skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what the author describes resembles salons[0] more than book clubs. salons have some (negative) connotations of idle aristocracy, but can be modernized to simply be a bunch of people getting together expressly to discuss interesting ideas around wine/beer/coffee. those ideas could be a few chapters of an interesting book.

i've always wanted to start a salon (insert lots of excuses for why i haven't here).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)
I'm now wondering how common the two (or more?) types of book clubs in the wild are.

I've always treated book clubs more like a shared class and get extremely frustrated when someone shows up without reading the book/chapters ("they're just wasting everyone's time") or when conversation temporarily drifts to non-book-related topics. I go to book clubs for the insights and commentary I get on books from people with different life experiences, reading history, etc. There's plenty of other places you can go if you just want to be social.

I've definitely seen more "social" book clubs, too. I just assumed they were "bad" or not serious, but I guess they're just targeted at people wanting something different out of the book club experience.
The future is now ;-)
If everyone opted out of the scanners, they would quickly disappear.
I agree with you and i also see the flip side of this: people who think you need to do 100% of XP techniques to be 100% XP. Whereas XP is supposed to be about doing what's right for the situation
A lot of this is fairly standard church encoding.
The name is fine. Virtually all digital art involves using pixels, yet “pixel art” is a sensible name for a type of art where pixels are manipulated directly.
Theoretically, yes, it's impossible to detect this perfectly when the attacker can do whatever they want to your code and memory.

Practically though, it's exactly as we see here: a kind of arms race or cat and mouse game where the attackers circumvent the detection and the detection evades the circumvention.

So no, I don't think it's futile.
Wow, those are great points and I hope it's ok if I plunder them for future discussions.

I completely agree about wanting to stay on the human side of formal vs. human.
What did you try recently? Java or Linux?
I respect and partially agree with what you’re saying. However, your post sounds a bit too absolutist to me.

In reality books, like any form of communication are incredibly diverse on the production as well on the consumption side. A novel is very different than a reference. A teaching book is very different than a biography. Some books are more about the journey - some are more about the destination.

There are many different ways to consume (some or all of) a book. And that’s driven by both: how it was written and what a reader wants out of it at that moment in time.

Books are one of the manifestations of the incredible plurality in our species.
Kind of boggles the mind that we've had video games for over 40 years.
I don't buy almost any of it. The thing is - it's very hard to compare performance between projects and teams. What author considers "high-performance" might mean "environment I felt productive in" and so on.

Don't get me wrong. It might all be good advice and work well, or it might not. Or might work in some contexts, but not in other. And it's all just an opinion.
#+ is only one of many, many standard reader macros (as you can see from that link). You can also define your own, which makes Lisp syntax almost infinitely malleable. For example, it's possible to change the Lisp reader so that it natively reads infix syntax. See:

http://flownet.com/ron/lisp/djbec.lisp

for an example. Scroll down to the definition of xpt-add.
Dysfunctional teams == 10X engineers: https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328?lang=...
It makes me sad to read that statement - strangers are insulting James Somers (the original author) simply because I posted one of his articles in this forum.

He's written articles like https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship... which was one of the best pieces of writing on technology and humans that I've read recently. This is not the work of a recluse (the undesirable negative connotations aside).
I once had an occasional associate tell me how remarkable his team was. They had daily scrums, amazing communications, everyone loved the work and the organization, they felt good about their quality and pace, etc. He told me, with great enthusiasm, that this was the best group he'd ever worked with.

Happenstance brought us together when another associate called on me to audit this firm as they were acquiring and incorporating it. Awkward, right, but I was sure it'd be a cakewalk given how great it had been described to me.

It was anything but. A team of approximately 12-16 developers (plus a handful of QA, several BAs, etc) had, it turned out, spent years doing trivial refinements on a system that a passing "cowboy coder" (who they all derided at every chance) almost single-handedly made close to a decade earlier. He built a system and then moved on to greener pastures.

This team had, from the history, at various points tried their own reinvention. Each was a failure. They "refactored" to whatever was the trend that year, so every layer had become a fragmented disaster of countless approaches, standards, etc. Their Jira history was almost cartoonish, with the most absolutely trivial change somehow turning into weeks of work. I had to listen in on some scrums and it was amazing how the culture had made them happy with long bullshitty diatribes about how every tool is crashy junk, aren't they heroic, etc.

I think of that when I see tales like this. We have no idea how high functioning his team is, and many such teams live in an insular bubble where there is little competition and little perspective.
They’re complete in the sense that all standard functions are exposed. However, there’s only a modest “high-level” interface.

