skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a bunch of people who worked on the recommendation system at netflix at the stat seminar. Their whole movie catalogue after hashing comfortably fits into a dataframe in R on your laptop. Even the audience-like matrix is not very big. They simply don’t have that much permanent content due to licensing issues. Parks & Rec for example is like one of their top 10 most streamed content - today - even though that thing aired like a decade ago! on top of which, its going to move to Peacock next quarter! So not only are they lagging in content contemporariness, they are losing what little they have because the networks who make the content are pulling the plug.

An unrelated problem with movie recs is that the kind of movies & tv episodes being made today have homogenized because of international distribution issues & things like metoo. Your villains can’t be clearcut russians & chinese anymore, we sell to those countries. So it has to be some amorphous bad person with ambiguous intentions, which doesn’t work so well for james bond type stuff. Many of the older shows I love, I watch them on youtube & the comments there are mostly along the lines of “this would never ever get made in 2019. this is so bigoted. this is so mean spirited. this is openly sexist racist” etc etc. These are shows from 70s-80s, so its not like we had some genetic mutation and became a different species. We are still the same people, but those kinds of movies & shows aren’t happening anymore.
Yea, it’s usually something with Motion or Smooth in it.

What’s crazy to me is that some people can’t see it! Or think they line it... or the lunatics that actually do!

Once you see it; I don’t think it can be unseen.
Not everyone will develop PTSD. Of the ones that do, not all who develop it recognize it immediately. Of those, even fewer will seek treatment. Combat is not the only way to develop it. Some might only develop it after ruminating on events later on, or failing to adjust to civilian life. What's certain is that not treating PTSD can cause much bigger and more dangerous problems. And unless you're a doctor, I wouldn't throw 'fraud' around so easily.

It sounds like you're one of the ideal ones for your line of work, though; brains that are less susceptible to stress damage are rare. It's why not everyone is fit to become a police officer or give talks in front of big crowds. Others have an adrenaline sensitivity or a panic groove etched so deeply in their brains that they'll forget their names if you talk to them when they don't expect it.

I'm also assuming you entered the military voluntarily. There's a predisposition for certain brains to take on and thrive in certain careers. As a DWB friend of mine put it about the career mercs he treated, "They aren't psychopaths, just real mean sons of bitches."

You don't have to like people who aren't built as tough as you, but that doesn't mean they're faking.
Interesting site, didn’t manage to get past the first two scrolls due to the almost nauseating scroll janking on Safari
I practice what could be called "speed listening" -- listening to audiobooks and podcasts (and watching videos) at 2x to 3x speed.

It saves a lot of time, and I only wish I'd started sooner.
Honestly, I prefer keeping things in queue for a while before reading them. A lot of things seem vaguely important at the moment I bookmark / archive them. By the time I circle back to those, most lose relevance. The ones that don't lose relevance are the ones worth reading.
While not exactly a mileage run I did pick United over an alternative cheaper flight just to get to the next status tier. I agree flying sucks even in business / first, but if I’m gonna fly (which for sure I’ll have to next year), might as well make it a bit more comfortable.
Who Is an Hacker
Hackers are mostly highly skilled computer programmers capable of locating security gaps and accessing secure systems through unique analytical skills.
Hackers are like artists, philosophers, and engineers all rolled up into one. ... be similar in important ways to what hackers do. ... Learn to love solving problems.
What type of problem do you want to solve?
I use to be an admin on dark web, you can contact me for serious business on hacking,I can also help you to hack anything you want.
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An hacker is someone who focuses on security mechanisms of computer and network systems. There are communities and shared cultures of expert programmers and networking wizards that trace its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture were the first "hackers." Breaking into computers and phone systems have come to symbolize hacking in popular culture, but this culture is much more complicated and moralistic than most people know. To become a hacker, learning basic hacking techniques, how to think like a hacker, and how to gain respect within the ethical hacking
Reading speed strikes me similarly to typing speed when it comes to programming. It's fun to read/type fast, but it's not really the bottleneck.
Most of mine are going to be books by philosophers or scientists (about philosophy or other things).

- The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell was a pretty good one. He has a lot of ideas that were ahead of their time (positive psychology, etc). You can see a lot of parallels between his ideas and modern Stoicism (although Russell criticized it elsewhere, I think he came to some of the same conclusions).

