skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love to see projects like this. I’ve always lamented that my father threw away his set of System 360 manuals while cleaning out the garage. He also had boxes of early computer science books - nothing like them today, first half of the books were always dedicated to explaining the professor’s particular diagraming style and symbology, second half of the book was the actual computer science content. I’m always on the lookout for books like that when I hit the used book stores but have never found any.
Except that it is increasingly possible to tell grads from non-grads. If all you are concerned with is coding, there isnt much different. But of you look for writing ability, communication capacity, and cultural knowledge, those with only highschool or a few years of online junk really do stand out, not in a good way.
Honestly, it's not surprising. ML is billed as a tool, one that in the last 5 or so years we've surprisingly "figured out". This is vast overselling, but it still creates the basic mental model for folks without further training: ML is a tool you can apply to certain situations to achieve outcomes that you used to need people for, especially in vision and NLP.

I personally believe this is false, but also false in a way that we're remarkably far away from that. Even more than software, predictive automation is a process. It often relies on particular customization to your own situation to be successful. It can demand vast resources. It's wildly difficult to debug.

So we should be working to retrain those around us. ML is a process.
Bloom is one of my least favorite literary critics. I find his writing to be snobbish, presumptuous, and self-assured. It makes for a quite frustrating read. There's plenty of writers in the field that manage to do just as much of an effective, if not better, job without constantly sounding self-righteous. James Wood, for example, is also a popular literary critic (his books likewise find their way beyond the academic gates) that makes for far more pleasant reading.

To give an example: it's been some time since I've read it, but while I remember the general theory proposed in The Anxiety of Influence sounding reasonable enough, I found the overall tone of the work far too arrogant. I suppose it was somewhat of a polemic at the time, which maybe excuses the tone some, but still--I've never read Bloom and not felt that, had I met him in person, he'd annoy me to no end and he wouldn't be tons of fun to be around.
That would have been my guess at who this is aimed at too. Lots of applications outside the military and spook shops but that's always been the primary customer.
Yes Aurora Serverless is a distinct offering. Regular Aurora you have a certain server of a certain size. Aurora Serverless autoscales - just like lambda.
Apply to a large company. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, all of these and many more have tech writers as a full time position.

Of course, there are not gigs. I know nothing of gigs to be honest.
The sad but true reason is because people aren't generally making rational decisions on here. They'll claim a reason, but it's usually really based on pre-conceived notions. "Google kills projects so I won't use Flutter, but will definitely go all in on GoLang" is a great example of this.
Here's my brilliant idea for saving Fry's.

Two of their biggest problems are

1) Not enough people coming into their store to buy, and

2) Past real-estate investments that left them with too much indoor space.

Solution:

Take half the space of each store, and turn it into a maker-space/education center.

Hold workshops there. Free, or dirt cheap, on how to do fun things with a Raspberry Pi, or build your own PC/gaming rig, or whatever.

Have spaces where people can assemble their gear. With a few knowledgeable staff around - plus the friendly neighborhood volunteers who will be naturally attracted to just come hang out at this space - to help out. And since it's right there, they can just walk over to the store and BUY ALL THE PARTS.

Make it FUN. Family friendly. A place where people want to come and just hang out, to be around other technical hobbyists...

A place where local tech enthusiasts go to meet their friends, and make new friends. And spend money.

(Heck, Fry's could even sell food and drinks. Popcorn. There would be people there who need to eat and drink; why not?)

Would this work?

Maybe. Maybe not.

But I bet it has a better chance of working than the direction they're heading now.
You got a source for any of this?
So these cookies may die but it’s a perpetual arms race. Browser fingerprinting will (or has) replace(d) cookies for tracking purposes.
>You know the transaction exists, and at some point (i.e. after a certain number of blocks), if the transaction isn't included in the chain, you can conclude with reasonable certainty that the transaction is being intentionally orphaned. This allows you to reject the chain that doesn't include the transaction as invalid, and choose the longest chain that does include it.

So you are going to reorg after many blocks (enough to be sure a transaction is being censored). This sounds extremely undesirable as it kills finality. Today you can very reasonably be sure that after say, 6 blocks, a transaction is irreversible. That's not the case with this new rule.
Reusing the same attack would just result in a never-ending series of offshoots from the "western" chain. If anything that would guarantee that the uncensored chain stays dominant, as all of the forks would be quicky abandoned for the next
Bill Gates never finished geometry
Just passing on info but ANA (the airline company) has colored helmets in their maintenance to facility to distinguish supervisors (color 1) from non supervisors (color 2) and 1st year employees (colors 3) and guests (color 4). I don't know if they do any tracking.
For starters the OEA central role in sustaining the hypothesis of electoral fraud without any proof, setting this discourse and mantaining it with the help of mainstream media. You can see Pompeo and others telling Evo not to participate, then calling fraud, then supporting the coup. This was already setup and known by many in advance. There are audio proofs of that since before the election.

