skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I noticed that most of native speakers of any language are not that good actually in their mother tongue.

That doesn't make any sense. Maybe they're not good according to the normative institutions attempting to control the language, but that doesn't have any bearing on the ability of billions of people to communicate with their peers using their mother tongue. Just because an institution says a certain form is "incorrect" doesn't mean people are going to stop using it and make themselves understood with that form.
One of the best answers on the whole thread. It is good to know the things I suffer most (no deep work because of interruptions) are quite common. Your post deserves to be much higher on the thread.
Yes. They also act as splitters.
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My point was supposed to be that your goal will vary across time.

Week of vacation at home? Probably optimizing for comfort. Standard work week where you aren't home all day? Cost will be big.

Of course, getting costs in there could be a little tricky. Not impossible, just likely a ton of heuristics. And there is some level of stress where maintaining a temp might be cheaper than quickly getting to it, depending on how far you will vary based on being off. Which is just a long way to say it is easier to keep the house warm on warm days. :)

If you drive a lot, this would be akin to trying to find the optimum spot to hold the gas pedal. Sounds like something you could look for, but odds are high that it has to vary based on circumstances.

So, in the end, we aren't looking for a static parameter, but a system of dynamic parameters to keep in tune.
Working on solving this, with my stealth startup
Psychedelic Ceremony Study
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15838270
That would feel like a drop in the ocean. It's not going to change the frequency of my encounters with bad UX, and it's not going to change how I feel whenever such an encounter occurs.
Even with this open source repo, it is still hard to trust PIA after the Kape acquisition [1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612488
If you don't care what the error is, then 1 is a perfectly acceptable answer. I have no clue what the error on that answer is, but you said you didn't care about that, so...

That said, sin(x) being about x for "sufficiently small" x (about 0.1 or less) is a very well approximation. The error bound is given by the Maclaurin expansion of sin(x), which is x - x³/3! + x⁵/5! - …, so sin(x) = x has an error bound of x³/6.
Do you have evidence for the idea that US companies had become uncompetitive in the early 80's? I think that the oil crisis and globalisation had very significant effects on the US economy (also the vietnam war) at around that time.
Ah, but that is why Sales and Marketing were invented! Why else would we need to pay people to convince and manipulate other people into buying our product?
Bro the very fact that you're defending your right to wear your crusty cargo pants everywhere (to an interview for shame! Did you sleep in them the night before to shave off a few extra minutes?) shows that dress matters and it's very personal I never said otherwise

This whole industry in its infantile attempts to over optimize for comfort and everyone's right to wear their favorite rags to the office while enabling a command and control structure peopled by petty bureacrats has created the very worst of socialist factory conditions and if you can't see that you don't deserve to call yourself a systems professional
1) iTalki for a 1-on-1 hour with a teacher.

2) Start reading books.

3) Start listening to podcasts in Spanish that are geared towards beginners. Españolistos, Hoy Hablamos (https://www.hoyhablamos.com/), Español con Juan (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHJ7PkM6T92LwgJgrnDhWA).

I think reading young adult books is one of the best bangs for the buck early on. Most people agree that they procrastinated it for too long because they thought it would be too hard, myself included.

Bonus) Play a MUD in Spanish. http://www.balzhur.org/ is the biggest one I know of with 10-25 people online. It's a 1-to-1 translation of Realms of Despair. Even if you are too bad at Spanish to interact with people, it's a fun interactive way to get used to common verbs. And you can go at your own slow pace, reading the description of each room.
Netris
Another issue caused by hyperthreading. It's starting to look more and more like the OpenBSD guys made the right choice by turning it off. At this point, I think the only other option is for OS guys to implement some kind of security-aware scheduler, where threads can request secure execution on a dedicated processor. Though I suppose it might make more sense to execute on isolated processors by default and have threads explicitly permit unsecured execution for non-critical stuff.
A red LED is better IMO. Especially in the dark of night. A dim red LED is preferable to a blue LED
I dunno man, I used to see people reading books on trains. Pretty sure that's learning more than "reading" tinder or playing candy crush.
> hyped up about trivial threats

and really, this is the worst for kids
I give candidates the option to do a take-home or in-person assessment. For the take-home I communicate that they own everything they produce, and I create an EC2 server for them to use for the interview so that whether or not someone owns a server is not a barrier to entry.

I would definitely decline to continue to interview a candidate if I received this list of demands. The tone is unbelievably entitled and screams "difficult to work with". The suggestion that I would sign an NDA on behalf of my company is absolutely absurd. I would never sign something on behalf of my company without consulting our legal counsel, and I would never continue an interview if I had to involve my legal counsel to determine whether or not a person can code.
> (such as a calculator)

I'd be interested in a calculator that used arbitrary-precision decimals to compute arcsines, logs, etc. But I wouldn't recommend anyone create or use one.
Adversarial Generation of Continuous Implicit Shape Representations
Have you built/coded/made/delivered things to other people? Being on the other side of the table, so to speak, may help - as receiving their criticisms (and knowing internally why you didn't think of making it better, or knew but didn't have time/funding/certainty) can give a window into what was going on when you see examples of poor design. In a way, it's narrowing the window of "indefensibility".

