skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not see it mentioned in the comments anywhere, but the method that has worked for me, especially for hard subjects, is to start by reading a few books and get a "macro" view of the topic.

Example: Right now, I'm trying to learn a lot about quantum mechanics, so I read two books and learned about the standard model, Schrödinger equation, the three generations of matter, relativity etc. I try to determine how they all fit together. I don't draw memory maps, but I basically try to calculate one in my head (probably should just draw them). Then I stick all of those concepts + new vocabulary into anki and review them daily. After a month or two, I pick up another few books and get deeper ("micro" view). When I get bored, I stop and move on to a new subject.

I have done this with microbiology, physics, some time periods of history, computer science, etc. You just need to read a lot. I do not think speed reading matters but skipping over parts of books that are not relevant will certainly save you time.
I guess maybe I am too new here. I thought poor decisions were the realm of marketing people, managers, and accountants. Perhaps it is possible that an engineer is working in marketing/accounting and therefore has to accept some of the blame?
Read a rumor somewhere that he made the edges of the MacBook in his prototype design so sharp to the point of serious discomfort to users, but he only changed it after Steve Jobs had to ask him about it.

edit: [1] Turns out it was the first iPhone.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20437041
> Because Twitter adds an annotion to a statement? An annotation that leads to facts/more information?

Why should Twitter do that. They're a tech company and are in no position to add to anyone's statements—specially a world leader's.

> If a world leader does that, it needs to be addressed. Would you accept all the information that comes out of other countries, for example North Korea?

It already gets address at the next elections.
Even if it doesn't, are you saying that Twitter is the right institution to address lying from world leaders?

Does the leader of North Korea post on Twitter? Why are you comparing the leader of the freest country with the most oppressive?

So many questions...
As John Conway said (see sibling comment, or e.g., [1]):

> Every nonzero rational number has a unique factorization into powers of distinct primes.

As you note, (-1)^2 = 1. But if you read carefully, you'll see that the factorization of -100/3 is uniquely:

-1 * 4 * 1/3 * 5 * 1 ...

whereas the factorization of 100/3 is uniquely:

1 * 4 * 1/3 * 5 * 1 ...

Where it's true that the representation using primes with exponents is not unique, it is true that the representation using powers of primes is unique. That is, your issue regarding (-1)^2 is that there are infinitely many representations of 1 or -1 having the form (-1)^x, but if you evaluate (-1)^x (x being integral, of course) you'll only get one of two numbers.

And yes, changing the definition of "prime" does change some special cases -- it removes some (such as extending unique factorization to negative rationals), and adds others (wherever primes are assumed positive).

[1] http://swc-alpha.math.arizona.edu/video/2009/2009ConwayLectu... (mention around 7:00)
It's >50% over the course of a year, so you do have some leeway, but you'd have to avoid, say, gaming in there on weekends, so it's not trivial.
Indeed. Most health experts would say, don't go to work and be around others when you know you're sick. The fact that many people don't have much actual choice in the matter is the real moral issue. Having to choose either go to work sick or not pay rent is the moral failing of our economy.
To be completely fair though, while I’ve always made sure I had a WFH setup. There are plenty of times where I wasn’t sick to the point I couldn’t work, but I thought I might be contagious and stayed home out of courtesy even when I was working somewhere that didn’t have a work from home policy. Also, some years my allergies and asthma flair up so bad I’m disgusting to be around.

But, if I wasn’t using my personal laptop as a Plex Server, I probably wouldn’t have a personal computer set up at home. My wife and I use our iPads for all of our limited personal computing needs. If I break down and get an a NVidia Sheild, I might completely shut down my personal computer.
A few issues I have with these NoVPN products:

* They are entirely proprietary or are proprietary extensions on top of open source software

* The clients are mostly proprietary and the distribution channels are limited. I'm guessing no .DMG is offered for macOS due to Apple's insane restrictions on OS-integrated VPN clients.

* There is usually a hard dependency on the provider for the connection, negotiation, or key exchange with no uptime guarantees.

* Pricing is not competitive with the alternatives including proprietary offerings from the big clouds.

