skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m actively hiring, looking for staff engineers and principal engineers who went this route and acquired a business management toolbelt, while remaining self-driven learners with a sense of professional value based on outcomes that continued to drive evolution of their own hands-on skills.

In other words, I’m looking for people who would like to be employed as #3 after proving #2 no problem and being able to speak that language.
Nielsen has http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics, for example.

I would strongly recommend not having entire problems as a single card; it's absolutely crucial that answering any particular card is a single mental motion. (You can get by with a very small workload if your cards are more complex than that, but it doesn't scale even in the medium term.) I wouldn't go any more complex than "what is 75 * 43".

As an example, the definition of a red-black tree for me is six cards:

* What, imprecisely, are the colouring rules on a red-black tree? ["global; local; base-case"]

* What are the leaves of a red-black tree? ["null"]

* What is the base-case colouring rule of a red-black tree? ["leaves are black"]

* What is the local colouring rule of a red-black tree? ["red node => black children"]

* What is the global colouring rule of a red-black tree? ["black depth is well defined"]

* What is the black depth of a node in a red-black tree? ["the number of black nodes encountered on a path from that node down to a leaf"]

One might naively have created a single card that is "what is a red-black tree?", but in my experience such a card is too big. The difficulty of learning a card grows at least quadratically with the number of mental motions it takes to answer that card, and small/simple/easily-learned cards are incredibly cheap in that Anki very quickly learns not to show them to you if they're genuinely easy.

Maths-wise, my cards usually look like:

* "Does path-connectedness imply connectedness?" [yes]

* "Does connectedness imply path-connectedness?" [no]

* "Counterexample to connectedness-implies-path-connectedness" [topologist's sine curve]

* "Definition of the topologist's sine curve" [union of the y-axis and a squashed sine]

* "Definition of the squashing of the sine component of the topologist's sine curve" [whatever]

* "Main idea of the proof that path-connectedness implies connectedness" [use "all locally constant functions into [0, 1] are constant"]
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Except IO is the bottleneck here. The concurrency model for IO should determine overall speed. If python async is slower for IO tasks then sync then that IS an unexpected result and an indication of a python specific problem.
You’re caching packages locally, right?
This demonstrates the issue with an internet designed for centralized services. Zoom is in the position of A) bending to china and not losing their business, or B) ignoring China's request and lose all of China's business.

With a properly-designed decentralized internet, this decision wouldn't even exist. Data and services wouldn't be centralized to a company's servers, and there wouldn't be a way to take down anyone's service. I really wish projects like MaidSafe and other similar ones would take off, but it's a difficult problem to tackle.
> You want people to go set up an LLC or something before they get together to bail out the folks the cops arrested after doing tricks like “closing all the exits to the city twenty minutes before announcing a curfew”?

He doesn't. This mode of argumentation is not actually intended to produce new ideas or methods that enable better protest. Instead it is intended to produce an infinite regression of complaints about improper protest to delay change forever.
Would you take a penny from Softbank?
I suffer from pretty bad motion sickness. Can you share the sort of dosage and/or brand you use?
I read it as the guy at LimitedResults sent an extortion demand and was rebuffed, then released the information under his company alias to and avoid the appearance of extortion by investigating authorities that Nordic would have had a duty to its stakeholders to file a complaint with.
So will this use data harvested from their malware apps (Onavo)?
It is hard to beat a Pelikan and they have some fancy range.

It is strange you didn't mention Rotring. They are quite affordable, nice design, good pens.
A lot of the inflation in medical prices comes from how the incentives in the US medical system are lined up (e.g. "Usually hospitals get paid only a portion of the amount they bill, as most have negotiated discounts with insurance companies."). So, UHC doesn't just mean that the cost is paid for, but that the price itself wouldn't be so astronomical. I'd really love to see a comparison between 1) the $1MM bill 2) the "actual" negotiated money that changes hands 3) what it would cost in other countries with different healthcare systems.
For me, it just got boring. Every discussion was pre-ordained. Even simple “fun” stuff like Star Wars would devolve into the same pseudo argument, oppositionalist statements.

It’s not anonymity as Facebook is real people, who I think enjoy not being anonymous with getting internet points from people who enjoy it.

I think the issue is no social contract with me. They aren’t my friends so they don’t care so much about me. Private messenger groups with 20 people who know each other seems fine.

Interestingly, completely anonymous IRC on freenode results in good discussions.
Confusion is the most universal human condition.
Raw sexual attraction is instant and involuntary, not cerebral, cultivated. It doesn't depend on anything other than a person's biology. Looks, smell, maybe other biological factors that are hard to quantify. If a woman is with you for other reasons, then she's just not into you sexually and you're playing a game in nightmare mode if you're trying to establish an LTR with an attractive female that has other opportunities or keep it going without issues (e.g. cheating). That does not mean that other slow-burn factors such as intellectual chemistry or friendship do not apply, but it does mean that they work synergistically and on top of the raw animalistic part which is the foundation.