In the same vein, you could consider learning more about why the poor design decisions are the way they are. At all levels (from building and city UX to individual products), there are myriad uncertainties and trade-offs when building something.

Some commenters are gesturing at to mental health issues - I don't know you well enough to feel comfortable with making a judgment like that, but on some level, if this is bothering you deeply, anger and depression may be symptoms of a deeper mental health issue: this might help!
https://ncase.me/mental-health/#toc_4
There are tons of organizational challenges that can lead good designers to make crappy product. What I had in mind was more along the lines of fixed fee development in India and China.
The "if available" part is the problem. I'd be 100% fine with electronic delivery, if they were simply available.

Having to go to dodgy websites with my browser in paranoid mode just to find documentation to try to keep my gizmo out of the e-waste stream a little longer, is suboptimal.

Learning and fixing should not feel like a crime.
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Thank you, as a painter this has bothered me for a long time.
Yeah! It's nice to be able to see the opportunity in bad UX.
> If you don't care what the error is, then 1 is a perfectly acceptable answer. I have no clue what the error on that answer is

I can help! The error is at most 2. ;D

> The error bound is given by the Maclaurin expansion of sin(x), which is x - x³/3! + x⁵/5! - …, so sin(x) = x has an error bound of x³/6.

I want to note that this is only true for small x. In general, the Maclaurin sequence is not absolutely decreasing (that is, the sequence formed by the absolute value of each term is not strictly decreasing -- x⁵/5! > x³/3! when x > 5), so the first unused term is not a strict bound on the total error.
As much as I want to believe it, Linux is still quite lagging in the personal computing area, where hardware support, graphics support, creativity application support, and enterprise support are still far behind Windows/Mac. Linux still has a long way to go.
Swift is an interesting language choice for something like this. As far as I am aware, support is non-existent outside of Ubuntu and OSX, so it seems limiting compared to, say, C.
(Apologies for the delay in replying to you.)

I was able to access the paper in question, and of the 71 trials included in their analysis, two trials reported a negative overall survival (OS) outcome (-0.3m and -0.6m) and one trial reported exactly 0m overall survival gain. There were also 23 trials (I think - quick eyeballing) where the overall survival gain wasn't available or reported. Everything else had a positive overall survival benefit reported.

In most cases (2/3 cases with a negative or null survival benefit reported, and a majority of the cases where no survival benefit was reported) there was a positive improvement reported in progression-free survival (PFS).

So with the exception of a single case (Premetrexed, approved in 2008 for 1L NSCLC with 0m PFS benefit and -0.3 OS benefit - maybe it was better tolerated than the comparator??) there's seems to be a positive benefit to be found somewhere, small as it may have been in some cases.

And yes, it's essentially a data-set with a lot of clustering of OS benefit around a low single-digit number of months, with a few higher outliers.

EDIT: FWIW, it would also be very uncommon (as borne out by the dataset) for FDA to approve a drug which didn't offer a clear statistically-significant improvement in (usually) OS or (more rarely) PFS.
Is that working well?
How to Throw a Punch
What use is a protest if it isnt disruptive, exactly?
"But because it’s open source, you can fix it."

You can't fix it really because everyone (understandably) wants a say in the visual and interaction design of the software, but you can't design by committee. Having many participants contributing to source code can work well, but I don't think this model works well for design.

It sounds really undemocratic (why shouldn't everyone have their say?). And it undoubtedly contributes to the stereotype of the designer as diva or precious about their work. But can you think of an open source project praised for it's visual and interaction design that was collaboratively developed with dozens or more participants? If you can, it will be an exception, not the rule.

When there are too many participants in the design of a program, you end up with a project pulled in every direction and pleasing to no-one. But if you go the opposite route and limit design decisions to a dedicated UX team, you end up generating resentment from contributors or users who feel their input is being ignored.
> People are working weeks, months, years, often under extreme conditions to create a work of art, like, say an episode of Game of Thrones. Not just one person, but hundreds of them. Getting such large teams to work on a project would not be possible if people could just donate for that work or something,

Many people work on projects like the Linux kernel and git without any compensation.
I'm convinced that a classroom is the worst possible environment for actually learning a 2nd language. There are just so many reasons why.

Probably the most insurmountable one is that the pace at which the class can move is limited by the pace at which the least motivated student is going to learn.

