skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always found Ramanujan very intriguing. He operates on a dimension that is unknown to most of us. Makes me wonder if he is a great yogi or a time traveler.
> difference between intermediate and advanced is the ability to move from discussing only facts to making a coherent argument.

This is a brilliant point and never thought about it this way. I've spoken spanish for 5 years but i've always felt some things lacking when i've tried to make an coherent argument about politics for eg. One more thing i'd like to add is 'humor'. If you can make jokes or be sarcastic to natives in their language, then you've definitely crossed another barrier.
You might find some interesting stuff on the subreddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/); it was in TestFlight for quite a while even before being released.
Graphic design software with built-in assets (Windows)
Better Selenium alternatives would be - puppeteer, cypress, testcafe etc.

For Windows automation AutoIt is good. VBScript for MSOffice automation. Python/shell scripts for mostly everything.
Do you mean Google Data Studio, or something else?
You seem a little raw from your last employment experience, I would encourage refining the narrative you tell to prospective employers. "gave me a bunch of []" may not send a message that leads to the outcome you're looking for (landing a new job). Keep your eye on the prize.
I believe you can disable that behavior by long pressing on a link in Safari and choosing "open in Safari" or whatever. After that it will continue to open links in the browser. (Yeah, they got rid of the more convenient way to do this…)
The simple essence of automatic differentiation – Conal Elliott (2018)
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Boer War
>As a programmer myself, I'm in this great position where there is a shortage of good developers, and plenty of companies searching for good developers.

That's why you/we can afford to view the world that way. For many positions, especially those that don't require specific technical skills or other aspects where demand outstrips supply, servility is the only important trait.
Here’s the footage: https://youtu.be/OylmhpqptkY
I agree with you that it's easy to return things in Japan.

I also think there is a slight flip-side, at least in the city. There are so many people crammed together that there is a sense of always being watched, doubly so if you are a minority.

I remember picking up a 100yen coin (about 1USD) in a train station. Normally I would just put it in my pocket and think "lucky me" but I was keenly aware of the station worker watching me from the ticket office. I walked over to the worker and handed him the coin saying it was lost property.

I do sometimes wonder what happened to that 100yen.
We use Jenkins to run .bat files that package our video game, upload to Steam and spool up Gamelift matchmaking servers on AWS every night. Before this I did it by hand, now I wonder how I could ever have operated with that inefficiency!
InfoWorld Made the Internet Archive Take Down Its Old Issues
Whenever I've heard of kaizen in Western media it is usually applied to Toyota, who applies it in manufacturing.

With the caveat that I have also never worked in a Japanese factory floor, that might be the difference between white and blue-collar work in Japan.
> Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman.

Note that at the time Scheme was invented:

1) It had lists terminated by the nil symbol, probably because

2) It was implemented as a sublanguage hosted in a Lisp system.

those kinds of things are not true of Scheme today.

Scheme may have been a Lisp when it was first conceived, but it's a different language now.
I had a similar thought until I actually started learning an instrument and my SO, flutist graduated from an Italian conservatory, made me start singing with the right intonation (singing the same notes you are playing on the instrument) and rhythm (division and subdivision alongside a metronome). Long story short: singing is hard and requires real effort. There is a good chance that what you think you can articulate is probably far away from minimal quality on both pitch and time.
The original Project Zero article was discussed here 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22315235
The problem with hydrogen is that it has a lot of mass-specific energy but its density sucks. Jet-A has something like 35,000 MJ/m^3 while liquid hydrogen is a measly 8500.
found from this great comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22344474
It is very hard for most people to write effectively, unless they've dedicated conscious effort to learning to do so. We've worked with brilliant scientific and technical people who do not communicate their ideas well: https://seliger.com/2017/03/28/write-scientific-technical-gr....

This: https://seliger.com/2017/08/21/grant-writing-help-series-put... is about one example of effective non-fiction persuasive writing like scientific and technical grants: "Put the most important thing in the first sentence." By the way, the whole Dave Barry interview is worth reading: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-dave..., although most of it doesn't seem to be immediately on topic.
David Kelly [1] once told me that as a grad student at Princeton, he somehow managed to get the Sunday New York Times delivered to him late Saturday night. He'd stay up all night solving the crossword puzzle, then dazzle everybody who was stumped on it the next day.