- Introduction To Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. Another Russell one. I think this is probably the clearest and easiest to understand explanation I've ever read of the underpinnings of mathematical foundations. It's written in a style that should be accessible to almost anyone with a high school education. He wrote it while he was in prison (for refusing to be drafted) during WW1. Apparently he left a copy of it to the prison warden.

- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume. This is worth reading because it is the motivation for basically all of modern philosophy of science (at least in the west). It's also pretty easy to read and if you read it you'll be able to more easily understand other books and papers that are responses to it.

- Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson. This book should be required reading for every programmer or aspiring programmer IMO. I learned so much about the history of computing that I didn't know before reading this. You will not regret buying this one.

- I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter. Obviously everyone knows about GEB, but he also wrote a shorter follow up that in my opinion expresses his ideas much more clearly. I think that even if you disagree with him, it's worth reading because there are so many things you can take away from this book. For example, he talks about his wife's death, and ties that into his theory of mind and explains the unstated purposes of why we have funerals/wakes for people.

- An Introduction to Information Theory by John R. Pierce. For someone like me who doesn't really have a very strong math background, this was a very clear intro to the ideas behind information theory, and why they're important historically. I would recommend this to anyone who feels like they need a gentle intro to the ideas and motivation for them. Dover mathematics books in general are great.

- Borrow: The American Way of Debt by Louis Hyman. This is a fantastic historical overview of personal credit in the US that covers the past 120 years or so. I learned a ton from reading this that I had no clue about. Recommended to anyone who wants to understand the origins of credit cards / loans, and how society came to embrace being in debt.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.222834/page/n7

https://people.umass.edu/klement/imp/imp-ebk.pdf

https://archive.org/details/humeenquiry00humerich/page/n7

https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...

https://www.amazon.com/Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp...

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Theory-Symbo...

https://www.amazon.com/Borrow-American-Debt-Louis-Hyman/dp/0...
People don't use dynamic typing over static typing because dynamic typing is "easier" to learn. Types are not a difficult concept.
In case anyone else is playing the game in 2019 (2020?), here's a nice little cheat that allows instant and unlimited terraforming:

1. Open the alphax.txt file and locate the Chassis definitions. Set the "Missile" flag for the Missile chassis to 0 (set it to 1 for Needlejet) and change its range to 99.

2. Replace the 'deleted' technology in alphax.txt with an arbitrary name and link it to the 'missile' platform.

3. Edit your faction txt file so that it starts with the missile technology and the gravship technology.

4. Open the unit designer, make a gravship former and switch the chassis to missile (the gravship step is important). This will make you a "missile former" capable of instant unlimited terraforming (i.e. terraforming doesn't end the turn) and unlimited range (is gets reset to 99 once it reaches zero).

Kinda breaks the balance, but makes it possible to play for an otherwise weak faction, while eliminating the grind.
Pyflakes should get you ~90+% of the way. Pycharm etc can get farther. Eventually you fall back on your automated testing and manual spot checks on approach of the quality target.

It’s not quite the burden hn-ers make it sound.
The Cannons on the B-29 Bomber Were a Mid-Century Engineering Masterpiece
Samsung always seem to be the worst, whether it is recording stuff, to getting on fire. Not too hard to avoid them.
Is High Growth Handbook for later-stage companies (say 1M+ ARR)? Or not necessarily?
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When I fly from SFO to Canada I get upgraded pretty regularly on gold status. Of course these are domestic first, so while better they still aren’t great.
> ValidUntil configures how long the access will last.

My understanding of your use case is stopping indefinite "exponential" forwarding.

I wonder if the ValidUntil timer could start when the shortlink is first accessed.

That way you can shorten the time it lasts in the wild and let it be indefinitely available for the first intended recipient.
We probably need an antidote to the current instagram driven travel as consumption lifestyles, but I think they protest a little too much. Most people who go full nomad seem to realize quite well on their own after a year or two that no matter how much they learn, being always rootless and disconnected is not a great life and go back to build a life in one place. Most people aren’t privileged enough to even get this far but for the ones who want to why stop them? Some of my most memorable times have been travelling/living abroad but I realize indefinite travel would not be great.
Fruitful School
themselves or themcellves? ;)

Thank you for posting this clarification--I was definitely a bit clickbaited by the article, but it,'s interesting nonetheless.
That acquisition was the reason why I made a fork of the freedb database, I'm actually pretty happy with how long they held out.

