skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think ubiquity is a huge part of it. I think I'm at a similar level as you: I mostly use it for quick edits or when using ssh for example, but the fact that I know I will basically always have access to it makes it a good default choice.
Fair points. I don't have historical data, but my observation is that the issue of brahmins controlling/dominating lot of sectors was a real problem at some point and the reservation system was a populist response that did provide some benefit for oppressed castes, but created a whole bunch of other problems and unintended consequences. And its still remains such a hot button populist issue no political party would dare implementing the required reforms. The unintended consequence is the emigration of a lot of people from the "higher" castes. I guess its hard to say if it had any material impact on India's progress but the "higher" caste population that doesn't have the means/resources to emigrate is put in a real difficult situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_(spreadsheet)
I really appreciate you reporting this, and understand that it's too late now but you should try to keep your source anonymous in a cases like this in case they get bad publicity where they live.
But not national ancestry, which is what is protected.
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Perhaps you should give sc-im a go. It's no excel but a good enough spreadsheet with vim like keybindings.

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
Perhaps a bit of an unpopular opinion but as far as interviews go, I think that seeing how someone reacts unprepared is a lot more valuable then seeing their work with them knowing what to expect. You see their ability to adapt and improvise, which is far more valuable then being picky about a particular library or technology. Yes, the quality of their tests will be lower, but that's fine and you can take that into account when you are checking them and you can check the test along with the candidates and ask additional questions which will steer them in the right direction, which ultimately will give you more insights about their thought process. Imo, their thought process is arguably the most valuable factor.

Also the most valuable question you can ask as a part of the non-technical interview: "So do you have any questions for us"? If the answer is "no", you are not looking at a good candidate.
So today I learned that we have the ability to notice when a single star (possibly) disappears from a galaxy 75 million light years away. A small thing, but also a rather wonderful example of what we're capable of.
C++ in Spacemacs
I feel desperately sad and worried for the people of Hong Kong, and I’m hoping we do the right thing by its citizens and give them an escape path to the west. Having seen what happens to the Uighurs, the concentration camps, torture, forced sterilisation, you understand why the people of Hong Kong are so fearful and so ready to fight back.
Actually I love reading an article about Gödel and I like perspectives on startups, I think this article would be best if it were not one but two (only focussing on one subject). I really think using Gödels theorem as a metapher is by far overstretching it.
I don’t think anyone has packaged this up, although the tools are there.
Sometimes I trust pirated software more than the original thing I was trying to install ;)
Sorry, removed the article because it was a draft not meant to be published yet, I didn't think someone would spot my drafts directory... :-)

Will finish and republish in a few days.
sshing into a server invalidates all the time you spent on customizing your local vim.
Switzerland is a complete outlier in this respect, Zürich is much closer to Boston than to Paris.
For all it’s faults, and let’s be honest it has a fair few, the USA is still massively better than China. Even with trump in charge.
Having ctrl-[ in your muscle memory has the advantage that it also works in other readline programs that have a vi like interfacee, e.g. bash, zsh and many db consoles.
Awesome! Being able to search through your tabs is such a powerful ability!

Some time ago I made a small Chrome extension, see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-switch/jibghim..., for this myself.

I love how you're building this into a cross browser, fully featured product with nice looking UI!
Isn't it the other way where profession is based on the caste you are born into? You make it sound like a child born into a lower caste can choose a profession that lets them join a higher caste. It's not different than american back slaves being born into slavery, if you call slavery a profession or jim crow era legal segregation limiting jobs based on race.
The message from the CEO which this is about, says they have the exact same price across the globe, ie no subsidizing losses by that means, or there are no losses.

The US price is in practice the same - they just had to account for the always-expected discount which will push it down to the same as others.
The cinema business case is “going out” “big screen” and “new release” but this could all be disrupted. It’s not a payg model that attracts people to the cinema and many movie chains have a subscription model!
Tasker looks interesting. Any info on how it compares to iOS Shortcuts?

(also, iOS Safari has limited PWA functionality. It’s by no means as comprehensive as Chrome / Firefox on Android, but it was enough for me to make my latest site installable.)
There’s an awesome list for everything these days…
Unrolling the Mystery Inside an Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor
> JS should not be necessary.

This x1000. However, not using JS is also not necessary. There are valid reasons to use JS even in a simple personal site.

