skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part of me wants Comparative Coding classes to be taught to college students. Even though I have a pretty sad cautionary tale about Comp Lit classes from a very good friend who went for an English degree.

Some of the earliest conversations I recall were about the trap of taking Comp Lit too seriously and not spending enough time on the craft. Eventually your inner critic creates fear that your work isn't good enough, and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

I spent the next decade watching helplessly as the inner critic ate my friend's hopes and dreams one by one. In her head, she was going to be a great fiction writer. But the only thing of hers I ever remembered was her persuasive writing. She was passionate about her causes, but somehow also had it in her head that this wasn't 'real writing', and I didn't have the gravitas to convince her she was wrong.

And so the sad fact is that if you look at what I've written and shown to people, and what she's written and shown to people, it would be charitable to say she's done three times as much as I have, to an audience perhaps ten times as large. Me, who only briefly wanted to be a writer in grade school, whose only college-level English class was a technical writing class.

I am not a Writer, but I write. She is a Writer, and doesn't.

But even so, I've got body parts stuck in this same trap. I write a lot less code that some other people. But I also work hard to make sure that I'm on the right side of the Pareto principle. It's not the lines that count but how you use them, or so I reason. But I've started noticing the consequence of that choice, and trying to find a new balance between quantity and quality. Old habits die hard.
Pretty alpha in my quick tour of it. I can't even find a way to browse other colonies. Also during a few minutes experimenting with it I had to sign in multiple times with my metamask wallet. A refresh seems to cause it to forget me.
That’s “effectively debt” - it converts to equity upon a new round but if the company fails or doesn’t raise then it’s more like debt than equity.
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Would you mind expounding on why this is important, and/or why you chose those specific timings?
Mormon's that don't go to church for months at a time are not considered active mormons. I don't know if that's the case for catholics or many religions where much of the focus is on a pastor/bishop giving a sermon. In mormon church's each attendee is called on to do something: give a sermon, teach a class, visit a family, clean the building, etc. There are a lot of things to do. I'd assume that for any organized religion that had the same expectations of it's participants, severing from said religion would be a greater life change than those who just observe.
Any thoughts on how to access/modify on mobile without making it too cumbersome? I often think about todo on walk/train, but could see making it a computer only thing.
I've mainly seen it with small companies.
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A single file seems like a forcing function for including the right amount of context you'll need later.
I use nvalt, which is basically a small collection of text files. It seems like whenever I let myself create many files, I just feel scattered, and am more likely to enter garbage.

Nowadays I just use maybe 10 notes. If I create a new one for a meeting, etc.., I'll copy in the relevant parts and delete the meeting note after.

It seems like having a proliferation of notes has also been an issue on most orgs I've been in :/.
There's also the collecting aspect. A lot of people love collecting and building collections.
I’d ask for a source, but I choose for this to be true.
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Society doesn't need baristas. Machines can do the job, or people can drink something else.

Being a barista is a reasonable job for a 14-year-old. Adults shouldn't be taking jobs from teens.
Probably not, especially since I'm not sure what your legal footing would be in this scenario. If you weren't concerned about selling the information you found to the rightful owner, then you could almost certainly turn a profit. I'm sure criminal groups and governments would find it to be a gold mine.
Also my experience that they won't try to dig into your financials.

However, if they have any suspicion that you're lying about it, prepare for the guilt trip of the century. You do want to live with your family in the celestial kingdom, right? You wouldn't lie to god, would you?

Effectively they take advantage of the beliefs they taught you. It doesn't matter that they don't subpoena your tax returns...its coercive all the same.
FWIW, I just re-read what I wrote, and noticed how easy it is to misread misread "hundreds or thousands" as "hundreds of thousands." Next time I will use "to" instead.
I recommend "A Planet of Viruses" by Carl Zimmer. It's really short but almost every page is a mind-blower.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10840041-a-planet-of-vir...

There are viruses that go into the hosts DNA, replicate along with it over generations, then wake up and start being viruses again!

The oceans are Grey Goo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_bacteriophage

> Marine viruses, although microscopic and essentially unnoticed by scientists until recently, are the most abundant and diverse biological entities in the ocean. Viruses have an estimated abundance of 10^30 in the ocean.

Marine bacteriophages kill about 40% of all bacteria in the ocean every day.

(I don't know why you don't explode into viruses ten seconds after you enter the ocean, there must be a way that the maelstrom of evolution doesn't create monsters, eh? Or maybe we are playing Russian Roulette every time we go in the water?)
> I'm not sure why you think the genuineness of a belief is relevant when it comes to scrutinizing harmful actions based on those beliefs.