I would encourage everybody to download the software:

http://www.freedb.org/en/download__server_software.4.html

And the db:

http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/

It would be good to have multiple copies floating around.
True or not, this isn't what they were referring to.
Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)
share some others like him. i would like to explore other youtubers
Well, they said emerging countries debt is raising nearly as fast as China's (which is up 72 points since 2008).

I wonder who has the most exposure to this debt. My understanding is that a lot of foreign emerging debt is owned by China.
It is if you want ahead of time compilation to work on your generated code. People often confuse macros with full programmatic code generation, but they aren’t equivalent at all, of course.
>There are lots of remote switches that just have a big propane tank to keep them clear of ice.

Except the switch has to be in the correct position first to get a train over it. The rail lines in NY including the subway just use natural gas heaters on most switches.
Nexus is probably one of the best investments I’ve ever made. The amount of time saved from that one little card has been incredible.
I used to do that, but now listen at 1x as it gives me time to have creative thoughts over what was said which helps me to retain the meaning behind the words.
A Programmer Lost a Game He Made as a Kid, Until Someone Streamed It on Twitch
> This was masked because the books I was reading had enough redundancy to make following along possible with impaired comprehension.

Clever trick speed reading book writers!
Interesting that things have gone this way. Wasn't Slack one of the services that started out spreading via guerrilla Shadow IT, with users spinning up free Slack instances on their own and feeding penetration throughout organizations?
My non-engineer guess is that a nylon brush would be shaved down pretty quickly by rail contact at typical train speeds, so that it would be ineffective at removing debris after a very short time.
Take a deep breath and understand that nothing will ever be perfect. If you have that high a standard, download the source, examine it for security and privacy concerns, an proceed if satisfied.
Does anyone know if they publish details about the size/strength of the effect anywhere or a link to the actual numbers for the study population?
It refers to the human's cybersecurity technique of banning inter-computer communication. The ship Galactica survives the initial cylon attack because it's too old to have networked devices onboard.
Haskellers
Hello,

I want to know if using Haskell for AI applications would benefit me and what type of culture fit Haskeller community has. I won't say that reddit is representative of programmers, however, I encountered very rude and condescending, snobby and toxic programmers on the Haskeller sub. I also met a couple people who were nice.

Overall, it was a bad experience with a lot of trolling. People contacting me exchanging info and then ghosting right after we swap numbers or make any other form of contact.

In that regards, if Haskell is not such a good language to use for IP development, what would be a good functional programming substitute?
I've thought about getting Speed Queens next time around. As it stands though, I have the cheapest XL washer/dryer Whirlpool makes and they've held up fantastic over 5 years of heavy use. The washer is loud and makes the lights flicker, but I think that's kinda par for the course for those.

I'm not sure what a high end samsung would offer over a low end whirlpool that makes it worth spending 3x more.

Edit: I feel even more strongly about that and refrigerators. I definitely 100% don't want an internet connected fridge that requires security updates lol.
> What's great with Python type annotation is that you can give it as much as you want

That's also what's Not Great about this whole 'annotation' or 'gradual typing' approach. Having only some arbitrary part of the program be statically typed introduces a huge amount of 'interaction' or 'blame' points between the static and the dynamic portion of your program, that significantly impact the usual benefits of static typing. Dynamic types should be used only when strictly necessary, everything else should be made static as soon as feasible.
Given the history of both software, that is quite a bold rebuttal to make without providing any substance to back it.
I always thought the pinnacle of trading & pricing/risk systems was SecDB [0] at Goldman Sachs? It was, after all, former SecDB devs who JPM hired away back in the mid-aughts to create Athena. Fascinating story hearing how trading houses have tried to keep up with GS by making their own version of SecDB -- the advantages are that decisive. The investment GS made in SecDB must have been major considering they made the 'slang' programming language just for SecDB, apparently.

[0] https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/276170/secdb-quartz...
I am all for the Go idiom that variable name length should be directly proportional to it's scope, the code samples in the post have take it a bit too far and make the code harder to read.

it would be so much more readable if the struct had more descriptive names

type Cuckoo struct {
buckets []bucket
numBuckets uint
entriesPerBucket uint
fingerprintLength uint
capacity uint
}
Big difference between domestic and international too. United international business class is pretty good (not Cathay, Ana etc first class good but on par with day Cathay business class) lounge and all are pretty up to par I think.
Photoshop still doesn’t work on Catalina, after three months of release and many months of early dev release.

