skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we do have that language, it's science. Specifically physics.
The laws of physics are precisely the shareable, universal language.

As for a common language of the subjective world, what I call the
"semantic layer" of reality as distinct from the physical "real" world, I
don't think you can find one, mostly because if you did you would be the
Messiah. :-) There are lots of such "languages", and new ones are
popping up all the time.

> I want to understand why and how predictions work with astrology.

Well again, divination works by the operator not the system or tea
leaves or whatever. The basic formula is "As above, so below." You can
use any system, as long as you practice with sincerity and persistence
you'll get better at intuition, which isn't quite like prediction: you
get a nudge to go one way rather than another, but you don't know why,
maybe you find out later and maybe you don't... It's experiential rather
than analytical. (In other words, part of the job of the Tarot cards or
Numerology or Astrology system is to distract your analytical mind.)

Gurdjieff claims that there is influence of the planets on humans, and
that astrology used to be based on that but all concrete knowledge of it
has now been lost. Certainly modern forms of astrology are, shall we
say, astronomically naive, and do not (indeed cannot) work according to
their own theory because they don't actually take account of the true
state of celestial objects.

The most effective and impressive astrologer I ever met had her horoscope
software misconfigured! It didn't affect her efficacy.

It sounds like you are interested in the old, lost 'science', eh?

I've wondered too if "big data" would reveal correlations between human
behaviour and the state of the solar system, and I think the
high-frequency traders would be the first to find out. They have the
data, the compute power, the motivation, and a willingness to overlook
the "woo-woo" factor if doing so leads to profit.

It will sound strange, but in some ways I pity the NSA. They are the only one with all the data and they must be privy to some strange strange things.
it's a joke to make a point
> Tianqi Emperor's only remaining heir, the 7-month-old Crown Prince Zhu Cijiong (朱慈炅), died from the shock.[1]

How does one die of shock? I'm curious if this is just an old medical description or possibly the weakness of a 7-month old baby at the time.
From Girard's Wikipedia entry: "... [he] studied medieval history at the École des Chartes, Paris." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard

École Nationale des Chartes Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Nationale_des_Chart...

Grandes écoles (of which group "École Nationale des Chartes is a member) Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9coles
I did both hourly and project based pricing models when consulting. Each have pros and cons but for projects that aren't "off the shelve" and do require discovery days, lots of inputs from client and a level of solution design from the consultant, the key thing is milestones. This way you can fend off scope creep and also be very specific on deliverables.I.e.:created x feature: 10 hours( 15% of the overall project). As for the rates, one hits the ceiling pretty quickly with hourly rates: try pitching $500/h if you not a lawyer. That's why value based pricing is the only way to push it up as high as possible. It's one thing to say that you'll be charging $200/h for the next few weeks and another when you say you'd build something for $24K that'll make the company $500K over next 12months.
That's an implementation question, which seems orthogonal to questions of syntax and semantics.

As for efficiency, we have decades of experience of compiling pattern matching, so i would be surprised if it was always just an if-else ladder. The authors of the proposal to add it to Java think that, compared to explicit if-elses, "it is more optimizable too; in this case we are more likely to be able to do the dispatch in O(1) time":

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8213076

I imagine this is through approaches which convert the cases to integers, and then do a traditional jump table etc.
Why is life the way it is? Michael Faraday Prize Lecture, Dr Lane (2017) [video]
Girard makes all the same mistakes as Freud, but his cult followers don't know that, because they don't read! They don't think! They are less conscious than they imagine themselves to be. They're setting up a ghoulish little charade - hopefully it doesn't go anywhere.
Does it?

Websites can just opt out if they dont like samesite cookies. Even if they couldnt, its trivial for the website operator to work around if they want (and website operators are almost always in on user tracking)
I saw one of my aunts share this on Facebook and was unsure if it was actual advice or just the normal chain mail spam that gets passed around.

Thoughts?
How can we tell the difference between great writers who are born, great writers who end up on the edge of the Bell curve through random decisions during childhood, and great writers who are deliberately raised to greatness?

Taking you literally, I can't see any reason why greatness should be determined solely at birth.
Please just never abbreviate the year. 100 years passes quickly these days.
I like the rule of three. Tell the reader what you are going to tell and why. Tell them in detail. Then in the conclusion summarize the main takeaway from what you just told them.
This wacky and fun chemistry PhD reviews keyboards.

His reviews are highly relevant for this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Chyrosran22
> Online content is often low-quality, highly commercial in nature and very ephemeral.

One question I ask myself when consuming online content is "would I pay any money for this". Generally the answer is no, the quality isn't there where I'd pay even a small amount of money. If I ask that same question with some high quality books the answer is that I would pay for it.

I'm not taking a stand on if people should pay for content or not, but it's a useful rule of thumb for me. If the quality of content is so low that I'd never pay for it, I try to cut that content out and replace it with higher quality content (even if that means I actually do pay for it).
Also, audiobooks are an excellent way to get into reading books, especially for fiction and especially those with awesome narration. Don't let anyone tell you that listening to a book isn't reading it.
Please don’t generalize and dehumanize entire groups of people like this even if you disagree with them on a fundamental world view.
Vrac: Declarative HTML template library from the future
Pure HTML Share Buttons
Biomorphism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomorphism

But yeah, why use an existing definition if you can reframe and score SEO points..
Seems like China is way ahead in the AI game, including by applying it for mass surveillance and oppression.

I highly recommend the Frontline documentary on AI in China.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/in-the-age-of-ai/

They see AI as the next industrial revolution and have decided to make sure they are at its forefront. And likely they will, which means that we’ll be the ones trying to import their tech.
Inteliwatch Discord server to discuss the ongoing situation in Iran/Iraq
Yet more reason to use the objectively correct date format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Dates
There goodreads website for you to help.
And for me its not easy i often start and stop reading books that i find eventually bad or not interesting.
One good approach i think is reading old books which have massive amounts of reviews. I know if you think that tech books get outdated you will be surprised that much of the information is very relevant
O Que é Direito Canonico
I'm a professional ad manager.

These lists have 0 value. At scale, it's always better to use algorithmic targeting than uploading lists to target. This is true on any ad network, but especially on Facebook.
This meme is analyzed in detail by a lawyer and his friend in the middle of this podcast:

https://openargs.com/oa347-pennhurst-and-the-voter-purge-in-...
>his proves how much time you save by using cross-platform frameworks

not sure it proves much since the author went about this in a really really weird way.

From the snippets shown, this is extremely unidiomatic Android code, it looks a lot more Flutter code. which makes sense since the author seems like they were trying to write Flutter code on another platform.

And even if they went about it in a more productive way, I am not sure what the feedback of one beginner dev having spend 20 hours on each platform is supposed to mean about anything.
Your acceptance of people who abuse the patent system is frightening.
There's a Norwegian town that did something similar: During winter the mirror (mounted on a hill) reflects the sun to the town's market square, because otherwise there wouldn't be any sunlight due to the sun being too low. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/rjukan-sun-nor...
It's BS. They've already been handling cards with expiration dates beyond 2020. The broken part can only be their internal date handling.
Just switch to ISO 8601 formatted dates already: YYYY-MM-DD.
> SES charges $0.09 per 1000 mail “chunks”, where a chunk is 256 Kb of data. This is on top of the base SES fee and S3 operation and storage fees.

> But it only charges for each complete chunk. So < 256KB is free, 256KB is $0.09/1000, etc.

Others elsewhere here have stated otherwise - haven't looked for the small print on AWS' page myself yet, though.
This sounds horrifying to me! Is it common at other schools for cs undergrad or other stem, that people in the heart of a major have to take a few classes over? I have never heard of this. I'm not saying you are a terrible student (I'm thinking the opposite, to survive that, you or the OP must have a lot of will power and resilience!) it just sounds like a very, very difficult major; what if you don't pass something well enough the second time?

I went to a far less prestigious school that you've never heard of. There were some people not passing classes in my cs major, but it was rare, almost unheard of after the first year. After I got to grad school I realized in comparison my undergrad wasn't that challenging. If I had failed a class or even gotten a C in undergrad it would have been pretty devastating. I was the top student in the dept (not bragging, I'm sure at mit or another great school I would have been far from the top ;-)).

When I went to grad school to get my phd (at a much better school) it was much more challenging, and I wasn't at the top like I was in undergrad. People did struggle a lot more than at my undergrad school. I was still a good student, I thought. But I also didn't see the undergrads retaking classes where it was a semi-common thing.
Regarding QUIC and tracking, has anyone heard about MASQUE protocol proposal?

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schinazi-masque-01.html

any thought on this?
Explosions can cause shock waves which can cause injury in and of themselves (as opposed to injuries cause by thrown objects or fire). This could be what they're alluding to. I couldn't access the document[0] referenced in the Wikipedia article to confirm this reading.

[0]: https://www.allbestessays.com/essay/Solving-a-Mystery-of-400...

Mythbusters often highlighted this when working with explosions by using rupture disks at different distances from the explosion to measure the amount of damage incurred due to the pressure wave.

https://www.flowcontrolnetwork.com/news-reports/article/1555...
I've also noticed that for some reason people get sloppy when writing posts about technical writing and forget to apply the principles of technical writing to that post. I avoid this bad habit by forcing myself to provide a summary for every post I create, e.g. https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/FAQs/
Ocean acidity rising fast in Monterey Bay
I had the same experience.

