skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and they are worse than internal combustion engine cars in that regard.

Regenerative braking means less wear on the brakes, and there's no particulate matter from the exhaust pipe. In what way are electric cars worse?
I would suggest Shadows of forgotten Ancestors, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
Two very important roles of experienced developers are to mentor the young ones on best practices and to tell the management when they have stupid ideas.

In workplaces where these roles are not recognized older developers tend to become grumpy and do not contribute much more than the others.
It can be. But at least in my case for a surprising reason: you see the younger cowboys in your team being eager to make the same mistakes you've done years ago. Including the mistake of not listening to the elders... ;) So you have to account not only for what your code could do but also for what bad^H^H^H naively written code could do.
Ghandi’s actions led to the withdrawal of Britain from India, which led to the separation of India which led to 2-3 million deaths, about 0.1% of the global population.

Mandela killed about 100 people, the equivalent of infecting 10k people with covid.
This is much bigger than your comment makes it out to be. There used to be a real IT industry in Ger. We had Siemens-Nixdorf as a very decent global player. We had Commodore producing their PCs in Braunschweig. Now all that's left is the relative newcomer SAP.
Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online
What makes it true is the enormous weight of evidence.
I have quite enjoyed a couple of books by David Eagleman: The Brain, and Sum.
There is a notable exception to this role: Germany's e-commerce giant Otto [1] has transitioned from order by catalogue to webstore pretty well and they are doing some nice things techwise.

Maybe exception to the rule but definitely an example of not being stuck in the past and it's a LARGE corporation.

[1] https://www.otto.de/
I used to participate in such a service from Lacie (or was it Lacie?), I shared 1 TB, got 1 TB in return "cloud" storage (I think multiplied by the time you were online actually), which was in fact, distributed (after local encryption) over many other online PCs. I ran it on my server but one was not even obligated to keep their PC on. It worked "meh" (it was all java based with a meh UI) and they discontinued it.
Polymorphic TypeScript – Function overloading with rest parameters
If that's my primary concern, I wouldn't publish until I had the patents nailed down.
You could have a look at 'The Mind's I' [1]. Its a collection of short essays edited by Hofstadter and Dennett.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I
If they know the shape of buildings (or vehicles) near the area of interest, they could use those to guide correction.
I don't think this is true relative to international expectations? It's certainly more than it was pre-covid, but isn't it still limited time and low income for a high cost of living area?
I've always viewed "saving their souls" to be a kind of false rationalization to cover up the true desire for conquest.
Only tangentially related -

Data Mechanics was one of contenders for our company name too! It was one of my favourite options in fact. It sounds nice, can be read in two ways, works well when shortened - DataMech. But getting datamech.com proved to be impossible, so we settled on something else. Just 2c.
Ignorance of counter-evidence is not truth.
> I'm looking for mind games, plot twists, brain expanding books, and literally anything that transforms me into a smarter, wiser person.

It's hard to tell whether you want a mystery/thriller book or a book on logic or a self help book. If you want to be more intelligent or aware of culture, then read the bible. You'll be surprised how almost everything you read, watch or listen to is tied to the bible. Almost every book listed in this thread will have references to the bible. You really can't be culturally intelligent without having read the bible - at least in the US or Europe. If you want a mystery, can't go wrong The Name of the Rose. Also, a book isn't going to transform you into a smarter, wiser person. The countless shelves of self-help books should be evidence enough.

Also, I love this quote from einstein:

"Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life."
>German companies prefer stability over pure profit

Sorry, but Dieselgate would like to respectfully disagree with you.
Does it matter? After all, there's no real underlying conversational reality to be referenced; just the Ur-Zeitgeist of performative familiarity, the verbal construction of an image and its presentation to the Other ...
Ah right, for some reason I thought you were talking about C++.

Yes for C what you mention makes perfect sense.

I agree with you about C++ as well. In particular, C++ templates end up expanding a lot of duplicate code, and at O1 the compiler can remove them.
Moot—I'm not the one making the decision.

I was just responding to arguments with other arguments. That's how an internet discussion works. If you say I was "rationalising" Tesla's decision to open the factory, you were equally "rationalising" the County's decision to keep it closed.
That's quite a personal experience, I think.

For me, the books which had the most impact on my life were those which were exploring systematically something I had a confuse idea of and seemed rather unorthodox. When you get that feeling that "oh great, if I'm insane, I'm not alone", it immediately organizes your thought process and allows you to go further.

