skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in my early 30s but participate in a few communities (old BMW motorcycles, vintage clothes, jazz music) where I interact and with a lot of successful men in their 50s/60s from various walks of life. The advice presented here is a pretty common theme among upper-middle class men living comfortably and who will retire early and comfortable. Playing the long game is a solid choice.

Another good choice might be investing in property for long-term renting.
I work on arguably the most interesting of all machine learning tasks: semantic parsing (https://github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-progress/blob/master/e...)

Such a tasks would benefit from a graph database.
I'm currently going the mongoDB route but eventually a true graphDB would be a better fit
Apple II, TRS-80. Quake engine. Haskell, F#, Rust. Type theory, domain and test driven design. Philosophy, economy. Linux. Physics engines, PyTorch, GStreamer. Twitter.
Could you give me $5000 so that I could have a roof for like 4-5 more months?
I'm not an economist, but I actually am holding onto the cash (putting it in savings). Yes, I'll probably ultimately spend it on something else but not for decades.
I fed avocado toast to an AI
Yes, with transactions the big concern is transaction time which is often dominated by the RTT.

With performance in general you want your chatty transacting code as close to the database as possible and to merely invoke it from afar. Then you have many very short RTT from the transaction, plus one long RTT before and after. Stored procedures or functions are actually the optimal here.
Takes me back to my university days and the holiday project I got involved in as part of the Middle English Dialect Project lead by Dr Michael Benskin.

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/intros/atlas_preface.html

I helped with programming for processing/typesetting of the various texts and the production of "dot maps" and other maps for the data of the corpus of some 320 words which were (manually) collected from thousands of manuscripts.

E.g. text 1423, (maybe with a known scribe, usually with a location), spelled such and such a word in the following N ways (scribes often had a preferred spelling, but weren't always consistent).

With such maps, among other thints, you could start to place unknown texts by doing some simple Venn diagrams for spellings it contained.

The original (referenced above) was printed, subsequently, it was put online.

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html

Maybe when I retire I can help them tidy it up :)
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I really like how Jitsi Meet puts the hand raising/lowering button right on the bottom bar, where there's just empty black/white space in Zoom/Google Meet, and not buried inside a menu labeled "Participants" (???), where it's a hassle to access (Zoom).
Kind of glad you weren't on my dissertation committee.
I don’t notice slowness on it personally. Maybe you are noticing the initial indexing it does. That doesn’t happen often with GoLand.

Make sure you enable Golang modules in the settings also.

Anyways just mentioning some stuff off the top of my head I enjoy:

Debugging is a great experience.

Can find a plugin for most anything, I use the Kubernetes one for syntax completion and documentation. (alt-q I think)

Also you can create .rest files and compose http requests and trigger them right in the files, which I thought was cool.

The documentation pop up by hitting alt-q in general is pretty cool. Don’t have to run over to godoc.

Then most things you’d expect from an advanced ide. Multi line editing... jump to definitions and implementations... Project wide code search and replacement
> If you mean having a combination of different specialised drones doing different roles, one of them being carrying sofisticated ordnances to take out fighters then I agree.

That is the opposite from what I'm saying.

For example, all the current F planes are not specialized -- they are all termed multi-role fighters. They have all been treated as a platform and upgraded for more capabilities over time.

I think drones will follow the same path -- glomming on capabilities instead of becoming more specialized.

We will have multi-role drones.
> which I'm damn sure they do.

They specifically do not. You consuming twitter bubble fake news doesn't make something true
Maybe we could reorganize the police as a private enforcement group that wouldn't answer to the courts or constitution?

Sort of like the brownshirts before WWII. [1]

Edit: Youtube took down a video of them back in 2019. [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

2. https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/youtube-bans-anti-nazi-docum...
Sounds fun until you think about how the wealthy/rich already have private security and so they never needed police. The police was primarily for the regular people who don't and can't afford to have private security.
Yep, this is what I meant. The "first generation" of these engines were written in COBOL, and are quite nasty by modern standards.

Most people in the tech industry don't apply the ML label to these kinds of software. However, there is a ton of knowledge invested in these systems: certainly more than any one currently-living human has in their head.