Because the substantive truth of the theology isn’t dispositive of whether family members have a right (in the social, not legal, sense) to criticize each other from departing from certain norms and practices.

For example, there is a lot of evidence showing that the supposed harms of moderate drinking during pregnancy are overstated, and the benefits of breast feeding are overstated. The effect of screen time on kids is also overstated. Just because someone might conclude that advice is wrong, does that mean family members are out of bounds for giving that advice? Or that people shouldn’t have to graciously accept it? There are boundaries, sure, but family members are entitled to express their views on how each other live their lives.

Beyond that, there are objective benefits to religion apart from the truth or falsity of the theological doctrine. Studies show that actively religious people tend to be significantly happier and more socially involved: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/31/are-religio.... Is that a sufficient basis for family members to encourage each other to raise their kids within the community religion, irrespective of the truth of the theology?

Also, there are non-falsifiable moral judgments that are independent of but associated with religion. Secular US culture emphasizes individualism, self expression, and personal fulfillment. Many believe that kids should be raised with a strong sense of duty to family, and the expectation that their purpose in life is to work hard and raise families of their own. These ideas are independent of theological truth. Many non-religious people believe these things too. But if you think it’s important for kids to be consistently exposed to those ideas, you’ll find that most of the people who have those beliefs just happen to be either religious (or Asian, or both). Is it out of line for communities to encourage their members to conform to values that they believe are more conducive to a better world? Whether the underlying theology is true or false doesn’t change the answer.
Yeah same goes for me, I am activr in meetup groups and used to be in a "maker space" for more hardware-oriented stuff. (Toys like drones, 3D printers, Raspberry Pi stuff).

I am curious about the difference as well - my guess is that now it's pretty mainstream so there's no real "group / niche" feeling.

Certainly feel that way about some gaming communities I was in in the early 2000s.
Sure, except - why would some organization buy it to help MS's customers? If anyone, MS is here in tight spot to either (quickly!) find another solution, or win a bidding war for the domain.
They're for an entry level audience, but not just for aspiring SWEs. I've been a professional developer for a while, yet I'm part of the entry level audience for XDP programs[1] or for the ML bias-variance tradeoff [2]. Her posts are "entry-level" because she's so good at making complex stuff easily understandable for beginners of all kinds.

[1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/04/07/xdp-bpf-tutorial/

[2] https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/01/02/winning-the-bias-variance-tr...
This would go a really long way towards efficient code reuse as well, with far less "reinventing the wheel" all the time if shared libraries more easily work across all (common) languages.
There were a lot of very low quality records made during the late 70's and 80's. Poor quality vinyl and increased track density were the main culprits.
I'm pretty sure both the Win32 libc and applications do this. Try typing "http://example" into Firefox. You'll get example.com.
That's a great way to look at it.

Until people look at tech and see it as a good top tier career and finance as a fallback, we have progress to make.
Still, compared to space needed for desalination, it's not obvious that the current scheme uses less area (I do assume you can still do some things, like hiking, in most of this area though) :

"One of its largest watershed protection programs is the Land Acquisition Program, under which the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has purchased or protected, through conservation easement, over 130,000 acres (53,000 ha) since 1997"
I just grabbed my compass to check...can confirm that my black lab Piper's recent poops have been north/south. Now that I think of it, I can't remember a time she hasn't been facing north/south...no matter the weather or time of day.
My wife, who can barely read a map, has such good directional sense that I am convinced that attoampere(?) currents induced in her brain as she cuts through the earth’s magnetic field are interpretable by her and form memories.
> they all get the same stipend which for many is less than they made in their professional lives

It's weird how much this is being repeated in this thread. It's clear this opinion didn't form on an individual level but rather is directed by the church to their followers to repeat. It's an odd way of justifying position is all.
“Also great when you can use decompilers (Java and .NET especially) to determine exactly how the library code you use works.”

Decompiling .NET and earlier reading leaked windows source code have given me the revelation that the people working on these systems are regular people like you and me. Somehow I thought MS or Apple code was something special but it really wasn’t.

But I agree: reading source code is good for learning and also empathy. It’s way too easy to look at a code base for five minutes and declare this needs to be totally rewritten because the previous devs wrote bad code
I use markdown files organized in folders under a master folder version-controlled with git.
One part that was left out of the WSJ article but was released by the whistleblower was the source of these funds. When members asked to donate money to charity, the church said they would happily donate it on behalf of the members. It was then taken from the members and funneled into this investment fund instead of redirected to charity (as they promised).

