skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, also a big fan of his category theory for programmers https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
If you just want to learn the characters, then these books provide a good system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji_and_Re...

I’m 1000 characters in after 4 months of 1 hour a day study, but some people report quicker progress, so YMMV.

You’ll still need to learn a bunch of words though, since most words in Mandarin are two characters long.

Written Chinese is still called Mandarin. There’s Literary Chinese, which is different, but you don’t want to learn that.

There’s no standard way to write other Chinese languages, like Cantonese, in characters. People still do but there’s no standard for it.
Yes, the European model of master's + shorter PhD is different from the US model of a longer PhD. There might be exceptions in less sciency disciplines (e.g. social work or public policy).

And yeah, PhD programs in the US are typically funded (no tuition, stipend usually enough to cover cost of living) while Master's programs usually are considered cash cows for universities. Of course there are indeed people who get a Master's and then a PhD (sometimes because they're not sure they want to do a PhD, sometimes because getting a Master's might help someone get into a better PhD program than they would have otherwise).
What happens when mom & pop are storing your name and credit card # in plain text and then your identity gets stolen and credit ruined? Should we still be "charitable" to them and their d-bag nephew?
There are a lot of "Maybe"s in your second paragraph.

I'd say, yes, there are a lot of lessons buried in old code, but often, there is an equal amount of baggage we are too fearful to abandon because of backward compatibility and "bug became feature"-situations.

And even then, it's not you who is abandoning that, which makes the attitude even more baffling to me.
Someone mentioned SSH certificates. My understanding is that it's the 'proper' solution, but is more work to set-up. Whether it's worth it will presumably be a question of scale.
Any evidence that grit isn’t also a heritable trait?
Reasoning mistake, it's also not in de phonebook, 300.000 km = 1 sec, that is what a the Minkowski Space defines as the relation between space and time.
...and in related news,
Apple, Huawei, and Qualcomm
to begin shipping their 5nm chips later this year 2020.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/tsmc-to-start-risk-productio...
Mono was a non Microsoft implementation when it first came out. People said that if you used Mono Microsoft would come after you. And nothing happened. Eventually they bought it to keep it alive. I think that the last ten years validates my claim.

It's really sad that few developers used it, just like the Linux desktop is sad.
They're just advancing a hypothesis. If you read the paper you'll find it is written quite humbly, makes a good case for why the hypothesis is not crazy, and makes testable predictions which could falsify the hypothesis.
Intel has a massive stake in the software ecosystem that lets them embed certain features that are enhanced or even only possible on their hardware.

For example, there are shops that built their entire security stack in a way that’s totally dependent on Intel and would have an immense cost to re-architect it, much more than just buying 2x as many intel chips because they’re half as fast.
The entire capacity of existing biological reservoirs only turns the clock back a year or so.

Also, the oceans are already over capacity as a carbon sink, so we need to sequester that CO2 somehow as well. If we don’t, the oceans will die, and we’ll eventually have an even bigger terraforming problem to solve.
The above argument doesn't hold if free will doesn't exist. But then I couldn't choose to believe that I have free will if free will doesn't exist, so why bother arguing?
> Presumably the author would do much better with a VM or something from OVH, they'll just shut you off or limit you before it becomes a problem (not that they would care about 30 TiB).

That's actually what I love about these dedicated providers. Often I prefer to be surprised by cutting the service instead of a gigantic invoice. For some business-critical applications I can understand the need to have it scale (and price) accordingly, for many other use cases it is better just to have the serve switched out when the traffic limit is hit off.
Thank you for clarifying. Is there a better word for what I meant than meritocracy?
Biden's path to the White House could hit a dead end on Facebook
It's all about how much bps it was at peak. That drives scaling infrastructure which is real money also p95 billing).

Sadly the world has gone in a diff direction when it comes to billing people. The rationale? Util based billing and p95 is too complicated.
This. I would go out on a limb and offer that Axciom has likely invested more in compliance in this regard than most other companies on the planet.

People may not agree with their stance, but it has yet to be successfully challenged in court to my knowledge.
"Java Web Start" still exists and there are at least two programs I use from time to time based on that technology. One being a custom thing, the other openstreetmap editor jOSM.
> that Facebook has just blocked it

Also possibly a feature, depending on who you ask.
Garmin's stock price has dipped slightly since the beginning of the reported outage and ransomware news and may continue to do so - I speculate perhaps these actors might also double-dip on their attack by both ransoming the data and selling/purchasing options on the company's underlying stock, especially if they are more aware of how much damage they're able to inflict than the company themselves
macOS is a PITA, maybe with MetalVK or ANGLE there could be less pain; but OpenGL is in a sad state on macOS ever since they started becoming territorial about GPU APIs.
It was a bit of a setup, ;) this is the answer I was looking for!
As long as your fuel tank doesn't like it's fine. Burnt methane is back to CO2.

