skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own about 600 books currently. Ranging from A-Z in terms of subject matter. When I've moved, it has been a huge hassle to box and move and re-shelve them. My wife gets pretty irritated about this.

I wouldn't change this.

Physical book on specific subject matter tend to be very thorough compared to any content I could find online.

Physical books make me pay attention to it. They are right there in front. No blue light emissions, no notifications.

Physical books cost money. You can never sell them for anything near what you paid. I want every dollars worth our of them.

When someone asks me about a subject, if I own books on them I am happy to part with them and pass them along to that person provided they agree to do the same, if asked one day.

OP, please read more books, on any topic. Your mind, stress, creative spark will thank you.
I remember when the 'rotating cube' 3D desktop was released for linux (compiz?), and the animations were instant and flawless, which seemed absolutely _impossible_ on Windows at the time.
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子子子子子子子子子子子子 is a different category: in Japanese, Chinese characters usually have multiple possible readings. In the case of 子, it can be read as ko, ne, shi, or ji. 子子子子子子子子子子子子 is a word play that switches between them. It reads neko(no)kokoneko shishi(no)kokojishi. Note the no are omitted, which would be unusual here (although there are cases of all Chinese character sentences, but they are plain Chinese read as Japanese, with Japanese grammar made up on the spot).
The actual correct way to write that sentence is 猫の子仔猫、獅子の子仔獅子.
Because they're only at a distance of 5 from each other.

7x7 > 8x5.
I've never heard of an onion service called just "an onion" before. I don't know enough to say if that's wrong, just that I was confused.
> Thanks for conceding that, as a mainstream medical professional.

when my GF started med school, she was told "half of what we teach you here will be proven wrong"

I don't think anyone in the medical profession actually thinks they know everything or that a lot is unknown.
The mobile FF remakes were notoriously bad for being just an emulated game with a very crusty UI tacked on. Has anything xhanged?
Good lord, that takes grit to say the least. I would love to hear some war stories from this time, unfortunately there are no anecdotes or any of his dis-proofs on his blog (at least that I could find).
I don’t know enough to know the answer to this, but does the paper address the chance that people that have a cognitive decline watch more tv and it is an effect not a cause?
Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into
I haven't read that book, but I do have three books from Princeton Press on the intersection of math and art and they are all lovely in different ways. [Creating Symmetry][1]is the one I've made the most progress through and I highly recommend it. The author describes it as a postmodern mathematics book, where the voice of the author is present. I want more postmodern mathematics books.

[1]: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691161730/cr...
No, and actually Windows, Mac and consoles still rule, with mobile being a mere 38%.

https://www.wepc.com/news/video-game-statistics/
I was curious about the phrase "The World is not Enough". Apparently the Bond film used the title because "Orbis non sufficit" was on the Bond family crest in an earlier film.

I assume derived from what is supposed to be Alexander the Great's epitaph, "A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.” Though I'm unable to find a credible source that's actually his epitaph.

Also on the family crest for King Phillip II of Spain: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Fu...
P2P Windows updates make sense where large numbers of machines in the same LAN may be updated at the same time.
I notice how carefully you had to tread here to not actually talk about or discuss, brainstorm or theorize, what's going on - not sharing any specifics of your experience except that there is "something there."

And I understand why, it's because enough of a majority of people on HN aren't very open minded nor supportive of open discussing theory or anything unproven, so like where I briefly shared my thoughts here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961032 - it quickly got -3 points, and deemed unacceptable for anyone else to chime in if they have similar thoughts or theories or experiences to share to add to a body of knowledge, even if mostly anecdotal.

Edit: Downvoted for sharing my observations of people's behaviour on HN? Brilliant.
"Rat Neurons Grown On A Computer Chip Fly A Simulated Aircraft":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w41gH6x_30

and a guy on YouTube trying to do it (not working yet):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YDApNRK3g
Win32 is still the definition of native on Windows, it's used by Explorer, Paint, cmd, WinRar, Chrome, Firefox and many more applications. Most UWP applications did not succeed their Win32 counterparts (yet?), for example Edge (which is replaced by Chromium, which is built on Win32), Paint 3D (where Microsoft paddled back from their initial statement of removing the "old" mspaint.exe), Groove Music (basically on life support).

There's plenty of abstractions for Win32, too, such as Qt (see VLC for example, which feels native to Windows).

The only major consumer program written in WPF I know is Visual Studio, but I haven't heard of WPF development in a long time (except for the move to open source).
Wanted: A Home for Three Million Records
The sad truth about our boldest climate target
That's exactly what I was thinking. The assumption that the TV is the culprit is so powerful that is not even questioned.
WebRTC works in browsers. This alone is enough to trump every other consideration these days.
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If you had followed with multiple paragraphs describing in detail as to why the comment is pure garbage, why it has to be called out, offering context, background information and possible alternatives - then you'd have a valid analogue and a basis for debate. Just sayin'.
Well, you have to remember the memes so you can exhale more air from your nose when you see it next time.
Transforming the biological physical body into a biological 'pure information' 'energy-encoded' system (well, just software, but with incredibly specific rules) is one of my favorite ideas in SF. I tried to write a book including that 10 years ago, and while I'm a lazy fiction author, the thinking experiments were great.