The library: https://github.com/rigetti/magicl

Comparison with NumPy: https://github.com/rigetti/magicl/blob/master/doc/high-level...
Arguably, real-world “book clubs” are largely petit bourgeois salons, without the name with the (as you note) negative connotation because of the association with the pre-capitalist aristocracy.
I ordered two of them (one by accident, LOL) two months ago. Haven’t heard anything since. No order updates. Emails to their sales team have gone unanswered. Not sure if my case is typical but that might have been $450 I never see again …
To me, overwhelmed means not able to provide the expected standard of care to a majority, or large minority of patients. In many cases the patient to nurse ratios went up to 3 or 4 times higher than would normally be considered acceptable, and patients dying before the nurses can even get to them. Simply having a bed isn’t enough.
Hmm I’d say all the book clubs I belong to are social first, book second; one club spends the majority of each meeting roasting the people who haven’t read the book, another good portion debating our selection procedures, and a minimal amount of time on the book itself. Different flavors for different people!
It's my first dock so I can't compare but so far everything's working fine. Only one screen plugged in, mirror and extended mode works fine though.

I sometimes have hiccups (black screen, needs to plug it back in and out) when unplugging from the dock but I think it only shows up after a kernel upgrade.

It's the wd15.
Ok, I've edited out the "you" in "you don't" to remove that ambiguity.

More interestingly: do you have examples in mind?
There are important differences. Iceland was originally settled mainly by Norwegians and there was no violent takeover. Compared to a theoretical Mongol conquest, where the invaders would be very ethically and culturally different, and legendarily brutal, I think there really is no comparison. And indeed I think we shouldn’t trivialize those differences; colonialism has devastated cultures across the globe, and we should acknowledge that, instead of making some vague “well that’s the story of humanity” defense.
Formula E driver uses professional gamer to compete for him in esports race
My grill spying on me strikes me as being equal parts unintentional self-satire, and terrifying dystopia.
Are you saying those are key elements to psychological safety? I’ve never found any of those correlated with psychological safety.
>Except the tone in all of the stories is overwhelmingly the same

I disagree with this. I think Rachel's blog is fairly aggressive as far as HN submissions go, which doesn't elicit a lot of sympathy. It's pretty argumentative with sniping and a sense of superiority:

>Now, when I run into a thing like this, I start getting snarky and bitchy and start thinking laterally. Like, okay, watch me not use your stupid system but get the answer anyway.

And I don't think that's an unjustified reaction based on the content, but it's also not typical for blog posts that show up here. So the tone is aggressive, and commenters end up being unsympathetic. I completely agree with the parent comment that changing the tone of the post would likely result in a different set of comments (not that the author seems to care).

I've also noticed this in the HN comment section. There's a well-known member who ends up picking fights often in the comments; I usually don't read usernames at all, but if I notice a comment written in a certain bitter, argumentative way, then it's almost always from this person.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t mean it as an insult.
Who says it's only meant for one?
> But it really shines a light on how poorly the US has done/is doing about COVID19

How, exactly, does a plague that killed 55% of the population of a city "shine a light" on how poorly the USA specifically is handling a disease that has killed (currently) <0.1% of its population?

Also, the bit about the president golfing seems like flamebait. I bet if you went digging you could find instances of Obama taking a vacation or otherwise relaxing following Hurricane Katrina.
Have a look through all the different side projects submitted here

https://www.sideprojectors.com

See if you can make something better. :)
> Not sure what people are getting for paying twice as much as everywhere else.

Really, really, really bad customer support. Like they'll answer your phone calls, but they won't actually help you at all. Especially with billing issues.
A very odd article. Everything that said applies to any other compiled programming language, not only C. Even if Pascal or Ada had become more popular than C/C++, it would still have lead to the same architectural decisions we see in x86. In fact the biggest offender - SMT is actually the opposite of instruction-level parallelism the authors are blaming the x86 for.
Measuring the Algorithmic Efficiency of Neural Networks
Organizations into cells, organs, systems, is basically describing mergers and acquisitions, and also that companies have different roles inside them, each doing various tasks: marketing, sales, engineering, management, etc.
> Datomic is pretty close to what I have in mind, but it’s far too Clojure specific to gain traction outside of that language, IMHO.

I believe that Crux[1] might be the solution, especially with its open nature.

[1] https://opencrux.com/
CSS Inspiration
https://www.pine64.org/shipping/
Reinforcement learning improves quantum annealing for solving SAT problems
It is interesting, but also a bit misleading. One has double the chance of dying in the next year if infected once and chance of reinfection in the next year. We also don't know the long-term effects on health, so those infected may have higher risks than charts from a pre-covid time either in following years or permanently.
Yes, it collapsed because the miners dug a huge hole right next to the ocean.

