skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C Radhakrishnan - Bhagavad Gita_ Modern Reading and Scientific Study.

Intellectually very challenging.

Even though it is a religious book for many people, it can be read as just a normal story.

It teaches one about how to live life, not by set of defined rules, but by providing a proper explanation and through understanding.

It's a book which is usually dated to 5000 years or 7000 years.

It`s a very well-balanced story, one can ignore parts which are not relevant to present society.
Show me where editorconfig does formatting or linting.
If you're a drug lord, manufacturing meth, just because you provide jobs to the runners, doesn't mean they can't be held accountable, am I right?
Where the stations go can still be decided democratically after the fact.
Blindsight has been one of my favorite books from my first picking it up. Watts is such a compelling author!

It looks like Blindsight is also still available for free on the author's website [1].

[1] https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
> For example, the derivative is a linear operator, so how do you write it down as a matrix?

Consider polynomials in X of degree up, but not including N. The powers 1,X,...,X^(n-1) form a basis. Then the coefficients of the polynomial can be put in a column vector. If D is the derivative operator, DX^n = nX^(n-1), so the derivative matrix can be expressed as a sparse matrix with D_(n,n+1) = n. Visually, it's a matrix with the integers 1,2,...,n-1 on the super-diagonal.

You can also see that this is a nilpotent matrix for finite N, since repeated multiplication sends the entries further up into the upper right corner.

You can extend this to the infinite case for formal power series in X, too, where you don't worry about convergence.

> Google's PageRank is a solution of a matrix equation, what does that matrix represent?

Isn't it just the adjacency matrix of a big graph?

Anyway, I agree with you. Matrices and linear algebra is a really good inspiration for higher level concepts like vector spaces and Hilbert spaces and so on. That's where the real power lies. But even in such general domains, matrices are often used to do concrete computations on them, because we have a lot of tools for matrices.
never seen in Italy
> Overall, using "du" is acceptable in 90% of social interactions.

This holds for private life. In professional life (except for IT industry and design industry; both are much more casual in the interaction style), it is rather "Sie" is acceptable in 90% of social interactions.
I would classify "A short hike" [1] in this category.

it's a very nice game.

[1] http://ashorthike.com/
WD SSD Product Substitutions
Then how can you not know, that founders/early employees wear lots of hats? No small company has everyone it needs. So you do the job, learning as you go, and the company moves along.
India announces economic relief package worth 260B USD
It’s great for their brand. Apple has always used musicians to brand itself as a creative brand.

Musicians are way more visible as creatives than photographers. Becoming a rock star is a thing, becoming a rock star photographer is... uhm... yeah well no, not the same as a real rock star.
I love them all for different reasons. The implications of the Scattering in the latter books is pretty mind bending to me, few sci-fi books went that far.
Picturae's workflow software is second to none that I've seen in the field, they did a very good job. Also, their color calibration hardware/software combination is top notch and that really is a great thing to have when you are in the archival business. They also know how to handle valuables. Highly recommended.
This is somewhat confused/mistaken.

There are several successful databases that use in page MVCC storage. I'd suggest going through Andy Pavlo's slide decks for a summary: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/, in particular slide 33 from lecture 3 has a summary. Also there are papers wheree his group directly benchmarks the various design alternatives within their test database, Peloton.

The TL;DR, is there's a lot of details to how this stuff works, many tradeoffs involved, and it's by no means whatsoever clear that Postgres has somehow made the wrong choice.
I've been using https://www.tabnine.com/ for similar AI/deep learning autocompletion, highly recommended.
The geometric version is the most intuitive for me:

If the volume of the prallel-epiped is zero, then there will be directions in the target space, that you did not hit.
Hence he matrix can not be invertible.
I actually first hears of Ayn Rand from the book Why People Believe Weird Things:

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

I must admit that I do have a weird curiosity about reading one of her books.....
If you really want to self-modify your programming I can recommend hypnosis. The books I recommend are: "TRANCE-formations" by Bandler and Grinder, and "Monsters and Magical Sticks: There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis?" by Heller.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21806109

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043783
Kite launches Pro plan for AI Python code completions, adds JavaScript support
Almost a decade since the first gigapixel of this painting went online[1], and they've gone from about 14 gigapixels to 44, which in layperson's terms feels like another zoom level.

