skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad I'm not alone! Thanks for reading. Like I've commented elsewhere in this thread, I by no means hate David Sedaris. I think he of all people would appreciate a nobody taking potshots at a famous writer, and hopefully value my criticism. That criticism is genuine but ultimately lighthearted and an avenue to discuss other feelings.
At first, but once you reach nostril nirvana you unlock the ability to breathe with your third nostril
Heating roads to melt snow. Weather control. Desalination for farming use opening up farmland in deserts. Flood deserts with desalinated water and create new rainforests. Increase the spin of earth?
Semantic versioning is about the interface. If there's no change to the interface, there's no change to the semver.

You don't bump the semver because you've fixed internal server bugs, you don't bump it if you've added logging to your code, you don't bump it if you've refactored internally.
The constitution applies to citizens, not organizations.

Anti-trust laws exist to protect citizens from organizations that try to break these rules. Amazon is teeing up.
BTW the page is in Chinese and runs in Dosbox in web. It demonstrates the visual "effects" of many computer virus back in the 90s and early 2000s. The program is called "Encyclopedia of computer viruses".
Was this a timed take home project or something with a flexible timeline? That is, was it "You have to respond within 3 hours of receiving this email with your solution" or something more flexible?

I mostly understand why some companies do the x hours routine, and when I've done interviews this way I've historically performed well, but it just felt like it added unnecessary stress. For instance, anyone on the job doesn't have to worry about issues like, "What if I couldn't get the app up and running because I had the wrong version of X installed?" longer than maybe their first day on the job. And if you plan on hiring an engineer for a few years, one day is irrelevant. At best this felt like it favored contractors who were more experienced at jumping into new projects frequently.
Out of curiosity what industry do you work/program in?
I think the idea is to use Pinyin to bootstrap knowledge of hanzi.

A) This would allow you to use written language to teach hanzi and

B) This would allow you to have children read text that includes words they don't know how to read, by providing those words in pinyin.

I'm not sure how it actually works in Chinese, but as a adult second language learner of Japanese, having a phonetic system I can use to transcribe the logoriphic system is quite helpful.
> If the lobbying they do is unfair, then they should change the rules around lobbying

Who is "they"? Plenty of people do want to reduce the amount of money in US politics, but they come up against the same money that's behind the lobbying in the first place.
RPM let you bump "Epoch" from 1 to 2 when you needed to default on your entire "Version" scheme and start over, though it can be confusing because it's sort of hidden.
nah the author addresses this:

> Make a new thing, name it something else, figure out the migration that makes sense for you and your users.

If you follow that advice, you don't have a broken API and the rest still follows.
As somebody that gives both phone interviews with a shared typing environment and whiteboard interviews, there are some problems I can only use with a whiteboard, but no problems that I can only use with a typing environment. In particular, whiteboards are significantly better at letting candidates describe what they're thinking about the structure of a problem before (or instead of) actually writing correct syntax. When someone is sitting in front of a computer, they have a tendency to either jump straight into coding or try to describe their thoughts in a giant block of comments, neither of which is very productive.

Maybe it's just our phone interviews that allow us to focus on higher-level concepts in person, but I've really never found a candidate who did poorly on a whiteboard but seems like they would have done well on a computer. If anything, it's the inverse where candidates jump straight into code, to their own detriment, when placed in front of a keyboard.
It has nothing to do with the first amendment. Money isn't actually speech -- bribery is illegal, after all.

The legislators who have the ability to change the rules around lobbying are at the receiving end of millions of lobbying dollars, and they don't want the money firehose to stop.
Linked in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00082
Phonetic alphabets (e.g. pinyin) are used by learners as well as in computer input methods.

Moreover, some 80% of Chinese characters are semantic-phonetic hybrids (though the pronunciation of characters that share a phonetic element may not be identical in current Mandarin, they will often resemble each other closely, perhaps with a tone or vowel shift.) Learning characters in phonetic groups helps to anchor their pronunciation and phonetic elements can help when you encounter an unfamiliar character in context.
That is my perspective as well, recruiting in a field that is tech adjacent. Practically everyone who applied for vacant roles were either Indian migrants, or people here on visas.
How to Create the Best Badges for Merchandising?
There's definitely ways to do this by configuring your scrape configs to ignore sets of nodes. Curious though when you last tried kubecost out? We've built out some caching mechanisms in the product over the last month or so that should dramatically reduce load / memory consumption on prometheus. If you reach out on our slack kubecost.slack.com we can discuss more about expected Prometheus resource consumption.
It's very clearly not a nothingburger.

High paid professional athletes in the US today have the income of billionaires.