Of course, there is always the risk of an "echo chamber" effect, but on the other hand, there are some ideas that you can't get if you're not in a given predisposition, so better maximize the usefulness of your reading time (and explore introduction to alien ideas through lighter sources, like small articles).
Looking at https://www.hetzner.com/cloud, the top of the line dedicated option seems to be CCX51, which only has 32GB (edit: 128GB, I must have misread). Do you have some sort of special deal with them?
They scan the item before putting the new sticker on, then usually put the item in a known, high traffic area so it’s gone by the end of the day. Maybe they just consider it out the door at that scan then bin whatever reduced items didn’t sell.
That's how I see static typing in languages, yes. I've not yet experienced the languages that offer the purported transformation of the way of programming, in which you spend 90% of the time designing the types, 10% cleaning up, and the program magically works. So for me, static typing is quintessential programming poka-yoke. And that's why I like it.
Me and the parent commenter are talking about the Hetzner cloud offering, where the largest instances have 32 GB of RAM (https://www.hetzner.de/cloud). Sure you can get a dedicated server there with much more RAM and you can host your own hardware in their colocation facilities, but that has nothing to do with cloud computing in the common understanding of the term.
Can't speak for the UK, but I often see Smarts parked sideways around Paris. The car is indeed longer than the spaces are large, but a factor that helps a lot is that regular cars are rarely parked nicely inside the lines. Which means that, in practice, the sideways Smart doesn't stick out from the other cars.
It's true that the FPGA vendors are very secretive, often to the point of requiring NDAs for access to datasheets and toolchains.

There is open source tooling for some FPGAs and a fairly small but very helpful community around it.

Yosys, IceStorm, SymbiFlow, and nmigen are the major projects in the space that I'm aware of.
"Lucky imaging" is not a widely used technique in astronomy.

There was a major announcement on Friday using just this technique: https://www.gemini.edu/pr/gemini-gets-lucky-and-takes-deep-d...
It might become more popular now.
Isn't it the opposite, that any free market is not zero-sum? If two parties trade it means that each offers the other something they value more, so both parties end up in a better situation than before, thus increasing value.
Feel free to share
book suggestions are like opinions: everyone has a few ... fwiw here books which I re-read more than twice:

1) Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society (La Technique)": https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...

2) Jacques Ellul "Propaganda" https://archive.org/details/Propaganda_201512

3) Robert Cialdini "Influence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini#Theory_of_infl... <- could probably be described as a modern / dark adversarial take in "how to make friends and influence people" and should be read with Kahneman & Tversky's books/papers.

4) James C. Scott "The Art of Not being Governed" https://libcom.org/files/Art.pdf

5) Dickens "Hard Times" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_(novel) <- for it's description of the effects on peasant communities during industrialization, which is also a theme in "La Technique" above

6) George Orwell "Down and Out in London and Paris" https://archive.org/details/DownAndOutInParisAndLondonGeorge...

7) M. Scott Peck "The Road Less Traveled" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Scott_Peck#The_Road_Less_Tr...

8) Introducing Psychology of Relationships - A Practical Guide by John Karter https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Psychology-Relationships-...

9) Lion Feuchtwanger "Goya" https://www.amazon.com/Goya-Lion-Feuchtwanger/dp/8476408838

10) Thomas Ligotti "The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror" https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-against-Human-Race-Contriv...

11) Plato "The Republic": https://archive.org/details/PlatoRepublic/mode/2up

12) Lewis Mumford "The Story of Utopias": https://archive.org/details/storyutopias00mumfgoog/page/n9/m...

13) the major works of: Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Foucault, Chomsky, Zizek

Short:

- Peter Wessel Zapffe "The Last Messiah": https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah

- Lion Feuchtwanger "Power": https://archive.org/details/powerbookbylionf00zieliala/page/...

- Samuel Becket "Waiting for Godot": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot

- Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man": https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Ridiculous-Man-Fyodor-Dostoyevs...
That wouldn't even be legal in Germany (and I guess the EU), pricing has to be clearly labelled, and additionally has to have a price per common unit if the package has a different size (e.g. a 3.5l bottle of detergent would show €/litre).

I wonder why they don't just use e-ink price labels? These are common around here for a decade or so.
ICLR2020: The Future Is Self-Supervised (LeCun and Bengio)
Citizen Lab shone a spotlight on Israeli spyware firm
Learning to pass the test has failed us. Moving tests online won’t change that.

The future of education is not moving tests online. It’s no tests at all. The future of education is workshops.

Teachers as mentors, not lecturers and truancy officers. Exercises instead of lectures. Peers instead of tests. Projects instead of grades.

After completing a workshop, you have a project to show for it - not a score. After completing a workshop, you have an alumni network to draw on.

Workshops are self-directed. There’s a schedule to the exercises, but enough room for people to go at different paces. Students work in the open, and learn from each other. Students are encouraged to collaborate, instead of punished as cheaters. Students compete by seeing what’s possible.

Workshops are about learning to do great work, instead of learning to pass a test.