This is all based on decades of empirical observations. On the plus side for men, it is definitely possible to learn to detect this extremely reliable indicator. On the minus side, one needs a lot of experience with many different women, which isn't the case with average, physically unattractive males.
Smalltalk can be described concisely as a graphical UNIX: a small set of computational mechanisms, designed to be general and interoperate for the construction of larger systems. Unfortunately, the GUI industry was inspired but never decided to use smalltalk itself as its foundation since C/UNIX already existed, providing higher performance for the hardware available at the time.
Console #3: Containers from First Principles
There are a lot of responses here that boil down to: “Just use your intuition.” This is a legitimate way to estimate, however, like any estimation technique, it has weaknesses that make it inappropriate for many situations.

What’s most helpful is to abandon the idea that there’s “one true way” of estimating and instead educate yourself about the many estimation techniques that exist, and when and where to use them.

Also keep in mind that estimates are inherently political, that they can be used to guide or to destroy, and that may be the dominant factor in the choice of technique to use.

For a very good introduction to all of these factors (and others), and a survey of numerous estimation techniques, I recommend reading “Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art” by Steve McConnell.
Your country maybe. I don't live in your country. And I read plenty, I bet more than you and in more languages than you.

PS: you're proving the New Yorker article accurate, by the way.
likewise salt also has a way to push via salt-ssh which works just like ansible without a salt-minion.

so at this point both ansible and salt can go both directions, and i do infact myself make use of that. i use pull/minions on all servers in our network, and push to those servers outside our network, because they can't reach the master behind the firewall.

although zerotier has helped solve that problem, so i'll probably be able to stop using salt-ssh soon
I've been gradually working on an emacs-centric layout for it: https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/m-x-tabspace
At this rate, looks like I'm about to be pursuing a Replica of Science degree...
That’s not necessarily true - realistically not using google or Facebook, for the average, non-tech person, is in many ways up there with moving from say, France to Germany (I chose the EU to make a specific point about ease of movement) in terms of difficulty.

Also, at least democracies have formal mechanisms for holding governments accountable, even if these mechanisms are often corrupted or flawed.

Living in a democracy means you have options beyond “voting with your feet”.
> Typically we do not do such task in scripts. And indeed who would need ray tracing in script if you have native libraries for that? 100% that number crunching tasks will be slower in order of magnitude than native ones so why to bother?

Those kind of synthetic benchmarks aren't there because ray tracing is what you would use JavaScript for, but for giving a measurable quantity about the speed of the interpreter.

Put it simply if V8 produces a number that's 10x higher than another interpreter you can be sure that it's going to be faster than that other interpreter pretty much across the board by a significant margin.

By the way V8 can compile some optimized JavaScript that executes at half the speed of optimized C++, not in "order of magnitude" slower, can Sciter do the same? I really don't think so, happy to be proven wrong with some numbers.

So can you run the benchmark suite with Sciter or not? Is Sciter even able to run it properly? Do you think that benchmark does an acceptable job at telling which interpreter is faster between the tested ones or not?

> The application has UI and complexity similar to VSCode

Sure it has, come on man, be real, there isn't even an app menu loading in this thing: https://i.imgur.com/MXw1LZX.png , this thing is crap.

These kind of claims are an insult to all the people working on VSCode.

> It is hard to come up with some formal benchmarks but startup times, CPU/RAM consumption, responsiveness can be estimated.

There are literally just already written benchmarks that one just runs and they output NUMBERS, how is that hard? Compare that to measuring "responsiveness".
Microsoft, Google, and Amazon’s cloud divisions have well-documented contracts with the US military. So do Intel and AMD.

Many other tech companies do too.
I think he's talking about the conversation going on about FB, Youtube, Twitter removing posts that are hate speech, inciting violence, spreading misinformation, etc.
Tell me more about your app
Learn how to give constructive feedback. If a coworker comes to you for assistance and you reply similar to some of the negative comments in this thread, then that's probably the last time they come to you for anything.
oh did I make a mistake here? good catch. I'm gonna look back at my original notes for this.

I think
0072 + 2 * ( (filenameLength-1) / 2) should work but I'll test
How do you know that more aggressive driving causes more collisions?

How do you know which accelerometer-measured[1] parameters correlate with aggressive driving? High speeds? Abrupt acceleration? Hard acceleration? Abrupt braking? Hard braking? Late braking (how do you know the difference?) High lateral cornering loads? How are these differentiated from abrupt lane changes? Does the dongle know if you used your signal or not?