The main difference is in the conservation work, lighting and post processing.

[1] https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-night-watch-remb...
Alexis de Tocqueville's, "Democracy in America" (1835,1840).

It was the first history/sociology book I read that I really enjoyed. I came away with a clarity that there is an essential character to American politics and discourse that has been constant throughout its history.

Decades later it is still one of the most clearly written books I've read. It reminds me of reading an elegant proof.
If you are more mathematically inclined, there's also "Functional Differential Geometry" by the same authors, and in the same spirit, but much shorter. The goal of the book is essentially to write the Euler-Lagrange equations in lisp, which is a breathtakingly beautiful thing.
NSO Group Pitched Phone Hacking Tech to American Police
I really enjoyed the Masters of Roman series by Colleen McCullough, she brings color and life to the famous characters of Sulla, Gaius Marius and Caesar.
This is obviously garbage.
It doesn't fall over, unless you get into a turn that exceeds your capabilities. Capabilities that you cannot sense easily at all.

Which is incidentally exactly the same situation as falls on a motorcycle.
I am incredibly excited to see (from the release notes[0]) that they've finally added support for Novation Launchpad controllers. As much as I love Logic as my main DAW, a lack of Launchpad / Launchkey support meant I often had to lean on Ableton to do live "jams". Not sure how well Live Loops will stack up against the tried-and-tested Ableton Live, but it's a big step in the right direction.

[0] - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203718
"Because tests to diagnose coronavirus infection were unavailable to most people in New York City in March, the researchers included another 719 people in their study who suspected they had Covid-19 based on symptoms and exposure to the virus, but in whom the illness had not been diagnosed.

In this group, the researchers found a different picture altogether. The majority of these people — 62 percent — did not seem to have antibodies.

Some of them may have been tested too soon after their illness for antibodies to be detectable. But many probably mistook influenza, another viral infection or even allergies for Covid-19, Dr. Wajnberg said."

Yeouch, that could be me in that group. Also:

"The team tested 624 people who had tested positive for the virus and had recovered. At first, just 511 of them had high antibody levels; 42 had low levels; and 71 had none. When 64 of the subjects with weak or no levels were retested more than a week later, however, all but three had at least some antibodies."

It's been well past the 3 weeks for me that they're recommending. I'm gonna get another test and if that also comes back negative, it seems likely that I didn't actually have it.
PostgreSQL Replication Cheat Sheet (2018)
Keep writing!! I've personally started my journey into content creation as a software engineer just this year! To be more focused, I found a growing passion for Design Patterns and started writing my learning about them. Hope to share the same passion with you! Keep going pal! Would love to hear some tips from you! Here's my site, and hope it encourages you all!

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-de...
Uhh as in you actually have it, or you took a 23and me that says your risk is higher?

If you actually have it you would be exhibiting symptoms already, so there’s not much to prepare for. Ive included more info from Mayo Clinic below.

If it’s a 23andme test take that worth a grain of salt. They disclaim heavily that correlation does not equal causation. You should also google the 5 daily habits to increase lifespan, one of the habits helps stave off Alzheimer’s, doing things like daily crosswords

—-

For those with Alzheimer's dementia, doctors can offer drug and nondrug interventions that may ease the burden of the disease. Doctors often prescribe drugs that may slow the decline in memory and other cognitive skills. You may also be able to participate in clinical trials.

Also, doctors can teach you and your caregivers about strategies to enhance your living environment, establish routines, plan activities and manage changes in skills to minimize the effect of the disease on your everyday life.

