skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I'm also happier now than I've ever been in work too. It turns out that I produce much better work at a faster rate when I'm happier.
If you don't mind- could you please elaborate on "taught her how to breathe properly"
Feels like a wise choice: Use local words when there is a real-life analogy, use English terms when the analogy is missing or less obvious.
> While "most" might be true quantitatively, from what I've seen most of local "best" schools do offer studies in English. Most top schools in Germany seem to offer this.

Even in Germany, probably 90% of the undergraduate courses are taught in German only. The percentage of postgraduate courses available in English is much higher, though. Still, most professors are required to be able to teach in the local language. Therefore, the number of international faculty members outside the UK and Switzerland is very limited.
I don't like the post Steve Jobs direction that the Macbook Pro took, so it's a no-go for me. I had a company macbook pro in 2008 and I loved it (except the OS and the keyboard layout). It had great sound (I had more expensive laptops with worse speakers since then). Also the display was perfect for me (especially outside in sunshine...). Maybe it's just my memory, but I don't feel that the current laptop offerings are that much better.
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Как защитить мою игру от читов или сделать обнаружение чит-программы
It’s already happening for years. Steps: 1) identify competitor blogs 2) scrape all their posts 3) Run it through nlp to rewrite words, phrasing and sentence structures while keeping content. 4) Tidy up using SEO guidelines, linking and keyword research. 5) publish 100s of articles a month as one single person
Basically like browser fingerprinting. Use a lot of indicators that are insignificant on their own to create one powerful method of identification.

The problem with those is that it's really hard to get around them. Changing one of the factors isn't going to help. You'd have to identify the most significant ones to change those (if that's possible).
DIY Bertin Matrix with 569 Dominoes and No Glue
ministry of silly walks is way better.
Virgin Galactic shows off passenger spaceship cabin interior
I thought he offered to move everyone over to Pinboard after acquiring it, I wonder why hes reviving the site.
People are trying though https://twitter.com/DonCubed/status/1284908940149395456
"peers" lol
It appears to use this as the emulator: https://jamesfriend.com.au/basilisk-ii-classic-mac-emulator-...
You can just directly use that instead.
My experience from MOND talks is that a proponent of MOND gets up, explains their theory, and then starts explaining how their theory explains the rotation curve of galaxies.

They're then confronted with a bunch of really basic questions from the audience: how does your theory explain the spatial spectrum of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background? Is your theory consistent with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis? Can your theory explain Weak Lensing measurements? How does your theory deal with the Bullet Cluster? The answer is then generally, "I'm not sure, but I'm working on it." That causes all the astrophysicists in the room to lose interest. Standard cosmology explains all of these basic observations with a minimal set of assumptions. If your theory can't or doesn't explain the most basic set of observations, and there's another theory that does, why should I care about your theory?
The Mythical DevOps Engineer
Hedgehogs can't (to my knowledge), but turtles can! A fact that seeks any opportunity to be shared. (Example source: https://www.livescience.com/61018-turtles-breathe-through-bu...)
Read about those at least a decade ago but never seen them in practice. Are they really used much?
agreed!

the CEO of JET (largest working fusion reactor, until ITER is finished) Ian Chapman said in a lecture that renewables (and nuclear fission) are key to holding off climate change until fusion is a more mature technology

why should the research be mutually exclusive though? there's resources and brainpower to pursue both.
Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades
In Italy we have what we call "family pizzas" which are supposed to be pizzas that are large enough to feed a family. In practice it's double the mass of a normal pizza, so a two-pizzas team would be 4 people (or 2 particularly hungry devs).
This is not correct. A large part of Russian language curriculum in schools consists of dictations[1], as Russian is not strictly phonic (mostly it's unstressed vowel shifts, such as 'о'>'а').

It's nowhere close to English though. Spanish spelling is a breeze, much simpler than Russian.