A more apt, though out-of-fashion label might be "expert system": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
I still haven't found earbuds that I liked as much as the ones that came with my Zune. I abused those things for almost a decade before they gave out.
With two different microphones on the laptop, you could triangulate sources of noise and figure out what will reach your ears. With three or more, even better. This sounds like a difficult and interesting signal processing problem, but I wouldn't rule it out.
It varies on language. While Portuguese, Hungarian or Finnish authors are largely unknown, authors writing in French, Spanish, German and Italian are fairly well known.
Roger Zelazny's, the Amber series. I only like Corwin story arc. Must have read them 5 or 6 times...
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Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio are two completely different things.
Strava also shows daily rank for the segment to public. That can be someone rides the same segment and checks the segement for the day.
Who exactly falls for this kind of scam? I mean, "send us X and you'll get 2X in return" isn't too awfully different than those scams years ago for plans for a perpetual motion machine or the secrets to a 300 mpg car engine.
I should point out that it's also been translated as "Epitaph of a Small Winner", in case anyone knows of it by this name.

Interestingly enough, I saw some comments on a review of this book say that the translation of that particular edition is pretty unrepresentative as the original is intentionally written in an archaic and very complex style, making it hard to translate. Would be curious to know if this is just an opinion of one reader of if the book is, indeed, a much improved read in the original language?
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As a matter of fact I do. Although the way things are structured I doubt anyone would come to blame me.
Small but still significantly more popular and vibrant on the desktop than Linux --- due to it's business model.
I dunno, I don't think it really gets you more than just adding some basic mappings

# mappings for Ctrl-left-arrow and Ctrl-right-arrow for word moving
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
"\e\e[D": backward-word

## arrow up
"\e[A":history-search-backward
## arrow down
"\e[B":history-search-forward
Tell them you can't hear them due to noise, tell them to pick up the phone or plug in a headset, etc.
TIL the dogs in Red Alert were attached to invisible bullets when they attacked
Thanks to the opioid epidemic, this is no longer true. There are huge swaths of rural and Rust Belt America that now realize that the criminal justice approach to a drug problem is counter productive.
Do you wear a hard hat all the time ? If not, then how do you plan for an evitable brick falling on your head ?
How does Haiku's accessibility story look like? Any plans for a screen reader?

Blind user here, I would like to try this out and see what all this fuss is about, but I think I can't. Can someone explain what's so great about Haiku's UI?
I'm trying to be better at this. Any examples/recommendations you could share?
This is referred to as the "Wizard of Oz" method (or "experimenter-in-the-loop"). It's very common in HCI research, as well as in product prototyping in various industries.

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

A variation of the technique is also common in CS user studies, where the novel tool under study works, but is too computationally intensive (i.e. slow) to actually use in the study. In this variation, the tool's results are precomputed, and the tool's interface is mocked up so that it just retrieves precomputed results (or it delegates to a human researcher playing the "wizard").
This is pretty awesome, thanks for the link! Not having studied many languages, I was recently surprised to find out how many English cognates there are in languages like Persian... I had no idea it came from proto-indo-european.
That's exciting. Isn't this difficulty one of the reasons why open-source VOIP clients are rare?
Touch typing - learning it during this WFH phase, as much more communication is done typing.
Are these really "America's Smartest" or are these just the median college student? Smartest, or self-selecting for those who like doing a large amount of schoolwork?

Smart people choose the highest reward with the least degree of difficulty, risk adjusted.
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Microsoft Teams has a "raise your hand" function that's pretty handy.
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I think the police's role in state sanctioned violence is a fair distinction, but is violence the only important factor? I have seen a lot of arguments against unions for e.g. harming children by protecting bad teachers; some would argue that the education of future generations underpins a large section of systematic inequality within our society, including poverty and crime, which are issues that also happen to intertwine with the problems surrounding police violence. Bad cops are easier to spot than bad teachers so I understand the impulse to dismantle systems that openly protect them, but I am not convinced that unions themselves are actually the issue.
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ARM doesn’t really have better performance though.

They should just buy AMD or something.
It was built into whichever voice-chat software we were using, just a simple right-click action. This was a long time ago, so I don't totally remember, probably 2008-2012 or so? Trying to jog my memory with Google and I think it was TeamSpeak and the "3D Sound" feature. I feel like Mumble may also have been able to do this.
Great points, great site. I would just note that those scores are near real-time, so they don't reflect the full picture for a country year-round (summer will have better scores than winter, and thus better than an annual score).

