skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was doing programming competitions, the most valuable advice I was given was to print out the problem set and then walk away from the computer for the first hour of the competition. This skill was even more important for the four-people-one-computer challenges, where you have to be able to design, implement, test, and debug your code without the crutch of a computer to be productive.

This advice I consider to be the most valuable programming advice I have ever received.

Code can be a distraction from the process of coding. It is way too easy to got lost in the minutiae of how things are to be implemented and delude yourself into believing you are making progress when you don't know what you are doing. The saga of the Sudoku solver [1] is a pretty well-known example: the coder in question spent an awful lot of time redesigning the implementation of the game board because he didn't know how to actually solve anything, and yet changing the implementation looks like progress without making any steps on the actual problem.

[1] See http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s... for mention of it.
Hmm, if only macOS had a backports system so that the best features of new releases (Dark Mode, Sidecar) could be backported to older releases (High Sierra) and you wouldn't actually have to upgrade. ;)

I can't imagine Apple doing that ever, so I guess that's an advantage of various Linux distros that support backports.
Target's Shipt Delivery App Workers Describe Culture of Retaliation and Fear
Apologies, I meant a standard that was closer to common lisp. Since I believe it is one of the more comprehensive standards.

I would not be shocked to find I am off on that claim.
You might enjoy this book about his pursuits during WWII, The Irregulars [1]

1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FA0HXY
I never cared much for the final game itself, but the 2005 GDC presentation on Spore was and still is magical. One of the best demos in history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ScRG_reIw

You can hear the sheer awe in the audience whenever Wright would zoom out to the next stage.
> Piston aircraft engines indeed need tons of maintenance.

Modern small piston aircraft engines under 250 HP have average TBO of 2,000 hours and can be operated beyond that with oil analysis. That's fine for commercial use, and piston engines only use 1/3 to 1/2 the fuel of jet engines, though that may be because of the use of a propeller.

So you trade fuel efficiency for engine maintenance, and I think they'd average out. DC-3 operators can maintain their piston engines just fine with one mechanic.

(Large turbofan engines like the 737 MAX uses are basically resurrecting the propeller in terms of moving a large volume of air, rather that relying on only a jet of air.)

I don't think there is a lot of data for larger piston engines. 1,000 HP engines and larger in WW2 had issues at the time, but that was 75 years ago. Metallurgy and production methods have improved since then.

Also WW2 engines were boosted (supercharged and water/alcohol-injected) and the military didn't care about longevity as airliners do today. For example, the American supercharged P-38 was the fastest fighter of WW2, while the version sold to Britain wasn't, and was a dog.

Source: commercially-rated pilot, WW2 student.
Mac Adware Infections Increased by 400% in 2019 [pdf]
They tell you which account they want to log in as, which isn't necessarily their global identity they'd like to share with you.
The Guy Selling Wireless Tech to Steal Luxury Cars in Seconds
Output in hex is easier to check, because of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%9...
The most compelling pitch decks have a good story. I don't know much about grant applications, but this advice does seem intuitive.
Going to work as PM in Cloud/BigTech, what coding skills to learn next?
I've always wanted to learn to program, and finally, I've gotten the time to go for it. My objective is to gain the foundations so that afterwards I can learn on-the-job, while also getting deeper in areas of interests like web programming, AI and blockchain.

I've already completed CS50 introduction to computer science, an intro to ML in R course, and now I'm halfway into CS50's Intro to Web Programming.

I have spring half-time and all summer full-time to learn before starting work.

I'm willing to continue learning online or even a boot camp if it's worth it.

So far my I'm planning on taking System Design and Data & Algorithms during spring, but that still leaves room for other stuff.

Any recommendations? Thanks!
Isn't forgiveness the opposite? If the Highway Fund built too many highways, and was in debt, BUT the debt is forgiven, it's a transfer to the Highway Fund.
by providing an alternative option for highly educated male engineers, yes.
Look at the Unlicense: https://unlicense.org/

It releases into the public domain, where possible, and has a paragraph that comes as close as possible to the public domain in jurisdictions where that release isn't possible.

I think the idea in the referenced case is that a release to the public domain means that the author gives up all interest in the work.

Not to really defend Getty Images, which seems to be acting out of line.
>> As luck would have it, a transformer next to my house blew and the power went out yet again. This means I had to restart from the last checkpoint yet again, losing another 2 weeks worth of work.

Ouch!!!
I put all my notes and bookmarks in my self-hosted bookmarking site https://github.com/jonschoning/espial . I definitely agree with the author that the combo of tags, search, the feed, and notes is very effective technique that I sure every day.
"some practice would improve matters quickly"

Anyone who seriously learned an instrument or to sing, knows that it takes very hard practice for years to improve.
I suspect the dev wanted to make the list available in a readable format (markdown) but also have it on a website elsewhere.

