skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have evidence that everyone so far abducted in Portland has been set free, and further such kidnappings curtailed? Or are you instead arguing that the behavior of the US federal government in this circumstance merits a presumption of innocence?
> he has an unhealthy obsession with "classifying" people, by which he actually means ranking them, from top to bottom

I remember coming to an event at the YC headquarters a few years ago and that's exactly the way PG acted in person as well. He was surrounded by people wanting to talk to him the whole time, whenever someone would say hi and introduce themselves he would immediately ask for their HN username, then either strike a conversation or just say something along the lines of "doesn't ring a bell" and pass on to the next person.

Many of the people that have gone through YC feel like the program has inherited that same quality. There are a few darlings in each batch that the partners really focus on and put their biggest efforts towards, while the rest feel almost inadequate for not being as awesome as the top ones.
This tool would be capable of performing that measurement with 0.001" accuracy. https://www.harborfreight.com/feeler-gauge-32-pc-63665.html

Someone performing maintenance in their garage on an internal combustion engine would encounter the need to measure the same tolerances, for example, adjusting valve clearances. This is a common and accessible measurement task.
I spent about 6 years in Poland when I was a kid. They had little kiosks (15'x15' ish?) all over, it's where you bought your daily stuff you didn't want to buy in bulk: bus tickets, gum, newspapers, bread, vegetables. This feels like a no brainer to me.
There is none and that's the only reason the dollar is still a reserve.

The only two competing currencies who have large enough economies are Euro and Yuan.

Euro can't be reserve because they are not an industrial powerhouse any longer and also a vessel of US for the most part.

Yuan can't be reserve because of lack of faith in Chinese government and currency controls.

The yuan still has the best shot though as many developing countries are in agony and the US has decidedly receded from the world stage, which means it's status as reserve currency is questionable at best.
wellhead gas used as fuel is pretty minor. Maybe 5-10% of production, sometimes even less than what's flared. Burning gas for electric generation at the consumption site is about as clean as fossil fuels get. If we could do it domestically the transmissions and infrastructure savings would make renewables far less attractive.
Commandments of Redux Apps
Constitutionally speaking, all states must be a republican form of government. The federal government is also republican.
A Cold Shower for (early) testing of software, maybe:

There used to be an often cited paper by Boehm about the cost of catching bugs early vs late on production, usually mentioned by advocates of testing early, where the quoted conclusion was something like "studies show it's 10 times more costly to catch bugs late on production" or something like that. This is a very well known study, I'm likely misquoting it (the irony!) and readers here are probably familiar with it or its related mantra of early testing.

I haven't read the paper itself (I should!), but later someone claimed that a- Boehm doesn't state what people quoting him say he said, b- the relevant studies had serious methodological problems that call into question the conclusion he did say, c- there are plenty of examples where fixing bugs late on production wasn't particularly costly.

edit: I'm not arguing testing isn't necessary, in case that upset someone reading this post. I'm not really arguing anything, except that the study by Boehm that most people quote was called into question (and was probably misquoted to begin with). This doesn't prove/disprove anything, except maybe hinting at a possible Cold Shower. It does show that we as a field have a serious problem in software engineering with backing up claims with well designed studies and strong evidence, but this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone reading this.
Please not this misguided pedantry. A country can be a republic and a democracy. Those terms are not mutually exclusive.
I have explored security world too. Lots of experiments with reversing tools like IDAPro, ollydbg.

Recently a client asked if I can help reverse their own android app because the developers were holding their source code hostage. It was lots of fun and lots of struggle but overall satisfying.

Maybe something like basic security freelance work especially basic webapp security(xss,sqli,csrf, the likes) and some process security with maintaining proper logins, maintaining and rotating credentials etc.

Thank you for your ideas.
The US is part first world, part third world: parts of it are a working federalized democracy, other parts not so much.
It's the same mechanism that social and other addicting apps use, specifically a variable reward system.

The unknown of what's behind that notification drives our brains crazy and makes us need to check.

More from Nir Eyal here:
https://www.nirandfar.com/want-to-hook-your-users-drive-them...
TBH it doesn't seem too safe for cars either. You couldn't possibly see deer or other animals until they had already jumped into the road. Any normal hazard like a car stopped for a flat or lumber that fell off a truck is more hazardous in this situation.
Thanks! From a cursory look I can't see anything that immediately applies to me but it's a good resource to find companies. Will take a deeper look later.
> Will this work for freelancing proposal?
Will this work for about/cover letter/bio?

Probably not , Gokan is specialized in "DevTools" / "Tech" industry.

I think this type of message appeal specifically to Developer.

As a developer I really prefer those one-liner intro rather than "Story Telling" type of welcome.
> You get out of every program what you put in.

