skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing how to be alone and being social is not a rigid dichotomy. I think it’s clear what Tarkovsky means: that there is immense value in self-discovery. I’ve heard similar sentiments from other great artists.

Grothendieck famously attributed his mathematical confidence to a long period of solitude in his youth where he independently recreated some major results.

The late Harold Bloom used to say that reading is ultimately a solitary endeavor—that its purpose is to learn to have a conversation with yourself.

However I think for reflective people there is a “danger” on the side of being too entangled in this conversation. Socialization can start to seem banal and unambitious in comparison. But I’ve found that this just suggests that you haven’t found people who aren’t in the habit of talking with themselves.

I find this story apropos: There was a screening at the Yale Humanities Center of Tarkovsky’s “Ivan’s Childhood” that my roommate wanted to take me to when we were undergrads. I only reluctantly agreed—it was freezing outside and I had been cooped up in my room wrestling with a statistical mechanics problem set. Frankly I didn’t feel like we got along. But my decision to go became the beginning of one of the deepest friendships I continue to have and my endlessly enriching relationship with film and literature.
CERN did not create the internet. Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web.

Also keep in mind that there actually existed many predecessors of hypertext systems (EDIT: see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_hyper... ); just for some reason (let's say because the world wide web was in the right spot at the right time), the world wide web became hugely popular.
Not common that you see a philosophy more radical than Stallman's.

As I understand Stallman's free software philosophy -- the GPL -- the idea is that code must respect the person running it / using it.

Under this philosophy, if I am communicating with you, it's not up to me what tools you use in formulating your responses. And whether those tools respect your freedom or not. So GPL only applies to those directly using the code, not others they interact with using the outputs of that code.

I'm wondering if the AGPL is supposed to come from a different philosophical foundation, or if it would be better understood as an economic / power-structure tool?
> I don't think Adobe ever open-sourced the Flash codebase, right?

This shows we should only allow technologies on the web if they have a clear path to preservation.

I think a similar thing should hold for DRM'ed video. Such videos may be supported on the web, but we should demand they lose their DRM when their copyright expires.
I love quaternions, but I have to ask: you'd rather have that formula than Euler's identity tattooed?
Hmm, I seem to be mixing up using 4d linear operations (ie, a 4x4 matrix) to represent translation, rotation, scaling, etc, with their combinations, with representing a rotation itself. Thanks for your help—I'll dig more into this.
I think you’re reading that incorrectly. NPR is likely not saying they should be embarrassed, they’re saying they would be embarrassed. That’s just a fact.
Flux.jl: Julia ML library that doesn't make you tensor
OP has significant savings. They are their own VC. Think of it in terms of a startup, most of which don't turn profits for years.
Consider a vipassana
Thanks for reading!

>Do you ever feel issues with motivation when you don't see growth as quickly as you'd like?

Good question. For me, the more dominant feeling is frustration when I do something that I expect will bring growth, and then there's no measurable effect. That happened over and over again with Is It Keto. It was especially tough because the site's growth depends so heavily on Google, and there seems to be a lag time of weeks or months before Google reacts to certain changes or decides certain pages are worth putting at the #1 slot for related queries. It was tough to make a site change or publish a new post and think, "Okay, I guess I'll just wait 6-8 weeks to see what Google thinks of this."
I’ve seen (while working at Google) that on paper they seemed to have lots of “education” and in meetings the ones in management were overly confident and talked the talk but in 1:1 rarely did they know anything that wasn’t in a book, jargon or memorized. Rarely did they think up their own ideas or challenged the status quo. My manager was from India. He told me to make my solutions look more complicated and more lines of code to “make it on his team”. Engineers I found amazing, but once they decide to go the management path stay away, they would step over and on anyone, claim ownership for others ideas. not in a productive, supportive, work hard way, but a calculating negative way.

Been doing this a long time, and every culture has differences but only with Indians in management from India did I feel I had to watch my back. Nepotism was so obvious I’m shocked it isn’t researched more. Maybe something with that ridiculously stupid and inhuman caste system.
Ymmv
Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
Can I catch the same cold twice?
Obviously I have an actual resume. What did you think about the thing in general other than not being able to make out some of the words in the word cloud?

...also, based on your feedback I updated that image to make the smaller text bigger. I had noticed the same thing earlier but I didn't imagine it would bother my intended audience. Not saying that's you but at least I'm fixing the things people say they don't like.
Doing some reading, I seem to be mixing this up with https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/72044/why-do-we-.... The later bit I understand, but I think it shows I don't really get what this article is all about. I'll have to read it further. Thank you :-)
That's really another question, I have a lot of sympathy for people in that situation but it isn't what we are talking about here.
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Kettles go on the stove (or have a built in heater), and are used for boiling water.