Flutter devs like to throw some wild claims like "120 fps on mobile" even though no Android phone screen support 120 frames per second at the hardware level and that all the flutter apps I have seen stutter a lot in their animations.
It was first announced last May: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-secu..., which is nine months before deployment. There have been warnings in the developer tools for a while about the case where behaviour is changing.
True, the blog post probably has less value.
The maths problem that modern life depends on
This one does make sense. I haven't read it yet, but I always write the full year. For 2020, if you abbreviate it as just 20, adding two more digits allows anyone to fake a future date into 79 years (2021, 2022.. 2099) etc However in the past, this would have been avoided since abbreviating 2019 as 19 and adding two digits would move you into the past which wont make sense always.
Medical shock refers to very low blood pressure which results in poor oxygenation. It's usually fatal if left untreated. (It can be treated with oxygen and IV fluids). I would guess, though, that 'shock' is used in this context to refer to the explosion (as in shock wave).
Changes in baseball chemistry could contribute to rise in home runs (2019)
My speed in reading as well as my endurance (amount of time I was able to read in one sitting) greatly increased when I switched to an e-reader. I found that the stress of reading small type was impacting my ability to read quickly as well as affecting how long I could read before my brain started to shutdown due to mental exhaustion.

Switching to an e-reader allowed me to increase the text to a comfortable size without increasing the size of the thing (book) I was reading. Sure, you can buy books in large print, but they are usually available for a premium, you can't always but what you want in large print, and either the books are huge or they're abridged.
I agree. I love when my dates sort fine as normal strings. It's easier to read too imo.
So, for the uptake, you can see a large list of companies here: https://www.rust-lang.org/production/users

The not hiring but using bit is based on not seeing Rust jobs despite companies actively using Rust, and many anecdotes of "I wasn't hired for rust, but we use it" over in reddit on r/rust when people ask how to get a rust job.
Cold weather starting is MUCH better on cars than it was 30 years ago. Fuel injection made a big difference.

I had to use a block heater (and battery heater) a number of times. But once I moved to a late 80’s car, I almost never had to use the block heater.
Venous Thrombosis During Spaceflight
How did I dehumanize them?
(1) stop using checks already

and

(2) legal documents should always have the full date (spelled out) on them anyway, so if you just use '20' then that would have been wrong anyway, but 11/Dec/20.
"Know thy audience" and "know thy audience's purpose" are the cardinal rules of technical writing, as mentioned in Marcus's post. Often times there are limits to how much I can know about my audience. In that case it's especially helpful to put an "Assumptions" or "Intended audience" section at the top of a doc.
It means you string a bunch of shit together via aws lambda instances and docker microservices

If its any consolation, at this years Vegas AWS love-fest, most people started walking out once the Amazon presenter started talking 'serverless' recipes
Sure, if the count is just of how many people are dating, but any such model grossly oversimplifies the complexity of human relationships - though, for the subset of people who approach dating with this mindset, it might be accurate. This could also be said for a number of other 'games' mentioned in the article.
Hold on, failure is important for success as long as you learn from it. There's something that gets lost when we fail and that's the more you try the more you learn and it makes it easier the next time.

I suggest you study your past failures and review what went right and wrong. Take the time to look at it alone and then with someone else to get a more objective view.

Also keep in mind that an idea or product are not a business so I would suggest you learn that part. Grab a copy of "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" to get you started.
How is it more "objectively correct" than DD-MM-YYYY?
Not sure what you're getting at with NoSql here - how does NoSql vs relational affect the choice of message broker/queue?

My (very limited, and purely gained through this thread!) understanding of nats suggests it doesn't handle persistence, instead leaving it up to producers and consumers - but I need to not lose any messages in the event of an outage. Waiting for consumers to signal completion of processing isn't practical, as it will sometimes take several minutes or even hours before messages are processed; I think the real solution here is persistence at the broker?
Thanks for sharing.

Y2K used to be just an interesting story from the past. Never guessed that it would still be biting people 20 years later. Ouch...
I'm a bibliophile, so, yes, of course I'm going to say they are "worth it".

Nevertheless, I'll admit, yes, most books are worthless.

However, the books that are important are so totally important that it's almost impossible to overstate how important they are.

Yet, there's no way to tell in advance which books those will turn out to be, for an individual, for a society, and for societies that come after. (A few books are thousands of years old and still relevant and important to this very day!)