Then through the Escuela de las Americas "educating" and controlling the military and police. For example Williams Kaliman who asked Evo to resign left immediately after the coup to USA and lives now there. There's also many politicians from the previous era who live in the USA, some of whom have capture orders for the killings that happened before the Morales era.

Finally by financing local groups to cause caos and "effect campaigns", like attacking local politicians, humiliating them and later publishing videos or making them march nude in the streets or covered in paint. You can see how the modus operandi is the same as the "guarimbas" in Venezuela, young groups, travelling by 2 in motorcycles, hitting and running.

Of course this supports on local groups and politicians without whom it would be harder or more evident to do.

https://www.hispantv.com/noticias/opinion/442254/rol-embajad...
China already has identities for most people in developed countries. Everyone reading this is already in their systems.
You're right. I must've mis-clicked.
I’m going by the only facts that you offered. You said that it took your developers two weeks to do something that should only take an hour. I showed you an example of how to host a standard API or website within lambda with minimum effort.

If your developer haven’t come up with processes to efficiently manage their development and deployment processes - it’s a process issue that others have already solved.
Why do you suggest hourly? I understand fixed big puts all of the risk on you, but would you also consider daily or weekly billing as a reasonable compromise?
Do you think the Martin Luther translation had a more significant impact on the Western Canon than the King James version? Also presumably the list’s biggest value is in allowing someone to go and read all these works to get a better understanding of the Canon. Would you suggest people read both versions? (presumably further translated to their own language)

You do have a good point, but I think it’s more against the notion of the Canon than this list.
FWIW there is already some push back on this trend in design circles. I just want buttons and form elements to look like you can interact with them again.
https://keda.sh/
It looks like part of Girard's ideas is that when life purpose and sense of value is based on social comparisons, and actual differences are very small, people become very prone to thinking the worst of others. The idea is that these conditions make it hard to assume good intent and avoid assuming malice. And that harm follows the resulting judgments of evil and injustice.
Ask HN: How to read mailing list via RSS?
I subscribe to a number of daily/weekly mailing lists and I’d love to read them in my RSS reading app. Is there a simple way to achieve this?
Not necessarily the nearest if you have a couple of airports at approximately the same distance, but in this situation I guess it makes sense to land ASAP and CDB is ok.

Some emergency situations will have the plane fly back to its origin even if there are closer airports (source: have been in one), some others will have you land at the closest airport period even if might not be 100% suitable.
Probably the same incident:https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/airliner-repair-247...
3G phones are unfortunately no better choice than 2G phones, because the 3G networks of most operators will be not running much longer than their 2G networks. Here in Europe operators often even plan to shut down their 3G networks prior to their 2G networks.

Kyocera indeed seems to have some 4G "dumb" feature phones: https://www.kyoceramobile.com/phones/?filter=type:basic#

That's quite interesting. Thanks for the pointers.
> An easy way to build up productised services is to keep the rights to use of the software that you write or that you oversee others writing. This works best for software that doesn’t give a competitive edge to customers and that is not specific to customers. Your leverage is to give a discount on your fees, if you are allowed to keep the rights to use.

I have never seen this going well. It is in my experience very rare that companies are willing to let the consultant keep the rights and when they do there is a big chance that they regret it and want the rights for a small fee later. I've seen this damaging the customer relationship in the past. I'm curious what other consultant's experiences are?
I think your average developer will interpret everything you said as mostly technobabble and not understand why something like MySQL wouldn't just work.
Please try out one of Flutter or React Native. I think you’ll be surprised how much nicer they are for anything like this. The code is certainly not cumbersome when compared to the equivalent XML.

Also, in Flutter and React Native you don’t (typically) have to wait for your code to compile as they do hot reload.
Racial Bias Shielded Thousands of Black Americans from the Opioid Crisis
Because some services (banks) restrict phone numbers to only local (same country) ones.
It's like people who hold up snowballs and say there's no global warming.
Because after you have “learned the fundamentals” it takes a lot longer to “learn” how to write a function that takes in two parameters, zip it up with all of your dependencies and upload it....
> 7. California housing market will collapse due to high electricity prices, lack of electricity and wildfires

Hope you're right about the CA housing market coming down, but I think more likely is just that Gavin Newsom and ilk get booted out for their failures to reign in PG&E and housing prices aren't particularly effected one way or the other.