Nah, your instructor's/TA's time is limited. I can't schedule 6 hours with them. I can't request as much time as I want. Colleges have other prerequisites which must be filled. The American systems don't let you go to college and do nothing but computers, and you must take time away from programming courses eventually. I can't maximize the time for programming, so, I'm limited to what I can put in. And if it's a tough college, it takes real effort to pass those other courses and you likely can't just coast. It's a forcing function with guidance.

If I put in a ton of time on my own to study stuff from the internet, that's the internet returning my investment of time and focus. It's got nothing to do with the college at that point.
Linux 5.9 to Support 6GHz WiFi with Qualcomm's Ath11k Driver
Reminds me of this thread from last year.

"Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20241456
> "just count political prisoners; see how few there are!"

You see how it comes across as a little ridiculous when you equate "being cancelled on twitter" to "being a literal political prisoner"? Especially when there are actual political prisoners, in prison, in the US right now?
> Humans made it to Australia without any Land Bridge. Island hopping is completely plausible: once you have crossed one waterway, the next is easier.

Note that, due to lower sea levels, the largest gap of water they would have had to cross would have been about 100km.
since when are the feds a secret police?
AMD is sold out due to demand and Price/Performance, Intel is sold out dude to incredibly large inability to ship anywhere near enough quantity. It's probably 5+ AMD 7nm units per every Intel 10nm.

Meanwhile Apple has been shipping 7nm for two years at probably 10 times the units per quarter.
Russia has that right now?
Mob justice hasn't been visible for a while often because regular justice was being used for direct oppression in its stead. Injustice is institutionalized, and so as long as the majority group does not see the mob, it does not see oppression even if it exists.

Tell me that for every person getting yelled at on Twitter you couldn't find countless more groups of minorities who have been denied justice over the years, whether because they are aborigines, black, lgbtqia+, or any other group of the kind. That open criticism and denial of cultures and ways of life wasn't just the default mode of operation. That one's life being valued less than someone else's property, beatings by police, harsher criminal sentences, and lack of equal rights wasn't just the mode of operation.

Getting yelled at on Twitter by people fed up with someone's bullshit is not even close to actual mob justice. It's just angry people shouting. Sometimes people shout enough that it turns to direct action (like letter-writing, which was used at least as far back as the 1800s), boycotts, and stuff like that. Today's cancel culture isn't mob justice any more than it was before, and it's not new.

Again, it's just a bunch of people who usually were never on the short end of the stick seeing its shadow pointed their way and freaking out.
A great deal of political thought and practice is centered around promoting personal benefit. While it might look dumb for someone promoting free markets to also support farm subsidies etc, the spoken justifications have little to do with the actual decision making process. Convincing people who don’t benefit from your policies to still support them is simply how the game is won.
It's a pure dice-rolling addiction.

Let me share a personal story:

For the last 3.5 years, every night before bed, I would browse https://www.gitlogs.com, a site that had it's own algorithm for ranking top-trending Github repos for the day (it is much better than Github Trends, don't ask how).

It was my nightly ritual, and my favorite part of the day. Sometimes I would find 3-5 REALLY fucking awesome projects, or one that was so useful it changed my life as a developer, in one night.

I never missed a night.

For the last month or two it's been flaky (the API has been hosted as a free Glitch project this whole time LOL) and finally, the backend died. So it's gone forever. RIP friend, I have a void in my soul now.

But while it was alive, it was a daily dice roll that was incredibly exhilarating. And that's the addiction, and why I sink so much time into HN too.
It wasn’t just the length of the email body they changed in the 3rd variant... they also changed the subject line from “Welcome to Netlify” to “Question...”, but that change wasn’t mentioned as a potential contributor to the good result.

I’m betting that change resulted in a big increase in open rate. I’m conditioned to ignore “Welcome to AcmeCo”-style emails.
Hey that's actually an interesting idea. :) I'm not working with Netlify at the moment but they should try it.
Because previous mobs were well known for their thoughtfulness and judgement?
I can't put my finger on it, but there must be a name for this kind of logic. I think pgs arguments have more sustenance than just this, but it still rubs me the wrong way. I'll give an (extreme) example below.

1. Make a statement, calling out some part of the population as "inferior".

2. Note that a trait of belonging to the inferior class would be to disagree with the above statement.

3. Dismiss any criticism of the statement as coming from someone in this inferior class, and therefore being unable to give meaningful arguments.
Computational simulation of passive leg-raising on hemodynamics during CPR(2003)
Yeah, the wording is quite poor.

The second question about the distribution of random answers to the test is literally incoherent. They probably meant to ask a question about the expected number of random answers on a randomly completed test, but they worded it such that they are asking about the distribution of answers on a single test.
These times are very political.