What's really crazy is that the Red Sea might have formed in a single event like this one but thousands of times bigger!

I can't find a link now but, uh,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb#History

> Paleo-environmental and tectonic events in the Miocene epoch created the Danakil Isthmus, a land bridge forming a broad connection between Yemen and Ethiopia. During the last 100,000 years eustatic sea level fluctuations have led to alternate opening and closing of the straits.
Not so much #1. It's true that YC companies get attention on HN, but they have to struggle for it like anyone else (not counting the Launch HN posts - see below). We help them sometimes, but we help non-YC startups too, and the question is always what the community will find interesting. YC startups probably have an edge on HN, but if so, it's for more subtle reasons (e.g. the fact that YC alumni have always been a core part of the community).

Definitely #2. The job ads that appear on the front page are only for YC startups, and that's one of three formal ways that HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it. The other two are that YC startups get to do Launch HNs, which get placed on the front page (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), and YC alumni usernames are displayed in orange to other YC alumni. For some reason I always forget to mention these things when writing on the above topic, I guess because I don't think they add up to the biggest thing, even though they're significant. In my mind the big thing is the connection to startups forming and applying to YC. However, no one has ever tried to measure these things, and I'd feel a bit queasy about doing so. It would feel like stepping out of the magic circle in a fairy tale. One should not step out of the magic circle.
No, I don't, unfortunately. I haven't tried writing this kind of compiler myself, although I would like to at some point.
None of this shit is even necessary in the first place. In more civilized countries you can be through the whole security screening before you even realize it. Pivot the make-work program to casting and smashing bricks, instead of inconveniencing everyone else. They could even keep their fancy uniforms.
Here is just some history to note that little has changed in legality, lack of documentation, and destruction of evidence.

I would like to source the MKULTRA program. “It was approved by the director of central intelligence, the general council, director of the office of technical services, and leadership at the agency.” (1. P12)

“Present practice is to maintain no records of the planning and approval of test programs.” (1. p14)

Congress nor the White House were notified and if they were, there are no records of it. (1. P19)

1. Joint hearing before the select committee on intelligence..95th congress
[Pages are of the pdf not the actual document.]

https://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_Proje... From the Wikipedia reference
Do you think American anti-hacking/DMCA/etc laws do not apply to people living overseas? (like Gary Mckinnon for example).

Corporations don't get to choose, either laws apply or they don't apply internationally.
An entire article about dance notation and not a single example of what the notation looks like. Disappointing.
Let’s Draw Together
> There's plenty of other places you can go if you just want to be social.

There is not? People don't socialize without excuse and did not for years. People who want to socialize have to pick a hobby or interest and try there. It may be sport, bookclub, game, something technical, whatever, but it must be something.
"Mirror our chance" means the percentage is about the same, but the risk accumulates, so the total risk with Coronavirus is double.
I don’t know if enforcing these things on a dysfunctional team would fix anything. It probably depends on the team.

But stuff like redistribution of XP and active measures to create psychological safety are necessary components of a functional team. So, it stands to reason that if you want a dysfunctional team to become functional then the manager will have to make those two things happen. It may not be enough if there are more fundamental problems (like toxic team members, toxic upper management, or a toxic code base) so I’d say it’s a “necessary but not sufficient” sort of thing.

I also suspect that this lists and others like it are not exhaustive. Probably the best teams have emergent dynamics that even very smart people don’t know how to describe or reproduce.
If that's the case, why have a "book" club at all, rather than make a social gathering? Let me be clear in that I also attend social events, but they're called social events on the face of it. If I'm attending a book club, I expect to talk about books.
Even in the 1700s, Book Clubs Were About Drinking and Socializing
Just give them a dedicated space to work alone or with people that tolerate them without bothering others.
Ugh. At a former job, I worked in a satellite office. At one point, I spent three weeks at the main office, embedding with another team. The office was connected to a hotel I stayed at. The room, an apartment room with a kitchenette and, inexplicably, two bathrooms, while nice, overlooked the office. I'd get off work, go to my room, and see teams' dashboards on TVs from my window. For three weeks. I tried to avoid that hotel for the rest of my time there.

Worth mentioning that unlike Apple's Austin campus, this was in a central district in a major city, so there wasn't a big compromise between a fun neighborhood and being close to the office.
To fix social media, we need to introduce digital socialism
I think I’ve accidentally created a fully encrypted social media app
Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog
> especially given the permanent damage left to lungs, heart and kidneys - we don't actually know how many years this is going to take off survivors

I don't think this is fearmongering per se, but I'm a bit fed up with this line of thinking.