Wildfires are generally not in the densely populated areas, so I don't think they'll move the needle much.
I didn't? Obviously, I got that from the "housing, education, healthcare, costs are rapidly raising in real terms and have not followed Moore's law in usefulness" part...
That is where the Model M "space saver" comes in: https://tinyurl.com/vcvkf8p
There's a lot of people in web development who are full of shit. You can tell who they are when they claim that JS or the DOM is slow unless you use X framework. What they either don't understand or ignore is that frameworks are for the developer, not the computer. If you are a fool, a framework isn't going to stop you from making really bad choices and over-engineering something into oblivion. Years from now, there will be people claiming that React is "too slow" or "too bloated" or "too complicated", and it will be abandoned for the next greatest thing. Some of this also has to do with the fact that there are lots of wild-eyed entrepreneurial types who either want to work for FAANG or have a startup that they believe will compete with FAANG. Thus, they only believe in the latest and greatest thing.

The secret, or perhaps not-so-secret, is that the vast majority of web applications are still CRUD, and the average person doesn't understand the difference between a SPA and a server-rendered app. Most of the engineering effort that goes beyond that is probably a waste of time unless you really plan on doing things beyond CRUD. So the best thing is to actually understand the fundamentals, learn to do a good job at those, and use the tools that make sense for said job. That means that maybe, just maybe, your WebGL game doesn't need to use React.
> This is entirely predicated on understanding how much we have affected it so far

Obviously, this isn't true. It's possible to have a future effect on things you haven't yet changed and visa versa.
Cash registers in Poland fail due to new year bug (PL)
My guess is that this is like the export controls on munitions or encryption. You can't export to China but you can fairly easily get a license to sell it in Australia or any other US allied country.
The data can't tell you how the groups differ, since you can't tell the difference between criminal behavior and policing behavior. So you have to add some priors. The most progressive approach is to assume that there are no intrinsic differences between protected groups, and any difference in the data is the legacy of past discrimination.

You can add such a prior by adding a term to the loss function that penalizes any difference between the way the groups are treated. The math isn't hard, only the political decision of what is protected and what isn't.
I find these absurdly limited mail services strange. The one time I had to craft some "extra" email, was sending out surveys to an opt-in group for an EU project. There were some 10 000 recipients, and we had to send each a different email, in order to link responders with surveys (ie: a template email with description and an unique url of the form https://example.com/survey/123xyz).

Generating the emails in a naive loop and sending them via python took an insignificant amount of time - but in the end we worked out doing batches of 2000 at a time was easy enough - and with some help from the college that ran the email service (via exim) it all worked out (if you're going to send 10k mails in a day, it's nice to give your postmaster a heads up).

Hosting the mail server ourselves (using eg exim or postfix) would've worked too. Not sure about any of the spam-as-a-http-api services - even with custom domains they tend to have poor reputation, and they have these silly limits that mean they're not only not "auto scaling" - they're very low performance.
Not sure I understand how the military is going to stop individuals from exchanging goods within a country, are you suggesting the US/Chinese/Some other military would stop the flow of everyday goods into its own country to prevent Bitcoin transactions?
Guide to the Markets [pdf]
I discovered Red (and its predecessor Rebol) a few months ago and was really excited about it - very interesting blend of ideas that seems to hit a sweet spot for GUI scripting. Then I discovered it doesn’t have 64-bit support and it seems the community is debating about whether it even should, as it would require a significant overhaul. This makes it a no-go at least for Mac users unfortunately.

Anyone know how likely this is to change [soon]?
Ask HN: Best documentation for a command-line program?
I'm documenting an app that runs on the command line. I'd like to make it as easy to understand as possible for intermediate-level users. What's the best page/site you've seen for such a program?
I honestly have no idea what this means
There was.
Dating is not actually a zero-sum game either; the issue here is more about perceptions than things necessarily being so.
I did this for a short time, but one more important lesson I learned: The more $ you charge, the better you get treated by customers. The less $ you charge, the more abuse you take from customers.
Why the push back? I'm not a designer but these look just as interactable as anything from Material Design
I've found gray-scale mode to be a great deterrent for constant phone use. It just makes everything so much more dull
Prejudice is using a proxy to approximate something else. It’s inherently inaccurate like trying to find the fastest vehicle and then listening them by price tag.

The problem for AI is these proxies can seem to be very useful. Want to know how fast a vehicle is, well price seems like a really good approximation when you start. Except, the more information you have the more likely price is going to fool you.
I think this is a good point, but I'm not entirely sure that these skills distinguishes grads from non-grads. I think grads are much more likely to possess these skills for sure, but I would guess that a large percentage of grads don't possess these skills either (at least in my experience).