[1] https://www.vinc17.net/yp17/index.en.html
Can it bypass VPN if it has the IP address of the device?
Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?
same public: not paying for wifi in some area for a year, on somebody else's dime, but still getting upset at whoever provided it when the glory days are over.
Can you write a bit about how you found HN? It’s a source of slight fascination when non-tech people stumble into this world.
Whether this feature has been battle tested by a two hundred million hours running failure-free in production is beside the point. The point is to categorically eradicate the potential sources of failure in the aircraft's engineering. The point of regulation is not to arbitrarily erect hoops for manufactures to jump through. It's to ensure that aircraft are built as safe as possible. If one of my loved ones died due to this defect, as unlikely as that would be, I would not be satisfied with the explanation that "It never happened before in the previous 200 million hours, so no one deemed it worthy of fixing".
Telling hardware vendors not to modify kernel code feels grotesquely anti-competitive.
Here is a video of said umbrella lockers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjTwPII-mxk

With many people using the same cheap plastic umbrella it is very difficult to tell which one is yours. I have had quite a few umbrellas "taken by mistake".

How much "taking by mistake" is a euphemism for "stealing", well, I'll let you be the judge.

My hack: attach a small key to your umbrella handle. Many people will think twice about taking a key.
This seems to be a part of the Google Station project (product?) being shut down world-wide [1].

TBH, while I'm all for projects that provide public uplift, it's clear that Google was never doing this completely out of the goodness of their hearts. Moreover, providing things for free here needs to be balanced with building services that provide a path out of the endemic unemployment that crushes so many people and communities.

[1] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/338928-google-pullin...
OK so next step train AI on story generation for the art :)
Polyglot here. I'm struggling with written Chinese (traditional Chinese, as I live in Taiwan). Written (traditional Chinese) and spoken (Mandarin) forms are very different, especially in novels but even in news articles. I've got a pretty decent level in spoken Mandarin (most of my colleagues are Taiwanese, meetings are in Mandarin), I can use traditional Chinese to type when chatting with friends online, but I'm completely lost as soon as I open any news articles shared by my Taiwanese friends.

Any recommendations?
e.g.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.data.data...
I've used IFTTT a bit, along with Zapier. Biggest issue is trying to do multiple actions when you need to automate tasks for multiple rows of data at a time.
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Studying French with audio is a must if you want to learn French to communicate: understand spoken French and speak French yourself. Absolutely. One year is quite enough time to learn a language reasonably well if you put in necessary amounts of daily hours and disciplined study.
What an idiot. We deserve better leadership
Here's a theory. The parents don't irrationally fear screens on their own, but they are very susceptible to being told to fear them especially by a seemingly credible source. Now that they fear them, they are grateful to the organization that warned them. Grateful parents are key to funding.

Organizations (and doctors, as you note) have a real incentive to conveying to parents things that parents subsequently find to be valuable, "action item" information. In other words, they are biased toward making themselves seem important.

I don't think they necessarily "fudge" the results, but they can certainly avoid going out of their way to think of how such results might be biased toward "useful data".
you're a fucking shill, abide by forum policy or go home.
Google in Talks to Pay Publishers for News
http://archive.is/KUQ9W
Maybe for secular/atheistic people. For those of us who are religious, there's great value in learning Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, etc.
How is it filed under "FP is inaccurate" if it can be fixed by choice of algorithm and is about algorithms changing? Would be true of fixed point as well.

Also it's generally considered poor form to continually talk about people needing to learn the basics/go to school/think like an engineer on HN - generally the focus here is on the content not on how you view the author/readers.
Refreshing the inbox tab is very hit or miss: one refresh I'll see a message, next refresh it will disappear. Often when I receive a message, going into the chat view does not display the message until after multiple attempts.
> You missed the point. It's not about the money, it's that rewiring might actually be less safe.

No, I didn't. That's what Boeing claims by attempting to extrapolate the safety record of a plane built under previous Boeing management who had safety as priority one to the safety record of the current plane built under Boeing/McDonnell management that prioritized money over safety.

The problem is that the previous wiring might be safe given that all the surrounding systems are also built to the same safety standard as the previous 737. Unfortunately, we have plenty of evidence that the surrounding systems probably are not built to the same standard.

In addition, the airplanes responsible for this rule coming into being didn't have a safety problem either--until they suddenly did.
No worries, I was just curious to read about it.
Never forget about the main US "export product" that in a large part finances this growing monster - financial securities. All the foreigners want the S&P500 (growth!) and Treasuries (positive yield!).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IIPUSNETIQ

The cumulative "exports" stand at around -$11T, 50% of GDP.
I wish this app had basic notification support. I don't care for push notifications.
12 years ago, half the not-so-technical people I knew had little websites. Now, there's this one author.
Is this like a layer on top of TensorFlow to make it easier to get started? Is it meant to compete with PyTorch in that respect?

I wish the title and description were more clear. They make it sound like a course but it is a library/command-line tool.
Do you have some examples of what you use them for?
Noise canceling headphones don't do a good job of canceling the kinds of noise you hear in an office environment, though (conversations, ringtones, people across the room suddenly erupting in loud laughter).
In 40 years kids will be blaming millennials for wreckless spending and ruining the currency.

While I like the idea of responsibility, I've mentally given up. The populist demagogues have taken over US election and media time, I'm not sure how we can go back to rational policy conversation.
That's a mistake, generally.

The good news? I really didn't care for that one much, when compared to the likes of BYTE.
> Second, why aren't you already at a different job that pays you more instead of hanging that over your manager's head?

There's also value in being able to work on the same project over time and see it evolve, feel like you own features, etc.

There's value in staying at the same company because you don't have to move, change your commute, switch healthcare providers / doctors, etc.

I think the attitude of "well, just quit, don't make any attempt to see if you can improve the current place" is toxic. Yes, there are some places you really should quit. No, the fact that you could quit and make another $10k, but having to switch doctors and find a new daycare along the new commute, and potentially work on things less aligned with your interests... Those things have value too.

Most developers aren't mercenaries trying to find the most money. We're looking for a balance of a lot of money and a good work environment and work/projects we like.
How do you find Gamelift? I don't know anything at all about the industry but I'm curious how it all hangs together!
Grothendieck and lack of machinery do not belong in the same sentence. But yes, it is kind of silly.
Is there any reason why global corporations aren't opening engineering offices there? Seems obvious knowledge-salary arbitrage.
The Japanese police are not always the friendly helper though, especially when something not in their daily routine happens.

They're insanely rigid, almost always put arrested people in detention for maximum of 23 days even if they know the people are innocent, and they have a 99% conviction rate.

After living here for a couple of years, I feel that this is also closely linked to the highly homogeneous culture, where people are generally very friendly and kind to those who share the same origin, and can become unconsciously biased against people or things out of the "normal" world.
TikTok Users Say They Keep Being Shown Videos That Glorify Eating Disorders
I wish I could get away with infinite debt
I find that very hard to believe given how much work is involved in that
Abracadabra.
Info assurance vs. info security vs. cybersecurity: what is the difference?
Serious question, pardon my ignorance. How much is the per capita fuel consumption compared to a petrol car? Small steps are good too but I sincerely hope we can spend that effort in safety and perhaps speed. Societies progress as distances get shorter.
I was part of a small group of students from the University of Minnesota who were invited to the Cray plant in Chippewa Falls WI. The highlight was a visit with him in his office which didn't last long. He was very gracious. I don't remember much of what he said, except for the pumpkin. He pointed to a pumpkin on his desk and proclaimed that it was the Cray-3. His daughter had grown it in the garden, and knowing he was already working on a Cray-2 project decided that it should be called the Cray-3.

To give you an idea of when this was, I think they were just finishing the final tests of serial #5 of the Cray-1. They were very proud of the cooling system and invited us to touch the panels.
We had a guy who used his lifted desk to build a little box for himself (out of carboard)
Don’t we pay a small fortune in interest every year on our national deficit?

Interest rates are historically low. Wait until they go to 6 or 7%.
https://youtu.be/9PKp4q5-Aww?t=289

Watch this video of an art dealer looking at the "efforts" of the Top Gear trio - He's looking for premeditation, emotion, and inspiration, it's arguably a bit pretentious, but you can see his change in the thought process when James May starts to explain how his big metal face is a deconstruction of a car into a display of his emotions while driving it.

A piece of art is different to different people, but you are consuming the artist's opinions both directly (if you are aware of the artist's previous work, i.e. Francis Bacons paintings are pretty interesting if you know a bit about his life) and indirectly (The Video game Pathologic is very polarising but is so utterly alien to the archetypal video game - especially when it first came out - that it really resonates with some of those who play it). Imitation and technique only go so far - Erik Satie wasn't particularly well regarded as a composer (or even a musician, he often referred to himself as a Phonometrician) when he produced his most famous works but he is known to this day for his command of minimalism, repitition and a surprisingly Jazz-like use of "horizontal" harmony from simple scales (Potentially constructed by stacking triads but I don't know)
Militarization of police began in mid-70s, mostly as a consequence of ramping up the "war on drugs". It just took a while for the old stereotype to shatter.
I've done something very similar for my wife: She likes reading otome visual novel games on Android and the game design/monetization strategy means that it's difficult to "go back" to a story line.

I noticed her repeatedly screenshotting her phone and asked what she was doing - she said she likes to re-read the stories and so she swipes through her gallery to satisfy this need.

So I built a simple wrapper around adb, built a plain C# WPF front end for the wrapper and passed through clicks and automated screenshot calls for her. So she plugs in her phone, fires up the app, and she can read her VNs on her PC and have screenshots saved on the PC for her.

I built a variety of other processing apps to solve other needs for managing these files.