I hope someone is able to replace them for photo processing.
I haven't found enough of a need for it at this point to make the application more useful as it stands without making great effort in training the necessary models to assess user-similarity for example.

It is certainly faster to build an expert system that makes a lot of assumptions and iterate from there. There are plenty of use cases for ML and I hope to integrate it more into app some day to help automate repetitive tasks.
Looks like it "works" (2-hour pain free marker) for ~10% of people.

https://www.evaluate.com/vantage/articles/news/snippets/ubre...
I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively without worry of fragmentation (which I am not saying is a horrible thing or anything--it is even a strength in some sense--but there is a reason why the Android ecosystem, even with all of its notorious fragmentation--feels much easier to target for games and GUI applications than "Linux", despite being Linux). The main thing that would have made this effort maybe useless before was the lack of a word processor and a spreadsheet in their application lineup, but a lot of the world has already moved on from Word and Excel to web-hosted solutions--whether from Google or from Microsoft--and so the main barriers left are these "not really likely to become web any time soon" (due to the amount of data involved) tools like Photoshop and Premier and Audition. Hell: if they partner with Valve/Steam--who is making great strides on Linux for games recently--they could quite possibly destroy Windows as a pro-user market.
Disc ID's weren't perfect, you can make a pretty easy mapping between the two if you want. But software still in maintenance really should switch to musicbrainz (and probably should have switched long ago).

For my own system I used a music fingerprint written by Giancarlo Pascutto (I hope I spelled that right, it's ages ago), which used a really nice algorithm that did not see a single collision in a very large number of tracks.
Perhaps after they close these tickets they could make the website load successfully more than half the time?

Ah, nevermind. I’m asking for way too much.
Americans are taking cash out of their homes - and it is costing them
> Humans don’t even like the random battle results to be truly random but expect them to hew very closely to the outcome of the odds as presented.

Because of this Civ2 added health and firepower stats to units, random battles sometimes meant an ancient trireme could destroy a battleship, which is fun to imagine...
Another great resource is NAND to Tetris (currently auditable on Coursera for free):

https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2
The best way to speed read is if the writer reduces the number of words required to communicate and educate. Of course this takes extra effort, and is also goes against human perception of value. E.g. if you reduced Tim Ferris's book to a single sheet of A4 you could get the point across, but who's going to pay $20 or so for a sheet of A4? Well some execs might pay $2000 - but you won't sell millions of copies like that. Anyway...

To sum it up that book:

To work fewer hours per week in the long term, set up a business, and figure out how to automate, speed up and delegate as much of the work as possible. Imagine a few cool inspiration inducing anecdotes alluding to a cool lifestyle. Read elsewhere for the bit about how to set up a successful business in the first place, or the details of how to automate and delegate effectively.

There you go - 200 or so pages you don't need to read :-)
Lightroom is still irreplaceable so far for me and photography.
> Remember investments grow exponentially- meaning you want to invest as much as you can while you’re young(er)

*grow geometrically (with apologies, am pedant)
Doesn’t GDPR apply to EU citizens, regardless of geography?
I know that at my place of work, I have to get consent from EU citizens to email them, even if we are talking in the US
Alaska is also an amazing airline, so much better than any of the other domestic carriers. If I’m connecting to SeaTac from LAX or SFO, I’ll only fly Alaska. Connecting through those airports is so prone to delays, and the Alaska staff are absolutely amazing if you miss your connection. They’re also just great in general. Singapore is the only other airline I rate as highly.
Soviets Burned by CIA Hackers?
Is this the same phenomenon discovered last year by Yuan Cao et al?

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature26154
On “subvocalization” ...

> It’s simply not possible to comprehend what you’re reading and avoid using that inner voice. So reading faster means being able to use this inner voice faster, not eliminating it. To further that, expert speed readers who were studied also subvocalized, they just did it faster.

I’ve seen this argued elsewhere, and am not convinced they’ve found readers who do not subvocalize to study. Most readers subvocalize. Even if you don’t, if you ask about it, then you do (like asking someone to not think about their breathing).

If you do not normally subvocalize, you become painfully aware of it when you drop into it, feels like slamming on the brakes, and very difficult to let go of again.

I suspect the studies referenced[1] have simply not studied those who don’t subvocalize, akin to studies missing the phenomenon of aphantasia until 2015. Or, they’ve established experimental conditions where the reader cannot help but think about it, causing it to occur.

1. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4229