What this whole thread boils down to is we need a huge amount of nuclear power, after which rather than worrying about all 3 of "safe", "dense", "efficient", we can just worry about the first 2.

Seriously, if it takes 1000x the energy from nuclear power to fix enough C02 to make conventional jet fuel from the air, that is fine. That's something we can optimize on a leisurely basis when we are not worrying about global warming.
I've read you can train yourself to be decent. It would be interesting to use output from facial recognition software as "flashcards" for yourself.

Look at it like recognizing stuff like cars and watches. Somebody really into the space can tell you the brand of either immediately, and sometimes the model. Definitely a learned skill rather than innate like faces are for most.

Just saying, might be fun to try to train yourself to recognize your top X people, for science.
I've put that URL above instead of https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2482-7. When it comes to highly specialized papers like this one, please submit the best third-party article instead.

Papers on computing are exceptions, as are papers readable by a smart general audience. But not papers that are as specialized as this one—if people can't read them then there isn't anything meaningful to discuss; perhaps a bit of the title and that's it.
Is a sponsored PhD like an industrial PhD?
I have a friend who got a PhD in psychology. She had me look over her analysis and it was bad. The two "highlights" were:

1. Her advisor told her to use a student's t-test for multivariate data.

2. When the P value insufficiently low to reject the null hypothesis, he walked her through p-hacking the data.
I'm still reading through the paper myself, but that was my first impression reading the Introduction. In heterogeneous groups, intelligence beats grit as an indicator for success. However, if you then consider Duckworth used homogeneous groups, you can argue that grit is what separates you from similar candidates.
Learning Julia for doing scientific machine learning & numerical optimization. Faster to run than other interactive languages like Python or IDL, faster to write/iterate than compiled languages C/Fortran.
Is the comparison too far off to be useful or straight up incorrect?
From browsing around, I did not see any that would quality as a "template", meaning a general-purpose pattern. Each is very specific to the person who submitted it.

But I wouldn't go so far as to say it's "not worth our note". The project does have merit as a collection of READMEs - I did get some ideas for my own. It's just not curated enough (or at all), to filter out one-off creations and select what's actually useful as a template.
A smart top predator that travels and hunts in groups. Yup, definitely male sociability looks like a very desirable trait.

Females will remain with the mother and grandmas. Males will need to integrate in an adolescent group and quit and will pass several years jumping between groups. They need to learn a lot of foraging strategies, how to recognize danger warnings and interact within the group and with other groups. Dolphins interact also with other cetaceans and need to know who is safe and who will try to eat you.
The nice thing is that they all speak Erlang terms so you can mix and match them. Beam is such a wonderful VM!
Or, if you're China, you force companies to censor their users as a condition of operating in your country.

Bam, your reach has just expanded to 3+ billion people, most of whom aren't even your citizens.
This is the reason I liked Azure as I used it few years back. One could set like a prepaid plan, and there was no way to overspend it accidentally.

Of course it is not ideal for companies who need their services be available for all cost, but for home users it's a nice guarantee.
One real limitation is getting data out of Shodan. Having done a few different projects that involve large-scale use of Shodan results (e.g. several hundred thousand records), this kind of thing usually ends up costing $300 for either export credits or a service plan. Sure, $300 isn't really that much to cause millions in damage, but I think it's a big factor in why we don't often see Shodan used for huge-scale malfeasance. You both have to put up the money and in paying you probably give up some identification info, and I don't know if Shodan has complied with law enforcement in the past but I can sure see them getting a warrant for "the person who just spend hundreds to export and/or query every unsecured MongoDB."

Also, as a bit of an aside, the relationship between "export credits" and "query credits," and the export system and API of Shodan, are extremely confusing and just a bad bit of product design. Each one seems to be capable of things the other isn't, but they're priced on totally different systems.

But really it's mostly just a matter of motivation, I think. Pulling even just thousands of entries from Shodan, writing some software to use them, and then running it in a reasonably deniable way, takes effort and is pretty slow (why we see this going for multiple days). It's not a huge amount of effort but it's enough that "script kiddie" types don't really seem to do it, you need to be motivated and spend the time on it.

Contrary to security urban legend it seems like the number of people who are highly motivated to purely cause damage is not actually that large, people only put in the time if they can figure out a way to gain from it... and just deleting data doesn't really achieve that. You've got to figure out a way to hold it for ransom and/or collect and leverage sensitive data. We've seen both happening on various scales with this kind of unsecured database and we'll probably see more of both as we go forward... but keep in mind that in the ransomware game, encrypting computers is both easier (established off-the-shelf ransomware can be purchased) and probably shows higher returns, so the "professionals" aren't spending a lot of time messing around with exposed databases.
Nintendo leak reveals early Mario, Zelda, and Pokémon secrets
Does freezed feel nice in day-to-day use, or is it more of an incomplete/leaky hack?

