skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you indicate the African-americans from that page?
I’m not questioning diversity or pointing out that YC enforces any kind of anti-diversity policy.
Quite the contrary: despite being a diverse organization, the amount of people of African-american descent in that page are basically statistically irrelevant, if there’s any. Either this tells you something about the state of things in tech and Silicon Valley, or you’re just as unaware of the problem as many other Americans seem to be.
I love it. This is what I needed. I am not a designer but I design and build stuff. So I am going to use this very often.
> I found myself unable to function, and would doom surf, opening tabs, refreshing news, watching graphs move up and to the right. No thought, just monkey level reactions.

Are you trying to make fun of me?
tl;dr - Duplicate QuickTime Player. Open both copies. Choose File > New Movie Recording in copy 1, choose one camera angle and audio source. Do the same thing in copy 2, choosing a different camera angle.

I can get this to work well enough with one Cam Link 4K feeding a 60fps a6000 video feed, and two Logitech C920 webcams (as seen in the linked video)... but the Mac starts to struggle and after an hour of recording like that (while also trying to run a demo K8s cluster on the same laptop, lol), I started dropping frames and the audio got out of sync in a separate 1080p screen recording.
Ah yes, in 1991 I "invented" networked pub/sub for real time data sharing from sensors and other systems on a research ship. You could easily just plunk a new networked client on the ship's net and have it start publishing data. Visualizations systems would immediately see and give access to any data available.
When you're building a stone building, you'll want to be hauling heavy stones. Even a heavy-ish wooden cart would be most helpful with that.

I've been to Chichen-Inza. It's flat.

The Egyptian chariots had wooden wheels and axles, and were light.

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/course...
I feel bad for people that aren't in a pot-legal state during this. I've definitely added some munchie weight beyond my usual but I've barely drank a drop since April. If I hop on twitter it seems like one of the common conversations is drinking nightly, same with my colleagues.

I hope people with addiction problems are able to get support and help through this. If I hadn't moved here years ago I'd probably be right there with you and waking up like every day was groundhog day again.

Now I just need to flip this lazy-pot-smoking-time-spent back into a workout routine which will take about 3-4 weeks of me working out consistently to a strict habit for myself, motivation there is almost non-existent though. Thankfully I've gone through ups and downs with exercise so many times now that I know not doing it is self fulfilling prophecy and leads to no improvements.

now to just.. do it..
Having learned multiple Devanagari languages at school (including both Sanskrit and Hindi), I don't recall being explicitly taught stroke order as such. There's an intuitive way to write most Devanagari characters that usually corresponds to the "preferred" order you mention, which is only apparent in serif Devanagari fonts anyway. But for example, I have no idea what the preferred order is for U+0918 घ, and never learned one as such.

Side note: since you mentioned ballpoint pens, (at least 10+ years ago, things might be different now) we weren't allowed to use a standard ballpoint pen/biro; fountain pens were preferred and micro-point ink or gel pens were allowed.
And to that point, DDG does have its own crawler, and I believe leverages other third-parties as well (I know Yandex was historically in the mix, for example). So if Microsoft did try to strongarm DuckDuckGo, DDG would have other options, even if less-than-ideal.
Four Eyes
Hiragana letters are actually sorted from あ to ん like A to Z, but Kanji such as 阿 and 吽 or 本, 間, 新, 一 has no linear sort orders, is probably what GP was explained.
Neverwinter Nights on AOL predates Meridian59 when it comes to these sorts of games. Of course for the non-graphical variety there were MUDs before then. I don't really know when a game goes from "lots of players" to "massively", wikipedia says Neverwinter Nights on AOL was an "MORPG" not an "MMORPG". So it kinda depends upon how you count these things I guess.

FWIW, Raph Koster ran a MUD before he worked on Ultima Online. The original creators of Everquest played MUDs too - Sojourn in particular.
Monad is really just "flatMap"?

Is this basically it then:

interface Monad {
flatMap: <A,B>(arg: Some<A>) => Maybe<B>
}

let userAges: Monad.flatMap = flatMap<User, number>(users, user => user.age)
Young programmers do not have the option of learning COBOL.

The university I went to still offers COBOL classes.
I met one who was trained out of school in Austria. He was in his 20s.
Depending on your perspective of "ML", the insurance industry already uses "ML" (i.e. very complicated decision trees) to process claims. Very few large insurance companies are non-automated in claims processing.

The places where the money hides, so to speak, include (1) handling complex cases [customers] (2) scaling a human's ability to process non-automatable settlements. (3) scaling internal support interactions with customers (4) introspection to claims data and support data. (5) graceful handling of prior authorizations.