Professional athletes earn around $200 billion in league salary each decade (it excludes endorsements, which tilts the point that much further if included). It's far more than all S&P 500 CEOs combined. Just the three major sports leagues in the US are at around $14 billion per year in salary. That excludes coaches, which now have very high salaries as well. Stripping it down further, all NBA players combined (a mere ~450 players or so) earn more in salary every year than all the S&P 500 CEOs combined.

As of 2019 there were 122 players in Major League Baseball earning $10 million per year or more. The top 30 NBA players earn a combined $1 billion every year.

Pretty funny, the notion that ~$80+ billion in income taxes every ten years, is supposedly a nothingburger. It's a lot of tax revenue, even if it pales next to US Military spending.
The Significance of Feral Man (1941)
The steam turbine has to endure super heated steam, requiring very specific materials. Steam turbines also require boilers, cooling, etc. Wind turbines have the potential to require far less in terms of the input materials. And with solar, who knows how efficient we can get with that!

We have been optimizing steam turbines for more than a century, but are just barely getting started on optimization for wind and solar. So far, the rate of improvement hasn't start to slow at all, so I'm fairly confident that due to greater simplicity, wind and solar will end up being less costly than steam turbines. Predicting the future is tricky business, but in the 90s it would have been foolish to think that semiconductors wouldn't get better for more than just a few years. And we are in a very similar place with wind and solar techs now as we were with semiconductors in the the 90s.
> I have no debt. I earn several hundred thousand a year.

How? Are you CTO somewhere? Several hundred thousand seems like a really, really high pay. I assume USD?
But future taxes are derived from people who can earn a living, if we have an uneducated workforce, to be a bit trite - education is an investment in human capital.

STEM degrees are not for everyone, and to exclude a percentage of the population from higher education is unnecessary in Australia.
That is correct, stem degrees in Australia do not include liberal arts rounding.
I agree people should optimize for a good life.

That's why spending four years living your good life at college shouldn't be the focus--because you'll have decades more, and it's more important to get 50+ years right than it is to get 4.
Atmen in German (breath) and Atman in Sanskrit (breath, spirit) have the same origin.
I'm confused. They don't seem to be talking about prahok or mam nem.

These seem far more likely to be imported or have a complex history since they are fking disgusting but very popular. Unlike fish sauce which seems pretty meh.

I remember eating dog in a restaurant in Vietnam, which is very expensive and mostly done for health occasionally by locals and they had it with what I think was mam nem because it's a special meal and I had to check if there was an open sewer, I hoped up and went to the window and searched the room to find the smell.
Their inorganic properties of the data layer are also another big point leading to their longevity. Most other burnable media have organic data layers which essentially rust and break down in the presence of oxygen.
I learned to read early enough that I have no memory of it, it was before kindergarten; I was reading competently (e.g., "Citizen of the Galaxy") by then.

What I do remember is one moment, after I could already read, and that is the day when I asked my mom if we could please read something other than The Wizard of Oz because I was tired of it.

So if you're looking for a method, I recommend applying this technique: read the same book over and over until the kid can't take it any more.
I don't understand this. What problem do you foresee happening?

You may as well say that we can't build any more houses, or make more clothes, because of the waste. If the rate becomes a problem, in some way, we will recycle the necessary parts. But unlike, say, coal ash, the waste is easy to handle, and easy to repurpose if we find the need to.
>> What has genuinely helped me is to change my diet. I switched to a diet of nothing but meat and vegetables and began supplementing vitamin D.

>> I have noticed that my mood and emotional responses are significantly better when I fix my health. Like it or not, my crappy diet was causing me all kinds of problems and making my anxiety worse.

Been hearing a lot of this lately. I hope you don't mind me asking but, were you overweight prior to starting the diet?

I ask because I changed my diet for 1 week by cutting out all carbohydrates, only eating home cooked meat and vegetables. I didn't feel better. In fact, I felt worse.

I workout a lot though, and I'm in "good" shape. So my thinking was, maybe the lack of calories made me feel crappy.
> People want jobs - that's why they go to college.

Historically that wasn’t particularly true, and presently it's only sometimes true.

> And when they do they try to find a major that has maximum overlap between their strengths, interests and earning potential.

I suspect that the share of applicants that does anything approaching an analysis that would support that conclusion is closer to 0% than 100%. You seem to be both making assumptions about motivation and rationality (in the economic sense) that aren't well grounded.

> You aren't going to make engineering any more attractive to someone by making it cheaper, if the salaries weren't already doing it.

At the level where the subsidy makes the difference between being able to afford the program at all and not, you certainly will. But even at higher income levels it'll make a difference, especially for people who aren't malign decisions on long-run economic analysis but more on “college is expected” and “it all costs the same, and X sounds fun”.
Update: I tested it out a little more here.

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

Basically everything you want with regard to greedy-nongreedy can be done through automata-based engines.