The church claims that since they are a non-profit that they are therefore a charity (they have also claimed that the purpose for stockpiling $124B was for the second coming of Jesus). While they might be able to make this claim legally... it was obviously not the intention of the members who invested the money. If members intended to fund the church directly, they could have simply paid their tithing or even over-paid their tithing (as many members choose to do) as usual. But they chose specifically to donate to charity, which implies someone other than the church.

Since I am assuming you are a member, you are familiar with the tithing slip. That extra line at the bottom that says "charity:_____" yep, that money never went to charity. It went into this fund that the church kept for themselves. Very honest and Christlike.
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Stealing would imply deceit. McDonalds decided it would be best to use software to engage in these transactions.
> or else Firefox might automatically add a .com to the end and suddenly it's going to my production/live site and not my local copy.

browser.fixup.alternate.enabled = false

alternatively:

browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words = true
I use unifi switches, access points etc. they may be a bit higher end than the cheapest consumer gear but they are still marketed towards home use (as well as businesses).

I have four vlans - adults, kids, IOT and guests. Only the adults vlan has unfiltered access, the others are pretty heavily locked down.
because lawyers make more money that way.
If you version control it using Fossil, and it's in markdown, you can access it directly from the repo website.
If you were to redo CD today, really the biggest change would probably be upping to 48kHz, not that it makes a noticable difference, but to better align with DVD (also 48k) and digital telephone (8k) to avoid sampling jitter when playing across other formats. Possibly actually supporting 4-channel audio (it's in redbook, but afaik, unused) and adding 1-channel audio so you could have longer audiobooks.
Name one then, don't argue about his mindset, answer the question with facts
Maybe not far if their revenue stream was not large enough.
Don't worry, luckily someone else called me out on it! Funny what a single letter can change right?
That's because both situation have absolutely nothing in common.

People tell cashiers when they make a mistake not out of a desire to avoid "stealing" (stealing is taking something without permission or right by the way so neither case is actually stealing by the way) but because they empathize with an actual human being making mistakes like they sometimes do and want to be helpful.

Corporations can't at the same time replace people with machines to optimise their bottom line and expect their customers to remain empathetic. Once you put in place automatic system you have to owe them. You can't win on both side.

If Amazon gives huge reductions by mistake, well, too bad for Amazon, the reductions are still there. It has absolutely nothing to do with shoplifting.
I use Muji A5 notebooks paired with muji 0.7mm tip pens. I hated carrying a notebook and writing in it until I found this combo.
Decentralizing networks so it becomes impossible to limit access to information & communication.
This goes way back before browsers combined the address bar and the search bar. Back then when you typed a bare word into the browser, the browser would try to be helpful and add suffixes like ".com" to try to make it work.
By credit card? :-) Sillyness aside, it is a regular contract. About 6 years ago you could get Bing results through the Yahoo BOSS API[1]. I'm not sure what they charge these days but they used to charge about 80 cents per thousand queries.

You take the query terms and send it to an ad network (or ideally your own ad infrastructure) and the network sends back 1 - 10 advertisements based on the query terms. You put those and the "organic" results you got back from the API out as your search page.

You hope that in the thousand queries you process, some of the people click on the ad links instead of the organic links. If enough do, you "make" the difference between the money you get paid by the ad network and the money you paid to the search index.

If you can send a lot of queries, then you are more valuable to the search company than they are to you, and they will start to pay you to send them these queries. (this is what Google calls "traffic acquisition costs" in their earnings reports). But we are talking a lot of queries, you'd need a really popular Linux distribution or Web Browser to pull that off. Just a search landing page won't cut it.

The contract will also detail things that you can't advertise when you get results from the search index. For example in California Google can't allow anyone to show a payday loan ad next to Google results.

And there are subtleties within that as well, you typically get a fraction of the revenue on an ad that gets clicked on as the "first" click after showing the search engines results, but you can get more (or all) of the revenue on pages that you show after that. That trick is used by people who crawl all of Wikipedia and then show a version of Wikipedia with ads where they buy an ad on Google's results for Wikipedia type queries, and then send you to their own page / copy of Wikipedia with their much more profitable ads.

The more complex it gets the more sketchy the players involved.

[1] https://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/BOSS_Gett...
Are you refering to this paper:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... ?

"We report the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics, treatment, and clinical outcomes of 41 laboratory-confirmed cases infected with 2019-nCoV. The median age of patients was 49·0 years (IQR 41·0–58·0), and 13 (32%) patients had underlying disease. All patients had pneumonia. A third of patients were admitted to intensive care units, and six died."