I don't intend this as a criticism, but rather just an observation, that someone could see writing ability and communication capacity and cultural knowledge and assume a grad, and thus make these types of observations a self-fulfilling prophecy.
How is running a website on S3 different from uploading your website to a shared hosting provider 20 years ago? How is it “beautiful”?
It's misleading because "serverless" intuitively means peer to peer, where everything runs on clients and there are truly no servers. So unlike "bug" it has an intuitive meaning that is the opposite of what the buzzword now means.
Reading a book for me is an incredible slow process. I can only really focus on reading if it is the first thing I do when I wake up.

Wake up, make a coffee, and then sit and read for a bit. I can tolerate about 20 minutes before I start to get restless and need to do something else.

If I have exposed my brain to some high stimulating environment. Like browsing the internet, or even just heading out. It is game over. I can't concentrate. I end up constantly getting distracted.

I think I need to be bored/ in a low stimulating environment to read physical books.

Having said that I do listen to audiobooks just fine.
Cory Doctorow is the kind of person who locks his car doors when a black person walks by while tweeting about social justice and fairness of algorithms
Broken windows policing is not "debunked". A lot of people would prefer for ideological reasons that it not work, but it does. Anyone who lived in NYC can tell you that.
Great way to get free strong crypto software chased out of app stores, and prevent its proliferation.

If I were in the bulk signals collection business, I would also file a patent that legally discouraged the implementation of the best known scheme for end to end encryption as well. Patent office may grant it under pressure.
I think the answer is "it doesn't matter" because it will never happen. This guy has set himself an absurdly ambitious, poorly defined task.
It seems that you are expected to read email by viewing the contents of the S3 bucket. That's a pretty big caveat.
I’m actually doing something similar, I opted for SES, S3 and Lamda, I am a bit worried about costs, especially when i need to scale up, and handle larger emails.
I am reading through The Righteous Mind myself at the moment and it is a GREAT book! The ideas are very well presented.
Ever hear the phrase "truth from the mouth of babes"? ML systems are a lot like children, and like children, frequently state things that are both true and impolite. Sometimes, though, these things need to be said.
tl;dr Yes. Books are worth it.

For the vast majority of my life, I didn’t read any books. Reading for me is a painfully boring experience. I simply lack the ability to read and comprehend at a speed that keeps me engaged.

Then, I realized I assimilate information very differently based on the medium. For me, math is a very visual thing. Graphs and plots make mathematical concepts immediately understandable. For general learning, hearing someone talk about a topic is most effective for me. This is when I decided to give audiobooks a go. This has been transformational for me.

Any good audiobook app will allow for faster playback. I’ve trained myself to listen to books at 2x speed (or faster). This is easily 5x the speed I would comprehend the material if I physically read it. So it’s super effective for me. I listen to these books in my car during my commute. Audiobooks convert my commute from a time waster into probably the most valuable time I have in my day.

So why are books worth it? For me, books end up performing like the repetitive learning system of Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/). A good book is somewhat repetitive as it goes deep on a focus area. Spending 10+ hours over the period of a week or so consuming a topic and having time for my brain to stew on it is incredible. I can’t get this from pod casts or blog posts and other online content.

I only listen to non-fiction books, typically on topics around human psychology, business, and topics I hope to give me new insights.

Bottom line: books are worth it because they offer depth that I can’t get anywhere else. That depth is the value.
That's about as nice an example of survivorship bias as you could find. SpaceX came within a whisker of ceasing to exist. If that one launch had failed it would have been game over for them. But they got lucky that time and they have done a fantastic job at keeping their eye on the ball ever since. Every business has one or more of those critical moments in time when things just have to go your way. If you are in a business where breaking things is your only option to succeed at all then you should. SpaceX gambled and won, and breaking things is still the way of the world in rocketry and likely will be for some time.
A fair observation. I do think there's some value to concerns over style, but far too many tech writers give them undue prominence.

I couldn't champion your bulleted points harder. Honestly, if I had a say in it, any tech writer working on developer documentation should be able to code/build/perform/use whatever task or api they're documenting without the help of an engineer. They should be able to read and understand code, and they should be willing to do so, even more so than the average engineer using some library code. They should be capable of understanding a library deeply and synthesizing and summarizing that understanding for users of the library.

Just as tech writers in the medical field need to know quite a bit about medicine, tech writers in software should be required to know quite a bit about engineering software. There's plenty that do, but there's also quite a few that don't--I think it's a side effect of the field's relative youth.

I really wish more writers would code and do exactly the things you mention, such as implement robust code sample testing, etc.

The ideal technical writer, at least for software engineering documentation, is a hybrid of a traditional technical writer and a software engineer[^1].

[^1]: This excludes user-facing software documentation, which is essentially a totally different field than those that deal with writing for developer or engineer audiences.