The way I see it, keeping it as simple as possible is most important. Much of the time that means HTML & CSS only, maybe however, you want to have tabs at the top (for example). Is this possible to do with HTML & CSS? Yes. Is it simpler to do with JS. Also yes, and it doesn't take hardly any to do.
Here's a recent study from France on 3700 patients treated with HCQ+AZ and it shows a 66% reduction in hospitalizations: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147789392...
Ctrl-arrows is not the same thing as vim’s wordwise movement. If you need to go 5 words forward, it’s 5w ; if you want to capitalize the next 3 words, gU3w ; the point is composability, not a single operation. Same goes for f.
Usually both. They check known malware signatures and also look for suspicious behavior.
Could you point to any laymanish articles or media that talks about the non-supernova fate? My knowledge about supernovae, black holes and neutron stars all come from youtube channels ( eg. https://youtu.be/RZkR9zdUv-E ) and they make it sound like inevitable ends for massive stars, because once the neutron star forms the sudden vacuum created by the compacted neutrons makes all the matter around it collapse on it and rebound. Why is that not plausible ?
You can try 'new things' in the lab, until you are sure they work and are safe for general application. To field these AI solutions in lots of places where negative side effects are a serious possibility knowing that this is the case is irresponsible. Seeing this as a simple engineering problem with a simple fix-as-you-go attitude is not the right approach.
You're going to have to explain that one because I generally switch back to command mode after every edit so I use ctrl-[ a lot.

I'd be VERY interested to hear why that's wrong and what you do differently.
I made an argument to challenge the parent comment's argument. It is obvious that nor physics nor population size led to advancements alone. There are many confounders.

What I wanted to point out is: there is a trade-off in allocating budgets which are finite to different parts of society. If science gets a certain budget, I argue (like the original author) that new collider takes away a part of the cake from others. However you frame the sources of the money, the budget is obviously limited and can be directed in other experiments and ideas as well.

What prompted my response is defending physics through listing inventions. Ironically, the proposed experiment might never give any practical application, and it shouldn't in my opinion. The search for knowledge, especially as fundamental as this is enough. But this part of physics already appeals to wide audience and has great PR. There might be other parts that could use billions but are not as sexy to general public.
Curious what extreme left ideology looks like in India.
Live streaming a perfomance isn't an option? Wouldn't mind paying to live stream my favorite orchestra while stuck at home. There was a thing about spanish orchestra performing to an audience of plants and streaming it.
Any idea why donations to Mozilla cannot fund Firefox development? I'm told other orgs like FSF/EFF/ACLU do put donations towards software development.
Atlassian seems to be one of the slowest software companies.
They haven't done much to improve their products in all these years.

Everything they have is ready to be overtaken by a disruptive product.
Yeah, I was happy to see the switch away from C random/srandom or rand/srand.

Not my area either, but a little surprised why a PCG-family non-CSPRNG algorithm wasn’t used: https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/a-quick-look-at-xoshiro256....

PCG XSL RR 128/64 (MCG) could be used for 64-bit values (albeit with period 2^126 compared to xoroshiro256’s 2^256 − 1) with 128 bits. Half the state size than xoshiro256, and the performance might be comparable (would need benchmarking). LCG version if you want to trade PRNG quality for even more speed.
> It's not like the inefficiencies are limited to only US companies because they can charge more.

US companies cannot really charge more than European companies [+]. They all charge more in the US and less elsewhere.

[+] In general, there are also cases where the same drug is marketed by a US company in the US and a non-US company in the rest of the world.
I’m sorry that you had to go through this. I’m east Asian myself, and I often cant tell the ethnicity of other east Asians (Korean, Chinese...). So how does Indians determine the caste of other people? Is it by the lightness of their skin?
That's excellent!

That gives a left handed option for escape without leaving the home row. I really like having mirrored shortcuts like that, thank you.
No not really...that comparison is completely wrong.
How can such things have cults ? This was a fierece debate of ideas which should have been allowed to continue instead of people jumping in and spoiling the debate with personal attacks. Had this debate continued based purely on facts and best practices we would have had better ideas about bias for free. I just don't understand this behaviour. People are Yann LeCun "fans", people are PyTorch "fans" (such people also sent Francois Chollet hate mail), elon musk "fans" (if you bet against you are a bad person, wth). Just to be clear "fans" are not very smart people and just because someone likes one technology or one idea over another doesn't make them Yann LeCun or a great technologist or a pioneer. It just makes one an idiot. Great ideas should win or lose regardless of who said what.
If they give you the keygen…
> > Strawman.

> Can we skip this kind of snippy arguing please?

If you don't start off by willfully mischaracterizing your opponent's argument in order to be able to more easily refute it, I think you'll find that they accuse you of this less.

I think you're just willfully missing the point.