These problems are not as attractive, but they are where insurance companies spend most of their money. It's still a tech problem, but it's not super fancy.

Existing carriers struggle to solve these problems, because they have historically grown by acquisition, and as such do not have the kinds of unified data systems required for the rapid development of applications that perform the required kinds of introspection. It's a space that's ripe for disrupting.
From personal experience, the depression-alleviating effects of mushrooms are not caused by grand spiritual experiences (although death acceptance and a general feeling of spiritual peace do accompany the experience) so much as mental clarity that causes very powerful, practical gestalt shifts. Here's a deliberately boring but true example:

I used to be very disinterested in cleaning and tidying. I live way up in my head most days, and if I let myself, I can go weeks without really looking at myself or my environment. When I tripped the first time, I looked around myself and really saw my living situation for the first time, in profound relief. It was like cleaning grease off a camera lens. I was a stereotypical 20-something depressed academic living alone, "in filth" so to speak. I realized very clearly and distinctly that I was choosing to create this environment, and that my habit of neglecting tidiness and hygiene was an affectation I was choosing out of irrational pride (I was clinging to the childish notion that being bothered by filth was irrational and a waste of time and energy better spent working). I just... saw all that clearly, in a manner of a few seconds, and made up my mind to change my behavior. That decision has improved my life, and generally made me a happier and more functional human being (as well as a better partner to others). I've expanded on that realization to make my external demeanor and appearance more approachable, and taken the gruff, sometimes nasty edge out of my personality. This has not, to my knowledge, diminished my productivity.

Having tripped a few times, each time I've discovered and confronted some new set of facts about myself and how I think and behave that, upon sober examination, are true.

The last time I tripped on mushrooms I was overwhelmed by the cacophony of toxic thoughts that were bubbling up in my head "unbidden". It was like hearing my voice recorded for the first time - it was definitely the familiar thoughts I had every day, but I realized just how weirdly cruel and unnecessary they were. That led me into daily sitting and paying attention to the shit stew bubbling around in my head, which has really helped short-circuit some of the bizarre self-flagellating depressive thought loops that used to paralyze me.

Again, just from personal experience, mushrooms remove barriers to self-perception, and put you in a frame of mind for having powerful realizations about yourself and your relationship with the world.

They ALSO can produce some absolutely mind-blowing spiritual ecstasy, feelings of oneness with the world, an expanded appreciation of the way the natural world works, awareness and acceptance of death... but for my two cents, the big value proposition is ripping away the mental filters we impose unconsciously on ourselves that cause unnecessary suffering.
This article is a good overview of the science, and includes a recipe: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/dining/15curious.html
Have gotten ads for Lemonade in Germany. Their ads are very misleading:

- The ad is for a Haftpflichtversicherung. It pays, when you for example use the phone of a friend and it falls down. You are obligued to pay for the damage.

- In the ad, they make it seem like your own device is insured, which is not the case.

It does not seem to me that they are to be trusted.
I think it comes down to what you're optimizing for, but disagree that stroke order is essential for learning to read. Like ddevault, I learned the jouyou kanji and some extras almost entirely without stroke order. I've never even tried to handwrite most of the kanji I know because I almost exclusively care about being able to read printed text, especially in contexts where tooling isn't available (image-format scans of paper things, inside old games, etc).

This is obviously anecdotal, but not having ever written most of the kanji/radicals I know didn't seem to hurt me much outside of having terrible handwriting (in the handful of occasions I ever have to handwrite in Japanese, the fact that I'm doing it at all seems to override nitpicks) and sometimes struggling to read sloppy/highly stylized handwriting (which is a valid issue).

If you enjoy handwriting/learning for learning's sake more power to you, but learning stroke order isn't necessarily an integral part of learning kanji if you don't mind the tradeoffs involved.
Love this thread from your end. I think you're speaking some really hard truths that folk don't want to hear. Because of the way big organizations work, it's true to politics is a huge part of what the vocation entails. I'd love to read a blog post about this at some point.
If we could just convince the hoaxers that wearing masks in public is not emasculating, and convince the doomers that we need to flatten the curve rather than attempt to completely contain the virus, we could go back to something bordering on normal life pretty quickly while we waited for vaccines to come along and kill off the virus altogether. And then we would be prepared to react to the next pandemic, too.
Have you done your steaks in the broiler? I usually use a torch since I find that in order to get the sear I want, I have to leave them in the broiler too long. I usually cook the steaks to 129 F, but I guess I could drop down to 122 F or something.
I just checked, and for my apartment they come in at about half of my current renter's insurance for similar coverage. Maybe it's highly dependent on location, or maybe I'm just way overpaying for renter's insurance. Unfortunately for them, switching away from the bank that already handles 95% of my finances isn't worth saving $100/year.
Basically, its a politically correct way to call someone a nosy cunt.
Lessons from Rejecting Mediocrity
Hollywood/mainstream scripts very rarely survive the gauntlet of director, producers, funders, product placement "partners", and studio executives entirely unchanged. All it takes is one person in the chain saying "this doesn't seem relatable to the American public" to force in stereotypes. The bigger problem is most of those aforementioned individuals are from a rather homogenous group so their "horizons" aren't exactly very broad and they are the ones who control the purse strings.

