skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, a fact like "Shostakovich composed his 5th sympohny in 1937" may have little value on itself, but its value is compounded with related facts. For example, if you also knew that Shostakovich was Russian, you could deduce with reasonable certainty that he composed this piece while living in the USSR (knowing also that the USSR was in place in 1937).

This in turn might allow you to enjoy the piece more, because you can relate the music to the time period and better understand what it depicts and what the composers intention was.

Now, you could also simply read a brochure about the piece/composer before the concert and you would know the same or more, but this would cost you time you may not have at that moment.

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Anyways, I don't think he is arguing for memorization, rather, he argues that you should first learn something (by reading) and then use some tools to remind you of what you have learned in order to not forget it. It turns out that the tool he chose for this is one that reminds him of some facts once in a while. The intention is not necessarily to know these facts, but to be reminded of the learned concept through these. Whether this is an effective method or not I do not know. One could end up becoming very focued on the facts, forgetting the deeper knowledge behind them (as happens in eductation, but for different reasons).

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Maybe I went a bit too in depth with this :p

I dont understand your point about my point (the article not being about 80's economics). Are you saying that because it is important, the article should have elaborated on it?
While I'm happy that Namecheap won't reveal the names,I'm not happy that these kind of website names can not just be registered but also kept running for years.
What caught me completely off-guard when I went to rent from the Depot was needing my insurance paperwork. Okay, that's out in my car's glovebox halfway across the parking lot, kindly serve another customer while I hike out there and get it...

It's doubly weird because I rent cars from Enterprise and Budget all the time and they've never asked me for it.

But anyway, once that was done with, yeah the 75-minute truck rental was just what the doctor ordered. I picked up a bunch of industrial auction items, dropped them at my friend's place and my place, and had the truck fueled and returned with several minutes to spare.

Everything I've ever bought from HD itself, including 10' pieces of conduit and Unistrut, 8' pipe and lumber, numerous bags of cement and aggregate and mulch, has fit just fine in my Prius.

I wouldn't mind owning a pickup for full sheets, but in practice everything I've made has tesselated just fine into 32x48 one-third-sheets so I just have 'em ripped on the panel saw in-store.
I'm sounding like a zealot here, but this is why I like Zulip. It has multi-line compose by default and it encourages you to write messages like you write emails, ie long-form.
There's two things I want to point out here. Firstly, maybe I'm the exception rather than the rule, but I don't have a massive battlestation PC at home (nor the room to get one) so working from home means working on my laptop and constantly struggling for screen real-estate.

Secondly, large corporations seem to function via rules that are completely immune to reality. Every 10 years or so Intel will not only insist everyone is in the office, but will look at relocating teams into their head offices for any given project - literally giving the people the option "Hey! I hear Gdansk is lovely this time of year". This sort of organisational bullshit from large companies isn't going to go away. However, you can look at the opposite side, I know people (not engineers) who work at companies where they hot-desk every day and the office is only provisioned for 70% of staff to turn up on any given day because they're too cheap to actually provide everyone a desk.

I guess what I'm saying with that second point is that for most large businesses these choices are going to be more about corporate bullshit than some sudden epiphany that working from home is great.
Almost all of those aren't single binaries like Chrome.

They often have their own databases, search engines, services etc to deploy along with it. And necessitate multiple instances for scalability and redundancy.
I mean, monarchy wasn't really a key element of what I was saying. You don't have "root" on your own body in a rule-of-law democracy, either. You can't just decide to not go to jail, if a court says you must.

This is kind of a recapitulation of the argument that forked Ethereum into Ethereum Classic:

• There was a system, partially founded on a guiding principle of its participants having final say in what happens in their in-system interactions, through contracts they enter into the system. Those contracts were each supposed to "have root" over all state-changes made to their own private storage.

• Something went wrong with a contract, in a way that corrupted its private storage and made things worse for pretty much everybody, since it was a very popular contract. The maintainers of the system decided to violate the guiding principle in the name of making things better for everybody, by just reaching in and overriding the rules of the popular contract, so that it would retroactively have done the "right" thing, and not gotten corrupted.

• Some people thought that there shouldn't be any entity (consortium or otherwise) with power to override the rules of their contracts, even if those changes are "to the good", so they left and started their own alternative system, mostly the same other than the guarantee that they'd never violate the guiding principle.

• The market decided that the alternative system has about 1/10th the economic value of the original system. Most developer effort, userbase, etc. sided with the original system, and with the concept of there being a political entity with the power to overrule individual contracts. The contract creators themselves seem to want the "safety net" implied by this entity having the power to overrule them.