Ideally, you'd just lend money to the people who will pay you back. Unfortunately, we can't predict this perfectly. Adding race, or proxies for race, to the things you consider improves your predictions somewhat.
Usability of Code
Yeah, it's https://xkcd.com/1053/ happening yet again.
> tunnel vision when it comes to X-risks, which leads them to overfund X-risk-due-to-AI over something like, say, X-risk-due-to-asteroids.

Risks from natural events like asteroids are actually quite well understood and we have tight bounds that they aren't that risky per century. The natural risks cause area probably deserves more funding on a global level, but EAs are definitely thinking about it. It's literally the first section in 80k's intro article about X-risks: https://80000hours.org/articles/extinction-risk/
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They are not really comparabale as they are indicated at different points in the disease progression.
>I don’t understand how people dare to run executables downloaded from a pirate site...

But do you understand people who dare to run executables from 'proper-company' site? It's closed source, you have no idea what you are running, isn't it? As long as it's not free software in terms of FSF there is not guarantee what so ever that it's not harmful or even worse intentionally harmful.

How about this one from SONY, that didn't even ask user to run?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

or this one Amazon remotely deletes book from kindle:
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
Against what?
I love listening to another Countries radio or watching their television. It just so interesting watching their commercials or listening to their local news and events. One of my favourite things to do is ask my google home to stream random radio stations, so I’ll ask it to stream whim and see what happens, most of the time it’ll find nothing, neutral sometimes it come up with a radio station in Bakersfield, Or Detroit or Memphis. Even randomly asking for radio Toronto brings something up.
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> Lower income people live there because there are a lot of service jobs for unskilled workers

> What you have is a situation where these workers have to be in SF or NYC because that’s where the service jobs are

Well, yes, I intentionally was including everyone, not just people working six-figure office jobs: everyone else also benefits significantly from living in a place with a large and growing job market. Growth in high-paying white-collar jobs generally leads to even faster growth in the wages and number of less-skilled jobs in the same place.

Historically, there is also a wage premium for unskilled workers in larger metros - today much of that surplus flows to landlords instead, thanks again to under-building of housing in those areas. Even in SF, wages for the lowest-income workers have grown slightly faster than CoL over the last ~decade (thanks in part to the effect of rent-control for long-time tenants).

> Someone receiving UBI can move from SF to Bakersfield.

This is true iff UBI is generous enough that many of the people who work those service jobs would choose to live on it without being employed - at $1000/month, I suspect that would not be very many. If people want to be employed, living near the much larger and growing job market of the Bay Area would remain much more attractive than living in Bakersfield. The fundamental issue would be unchanged AFAICT.
Depends, after all pirate software >= original contents.
I don’t understand how people dare run software at all. Everyone knows software has bugs, and what if it does something you didn’t want it to do?
There is an extension to do something better:

https://github.com/Rob--W/open-in-browser
China piss on citizen world rights as written in the Universal Declaration of Human Right.
It is time to piss on their heads.
Nice tool - I'll be putting that in my toolkit.

I love the way she straces the tool to find out how it works - a true hacker at work :-)
If you own a taco stand and I open a pizza place next to you, I will deprive you of some potential sales. Clearly, that condition isn't sufficient to indicate theft.
2-Phase-Commit protocol i.e. a scheme with "prepare-commit" and eventual rollback.
A cashless society is another debate entirely. I do think it's a dictator dream and the best way to kill diversity and innovative social behavior.

But the matter here is card vs phone. Your card do spy on you, but it doesn't have your contact, a microphone, the history of where you have been, etc.

You can easily give your card away to a friend for the day. Your card doesn't need an update. It's not connected to internet all the time. It won't die if it falls, if it rains or of it's too hot. You can have a replacement easily as well.

It's also way more accessible. My grandma can use it. A blind man can. They all work the same way.

A phone is only a good card alternative when every thing goes right. But I value resilience in my paiement system.
I think transistors are great for electrical side of computing.

Lambda calculus and lisp for the abstract model.
Drive thru McDonald’s franchise?
Would it really just jump into another shape? I don't understand QM much, but the Schrodinger equation looks like a typical heat equation (with some complex-number trickery) and thus in general should evolve smoothly. There should be a transition period between two shapes.
>The US ( or any other country) doesn't give that problem.

No but they give quite a lot of other problems that really are a problem for your health...Monsanto.
> what.cd

Little angel gone too soon.
I think that theaters and orchestras are often more event than content business.

While there might be a aspects of a performance that can be conveyed through a video feed a large part of the experience is probably lost by attendants not being able to participate in person.
Back in the days when I couldn't afford proprietary software and didn't use Linux yet, I often downloaded torrents even for free software because the download was 20 times faster and you didn't have to fill out web forms and give away one of your throw-away email addresses to get the content. The crackers also often fixed bugs the developers refused to fix and removed annoying nag screens.