Looking at Fig 1 one-third of patients in the 25-49 age group needed intensive care. Maybe the were all above 40, but anyway I don't think that looks like the usual influenza-related pneumonia.

https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/f86df...
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That's a good idea. What I want is some gadget that caches my momentum (in a little compressed air cylinder or something) for the stop.
Modern lightbulbs don't even turn on in 100ms. I have a hard time believing sub second computer booting is really at the top of anyone's priorities.
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Same for me. My note book is A4 sized (lots of space), has a hard cover (easy to write with while out "in the field") and the pages are not easily removed (so I don't loose notes).

While I do write a lot of notes in it, I also like to draw block diagrams and high level designs of systems.

While some of this could be done on a tablet, I also try to reduce the amount of screen time on my eyes. I started this habit since starting my Masters 10 years ago.
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It did happen. Samsung DeX is a desktop environment that you get when you plug your tablet or phone into a screen. It's passable but of course most Android apps aren't designed for work.

They also did a Linux on DeX. You could boot Ubuntu on your Samsung phone and display it via HDMI. They stopped supporting it around Android 10 though, presumably nobody ever used it.
Oh my gosh, there's even a Guestbook. What a blast from the past.
You would have to rewrite the bios and not check any of your memory.
> Software should have the same sort of checks. It's called "contract programming", the simplest manifestation of which are asserts.

A wrong answer is wrong, but the correct response isn't always to fail. Imagine you added this and that caused 0.01% of orders to fail for 10 days while you debug the issue. Perhaps your assert is only stopping a 1 cent deviation from the correct order total - is it better to prevent 0.01% of orders in their entirety or have the absolute correct order total?

Also a value of $0 is a perfectly valid cost for food - maybe they are using a voucher, or some loyalty points, or something else. The Uber eats integration with McDonalds seems to print an order that costs £0.
Here you go: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/tornadovm/
Can you please explain concretely what your definition of stealing is?

To most sane people, it is not stealing when a transaction price is set, and that price is paid.

If you buy a car and complete the transaction and as you're driving off the lot the dealership says, sorry, that car is 200,000 not 20,000; would that be stealing? Why or why not?
Hey, thanks for using Cliqz. We're working hard on improvements for each one of the things you mentioned (in that order as well) - so things will definitely get much smoother over the next couple of months.
It's a 30 storey fiberglass building spinning at speed. The stress is high and the material fatigues over time. Eventually it will crack, a stress concentration will occur and the crack will propagate somewhere important and it will fail completely.

Now take that same material and give it a much shorter span/length, and a much lower loading, and fatigue becomes less of an issue.

I'm not sure what bridge they're talking about in specific but I don't see why they couldn't be beams for a pedestrian bridge providing. I bet the manufacturer has a lot of testing data too.
> Maybe you should have started with that, rather than anecdotal evidence.

Oh dear. You mean I didn't approach this topic with the care it deserved?

> High school students...

Good for them! I only glanced at it, but it looks interesting.

> Dogs can be trained to find a bar magnet...

I read this. Right away, I can tell you the authors didn't take nearly enough care to eliminate the dogs' olfactory sense from the data, and the proof of that is that the dogs couldn't locate the jars containing food. Dogs should easily have been able perform that task, as anyone who operates a sniffer dog will confirm. The fact that these dogs couldn't do it means something is wrong, and I'd bet money that the problem was that the jars were handled in such a way that they all smelled of food.

To be fair, this would be quite hard to get right. Dogs have a sense of smell that can seem downright supernatural. When I was in high school, Denver PD had a bloodhound named Yogi who tracked down the body of a murdered child who had been transported ten miles by car. Yes, by car [1]. In training exercises, Yogi was able to track things that had been sunk thirty feet underwater at a local reservoir.

That craziness obviously presents an enormous challenge when designing a study on another hypothetical dog sense, and while this study went to some length to address it, something clearly slipped through the cracks such that the study's "food" arm (which was intended to serve as a control arm) was rendered useless. It also makes me strongly suspect that the magnets were also handled in such a way that there was some olfactory indication of which jars contained them. The paper doesn't tell us how the preparers handled the magnets and their containers, and there's no indication that they took measures to either prevent the transfer of any odor from the magnets to the jars, or somehow ensure that the odor was transferred equally to all jars.

My skepticism notwithstanding, I'm fascinated by the concept of magnetoreception in animals, especially birds, and I think it definitely deserves extensive study.

1 - Look up the Alie Berrelez murder case.
Efficiency.

A large and increasing amount of human-made energy goes to computation, yet only a tiny proportion of software is written with energy efficiency in mind. Most programmers don't even have the tools to answer how much power their programs consume.

At a start, no compute benchmark that measures wall duration should ever be taken seriously if it doesn't also include energy consumption.