I called this new species "energeans", functionally termed "Maxwell organisms" in a nod to the 19th century genius. Humans individuals become 'permanent, self-consistent' organized energy 'fields' of sorts (to preserve continuity, the sense of "self", as one's energy goes through machines (as electrons probably), space (as photons), etc.

It's totally whack physics as we speak outside some incredibly controlled lab, but it's fun to think about. :)

The Fermi paradox, I agree it's probably BS (but that's really just belief as we speak). I like to use it as a reminder of some "unknown known" (that we might not know, but others do), like

"civilization is possibly very, very hard";

or "we are so far away from big boys science that we grasp at space with tiny sticks like ants carry food, being silently observed by the equivalent of humans — so, so much above and beyond our very perception";

and my nagging favorite is a hypothesis that maybe, just maybe, what we think we "see" in space is really not what's actually out there — like Bohr's model of the atom with valency etc. was/is totally fine functionally (afaik we still do basic chemistry with it?), but not at all a "picture" of reality. Hence we'd be looking for caterpillars when all there is to see are butterflies — energeians? holo-trickery? nano-robotic swarms? blackhole farming? 5, 11, 23 dimensional space? And most being non-exclusive with others.

One thing seems sure to me: the most fundamental thing we might have right now is a quantum interpretation of Shannon's information theory, and going by that, there's a long way ahead of us until we reach "hard limits". It's crazy to think what this universe allows if you give it enough time and energy.

Here's to your last sentence being true. I must admit, I have confidence in the eventual resolution in a "decently near" future (~100 years at most), but I'm increasingly worried about the chaos/transition — if history is any indication, which it absolutely is imho, it's gonna cost too many lives and too much despair for too many people, whereas some will undoubtedly manage to turn the outcome to their advantage — even better off on the other side, like the "Great Heist of 1929", and it seems to me most majors periods of intense and prolonged chaos.
What's acceptable to the majority of HN crowd is only what the majority have been indoctrinated into, and so if they don't have experience in this more holistic realm of energy - learned through experiencing - then it's dismissed and downvoted, and the curiosity of their ego mind remains intrigued learning by reading vs. developing an understanding through experiential learning.
Why Adsense?
So, bevel and emboss? What am I missing?
These fired Google employees must be so happy about the precedent the NLRB set in the Damore case. Reap what you sow, and all that.
What are your thoughts on ebooks?

I have never had 600 books in my library but couple years ago when moving I simply got rid of every single physical book I owned.

I have not bought a new one since. All my books are electronic and I don't feel like I am losing anything. Of course there is a chance that in 15 years all my backups are gone or nothing can read the several formats I have them in but how likely is that?

And until that is happening, I can carry the hundreds of books in my pocket or search through them easily on my computer when needed. It makes moving so much easier and saves up a lot of space.
> I also think it’s unfair to suggest this is an issue due to lack of talent. Although I’d be open to knowing what you think is lacking in particular.

I mean talent in the sense of hiring. Games companies don't hire security engineers by-and-large to work on their systems.
I don't see this as a case of precendence.of に vs は but rather as a case of に being associated with いる, and that without it, いる人 is incomplete.
That’s not really them pushing an ethical position though IMO. That’s more of a cover their butt clause. It’s put in the terms under the belief that if someone does use their product in a terrorist act anyone who suffered from it can’t sue them as they expressly forbade the acts in their license.
Implicit Bias Training Doesn't Work
Apple's secrecy doesn't work for Apple TV+
this was one of the interview questions I got for a NVIDIA position, the second part of the question was asking why using XOR in the actual code (or why XOR is faster than using assignments).

I didn't know. the answer (as I faintly remember) was because ALU comes before the memory logics in the cpu pipeline. so if this can be solved by math calculations, the instructions can bail out early from the pipeline, hence the execution is faster.

also the article doesn't mention compiler flags. was optimization on?
Opera supported proper torrents back in its Presto days.
Kohler puts an Alexa-enabled smart speaker in a showerhead
Brotli has wide browser support (https://caniuse.com/#feat=brotli) and comes closer to zstd in compression ratio and compression speed, but its decompression speed is significantly lower and closer to zlib.

https://github.com/facebook/zstd#benchmarks

AFAIK (I haven't looked much into it since 2018) it's not widely supported by CDNs, but at least Cloudflare seems to serve it by default (EDIT: must be enabled per-site https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168396-W...)
Mecab fails miserably on the second. It doesn't find the hidden "母は", but it's hard to blame it.
Conservative HR/Legal departments will often post jobs publicly to avoid a discrimination lawsuit from the EEOC.