Importantly, an early diagnosis also helps you, your family and caregivers plan for the future. You'll have the chance to make informed decisions on a number of issues, such as:

Appropriate community services and resources
Options for residential and at-home care
Plans for handling financial issues
Expectations for future care and medical decisions

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-di...
Maybe a mix of marketing value and organizational inertia? Music software allows you to do the famous musician uses Mac sell which Aperture does not. People probably can name you their favorite musician but not so much photographer.
Coronavirus will trigger 'Darwinian cull' of ad industry
Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor. While a lot of people treat it as a dog training book, her work in behavioral psychology and training has much broader applications. It can really change the way you approach interpersonal relationships.
Infoquake by David Louis Edelman and the trilogy it belongs to would be right up HN's alley IMO. It's fun techie sci-fi. Some of the ideas can really make you think about reality.
Any other sources like this?

I only know http://boschproject.org/

I would love to virtually stroll a museum this way.
Looks like Ayn Rand was listed almost an hour ago (relative to your post). There may be others, that was the first that I searched for, figuring it would show up, and yep...
The camera acronym is "SICK"? As a sales rep, that would be a tough one to pitch. Like Moland Springs water.
I do agree that increasing K does not mean it will increase the accuracy, distribution and nature of the data will be key to understand the effect of the K in the accuracy.
Americans Giving Up Citizenship Faster Than Ever Before
It's also a cautionary tale for self-driving car advocates. Running a driverless train on segregated track with signalling is far easier than running a driverless car on a mixed street with lidar.

Yet it still has enough edge cases to mean it's not worthwhile
Here are 1847 of them, on a CDN that is almost like Google Maps.
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/gigapixels
Covid and the Turn to Magical Thinking
I did a read through last year and thought it was great. Having to actually tell a computer how to do Langrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics makes you learn it really well. Pointed out some of the interesting reasons behind why we choose or Langarangians/Hamiltonians the way we do that I didn't appreciate during undergrad.
I took a course that used it in college. It is really excellent, but probably hard for a first exposure to electronics unless you are very committed.
If you can can teleport, you likely can clone, which is even more bizzare.
The basic set of more expressive operations (like map, filter, and reduce/collect) are not "clever", they exist in lots of "boring" languages, not just languages like OCaml and Scala. It is true that their semantics must be learned, but this is also true of the semantics of for, while, if, switch, function(), object.method(), etc. etc. We don't lament that learning how function calls work is lengthening the ramp-up time of people who already know how to write straight-line code and jumps.
For those who don't know, Theodore Kaczynski is the Unabomber. He killed 3 people and injured 23 others with a mail-bombing campaign. Ideas are ideas, but maybe take with a grain of salt anything said by a guy who advocates for his beliefs using physical violence.
The link has examples of how this is different than VS Code.
> 1. Seven habits - I can't get past Covey's personal 'experiences'. They are just seemingly so contrived and fake that they just ruin the entire thought process for me. It seems like he had to make up things that related to the covenants. Is that just me?

Lots of self-help and pop-business books do this and above other factors like all the padding (so very much of it), it's ruined the genre for me. Hate that crap. Makes me think their advice is bullshit.

I made it a ways into Never Split the Difference and got a little useful material out of it, but bounced off when I reached a can't-possibly-be-real story about the author buying a car and getting a great price by (he claims) just repeatedly asking "how can I do that?" (or similar) when presented with a price above what he'd offered. Give me a break. "Well, you're in luck, our rates on 5-year loans are great right now, let me introduce you to our finance guy", the salesman, implausibly, never says, instead just acting confused and stupid the whole time and eventually giving in. Dafuq? Either the author actually got had and didn't realize it, or that story was at best a half-truth.
Wasn’t there a Twitch channel running this?
> Here they're talking about ... computation rather than data.

The lisp people would like a word...