To be honest, when I had to upgrade my Windows machine last year, I really regretted the fact that I've gone fully legit with VST plugins. It took me more than a week to deregister and reregister all the horrible proprietary DRM schemes those companies are using. That would have taken less than a day if I had used cracked versions.
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23698851
(I cracked those back in high school and then purchased them because they were so good…)
What if something else chosen as an initial condition, like a sphere or some random shape? Would it converge to something meaningful if we apply the time-dependent SE with a meaningful field potential?
LBV = Luminous blue variable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_blue_variable
McDonalds served their coffee at 190 degrees because it had a longer shelf life
Typed Clojure in Theory and Practice
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Good point. Though there's an easy solution to this, and actually quite a few situations in real life. Brace yourself people as I'm about to drop a knowledge bomb:

"Don't be a dick."
I recommend mapping jk to esc in insert mode (instead of jj), so you remain on the same line if you accidentally use it in normal mode.
It seems that there's no Geekbench for Windows ARM.
So it's comparing between emulated benchmarks?

https://www.geekbench.com/download/
You are lying. You're affiliated.
A sobering thought is that there’s little to stop Covids 20.1 through 20.4 emerging as endemic human diseases next week.

It’s not like an earthquake where the disaster also relieves stress, albeit in the long term.
I guess one could do a Javascript redirect and I think the browser would set a referrer.

So you could redirect from burrito.domain to burrito.domain/call_us_at_xyz, and from that page redirect to ubereats, which will hopefully set a referrer.

Or one could also redirect to ubereats.site/?message=Hello+Uber+Eats, which probably won't break their site, but someone will hopefully see..
Sure, but using the Duke paper example to illustrate that is clearly dumb. The toy AI network was designed that way. Yann was right to call it out.
All of that sounds like you’re just going to favor people who are slacking at their current work, unemployed or have a ton of free time outside of work to prepare. How is that “leveling the playing field”?

Obviously if you’re google or whatever your process is going to leak anyway so better to tell candidate upfront what to expect (and they do). If you’re smaller/unknown co may as well get genuine reaction rather than choreographed dance. Ofc that doesn’t mean you should expect candidates to have their env already setup that’s just silly.
For proving distributed computing protocol soundness, I'm a big fan of formal verification and model checking, in particular TLA+[1] by Leslie Lamport who is behind the Lamport clocks referenced in the paper and curiously Latex, and the well known Byzantine generals problem in blockchains.

In particular a peer-reviewed on synchronization protocol has been proven incorrect on a subtle race condition using formal verification.

[1]: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html
Yes. That's what Sikhs do.

> Male Sikhs generally have Singh ("lion") as their middle or last name, though not all Singhs are Sikhs. Likewise, female Sikhs have Kaur ("princess") as their middle or last name. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhs
You can try "All of Statistics" its a concise but useful and modern take on statistics. For a different approach I quite like Allen Downey's ".. for the Hacker" series. For stochastic processes Parzen's "Stochastic Processes" is a nice and approachable read. If you want to go down the rabbit hole I would recommend graycat's comment stream here on HN. Time to time he posts about books to read.

You said you are familiar with linear algebra. The logical next stop could be Hilbert spaces. It looks at functions as vectors and analyzes their properties using linear algebraic tools that work even in infinite dimensional spaces. This sees quite a heavy use in traditional machine learning. Before diving into Hilbert spaces proper, you could revisit linear algebra in Halmos' "Vector Spaces" there he pretends to teach you linear algebra but actually teaches you about Hilbert spaces -- in other words, teaches you linear algebra but without the restriction of finite dimensionality.

And you are right, books are so damn expensive. India is somewhat better in the sense that we have 'low price editions' same content but printed in lower quality paper, not the prettiest things, but very student friendly. Note these are legit printings, not pirated copies.
Maths is too abstract and not clear really.
That only works if your task is equally unexpected/unusual for all candidates. If it isn't then either you punish them for being familiar with your stack (as you don't get that valuable knowledge) or you punish them for not being familiar (as you reward a good result).

> you can take that into account

I seriously doubt you can do this in a consistent and fair way.

Whether someone does well in a completely unfamiliar stack is fairly random, so you're almost certainly filtering out excellent candidates who just got unlucky with understanding the IDE.
When I find myself reaching for jq, that’s a signal that maybe this bash script should be implemented in a language such as python or go
They wanted to divide the country so they used it. They didn't actually need to understand it.