Studies show that driving late at night is far riskier than driving during daytime; due to visibility, alcohol, etc. Lots of late night trips? Time to punish that graveyard shift ER doctor for driving her car at such risky times!

1. Presumably most of these OBD-II dongles really only use accelerometer data to report back, even though they have access to more data if they want it, and if they're programmed to understand every model of vehicle
As a general rule it works. Work friends are not friends. There are exceptions but don't expect anything.
What is the reason behind not liking discord
> They have an iron grip on all information flow.

That's not true. Every other and their mother has a VPN, only that they don't care nearly as much about what you care in this case.
If I'm remembering the right book, I believe something like this was described in Anathem by Neal Stephenson (not crucial to major plot).
How well can an AI learn physics?
Then you can buy a white noise diode.

Except IC’s are the same size as discrete white noise diodes these days.
There’s a local function for @font-face that allows you to link a webfont to a locally installed font and it will indeed skip the download if it can find it.
> one that had switched surrounding each finger giving 3 or 4 switches to each finger without moving the finger position

I think you’re referring to the DataHand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand
Lets say they want to raise premium revenue by 25%. The solution will be to increase premiums on smokers, because everyone hates smokers, by 25%.

How does that math work, you're asking? Right now you and I can check "non-smokers" on medical documents. And that's true, at least for me, medically speaking.

However after we fuse all sources of data we can punish everyone. I bought two packs of cigars in the 90s when I was a dumb young kid. Medically speaking a quarter century later I'm a non-smoker from a health perspective. However, from a revenue generation perspective...

Big brother is not going to fund this out of the goodness of their heart to be revenue neutral or (gasp) positive for the public. The only purpose for this expensive initiative will be to screw over the general population even more to increase income inequality a little more and make the rich just a little richer.
A penny from Softbank? Didn't you get the memo? Softbank requires you to take at least 1 billion.
JPMorgan says Bitcoin crash survival shows it has staying power
> Right, right, but nothing like that has happened here

Eliot Rodger, 2014 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings

I was a student at UCSB at the time. He killed one of my good friends. He was a hardcore incel before it was a thing. Many incel communities praise this monster.
Show HN: Crossplatform remote clipboard. xclip, pbcopy compatible
Whoops, yes that is indeed a union not an intersection. Thanks for the correction. I'm still getting used to the terminology.

The explicitness I was referencing is around the declaration merging. Its automatic so unless there's a conflict between two interfaces with the same name but with different properties, a dev wouldn't know that it was being done.

I agree with using what makes sense for the scenario. I prefer type aliases for functions and interfaces for classes and that seems to work out pretty well so far.
Realistically, the standards comittees follow where the implementations lead. And the problem with implementations is that all the large companies making them would much prefer to be either monopolists or drastically advantaged by the choice of technology. Whose native toolkit should it most resemble: Microsoft's, Apple's, or Google's?

The web is a mine-strewn no-mans-land between competing factions, which accounts for a lot of the strangeness.

(Ironically, the tech is leaking in the other direction as web apps become more popular on both mobile and desktop)
thanks for letting me know. weird about the phone calls. I'll check this out on mobile
I second the recomendation of LMDB. With one important caveat: under heavy write load it is perfect demonstration of brokenness of semaphore implementation on freebsd and macos.
Is the iPhone XR Waterproof? I’m so excited to know it
My fountain pens leak as well. Doesn't matter which one I use, Montblanc, Parker, Caran d'Ache, Waterman, Lamy, Rotring... The leaks are not severe, but holding area always has some, leaving inks on my fingertips.
The "h" sound (/ɦ/, I think) does not exist in Greek, but I agree that "Eh" sounds closer to the Greek exclamation than "huh".

On the other hand, the article seems to say that it's specifically "huh" that's universal. Anyway, I'm just curious to see how many counter-examples we can find.
Linux kernel earns CII best practices gold badge
I think the main advice given is that work friends can be real friends, but not all friends should be work friends. It's about "diversifying" who you spend time with because your relationship with your employer is not the same as with your friends.
For people who innately distrust the state's competence, maybe it's more appealing.
I'm not convinced by this; if a company was approached by an attacker who threatened to

a) Release stolen data;

b) Anonymously supply the regulator with full details of the leak

unless a ransom was paid, I imagine that the threat of an audit and potential regulatory action would be enough to persuade the company to pay the ransom if it believed the cost of the ransom to be lower than the cost of an investigation by the regulator.
True, but on the other hand, what if it is an option and we're depriving some people of a normal, happy life by not researching and making available a simple medication to regulate e.g. their thresholds for violence, aggression, empathy, self-discipline, motivation or wakefulness?