Unrelated factoid: in my experience, average Russian has more chances to reproduce believable Spanish pronunciation than English.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictation_(exercise)
It definitely doesn't need to be a big crowd like that. 8 slices, maybe 3 or 4 people if it's a full meal (2 slices / person is probably typical). Leftover slices are good the next day too.
I can really help you. I am working in a fin-tech company having experience of more than 3 years.
Survivor Bias in the Millitary
> Only 7% of crimes are solved by our police

Meaningless without comparison to other countries.

> London is the knife crime capital of the world.

Doubt it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
I remember doing this with a play I read for a class back in high school. When I was taking the test on it, I realized to my horror that I didn't know the name of one of the main characters – it started with a distinctive letter, so that was all my brain had kept.
I’m almost certain I will soon stop using social media altogether. I’ve been considering it for years due to increasing prevalence of bots but gpt3 will push it over the line.
Metric-land reporting in: it is possible to finish a 32 cm pizza on your own (12.6"), but the 45 cm ones are definitely multiplayer material (17.7").
I think that's the point. AMD sells compute power at a lower price point than Intel. If AMD can continue to lower the retail price of CPUs, they will chip away further at Intel's market share.

Margin means nothing if people don't buy your product.
Given that AMD is fabless these days, you would have to compare Intel's gross margin to AMD and TSMC's combined to have an oranges to oranges comparison. In that light AMD is doing pretty well.

The other factor is going to be that TSMC has 5nm in risk production already. If they bring 5nm fabs online before Intel has a real answer to their 7nm process, AMD could be buying capacity from the 7nm and 5nm fabs at the same time.
Show HN: Shadowfront quickly bootstraps ClojureScript, shadow-cljs and Reagent
Apple will still support Intel for the next five years, if not longer. I'm not sure if this is a problem for today.
So the waste output/power output is 1000 times better? Any sources pls?

And this "Neutron embrittlement" does not create any dangerous long-lived isotopes? Like, we just wait few years and then normally landfill the concrete or how should I imagine the process?
Just the lack of syntax and type checking is a serious burden on folks who don't have those committed to muscle memory.

That said, that's the easiest part of mathematics.
If anyone wants to learn to breathe properly I can recommend this book:

http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1903sciencebreath....

A lot of the stuff on Google search and even the so called 'experts' know nothing at all about this science. When you get deep into it you can even unlock psychic abilities (seriously).
You read over the part where the author recommends semver where appropriate.
I guess we're just doomed to that cycle until some breakthrough. It's like an eternal eternal september, we're going to jump to new services which are temporarily better before everyone uses them.
> If there's any link between Vietnam and Rome, we'd have found traces of them along the Silk Road or maritime routes.

Actually, ancient Greek and Roman artifacts have been discovered at Óc Eo in the Mekong Delta.
My guess is that if it were a reasoned argument for when to use semver and when not to use it, it wouldn't be controversial enough to make the front page.

The first third of the article is insightful. The rest is mostly bait.
Debian (.deb) package versions also have epoch:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.ht...
Wow! (I was early adopter and heavy use of del.icio.us) What about you?
Too many "pineapple" team members!
1. It is possible to be bigger and still be in decline, that just indicates you had an even bigger lead before.

2. Everybody loves a good "underdog takes over from the big bad empire in decline" story, both the press and the commenting public. The stories about big companies absolutely crushing their competitors in quality are just not as interesting.

3. AMD can't scale up as rapidly as a SAAS because fabs take a while to build. I'd wager Intel has (at least) five to ten years to come up with a good processor design before they get overtaken by AMD in sheer volume.

4. There are no doubt Chinese competitors with even lower sales and even higher P/E and growth rate than AMD. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
I used to use stumbleupon a lot. I had an xmarks account for bookmark syncing before that went paid for. I now just use Firefox's built in syncing service.

Having never seen the point of a social bookmarking service can someone tell me reasons why I should consider using something like this? What were the benefits over my private bookmarks. I obviously remember it back in the day but viewed it the same I do most social networks, with suspicion.
ARM is an architecture and their competitors there are pretty much all fabless just like AMD. Even if there was a market shift to that architecture, they could just do this again:

https://www.amd.com/en/amd-opteron-a1100
The examples of kids who learnt reading through the three cuing systems on the article and in the comments remind me of GPT-2/3 produced text. Mostly correct but some unexplored words replaced by something that doesn't make much sense.
What kind of portfolio worthy projects take less than 3 hours to create?
That's the thing, writing job applications sucks - and it's time consuming - which is why too many resort to just copy/pasting the same template for many jobs, which obviously shows if you've ever read a job application before.