For instance, the Yukon Territory in Canada shows on electricitymap.org as 100% hydro with 24g Carbon Intensity score (and 3x that only 12 hours ago). Which is great, but a look during winter surely must be a different story. Having lived at a similar latitude, I know the water powering the hydro plants freezes up at some point during the winter months, at which time the small communities I've been in switch exclusively to diesel generators for part of the year (fuel for which is trucked in). Indeed, quick research of the power suppliers in Yukon (YEC/YECL) indicates several diesel generation facilities probably for exactly this purpose.
I don't know if a similar option is available for other products, but Zoom has a direct audio option:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115003279466-Enabl...
> I think it was because the poster was specifically buying one for outdoor use

Ahh, that could make sense, yes.

> one reason I love using a cast iron skillet for steaks is so I can get a nice fond and deglaze for a sauce

Yup. Pan sauces are free flavor that you get with every pan meal :) Works well with stainless steel skillets too.
I suspect it is an example of this: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey

when in ideologically-friendly circles, you say "defund the police!" and don't worry about how literally people will take it. they will assume your position is the same as theirs and agree.

when an outsider questions you, you say "oh, of course we don't mean it literally". then you go back to using the unqualified version within your bubble. after a while, who knows what you mean? who cares?
> Where are you sourcing your film from

Frequently, Amazon. I also buy from a local shop but Amazon usually has better prices as much as it pains me. The film I shoot is usually 400TX or HP5 for B&W. For color I usually shoot Ektar 100 or Porta. I shoot both 35mm and 120 format film.

> and are you developing on your own in a darkroom or sending it out to a lab

Lately I use a local lab.

I also have all of the equipment to develop and print B&W film. My plan is to build complete darkroom in my basement. The pandemic has put my plans on hold for the time being though.
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There’s a solution: k-means clustering.

This would aggregate people for whom downvote means “I don’t agree”, and separately those whose downvote means “that’s an inflammatory/ unsupported/ insane position”.

Soon, those open to reasoned debate would see comments by others known for reasoned debate — regardless of their political/ideological stripe.

The trolls would be relegated each to their own echo-chamber.

Everybody wins!
Unless you're literally buying government bonds (that are yielding very low and sometimes negative returns) your savings will still translate to increased spending elsewhere.
> Regulation without teeth is ineffective.

Then create regulation with teeth.

Create laws that make it clear what counts as excessive police force. Create a government body whose job is to investigate and prosecute officers charged with excessive force.
It saves time (there also isn't a single ground truth for parsing assembler)

https://dlang.org/spec/iasm.html

No quotes required
That's a fine measure of cost. But then we have to ask the same question: what is the alternative?

* Those smart kids could go to state institutions. But then we would need to fund those institutions so they could get a comparable education to the one they would get going to an elite university. And we have been cutting those very funds for decades (and increasing the amounts spent on sport stadiums instead of educational facilities). So that won't work.

* we could move them once they graduate from finance to socially useful professions like education. But then we'd have to pay teacher like we pay bankers and no one wants that. Everyone agrees education is important, but not important enough to fund teachers. Same for researchers or medics or social workers or defence attorneys.

People going into finance are making a rational informed choice that we encourage. If we really want less bankers and more teachers, we should pay for it. There are plenty of disillusioned finance workers who would come over (I am one of them), they just don't want to be charged for making the world a better place...
What was year one like?
Others might have insights, but I didn't notice any usability or aesthetic issues.
But it does? That's a fairly narrow definition of "watching it happen" when both the real computations and the data are hidden from you. Have you gained anything except fewer practical uses?

I mean at the end of the day wouldn't it be nice to be able to use a cloud service and be sure that server is running exactly the published source and your secrets are hidden? That the trust-domain of your phone can extend into a datacenter?
Edge cases are common. Corner cases are rare.
Developer push back first started with windows 8 with fears of lockdown. Valve's CEO was the most vocal because it looked like MS's end game would be to crush steam.

Microsoft didn't help matters with the 99 dollars developer fee - not high per se but in an existing free for all operating, pushbacks would happen.

Microsoft basically said to use this shiny new crippled toy, you must use our store and pay money.

Microsoft also fanned the fire when they announced that only one metro browser was allowed. That is you could only use the metro browser of your default desktop browser. Others would be disabled

For me as a user I hated/hate, UWP, metro and all it's incarnations because:

UWP apps are slower than regular apps. In the early days they crashed a lot. They wasted desktop real estate with too much whitespace. Initially they were not resizable like normal windows application. Oh... The hidden settings menu sucked.