Interesting, no?
I'm not sure it matters much on an uninterrupted stretch of road (except you conflict with the bicycles being on the right side of the road...) But when you enter an intersection from the opposite direction the drivers are expecting you to, it's pretty clear that it's not safer.
You absolutely do. The communication styles and social rewards of going to an office are different drastically. This is why I feel grateful to have spent the last year or so working for a remote first company- to provide myself the time to get accustomed to working from home.

A few of my colleagues hated it and returned to their FAANG(probably for financial reasons, as well), unlike myself.
I felt the same until I realized that is all it is- a breathing technique, coupled with gradually adapting yourself to cold over time. The breathing mostly just serves to keep you calm while your body activates it's natural cold responses such as uncoupling the mitochondria in brown fat.
Hmmm...I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my build (Mac OS X) or if I'm just "using it wrong" because the REPL (not the language) seems pretty unusable to me.

The up and down arrows just show escape sequences instead of going to previous/next history.

Entering `foo = 123` gives the error `UNDEFINED NAME - foo`. Entering `exp foo = 123` gives the same error.

Entering the same expression on a line in a file works though (`/f test.m`).

Am I doing it wrong?
Have you read up on polyphasic sleep?

I haven't tried it, but it does seem it is physically possible to sleep much less than 7-8 hours per 24 hour cycle.
>Almost half of people who stopped working did it in order to train for a better job. That's great!

Ahahaha, 50% of people not faffing around would count as success to you? You pay the taxes for that then.

>Receiving BI allowed sick people to not be forced into work to pay for a basic existence? That's great!

Such an improvement! The old method of just buying some aspirin really got put in its place here!

Please, this sort of optimism is indicative of why this won't fly in America. I don't know if you're European or just really like rose colored glasses but these are the kinds of outcomes that doom policy proposals in America. If you're going to live on someone else's dime you're /expected/ to be wretched beyond reproach or guranteed to do something worthwhile. No one is going to be clapping for the tax that 50% of the time breeds couch potatoes.
I am still hitting deep/REM sleep - that isn't changing. If I weren't, I'd feel terrible.

It has been about 6 months of doing this all night, every night. So far, I feel myself.

The key is to use old familiar programs. Things you can visualize even though you're just listening to them. It's that familiarity that allows your brain to have a sense of comfort, while not really being stimulated.

In any case, the experiment continues...
> verifiable builds do not rely on trusted computing at this point.

Of course they don't. They are orthogonal, i.e. one does not imply the other, but one also does not prevent the other.

The verifiable build serves you, the hardware owner, in knowing that the software does what its vendor claims.

The trusted platform's assertion serves the software vendor, allowing them to trust the environment that their software is running in.

> It would be twisted logic to tell the user the only way they can have their software freedom is by asking the trusted computing infrastructure to verify it for them.

Nobody is saying that. If you want to trust your computer to do what you think it does, you don't want trusted computing; you probably want reproducible builds, trusted boot etc. But trusted computing also does not inherently prevent you from doing that. The two are orthogonal!
I'm very glad I didn't buy into the ICO hype. Filecoin raised $257m selling their Filecoin tokens and now, more than 2 years later, they still have yet to ship a product.
What I want the ability to upload a picture of a paint chip, AND tell you how long it has been since that wall was painted.

That way the app could adjust for fading and tell me what color that paint was originally.
I'm pretty sure Khan Academy does this actually. Really good experience.
Probably not time itself, but time to figure out how to keep productive.
Slippery slope, and I hate Facebook more for doing this. It shouldn't be on Namecheap to police for Facebook. Tomorrow, Facebook could open something like cnn.facebook.com -- would CNN.com be off limits then? It'd be impossible to predict, track, and respond -- also it's fundamentally not Namecheap's responsibility to protect Facebook. Facebook could, and certainly has the money to, register anything they want -- anything that resembles a domain in their apps.
You may have inherited a diet and adopted habits that cultivate brown fat.
And I'll be blunt that CloudWatch, especially logs, aren't all that hot in actual use. It might have gotten better, but all places I worked for last two years if they used AWS they depended on their own log aggregation, even if using AWS-provided Elastic Search.
Yep, relative velocity is one of the main considerations. The other would be to have cyclists following the same basic set of rules as cars, making their behavior more predictable to auto drivers.
Definitely not in “park flyer” category any more.

Carbon fiber decapitating blades of death if you get too close. HHOS.
Like other cryptos, Filecoins founders don't get rich off existing and usually better solutions.
I mean, FB is trying to stop phishing here, and it doesn't seem like your company is cooperating with FB's investigation. A lawsuit seems like what they had to do to get you to take action here.