You pour the boiling water into a teapot, usually made of ceramic, which holds the tea leaves.

Not that it's important, but now ya know.
I missed that. Sorry for piling on.
It's good to know I'm not alone. Mine isn't that intense; I only do this several times a day, but when driving or in the shower, I am frequently giving speeches in front of thousands, or debating publicly on live television. I constantly call myself out on aspects where I'm weak, and correct myself. I don't schedule time or do this deliberately; it kind of just happens. But what I've found is that is has helped me so much in my face-to-face communication at work.
I entirely agree. Unfortunately, this issue rests with democracy as a whole. I once tried to promote the idea of performance reviews for candidates and blind elections based only on experience and presented plans/documentation. Unfortunately, I think that even that system would fail because voter participation is abysmally low.
shouldn't it be e^tau*i = 1 if tau is 2pi?
This proves that the even in the modern creative economy, the bourgeoisie still holds the means of production - through contacts/venture capital/market manipulation.

EAT THE RICH.
>> It's not like the user experience of WhatsApp is drastically worse for having E2E.

> It absolutely is. WhatsApp doesn't even allow you to use multiple devices!

I'm pretty sure you couldn't use multiple devices before they implemented E2E.

By the way, how does E2E cost freedom?
So what does the government do if people are unwilling to build housing? Force them to at the point of a gun?
Poll: Majority supports decriminalizing sex work
> Fixing gimbal lock with quaternions

Huh? I thought quaternions don't have any problem with gimbal lock. That's a problem with Euler angles and matrices.

Edit: I think you meant using quaternions to fix gimbal lock problems with matrices, which makes sense.
Seems like they're not using the CryptoCell to drive crypto ops and have instead written the cypto algos in software in Rust... from the README (https://github.com/google/OpenSK):

We're currently still in the process on making the ARM® CryptoCell-310 embedded in the Nordic nRF52840 chip work to get hardware-accelerated cryptography. In the meantime we implemented the required cryptography algorithms (ECDSA, ECC secp256r1, HMAC-SHA256 and AES256) in Rust as a placeholder. Those implementations are research-quality code and haven't been reviewed. They don't provide constant-time guarantees and are not designed to be resistant against side-channel attacks.
Well for one, the Army would have to start worrying about bases with full landing strips, pilot training, the bureaucracy and command structure that would be required to run the squadrons. They would need mechanics that know how to repair them, people that know how to arm and refuel them.

You end up doing a good amount of work just to try and protect a very expensive plane from Air Force politics. Ideally, the Air Force would just settle on an inexpensive prop plane that could perform the same missions as the A-10 at much less of the cost.

I'm not knowledgeable on how effective a helicopter is for CAS.
> Pretty sure GP understands how probability works, maybe take a more charitable interpretation of their comment?

There are many circumstances where I fully agree with charitable interpretation, but this is not one of them. In this case it's tantamount to saying that it's ok to mislead people because they should just know better. (especially in light of their reply)

If you are correct about what they understand, then I'd rather they were more charitable to the other people who don't already understand it by not writing things that are wrong and potentially dangerous. Someone out there is going to learn about this by googling, see 19 out of 20 people get it wrong, implement a system that relies on the majority false information, and then destroy the lives of a bunch of innocent people. It may not be someone you know, and it may not impact your neighbors, but it happens _all_ the time. I care about the harm of spreading misinformation, and I think you should as well.
IIRC, Tom Fulp paid hosting out of his own pocket for a long time, but eventually he started turning a profit and paying out cash prizes for well-received flashes. Also, including your own monetization was always allowed. Ads on the loading screen were the most popular, but some later games even included micro transactions.
Hint : it's not random.
I made a Hacker News clone that shows latest news about corona virus
This code is a joke.

It uses global variables all over the place and includes other files and variables can start stepping over the others. PHP had class support since 2004 (code seems to be from 2007) and they just write function names in global space with bad naming like "redirect" where you can't tell which part of the system it's from.

The whole code is written top to bottom without breaking them up into functions for clarity. You can't even tell which variable is for local use and which is meant to carry some state further down the lines.

Comments are joke too when you read words like "holy shit", "cool stuff", "FIXME?" and "retarded", you can guess the programmer isn't really a focused person and comments read like a personal note instead of trying to give clues to others.