In seriousness, computation is data, and this is perhaps especially obvious in a CI context where your “computation” is increasingly bash scripts in some string field inside of a YAML file.
I can't think of any way of commenting on what you said that isn't a spoiler - perhaps worth noting that the personification you object to turns out to be a pretty important thing in its own right.

Also, focus has got to be one of the most terrifying concepts anyone has put into a SF book.
Good question. I can think of a number of female authors who's work I loved, but none that seem to match OPs question.
Either everyone on HN is a sexist, or a less reasonable explanation: women are just not interested in writing books on mind bending concepts.

Obviously, everyone here is a sexist. Wake up people! Stop oppressing women!

There was an Ask HN topic on finding technical books on nursing and some idiot pointed out to me that all the authors were women. He said as if people were being sexist.

Obviously there aren't as many men in nursing because they are less interested in nursing AND because culturally nursing has always been a female occupation. Stop making a big deal out of nothing.

Sexism can only occur against women people! It does not exist for men!
thanks for your interest, can you please elaborate.
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History. Stephen Hawking. I bought mine for cheap on alibris (https://www.alibris.com/God-Created-the-Integers-The-Mathema...)

From the blurb:

"...includes landmark discoveries spanning 2500 years and representing the work of mathematicians such as Euclid, Georg Cantor, Kurt Godel, Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing. Each chapter begins with a biography of the featured mathematician, clearly explaining the significance of the result, followed by the full proof of the work, reproduced from the original publication, many in new translations."

My absolute favorite is Descartes Geometrie. Reading the original humanizes him. He is at once humble and yet confident that he'd discovered something important. Today, we take Descartes ideas completely for granted, and even find them trivial, and yet to realize the immense shift in thinking it represented in his time, makes it all the more impressive. I would even argue that Descartes' ideas were more important than any save Euclid in forming the foundation of modern math and physics - he was the one that divorced the notion of "quantity" from "length of a line segment"! It's just so great to read the original.

Interestingly, Riemann got almost all of his papers included in this book, the most pages by far of any author. Clearly Hawking loved Riemann - and no wonder. Riemann was the one who truly generalized geometry, and its interesting that his work in that area was mostly ignored until 50 years after it was published, when Einstein used it for General Relativity. He made enormous contributions to lots of other fields, too.

Oh, and it was really cool reading Boole's words, and recognizing that he was explicitly talking in terms of creating a calculus of thought!

So, yeah, I love this book because we often talk about "the shoulders of giants" but we rarely actually read them directly. And it's amazing, inspiring, and wonderful to relate to them!
And as a more useful follow-up, I'll jump in and suggest Annie Duke's "Thinking In Bets" (subtitle: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts)
> and Anglosphere politics.

Most politics, really. Take a look at Rodrigo Duterte, the
President of the Philippines, or the guys in charge of Malaysia, or much of the grandstanding and propaganda surrounding the PM of India. Plenty of pure BS in Italian politics, and if you want to go back a bit, the rest of Europe.

Grandiose speeches and pandering aren't exclusive to the Anglo world.
Well there is POWER[0], not that it's a very affordable choice, the cheapest motherboard + cpu costing $1,732.07

[0]https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html
For decades creatives and even non-creatives were able to be convinced that "Macs were better for audio, video, photography" without any analysis of benchmarks, hardware differences, performance.

This thought pattern transcended the PowerPC processor, to the off-the-shelf Intel processors that the competitors used, to the ARM processors the mobile devices used.

Apple continuing that perception with at least software updates can continue to cement their hegemony amongst the minds of people.

They're also good machines without the fluff! But merely showing support for that perception can help retain the premium pricing when even artists across the entire socioeconomic spectrum (heavily weighted to one side) will still prioritize getting Apple devices over other expenses, or at least aspire to and talk about those dreams.
It takes a little getting used to, but I would honestly say Kerbal Space Program fits into this genre for me, its like adult legos.