An indie film about transgender people is far more likely to be representative of reality regardless of who writes the script because those films often self select for funding that doesn't come with the same kind of strings attached.
You’re right. One of eighteen partners. 1/18. Since six years.
Same here lol bought a precision with pre installed Ubuntu thinking it would be a smooth switch but nope. So many random scripts for things that should just work it was ridiculous
https://www.indiehackers.com has a ton of resources for this type of thing.
Yes, once the corporation gets large enough it becomes almost purely political.
This is exactly the problem.
YOU are politics.
Tech is effing politics.
What is a programming language community and what does it value?
right. I was just wondering if there are actually other options available. I don't think there are.
Recently came back to a React GUI at work. Doing the Docker build is almost comical as the npm red text rolls by :). You would think the thing is surely going to explode. Of course, when you run the app React reminds us of all the new best practices which were non existant 6, 8 months ago
Here to echo. I work in insurance and 72% is actually very good when you consider (1) their trajectory of how long it took them to get there (2) how strongly they're investing in growth, which is very expensive.
A Warren supporter took wealth tax idea to supermarkets of Palo Alto, California
Seconded 80000 hours. Great pragmatic advice, but it really is geared toward a certain mindset. Many developers are in the required headspace, but not all of them.
I feel like there's a ton of unexplored area in the hardware space for extremely low power circuits used for ML. As we know, you can do ML with very low precision, which is why chips that can do fast INT8 and F16 are getting more popular.

However, these lower power chips are still designed like classical computers and are deterministic. What if you had something like a few thousand analog multipliers in parallel computing matrix products? An analog multiply can use far less power than a digital one at the expense of accuracy and determinism, which might not matter for some ML tasks.
Mayor Ed Koch, the pratfall effect and the power of admitting your flaws
there's a trivial workaround to medium's paywall:

open a private/incognito browser window
My understanding is that they achieve "double-blind" by giving everybody either a low dose or high dose. So everybody gets mushrooms, and the effect is based on the difference between a low dose and high dose. Experimenters don't know the dose that a subject gets, and subjects don't know that there is a difference in the dose they could get, so they can't try to guess what dose they got. It does tend to be obvious to the experimenters who got which dose when it kicks in though.
Not GP, but I'd never heard of them either. About the only place I ever see ads anymore is the embedded overlay ads on hockey games (back when sports were a thing). I've managed to block pretty much every other form of ad online, so it doesn't much matter what their target demo is.
Ask HN: How do you take long notes on mobile?
I tend to do some listening to lectures on YouTube, Coursera etc on mobile. This is often when I am taking a walk or doing some work. I really would like to record the important notes in each lecture. It is not possible using pen and paper or a different device as I may not be near one.

I tried voice dictation on Android using Google docs but it has so many errors, that when I review the notes later, I cannot make out the sentences. Also switching between youtube and docs for every note gets tiring.

Does anyone faced this before? How did you take notes on the move?
Good to know I’m not alone.
It's racism against white women, another socially validated jab at a singular race without any repercussions.
Blender is not a professional CAD software, but "good for making nice pictures" is understating its abilities; as a hobbyist I've modeled a dozen or so objects for 3D printing and they slice/print just fine.

There are even plugins to analyze models in Blender, and plugins for CURA to open blender files.

https://daler.github.io/blender-for-3d-printing/printing/mes...

https://thopiekar.eu/cura/cad/blender/
I believe you that it was unintentional. In my experience, most of what looks like trolling actually is, which is why I try to use qualifying language like "reads like". Unfortunately, the troll effects are the same regardless of intent, and effects / likely effects are what we have to moderate by. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019
All films' portrayal of anything is crap when it's something familiar to you. (Or crucially, I suppose, more familiar to you the viewer than to those responsible.)
Makes sense. Just to avoid the wrong impression, when I said I never participated in a voting ring, what I really meant was that I never tried to game the system im any way. Easy for me to say, I know, unfortunately impossible to proof. Anyways, I was just curious about my story/comment ratio theory, but I guess I will never know...
Fascism is private enterprise under total government control. Of course it'll be very effective at getting things done, both the autobahns and the gas chambers. Communism is pretty effective too. It's government-owned enterprise under total government control. The only thing that really changes is who owns the means of production. And, well, under Communism you're de-facto a slave to the state as well. Not having a job was illegal in e.g. the Soviet Union.