A good code is a code that you feel like maintaining on first sight and this apparently is far from it.
As someone who used the C preprocessor to generate CPP, Java, and C# from a common source in order to have a common library for native apps, I always appreciate a good bit of preprocessor abuse - it's one of the things that makes C so much fun!
The prosecutors were going after much more serious charges, namely the conspiracy to traffic narcotics and the CCE so they rightly threw the evidence towards proving those in court rather than take a segue into a charge that has something like a 10 year max sentence. A "non-violent" kingpin is a rarity, and they proved with massive amounts of evidence that Ulbricht was like any other kingpin, willing to use violence to protect his empire. The judge methodically walked through the sentencing guidelines, and Ulbricht scored a whopping 50 out of 43 (only 2 points were added for the directed use of violence).

Ulbricht should be grateful none of the murders actually happened as the CCE has a special clause for murders carried out as part of operating the criminal enterprise, making the defendant eligible for the death penalty. Contract murder is quite serious because of the huge amount of premeditation involved (i.e. not a "crime of passion" or temporary misjudgment) and cold-blooded motives such as money or concealing other criminal activity.
Thanks for reading, David!

>It's incredibly important and, I'm sure you know, the real driver behind doing what you're doing, not money.

Yeah, definitely. I ultimately do need to figure out a way to make some money, but I'd be happy to work for myself for 1/10th the compensation I'd get at a FAANG.
New generation discovering The Godfather for the first time?

I don't know why but I've never got round to watching it.
I'm gonna pretend I didn't read this
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What sort of question is this? Do you think anyone would pick "soul-crushing maybe-kill-yourself poverty" over working at Google?

We are talking about programmers here. Unless there are unique circumstances that sort of poverty is off the table.
>/h.llo/ the '.' matches any one character other than a new line character... matches 'hello', 'hallo' but not 'h llo'

in the cheatsheet is false. (https://regexr.com/4tc48)

`.` can match any character except linebreaks (including whitespace)
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That's why you need to investigate, rather than simply blocking the user. If set up correctly it should be mostly automated...ask the customer where the email address came from, then take appropriate further steps. SES does none of this, which is why they have this problem.
Thank you for sharing that. looks good
Don't worry, everyone has problems driving out of DFW airport with or without a maps app. From it's left exits to the merging lanes from cloverleaf ramps/exits, it is amazing there are not more accidents than there are.
Ha, remember when those articles [1] came out claiming Musk and some other billionaires were trying to hack the simulation.

cough if that was real I'm happy to work as a janitor or more cough

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-want-to-br...
Etsy Grew Their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year
Automating Rails Database Migrations on Heroku
No Huawei ‘smoking gun’ in Europe, French cybersecurity chief says
I don’t think that’s true anymore. My recent training a few months ago covered the rescue breathing portion. But we were told to just do the chest compressions if we were concerned about disease transmission and or didn’t have a breathing mask in the defib kit.
this moves the conversation from 'arabian nights' to 'the tempest'

then what?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support
Here is my goto resource for checking regexpr with railroad diagrams: https://regexper.com/
Yep, paid in cash, so there's no mortgage or rent.
Making Backpropagation, Autograd, Mnist Classifier from Scratch in Python
The submitted title ("Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics have been updated") broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Cherry-picking a detail from an article and putting it in the HN title is the quintessential kind of editorializing. Because threads are so sensitive to initial conditions, it ends up skewing an entire discussion. It also causes comments to make less sense when moderators come along and revert the title, as we've done here.

Submitting a story on HN doesn't convey any special right to frame it for other readers. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, please do that in the comments. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
To be clear, if someone wants to just do a code dump under an open source license, ignore it, and send any communications about the code to /dev/null that’s their choice. Probably not a very useful one but a valid one.
Highlights From: “Sleep Smarter” by Shawn Stevenson
H. G. Wells, the radical challenge of a titan of letters
The way they asked the computer questions in The Next Generation is closer to what we have today. Most of it would be doable, thinking of Siri/Google Assistant and Wolfram Alpha.
I read your original post 2 years ago, and was waiting for the conclusion. Thank you for posting this.
AGPLv3 is the only solution I see.
Systematic 1h Client Assessment
> Zuck is just stand-in variable name for any (...)

Very badly chosen variable name, because it singles out one special case instead of reflecting the broader concept, which could confuse other devs picking up from here.

It's like defining a variable that stands for "vegetable" and naming it "carrot".
Seems pretty slick. I am going to give it a try. My work life revolves around slack reminders, todoist, and trying to use vim-orgmode but this looks worth a try, thanks!
Another thing I never thought I'd see on HN, Gomer Pyle, USMC.

I didn't exist in the original airings, but Nick @ Nite and TV Land gave me all those awesome shows when I was a kid. Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy, Bob Newhart, Rhoda, Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, The Munsters, Happy Days. The list goes on and on.
Some phones are strong. Most are cheap and crappy.
I use it when I want a recipe using local (Danish/European) measures and ingredients, or restaurants in this city, or a relevant government or official website.