Best to put it — "Do you want Flutter, or do you want to see your another day in a civil state?"

What is more important, your job/hobby, or being able to live/eat/breathe tomorrow?
As is every democracy.
https://nowyswiat.online/
Some ideas are dangerous, and closely tied to both actions and policies. It is the responsibility of smart, powerful and conscientious people to acknowledge that. I am not saying that dangerous ideas should not be discussed. But we should be careful what we say in public. How should society regulate pedophilia, if at all? Nambla has opinions about that. Does Paul draw the line at legalizing pedophilia? Does he advocate that our most popular platforms embrace and encourage that debate? Race-based eugenics is another idea that has surfaced again and again. Why not optimize the human species through sterilization of its less desired members? That idea seems to march in lockstep with policies of extermination. Does Paul draw the line at that idea? If not, why not?
Wasn't there a paper a while back that showed how the US is more than likely a plutocracy.
>a true democracy only exists when a huge number of very complicated systems and institutions are working properly

Falsehood. True democracy only exists when the voters' will is unimpeded by very complicated systems or institutions.

What you are describing is known as "managed democracy"[1] - i.e., political system that's notionally purely democratic, but where will of the voters is surreptitiously influenced, and their voice channeled through and shaped by gatekeepers, and their consent is manufactured by unelected institutions. North Korea and USSR are examples of such.

The free, effective, and prosperous countries like USA are democratic republics rather than true democracies - for a reason.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_democracy
plus clickbaity title in disguise.
writing 2req/sec would show that it's slower than my fridge.
EU was not accomodating at all, they looked to punish the British to discourage othersfrom doing the same.
Managed to update couple of my blog posts this week, especially the long pending one on customizing pandoc to generate pdf/epub from github style markdown [0]. Have many more blog posts to write, hope to do at least one on Saturday.

Read first two books from Mage Errant [1] series this week, hope to finish the third one by Sunday (to finally get started with beta reading fourth book next week).

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c...

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42267952-into-the-labyri...
Too bad we never seriously adopted the French Republican calendar

There's a twitter account that posts wonderful artwork along with the republican day of the week.

https://twitter.com/sansculotides
A documentary crew’s attempt to find a 100-year-old rocket
>Freedom ≠ money. Freedom = the power to say no

Yes please tell me what freedom is for me...i love that freedom ;)
NIST Starts Threshold Cryptography Development Effort
>Funny enough, all throughout my many years in academia I had to provide sources for anything I stated as a fact in an essay (including opinion pieces).

That requirement obeyed that academic institution's criteria, not the genre's traditional nature. You either were being tested by them or published something with their name attached to it, so it's only normal that they established the empirical validity of your writings. It makes sense that an academic institution, of all places, would want only rigorous content linked to it. Paul Graham, on the other hand, is just publishing a simple essay on his very own website; of course I don't expect an exhaustive empirical demonstration on his part, though any kind of factual data can be welcome.

>I should of

I hope your "many years in academia" weren't spent in anything even remotely related to linguistics. And that your editors there corrected your grammar, as well.
It’s civil law, not criminal. It adds an extra zero to the settlement a one-eyed journalist will get from their lawsuit against DHS about 26 months from now.
You seem to be forgetting these ones which are owned by German capital:

RMF - biggest radio station, second biggest is owned by French capital

onet & interia - (biggest?) online portals

Fakt - biggest daily newspaper

Newsweek - biggest weekly newspaper
> can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?

Looking at you Japan.

"The taming of Japan’s media watchdogs has attracted growing attention from overseas. On April 19, David Kaye, the U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of expression, wrapped up a weeklong fact-finding mission to Japan by expressing “deep and genuine concern” about declining media independence in Asia’s richest democracy. The following day, the Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders lowered Japan’s place in its annual ranking of world press freedom to 72nd out of 180 nations, between Tanzania and Lesotho"

And no, this is not whataboutism. This is just a context so to understand that the above turn of events that the OP refers to is not unprecedented in other strong democracies either. Or is Japan an autocracy too?
Yep. TSMC 5nm will start shipping this quarter and AMD will likely do a die shrink next year for Zen 4
> And yet it has been, really, quite successful.

Has it though? Because Hungary begs to differ.

I'll agree that for a large subset (France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, in particular) the EU has indeed been a successful experiment. It was also successful for the UK until they deluded themselves into leaving.

