skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Authority can be a gift. It helps people thrive by giving them the motivation to live up to their potential. If everyone just let everyone else do whatever they wanted, humans wouldn’t have gotten very far.

The first and third quotes sentences are probably true, but how in the world does authority or authoritarianism give people motivation? Or do you mean that it substitutes for internal motivation the motivation of an external threat? This is probably true, but it is rarely in the state's, or the authority's, interest to maximise each person's potential individually; the authority will rather prefer to maximise each person's contribution to the authority's good, which likely involves forcing each person into a channel that (for at least some and probably many) poorly serves him or her as an individual.
Newcastle is just a little bit north of where I am. I'm happy to send you my CV, do you have an email?

I got my previous degree in 2016 but I really don't want to do anything related to my previous degree unless it is in robotics/ autonomous systems because it is now mostly software driven unlike in the past.
Accuracy is mostly fine in my experience, but the battery life is often poor and they tend to be relatively loud. I like quiet, so the noise is more than enough reason to swap the movement when easy imho.
Compliant, and then time permitting, students.
as I understand it, this requires an Option or Result return type that matches the type of the statement

The ? operator is better than nothing, but I still need my error types to match all the way up the stack
This is probably a dumb question, but wouldn't recording the millisecond timestamp mod 2 of each decay be a lot easier and also produce a uniform distribution (at least at the rate this thing seems to be registering decays)?
It got bit by a Møøse.
> Many of the colleges that use this are third rate colleges that aren't going to have too many "creators, entrepreneurs and groundbreaking scientists".

Surely on HN at least we can be free of the idea that only first-rate colleges have (a substantial quantity of) students with such exceptional potential. (I would go even farther and deny that there is any particularly strong correlation between 'rate' of the school and future potential of its students, except in the self-selecting sense that a Harvard degree opens doors that a community-college degree doesn't.)
> It worked

Of course, it works. And it would work even better if you permanently installed an anal probe in each student, plus a few electro-stimulators, and an automatic feeder.
>TL;DR If Apple’s going to advertise itself as the “private” phone, they need to do a much better job than this. “At least we’re aren’t Google!” is pretty much the best they can say.

It's times like this HN needs to allow the fire emoji.

He's absolutely right and the fact we pretend otherwise is a total fucking lie that lets everyone feel a bit better about about the wretched state of our industry.
I think they should be disrupted with a decentralized solution where people buy and produce locally. None of this garbage sold en masse
Speaking from the Devil's Advocate side, as I work in Higher Education analytics:

First: this data is, by the vast majority of institutions, used very respectfully in terms of privacy rights and it is ABSOLUTELY never sold. Third part vendors that provide hosted systems are REQUIRED to affirm that they pass nothing on to any other party whatsoever. (I should note that this is the case in public and traditional private non-profit schools. For-profit schools are much less scrupulous and should not be regarded as trustworthy in this respect)

Beyond this, students are apprised of these uses of data with the ability to opt out. This is done as upfront as we can, very "in your face", though the tendency to click "agree" to something without reading, even very short and to the point, is of course always an issue.

Finally, the data collected is extremely useful. I cannot emphasize that enough. Our sole concern and useage profile is directed towards using it to help students be more successful. And it's not used in terms of surveillance. It's used pretty much exclusive in understanding the patterns that coincide with success and those that coincide with failure, dropout, academic struggling, and so on. In short, it is used to proactively intervene with students at risk rather than wait for it to be too late, e.g., final grades are in and no tutoring intervention is possible. A recent use had me using Xgboost to examine patterns of LMS usage to determine students at risk of early drop out. It worked, and we can now identify about one third of early drop outs with practically no effort and almost no false positives and work with those students to address their problems before they go too far. That isn't all about tuition revenue either: often enough it entails helping the student finish out the semester rather than have that time and money wasted at the same time they receive advising on how to transfer to another school that may be better suited to them.

I'm sure privacy maximalists will not be satisfied with the above, but really, within the realm of data comprehensive I idividual data collection, I'm not aware of any business, much less an entire industry, that treats such data as responsibly as this, and that really is concerned with using it only to further the best interests of it's constituents. Obviously I'm biased. That probably means things are not as rosy as I envision. But I think it is nonetheless an important and valid synopsis of the issue.
Good question.

I'll try to pin it down, but it will be an approximation. The depth of insight gained from simple observations that turned out to be undeniably true over a long span of time is the thing that convinced me of this. It wasn't luck of the draw or something like that just piercing thought aiming at the heart of the problem and never at the symptoms. It's mostly about clarity rather than anything else. And I only realized the level of insight that went into this years after the fact, at the moment it did not even strike me as particularly special. So think of that as a label tagged on much later.
Yes you can, but you need to select "customize..." first, i.e., you want to customize the interface.
$200/year for a subscription to a newsletter? How can that possibly be justified?
> an optimist is said to see the glass as half full, while a pessimist sees the glass as half empty.