We're playing with fire by surmising there's hidden harms (who's quantifying? is there even evidence this is happening to many survivors? I don't care if there's evidence it's happened to one person, we need demonstrable proof of very widespread damage, but I just don't see that being passed around as a possibility) and outright ruining people's livelihoods.
We run a group in Barcelona where we meet once per week and read the book aloud. It's technically not a "book club", but rather "pronunciation improvement group" – while we read, an organizer who is a native-speaker corrects the mistakes on the go – but as we'd finished already 4 fantastic books together, we obviously had a plenty of opportunity and time to discuss what we're reading, I would qualify it's as a book club for sure.

This club format is not just great for improving English (you develop listening, reading and speaking skills at the same time), but also have become one of the most favourite activity of mine during the week – we usually meet in some lovely place in the Saturday morning, drink coffee with croissants, meet wonderful smart people, discuss life and books, while enjoying views on Sagrada Familia.

Having this experience, idea of reading silently at home and then meeting once to briefly share the opinion about a book, doesn't sound exciting at all :)
You'll get it. PINE runs on almost zero margin, they collect money right around when the production run is starting, and then you'll get your product when it's done being build, tested, packaged, and shipped.

Both my orders (PineBook Pro and PinePhone) took a while to arrive but I got them both.
It's not a good match to a font model. It's putting stretchable symbols on tracks, like musical notation. There's no simple string equivalent.

Labanotation to animation has been done.[1]

[1] http://www.sfu.ca/~tom/Papers/LabanDancer1.pdf
Almost related: https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and...
> strangers are insulting James Somers

I mean he's the one telling people that they're doing their hobby 'wrong'... I’m sure he can accept criticism if he’s going to issue it uninvited himself.
In my experience, aspiring to this while allowing the odd outlier has been very productive. It means the team isn't off fixing random bugs they come across but are focused on what needs to be done.
Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018)
Yes, I agree with you. If I'm at a book club, I'd go to discuss books, and socializing comes second, as in if I like someone's opinion I'll hang out with them afterwards. If I want a social gathering, I'll just call a social gathering together with my friends with no pretense of another activity.
A square or triangular wave is a sum of sine waves.
The method described in this article sounds more similar to a college study group than a book club. To each their own on how you enjoy reading a book with friends. It’s pretty arrogant to just say “if you enjoy it this other way, you’re wrong.”
Didn't Gab do this, with Dissenter, and get banned quickly?

Seems like a great idea, but you can see why some powerful folks would like to crack down on it. Too much opportunity for, well, dissent!
The same data could be formulated more alarmingly as: If you're over the age of seventy, catching COVID-19 carries double or triple the annual risk of death on top of your annual risk of death.

Of course you're only going to die once in a given year and then never again. We'll have to wait a while to see how much lower mortality will go because we pulled in those deaths early.
Are you talking about Aurora? Because in RDS the replication is just what you get out of the box.
This is why I try to mark things with something besides quotes: like bold, italics, or monospaced (unless it's a quotation in the old sense, something that someone said). In this calculator example, the two versions might have been better in <pre> tags, setting each on its own line, like this:

The Sinclair Scientific was able to reduce complexity by using reverse Polish notation, in which mathematical operators come after the numbers they are operating on — for instance:

5 + 4

becomes:

5 4 +

---

The U.S. chose its quotation-mark rules for graphical reasons, not logical ones. But the graphical improvement is slight, even debatable.

I wonder if my fellow Americans even notice the difference or remember which way is right. In fact, sometimes they look at it askew. One of my Facebook posts drew criticism from my friends, who said it was hard to parse. It was a post about different words, so several were in quotes, intermixed with commas, and I had diligently followed the American style.

I have hesitated to adopt quote-punc, just as I write color instead of colour. When a difference is slight, I think it's better to follow convention --- like contributing to source code and using the indentation style already there.

But after the Facebook incident and others, including this one, I'm beginning to think the difference isn't slight. Especially in the global melting pot of the Internet, it matters less to follow your own country's convention.
We're not surmising, we know some people have had kidney damage or lung damage.

I agree that we need to balance that against the risk of continued severe lockdown, but it's not easy.
These scanners did disappear. They aren't the current millimeter wave scanners.
I don't understand the goal of equality. That sounds like the failed social experiment that was destroying my country for 40 years and the damage is there even now, 30 years after the end. Why is not the goal to lift people out of poverty? The UBI proponents are claiming it can be done with current budget, and if that can be done, surely a little bit more targeted social anti-poverty system should be possible just as well?
What about going to a party? That is a purely social event without any hobby attached to it. Hell, you can find random parties to attend on Meetup or similar if you really wanted, which I've gone to.