial-up. Touchtyping; cable modem. Stenotype; fiber."

(Disclaimer: I am in the midst of learning stenotype personally, and can confirm that it is kludgy and irritating but quickly yields impressive speeds. Mainly type Dvorak, burst speeds up to 165WPM, multi-hour steady-state of 125WPM. All generalized numbers above are very gooey, in the sense that they are educated spitball estimates, heavy on the spit)
Always really depends on your local micro-location. Here, Amazon drivers behave a lot worse, and DHL works fine, and has the comfortable fallback of the Packstation.
I use it to view spreadsheets offline in my Mac, but use no other fancy features.
If you did that you would also have to count all the impossible to count effects like increased productivity from using smoking as a stimulant. It is possible that some smokers wouldn't have the willpower to maintain a job if they didn't have smoking as a stress reliever.
> The obesity explanation doesn't pass the sniff test. Canada is 12% less obese than the U.S., but it spends 6% less of its GDP on healthcare.

It's my blog (RCA). My argument is that obesity substantially explains US health outcomes in relation to other countries. I never claimed obesity is the cause of high national health spending (as in, "inputs"). To the contrary, I have consistently argued US health spending is well explained by its wealth (technically income levels).

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2018/11/19/why-everything...

To a first approximation, national health spending is entirely explained by the average house income level in the long run. While time, healthcare technology, and other factors are assocatied with rising spending, these changes are ultimately very well explained by changing income levels.
Amongst high-income countries, a 1% increase in income is robustly associated with a long run increase of about 1.8% (it's highly elastic).

https://i0.wp.com/randomcriticalanalysis.com/wp-content/uplo...

The US spends more than Canada because it's still a much richer country (which isn't to say Canada isn't a nice place!).

> That is beyond the realm of believability, even if I introduce the other population-induced causal factors which you implied but didn't specify.

Again, I never said this, but other population health risk factors such as age structure, disease rates, and the like are of negligible significance when it comes to long run aggregate spending. Such factors may be highly predictive within countries and may have some say in the short run (within budgetary constraints), but in the long run national picture the evidence suggests these factors amount to little more than noise. National household income levels trumps everything.

> Additionally, the government would be more invested in the population's health under a single-payer model.

US government programs, namely Medicare and Medicaid, spend more on healthcare than most other high-income countries do in total (even more so comparing public-to-public). Just how much more incentive do we need before these magical effects kick in? Higher health spending predicts higher obesity rates in time series and cross-sectionally (though this is likely ultimately mediated by long-run income levels and by time).

https://i0.wp.com/randomcriticalanalysis.com/wp-content/uplo...

Where is the evidence that these programs have large, sustained effects and are cost effective? Most data indicate these programs have negligible effects in the long run and they almost always cost more than they save (which isn't to say we shouldn't necessarily do it, but the economic rationale is v. weak).

~ RCA
Vitamin E Acetate in Bronchoalveolar-Lavage Fluid Associated with Vaping
i’ve always read about how the lua jit was a technolical marvel ( without understanding why but that’s another topic). If that’s the case, then how come it isnt’t maintained anymore ?
On-board global SMS would probably destroy a good chunk of the SPOT GPS beacon market. The only advantage GPS beacons/emergency locators might have at that point is battery life, and someone like Apple could probably take that part of the market too with a “low power tracking” mode that only fired up briefly every 10 minutes to transmit your current location.
Monica? Bitchard friend?
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>Evidence mounts that vitamin E acetate is to blame for vaping-related illnesses, deaths

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/12/20/evidence-mo...

>The findings were released in the New England Journal of Medicine, in one of four reports Friday by the CDC. The findings about vitamin E acetate reinforce the link between that oil and the vaping-related lung disease, and they represent the first time health officials have compared results from patients’ damaged lungs with those of healthy people.

>At the same time, health officials warned of a disturbing development: Dozens of patients with vaping-related lung illness were rehospitalized shortly after discharge, and seven died after being discharged, suggesting that the illness must be closely monitored and may worsen in older patients with chronic conditions.
Reading this and reflecting on my own history, I realized that it doesn’t make much sense to current learners to even know what CPU is in the computer they’re learning on. It was almost unthinkable to not know when I learned.

Personal 6502 anecdote:
My first paid programming gig was an XModem CRC calculator function in 6502 assembly for a local BBS. When 1200baud modems first came out, the upload on this BBS was gated by the speed of CRC calculation in Atari BASIC. I got $20 and “level 7” on the BBS for what was probably under 20 bytes of relocatable machine code plus the BASIC USR$ invocation wrapper. (Imagine if we made $1/byte for shipping code today. ;) )
Thanks.

