skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning something is different from practised usage. What you have provided is not a counter example at all, it's evidence that once you have learned to read, you (usually) have deeper structures that can adapt to and survive perturbations.

The ability of adults who can read to be able to decode examples such as yours might be behind the drive to use the "guess and move on" method being discussed.

My personal experience of working with a wide range of people is that many of them see the words, say the words, and move on without actually internalising what they've said. The derogatory term "barking at print" comes to mind. I've seen it, and I find it sad that there are otherwise intelligent and capable people who fundamentally can't read.
A new funding model for open source
So there is a significant market segment of people who buy an AR-15 or a similar intermediate caliber rifle for genuine animal defense purposes, because they aren't interested in a more expensive hunting rifle for actual hunting use? Or coyote and bears are a convenient excuse for a gun that is very suitable to kill people?
I feel a better title could be "Hiring without CS trivia". Whiteboard is the most powerful tool I know to brainstorm high-level ideas quickly, such as timelines, diagrams, mock-ups, etc. What sucks is when the whiteboard is used as IDE and the candidate as a compiler.
If only those pesky physicist and mathematicians would name their variables correctly everything would become self-evident.
I think the author is refering to communication outside of the team.

Sure, inside the team there is lots of communication, and the business is probably setting the stage on a quarterly scehdule or something along those lines?
All that talk but forgot to say what Yahoo didn't do - show you what you wanted on the first page. You can run circles around it they just weren't good enough. But sure nostalgia is great and bringing delicious back will be amazinggggg
Thing is, low level like material science often takes very long to take off. Even transistors didn't come out ready to use out of the box.

Also some university published a technique to produce "large" amounts of graphene with near zero tooling cost (google 'flash graphene'). If it does work close enough to what they claimed it might be a real push toward democratization of graphene use.
The Linux kernel explicitly has a user-space exception written into its license, which is why the requirement of reciprocity stops there.
Ask HN: APIs You Find Useful?
I'm going to be honest, my plan's to find some API and provide it as a well-built SaaS service to non-technical people. What sort of APIs do you think people would find useful?
Processor architecture, most bugs, ME and a lot of other things would not need to be "compatible". Still they copied ME with the same stubborness in refusing to make it more transparent, they stopped allowing open-source initialization and they don't have a much better record in security
Yes you could see who had bookmarked what you had and how many people had bookmarked it.

Every now and then I would take something I had bookmarked that was not widely bookmarked and go through the people who had bookmarked it like me to find relevant stuff under the tag they had bookmarked it. Was a great way to find new content.
"Manufacturing several hundred thousand gallons of the new fuel required the petroleum byproducts Shell normally used to make its Flit insecticide, causing a nationwide shortage of that product that year."
This is addressed:

> To run a computer cooler than that would require a heat pump, which means adding additional energy to the system than what is needed for our computation.
I've been writing a bit about content discovery sans algorithms and I think there is at least some number of people would be interested in it. Social curation is appealing, though I'm not sure how popular a dedicated site for curated link sharing would be. While things like Reddit, Twitter, etc. are not 1 to 1 replacements, I think it serves a similar purpose for a lot of people.
MacFormat, a UK based magazine with a CD full of shareware and demos, would unexplainingly appear every month at a magazine shop in my hometown of Puebla, Mexico, at around ‘94-98.

Without a doubt I would have a different career should I have not have access to this information.

This is what I do today https://method.ac
> Democratic bodies maybe be corrupted, but you have the moral grounds to complain about it. Which you don't have with corporations, as long as they make money, they are acting withing our morality expectations.

And yet there is still nuance here. Just because a capitalist corporation is inherently corrupt does not mean that every decision made by it will be similarly corrupt or devoid of ethics. And just because a body is democratically elected does not mean that it is not functioning in a morally corrupt manner.

Case in point: Facebook (a corrupt entity) is legitimately defending the privacy of their employees in this decision (a decision that is not necessarily corrupt).

On the contrary, the regulators asking for this information is symptomatic of corruption. The fact that they did not back off saying that they did not need this information, but rather, decided to pursue a lawsuit, lends credibility to Facebook’s claim. Otherwise, it would be as simple as asking Facebook to exclude this private information from the search.

> And it is weasel speak, because they don't claim that the EU is asking for this impertinent information specifically

They do. They claim that the search requested by the EU would predominantly include this information. I’m not sure how much clearer you can get.

> I dare you to find "employee medical records" in the search terms.

A dare that we both know is impossible to test, because the search terms and the underlying body of data are not public.

> If they were acting in good faith, they would've ask to enable post dragnet filters, and not to publicly claim the EU is after employee medical records. Which is a lie.

Whataboutism.
Would be fun to list evolution of resources from birth/high-cost to mainstream/near-free. And find inflections point.
Conservapedian Mathematics
One of the most interesting aspects of investing is that the success of a company and its stock are only loosely correlated. It's entirely possible for an investor to do very poorly after investing in a company that grows a lot if the price they paid was too high (as you mention, AMD might be in such a situation right now). Conversely it's entirely possible to make excellent returns on the stock of a company that is not growing (or even shrinking) but pays out large dividends.
Telemedicine for Mental Health
My father was a volunteer teacher at my school for reading classes and was told to use this top-down method of whole words, guessing, etc. Having struggled with dyslexia his whole life, but being an avid reader despite it, he simply disregarded what he was told and taught everyone in the class using phonics instead. To this day, even as a very late reader (I was probably 9 before I picked up my first real book, period), I'm astonished how much difficulty people have with reading when it comes to unfamiliar words or even familiar words that they haven't seen written before. I'm also astonished how much difficulty people have taking written words and integrating them into their speech.

I used to think it was simply the product of my being such an avid reader, but I'm starting to suspect it may be because I have that base in phonics.

As someone completing my Masters in Applied Linguistics, I see this focus on top-down strategies as an example of teaching people to run before they can walk. Sure they might get good at running, but sometimes you need to go slower, and while walking forms a strong foundation for the former, it's easy to conceive how the converse is not true. Meanwhile many kids get left in the dust with both a subpar run, and no ability to walk properly.

Just because people develop the ability to read words as a whole and use inference and other strategies to read quickly, doesn't mean those are the skills we should be teaching as "reading".

When I was younger I used to sometimes look at my father's disregard for academic knowledge as a flaw, but I'm understanding more and more that his skepticism is often quite healthy.
That's why he offered an archiving service :)

Seems to be doing ok for me at least -

> 59795 of your bookmarks have been archived, representing 93% of your collection. 4380 bookmarks have not been stored due to errors: not found 2298, server error 970, (bunch of other small stuff)
Theoretically, good point.

In reality, LOL!
I am struggling to make any sence of your post.

COVID demonstrates lack of being prepared and future orientated, we did not have PPE stockpiles and did not takw actions that would contain the virus to save the economy now. The more future oriented you are, the safer you are.
Ask HN: Storing OpenId/OAuth2 refresh tokens?
Hi,

Need a bit of advice from someone who knows about OAuth/OpenID security, since I've found a ton of conflicting advice online.

What's the recommended way of storing refresh tokens for web apps?

It looks to me as if, for example, AWS Amplify is storing it in localStorage on the client, but isn't that a bit defeating the point of refresh tokens? If the client knows both the ID token and refresh token, how is that more secure than just issuing ID tokens with longer expiry? localStorage is also readable by other scripts running in the same context, so extensions or XSS could steal the refresh token.

If you're storing it server-side, what's the recommended way of authorizing the client to refresh the token? does the client send the old ID token to the server and the server checks if that matches, or should the client somehow else prove that it has the right to get the new token?
Alan Kay has given some really interesting talks.

I think these are the ones I saw:

https://youtu.be/id1WShzzMCQ

https://youtu.be/1e8VZlPBx_0
Right, it is directly the "argument by precedent" fallacy.

It has happened that way before, therefore it always will! (Waking up in the morning, for instance...)

The same exact thing happened with "The Limits of Growth", written during the 60's (MIT group). Bad assumptions, scenario didn't happen.

That's not to say there aren't problems, but the global war that's likely about to start will set population back a fair bit I think. That's a much more immediate and real concern than hypothetical future deforestation.

On a happier note, the wood producers replant a whole bunch of trees after harvest. It's not like the forests are actually "vanishing" in first-world countries.
Not happening. nVidia has a stranglehold on deep learning because of CUDA and Cudnn. I don't see any AMD alternatives to take over either of these. So I wouldn't bet too much on AMD taking over the deep learning chip market.
I agree. Looking at the "final practices" of a well-oiled team and just picking them up without any of the context about "why" they work "for that team" is half the reason no good idea (Agile, microservices, Jira) stays that way in software industry.
Yahoo spied on users the same as the rest of them, they were just incompetent and bled users for years. They were never especially well managed, but Verizon was the worst and basically took a company on the road to destruction and stomped on the accelerator.

> resulted in a world that employs less than half the number of journalists than 20 years ago

This is a direct result of the internet in general. With lower publication costs you get more publishers which means more supply of ad space which means ad spend that used to go to journalism now goes to Instagram "influencers" and lolcats. Which would be just as true without any of the tracking.
Which just makes staying in production in 0.x as useful as not adopting semantic versioning.
I personally hope to see more 64-bit only processors without the burden of AArch32 support.
"Apparently"
>The operating thesis of a significant segment of the leadership in these states is that America is a racist nation, governed by a horde of white male supremacists who use the pretense of equality to maintain their superior position. When asked for evidence to support the claim of white supremacy,” the only response I have been given is, “Look all around.” They hold this untruth to be self-evident.

I'm sure some are able to offer specific evidence beyond 'look all around' to support their claim.
Does anyone know what teaching system is currently used to teach kids in the UK? Specifically Scotland if that matters.
I'm learning chess at the moment. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to slide back in rating every time I learn a new idea and try to incorporate it into my game.

I takes a lot of willpower to stick with it and fully internalize that idea. Then I read a new book and it starts all over again.
100%. Loved how anything you could reach navigating it with a browser could also be exported to RSS. Around 2007 I had kind of my own personal video podcast by subscribing to the del.icio.us video tag on iTunes for example
New flapping drone can take off, hover and swoop like a bird
Barclays: We want our people back in the office
I'm honestly surprised where these fantasies come from.

In order to get that energy you'll have to build a hugely complex industrial installation. That won't be for free. It won't be easy. If it will even be possible remains to be seen. You'll still need transmission lines and other infrastructure that costs money.

Whether it'll work and if it works whether it will be cost competitive to renewable energy (still improving and getting cheaper) remains to be seen. But it almost certainly won't be "virtually unlimited".
Pretty dumb because like most clients, the #1 email client Outlook does not load these.
> IMO bite the bullet, over hire and then collect the cream based on evaluation of the total output and the teams impressions in the probationary period ...

That might work if you have 110 people applying for 100 positions. Just hire everyone and then fire 10 people. Over hiring 10 people probably isn't that much of a problem.

However that does not work if you have 100 people applying for 5 positions. This is the situation we found ourselves in and we had to filter somehow. We chose to do a very simple code challenge which ended up being a very effective filter.
Love this quote. Thanks for sharing it.
I don't really agree overall. Yes I understand a "two pizzas" team isn't perfect and does introduce new problems comparatively to whats its replacing, but when you look at the alternative which you call the "Autonomous team mission" you have a even worse set of problems.
Dutch city redraws its layout to prepare for global heating effects
How to take podcast notes with new Airr app for iOS
I've tried to hack together a system for capturing what I learn from podcasts: talking into my phone + speech recognition via Otter.ai + copy/paste text from iPhone to Macbook etc. All of this has been pure hassle, and I've looked for a better solution for years.

I finally found one, a new podcast app called Airr for iOS. It's basically like a highlighter for podcasts - worth checking out if you want to capture and remember more of what you hear.
AMD has been around since 1969 and has survived rough times just fine.
Microsoft Engineer Proposes “Trampfd” for Improving Linux Security
Isn’t the housing supply heavily dependent on the city's building regulations?
Probably setting karma limits to allow only high-ranking users write. Plus moderate it to block gaming the system. Right?
Newsletters are the new RSS. Different protocol, but simpler for non-technical users and a viable business model. Some recent apps (Stoop and HEY) make the reading experience more like traditional RSS readers too.
In more than one way
Or two repair missions to fix the same defect in both telescopes would have cost even more
Comet Neowise from ISS [4K]
Fair play to the guy for creating pinboard, I don't use it, but assume since it's a subscription service he/the site isn't selling your data for advertising. I just can't see myself needing it, much as I like discovering new stuff (one of the reasons I'm on HN), I won't pay to store bookmarks.
I am allowed to form my own opinion from the evidence we have.

The evidence is that fusion is a huge boondoggle that is extremely unlikely to deliver anything useful.

Asking people working in a field if it's promising is silly, since they are a biased sample. If they didn't think it was promising, they likely wouldn't be working in the field.
Face masks are screwing up facial recognition software
In Finland we have family pizzas too, and then there is the extended family pizza, which allows a whole Nokia department to be a two-pizza team: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
5 Data Visualisation Best Practices
Well, "thin crust" vs "deep dish" is a pretty huge difference, too. Pizza Hut has or had a "personal pan pizza" that's 15cm or so and considered a meal by itself.
You are always free not to install the latest update and have the android experience of using an old version OS on a 2 year old phone. On a serious note, I don't think they reduce your battery on purpose, the class action lawsuits Apple lost handled that. It might be just optimising runtime and letting your phone handle new apps? So CPU runs faster and squeezes out more performance?
Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake-SP 28-Core Xeons in Dual-CPU Config in Leaked Benchmarks
Hmm, I fiddled with it and got past that. Thanks for making this!
Show HN: I create art prints and use my emulator as datasource
Scientists successfully revive 100Million-year-old microbes from the sea
I think Pinyin has had a bigger impact than Zhuyin simply by its use in China and in the broader Huaren communities. That said, Zhuyin is also a recent innovation, and so the point about having some kind of phonemic/phonic/phonetic system of spelling as your basis for literacy probably still stands, at least with whatever strength it has, I think the other poster might be overstating it to some degree, although it's definitely a godsend to have in Chinese now, whether it be Hanyu Pinyin, Zhuyin, or whatever.
I’m not sure I understand your comment. While he was never charged with murder-for-hire, the transcript that reveals that he did it was read aloud to the jury. It’s very clear that he absolutely tried to pay money to kill people. You can read the transcript yourself here:

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...
Maybe that's why the web feels so different now from how it used to be. It's like being in a house where the walls and furniture shift whenever you aren't looking.
We use a simple 2 step process that allows both the company and the candidate to have more certainty about the opportunity. This only applies to technical jobs.

1 - First interview. Does the candidate know about the company? Does he know anything about the business domain? Conversation about problems he has encountered in his past experiences. it works like a knowledge sharing conversation, you really get to know how well things have been thought of.

2 - Freelancing period of about 3 weeks, 20h/week - You get to know the technical skills, cultural fit, communication skills and all other aspects that you only arrive to practicing it.

So far it has worked pretty well for us - we've hired about 11 developers and refused/have been refused by 5. It's an empirical process that works for both parties.
It's used in Vittoria mountain bike tyres apparently. No idea how many they sell, so may not be mass produced as such.
Nvidia simply not interested in consoles because how thin margins are:

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/150892-nvidia-gave-amd-ps...
Another issue in big companies: There are obvious inefficiencies as autonomous teams do redundant work. Some things should be centralized (eg payroll) but others not (eg design). Where to draw the line? For example, should autonomous teams create their own build tool chains?
You can still (mostly) code in PHP4 style and ignore all the new cruft and syntactic sugar they added over the years. And you get the performance boost of 7.x for "free".
I am not seeing AMD putting any serious contenders for CUDA though.
NASA Found the Ideal Hole on Mars to Land In
I saw both sides in Sweden. Including being the interviewer who discovered that senior applicants with over 15 years of experience could not for the life of them figure out how to reverse a string. Not something that I could have found out during our casual conversation about past experiences, of course.
These reactor concepts are still very large for their power output, compared to fission reactors.
Let’s watch some The Learning Channel instead!
Would be interesting to see how things are 9 years later.
It's a terrible way to learn. The example of context based words mentioned just doesn't work:

"For example, a child who says "horse" when the word was "house" is probably relying too much on visual, or graphic, cues. A teacher in this case would encourage the child to pay more attention to what word would make sense in the sentence."

This sentence could be either: "The man climbed onto the horse". "The man climbed onto the house".

Both make sense. Appalling.

"For Goodman, accurate word recognition was not necessarily the goal of reading. The goal was to comprehend text. If the sentences were making sense, the reader must be getting the words right, or right enough."

But text is made up of words, so if you cannot recognise the words the text will not make sense. "right enough" isn't good enough for text because subtle variations in spellings completely change the meaning, eg. bought / brought which everyone I know gets wrong - they mean completely different things.

Also, skipping words seems like an extremely stupid thing to do because the word could be the crux of the sentence. Without knowing what the word is, the sentence will lose its full meaning and make the entire sentence pointless. If skipping words is the "solution" to difficult words, surely this will reinforce the "skipping" concept so that any difficult word is skipped and their reading will not ever improve.
You can at least draw a line from Delicious to Reddit.

Digg was originally modelled on the "popular" section of Delicious, an example of building a product out of a feature. Then Reddit saw a huge boost from the eventual Digg community exodus, after a time when Digg itself was the cultural nerve centre.
Unsupervised Keyword Extraction SOTA
A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered 'Snowball Earths'
Aye, you go to Chicago and you're talking 1-2" of depth of mostly cheese on these pies. Literal pounds of pizza.
I'm not sure breaking the federation is a solution good enough to call it a 'check'. Users who want to disperse outrage of different kinds will just use other instances and will gather in mobs from them. You see, just a hundred mobbers can spoil any real discussion and turn it into a stinking pile.
RSS is still great to get the news and blogs, I use https://theoldreader.com/
This is the biggest single change for me. On Reddit I sometimes see a thread which is exactly in line with my interests, I have extensive knowledge of and would love to discuss with people. And then I see it was posted 22 hours ago, and so it's almost pointless replying to it.

Old forums had the opposite issue (with threads years old being "necro'd" back to the top, confusing everyone) but at least you could have a discussion over a couple of days.
CERN Experiment – Evidence for ultra-rare process that could lead to new physics
Wait until Nvidia buys ARM from SoftBank and steals CPU markets from both Intel & AMD in high-end high profit HPC/DL sector.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/softbank-...
I loved del.icio.us back in the day. So much, that when it went down for a few days in 2003, I wrote a clone of it that I still use to this day, self-hosted. I also archive the text content of the page, which has saved me a few times. At this point I have about 11,000 bookmarked URLs, and if nothing else, it's a fun way to find out what I was doing on a given day.