skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were you I would work it from the inside

You should first treat those bad UXs as childplays:

- Some of them might be working back then

- Some of them were patched so to accomplish other thing but accidentally render them unusable

- Some of them might be a result of rushed work due to pressure from higher ups

- Some of them are simply lost in translation due to time

Being angry and depressed is frustrating but you should redirect those energy to something more worthwhile.

If you really want to contribute, broadcast your intent. Get close to someone having authority to those stuffs with bad UX, use subtle social approach to get things done, consult to people who could yields better UX becaus there must be a better person doing it™.

As a child I used to be angry if my personal drinking bottle isn't put on the table from an exact distance between two sides of the table.

I use that energy to develop instinct to design a well-architectured software, maximizing development speed and customer satisfaction at the same time.
Sadly, at least in the US, we have lower safety standards for cargo than passenger aircraft.

For example, crew rest requirements adopted in 2010 don't apply to cargo: https://ttd.org/policy/ensure-one-level-of-safety-for-all-ai...
The second tweet might be better expressed as "[h]ackers don't _just_ go to Lambda School or Khan Academy". They do a lot more than that, surely - the creative and aesthetic impulse is quite real.

Of course these things tend to go in cycles - we all remember the dotcom environment of the 1990s, where even "knowing some HTML" was enough to be hired as a coder. Hackerdom will rise again, there's no doubting that.
We in fact have a standard method to test whether sequence is under selection or not, and engineering is a kind of selection. It is called Ka/Ks ratio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka/Ks_ratio

For SARS-CoV-2, there were 79 amino acid changes and 475 silent changes relative to known common ancestor. This is a strong signature of purifying selection, hence against any engineering. The article does not address this evidence at all.

You can argue that sequence was engineered specifically so that it doesn't look engineered. That's impossible to refute with sequence evidence, but also not compatible with accidental release.
I agree, some of the negativity I'm seeing about 1:1's seems to come from 1:1's not being useful, or even being a negative thing, but the person complaining about it seems to put all the blame on the other person in the 1:1. "My manager doesn't really want me to bring up anything", etc. Which I'm sure is true sometimes. But in my experience, you really can't ever be 100% certain that that's true, but if you just assume that it's true and you act accordingly, then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There ars a lot of things in life that are like this, IME. There's a cynical or pessimistic way to look at something (often an interpersonal thing), and if you assume that it's true, then whether or not it was true, it becomes true for you. In those cases, the only rational thing to do is act as if it weren't true.

Example: incels. Lots of people have rough lives and have a hard time developing socially in all kinds of different ways. It sucks. Sometimes that leads to guys who have a fundamentally hard time interacting with women they are attracted to, which can lead to downward spirals of rejection and misery. Some guys cope with this by becoming incels or redpillers or whatever. "Girls don't like me, I'm so sad" is transformed into "Girls don't like me because girls suck and society sucks and it makes me awesome". It's really depressing, but there's a rationality to it in that it trades pain for anger without changing the situation. But even if someone isn't an actual incel type, once they assume that identity and start to believe it, they'll become one, which is why it never does anyone any good to start thinking of themselves as incels or redpillers. But this isn't just about incels. There are innumerable self-fulfilling, self-destructive viewpoints out there, in which even if they're rooted in elements of truth, it doesn't do anyone any good to accept the viewpoint.

Other examples include the Golden Rule, taking the high road, etc. EDIT: meaning, the notion that the Golden Rule or taking the high road all the time is for suckers, therefore you shouldn't do it. It assumes the worst in people, and if you live your life that way it ensures that you have bad interactions with people that reaffirm your already-cynical viewpoint.

But, uh, I may have gone off on some tangents there. Sorry HN. TL;DR even if your 1:1's with your boss suck, don't give up on trying to make them more constructive.
“Can’t blame peasantry.. the Trackers are responsible”

That’s not how responsibility works. If you use this device, you’re responsible for the collateral damage it produces. The Trackers are only responsible for making you think you need it
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Nothing takes half an hour if you count shopping, prep work, and cleanup.
WTF
This is a test. This is a test.
This is a test. This is a test.

This is a test.
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If money were no object, there would be no aviation industry.

Similarly, if safety trumped all else, there would be no aviation industry.
You're shifting goal posts.

You're moving the discussion from

"You must sign on to Facebook to participate in society" to

"[In Finland] internet usage is considered a human right"

By essentially changing your argument and implying something which I never said and which has nothing to do with what I said you invalidate your argument.

And that "neat trick" (which is pretty transparent, alas) makes you intellectually dishonest.

I think we can close the discussion here. Thanks for playing.
> In fact, considering anything other than someone’s skill seems somehow anti-hacker.

The term hacker was never about pure skill or knowledge, it's about ethos and mentality. A fast implementation is nothing if it doesn't carry an interesting twist that got it there, for example.
My neckbeard and I tip our hats to you.

But dead serious...we had an outage recently where everyone knew the answers were in a Confluence site, which of course no one could get to. Cloud will be the death of us. :-)
In case anyone's wondering what that cool synthesizer that he's using is, it's a Eurorack[1] modular synthesizer[2].

If you are at all interested in this, I'd strongly encourage you to check out Muffwiggler[3], a huge forum for modular synthesizer enthusiasts.

Also useful is the Modular Grid[4], a gigantic database of thousands of amazing modules (and which also lets you design your own modular setup using these modules).

VCV Rack[4] is also great for playing around with software versions of some of these modules, which can be pretty expensive (the guy in the video has likely invested thousands and thousands of dollars in to his Eurorack setup, while VCV Rack is free). On the other hand, you can also build your own Eurorack modules (see the DIY forum on Muffwiggler for that), which can be a lot cheaper.

Something else I was thinking about was that if the main problem the guy in the video was trying to solve was that the knobs and switches on his modules were too difficult to manipulate with his prosthesis, then he could have tried the HackMe Vectr[5][6], which would have let him simply wave his whole hand around above the module to send out three voltages from his hand movements in three dimensional space. Mind control is, of course, way cooler, and doesn't require movement at all.

Finally, I was also thinking about how his modular interface might have been designed with opto-isolators, to minimize the risk of voltage inadvertently being sent back from the modular in to his arm, should he plug his cable in to an output rather than an input. Someone with more of an electronics background than me can probably comment on whether this would be a good idea.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurorack

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_synthesizer

[3] - https://muffwiggler.com/forum/

[4] - https://vcvrack.com/

[5] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSoVBz-1eQ0

[6] - http://hackmeopen.com/Vectr/
Where did you see this result?
Author here. From my experience I completely agree with you. When I started out I figured B2 meant X% of competence in these two fields, but now I feel like especially towards the end I became increasingly more competent in the former relative to the latter. I think even getting a C2 certificate would just mean another year or two of solidifying grammar, amassing a huge vocabulary, a lot of reading, and some hundreds of hours of practice discussing such abstract topics. Not easy by any means, but relatively straightforward.

On the other hand, the latter probably can't be done at home. While it isn't necessary to be very, very strong in French, without that immersion experience I think you'll never feel "at home" among francophones until you put in the necessary hours into hanging out in French.

Despite this, having the latter is certainly very useful and allows you to get your point across in the vast majority of situations, so if it's the best you can do, it's still worth it if you really want to learn the language.
It's not a particular space, is just random. I'm hoping that by having more people randomly checking the space, more masterpieces will surface
I hate websites that coerce the use of an inferior app. Trust immediately goes to zero.
I didn't state innuendo.

I quoted the leading expert in the world right now saying that the Wuhan virus is not engineered.

I don't trust the CPC either, but when the experts speak you have to listen.
OK, I understand this meaning of "algebra" now. I've done some basic self-study of group theory, and of rings, but never really got to an algebra, which I see can be defined as "a ring that has the added structure of a field of scalars and a coherent multiplication". So it's a ring plus some added structure. I was unaware of this, which was adding to the confusion.

It would have been helpful to differentiate that since my question/comment pertained to the term "universal algebra". I'm still not totally sure I understand what universal algebra studies now. Is it something akin to category theory?
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Ask HN: What are good resources on writing a descriptive blog post?
I am going to be documenting a couple projects in the form of blog posts or online writeup. I'm doing this to practice writing and boost my resume/portfolio a bit.

Are there any resources that describe what makes a good technical writeup? Im looking to target the text to a lay person or technologist and don't want it to sound academic.
The normalization of deviance is a less cynical explanation (in the sense that it doesn't require the process to involve analysis of the risk of getting caught).
I think the OP is using hyperbole for effect, I don't think that statement is meant to be taken literally. The difference is things like Khan Academy is where hackers start but where coders stop.
To your point, I think one of the places where you see 6 decimal places actually put to use is with latitude and longitude, where 6 decimal digits gets you to 11cm of precision. (11 digits gets you to a micrometer.)
True. Guess I meant that educational background doesn’t seem like an important thing for someone’s “hackerness”. Having the skill/knowledge/experience/taste is more important than how you got it.
someone might enjoy this (brief Colbert 2012 interview): http://www.cc.com/video-clips/gzi3ec/the-colbert-report-grim...

and one by Bill Moyers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To-093TmlEI
Jaro: An insanely customizable xdg-open alternative
Have you seen this? https://basicengine.org/
To my untrained eye, many of these images are as good as anything else I've seen from humans. What qualities make me say that? Your images create a visceral response. They evoke a lot of interesting thoughts and feelings. If anything they remind me of 20th century modern art. Very impressive stuff. It'd be amazing to make these bigger, ensure texture is there, print them large like an oil painting.
You can do this yourself, it's a standard bioinformatics exercise. But in fact, I have seen it here: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1224207554600792064
I don't think that a good one of these exists or can easily be made because the difficulty of integrating with third party services. Plus, those third parties may not look the same for everyone else.

This is a category of startup I would call "integration hell." For the most part, I would recommend to avoid these ideas if you're looking at pursuing it. However, it can be fruitful if done correctly - i.e Stripe.
As an early and ongoing Apollo user, this is a fantastic app, highly recommended, including all the premium/ultimate/lifetime whatevers. And the periodic swag offerings are great too.

That said, I keep wondering when the iPad design mentioned what seems like ‘years’ ago is coming.

I keep hoping for something like Hack for HN that takes what’s currently a waste of screen width when using Apollo in landscape on iPad Pro (posts take 1/2 screen width, with 1/4 screen width margins on each side, putting the posts just out of reach of your thumbs when holding sides of ipad), and instead puts that list of posts on the left 1/4, and shows comments for a selected post on the right 3/4.

// Separately, for image post subreddits, like /r/EarthPorn/, really should have a mode to simply view photos scaled to full screen and swipe left/right to prior/next photo post, with a tap to see the post title and vote UI as an overlay, push up to go into photo + comments mode.
The thing that caught me the most about this video has nothing to do with the hack (which is awesome). What impressed me was how natural the prosthesis is, and how naturally he moves with it. Specifically, he grasps his non-prosthetic wrist with his prosthetic hand, casually, while he's talking. It shows how he's able to use the prosthesis without thinking about it. That and the fact that the prosthesis has the same dimensions as a natural limb, and doesn't require any bulky power attachment. I'm guessing this is standard now, or at least not experimental. I didn't realize prosthetics had advanced this far.
Anyone else here remember the days when terminals had drive belts?

Yeah...ASR-33s. But TTYs are just character devices and could be other things that had belts.
That's not Benford's law though. That's just a weird distribution due to a weird cutoff.

Bensford's law is 1:30.1%, 2:17.6% 3:12.5% etc.
> I didn't state innuendo.

You didn't quote anything from the article. If you have a specific concern with a statement they are using please quote it and state your concern.

> I quoted the leading expert in the world right now saying that the Wuhan virus is not engineered.

No you linked to a paywall so I was unable to view the quote.

If scientists find the origin of the virus we can finally say that it wasn't engineered, currently they have not.

You cannot fully dismiss this possibility yet, especially the circumstances and previous lab outbreaks.
I was thinking about seeking an invitation, but that totally turns me off. I hate reading spam, trolling and insane gibberish. Unless it's amusing, or thought provoking, anyway. But I also hate moderation by deletion or editing, especially if it's ideological and extreme.

I like the HN approach, generally. Even people who have gotten themselves shadowbanned can still post, and interesting comments can be vouched. And there's redemption with consistent evidence of constructive posting.

Ideally, though, I like distributed systems, where content is persistent and irrevocable. But with multiple portals, each with its own standards, and portal-specific moderation. And additionally, giving users the tools to filter, based on posters, topics, keywords, time, etc.

Anyway, about the URL, archive.org has no snapshots, and just tells me that it's available. But perhaps someone has archived it, and will post a link.
In the United States it's called Google.
Your notes, while simple, don't cover many of the things the paper does, such as binding or functions or sharing.
Er... I personally feel that this comment is too harsh to TmaxSoft and the government officials.

Yeah, TmaxSoft builds and sells compatible DBMS/parallel computing solutions to the government — but I feel that it’s entirely understandable to use domestic software for things like that. The killer features there wasn’t that it was domestic — it was that it’s cheaper that the alternatives and it’s compatible with the big ones, ensuring no vendor lock-in.

It’s definitely not a plan to make TmaxSoft some global company like Samsung or Hyundai; its not the 70s where the country has no big companies for the global market. The government has no incentives to do that, when Samsung’s software is used over the world. It’s just the preference of domestic software, and that TmaxSoft delivered actually usable software (not great, but is usable) to the government.
That's numerological nonsense like Bible Code.
Thanks! Lots of great links there.
Don't skip to the end. It's not about the final product.
Another interesting video along these lines: [1], of a girl with two proshetic arms.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eMQuhxNDJM
> However, the browser process is also using URLLoaderFactories for different purposes and those have additional privileges. Besides ignoring the same-origin policy, they are also allowed to upload local files. Thus, if we can leak one of their port names we can use it to upload /etc/passwd to

My take on it. Chrome has just too many things it uses internally that's exploitable if one finds a a way to trick the sandbox.

The entire point of sandbox seem to be lost when so many stuff happens inside it.