Why do you want to take money from criminals, in exchange for helping them to do criminal activity? From a risk management perspective, you should very much not want these customers.
I always remind people, working from home is definitionally indistinguishable from living at work. ;)

Still, I find it a great stress reduction and time saver to have the option. After years spent doing both 5 days/week, I find 3 days in office and 2 days from home strikes a pretty good balance.
Internet is miami is borked in general right now. strange
My impression is that we've recent just maybe gotten to the point where someone has proven that they have a computer that actually is doing quantum computing for something that would be exponentially slower to do on a classical computer.

My understanding is that this is what Google has recently claimed to have done, and before that no one had published any serious claims that they had done real quantum computing.

As always, Scott Aaronson has a solid article, some of which I can understand: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317
I think "jumper" tends to be Northern English, I don't think it's used around London, (but I could be wrong). I believe our Viking cousins in Norway and Iceland use "jumper" as well.

Incidentally, we also use the word "pullovers".
Ask HN: Is there a website with advanced CSS puzzles?
I am looking for question like :

1) How would you transform this div from middle of page to end of page etc
2) Why is this div only 20px height even though the image inside is 100px height
3) Given this moderately complex CSS, how will you add a extra text div of dimensions 20px * 30px and how will you style it with minnimum classes.

Something like this: https://www.w3schools.com/css/exercise.asp?filename=exercise_positioning5
Same effect here. After months of -20c, 0c feels like summer.

Spent a few months in the bay area for an internship and was shivering and adding layers at 15c.
Group transparency and face to face pair time is critical. Your new hires need to be able to feel comfortable asking stupid questions in Slack channels full of smart people.
I love RSS, using IFTTT tools, I can automate and share different feeds to other different sites, populating and share information from static portals. I can even make RSS feeds from sites that dont offer native RSS.

Many different sites offer RSS feeds, many people dont even know they exist unless they are webmasters or advanced users.

Podcasts are based around RSS feeds, even youtube offers RSS feeds. This really is a powerful tool that is all over that you can use to build core infrastructure for social media and knowledge bases. You would be surprised how many backends of websites uses RSS to spread links around the Internet.
Contradicting the very idea of staying the f away from people till the big wave of infection passes, bravo.
My employer provides me (and other remote employees) all the equipment needed to work from home. Laptop, Docking Station, Monitors and Keyboards.

But you are right about the corporate BS.
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Honest Questions:

* Is Spotify trying to "fix" that now like iTunes tried to "fix" that 20 years ago?

* Why should I "enjoy" Spotify as much as I "enjoyed" iTunes? [I didn't, not even a little bit]
...not to mention talented. There is a massive efficiency multiplier when you combine multiple brilliant and experienced people together.
I think the fact that you're thinking about it a lot and setting such precedents will probably pay off in the long run for your team's communication and documentation - past the duration of this latest scare.
Facebook customers are companies that pay for advertising. Billions of sheep,who signed up for the chance to see endless streams of cat pictures, are the product.
Get one that stows them into the floor. Then you can rearrange your cargo space at a moment's notice.
What we really need is a feely user interface. This would consist of users blindly groping in the dark for the thing they need.
Interesting! I work fully remote now but in my last gig I took full advantage of a 2 day/week from WFH policy and LOVED it. I agree 100%.

I am a very social person so I liked hanging out with my friends/colleagues at the office but knowing that I only had to spend three days(a minority!) out of the entire week there was perfect.
So I guess for 32GB, it's:

- Sealing: Done once. 3-4h compute on one CPU initially, plus 2-3 hours on a few CPUs.

- Proof of space time: 10 minutes of GPU time per day.

What are the latency expectations within the system when my node is asked for a Proof of SpaceTime? Is it feasible to keep the sealing data, delete the file itself, then spend ~5 minutes downloading the 32GB on my 1 gigabit/sec home Internet connection when someone asks me to do the Proof of SpaceTime, and return the Proof of SpaceTime in 15 minutes (5 min to download, 10 min to compute)?

Thanks again for engaging with me here! It seems the compute time itself isn't a constant enormous cost necessarily.
It is unclear to me if you are being obtuse on purpose or on accident. But I want to reiterate that trolling is not allowed on HN and it is presumed that you are going to take arguments on good faith. So I will answer as if you aren't being needlessly obtuse.

We're talking about institutional education, not gaining more information. So in this discussion we're not talking about people spending their money to become more informed on Kardashians. We're talking about them going to school. As far as I'm aware, there's no school that teaches the history of the Kardashians.
Gun is currently a pile of shit. Anyone saying otherwise hasn't used it. The sole founder and developer is a very nice person, but it's the reality of Gun tech right now.
Go to DC and tell me that old people run America. What will surprise you is how young everyone is on Capitol Hill.
Do you mean that no one else at your company uses any of those 4 softwares?
Are we gonna count 5-passenger cars that only have the front row occupied while we're at it?