They jump through a lot of hoops to make them work!

However I would also argue that when you're using them, you're doing it as a performance hack in a Perl-style regex engine. In an automata-based engine, you can just write

/x*/
/(x*)/

and it's what you want, and it runs fast.
That seems a bit disingenuous. While I am no expert and cannot verify if the claims in your article are true (though Wikipedia asserts the same), it is clearly different from the OP. Your link is (presumably) rooted in accepted historical fact, while the OP is speculation
None of the three cueing techniques mentioned in the article were used to teach my daughter how to read at school this year, and she has just completed her first year of school in California. We're currently preparing her for the new school year at home, and phonics is a very large part of the way Californian children are taught how to read. Books in the CA curriculum include Usborne phonics books set, and we're now using online learning from Lexia core reading software during COVID. It's in a large part phonic based learning too.

https://www.lexialearning.com/products/core5
It's also possible to follow the alternative and still keep breaking APIs.

It's much more effective to focus on a single thing (breaking change rejection) than to pretend that one thing can be magically accomplished through another.
Humanities won’t go away. At some point, equilibrium will be reached and there will be an appropriate number of people going into each. Only the foolish think that liberal arts are completely worthless — but there are too many people that go into them with no special talent to give them an edge in a very limited employment market. I know from experience how common it is for people to decide to go to college because that’s the thing to do, and oh, well I guess I have to decide on a field to proceed with this so might as well choose something that my friends are doing. The thinking is backwards. First you have to decide what you want to do in life, calculate how that will provide for you financially, then figure out what education you need to get there.

Who knows, maybe there is in fact a B.A. in Gender Studies requirement at my local coffee shop I don’t know about. ;)
If a US citizen gets nothing in return for their taxes why would anyone want the citizenship?
Absolutely nobody will care.
I'd say no because lobbying the government for laws that favor you is within the laws. When one of the rules says you get to bribe those who make up the rules of course you'll get some messed up rules. But it isn't hypocritical.
Can 5G compete with cable broadband?
The 2020 SaaS startup essential toolkit
I think the important line a lot of folks here are missing when discussing the "alternative" is this:

>Are you releasing software to other developers who are making concious choices on when and how to depend on your software, as part of a dependency tool (like ruby gems) across an organizational boundary? Then maybe use semver.

And earlier:

>Do your users even care what version of your software they're using? Or do they just want it to work?

Clearly semver has useful information imbedded into it, which a date+shortsha doesn't, but the big take away from Sam is that there's a good chance your version number doesn't matter to your users. Marco Arment (ATP, Overcast) spoke about this on Under The Radar[1] but, as an example, semver for an iOS app is meaningless for the typical iPhone user.

I personally use a date+sha versionish on a project because there's only one way to use the software. The date tells users when anything got added or broken, and is useful for communicating updates; the sha is mostly for me.

1: https://www.relay.fm/radar/164
I wasn't suggesting you give me the information, but that you probably shouldn't have obtained it in that way. It might also be illegal?
> A cheaper degree in an area where there’s a job is a win-win for students

Uh, it also means a lose-lose for other students.
The response to the students is really weird. We already have a separate term that separates the two: Crossdressing. Transgender specifically refers to when some sort of body-image dysphoria is involved. The students have it right, crossdressing for patriotism or poverty isn't transgender in and of itself.
Congress, via their voters
> count the number of times this each possible n-gram appears across the entire Google corpus

I mean, what you describe is basically a Markov Model described by Claude Shannon in his paper on entropy. Applying to speech recognition is pretty straightforward: As you keep speaking after a transcription mis-step, the odds that you said the thing becomes less and less likely given the words that followed it.
Furigana seems like a great idea to me and extremely useful. I expect that native learners use it and benefit from it.

Also I expect the onyomi/Chinese readings of many kanji might fall into phonetic groups as they do in the hanzi. (Note also that kanji and hanzi are basically the same word with some phonetic shifts.) Apparently onyomi actually means "sound reading."
You don’t deserve your username.
Might be better if, when trying to promote your passion, you don’t bash others.

I’d argue getting people excited about sport, and society as a whole playing more of it, is an unbounded good.

I even know some research scientists who play sport recreationally, and follow professional-level sport.

Plenty of room and resources for both!
How is this level of math even possible... like... how are people hard-working enough to reach this level of understanding?
The Supreme Court has determined that companies are granted some rights as citizens have. The first is one of the rights that is protected according to their rulings.
There is lean FIRE, fat FIRE, barista FIRE, only FI, and several other variations of FIRE
I've recently started listening to the audio book "Biofeedback and Mindfulness in Everyday Life" [0] by Inna Khazan, a clinical pscyhologist[1]. For the more skeptical minded who want the data/ more exploration, she references a bunch of studies attesting to the efficacy of breathing techniques and how it impacts health etc. I won't say the book has changed my life mainly because I am still listening to it and there's a l ong way to practise these but so far the results are encouraging ( More peace of mind , great sleep (experience) plus data on my Apple Watch app and energy levels)

[0] https://www.audible.in/pd/Biofeedback-and-Mindfulness-in-Eve...