And if the EU decided to either (a) not expand as widely as possible or (b) not try to morph into a Federal Government of Europe, it would probably remain successful indefinitely. For now the EU has been established for a blink of an eye, relatively. Only time will tell how successful they can be in the long term.
Exploring integration of Mastodon into one tab/section of a broader React-web and React-native app. Haven't found much in the way of drop-in libraries, just some standalone clients. I may have to write most of the client-side features essentially from scratch.
You mean "getting people to click on ads" isn't deeply meaningful to society? Perish the thought!
Yeah, but these aren’t police, they’re feds who are deployed within the scope of codified law. This reads like judicial activism, nothing more.
Virus Can Travel 26 Feet at Cold Meat Plants with Stale Air
Dzieki.
I was thinking that too, but ditching a plane into water doesn't really count as a crash. Not sure it counts as a "landing" either, but hey...
Of course they have disadvantageS to something or someone. Some are just more abstract, removed or minor.
An ML method is able to outperform hard-coded translators by large margins, supporting a wide mix of languages like Python → C++ and translation between varied native APIs, but it's not impressive impressive because you can do the same thing with `sed`?

Maybe take a look at the translations in the paper and come back to give a second opinion?
This is a completely, utterly worthless list: the only things that belong on it are Grus (good for python), maybe Bishop (maybe; it's woefully out of date and light on details) and Hastie (his other book is vastly better). The "General interest" books are all horse shit. If you're a pythonista, you should buy Wes McKinney's book. If you're not, you should buy John Mount and Nina Zumel's "Practical data science" which is comparable to Grus.

If you don't know Linear Algebra; the "done right" book is absolutely not done right for people that work with data in the real world: Strang is infinitely better, and Trefethan and Bau and Gollub if you need to go deep.

As someone pointed out below: Kevin Murphy's ML book is actually very good for teaching you how the things work. What's more, you can download python or Matlab for every algorithm in his book (as you can for Bishop at this point).

Nobody needs the Deep Learning books listed. In spite of the hype, it's just not that important compared to naive bayes, LDA and GBM; most people don't have access to the hardware or data sets that make DL useful, and those who do probably studied DL in grad school.

Gads; what trash! Those experts: only one of them appears to actually be an expert; pedants and post-docs don't count.
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners." —Vladimir Lenin

In the case of the early United States, the "slave-owners" part is literal, but even ignoring that, you have to remember that when the constitution was written, only land-owning white men could vote, and the men forming the new government were largely the same ones who had a leading role in British colonial society. The "freedom" in question was pretty much exclusively the freedom of the ruling class here to oppress others without the interference of the ruling class there. For instance, one of the sources of tension leading up to the revolution was the Proclamation of 1763, by which the British government forbade further colonization westward into Indian territory. Consequently, most Indians supported the British during the revolution. Which side do you think was better protecting their freedom?

You can also see this in the design of the original constitution, which has many "checks and balances" to protect against parts of the federal government usurping power, but has effectively nothing protecting freedom or democracy from the existing state governments, except requiring that they have a Republican form of government. Again, the freedom of the rulers here from the power of the rulers there. I'll admit that the first amendment was a genuine step towards freedom, but one which was taken primarily for the protection of the class interests of the type of men who'd participated in the committees of correspondence, which were frequently denied to people with less power, starting with the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 and continuing in some form or another throughout all American history.

None of this is to say that there's no way that the founding of the US could be seen as representing freedom: just that there's another possible narrative depending on what parts of the story you do and don't tell. I started this comment by quoting Lenin, who in that context could be seen as a freedom-fighter, who indeed overthrew an absolute monarch in the name of freedom and equality. If you read the Soviet constitution, it also purported to guarantee free speech, press, and religion. However, Lenin ensured that the new government was a one-party state, which quickly eroded almost all freedoms that had been achieved in the revolution. Which part of the story you choose to tell and how it reflects on the present day is a matter of ideology and identity.
I've been trying to build open source MaxMind alternatives for a bit. (Mostly so I could distribute them with my open source projects)

IP to country is fairly easy and I open sourced all the scripts and the database itself [0].

But IP to city is much harder, I'm not actually sure it's viable for anyone to do that without relying on some other 3rd party service.

I'd be very interested to hear if anyone knows how to pull that off in an open sourceable manner.

[0] https://github.com/geoacumen/geoacumen-country
I agree. I think this is one of the hardest problems of dealing with addicts. I had a friend who would drink and go on crying jags. I took it as cathartic, & was loving & supportive, but after the same emotions & expressions came out many times with no sense of progress or change I realized there was no growth coming from it. I wasn't being supportive, but enabling. The crying stopped when I stopped participating.
> A lot of it is luck too

Yeah it is. But if you model it as a statistical likelihood and you start two populations at different distributions you would see how long it would take for them to "catch-up" as a group.

What you're telling people is "keep at it, you'll get there in a couple decades". Meanwhile the disparity continues, leads to more prejudices (because yeah, statistically they're poorer/underrepresented) and counteracts some of the "pure luck" gains.
>Neither Mars nor Antarctica offer anything of real use

What about experience and knowledge?