Not having to use your vehicle to capacity at all times is one of the hallmarks of being at least middle class (at least in the US).
Yes, but does Filecoin actually get you there? And if so, how and why?
F'ck SUVs - I'd love to see a movement directly aimed at these embodiments of egotism and antisocial personality disorder.
That's per license, per employee? Or company-wide license fee? If the latter, you still need to divide by the total number of users of the product.
Breaking the back button and not using propers URLs are two cardinal sins in SPA development.
I wonder if the train animation is a direct descendant of this program which was published by Processor Technology in their Access newsletter, Volume 1, No. 4. The author is "Newett Awl", which supposedly was the pseudonym of Gordon French, co-founder of the Homebrew Computer Club.

PT was the maker of the Sol-20, a 1976-ish CP/M machine.

demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjiYQqTWHbo

Source code:
http://sol20.org/programs/train.asm
Oh I’m the exact same version of mutt as yourself (incidentally, born and raised Canadian) and am much the same. I’ve always said I “run hot” because it can be the dead of winter but as soon as I walk in the building in the morning I’ll start sweating. I have to unzip my coat and take my hat off on the bus and subway or I’ll sweat through. Humid summertimes have to be managed accordingly.

I know your situation allllll too well!
Is Gitflow meant to be used with pull requests?

I do not use it that way, but I am open-minded to its advantages.
Not if they're per-seat licenses.
IBM Statement on the Earn IT Act
Just saying, but you are most likely exceeding the specifications of your vehicle.

The tires, brakes and accident safety systems are designed to protect you and others. Look at the door sticker and be clear what your car is designed for.

That said, I liked having a small toyota pickup (the one named "pickup").
> If they can't make sure that their clients are legit, they shouldn't be in the business at all.

Banks are required to have Know Your Customer systems. Domain registrars, hardware stores, and grocery stores are not. Do you really want to extend this additional expense to all the businesses from which you buy?
Climate change boosted Australia bushfire risk by at least 30%
I am curious how RISC-V GPGPU development would affect Nvidia’s support for the platform. So far they seemed to be supportive. They’ve contributed NVDLA. They’re a member of the foundation. It’s not far-fetched to think a Jetson with high performance RISC cores is already in development. I hope they won’t back out if they deem a strong edge platform competitor is not in their best interest.
None of these empirical studies are useful for broad policy decisions. This is a bit like linear regression, there are to many dimensions each matters differently and the same classifier will not hold true if you add more dimensions randomly or remove few.

There is no "core human trend" to all this that will get revealed only by empirical studies but not by logic. (Empirical studies are useful to judge say whether vaping actually makes us more healthy on average. Smoking is so irrational at some level that no amount of logic can help us predict how people behave.)

The economics logic is pretty clear. People will react to incentives. But there is no hard formula that we can apply. Raising minimum wage by few cents will not cause job loss but increasing it by few dollars will. But if you make minimum wage around $100 then whole industry might go underground and no effective jobless but for in government record keeping.

I think effectiveness of UBI will be useful only if we perform far too many experience under far too variable circumstances and then understand the broader trends.
As long as Filecoins is traded on a market, and not tied to actual cpu/bandwidth/storage costs, then if will ALWAYS be more expensive then AWS (and alternatives).
Black Mesa 1.0 Released
I love our minivan. It fits our family comfortably, and can haul anything I need it to (a full size sheet of plywood will fit flat on the floor in the back).
> What caught me completely off-guard when I went to rent from the Depot was needing my insurance paperwork. Okay, that's out in my car's glovebox halfway across the parking lot, kindly serve another customer while I hike out there and get it...

That caught me off guard the one time I did this as well. However, it is a small lesson to learn compared to financing and insuring even a cheap truck such as an f-150 IMO.
The source of peanut allergies has been found in a surprising place
The full title ends in “such a hit in Silicon Valley”.
I never thought about it from this person's perspective because I never had to program X beyond the graphics and OS classes I took in the early 90's. (Motif's insane verbosity makes code look awful.)

I've been using X + MWM since 1991 (AIX and Solaris, anyone?). It is still everywhere, and I wonder how it managed to persist for so long.

Why didn't anything ever disrupt Xorg?
It’s used in Ireland as well. There’s a famous pop/rock song that features it in particular.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM
I don't know about your phone but mine which is not new has 6gb of ram and the latest Samsung s20 flagship has 12gb of ram. In comparison to the total ram, it's much better nowadays.
I have an electric powered flying wing I used to do this one windy day a few years ago.

No bungee or other setup. Just toss it over the hill.

Under-the-wing video:

https://youtu.be/dFeZB1qpMk8