The fact that US political establishment is unable to enact quick change is kind of by design, IMO. While they are at each other's throats, they don't have the time to attack We The People. That, in my book, is a good thing.
> FWIW has anyone tried using NextDoor before moving to an area, to gauge how problematic the neighbors would be?

I don't think this is easy because ND only wants people that actually live in a neighborhood. When I signed up they mailed a postcard to the address with a code as a filter for that. FWIW I think you'd likely get a skewed view of a neighborhood just going by its Nextdoor posts.
And pulsars spin rates slowly change over time do to energy losses.

But I don't think these things would cripple a pulsar-based navigation system. Presumably any network of pulsars used for this purpose would be regularly monitored and timing solutions would be updated regularly. The updated timing solutions could be transmitted as-needed.

At any rate, a robust navigation network of pulsars would need a sufficient number of sources to guard against glitches breaking the navigation system.
Because in most of the country broadband providers and cell varieties are not the same.

There are limited markets where verizon or att offer both broadband and cell service.

And the other big cell carriers don’t have a broadband market.

To your other point. Most gpon modems are arris or some other brand all in ones these days that carry voip converters/cable television and then normal tcpip traffic. They are bought to maximize profits and rental fees and not with packet forwarding in mind. There are acceptable levels of loss and latency on residential networks that don’t generally carry over to campus or business services.

Add in they also run dns, dhcp and firewalling and often some “extra” parental controls and sometimes a vlan for guest access.

It’s not the residnetial customers fault for the placement either. But most demarcs for telco and internet, even in new construction is in a utility room that is generally right next to other utilities. At least in single family homes.

In apartments sure they may be better placed but still often next to the air handler. And give. The range of 5g, the first floor or two is all that matters.
No, but it's how I recognized something was wrong with me. I recognized I wasn't me.

I'm not saying I need pot to be me, but I need a little help to get through this, and right now THC is helping me. I can be more patient with my family. I can let myself explore my work, and I am a little more relaxed to step back and look at my problems, and say, "I can fix these, let's start on this one."

If your reply isn't a joke, maybe you need to find your outlet. It doesn't have to be what I found, maybe yours is painting models, or writing a screenplay, or playing video games. I hope you find it.
Yes, I might have rushed my comment, but that’s what I meant.
If even a diverse organization like YC can’t have enough African-Americans in their ranks, it has to mean something about the access these people get compared to white folks and people of other heritage.

To further elaborate: Reddit hiring a black person to fill a board seat vacated By a white man on the premise of giving it to an African-american is a patch that’s worse than the hole.
Exactly. We need some humility in people. It is okay to admit that this is (thankfully!) not as bad as we thought, but it is still bad. It will still kill a lot of people. We need to take it seriously, but not as seriously as we feared. The doomers need to have the humility to admit that, and the hoaxers need to have the humility to admit that it is worse than the seasonal flu.

Again, I fear people don't realize that this isn't a game. This is disastrously bad and getting worse every. single. day.
This hasn’t been my experience writing Haskell every day.

The language is a good tool, but it isn’t magic. You still need to apply good taste.
GDP per capita is one of the most strongly correlated metrics to quality of life.

If you think people are living better in Denmark or Ireland than in Mexico or Turkey, how do you explain this other than GDP per capita?

Again, this has nothing to do with 401ks or the stock market. Some countries have been rich and others have been poor since well before stock markets were invented.

If you don’t think life is better in richer countries than in poorer countries, I’m not sure I can convince you of anything.
Broken for me too.

Safari 13.1, MacOS 10.14.6
LOL. I remember how it threw me off guard when I was asked by young Chinese students about stroke order for the Latin alphabet. It really puzzled me and I had to google to confirm that THERE IS NO STROKE ORDER for the Latin alpahbet.

Yet, in Chinese (and Japanese I assume) there is. It is actually very very important. You actually won't be able to look up a character if you don't know with how many strokes to write it. It seems to be of no meaning for character recognition software, like Pleco.
Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences