skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points -- I especially like your note about how that transportable schtick can play completely differently depending on the location (and how much value you see in the mall). My city has a lot of problems, but the mall isn't one of them. If he'd picked on the creepy luxury student housing going up all over and pushing people out of their neighborhoods, my perspective wouldn't be the same. And I think what you say about Sedaris and suburbia is part of what makes him a perfect "villain" for the pettier parts of the essay. I'd like to give a more thoughtful response to match yours, but it's late here. You've given me something to think about, so thanks!
In Bulgarian, we have a simple and direct mapping between sounds and letters. “Phonics” is the way we are taught to read and write - although I don’t think we have a name for it, it is simply “the way to learn to read”. I don’t know about any other way to do it and the methods described in the article sound nonsensical to me.

I remember how confused I was the first time I saw the concept of a spelling bee in a movie as a kid. If you know how a word is spelled, you can always correctly read and pronounce it.
Great approach. How do you shortlist candidates for the first step?
This is depressing, but hardly surprising. The dedication to "just ship it" has really built up. The market pressure to build efficient software approaches zero.

All software will approach "human speed," whether it's adding two integers or getting near instant predictions from a GAN. All available resources will be used until it's "good enough. Just ship it," and efficiencies will multiple as in any natural selection: defensive measures like "confusing code," and "unrelated system fails when this one is changed" allowing mostly harmless dumb code to survive and propagate.

Some intrepid learner comes to study the code one day. "Huh, I guess this is how you're supposed to do it. Seems kinda weird but I'm sure it was written this way for a reason. It's been like this for a decade!" And so they copy the procedure into their greenfield project.

Efficient code will always be sacrificed to the god of "Just Ship It" as long as the overall performance is "Good enough." And why not?
Maybe we should give options to candidates. If I were to hire software engineers, I would offer every option to them:

1. Whiteboard interview

2. Opensource contributions

3. Take-home assignment

4. Becoming contractors for a short period

5. Etc

So if they fail whiteboard interview, they can redeem themselves with their opensource contributions. If they don't have opensource contributions, then they can take home our assignments. And so on.

So it's fair (I think).
Typically an introductory phone call: ‘is this the kind of job you’d be interested in.’ Maybe that’s step 0.
Yeah that is a good example, and I recorded it here:

https://github.com/oilshell/blog-code/blob/master/regular-la...

I don't mind the rewrite, but I'm not surprised that some would be inconvienced by it. (Though that is part of the reason for the Eggex syntax)

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On the other side I'll offer that I wrote a lexer for bash and all its sublanguages without any nongreedy repetitions. It's dozens if not hundreds of regexes.

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/frontend/lexer_d...

Though, regular languages are more like a building block for the lexer than the lexer itself. As mentioned elsewhere, they're too limited to express the entire lexer. They're too limited to express syntax highlighters (but so are regexes! They also need some logic outside the model, e.g. for lexing shell here docs)

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So I pose the question of whether there's a more powerful abstraction that's still linear time and constant space:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/ideas-questions.html#mo...

Of course there is, but it's a matter of picking one that will address a lot of use cases effectively.

I think re2c has grown something like

.*?

for example. grep needs something like that too. Often you want to be able to skip input in a linear fashion, without invoking the pattern matching logic at all.

Regexes are OK if you know how to use them, but evidently most people have lots of problems with them (the necessity of OP's demo being an example of that.) I think there's something better out there built on top of regular languages.
I give people the choice of take-home, whiteboard, or code sample. Code sample can be any code they've written for a side-project or even a take-home they've done for another company. Obviously, they can't share actual code they've written for another company, but take-homes are generally fair game... And so that solves the O(N) problem for people who are applying to multiple companies.
The road to hell is named with good intentions.
It's worth a 2-year difference in the age at which kids read. On one end is Chinese. On the other end is Russian and Spanish. English sits right in the middle.
“We hope to see first plasma in five years. That will only be a short plasma - lasting a few milliseconds” this is a quote from original article.I was wondering why `few milliseconds` can make such a huge impact?What does this `few milliseconds` plasma mean?
I agree whole-heartedly (against both Github and Gitlab code reviews for serious large changes), but from what I've heard Crucible is apparently EOL now?
Nobody is having there constitutional rights violated by the state. The states are letting violent extremists violate the rights of other citizens and the federal government is having to step in to protect those citizens and federal property.
Resumes & phone calls if they look interesting.
For the time being all public commitments, release notes, and deprecation notices can be found in one or both of:

- Release notes: https://cloud.google.com/release-notes

- GCP Blog: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp
I also feel Microserfs by Douglas Coupland is a quaint anachronism in 2020. (https://www.amazon.com/Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/006162...)

That was an amazing moment in time and I miss it. I barely touched it but I was too young to really hold onto it myself.
Gotcha, mea culpa. Sometimes it seems like the internet really does think that unironically.

Yeah, I think it deserves some thought.
The English East India Company was set up along lines pretty similar to today's corporations, and that happened almost 200 years before the constitution was written (1600, to be precise). By 1720 you definitely have bubbles involving corporate stocks (see South Sea Bubble).

By the time you get to the late 18th century (i.e. about when the Constitution was written) you have publications with titles like "A Treatise on the Law of Corporations"; just keep reading the Wikipedia entry above. That was published 7 years after the US Constitution was ratified, but of course the laws and corporations it was talking abot had been around for _quite_ a while at that point.
If you can't explain your thought process on a whiteboard you don't know what you are talking about.

Literally no company wants you to make actual production code on a whiteboard.
Me too! I really enjoyed his collections on the "Fremen Mirage"[1] investigating the "hard times make hard men" trope and "Practical Polytheism"[2]. Brett's articles are mainly social histories which are very accessible and interesting reads. While we're all human, we can easily misunderstand the people of the past in fundamental ways if we assume that they had our identical beliefs and values.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...

[2] https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polythei...
ERP for Construction Industry
Why are you alarmed by this, when all the available evidence suggests that the mainstream of America is receptive to the obvious parts of these ideas ("stop killing unarmed black people") and not at all receptive to the rest ("seize the means of production")? Look at who won the nomination.
Kubernetes May Be Google’s Last Great Open Project
I'm not conflating anything, but institutions like WHO and now Cornell who use this "NO EVIDENCE" construction to put people at ease on unsettled questions are relying on the fact that it sounds like "we're experts & we say it's not happening" to laypeople, and that people don't need to do anything until there is evidence.

Re-read your source. They follow the emphasized 'NO EVIDENCE' with the phrase "there is no need to do anything". They answer many questions but finally at the bottom suggest nothing more than "owners wash their hands before and after interacting with their cats and litter boxes" - before again repeating the hypnotic, "no evidence" claim.

But as a smart person, what's your guess on whether it will ever be shown that cats can transmit Covid-19 to humans? Isn't it highly likely to be eventually demonstrated, given what we know so far? After all, how did the cat get it? If the cat tests positive, isn't it almost certainly shedding viruses? Aren't those viruses likely in the same exhaled aerosols that cause human-to-human infections? Don't many cats like to lick or nuzzle people's hands & faces?

If by basic understanding of the underlying processes, such transmission is likely – just not yet proven – is Cornell giving responsible advice? 'No evidence' is not just a "statement at a point in time" from Cornell. It's a mantra repeated six times in Cornell's FAQ, twice in all-caps for emphasis, always with the intent of putting people at ease, never paired with any analysis of the liklihood it just hasn't bee proven yet. Why don't they also say, "There's NO EVIDENCE that cats can't transmit Covid-19 to humans," which is equally true?

If you had an over-65 obese diabetic relative, with cats, and one of the cats had respiratory symptoms, and tested positive for Covid-19, would you give your relative the advice, "Cornell & the CDC say all you can do is wash your hands more"?

Or would that advice be just as fatal as WHO etc assuring people "no evidence" of human-to-human transmission existed at a date when it was WHO's primary job to know better? Or there was "no evidence" of aerosol transmission? Or "no evidence" community-masking was helpful?
If people are taking Tweets as actual government announcements then they have too many screws loose. Dumb people do dumb shit, what else is new?
No I guess NYC needs to keep that nuclear power plant in Lower Manhattan then.
Not going to lie: "Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time" had me looking very confused! I even tried contorting my face to get one of my nostrils to close, haha
> I've made a conscious effort to observe the breath randomly throughout the day and it has a calming effect.

If and when you’re able to, do attend a free 10-day introductory Vipassana meditation course (see dhamma.org for locations and schedules). The practice starts with observing the breath, and then moves on from that.

This course requires the participants to be silent for the 10 days, and has some other restrictions too. Some people find that impossible to deal with. So do consider that and also any emotional or mental health issues/barriers that may be a deterrent to participation.
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This concept that people breath too much when exercising never really made sense to me. I generally do believe it because I have experienced it myself, but why would the body default to a less effective form of breathing? Shouldn't we feel that breathing more steadily through our nose is more natural than trying to take big gulps of air when running?
His last book was "Salmon of Doubt" published posthumously. Prepare yourself if you're going to read it, it is unfinished and ends abruptly, and you're left realizing, "He'll never finish it because he's dead." Very sad. I remember walking around my office the day he died and the majority of the people were like, "Who died?"

I watched H2G2 when it aired on PBS in the early 80's in my teens, and it changed my life, I didn't know humour could be like that. I have a signed copy of "Mostly Harmless" from an Intel Developer Conference he spoke at that I attended in the 90's.
I’m not sure. I find this in people that say JavaScript is better than TypeScript. Most people that learn TypeScript or Flow learn to love it even more than JavaScript once they get over the initial hurdles. Why? It’s more self documenting. It actually provides better auto completion. It scales much better for larger Frontend projects. Going without it is almost painful to me now. I now know a bit better a few of the big reasons why a lot of devs hate JavaScript. Because they are used to the great properties, tools, and features that come from having a well typed language. Languages seem to have big hurdles for no reason when it comes to their type systems, but those hurdles pay off.
Résidence Koningshof – Wellness Vakantiehuis
Two minutes of 5.5 second inhales and 5.5 seconds exhales hyperventilates me to the point of dizziness.

There’s a lot of qualifications for this number and freedivers explore most of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXxXCXptYA&t=12m10s

6 seconds in and 12 out is my ideal breath-up. Shallower breathes for meditation. The video above has a good exercise for finding your ideal breath-up.
This argument is the same bullshit as your first one:

https://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy...
Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine
3 months ago my gut reaction would be to not even click on this, but having been stressed out at work recently I started doing yoga and meditation again, which in themselves do a bit with breathing. Anecdotally I've noticed some positive changes in my amount of energy and stress. That could all be a coincidence and if nothing else I am gaining flexibility again. What I'm taking too many words up to say is, I am inclined to give this a shot.
I'm from Australia so am missing your context. Is violent crime such a high risk for you that the proximity of law enforcement is a factor, or are you talking about using law enforcemnet to deal with dangerous animials?

My experience here and having travelled much of this country is that I've never felt at risk of violent crime whilst in remote areas and rairly in urban areas when in an area near a pub or "drug" area.
Bret has spurred a following. My little contribution[0], Aurora, Lighttable. I'm afraid that wave has mostly died down (do comment if you think otherwise). Instead after 7 years we're converging on VS Code, a mostly traditional IDE "done right", and super pragmatic, but conventional languages (Typescript for high level, Rust for performance).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZipJOan54
Saying these companies "fight COVID" seems kinda untrue? Don't get me wrong, the majority look impactful and useful, but the headline I'm seeing for this everywhere is disingenuous if someone is looking for impact. However, it does look like these companies are COVID-resilient, and will grow with trends the pandemic is forcing. Potentially solid investments, and democratizing access to that is cool. :)
Thanks for saving me time watching the video.
How do you stop people from "getting help" on the take home problems.
> investing would skyrocket (a government would have to be dumb not to substantially invest in PROVEN fusion devices).

Even if it is proven to work that's no proof that it's economically sustainable. The enormous complexity and required scale are huge barriers to adoption.

Most of the advantages of fusion reactors are already enjoyed by fission reactors, and it's not like the fusion reactors are going to have that much of an easier time managing public perception. "They're building a H-Bomb in your back yard!"

Worse, since fusion reactors aren't useful for making bombs government investment is basically guaranteed to be tepid. It's only advantage is saving the environment, which doesn't get votes, and environmental groups will likely be lukewarm on the plants just like they are with fission. Sure it doesn't release CO2, but /nuclear waste/ is a huge boogeyman, even when you're talking about low level incidentals like irradiated gloves and bits of piping.
Not knowing how it works does not make it pseudoscience. It is enough if you can show through double blind that it works. For quite a few established medications which work we do not known how they work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/one-b...

Pseudoscience is if you do not test it scientifically if it works.
North smart glasses will no longer work after company bought by Google
> I love capitalism. It's the best of all the available systems, because it's the most conducive to personal liberty. But let's not pretend it doesn't have a long, shared history with imperialism.

It doesn’t! What we understand as “capitalism” (free market economies based on voluntary transactions) is incompatible with imperialism. Britain used its military power to ensure that India would sell commodities to Britain while buying finished goods back from Britain. That’s not capitalism. We had a perfectly good word for it when I was in K-12: mercantilism.

We have different words for mercantilism and capitalism because they’re different. You know they’re different because people decry the WTO as a destructive capitalist vehicle for facilitating exactly the thing (free trade) that mercantilism prohibited.

Words matter! Definitions matter! There are things you can fairly pin on unregulated capitalism. For example, the requirement that transactions be voluntary doesn’t rule out child labor (in many but not all cases), below minimum wage labor, or labor in unsafe workplaces, insofar as all are voluntary. But it does rule out slavery, which isn’t a voluntary transaction. It also rules out mercantilism, which isn’t based on voluntary free trade, and Belgian rubber farms, which weren’t based on free exchange either of labor or of resources.

Sure, you can redefine “capitalism” to make “something other than what people today understand as capitalism” but you can play stupid semantic games like that with anything.
No,

In India, Breathing exercises are called as Pranayama.
Meditation is called as Dhyana.

It's is a eight step process for spirituality called Ashtanga yoga.

In this,

Pranayama is 4th step.

Dhyana is 7th step.

Refer Patanjali Yoga Sutras for clarification.
"how can you prevent people from claiming..."

Do I understand correctly that you oppose people searching holistic remedies to their ills because they might accidentally get better, and a percentage of these might accidentally turn into snake oil salespeople?
https://www.propublica.org/article/defendant-shall-not-atten...

There are a small subset of violent rioters and looters destroying property, absolutely. If you think that the federal and state responses, including violent beatings of peaceful protestors, are not meant to intimidate peaceful protestors then i’m afraid we’ll never agree. We’ve seen countless escalations from the police and feds.
Internet Archive responds to publishers lawsuit [pdf]
In the fact that somebody who is not experienced handling and firing a weapon in a stressfull situation is more likely to hurt themselves or an innocent bystander, I think you are correct.

I would think that, beyond waking up to find you have an intruder, that having a gun in your house is not going to to you much good if you have a voilent intruder. If somebody decides to bash down your door in a violent range, you are not likely to have the instant access to a weapon that would be required to deal with the situation.
Breathing practice is the most simple thing in the world. Sit, breathe, relax - definitely doesnt need a license. Sounds like you’re confused of the purpose of it.
Is this something a small team could use? It seems to require significant customization.
Source for second paragraph claim?
> The status quo = 'master'. You need to make a good reason to change it.

Why, though? As far as I'm concerned, Chesterton's Fence applies, i.e. you need to know the original reason, and then you're free to change it if you've got a better reason than that + the downsides of change itself.

That bar seems to be met by this change.
If the general hacker news sentiment is anything to go by, then it’s just hard because of the archaic mathematical notation. If we could just use better notation then a simple mathematical bootcamp would make mathematics accessible to all the brilliant self-taught programmers as well /sarcasm.
> When I think of rule of law issues I think of the AG freeing friends of the president (Stone, Flynn) and punishing enemies (Cohen). I think of the Trump administration choosing Microsoft over Amazon for the Jedi contract for political reasons. Also the lies about Berman 'stepping down', firing Comey and attempting to fire/discredit Mueller, the characterization of the report with a misleading summary, current investigations into the origins of the report, targeting political enemies, seeking international assistance in taking out political rivals etc.
Rule of law definitely seems to have weakened under Barr.

Very well said, I think these attacks on the rule of law are much more concerning given they come from positions of power.
Largely from != "a front-end for Bing" (with merely being strongly implied).

In addition to additional privacy and Instant answers content, DDG seems to source other Web search for SERP, including operating its own bot, DuckDuckBot.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...

The problem with your response above is that it is inaccurate, fails to acknowledge real value-add features[1] of DDG, as well as being dismissive and stale as originally noted.

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Notes:

1. I've addressed these numerous times, though quality, relevance, presentation, JS-free version, bash-function invocability, and additiinal features with time, as well as simply Not Being Google, are all major factors. Sampling:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22506360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17430474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22506360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21623573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20405146
hell I wish US news covered more international news
MMS as in text messages with images? Is that still relevant?

I remember the original iPhone not supporting MMS either but that was 13 years ago and I haven't received or sent an MMS since.
I swear I'm into computers because stuff took forever. Listening to that floppy drive, listening to that hard drive, watching that loading bar fill, swapping out the disk, anticipation and excitement growing ever greater. The result maybe wasn't that important, but the PROMISE of the result...that was special.

Same thing hit again later with Napster and building up collections of albums. I didn't even care about the music, but those loading bars hit a primal spot of "acquire," "forbidden fruit," and "anticipatory glee."
How about instead of building and shuttering a billion dollar chat app every 2 years google puts some resources into it in the interest of diversification. All these tech companies are gonna need ever more batteries and Google would be well ahead if they can make the best ones.
It certainly did. Among others, the Virginia Company, the Plymouth Company, the British East India Company all featured tradeable shares, perpetual lifetime, limited liability and legal personhood.

What makes the modern economy so different is the democraticization of incorporation. Prior to the 19th century it took a specific legislative act to incorporate.
Yeah, I'm 27 and honestly, I have no idea how I learned. I've never understand why people debate on what's the best way to learn to read, because I don't think it really matters. But maybe, some other people are different.

Though, like by the time 1st or 2nd grade came along, I don't remember anyone in the class who was having problems reading. And I was kind of a bully, so I'm sure I would have made fun of them if someone was struggling (and I have a good memory of my put-downs!)
I was convinced when I saw "Oregon Trail"