We have similar ethical concerns with regard to e.g. cochlear implants. We don't force people to have them implanted, but it would seem cruel to not make them available because the availability may, at some point in the future, make them semi-mandatory.
I need to LOL a little bit at all this, the headline, the article.

First off, how would such an article even come about? Feels like more of a recruiting/marketing piece.

The old story at hsbc was that the ATM software hadn't been updated in twenty years, cause stability....
Yes, lets experiment on prisoners. That seems morally justified as long as you ask nicely. For real, scientific experimentation has to be done with unbiased groups AND a control group. After getting that out of the way then you can include targeted groups. Which prisoners should never belong to, this is how the criminal psychopath stereotype began. also, every country classifies crime and punishment differently making any observation useless. Their status as criminal might be the same but their pathology is as diverse as you can expect. prisoners might be the most violent group you can find but you're still better off targeting violent people in a population.

Unless you are researching criminals
I was thinking something like "Turing machines themselves can form various kinds of adjacency graphs", but I would also doubt how much we can learn from this: the behavior of adjacent Turing machines is often radically different and it's rapidly going to become undecidable to say how different, or even to confirm whether it's different or not.

If you think about software running on a CPU, you can get different behavior with a very small change. I gave a talk a couple of times about how real-world fencepost errors (like writing <= in a loop when you meant <) will compile to just a single-bit difference in the binary, yet in one case you have a correct program [at least in that regard!] and in the other you have a buggy and potentially exploitable one.

Or software crackers from different eras would sometimes try to remove copying restriction routines just by injecting NOPs over random conditional branches or function calls, in the hope of overwriting the relevant instruction and causing the program to entirely skip that logic.

These programs are adjacent in terms of their code, or are separated by a very short distance in the CPU version of Wolfram's rulial space, but their behavior completely diverges. And I think that's a common case. Or maybe some chaos theory ideas are apposite and we could say that there are a lot of attractors and so it's never unlikely that a small change to the code will produce a big change in its behavior.

Like you, I also don't mind that Wolfram is excited by this, and also am not sure that he's discovered anything here. :-)
She did a talk at the Long Now Foundation about the possible implications of this work. Definitely a bit out there - but fascinating.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/oct/29/toward-practical-te...
I thought the parent was talking about shorting MongoDB ("MDB" NASDAQ ticker)
> it's hard to edit or search through what you wrote on paper

You shouldn't really handwrite things you need to edit or search through. I would definitely type all "archival" type notes and things.

But I still handwrite plenty of stuff. Daily to-dos, retention type notes, and exploratory idea work are all better suited to paper, in my opinion.
In the US it is believed the opposite - more local power structures are easier to influence through local elections. It may not be a huge problem on the scale of Portugal, but as countries get larger things get worse. Imagine the entire EU having one police force - how do you go about changing anything? In the US you can run for mayor or City Council, much more direct connection.
I believe the muscle memory from typing the name of an amazing http client overtook the URL you meant to type:

https://cuelang.org/
> Erm, texture loading from RAM to the GPU memory already is critiqued in games, since players can see the slowdown when it happens.

Well then, its good that the PS5 doesn't have system memory; like the PS4 before it, it uses a unified pool of GDDR memory for everything.

> or they are getting the GPU to pull data directly from the SSD, and SSDs are very slow compared to RAM.

Yes, this is what they're doing.

SSDs are slow compared to memory. But, that's not the important metric. The important metric is, are they fast enough to meet a specific rendering target, given each game's specific asset quality. But, actually, even that's not accurate: Games will change their asset quality to match the speed of the SSD such that they're capable of doing this, not the other way around. That's the special sauce of consoles; developers optimize specifically for the hardware available, because everything has the same hardware.

On PC, game developers say "alright, we'll bin 8 different asset qualities the player can select from based on their PC, hope they pick right, ship it." On consoles, developers say "hmm, if the player turns around in this segment, the framerate drops from 30fps to 20fps; lets dig in there and pre-load some of those assets." You cannot, fundamentally, at any level, compare PC gaming to console gaming, because the optimizations go all the way back to the overworked engineers at the development companies making sure the experience is great for the hardware console gamers have available. On PC, developers say "gamers can theoretically see the whole world, but we'll layer in some adjustable fog in case they can't handle it." On consoles, developers say "we know the system cant handle it, so lets block some sightlines with a mountain range and a few buildings."

The PS5 SSD can load data at upward of 9GB/s. This means the SSD is capable of loading 150MB of data within one frame at 60fps. If you develop games, you'd know how much data that is (its a ton). Hell; you can drop ten whole frames, 60fps to 50fps, most gamers short of DigitalFoundry wouldn't even notice, and you can literally replace 10% of the entire GPU memory. Even at 60fps, the SSD is fast enough to become a pretty dang suitable hot-cache for GPU memory.