Go! Search for treasure! (Cue theme of "Reading Rainbow"....)
That probably works better at Caltech than at most schools.
Books are definitely worth it, but what worries me is how little patience I have to sit down and read one when I can get everything through a fire hose on the Internet.
Legacy HTML-only websites can be compromised
Another hugely important reason to support error recovery: this is how many people find documentation. They see an error when using an application (or writing code) and they copy-paste the error into a search engine. If you provide that error text verbatim in your documentation, you will capture that search engine traffic.
> The one thing that is unique about the [New Tab Page] in the new Edge is that it's actually an online website

IIRC Chrome used to use https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab as its ntp.
ESCapey: An ESC Key Solution for New Apple Laptops
If your reading list consists mostly of self-improvement books I don't think you're missing out, and I think you're wise to continue getting summaries of that content online. Books in that genre are typically filled with irrelevant fluff and anecdotes to fill pages -- I avoid such books.

Only content cannot replace good fiction however, so you will need to use books or an e-reader if you have an interest in that.
Moving a date into the past or the future can both be just as disruptive, depending on the application.
not on patients, but they probably do a lot of iterations and a/b tests on mice. Fail fast is great for medicine research, the sooner you know that something doesn't work, the sooner you can try a new recipie.
That's a question of a lifetime because as you change, mature, books "change" as well every time you read them. With that said, many people approach this by choosing the author(s) first or the historical period, and then drilling down to specific titles. Parent mentioned some authors that were relevant to him/her. Don Quixote (book title) is a great book and it had a special meaning to me when I read it for the first time. It was when I was learning Spanish and consulting in Latin America. Quixote is well regarded as a literature masterpiece for the Spanish language and, to me, as a learner, it was like playing the piano while listening to Beethoven as a reference. Well, this was my own experience. You can choose authors/books to build your own experience around them, which I'm sure you will never forget.
They also state that IETF QUIC proposals don’t seem to cover all aspects like abuse of the source-address token.

To my understanding, the more various identifiers you can muster, the more effective you are at identity stitching across data sets, resulting higher fidelity profiles. Are we at that point already where we’re ok at just waving off at another way to track what we do online?

Meanwhile, it seems theres already an implementation out there that covers ~7% of web traffic and is subject to this behavior. It’s been implemented single handedly by a company thats saying standards are moving too slow for it, far too often these days. That company also conveniently has a lot of stakes in the tracking game.
I'm wondering, where does AI come into play? Isn't this achievable with just basic geometry.
Proof – Increase Website Conversions with Social Proof
Occasionally some places leave you no option but to use a check, at least in the US.
I’m not so willing to engage with consulting agencies. I find it very difficult to deliver a good product with an added degree of removal from the final customer, which is how some of those agencies structure work in order to maintain their business.
ASCII sorting order is chronological order.
Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions
Because its unambiguous -- DD-MM-YYYY could be confused for MM-DD-YYYY
All your assumptions are super wrong, especially that one about how everything can be found for free online

Like you don’t even know that books have to be digitized.

Or that part how magically the most salient and important points will rise up in natural conversation, which is just like what?

Also, this thing bout books being 90% fluff. That’s the biggest giveaway of a non-teaser. How do you even recognize what fluff is? You wrote 4 paragraphs worth of it

Like basically, this is just dunning kruger
It's taken :( Also, I'm trying to challenge the notion that everything needs to have a TLD, so I'm going to deploy it to https://nobsgames.stavros.io.
> The documents reveal a much clearer idea of what actually happened in the 2016 US presidential election, which has a huge bearing on what will happen in 2020. It’s the same people involved who we know are building on these same techniques,” she said

I m confused, were the Democrats being accused of using manipulative social media ad campaigns in 2016?
> I read very slowly and I don't remember everything I read either.

Unless you have dyslexia, this is a skill issue. You're just not very good at reading yet. The non-fiction that you're going to get through with this skill level probably isn't going to be that valuable.

> Is it more true for older books?

Not exactly. It's rather that we've had time to figure out which older books are worth keeping around. If people keep reading a work for two thousand years, there's probably something to it.

> Isn't most of the information from books freely available online?

Oh goodness, no, unless you've gotten past books into primary sources, in which case, yes, it's mostly online, but you need to have specialist knowledge to engage with it at all.

The good news is that, if you learn to read well, finding the right books, usually those meant for training specialists, can get you up to speed at a remarkable rate. I usually explain it as someone who is a crappy player in a professional league is going to be amazing in an amateur context.
Check out DPDK/VPP and the LMAX Disruptor paper.
Fear based political messaging has always been the norm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riDypP1KfOU
This is not an electricity production technology. The goal is heat, not electricity.

For electricity production, photovoltaics is superior to concentrated solar power.
Same robustness issues with my unicomp. The alt and spacebar keys don't register if not pressed a certain way (wonky)... all in about a year of use.

I still have a few model m's, but I got tired of not having a "windows" key, so I gave it a shot and can't recommend them.