* They all cite "Google BeyondCorp" without an understanding of what it is. Hardly do any of these products offer anything to do with inventory, device health checks, or MDM.
I think we are saying the same thing.
That's a start. Also, this is the first I've heard that Russia went away. Where ever did it go? And who told you that it was gone? Seems like a pretty big (and historically well understood…) thing, and most unlikely to randomly disappear.
I asked a high level apple engineer about the butterfly keyboard fiasco, and he jokingly replied that he'll consider releasing that info and other insider baseball at his funeral. He's not even allowed to tell many other Apple employees what he's working on. It's not easy to get an inside perspective or gossip from Apple employees.
I always thought people were just exaggerating about this keyboard until I got a laptop that has one. I have a MacBook Air with a keyboard I love and use for personal stuff and my current client sent me a MacBook Pro. I was excited because the specs were crazy. Until I started typing. It was so bad and weird compared to my MacBook Air. So I assume it has that hated keyboard.
Haha you’re welcome. Every Wordpress user does this at least once.
The CCP knows this and will gladly "rescue" Hong Kong from the "evil westerners" that screwed them over. Of course, Hong Kong will probably taken over by China eventually, so might as well make it very expensive for them.
but consumers are unendingly stupid

You won't convince people to try something else by calling them stupid.
Read these books:

1. How to win friends and influence people
2. The Art of Seduction
3. She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

They all seem like terrible/manipulative books, but read them anyways. Glean what fits your ethics.

In terms of online dating: work out, buy nice clothes, get 2-3 good photos. Or don't do online dating and go out to the same (mixed gender) place over and over for a while.

It's all work. It sucks. Good luck.

If the above is too much, beat Dark Souls, then try again.
I could, but the margin on this page is too small to contain the proof.

/fiddle with CSS

Seriously? There are dozens or hundreds of amazing books on alternative economics. I wouldn't be the best to make the case, and certainly not the first. Do you actually want some recommendations (most of my own canonical ones are a bit old) ?
An SoC is more than just a CPU & GPU. Until A13, Qualcomm was the undisputed leader of GPUs. They also make the best modems there is on any SoC. Apple has a clear lead only in CPU. Even in memory Android OEMs have caught up.
Sounds like they are and have been.
And how does growing a human make someone more qualified to shuttle kids back and forth to after school activities?
I have wanted an app like this for so long -- I love it just hooking into a local folder of markdown files, and making editing and navigating those files better. Little touches like, prepending the date in, sort order format, e.g. 2020-05-27 at the beginning of new files, for things like that, it's like you're reading my brain.

Basically, in order to win me over, you're competing with JetBrains. JetBrains is so good, so wired into my brain, they have good Markdown support, they just miss the little touches such as the easy linking and backlinking.

But primarily when I get into my giant collection of notes, I need to be able to find things very quickly -- this means navigating via keyboard shortcuts and having very rich file management, as well as close integration with the OS.

Things this doesn't have:
* Really good keyboard navigation in the file pane, using the arrow keys. For example if I navigate down to a folder, then I want to be able to press the right key to open the folder and navigate into the folder. This doesn't work, so I have to open the folder using the mouse.
* It's great that you have the [[quick links]] -- but why not work really hard to make the regular inter-linking work? E.g. if I have [my link](./my-file.md), that should work too, but it doesn't.
* Say I find a file, and I want to open it up in the finder. JetBrains has a right-click action to "Open in enclosing folder" and it pops up the Finder. Something like that acknowledges that a tool is a part of an ecosystem & provides an "escape hatch" to interact with the files in another way.

Overall this is the best attempt I have found. I will spend more time with it trying to organize my notes using your excellent inter-linking features.

Git repo of markdown files is the best way I have found to keep notes. A game changing tool to to make that even more awesome will come along one day -- you are on the path. Thank you for your work.
Same here. I am totally terrified of being in an accident or having a serious disease and then getting wiped out financially as I have seen others in similar situations. If you are lucky things usually work out but it can easily happen that you are liable for a $60000 helicopter ride or a $300000 hospital bill because somebody (not even you) has filled out some paperwork incorrectly.
Sure but that does not make it okay necessarily. Did you read what the OP said? The news sources are all opinion with bias and artistic flare for effect, sprinkled with a few dabs of factually correct details to maintain the aura of "legitimate news source".
GitHub Actions is a subset of Azure Pipelines, I use Mojave there and don’t intend to move to Actions.
I can only guess that this enthusiasm and high pay for finding the best Rust programmers will be "justified" in companies using it in data structures and algorithms interviews in Hackerrank and Leetcode which would be interesting to see if that makes any sense given that they can control which crates you can use, no use of unsafe{} etc which might be a turn off to some.

I'm pretty sure that no-one wants to fight with the borrow checker whilst implementing a data structure either on a whiteboard or in Hackerrank / Leetcode.
It was... okay until it failed... and then replacement also failed few months later.
I'm 25 and bald (not by choice by genetics haha - I don't really mind it at this point). Oddly I think this has gotten me hired as a "diversity" hire, even though I'm a white male. I've only had one experience at a "cool" media startup in LA where I think I was passed up because I wasn't "cool" enough - PM if you want the name of the startup. But LA sucks, so who cares!

I do worry about my looks as I get older in terms of work, but tbh I'm already pretty average or ugly looking anyways. If anything, this post has given me more energy to dump into my side-hustles in order to avoid having to deal with this shit at all.