Microsoft also consistently undermined the new format by limiting UWP to the latest operating system. Metro apps couldn't run on Windows 7. Most Universal apps made for Windows 10 won't work on Windows 8.1 and lower. Some wouldn't even work on some Windows 10 versions.

For developers, having to maintain multiple versions written with different API's for "one operating system" is crazy.

UWP apps are basically unusable without mouse or touch screen. Almost all the shortcuts we know and love don't work.

This flat UI nonsense that makes it difficult for users to detect the active menu or even clickable items was started by Microsoft with windows 8. Google and Apple take the credit cos Microsoft failed with mobile.
It's funny you say that. Not long ago, one fresh dev was tasked with linting old code. Their first pass was to delete everything that the linter complained about. Hey, I guess they solved the problem!
How about “Calm the Police” or “Calm 9-1-1”
You're responding to caddy's author.
Why? There’s a reason why companies don’t show pricing, and they happily turn over anything from few million a year, to a half a billion and more and keep growing.

Especially when you get to enterprise $50k - $1m+ annual contracts and 12-18 months sale life cycles, pricing gets complex.

edit: there's pricing on the home page, but the point still stands
> In particular, prove or disprove that this can be done without introducing additional "goto" statements.

I'm kind of curious how one would do {loop,if} statements without introducing jumps and/or phi nodes?
Regardless, the website may change, so the script may also require upkeep
Ah the HN way keep putting down technical achievement just because it goes against a personal agenda.
Yes, that's correct. I should have drawn a line between the two.

But then of course, you're encouraging the exact thing the author objects to: private institutions for people who actually care (and have some cash to prove it)
Was impressed, until I got to the very end, were you see multiple depictions of people being beheaded. (With blood fountains from their neck.) You then remember that pharaohs were not gentle people.
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- git. Not just commit/push/pull on a single branch - but getting really good at using git is a game-changer.

- vim. I started off in linux sysadmin land before pivoting into more regular software engineering work, so I was very good as basic vi(m) stuff because it's ubiquitous in linux/unix servers. However I've learned its just as valuable as a full-blown IDE/dev environment if you're willing to invest in learning and configuring it. I think newer editors like Atom/VSCode/IntelliJ are still very valuable and great tools, but Vim really is incredible.

- An understanding of unix history. Maybe it's just the type of work I do, but knowing why things are the way they are is incredidbly valuable.
The only solution is that Industrial networks must be physically isolated from the internet.
I wonder how long until we see a global car manufacturer get compromised to the point that the products are slowly compromised with the data stolen initially?

Imagine any car with ECMs that can receive OTA updates turned into a herd of bots of some type.

It's an entertaining avenue of thought to consider every Honda with OTA capabilities mining bitcoin from this day on.
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I think it's just a paradigm difference. For me at least, I think better about tests -after- implementation.

A short example. Let's say I had to write a hash function. If I were forced to write a test for it up front, I'd probably do something naive like ensuring the result of hashing("abc") was 123.

Now I start on my code. Oh, I need to return 123, easy enough. Tests pass, ship it!

If I implemented the function first, I'd then think about pitfalls -in- the code. Let's give it weird input. Let's give it empty things. Let's make sure that for 1000 random strings, the hashes are different. Things like that, because those are things I think about when -implementing- the code, and typically not prior.

I'm not saying that to be snide, that's really how my brain would work. I understand everyone is different, so I'm only speaking for myself.
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Why does this post have an insane amount of upvotes and like 50 posts only with text like "Congratz my man!" or other people who seem to know this dude and contribute with nothing?
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I still have my usual income (~$150k/y).

What kind of investments would you recommend?
Everybody makes a stab at this, and very little of it works consistently. I applaud Google for attacking this head-on! It is a big issue and deserves attention.

My biggest issue (when I worked in videoconferencing) was echoing, and locking onto the delay window where echoes could occur. Depending on the distance from a conference room speaker to all the walls, echoes could occur at one or more offsets (appear at microphone input with some delay after presenting at the speaker). And ambient noises could masquerade as echoes. The filters tend to be IIR filters, and get wound up easily. It was awful.
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You also can’t mprotect PROT_EXEC, which means no JIT.
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