Many of these have an English version in Denmark, which I understand much more easily.

Not-Denmark-but-English results are most of what I'm trying to exclude -- recipes full of sugar with measurements in Fahren-cups, restaurants in the three Copenhagens in North America, etc.
Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Effects of Cognitive Ability
Does a person who owns a $1 million dollar home "consume" more resources than a person who owns a $200K home? What if the homes are the same but in different parts of the city?
My JavaScript/React interview study guide
Hey everyone, these are my plain-English notes on popular JavaScript/React/web development interview questions (recursion, event delegation, component lifecycle, reducers, XSS and CSRF, personal questions, etc.). The post is clocking in at 11,000+ words, and I've tried to make the answers as simple/easy-to-understand as possible.

I'm an intermediate-level developer (3 years of React experience, 5 of general web dev) so I certainly don't know as much as some of you. Please let me know if you find any mistakes — I'd love to learn more.
Today, mathematicians in the most general sense divide into algebraists and analysts. Tattooing Euler’s identity identifies you as a member of the analyst tribe, you live and breathe limits, sequences, and measures. A tattoo of Hamilton’s i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1 would identify you as a member of the algebraist tribe, who lives and breathes commutators, cohomologies, and quotients.
Reversing XignCode3 Anticheat – Registering Notify and Callback Routines
Have you seen videos of Zuck? AI+Zuck alignment is already the de-facto case. The question is how do we move beyond that to a post AI world.
Reversing XignCode3 Driver – Part 4.1 – Registering Notify and Callback Routines
Very illustrative warning to other devs.

Just because you're coding and building things, doesn't mean you're doing work, or that you're going to make any money.

Most devs are salarymen because that's the best role they can play in society. Their employer plugs them into what the market actually wants. 99% of them are inequipped to perform any that business aspect themselves. They just want to build stuff. Like this devs projects -- a hobby not an enterprise.

The best thing any likeminded dev can do is this: do not write a single line of code until you've vigorously screened for market demand. If you can't pick up a phone and talk to businesses, this isn't for you, or you need to partner with a so called "extrovert" or sales type.

Do not even so much as ponder the technical implementation of an idea for at least a month, don't touch a terminal, and don't type a single char of code.

If you can't restrain yourself from doing so, save yourself the wasted time, money, and energy. If you want a hiatus, just have a real hiatus and fly to a Thai island for 6 months.
I got me intrigued. Thanks! Could you point to a source that explains geometric algebra from this angle? Book, article, web source, anything?
See the reputation of Microsoft and Google in backwards compatibility and support. I don't think thats the sole reason for Azure's success over Google Cloud but its certainly a factor.
Then why did you publicly make that statement in the first place?
Both a blessing and a curse. When you cook your own meals, you end up eating much more healthy. Having a yard also means you can grow your own vegetables, which is also normally much healthier.
Thanks for reading!

>I use to be a number guy, ie accountant hacker. Its not 18k positive as far as net revenue increase from the two years.

Can you clarify what you mean? What is the correct way for me to present this information?

>and note you have to reach profits soon per how you file with the IRS..sorry to burst your bubble.

Can you elaborate? Are you assuming that I file as a corporation or a sole proprietor?
On the contrary; having to type each in Whatsapp is much harder than just bulk importing to Android contacts, which you can do by the thousands at once.
Do you feel the same way about the government taking private property via eminent domain to build a Walmart?
Nice thought, perhaps, but I doubt anything would come of it. Quaternions came into vogue because the problems of Euler angles were very apparent in practice, but we still think, at best, in yaw/pitch/roll, and for a lot of people, roll is a little on the sketchy side.

Now we have twenty, twenty-five years of code and resources that make use of quaternions. In some ways, game development is incredibly hide-bound and conservative, and for the most part eschews rigid correctness for performance, convenience, and a loosey-goosey good 'nuff feel.
You could probably talk to business owners with problems, launch an (appropriately priced; hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) product against those problems, build contingent on getting 10 commits to buy

I don't doubt that you're absolutely right, but this bit strikes me as hard. I've struggled to find one business owner with a problem they perceive, let alone 10 with commitments to buying a solution for the same problem.

Ironically, it strikes me that there's a gap here for a business to solve; connecting entrepreneurial devs with business owners aware of problems.
great one.
I kinda like it
Possibly in the past but no other developed country has partisan political elections for posts that should be impartial and non political.
It could also be his competitive advantage over others.

I mean wasn't Stripe known to become so successful exactly because of easiness of use, in other words a good user experience for developers with simple ready-made libraries. Making a new payment gateway is hardly innovative by itself after all.
Thanks but that is completely out of topic. I'm not speaking about IAP here but about ads. They are not excluding each other.