Workshops are the future of education.
That's not the type of BS the author means, what you're referring to is called "falseness" by the author, eg. deliberate misleading statement. BS is more like sitting around with people telling stories and embellishing with some details that are irrelevant, or in the more useful case, discussing an idea that is incomplete without fear of the potential falsehoods impacting the creative process of exploring that idea. Say you're unsure of which car to buy, you could BS it in some story about your cousin buying that car (cousin actually bought a truck but that isn't the point of the story) and see how the people around you respond to it. Everyone who hates that car, while BS'ing with you is free to state it, but when you own that car already they have to hedge their opinions.
Would it remain feasible as they scale up? Their content is growing faster and faster so the number of drives would have to rise every single month, probably by several dozen even.
Move to Finland, Sweden, or some other dark place and you'll find that Vitamin D supplements are common for winter-times.
He's taling about the cloud servers, they are indeed capped at 32GB. You're talking root servers.
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
Kayfabe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22796845

Important in professional wrestling and Anglosphere politics.
purse.io is closing shop. Amazon has made it impractical for the service to continue running.
The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford, 2015.

Why and how to find focus in this age of distraction. Will give you a real appreciation for woodworking, etc.
I ride, and know a lot of people who do, and the amount of injuries from road debris or cars turning left without looking dwarf the crashes from just going too fast. This might be regional though, most places don’t have Bay Area traffic.
This is a super-cool project. GANs are extremely interesting to experiment with in a creative manner. One thing I often miss in these websites, however, is what I think is one of the most interesting aspects of GAN visualization - namely, a video feature for showing latent interpolations. I guess this is often skipped because inference is done server-side and there's (naturally) limits enforced to avoid excessive use of resources.

In that vein, I've created a webapp [1] that runs entirely client-side using TensorFlow.js, and let's you generate videos of latent interpolation, images and tweak with parameters using a less-conventional generator trained on many different datasets.

[1]: https://www.thispicturedoesnotexist.com
As of late 2019, there were about 3,6×10⁹ domain names registered it seems[11].

Taking "ycombinator.com" and keeping just the 11 ycombinator letters, and supposing you would allow only the 26 letters of alphabet, that's about 3.6×10¹⁶. That is 7 order of magnitude bellow the number of registered entries.

The only scarcity here is the manufactured one.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190829_verisign_q2_2019_indu...
I don't see how he could be arrested given that none of this lockdown was implemented in criminal statute law.

Fined, maybe, but even fines can be reversed by courts.
Among other things, I am a cookbook author, so I know a fair bit about this.

Ingredient amounts are not subject to copyright protection.
Any prose - intros, descriptions, instructions are covered by copyright the same way that any other book would be. So, yes, this kind of activity is likely in violation of copyright.

Let me also say that I find it a bit insulting that people who make a living creating IP (software) would be happy to disrespect the IP of these recipe authors. By taking the recipes from outside of the revenue source (a book, a banner ad, a cookie, whatever), you are stealing from the author and the publisher.

I make 25 cents on every book that is sold. So I don't actually care if you steal from me. The money is tiny. But it is a bit insulting when people - in my own living room, reading my copy of my book - decide that they want to take a picture of a recipe instead of buying a copy. It devalues the hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars that I sunk into the creation, cooking, and photography of the book.

So here's the moral of the story. Waiters should leave good tips because they know that waiters depend on tips. And IP creators should know better than to steal IP.
I built a Zapier alternative bc I was annoyed Ghost didn't support Sendgrid
Someone pointed out that California OSHA is known to be strict, while other auto manufacturers are in different states. So it's unclear whether Tesla is objectively less safe or if the regulating body is simply more willing to hand out citations. Perhaps injury rates would be more telling, though California may have broader rules for what counts as injury.

I guess my point is it may not be true that "more Cal OSHA citations" == "less safe".
Its a peculiarity of the traditional British media that they need to constantly portray rural business owners (particularly farmers) as fighting extreme poverty. Not entirely sure why this should be so, just that it is.
I wish you could plug several of these together to make a bigger vehicule.
Wondering how the performance, fuel costs and maintenance would compare to an equivalent vehicle with a small diesel, motorcycle engine or even a modern two-stroke. My guess is that the vehicle would be much lighter and have a longer range with a petroleum based fuel.

Most of the 3 wheeled vehicles offered in the US are more performance minded.

Leno shows a Vanderhall 'Venice'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X71spAvmw4

Doug DeMuro critiques a Polaris Slingshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf_O9mZcSs4
Bad Bot Report 2020: Bad Bots Strike Back
It is hilarious and sad at the same time that a country which is perhaps uniquely suited to embark on a moon-shot Apollo style program of testing regiment for EVERYONE instead chooses to self inflict all sorts of wounds.

It was in the cards, which makes it even more painful to see.