But even the optimist sees that the glass is only a half full.

Naivety is thinking that half full is the best possible outcome or the only possible outcome.

It literally means "lack of judgement"
He contributed to surfraw as well. http://surfraw.org/
I’ll just leave this here - https://youtu.be/UuPajTVHItI

You made me spend an hour on YouTube, thank you sir.
Also if you don't carry your phone with you everywhere, you're going to penalized for that. Hmm.
Yes, thank you for pointing it out.
> in my experience most frameworks are written by people who come to Go from other languages and try to take their habits with them

Same thing happened to JavaScript, and now the language is ruined, sadly. It's now a crappier, but more widely deployed Ruby.
American manufacturing output is higher than it ever has been: it's just automated.
It moves 3 days forward versus the Gregorian calendar every 400 years. So about 24,000 years (a little less) to hit July
Windows Internals – Understanding Windows Memory Data Structures
Totally makes sense. Seminar style classes should have attendance factored in, but not by “did you attend” but by “did you contribute to the converstion?”. (And you shouldn’t use an app to track them. )
How about having the student’s score decay as some function of how late they turn it in? If they turn it in before the deadline, they get 100% of their marked grade, if it’s an hour late 90%, a day late 50%, etc (use whatever function you want)
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> Further, while there have been obvious benefits of technological advancement, they have in large part erased informal procedures and social understanding in favor of a rigid and unforgiving process. For example, my assignments are now largely due at midnight, at a very particular second: submit a nanosecond late at your own penalty. Whereas in the past the common practice of most professors would be along the lines of "get it in my mailbox by 4 p.m.", or something like that, but with the informal understanding that at 4:00:00.0...1, the door of the mailbox would not close and chop off your hand. And exceptions to rules were easier to get before the arbiter of the rules became a severe and unfeeling one.

Speaking as a professor, there are plenty of severe and unfeeling professors out there. Thinking both as a student and as a professor, I'd much rather have everyone subject to the same inflexible rules, rather than to have some students favoured and some disfavoured based on what will inevitably be a subjective opinion—I'll be likely, even if subconsciously, to favour a student who has made a positive impression over one who has made a negative impression (when it is likely the latter who needs more help to get back on an equal footing!), or a student who asks on a good day than one who asks on a bad.
Thanks for pointing this out. I meant the games annotated by Kramnik. Would have been interested to see his results.
If my employer offered a bonus for not parking there, my wife would gladly drive me to work, drive back home, and then come back to get me at quitting time to collect the bonus - doubling our environmental impact.
I don't think you appreciate the basic point that many people do not wish to live in such a mechanistic and rigid society to begin with.
Where do you work now? That's surprisingly relevant to answering the actual question, because most of getting hired as a developer has nothing to do with being a good programmer, it mostly had to do with HR viewing you as hireable.

The only advice I can actually give you is: interview, interview, interview. Assume that no one will hire you and you'll fail all interviews. Don't even try to pass the interviews. Instead, view it as a way to extract information from the interviewer. Ask tons of questions. Ask about everything you can think of. If they mention something you don't know, ask them about it. You want to learn what the interviewer knows and how the interviewer thinks. Your ultimate goal should be to become a carbon copy of the interviewers. Coming from a place of homelessness and non-tech jobs, you may be rejected as a bad "cultural fit". But if you can transform yourself into a clone of the typical tech interviewer, they'll be more likely to accept you.
The slowest part of IntelliJ is scanning the project. I much prefer Rider over VisualStudio though. It doesn't feel any slower to me despite being Java.
You seem to have posted a free-floating critique of the Hugo that has nothing to do with what I wrote. (If anything, I have more faith in the Hugo award to reject overwrought and overlong works than a more conventional literary award).
One-day deliveries are breaking our cities
>Experiments on mice with radioactively labeled LSD have established that intravenously injected LSD disappeared down to a small vestige, very rapidly from the bloodstream and was distributed throughout the organism. Unexpectedly, the lowest concentration is found in the brain. It is concentrated here in certain centers of the midbrain that play a role in the regulation of emotion. Such findings give indications as to the localization of certain psychic functions in the brain.

The Irony...
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Authority can be a gift. It helps people thrive by giving them the motivation to live up to their potential.