The federal government can (and routinely does) ask mid-sized to large companies for records of their job applicants to "prove" they are not discriminating against protected categories (women, minorities, the disabled, etc).

So if the CEO/hiring exec wants to hire his good old boy friend to a position no matter what the job will still be posted and applicants will be collected even if they have no chance of being hired.

Obviously I have no data on how prevalent this practice is but I've witnessed it firsthand, so it happens.
Science is a method, that is, a tool. As any tool, its applicability is limited.
At the farmers market earlier this fall, the seller was having a hell of a time getting his phone to work so that he could swipe our card on his Square.

After looking a little, he was wrapping his hand behind the phone far enough that he had his fingers from that hand touching the screen while he tried to poke buttons with his other hand.

Since there were multiple fingers on the screen, it kept interpreting them as gestures and not doing anything.

Further, his case made it so the Square dongle thing wouldn't stay plugged in all the way. So when he finally did get it to the swipe screen, it wouldn't read the card.

Finally ended up offering to look at it myself and manually entering my card info. The guy was so visibly relieved to be out of that situation.

Smart phones aren't nearly so user friendly as a lot of tech people like to think.
I believe you can read a novel more or less mindlessly, as you can read HN. But HN is more surprising, and it's like a slot-machine (in the analogy that Tristan Harris makes with social media).

For me it is like System 1 or System 2 taking charge (as in the book "Thinking Fast and Slow", by Kahneman).
You inspired me to go hunting around Hacker News and I ended up with this lil' curated list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 :)
This is another article about Kathryn Spiers, the fifth person recently to claim that Google fired them for organizing. Earlier ahem spirited discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813619
Superior pinpoints racism in science: Naive scientists plus strategic racists
You could probably say the same thing about 90% of scientific papers.

Almost all research is narrow in scope, and more research is always needed.

And calling other research fields "nonsense" is also something that researchers from all fields do.
Exactly, that's why I think we need to put logic and probability theory back into cutting edge ML. [1,2] are only early approaches that show potential directions to achieve this.

Deep learning is very useful, but only one piece of the whole AGI puzzle.

Furthermore, many AI problems will benefit the generality of being formulated as a probabilistic program synthesis problem [3]. In this framework, lots of program semantics (~formal methods) concepts like abstract interpretation [4,5] might become very useful. They allow to explore huge program spaces very quickly.

Lastly, Pearl's do calculus [6] is a good starting point closely related to [1].

[1] http://probmods.org/

[2] http://pyro.ai/

[3] https://web.mit.edu/cocosci/Papers/Science-2015-Lake-1332-8....

[4] http://www.concrete-semantics.org/concrete-semantics.pdf

[5] http://adam.chlipala.net/frap/frap_book.pdf

[6] http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/causality2-epilogue.pdf
Tesla’s market cap is now double Ford’s
I concur. This is a pretty exhaustive write-up, with a lifetime of resources to devour. And while I think there is tremendous advantage to learning tactics and strategy games. One of my favorites to introduce to the younger set is the GBA classic "Advance Wars". I wonder if it's healthy. It would be nice if there was a PeaceGaming library as well. One that taught diplomacy and conflict resolution through non-violence.

I am reminded of the quote I believe attributed to John Adams along the lines of "I study war and politics, so that my children may master poetry and philosophy" ;)
I had seen a few of these discussions pop up on Hacker News and I wanted to collect them all together into a single list.

If you have any other good examples I have missed feel free to contribute with an Issue/PR! :)
This is wonderful! On iOS the card clicking occasionally takes several attempts.

If this were a native app I’d certainly play with friends and family.
Tech Writing is a waterfall job.

What's needed is something more like peer review, where the "tech writer's" job is to ask hard question from the user POV during development - for varying values of "user", which would include customer, API consumer, and so on.

This wouldn't be code review, because it's about features, interfaces, and expected behaviours, not the fine details of implementation. And it wouldn't be a PM job, because it would be peer feedback in the form of dialog, not management in the form of requirements and specs.

And it should be continuous, so the doc base evolves in parallel with the code base.

And it should not be an afterthought.

This job does not exist yet. And it should, because virtually all orgs have a problem where individual developers become repositories of The Important Knowledge. If they leave it becomes hard to characterise system behaviours and architectures well enough to understand how they work well enough to replace/improve/reverse engineer them.