[1] https://innakhazan.com/wp/13-about-me/
> Yeah, I’ve started to skip the first two paragraphs of all articles

I go down and read the last two paragraphs to see if they summed it up well. It’s a 33% I read the whole article based on summary and content.

I’m not asking for a great writer... just someone that knew what they were writing about before they started typing.
There is not that much code I wrote three, four years ago that I’m still proud of. I figured that would get better with age but it’s only by degrees, and at any rate it may indicate that I’m getting soft rather than better.

So anything on github that I might want you to look at? I’d have to be on a three year replacement cycle, permanently, which is a hell of a lot more work than you might estimate that a reasonable github presence would entail.
I can just imagine the bat cave now..., "ROOOOBBIN!! You haven't taken out the rubbish!"

"Nah! It was your turn you big bully!"
Harnessing the perpetual motion required for it to always be 20 years away, is the key to fusion being able to generate infinite energy at a low cost. It's the most challenging aspect.
Some 3rd party antispam products also follow all the links they can find gauge their intent.

My company's marketing department has complained about this after noticing that our own clients have a 100% click rate. It's because we are reselling Barracuda.
Or, that particular person could have been sucked up in to a huge bureaucracy and produced nearly nothing their entire career.

Hard to say.
One of the most enjoyable articles I've read in a long time.
I don't know about these people specifically, but if you are interested/passionate about it, it probably doesn't feel like work.
Well, yes, obviously.
The article says they're increasing tuition for "courses seen as less vital to the economy". I have certainly not met all computer scientists obviously. But what I can say is almost every single arts / humanities graduate that I've ever met who decided to pursue a career in computers / programming were on average more qualified for the job than their computer science degree counterparts.

YMMV...
On the other hand, they wouldn't have as severe a housing shortage.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2018/01/19/what-amazons-...
You may not be able to convince someone who is interested in philosophy to study engineering (although I personally know several people, myself included, who are interested in both philosophy and engineering) but if they lack the funding to support themselves during the bachelor's degree them I doubt tht they have enough funding to support themselves after the degree. They should be encouraged to pursue a professional that can support them financially first. That can be engineering, as you quoted, but also most of STEM and most technical subjects (plumber, electrician).

What really bothers me about the quote is that it sounds like "someone who is interested in going on cruises won't like studying anything practical so the taxpayers should subsidize a 4 year around the world cruise for them"
Note that apple has a bug, and has had it for years and years.

If you have it turned off it won't load remote images...

EXCEPT: if you forward an email - it will load them all, all of them. This is especially troublesome if you want to forward a phishing email to IT.

(thank you little snitch. also I am not using the latest catalina apple mail)
GP is referring to the "argument from age" fallacy, the belief that prior generations had better knowledge/wisdom on certain topics simply because it lasted for so long before it disappeared in the modern age.
My kids are both strong readers, but took different paths.

The first taught herself to read before she started school. On day one the teacher tested her and she could read the first 200 words they were to be taught. She had had support and encouragement from us, and we read to her every night, but we never did any structured lessons with her

The second couldn't read when she started school, and was taught using phonics. It took a couple of months for it to click, but then she was getting letter sounds, understanding digraphs, joining sounds together, and then reading words. When she got to that point she just took off.

I feel like our first would have succeeded in the American system just fine. But the second really benefitted from laying that groundwork that let her understand the fundamentals. If she'd learned using the three cues system I feel like her self-directed progress would have been much slower.
We, as a society, produce enough of a surpluss that we are able to pay armies of researchers to do nothing but expand the frontier of human knowledge and pass that knowledge on to the next generation.
I think most serious anarchists acknowledge that humans won't exist in a true state of nature for very long. People will always band together for security which with scale requires administration. That becomes a de facto state.

I remember reading this book a long time ago relevant to this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia
I like C#, no problem with it as a pick.

I don't believe dynamic languages deliver on faster iteration over the long haul. I used to be the biggest dynamic languages fan, but now I avoid them unless it's a small project.

PHP is a mess of a language that's been cleaned up somewhat well, but it's still at such a disadvantage.

I would never advise a company to use it for a new project unless they have lots of talent very familiar with it already.

It's just a mistake. You can disagree, but know that you're wrong ;)
I'm interested in hearing more. I'm currently in the process of improving my interview approaches — currently a live coding session with a real-world problem involving an internal dataset.