Potential for what? Pleasing the authoritarian. Authority is about who gets to be the author of a person's life - themselves, or someone else. Authoritarians are people who want to be in charge of other people's lives, but don't like to be accountable to anyone else for their own.
The New York metro area has the lowest rate of population turnover in the US
Let me know if Australia is on the cards. We are always hungry for skilled developers, CS degree or not. Let me know.
You never invert A^T A anyway, you would do Cholesky on it and use it to solve A^T A x = A^T b.
But regardless, QR on A should be the first choice.
That is an intellectually dishonest extension of this to the absurd. If you wish to discuss the merits or faults of this I will do so. This is not some clear cut issue. I know there are privacy concerns. We try to handle them as transparently and honestly as possible. In that effort, we save students millions of tuition dollars and years of their lives. I am receptive to arguments that the privacy tradeoff isn't worth it, we have that discussion every time we examine possible data sources and have decided not to use some. But your comment is beneath any ability to have a reasonable discussion on the topic.
f1 is pretty cool. I got a lot more into it this year. Try to watch some races with an open mind.
Thank you! Yes the video is a bit fast. I’ve slowed it down since my first draft but still too much content to be fit in the 30s.
Yep, that make + sed combination is exactly what I do every time I use protobuf in Python.
I'm a software engineer based in Edinburgh and in my previous job I was responsible for hiring into my team. The city is becoming a strong tech hub and from my experience there are not enough engineers available on the market.

There are lots of software engineering jobs here, mostly JavaScript, other web dev, and machine learning (though, admittedly, fewer entry level positions).

You don't need a degree to get a job but you have to demonstrate skills and professionalism.

- Set up a GitHub profile and fill it with your coding exercises/pet projects. The more of your own code the better. Code style and commit messages matter. Show that you can push professional code. I always looked through GH profiles of potential candidates when available.
- Set up a LinkedIn profile. This will allow headhunters to find (and spam) you. You may not have professional coding experience yet but you have a degree and have been learning programming for a while. This is an asset. Include information about programming languages - you need keywords. And link to your GitHub profile.

Edinburgh (and other cities) has lots of meetups. They are free and good for making new connections. And you may hear about open positions.

It's probably obvious, but so many people don't do it: when applying for a job, triple check your CV and all communication for typos. When reviewing job applications we looked for attention to detail and professional communication. A great communicator with a strong will to learn would often be a better fit than a more experienced person who couldn't communicate.

If there's a position/company you really want to work for, be persistent. Ask for feedback after unsuccessful applications. Some places won't send any, but it's always worth a try and it will help you improve.

It's ok to reapply to the same place.

Don't underestimate covering letters - they help you sell yourself and can be the difference between you and another candidate who didn't bother writing anything. Think about your strengths and point them out.

This is not an endorsement, but FYI, if you feel you need help improving your skills and making professional connections, there are coding schools available (e.g. in Scotland we have CodeClan).
Vanillanomics
Is this relevant to the EU? I see lots of complaints about amazon on the HN frontpage but they mostly focus on the US. I assume tighter regulation and import tariffs on the other side of the atlantic would result in amazon's product selection looking different and perhaps getting counterfeits in is more onerous.
Based on what? No name brands, just loads and loads of direct from factory crapware and knock offs in all shapes and sizes.
> extensions

As someone who has done extensive work with Protobuf extension fields in Python, I can only echo that the API is nightmarish.
“ respectfully in terms of privacy rights and it is ABSOLUTELY never sold.”

Could it be hacked? How good are university IT security operations?
Show HN: Expose Go's database/sql stats as Prometheus metrics
No, not about the same, precisely the same, except for rounding error (which is worse for Goertzel.) The numerical result you will get is precisely the same. If bin 27 of your FFT over some segment of some signal is 4.557 + 6.288j, then Goertzel for that frequency and that segment will also give you 4.557 + 6.288j.
Here's a good KiCad tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaCVh2SAZY4

(first video of a series of 10)
> Liquid hydrogen is an even better shield and it's something we currently have the technology to use.

First get your liquid hydrogen (and any other similar solutions) into orbit.

I used to be (in the 70s) gung-ho for space colonies, but really the economics simply don't make sense with anything like current drive technologies, or indeed any in the foreseeable future. In my opinion, the answer to the Fermi Paradox is that putting intelligent living organisms into space for their lifetimes is simply far, far too difficult.
> I can still filter by vendor, at least on the European websites.

At least in the US, Amazon comingles new products unless the seller requests them not to. So if you buy something shipped and sold by Amazon.com, you may be getting the one vendor ABC had shipped to Amazon's warehouses.