I mostly just build different little planes and fly them around or stay in low kerbin (earth) orbit and near the mun, but its just a very relaxing simple game with as much complexity as you want to add.
I don't think it's a tautology to say HN's users are mostly male because the group it draws from is mostly male. There's room for competing theories like some quality unique to the website. To put my thought in bad ASCII flowchart form:

Male tech startup people -> Male HN users -> Male-dominated interest areas -> Male author recommendations
Pulsing – Video Books Taught by Top Authors
> Becoming a rock star is a thing

Not really in 2020.
Reality, as always, is not that simple. Matrix analysis is a huge area in itself; and matrices can also be used to represent tensors (which generally are not seen as linear maps) and some other things.
Any reason to use this over TabNine[1]? I’ve been using that for months, and only have good things to say about it. It’s like it’s reading your mind. Strong recommendation.

1: https://www.tabnine.com
It says it right in the blog post. VSCode only does fuzzy matching for javascript. This is an "intelligent" autocomplete, so the suggestions should be better.
It doesn't really make much sense from a $ perspective and really only serves as a lesser (and rapidly diminishing) halo effect for the rest of the brand. Logic is one of those programs that keeps people on Macs. I'm sure I don't need to explain this to a Logic owner but audio engineering and production was strictly a Mac-only affair in the past and that has rapidly changed over the past decade. Macs have gotten increasingly difficult to work with due to constant OS updates breaking everything and have only gotten more expensive with less options for actual professional users who need real I/Os. Keeping Logic fresh is important to keep people from switching as everything else they do on a more macro level is pushing people in that direction.

Someone somewhere in Apple decided that holding onto this market was worth it for probably solely the halo effect. I can't think of any other reason and makes no sense from a strictly financial perspective.
The case of the missing DNS packets: a Google Cloud support story
Two of the teams I worked on supported a couple thousand devs each. So going in I thought it would be everyone using specialized diagramming tools. But the majority did not. I don't do much architecture these days, but I've bookmarked PlantUML just in case and will check it out if the need arises.
I'd say it's very hard to find any violent revolutions that improved a society. It's pretty much a long line of tragedies.

I count throwing out a foreign oppressor, like the American revolution or the Czech "velvet revolution" as a separate category. Those can be good.
Grocery and supermarket chains all seem to be giving significant hazard pay. Furloughs and pay cuts are AFAIK heavily concentrated in the jobs that pay more than entry-level retail.
When laptop manufacturers still cared to deliver the best keyboard
RedisConf2020 – Takeaway
RedisConf is online this year and is running right now. There's videos via youtube and live talks scheduled over the next couple days. And they have an interesting in-browser conference space where you have an avatar and can move around different rooms. Pretty neat.
Michael Pollan's "How To Change Your Mind"

Jocko Willink's "Extreme Ownership"
I did some research a year back on what food critics consider to be the "best fried chicken in America." I took every list of best fried chicken that I could find on the internet going back two decades, parsed out closed restaurants and made a spreadsheet of over 240 fried chicken joints. Each mention on a list was one "vote" for the best fried chicken in America (and therefore the world). I came out with a definitive list of the best places to get fried chicken... a Fried Chicken Bucket List, if you will. [1]

In case anyone's wondering, #1 (Willie Mae's Scotch House) came in at 22/25 votes and #2 (Gus's World Famous Chicken) came in at 16/25 votes.

One thing I noticed while researching the top fried chicken restaurants - a LOT of them use lard instead of vegetable oil or something else. Also, duration of brine was at least 24 hours.

Another thing that I'll mention is that fried chicken from Willie Mae's is incredibly similar to Korean fried chicken - in fact, it's also double fried. Would love to hear from others that have tried it to see if they think the same, too!

I'm going to need to give Chicken Mary's and Chicken Annie's a try on my next roadtrip.

[1] https://thehighestcritic.com/munchies/the-fried-chicken-buck...
More specifically, the first Erlang compiler was written in prolog, and it inherited a lot of its syntax and some of its features.