I'm planning on writing a library in Dart that implements a custom TCP protocol, and I think ADTs would be the best fit for capturing all the valid states and error conditions. I really don't want to have a bunch of nullable fields or use the visitor pattern :/

I've been tracking this issue [0] and hopefully with the release of null safety, the team will have the time to implement ADTs!

[0] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/349
PCSX2 – The Playstation 2 emulator – Q2 2020 Progress Report
I do recommend you spend some time looking at the quality Oracle provides. Their regions plug into transit providers (NTT, Level3, etc.) and their peering footprint is damn near non existent (they seem to be in the process of trying to fix it). Only reason I bring this up is try to send traffic to an eye ball network at peak on Oracle vs. Google/Azure/AWS at peak and you can see the difference in terms of packet loss / throughput. This is because those eyeball networks you have to be directly connected to since they run their transit hot at peak.
This is bad when it comes to personal data, like the VPN provider that claimed not to be logging. Companies should spend every effort to secure people's data, and can face large fines in the event of a leak. In erasing the data, Meow is also erasing the evidence of their crimes. Instead, Meow should ransom the data and set a fine proportional to the company's size, revenue, the sensitivity of the personal data, whether that personal data should have been collected in the first place, whether that data should be public-facing, etc. Then Meow can be made a public service, perhaps paid with taxpayer money, and bring about justice.
If you have excess energy you cannot use at that moment, it may as well be spent removing carbon from the atmosphere. For example, if there's a giant field of wind turbines that are experiencing more wind energy than can be consumed, and there also aren't enough batteries to store it for later.

Having a more connected electrical grid so that you don't end up in this situation would probably be ideal, like what you're suggesting with using green energy to replace carbon sources.
Poster here! ble.sh gives syntax highlighting for bash just like fish and zsh. I personally don't like zsh because it seems over engineered and fish have some design problems (I don't think they have yet fixed them).

The feature-rich alternatives you mentioned are exactly what I was thinking about (and using daily!).
Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963640
This is an issue with most self-report surveys.
http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/01/images-in-terminal.html

https://askubuntu.com/questions/97542/how-do-i-make-my-termi...
The controller in the upper right hand does not support higher resolutions directly, but you can edit higher resolutions into the select box and it'll absolutely accept them. I was able to push it up to 2048 no problem, though it is more interesting at 512 and 1024.
The implication (whether true or false) is that some company might treat the absence of a record in their database as suspicious.
The Doctor from Nazi Germany and the Search for Life on Mars
GPT-3 generated text?

Or maybe it's me, but I had a hard time getting the point of the article. It just seems to ramble on.
Fine, what about every poor person who gets their data stolen from an unsecured database, and gets their identity stolen?

Yours is also a rich person statement.

Unsecured databases are a huge loss for everyone.

Anything that forces a shift in this naive behavior of vendors, implementors and executives is not just fine by me, I welcome it. If my life suffers because of data of mine that's lost from companies' databases, I now know who to cease doing business with.
Isn’t exposing ports in your docker-compose services:redis:ports, how you’d do that? (Docker hobbyist here)
I think you simplify the reality of the situation. European colonies in the Americas overwhelmingly failed for centuries, and the ones that eventually succeeded were very fragile for a long time. Starting with the Norse settlements, and going until the English/French/Spanish started pouring massive resources into military and colony aid in order to control territories in America.

The people in those colonies died very quickly either from violence, starvation or just malnutrition. It turns out that European agricultural knowledge either didn't work, or wasn't considered an important mix in many of the colonies. The plant life was diffrent enough that even living off the land wasn't possible because people were just as likely to poison themselves with sumac/whatever as get lucky and find something edible. The results were a lot of failed crops, and starving settlers only kept alive with frequent resupply missions from Europe and the occasional trade with native peoples. The latter of which, turned bloody more frequently then we are willing to admit.

So, while they could breath the air, the difficulties and lack of knowledge were much the same as any mars colony we might try and start. Likely the results will be the same too. It will take hundreds of years of failures and people dying before the problem is understood well enough and the political/etc focus shifts sufficiently that one of them eventually succeeds. The results will likely be much the same, a vast increase in knowledge, not just for the colonists, but for those that remain. But instead of new foods, spices, gold and trading partners, there will be technology gains pushed forward in ways we cant imagine.