Anyone else who's bald at a young age get discriminated in interviews?
My interview performance actually got better once I stopped overdressing. I got more offers wearing a grey hoodie and jeans. And this was at big tech (not just startups).
I never said I was unable to load it, I said that the AMP site is noticeably faster. The problem is my currently slow network, not the phone. My phone processor gets the same single-core benchmark speeds as my desktop processor, so that's not the bottleneck.
It's also just plain fun to use, IMO. I built a site using Gatsby for a product I'm helping with (https://greeter.ai/) and it was a really fun and enjoyable experience. The site is blazing fast. The ease of React integration, Node modules, Gatsby plugins, etc., further add to developer productivity and enjoyment.

I see a really bright future for slick, fast, well-documented solutions that significantly depart from the Wordpress/massive CMS model and rely on highly-modern technologies that developers enjoy working with. Couple something like Gatsby with a framework that makes design a lot easier too (e.g. Tailwind + Tailwind UI) and suddenly, as a developer, you're so much more capable than previously.

I dunno. This old Rails programmer is loving it. And if I can learn to love it, I think they've got a market.
It really isn't about fact checking. No social media company is in position to do so, especially when dealing with unknown. It is about blocking the message, which IMHO is the same thing as tired old deplatforming. I am not taking sides here, but would it not be fair to have every journalist and politician who keeps tweeting about the Russian collision marked for fact checking or banned now that "official" sources disagree?
Great post, thanks for the correction.
>Beaker (https://beakerbrowser.com) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release

I just tried downloading the Windows executable. Initially it said it will take 1.5 hours, but then the download just failed. Tried a few more times with the same result. This is ironic on so many levels.
Maybe somewhere between those two extremes.
You probably know this but aria-role is not an attribute, the ARIA attribute you're thinking of is simply role.

Your point still stands, if someone makes an element other than <a href...> look and behave like a link, they should also add role="link" to convey that role to assistive technologies.
End-to-end object detection with Transformers
"Operating Systems" courses are mostly about OS dev as well.
You're describing a coup. We haven't had one in the US, but many other countries have. In a coup it starts to matter a lot who has the actual power and where their loyalties lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
A large portion of Republicans dont believe in climate change.

Generic and cliche conservatives ideas ARE "low-value hateful garbage." In case of climate change, they are actively interested in expediting the collapse of civilized human life on earth. These people are a threat to society and deserve to be taken down for spreading dangerous lies.
You're hired! Great strategic answer that gets to the heart of the question--it's less about the solution and more about how you frame the problem and the underlying goals and assumptions.

Do you work in this space? It seems like you have a lot of context around OTT/streaming.

Your answer also brought to mind this podcast episode I came across this morning: http://investorfieldguide.com/shishir-mehrotra-the-art-and-s...

It introduces a nice concept of "marginal churn contribution" framed with bundling, but I think is also relevant to this discussion. Maybe more on the content sourcing/production side, but bleeds over into long-term goals (reducing churn/maximizing ltv/etc).
The iPhone keyboard seems not to be the original one.

Is this really calling Apple’s transcription service? And does it maybe even add some latency?
> What if we changed our thinking from removing/flagging bad content to fostering rich discourse?

"The answer to bad speech is more speech."

Brilliant people who have said this or some trivial variation thereof:

- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:
https://prospect.org/culture/remedy-speech/
- U.S. President Barack Obama
https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_answer_bad_speech_with_more_speech
- Penn Jillette
https://bigthink.com/in-their-own-words/why-the-solution-to-bad-speech-is-always-more-speech
- Google CEO (then) Eric Schmidt
https://www.news18.com/news/india/the-answer-to-bad-speech-is-more-speech-googles-eric-schmidt-598251.html

Lots of people who want to suppress speech they don't like then respond that this is not enough. E.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/9sel59/cmv_th...
Is beaker appreciably different from freenet?

https://freenetproject.org/index.html
I wrote an extension to "unamp" the website of a popular Italian newspaper and as soon it reached a thousand users Google banned it and forced Firefox to do the same (shame on you Firefox)

So I guess worse is better we are supposed to accept it or else they'll police us into accepting it.
> an enormous amount of food waste is caused by people simply refusing to buy ugly food.

This isn’t true at all. It’s literally a myth made up by people who want to sell ugly food to consumers. Ugly produce is used as animal food, sold to food service companies where it’s ugliness wont matter after they prepare it, or occasionally tilled back into the soil as fertilizer.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/26/18240399/food-waste-...
> Stress is not just a matter of the facts of every day life.

Stress is the response to every day life. We don't have the coping skills we used to have.

Kids, children, were conscripted, given weapons, and sent to a different continent to fight and die. Twice. After the first time, the Spanish Flu hit and killed millions of people. The kids who lived through that time were mentally tough and capable of coping with the tragedy of both events.