But I also think that it's just a structurally bad environment for efficient language learning. Since everyone needs a chance to participate, you spend the vast majority of your time listening to other people who don't know the language any better than you do, so there's just not much to learn from them. Since you're working from a textbook, everyone has to read the same uncompelling least-common denominator materials, which, by virtue of being boring, are just as likely to sap as to sustain your motivation - and an unmotivated mind isn't going to absorb much.

I'm starting to feel that way about canned programs in general. I've been working on the kanji lately. At the start, a friend of mine told me he thought I was crazy to do all my own flashcards (though I am following the learning order from Remembering the Kanji) when I could just subscribe to WaniKani and have it all handed to me on a silver platter. A couple months later, he estimated I had learned more kanji over 2 months than he had in years. Just assembling your own materials admittedly involves a lot more up-front work and a steeper learning curve, but the process itself has a lot of mnemonic power.
Japan’s Lost-and-Found System
So how would you calculate the sine function? Exactly how?
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my fastest to finish the game so far is just over 4 hours. Which is about twice the fastest speedruns. Check out Nefrums who does speedruns of factorio... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo9CIGA3vGlkuGGzTLPvJ5g
The linked headline from the OPs post about the switch:

> Linux in Munich: 'No compelling technical reason to return to Windows,' says city's IT chief

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-in-munich-no-comp...

The reason was probably a shift in IT management who wanted to keep things "simple" with some vague thing about keeping one platform since they had kept previous windows machines around which were apparently "absolutely needed". It takes heart in the management to keep Linux around, which isn't always a reliable thing. Even when there was no "technical" need to use the more expensive Windows option.

But this sounds 100% like a Microsoft sales/marketing job, which they are amazing at. They've really perfected selling to big firms, which you could see with the growth of Azure. Which I witnessed when they unleashed their sales machine on startups to get them to use it, and it was quite interesting to see in action.
That's possible, I suppose.

I would think the strong negative correlation between amount of education and number of children, in the developed world at least, is a more likely culprit. Children tend to be like their parents.
Anything they genuinely need if they are paying users. There's a reason paid support exists in most businesses and it is so important because 'The customer is always right' (if they are willing to pay for it).
I am late to the party but here it goes. Everybody recommends to take care of the team and nurture. But nobody mentions what to do with slackers. Tech leads don't have the authority to hire/fire people but responsible for their performance. If one decides to only give 10% of their time to work, how one can motivate them?
I do miss the haphazard personal website of yore. That said, it's probably quite a bit less secure to run this stuff yourself.
When considering how much of the web currently depends on non-free JavaScript, perhaps in hindsight it would have been better in terms of freedom to have gone with a less capable language?
Interesting - I didn't actually know the difference and after reading, I think they're feral, but I'm not actually certain. There are a few different origin stories - some claim that they're descended from pets (feral), but others that they descended from imported (wild) parrots illegally brought over and sold as pets.
It will be interesting to see how it will work.

If they have been Windows for so long and all the way up to
Windows 7, they must have a lot of software and more interestingly hardware that Win7 manages to get working.

All sorts of bits and bobs hardware will potentially make trouble.

I also see in the article:
"The South Korean government also plans to implement a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) that uses a virtual PC environment that runs on a cloud by the second half of 2020. The South Korean ministry expects a 72% savings in cost with the DaaS move. Security standards and DaaS models are currently in development, and pilot tests are scheduled to start in October of this year."

This does make a lot of sense in a two-stage program, switch out the desktop to become thin-clients that connects to the DaaS. Then they can allow end user to connect to a Daas of Windows7, Windows10, Linux, DOS, I mean whatever.
Make your own public library
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The use of arbitrary-precision decimals instead of floats comes with a very severe performance penalty. And for what benefit? So you can represent values to a greater precision than your ability to measure them accurately?

Almost anything you'd want to use a non-integer number for is going to be difficult to nail down to 5 or 6 decimal digits of precision on (honestly, even 3 is pushing it). Double-precision floats gives you 11 decimal digits of precision--ample room for accumulated round-off error to not affect the final result, unless you've got numerical instabilities.
I have a Zapier hook that filters donation projects from donorschoose.org (food related needs from low-income schools) and sends it to my email address.

Example:

Title: Yummy Yummy in Our Tummies

School: Jeanne Meadows Elementary School

City: San Jose

State: California (North)

Cost to complete: 248.48

Link: https://www.donorschoose.org/project/yummy-yummy-in-our-tumm...

Description: I teach at a Title I school in East San Jose. A majority of my students are first-generation Americans with hardworking immigrant parents. Seventy percent of the students at my school are
It's a highly effective method in my experience. Also don't forget the production side, you need to practice talking and writing too. You can talk to yourself if you have no one to talk to, it works just as well.
You clearly enjoyed it. So why consider it a waste of time?
It's exactly like that, the page runs itself on TiddlyWiki
Gosh I wish it was the opposite to me! Cooking seems fairly easy and making apps seems daunting.