Agree with GP. If they cared, they wouldn't comingle. Comingling saves Amazon money, though, as they don't have to track whose goods are in which warehouses.
Interesting that you consider the ego-less state the delusion especially considering how humans start life off.
Usually, delays lead to logistical difficulties. Until every copy of an assignment is submitted, you can't release solutions, assign grades, talk about the problems in lectures or recitations, or really give any feedback whatsoever. I've had excellent courses that ran on your system, but in those cases they had it completely standardized from year to year, and even automated grading systems.
Very true, and an interesting example. While it's true that many great scientists were agreeable, sometimes lack of agreeability can mean you provoke more interesting responses, and more heated debate. Two examples - Karl Marx and Andrew Kliman, as political economists, were/are known for being not only rude but provocative in rudeness - to the point where a response is provoked simply because of the language they used. Marx's Capital, for example, got such a wide response not only because of the bold claims but also the rhetorical style it was written in (his contempt is shown in the famous preface to The Poverty of Philosophy, a response to Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty[0]). Kliman insists (and continues to insist) that his opponents don't understand him, that they haven't read the relevant litarture, and other things. He's even gone as far as accusing his opponents of having a psychological a-priori presumption against the theory he advocates[1].

On the other hand, Kliman is at the forefront of post-Samuelson heterodox economics today, and his extremely influential theories have spawned a great deal of debate. It's hard to imagine that debate happening if he were "quieter".

[0] "M. Proudhon has the misfortune of being peculiarly misunderstood in Europe. In France, he has the right to be a bad economist, because he is reputed to be a good German philosopher. In Germany, he has the right to be a bad philosopher, because he is reputed to be one of the ablest French economists. Being both German and economist at the same time, we desire to protest against this double error."

[1] "Mohun and Veneziani (2009: 278) state that we “conjecture that [his paper’s logical and factual errors were] not apparent to Veneziani because of a psychological a priori commitment to the falsity of the TSSI, in turn founded on a psychological a priori commitment to the demonstration of the internal inconsistency [...]"
Anyone else knowing any industries where "standards are tied up and closed"?
My professor for Assembly did exactly that and it felt very fair. However, I think that was only possible because every assignment used an automated grading program, so we could weigh the risk vs reward when deciding if we should spend another day optimizing the code. If an actual person was burdened with grading each assignment, it makes sense to have a harder cutoff that ensures it's possible to grade in a batch for efficiency.
I loved Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem 2. They would be perfect mobile games and I really wish someone would release them
I have JS default to off (saves big on load times, bypasses some "please buy a subscription" things), and thought this was just a weirdly short list of eccentric things until I saw this comment.

So, add "JS is required for crucial, rather than merely useful, features."
They’re too being being customer obsessed to fix these sorts of problems, now that businesses are the customer.
Supernatural has a giant pentagram made out of railway lines:

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Devil%27s_Gate_in_Wyoming
The Expanse is Sci-Fi like TV has never seen
Way back in the early 80s, if you programmed in the wrong settings to a video chip, you could drive a monitor out of spec and severely damage it (I seem to recall several computers of this era were susceptible to this).
>>In a statement on its website, Amazon also said its employees “work hard every day to help ensure all products offered in our store are safe and authentic.”

Bullshit. The front line employees that receive inbound product don't enforce any policy and actually Amazon encourages to deal with disputes only after a product is sold, shipped and a customer complains. That's the Bezos way. Fact. Let's discuss grocery products in glass containers real quick if anyone wants to argue...

I admit, we'd sell counterfeit products if I didn't have morals. We push all the AMZ limits we can. I could write a book on this subject.
With sci-fi tech, sure, we could probably eventually do things like that... but why should we? If we can't get there and they can't come back, what the hell is the point? Blasting our collective spunk on far off junk just seems like narcissism.
How does one even get uranium marbles?
Rust Compiler Internals: Mid-Level Intermediate Representation (Mir)
Rules aren't made to make people miserable, they're made to keep things running for everybody involved.
Just because the institution does not use the data irresponsibly doesn't mean the service provider will not. Not to mention third parties which could potentially gain access to this data directly or indirectly by listening for the check in signal devices send.

Per the article, this is not being used to help the students succeed, instead it is being used to damage their grade for a lack of attendance. I think most reasonable people would agree attendance is not a reliable metric by which to base a students grade. The exception being discussion based or interactive courses like debate or public speaking.
Even a guitar string has inharmonicity, so the pitch you measure by measuring the lowest resonant frequency is somewhat too low: a sine wave at that frequency will sound lower than the string does. I thought that was CamperBob2 meant. It's certainly what pierrec was talking about, and it's an advantage of ACF-based pitch estimation algorithms.
It's true because they want to make sure they follow European laws, even if they don't understand them fully.
Should Fiction Writers Ever Grow Up?
A homeless man longs to see his daughter on Xmas. Can he find $27 for the bus?