There were some free-to-download apps that solved a lot of these problems but none in quite the right way, and a lot of them looked fairly sketchy.

I don't really have any intention of distributing the software I wrote because it's so specific to her needs, and at best I might throw it up somewhere so I have the source backed up, as every once in awhile she asks for something new to add to this program.
Have you ever tried to Goal Seek in Google Sheets?
This comment looks stupid due to unwarranted title change.
> I actually do appreciate many forms of art, but I feel that many artist (that I know) are just a mixture of regurgitators and expert salesmen. They make something random, then come up with a backstory that makes it somewhat interesting.

I wouldn't call your relationship with art "appreciation". Sounds more like undisguised disdain.
If you took a random letter in the alphabet and then sampled from any letter before this letter you would get more samples from the earlier letters of the alphabet. That is because the two step process discards higher letters in the first step. This is not a uniform distribution and is not Bensford's law. It's just a weird two step process that over-samples earlier letters.
Last week i was trying to find information on corona virus and its spread but as its distributed with different agencies, it was becoming difficult everyday to get a complete sense of whats happening. So i thought of building a website which aggregates the different sources of data and lets you stay on top of this global pandemic. It took me 24 hours to build and it now ready. I thought it will be very useful as i feel lot of us want to track this and stay vigilant. You can get the latest toll numbers for the Novel Coronavirus epidemic, see affected regions, stats, casualties and more. Its data is collected from WHO and other government agencies and updated everyday.

https://visalist.io/emergency/coronavirus
The DVD ROM hack works exactly as the Hard Drive Hack does. Just swap out the IDE HDD for an IDE DVD ROM Drive.
You know the fed can print money to pay off that debt right? That's the difference between you being personally $1T in the hole every year and the government. That's also why nobody really cares. At this point it's easier to do that than to find $1T in annual cuts the folks in office can agree on. Not that it's a good thing, of course.
I think to the average human, that was implicit in my comment, but for the benefit of the machines, it's good to spell it out.
The numbers they gave were the hex representation e.g. `(Math.tanh(0.1)).toString(16)` which allows compact binary comparison.

The arbitrary bias you'd find is probably less than you'd find by rounding (truncating or otherwise).

The problem with truncation to make things repeatable cross-platform is it assumes "cross-platform" to be "any platform where the Nth to last digit is correct" when the standard explicitly makes no such guarantee about the Nth to last digit.
Given the history, it wouldn't shock me if doing "the fix" would actually increase real risk.
I exchanged a couple of tweets with Robin about this. I think this app is really cool, and I didn't want to get nerdsniped, but it seems to me that this could be built using webapis today. So you could have a cross-platform compatible version that doesn't require code signing, etc. That would be really nice.

Got me thinking how cool it would be if there was then an easy way for anyone to instantiate a copy for their own family. They own the data, they just pay for what little they use of S3 and lambda.
I don't think it's for locking away.

It's so you don't have to carry around a wet umbrella in the store.

And if you happen to get a different cheap umbrella when you leave than when you entered, it's not a big deal.
Thanks mate. Yes currently its primarily in which country physically the people are infected.
The national debt is weird and complicated.

About half of the national debt is to the federal government, the federal reserve or state and local governments. In other words - the US government is primarily in debt to itself - in a currency that it can print! The government could wipe out half the debt overnight by just forgiving the loans it made to itself. And it could pay off the rest by printing money - which would lead to inflation, but how much really?
> which will also record and analyze everything they can hear

Do you have a source for that blanket statement?
> Examples? We have some of the most open markets in the world. We’re one of the only countries the US has a trade surplus with...

I guess the obvious example would be the car industry - mostly cars were just assembled in Australia in the most recent past, but previously there were some designed and built. Tariffs were applied to protect that industry (nominally the jobs associated with same) but despite the Australian car assembly sector basically being zero now, the tariffs still exist. It's almost like it's just a revenue generation scheme.

There's a long history of tariffs and duties within Australia [1] but none of those (to my knowledge) resulted in a thriving multi-national corporation (I'll exclude mining companies as they're primary industries, reliant on the lottery of resource availability rather than any particular commercial skill).

Perhaps Murdoch's News Limited, which undoubtedly obtained government support during its nascent era, but I'm not sure how comparable it is to the Samsung and Hyundais of the world (referring back to GP's claims).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tariffs_in_Australi...
The point is not make airplanes “as safe as possible.” It’s to make them safe, while also balancing cost, fuel economy, maintenance, payload, etc. In this case, it is not clear that the actual safety risk is severe enough to justify the significant expense required to resolve it.
This would cause inflation, increasing interest rates, exacerbating the problem and spiraling out of control.

QE is not "printing money".
"This went poorly because we care far more about launch than execution" is really the same spirit as the gp's paraphrase.