I started a newsletter with very quick tips on cooking if you ever want to learn. It's easier than you think! https://aldente.substack.com
In your world, Siraj Raval is a messiah
It sounds like the dilemma might be that facts support not pushing for a repair, but if they go with that they’ll be butchered by the media and the masses.
A key idea here is that, to keep this support, the firms were also obliged to export. Even small numbers, at a loss, at first, but they had to have paying customers in America. Firms that couldn't do this were allowed to go bankrupt / get swallowed up.

At least in Korea. In less successful countries, domestic top dogs were simply protected, and were quite happy to keep making cars from the '50s.

An excellent book on this story is "How Asia Works" by Joe Studwell. (On which I'd be interested to hear any opinions from actual Koreans.)
As soon as I saw that Einstein quote, I couldn't help wondering if it was fake. I'm really unable to say for sure - I can't get beneath the thick layer of websites with it, or saying it's "attributed to" Einstein or he is "claimed to have said it", etc. No mention of a source when you search for it. So, I'm sceptical. I downloaded the PDF.. there's another Einstein story:

Many years later,an empirical demonstration
showed that light from distant stars actually curved as
it passed through the gravitational force of our sun.
Einstein’s graduate students rushed to him as he was
walking through the Princeton campus and
exclaimed, “Dr. Einstein, light really does bend!”
Einstein looked at them quizzically and said, “Of
course!”He had come to this conclusion through
exploring the question in his own thought experiment years before.

I can't find "Dr. Einstein, light really does bend" online except in this article. I asked the questions Uh, wasn't that 1919? Was he in the US in 1919? (A: First visited 1922, moved there 1933). But the writing leaves you uncertain which experiment ("demonstration"?) they mean, or what ...

A lot of it has the same vague, unpindownable nature. There just seems something peculiarly dead and unreadable about the style of the article. It's hard to force my eyes to read it. Extremely boringly written, repellent. I found that the most fascinating thing about it - Q. How did they manage to create such an unattractive, uninviting style?
potential for an electrical short to move the jet’s horizontal tail uncommanded

I think this is a reference to the stabilizer, because the elevators are controlled by cable connected to the yoke and are hydraulically powered. Since stabilizer (trim) can overpower elevator force, uncommanded changes in this control surface could be really bad, depending on how a short manifests into control surface movements.

I can't assess the relative probabilities: a short happening vs the fix inducing some other problem. But I do wonder whether there's another way to mitigate it.
If you want true cross platform, theres always a cloud service + plain text files.
I love how the article starts with the most boring facts about 1729:

> 1729 is the natural number following 1728 and preceding 1730.
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Don't we think that the credit for the number 1729 should belong to Hardy, for he took the cab and mentioned that number to Ramanujan. Of course, Ramanujan could see beauty in every number and would have produced something equally beautiful for some other number Hardy could utter.
Every death is a tragedy. Many are avoidable. If we want to actually reduce tragedy and suffering, your time and energy is best spent on big problems.

A school age child is nearly 200x more likely to die by suicide than from a school shooting. That's a tragedy. And that's _avoidable_. Which do you hear about more?

The attention and resources of society are limited. We would be better off allocating resources to bigger problems, but we don't. That's a tragedy.
You start on a Friday, forego sleep and responsibilities, and let your weekend couple-of-days spill into a Monday with a brief distracted work day and the early hours of Tuesday.
Your wish is my command:

http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/refactoring-neural-network/
It's not floating point's fault exactly. Seems to me it's that these implementations are less accurate than the number of digits they're returning. You could get a similar thing with fixed point arithmetic.
How long is preschool? My guess would be like 5 hours of time between schools out and bed, but that could be way off.
> Exactly how?

Are you being sarcastic?

EDIT: Assuming you aren't being sarcastic, you clearly aren't thinking like an engineer. As the OP points out, there are many ways to compute sine. And they all have tradeoffs. So you need to decide what tradeoffs describe your constraints. Otherwise you can simply use an infinite series. See, you didn't define what you meant by "exactly". Exactly to infinite precision? Or exactly in 100 clock cycles?
You normally finish cooking within a few hours.

Making a worthwhile mobile app in a few hours is still mostly a dream.

When cooking, you make a fresh copy of a meal according to a recipe. A fresh copy of an app is of not much use; it's as if you needed to invent a new recipe and then cook it.

Cooking really tasty dishes takes experience; but the same holds for software engineering.
I would say that a manager who brings up personal questions in 1:1s is leveraging their power to cross boundaries. In my mind it's akin to harassment.
Have TVs become more complex? I recently peeked into mine, and it had only two major boards, one for power, the other for AV stuff. Not mine, but similar: https://i.imgur.com/1uHsfYI.jpg Hardly anything there, and very easy to replace a blown capacitor or a whole board.