So IMO there's a niche for people who are competent developers, competent listeners, and competent communicators, who can pull it all together, stay on top of changes, and leave a readable record of the current state of institutional knowledge about projects, practices, stacks, and interfaces.
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Moving the application layer to the browser won't magically solve trust and security problems in the long run. This is a battle OS vendors should resume fighting.
Any resources for doing the same thing in python?
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No doubt! Given this, it'd be much better if my parent commenter had brought that kind of humility and a spirit of acceptance and constructiveness to the discussion.
Kind of a big difference between being fired for trimming to organize (which is protected by law) and being fired by pushing pseudo science to marginalize a certain group of colleagues.
I have never played Set before but this looks like a dead state to me? https://i.imgur.com/saLCZKH.png
too soon to start putting 2019 on titles?
Adding grey zone activity to GDP numbers a great trick to increase the available govt debt ceiling without compromising the debt/GDP % numbers. I'm wondering if the US will do the same, given how large the deficit already is.
That might have been the intent, but it wouldn't work. Otherwise firearms would be sold with some sort of "I promise not to shoot anyone in circumstances that a court won't later approve" agreement.
Reverse causality would be an interesting conclusion. Essentially asserting that articulate people with good memories are less likely to find TV appealing and would prefer to read or do something more interactive instead.
LastPass is free for single users. It’s good at holding secure notes and cards. It appears to encrypt everything client side. Not open source.

Emacs is good at automatically keeping gpg files. Not sure about mobile support.
... except when it's not.
TVs have sleep timers where they turn off after the set amount of time. Or at least they used to. You might be able to use an Alexa plug between the TV and the wall to the same effect.
Damore was advocating for improvements in workplace conditions, which is also something that's protected by labor law. He was doing the very opposite to "marginalizing" a group of colleagues; he explicitly stated that this group of colleagues would enjoy their work more and become more productive if Google found ways to increase their social involvement in the work, by expanding on practices such as pair programming. And plenty of actual scientists have stood behind his claims.
He Raised $400M to Change How You Order Your Drinks
>handwriting is better for your brain than typing.
{{citation needed}}
I smell authoritarians...
This is the precedent that says that while parts of Damore's memo would be protected by labor laws, "the statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected" and if "an employee’s conduct significantly disrupts work processes, creates a hostile work environment, or constitutes racial or sexual discrimination or harassment, the Board has found it unprotected even if it involves concerted activities regarding working conditions," and concludes "that the memorandum included both protected and unprotected statements" and Google only fired him for the latter?

Yes, I imagine they're happy about that. It confirms that they're protected.
There is pretty much nothing you can do on a Linux system that doesn't make a swaptest (showing e.g. red and blue screens on even and odd frames) glitch.
Top right, top centre, bottom right, I think.
An eruv is a symbolic boundary that allows observant Jews to carry out a range of ordinary activities otherwise forbidden on the Shabbat. There are eruvin in more than 30 states in the U.S., but Manhattan’s is one of the longest in the world. A nearly invisible wire runs from 126th Street in Harlem, down to Battery Park and back up to 111th along the East River. The line has been in place, in some form or another, for just over a century.

It has also an official website where people can check if the eruv is up or down: http://eruv.nyc/
> modern television [...] lacks novelty.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “modern”? We’re in a golden age of television, according to some. I can think of at least a dozen shows released in the past few years that have deep and complex storylines.
I've been discussing these topics on HN for a long time. I've learned it's better to meet people where they're at than to demand people immediately leap to my place of understanding.
No, not "except that". Linux is just a kernel.

Yes, Google could replace Linux but they would also have to port drivers for every device Android runs on to that kernel.
Firefox considering off-by-default preference for loading user.js files
Sure, for a data integration we needed the “high level” architecture diagram for business users (eg. Database here, data flows into it from azure data factory, which reads it from here, etc).

...and the low level resource group names, networks, firewall rules, etc. so it would actually work.

Exactly the same data, but less detail in the former.

Then the same diagram again, only this time it shows the data flows for the BI team.

The nodes in the diagrams are not different, the connections between them are, and some nodes (eg. Resource groups and NSGs aren’t relevant to some audiences.

Why can’t I have one diagram with layers (I can) that changes the layout to still be a nice diagram when I toggle some layers off (not possible in basically any diagramming tool I’ve ever used).

I run into this kind of issue which detailed architecture diagrams all the time; someone modified a design (or system) and the documentation is instantly out of date in all places except the one they remembered to update.

Um... so tldr; if you’ve ever had to document the exact network architecture down to protocol and port between systems because you actually need that level of detail to make it work, but also want to surface the same data to other people who really don’t care what the different network ranges in dev/sit/prod are.
Saudi Arabia is a US client kingdom, their proxy war would not be happening if Iran was still a US subject.
Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration
There is no doubt that many people who are paid in cash under report their income. At least in the case of servers, however, the IRS has a pretty good idea how much you are getting in tips. If you don't report enough, you will be audited and you will get a bill. I'm acquainted with someone who tried this and he was still paying off his tax bill a couple of decades later.
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