TBH since the markdown is in a simple format of "# <category>" + "- <question>", having the JSON seems redundant over just reading in the markdown.
> I mean, there’s a lot of things JavaScript should get heat for, but this really shouldn’t be one of them. This is inherently an issue with any language that has floating point numbers.

They address that in the very next sentence...
Exactly, I feel there is stuff there. I just don't feel it is as simple as a loss function. It generally is more capability and more data.

The nest is odd, to me, as I live without an air conditioner. So, at best, it can keep things off when we are not at home. But, you can't just turn on when we are home, as at that point it is too late to hit and maintain comfort before bed.

So, we are back to adding more to my house just to support the data and control this is looking to bolster. Which is almost certainly a net negative, all told. :(
Yes police where more community oriented in the 70's and 80's however that was something that only WASPS got. If you were an african-american, hispanic, gay etc the police where never your friend.

I have also heard people claim that in the long term this trend towards militaristic/adversarial policing is a long term fallout of the 1960's. Bright people who wanted to help others saw the police as authoritarian supporters of the status quo, so did not join. Which over the long term shifted the culture of police forces.
Wow this is awesome. Who said programmers aren't romantic?
Tech news with hacker directed filtering.
No Amazon. If you can, contact the seller directly and agree with them the terms for buying and delivering. In most occasions they already have some standard for this.
There are still many good quality answers. However I agree some specific product search queries are mostly ending with various product commercial recommendations, not what I am looking for.
No need to not call out PR marketing when you see it in the wild.

It's fine praise a company that does good, but don't act as if these companies are doing it out of pure kindness of their heart when they have legal shareholders to account for.
Saving the World‘s Oldest Languages [video]
Why can't a diplomat have a tech-related hobby? Most people outside tech have hobbies that are unrelated to their daily job.
Of course, once you know how to sum infinite geometric series it's not too hard to come across the answer that way ;)
Did this remind anybody of Exapunks?

It's a game that has a defined assembly-like language, you hack into things to do other things. The catch is some of those things you hack into are actually your nerves, so that you can still function properly.

Pretty cool game by Zachtronics
Actually, Torch (2002) is older than Theano (2007). Moreover, both were already used widely in the research community. Tensorflow was actually late in the grand scheme of things, but replaced Theano and to some extend Torch (which used Lua for its public API).

I think it's fairer to say that Tensorflow is the first implementation that had wide adoption outside academia.
I relate to the sentiments of this article. Smallness is a commodity we programmers forget the value of too frequently.

After reading the article the other week about the person who had their entire life managed in a single text file, I felt inspired to start doing the same. I have a python script that crawls the file and then sorts it all by date, plus a little command-line interface for checking off items or aggregating things by person or topic, but not much more. A text file isn't a good way to store data for a big application, but I know the exact limits of what I want to do, so I'm not going to use a database or anything more advanced than a human-readable .txt file.

So far I've spent more time writing the script than time I've saved by using it, but what else is new for a personal project?
I don't know what the data is, but the DHC-8/Q-400 is a fairly popular regional airplane outside the US, and depending on the model goes from 1300 - 5000hp.

https://www.pwc.ca/en/products-and-services/products/regiona...
The US, like most countries, is first-to-file now. So "prior art" doesn't matter as much.

However, in some general legal dispute, timestamps and headers can be very useful, especially if somebody strips them poorly. Put a header in your files too with author and company info.
Suing Apple (2016)
The answer to "why can't we" is that the benefits are diffused over the next decade+, while the pain is felt immediately. The problem is political.
The other rule I've heard from very successful owners is to keep headcount under 50 employees. Above that, you get into weird administrative requirements like submitting payroll on tape, large company labor reporting requirements, etc.
There's a bit of a thread below, but I'll just reply here.

I was a manager for a few years. People vary. Some people don't want to talk about their personal lives, and having their managers try to drag it into a work scenario can be anywhere from annoying to infuriating. Some people don't want another therapist. Sometimes work for those people is therapy, is a kind of escape.

My advice: don't ask about your reports' personal lives at all, unless they are brimming with it. Keep a professional distance. Don't try to become close friends if your relationship starts off as report/manager. You can tell them up front a version of this that is not standoffish. "I'm your work manager. If you are having any out-of-work issues you want to talk about, you can, but don't feel obligated, please. I am going to respect your privacy and not proactively ask." Professionalism is the default. They will respect that.

Resist the urge to be a terrible psychologist.

But, of course, do watch for warning signs.
Now that you mention IFTTT. I've recently visited their website and found out it has a web hook "if".
An http endpoint where you can GET/POST data and trigger actions on it.
I mean, we're arguing semantics at this point, but these definitions we're talking about are things like schemes, which pretty much everybody would call heavy machinery.
Additionally, I don’t think jet engines have to pass clean air standards like cars do. I don’t know for certain that this makes a huge difference for global warming, but there are many vectors for environmental damage besides CO2 emissions. Modern gasoline powered ICE vehicles produce fairly clean exhaust thanks to smog regulations.
Could you give an example of such a story? I am trying to understand what story means in the context of grant writing.
Show HN: Whistlegraph TikTok Compilation [video]
Ex dev here. I have been making these little experimental audiovisual programs for kids on TikTok that they can memorize and re-perform in their notebooks.

They are inspired by my years of playing video games and telling computers what to draw with creative coding environments like Processing. My audience is starting to compose and post their own too, which has been great!

I know most HN people probably aren't on TikTok so here is a little compilation with some commentary at the end.
Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a Software 2.0 design
Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
So, extremely poor governance?
HDMI IC replacements on PS4s are pretty common today (WLOD)
> One import factor here is where specifically you live. Police in the US are local systems which totally differ based on local laws and culture. In a place like Los Angeles County, with its high crime problems, cops are a lot more jaded and defensive. Meanwhile in the small beach cities in LA, the cops are very helpful and mellow.

This is not my understanding at all. I have a ticket that has all kinds of nonsense in a relatively low crime Overland Park, Kansas: reckless driving, bla bla bla. What I really had was a flat tire and I was stopped on the side of the road. Not that it matters because in any case the officers arrived on the scene more than ten minutes after I got the flat tire. I don't blame the officers: they can't admit it but I'm positive they have a quota to meet so they do this kind of nonsense.
A Lockheed Constellation had 4 × Wright R-3350-DA3 Turbo Compound 18-cylinder supercharged radial engines, 3,250 hp (2,424 kW) each

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Constellation

That's 72(!) cylinders. Then you've got the superchargers, variable pitch propellers, and on and on. It's a bit of a miracle one could get them all running at the same time :-/

BTW, Lindbergh flew the Atlantic on a single engine. He rejected multi-engine designs because the reliability would be halved. He selected the most reliable engine available at the time.
Same with Japan. Read some of patio11's posts on that.
On the contrary a poll is about the best possible way to make generalizations. It uses random sampling to make estimates about a population. Otherwise the loudest get all the attention, certainly a big issue when it comes to cops lately.

I guess polls might miss homeless people, though there aren't enough to swing the numbers noticeably. I don't see why they'd hate cops especially.

I wonder how incarcerated people in Japan feel about cops. Have you seen ho they treat prisoners?
Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index
> But let me tell you as a manager who had dozens of reports over the years, I never met a single person who has refused to talk about their spouses, children, or hobbies.

How often do your subordinates say "no" to you in general?
Ah this looks great. I'm super happy I'm learning about this project. Do you guys have any plans of adding extensions ala puppeteer-extra?
This virus seems to be China’s rest of biological weapon went wrong.
What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us
Python would be my suggestion considering your interest in AI/ML. Also you might find the book recs here good: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
This. Exactly what are we afraid of here? It's working as designed.
Contrary to what you believe, no programming language community (not even C/C++) would consider such a loose interpretation of the standard to be a valid implementation.

The point of the parable is that, since the standard would seem to admit such a ludicrously incorrect implementation, the standard itself must be wrong.

I will point out, since you appear to believe contrarily, that my experience is that the JS and browser engine community have historically been far more accepting and blasé about loose specification than the C/C++ community.
Deploying an app to more than one geographic region on earth should be very basic. For mostly read only sites, it is mean to make your users suffer extra latency and your reliability goes down.

The authors had to go read source code to figure out obscure annotations at one point to get container aware networking to work, which then wasn’t compatible with Google’s tools to setup global ingress.
"This is indistinguishable from something that would be hanging in an art museum."

Haha, the exact opposite of my scroll through. I thought to myself: "These look like a clone stamp sampled and then vomited up all the lovely modernist paintings I've seen at art museums."
I evaluated China's Red Flag Linux back in the day, around 2010.

They took a common linux distro, added Chinese fonts, and made a nice graphical login screen. I was impressed at how smooth the final result was actually.

If you're familiar with the final linux distros based on KDE (pre-Gnome 3), that's what it looked like.

So if you're a government IT staffer, study the history of Red Flag Linux.
Thanks for the recommendation! This is very much what I've been looking for. Easy GUI, super simple to use, but can go deep and get it to do most things I'd want. After several false starts looking at the different app options, this is so refreshing :)
Several years ago I worked with software intended to provide data insights, including projected clinical trial result dates to research firms that were trading biotech companies. I wrote a scraper that would directly pull some of these from the NIH site and other sources. Once in a while one could make serious profits from biotech volatility by trading options expiring after results were published. However, delays were often the norm - biotech is not for the faint of heart.
It's easy to find examples for both:

https://www.vox.com/world/2015/12/13/9989250/japan-crime-con...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-fg-autop...

(although I would like to make clear -- in any large country, you will find examples of both)
Well, they may not exactly sjut it down in th same abrupt way if it's paid, but if you look at their recent changes to the costs if using their maps API, they're certainly willing to rewrite the terms of use for paid tiers that result in apps that were paying nominal fees to suddenly being charged onerous, crippling costs order of magnitude more expensive that require shutting down the service built on Google's tech.

So, no, paid services are not free from the fear of Google's drastic and suddenly project cuts or (as near as cuts) massiveness overhauls.
I absolutely love this comparison. Making computers do what you want using a core set of skills, personal taste, some equipment, and a set of reference works is absolutely analogous to cooking at home for the family.

I feel a bit like this touches on operating systems as well. After a decade with macOS — away from Debian, ion3, evince, Firefox, and to some extent the command line — I get that same feeling of overexposure one might feel after eating out for every meal. Restaurant food is polished and diverse but it’s overly tasty and the options for customization are coarse (no pun intended.) You can choose a dish but not how it’s made.

The analogy with home cooking makes me want to go back to a computing environment where I get to put the ingredients together that work best for me even if it isn’t something that’s perfect enough to sell to other people. Hackable window managers aren’t the be all and end all but they are a good example of what I’m talking about. Time to buy that $100 Thinkpad, I guess.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22344164
This is all really, really good advice. I wish I could read this, and understood it, and the surrounding context, ten years ago.
In theory there is a way to do it without needing to have IdentitiesOnly yes. That is, if ssh did something like:

server -> user: nonce
user -> server: nonce2, h(nonce || nonce2 || publickey) (for every publickey)

or alternatively

user -> server: nonce
server -> user: nonce2, h(nonce || nonce2 || publickey) (for every publickey)

It would still leak the amount of keys (for the user for the 1st protocol and for the server for the second) but nothing about them. (I would also suggest using a modern hash function for h, such as blake(2) or sha3)

There should be a way to extend this protocol as to not leak the amount of keys.
Why Peter Thiel's $3.5B Fintech Is Fleeing Britain
How is it ‘Fake News’?

Also: how is it helpful or informative to call ‘people’ ‘really really stupid’?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture : wiki link to history of farming. Which kind of farming is as what Bloomberg suggested and as what you think is ‘simple’.

‘500 years ago’ would be 1520 AD. How do you think and what do you think people farmed in 1520?
Microsoft could add new 'Spaces' organizational tool to Outlook
> Kick unneeded stuff out from rendering processes, reverting to the original design for them.

I'm assuming that this would be slow.
tldr: He's some guy who believes he broke the world record and maybe he did.
just don't pay it. what are the bankers going to do?
I think you should go one step further and after they reluctantly agree to put it in "the box", it proceeds to smash it with a hydraulic press clearly visible through a pane of glass on the front. Of course, you don't actually smash their phone, but a dummy you substitute with sleight of hand. Oh, but the look on their faces!
Interesting, I haven't heard of (1) and (2) but as I've mentioned Roam Research also seems a good take on this idea. From my (recent) experience it appears their app is not yet stable enough to use as a daily driver, though. Notion [0] seems like a more mature version based around similar principles.

As for idea rediscovery I'm personally happy with the setup I devised for myself
so I can only suggest trying to emulate something similar. If you're interested,
some guiding principles I follow:

1. My note-taking app (Vim, but could also be the browser or anything else) is constantly open in the
background, and I have a keyboard shortcut to show/hide.

2. I maintain an index document of sorts (with TODOs, recent thoughts, outward
links). This is frequently updated and I don't think too much about
categorization.

3. Either Markdown `#` headers or `*` are mapped to Vim folds,
which allows me to use `zm` and `zr` to quickly expand and collapse document
outlines.

4. Treat tags as a "brain-dump". Just quickly come up with some keywords before
starting to write
the note. If you do that, I find even simple tools such as ctags and grep immensely
help with future rediscovery.

5. Backups are on GitHub so I have the double convenience of both tracking document
history, as well as being able to access all notes from mobile.

It's served me well thus far; most commercial note-taking apps will handle (4)
and (5), while (1) is easy to resolve (e.g. AutoHotkey on Windows) so there's
probably no need to make drastic changes to your setup if you wish to try it out.

[0] https://www.notion.so/
I hope you never witness a government official breaking the law and start thinking about blowing the whistle.