For starters, think of the environmental and biological understandings required to make life on mars long term sustainable that we don't currently have.
I did this. with this specific goal in mind I started reaching out to professors working in areas I thought were interesting. The only reason I was able to engage with one of them were:

- had an SV startup background and the professor was interested in spinning them off
- someone who was friendly with the department and had a sterling reputation went out of their way to pave the way for me
- had some publications in the field

you're absolutely right about 'some universities'. a couple CS departments were interested, but there was just no way the graduate school would let them bring me on.

still, it was a process. I worked as a paid researcher for a while, and was able to take grad classes as part of the (very generous) professional staff education policy.

with a good (graduate) gpa, and a good GRE score (coming at the GRE from a graduate perspective made it a lot easier), I was accepted at that institution.

sadly I never developed a good relationship with an advisor and wandered off after teaching undergrads for a couple years.

but yes, its possible if you care enough

(edit: thinking about it..if you do care that much, maybe its not that hard to just get a BS? or diploma-mill MS?)

(edit again: I'm a systems guy, and I strongly suspect that the theory people are very different - I think if you had a really substantial publication history that might be enough?)
I take your point, and I am slightly on the fence about this and trying to figure it out. I found this¹ a very useful criticism of the Taibbi line-of-though(that I am also very persuaded by)

I will admit:

a) individuals and groups should be able to withdraw their co-operation, money and labor from other individuals or groups with whom they disagree.
b) the examples which have happened in the recent flare-up fall squarely into a)

However, where things get complicated is the definition of the state and how practical control is exercised over what can and cannot be said. The state is more than just the government, it is also traditionally the press, the army, the judiciary and the clergy.

We are an 'interesting' situation now where the function of the press is to a large extent assumed by Facebook, Google and (indirectly) CloudFlare and the ISPs. Concretely they can prevent the spreading of information, the publication of ideas for reasons that they deem justified.

The power to suppress and censor ideas has been exercized against what some would characterize as 'right wing' causes such as the publication of anti-semitic 'hate speech'. It has also be exercized against 'left wing' causes such as the publication of footage and reporting showing the massacres of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army.

The only unique, useful thing about the internet is the possibility that it offers in allowing us to circumvent the censors. With that we get access to the Wikileaks material, the details of financial crimes carried out by our politicians and business people. We also get mis-information and pornography.

The calls to boycott Facebook come from disparate places: government functionaries and political parties who wish to discipline the internet and control the narrative (no more upsetting the funding model, no more embarassing leaks showing our boys murdering civilians); activists who wish to protest specific social issues.

In order for their wishes to become concrete there needs to be mechanism/s put in place by Facebook, Google, CloudFlare that enable them to suppress information: for good or bad reasons.

The people who will be in control of these mechanisms are the people who got us here.

The next round of popular protests won't happen because we will not have seen the video of a human being shot in their car or having their neck crushed.

Tools of centralized power are used by those in power. That's not likely to be you and me.

1) https://newrepublic.com/article/158346/willful-blindness-rea...
I'm pretty astounded by his productivity!. This isn't even his first programming language.

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/free

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/xasm

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/tsar
Keep in mind that having bash history is already a treat since `~/.bash_history` is readable by every program you run.

If you want to be 100% safe you could just monitor the process and see if it opens any internet connection but I am confident it is just a local program.
https://archive.is/Q9b6b
I personally use zoho.com(free plan) for email to and from my domain. What is the use of self-hosting a email server over using Zoho or Gmail?
I didn’t propose banning anything. At most, my plan would crank up the cost of gas or reduce the rate at which new cars entered the market.

Also, the “ridiculous alarmism” over the migrations and positive emission loops is already playing out. It was 100F in parts of the Arctic circle earlier this month, and the permafrost fires from last year survived the winter. 100’s of millions will he starving by the end of this year due to crop failures (COVID will more than double that due to economic disruptions).

The IPCC has always been very conservative with their projections. So far, their predictions have been wildly
optimistic.
There are a few things about zsh that "feel better" than bash (especially arrays), but given the ubiquity of bash, if I can get the same general quality-of-life upgrades that I experience from the zsh community add-ons, I may need to give ble.sh a go.

Edit: I gave ble.sh a try, and it is super-cool-magic, but does feel slow with quite noticeable input lag.
Even assuming free-will exists, the argument assumes that "grit" is less heritable than "intelligence," which is a claim that needs to be substantiated.
Yes, absolutely. Yet the likelihood of Acxiom being fined anything other than some token amount in a case like mine is virtually zero.
As someone working at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning: thank you, very much. You might enjoy this book we use as a bible in our lab: http://cognet.mit.edu/book/principles-of-neural-design
Why is it hard to fathom? The dolphin waiting for consent to make sweet love never reproduces because the rape-posse gets to the fertile females first. The real world of evolutionary success isn’t all rainbows and unicorns.