Maybe this is a dumb question (having had no religious instruction) but do all modern Christians (except, I guess, some fundamentalists) understand that the Old Testament doesn't apply to them? If that's so, it seems like that stuff should be flagged somehow, to avoid misunderstandings.

Or do some modern gentile Christians perhaps go further, and believe that the old Jewish ritual law was a misunderstanding, and not an accurate statement of God's will? And if so, who are they?

Also, who are the modern non-gentile Christians?

I found a site that explains some of this,[0] but have no clue about its reliability. The root is here.[1]

0) http://www.winternet.com/~swezeyt/bible/origins/jwGn.htm

1) http://www.winternet.com/~swezeyt/bible/origins/originsMain....
What would be a lasting server to host this lasting page?
This is one of the major criticisms of the Cross-Bronx expressway.
Yahoo Extends deadline for downloading Yahoo Groups data to Jan 31 2020
This is a cool, inspirational list, pc. Thanks!

I would also be interested in a similar list, but one that listed "fast failures," like Vasa or Fidenae.

I sometimes think that we need cautionary examples, these days, as "move fast and break things" has broken a lot of things.
You are forgetting that as a researcher you are evaluated by your own university based on where you publish. And no university will suddenly start to recognize some obscure publication venues, in fact what they will do is issue a policy that such papers will not be taken into account during evalution period.

Otherwise, I would claim that my personal web-site or my colleagues personal web-site is a scientific publisher and would publish my papers only there.

There is a very strong infinite feedback mechanism between respected publishers and respected universities forcing us to flock to such publishers no matter the costs which are exorbitantly high for most of us. But we simply do not have a choice.
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Or if you want a more detailed and up-to-date map:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/52.9846/5.1904
New Pentagon certification narrows the Microsoft cloud security gap with Amazon
Apple HomeKit ADK
AI is making it easier to kill you -NYT [video]
I love process visualizations as it makes a boring static sysadm thing alive.

It’s a good moment to remind about my favorite one which is psDooM: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
Genetic Test Led 7 Women in 1 Family to Have Major Surgery–Then the Odds Changed
http://archive.is/7S89q
They didn't go the airplane store and pick one off the shelf either though...

Lockheed gets something like 90% of its revenue from the federal government. They're effectively an arm of the Air Force.

Besides, it's not like the Air Force did no design at all, they came up with a list of wants and needs, had prototypes made by two contractors, refined their requirements after selecting one of the two competing prototypes, etc...
I wonder what the difference is between a classroom with a single teacher tasked with educating a room of people who might not be interested...and apprentice with one person who likely is interested.

To me it seems that of course that an apprenticeship works better for that task....but also not a fair comparison considering the classroom goals and structure for all sorts of reasons.

I also wonder about how well apprenticeships put forth new ideas or ways of doing things.
You mean like how Russians got most Western products only a few decades ago? No, I think they will get their grey market product from eBay like everyone else does.
Maybe because of this --> Sandberg may no longer be the female icon she once was to the outside world, but she remains the second-most powerful executive
That's a great analogy, but I'm not sure of the conclusion. Being a parasite on man is not good evolutionary move, since we'll pick the little bastards off. But attach to something stupid, that's a better prospect.

So I guess it depends on how bright the host is, and that's questionable.
I didn’t say the author was talking about the Trioplan. I only said the Trioplan’s Bokeh shape would be an example that he purports as undesirable.

As a photographer I don't care so much what optical design choice gave rise to an artifact (that I want to exploit artistically).
This, exactly. I think we're better off that things are built more slowly now.

Look at China, they still build things very fast but they also don't care about work safety, neighborhoods, ethnicity and all that.
Uh? Being a 'technical marvel' has little relationship with making money and without money developers may choose to do something else whenever they want..
lol, here in Germany things somehow never get done on time.

We are still waiting for an airport in Berlin and a trainstation in Stuttgart. While the last one still has about 3 years to be "on time" it will probably be late.
> Maintaining Software that is written in a dynamically typed language like JavaScript is costly. Maintaining a JavaScript frontend that is build with React, NPM, WebPack and Babel is even more expensive.

Not exactly. In modern browsers JavaScript executes in a VM. If the JavaScript instance is written in a strongly typed way it executes quickly by receiving the full benefits of a compiled language. Aside from arithmetic it executes almost as fast as Java. That is one of the strengths of TypeScript.

I do completely agree about NPM, dependency overkill, and framework insanity.

In short, don’t blame the language for being slow. Blame marketing and bad developers. That being said I have little faith that WASM will be fast once it meets the reality of bad developers and marketing teams.
The author is messing up with two very different topics: (kind of fundamental) education in classrooms (that existed 500 years ago too) and practical craftmanship, that exists now in a broad range of professions including software engineering. So the text looks like a preparation of strawman.