They lived full lives, had purpose, had families. By and large, they had a few things that today's kids don't; religion and nuclear families. To some extent, God is a panacea. Having certainty of one's final destination makes the road there a lot more manageable. They also had nuclear families and all the benefits that go with them.

We are now at the tail end of a "softening". Peace makes for soft people.
Why do you think his "musings" are wrong? Seems like something very obvious to me, but I'm a complete lay person in this regard.
And twitter doesn't do this with leftist speech that's wrong/inaccurate propaganda for the sake of propaganda, like (oh, for instance) today someone was posting a photoshopped picture of one of the recent reportedly abusive cops in a "Make America White Again" red hat.

So wave the bloody shirt, that's AOK, but say that vote by mail facilitates fraud, and you get a personalized "We Don't Think So!" message from twitter.

Twitter hosts outrage mobs that have the stated goals of getting people fired, and it has caused people I was following to quit the platform.

They simultaneously want to exercise editorial discresion while not being liable for for all the outrageous or outright wrong speech they do host.
> You talk about how established Common Carrier laws are

I am saying that these laws are uncontroversial, and it would only require a slight expansion and change to them, to order for them to cover very similar things, that aren't that much different than what CC laws currently cover.

Yes, I understand that CC laws don't technically apply to what I am talking about. I am instead saying that it would only be a slight change, to make them apply, and therefore not as big of a deal as people are making it seem.

> but that's precisely what they're established for - transportation

I don't see how telephone companies transporting your phone calls is much different than twitter transporting your tweets. Yes, it is not exactly the same. It is slightly different. But only slightly.

> CC laws can't force me to play your phone recording

> do not guarantee that you can force a private warehouse to store your goods.

The private warehouse, or end phone user, in the twitter example, would be the end user. Twitter, is arguably, transporting your messages. And then the end user is not forced to keep it.

So even if CC laws were changed to apply to twitter, the end user would not be forced to keep their tweet. They could delete it, or not follow you, or whatever.

Just like how if I make a phone call to someone, they still receive the phone call, but you don't have to pick of the phone. The same argument could be applied to tweets.

> Phones systems are are not platforms to host speech

They have to transport speech. In the same way that twitter transports speech.
I don't think search engines are promoting spammy $#!+ content per se; what they're doing is heavily promoting newer content that's relevant to the most common search queries, as this gives them the only real hope of staying ahead of the spam. Of course the "small", long-lasting, independent Web is heavily disadvantaged by this shift.

One development that would be good for small web sites to look into is schema.org linked-data formats. Those might simply be too effort-intensive for the spammers to adopt (at a high level of detail) and perhaps too much of a commitment to quality and transparency (they would have to actively forge the info, which would leave them open to bans given the lack of plausible deniability), so they might become a viable signal of quality and lead to higher visibility in SERP.

(Similar for things like proper separation of style from content, that have always been advocated for in the web-standards community but are not really commercially viable.)

I'm not quite sure if others have experimented with this stuff already, but it seems worth trying.
> very broad because they are necessary as tools for practicing doctors seeing patients

This is such nonsense. These criteria are supposed to be scientifically valid and not a tool. What other medical speciality calls their diagnostic criteria tools. That's like saying the standards for diagnosing cancer are just a tool and anyone could be diagnosed with cancer if the doctor thought you would benefit from chemo drugs.

Amazing the mental gymnastics people will go to defend an obviously corrupt discipline like psychiatry.
It’s been my experience that coworkers with butterfly keyboards either type nearly silently or incredibly loudly. I’m not sure it’s worth the trade off.
Racism and sexism is a constant complaint against the tech industry. But unless someone is actually compiling data on it, no one knows how bad the problem actually is (or if it’s actually even a real problem).

Problems don’t get solved unless they’re being tracked.
To me a similar argument would be does a sex worker or adult film star have the right to continue working if they have HIV?

would a temperature check be sufficient to allow them to work?
Oh good, I was actually looking for something like this. I joined, thanks for sharing!
==The world as a whole is marching towards the cudgel. Hate speech laws are a manifestation of this. What remains is the removal of an individual's right to defend their life. After that we have tyranny.==

In my view, the most powerful person in the world unilaterally shutting down companies he disagrees with is much closer to tyranny.
If companies are going to self-moderate their platforms then they should not receive any kind of legal protection from user-generated content. I wholly believe companies have every right to dictate what is on their platform but they cannot have it both ways. If you can afford to moderate content you disagree with, you can do so for illegal content as well.

If I own a store and someone injures themselves on the premises I am held liable for that. I did not force that person to enter the store but the benefits of having a store outweighed the risks. Why should internet companies receive special treatment? They should be 100% liable for what happens on their "premises" if they are going to take the risk of allowing user-generated content.