Testing EVERYBODY would be cheaper than what is happening now and an inspiration to the whole world, inspiring awe and respect.
One expensive setup that is.
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/roff2html.1.html
It's similar to your description of the book, ideal characters doing ideal things. Some scenes feel like they could be trimmed down and convey the same information.
The web of characters gets more rewarding to watch past the halfway line as the conflicts start to blossom. The film builds over time and comes to a powerful and satisfying end.

The 1940s emphasis on tall verticality in its art style is on full display. The strict adherence to command in speech seems foreign to me, not having been through the fighting forties.

Yeah its good. Cant say it will have any surprises left for you.
The tech industry you are referring to(SiemensNixdorf/Commodore) was mostly consumer hardware and has along with the likes of Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson long moved to Asia or disappeared all together as margins are thin in that business and cost of labor is too high in Germany.

Consumer focused software is where the big money is now an that is unfortunately a huge vacuum in the German tech sector.
I'm not actually against open plan offices....at team level. I'm against open plan offices at large corp level.

I have 300 people on my floor, the group closest to us is from business and spends 2/4 hours a day on the phone.
It saddens me because the largest openly claimed benefit of Open Plan offices is "increase collaboration". What I literally see is people locking themselves with headphones and trying to hide in rooms to get some silence.
I mean, people literally have to walk around teams to go to the toilet or get a coffee.

I'd like team size cubicles. That would sound to me like a good compromise between collaboration, and deep work. I'm sure people would open up more. In fact, it is how it was setup at Bell Labs back in the time [1], not the pale copy we see everywhere today.

A bit like Agile has become Scrum I'm guessing :).

[1] https://aquicore.com/blog/bell-labs-office-design/
In California, even shelves aren't shelf-stable. (Earthquake country)
Guys, I can provide the complete iOS code, you can post to Apple Store
Guys, I can provide the complete IOS code, you can publish it to Apple Store.
You do n’t need to do anything. Using my code, 80% probability can guarantee you a successful release, but you need to complete the subsequent updates yourself.
Of course, this requires some compensation.
What do you think of this idea? Is it necessary?
A modest proposal: ban donating to them so they need to radically increase their student body (online or offline) to earn their keep with tuition, instead of relying on the donations of the extremely rich parents of legacy admissions students.
I guess you mean the 2nd person form (du or ihr fir singular or plural) instead of the 3rd person plural (Sie), which is the courtesy form fir singular and plural.

Yes, in German it’s a big deal, roughly the same as saying “Hey dude” instead of “Good morning Mr Smith”.
I think this type of thinking is dangerous because there are at least two factors at play when it comes to bullshitting:

1. Ability to bullshit

2. Willingness to bullshit

And I think the second one is inversely correlated with intelligence. It's short term thinking which tends to lead to trouble in the long run. Truly smart people know that there will be a point when reality will catch up with their BS; especially if they're dealing with other smart people.

I think BS has worked pretty well so far because most people are delusional and they'd rather lie to themselves and maintain their existing relationships rather than admit that they've been duped into using an inferior product or service.
A limit on acquirable token by person would do the trick just as well, if not better.

Those that feels like it is of worth can always create new moral entities to get new attached tokens, but will already have to pass the existing bureaucratic process required to do so.
Designing games that last forever
It reminds me of a game called "Nobody is perfect" where there are cards with names and words that usually only few people know (don't worry, nobody is perfect). Goal is to write convincing explanations for them.

Each turn, one player draws a card, reads out the word, name or situation listed and writes down the correct answer shown on the backside. All others think up an explanation and write this on their piece of paper instead. At the end of each turn, the sheets are collected, shuffled, read out by the active player and the players have to vote for the answer that they think is most likely to be correct. Points are awarded if they chose the correct answer and additional points for everyone they fooled with their own creation.

(And now the question is whether the described game actually exists.)
Even without any supporting statute law?
To earn that in Italy in IT I only know a partner at Deloitte. Everyone else is well below that.
I hear a lot of horror stories about German management working at Cluj Napoca’s tech companies, and beyond. If left unchecked they will continue doing so.
Stick and Rudder, Wolfgang Langewiesch, 1944.

Understanding how something like powered flight works—the combination of science, engineering, process, self-control, intuition, on and on—is highly transferable to nearly any other acquirable skill.
I recently came across this rather in-depth series on linear algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlXfTHzgMRUKXD88IdzS1.... FWIW, I myself have only gone half-way thorugh part 1.
There's more to money than spending. Saving is a valid use case for money. Turns out that Bitcoin is a best fit too. The daily tx limit doesn't really concern this use case too much. The spending use case is much more impacted by it though.

One might suspect that if there is enough demand for the spending use case, then some other solutions might develop to increase the transaction throughput for that use case.
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https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/390724/how-to-create...
I was specifically talking about online criminals (online drugs, hackers, etc).
In the case of Linux you could entirely eliminate almost everything else using CPU time such as window management in a way not really practical for Windows.