Kick unneeded stuff out from rendering processes, reverting to the original design for them. "The renderer" in their design does way to many things other than just rendering.

Again, WASM will be a bane no matter how you secure it. JIT compilation of unsecure code is a bane. ASMJS has been a source of multiple exploits, it's poorly maintained, it must be axed.
Love the Greta-like how-dare-they-leave-us quote:

“Employers can only turn the request down if the employee is vital to the business’s operations. Also, your new idea can’t compete with your existing employer, nor cause them any significant inconvenience.“
Ah yes, I am familiar with that thread – I've been following it.

One thing does strike me as strange. The common ancestor here, RaTG13, was only sequenced and published by Shi's lab in Wuhan in late January. Despite supposedly being sequenced in 2013. Shi's Wuhan lab is the same one in question in this article regarding a potential leak.

Is this unusual for a lab to do, or is this common practice?

Others have asked this question in the Twitter thread you posted, but no one has responded so far as I can see. E.g:

https://twitter.com/LizSpecht/status/1223394697948753922 and
https://twitter.com/LizSpecht/status/1223451393173803014
This is incredible, indeed. And must be well understood technology by now. There is for example this man who build prosthetics with lego: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-lego-prosthetic-arm....
> Electric motors can be used for taxiing so that the turbines only have to be started immediately before takeoff.

I thought that this was pointless because the engines needed that time during taxiing to warm up properly anyway? If you moved them to the runway electrically they'd then just need to sit there burning fuel for five minutes to warm up.

Naval jet fighters, which launch through steam or electronically and don't need to taxi further than a few metres, still sit there for ages warming up. They don't just turn on and go.
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We can't "fully" dismiss accidental release idea, but we can pretty much dismiss it, because sequence (we now have sequence from outside of China, it's not under Chinese control) strongly suggests natural and not artificial origin (see my other comment).

If we are to argue "artificial to look like natural", that's premeditated release, not accidental release.
Japan is insanely good.
Author here. I see your point but I still prefer to say I wasn't "immersed" because I think actually living among native speakers and using the language carries an enormous advantage over what I did, a sort of "pseudo-immersion." This pseudo-immersion isn't 100% equivalent to typical immersion, but as you say, captures at least a significant part of it. Trying to imitate the immersion environment is the best I could do, and clearly is enough to get to a pretty decent level.

Regarding differences between this pseudo-immersion and "true immersion", I think there are a ton of things that I never picked up that I would receive had I lived in the country, which is a big reason why I still make this distinction. For example, I haven't shopped at a French grocery store and asked for help, and while I could do so, I'd probably use some uncommon wording. Or, for example, IIRC French people say "I'm having X" in restaurants instead of "I would like X", as all the online resources tell you to do, but I would have never picked up on this if I hadn't read it in a random article once. This sort of expression-mimicking you get from interacting daily with native speakers is, I imagine, hugely important in actually becoming natural in a native environment and is completely lacking with what I did.

I've never been to a French hospital, or complained about cigarette butts on the sidewalk, or explained how I stepped in dog poop on my way to work this morning, or told anyone how sweaty I became after rushing to catch the train. I could say all these things, but they'd all be new situations and there would be unnatural wording and a distinct lack of common expressions and idioms in my speech. Theoretically, I could watch enough movies or read enough books to catch a decent chunk of this, but in my immersion method I read 1 book and 0 movies or tv shows, (aside from a kid's cartoon for a bit.) This doesn't even include the massive amount of slang and idioms that are only said among very informal friends that I've never used with my Italki teachers. Perhaps including a lot more media in my method would be significantly more "immersive", but in any case I think the distinction is warranted. That being said, immersing yourself as much as possible, even at home, is definitely a very useful and effective way to learn a language.
> therefore the layered topology must have some mathematical superiority

Isn't it just that backpropagation on the layered topology is relatively straightforward?

That's not to say you can't write a backpropagation on an arbitrary digraph, but as you get to more and more complex digraphs, things will get harder.

I could be wrong on this.
If you have grievousness with your work environment, as a good employee you should make yourself heard. How you deliver that grievousness to your boss or upper management is on you. If you end up getting fired or let go for doing it in the right manner, maybe it's for the best anyways.
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I actually heard this from ex-tmax engineer.

One of the engineer was debugging the scheduler a day before demo day, poking here and there, inserting sleep(10); to random places. He merged his debug commit without deleting sleeps so the OS froze on demo.

what this implies: they don't have tests, no code review. And they're still developing OS.
I agree it helps crackpot find similar minded crackpots.

But it should be useful for other disperse small groups. I guess for rare illness patients. There should be a few more good examples.

One of my friends in ~1990 used smail to exchange problem of Mathematical Olympiad with students in other countries. He had a very long list, like 10 or 15 countries! Now you can get a lot more of information with Google in a few minutes.