A lot of posters here seem to complain (or have, for the past weeks) the GPT-3 output comes off as mediocre, but I'd wager that a lot of the job applications we see today are worse than mediocre, often times horrible.

It sucks that the end result would be some standoff between ML-software that reads job applications, written by some other ML-software, but there's lots of hours to be saved - from the human standpoint.

If I don't have to write 10 letters, then that's probably 10 hours saved from my part - as I easily use an hour to write a tailored job letter.
Show HN: Linux sysadmin course – eight years on
Almost eight years ago I launched an online “Linux sysadmin course for newbies” here at HN. It was a side-project that went well, but never generated enough money to allow me to fully commit to leaving the Day Job.

After surviving the Big C, and getting made redundant I thought I might improve and relaunch it commercially – but my doctors are a pessimistic bunch, so it looked like I didn’t have the time. Instead, I rejigged/relaunched it via a Reddit forum this February as free and open - and have now gathered a team of helpers to ensure that it keeps going each month even after I can’t be involved any longer.

it’s a month-long course which restarts each month, so “Day 1” of August is this coming Monday. It would be great if you could pass the word on to anyone you know who may be the target market of those who: “...aspire to get Linux-related jobs in industry - junior Linux sysadmin, devops-related work and similar”.

[0] http://www.linuxupskillchallenge.org/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxupskillchallenge/

[2] http://snori74.blogspot.com/2020/04/health-status.html
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> The rankings I have to disagree with, I'd like to see something that compared expected income or net worth for graduates.

Universities are primarily ranked by the quality of their research output, not by the expected net worth of their graduates.

> Let's say you're given an opportunity to go to "University of Edinburgh" or Yale with all costs paid for. I think you'll have a hard time finding people who would pick the former.

At least in Europe, a graduate of University of Edinburgh would be worth as much as a graduate of Yale in most industries, including finance, law and tech. They would have equal chances of getting a banking job in London, or working for a FAANG company in Zurich.

The Ivy League only really matters, if one wants to live in the US. And most Europeans don't. Because Europe is not about becoming super rich, but about never becoming poor.

For instance, in my EU country I can take as many years off as I want, and still remain fully covered by the national health insurance by paying just 40€ / month. If a broke my leg tomorrow, it wouldn't cost me anything at all.

Therefore, I couldn't care less about being "a high net-worth individual" as long as I don't need to stress about the basic things in life, and have enough freedom to work only with – or for – the companies I really like.
I view renewables as energy farming, and city-states like Singapoure, lixemburg, etc. Are not very suitable for either form of farming :) for most countries the calculus is very different. UK has been developing sea based wind turbines quite succesfully, thats something that could work for singapore.

I view nuclear as a bit of a lost cause to be honest, they take long time to build, cost a lot upfront, you need a lot of expertise around them, and they would require a miracle of PR. It does not appear likely that countries that do not have an established nuclear industry will suddenly become nuclear powered. Thats just the way things appear to be heading, and its a shame.

Besides, don't underestimate the infrastructure needed to refine fuel, manufacture fuel rods, deal with waste, etc. If you outsource all of that, you are not terribly energy independent.

I think the only hope for nuclear industry is small modular reactors, and that's only if a massive amount investment comes through.
It's mainly the waste.

Nuclear fission is a stable source of energy that does not produce carbon emissions in production. It's pretty much the answer to the climate crisis except that it produces dangerous waste that is horrendous to store and manage.

Fusion mainly avoids this :)
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> Part of the issue is that "systems" are no longer designed holistically

The "high priests" line is a Bob Barton quote, which I believe probably dates back to the mid-sixties.
Small, competent teams work well. Why do you find that incredible.

(disclaimer: it's my experience. Also, I've only worked for small companies on relatively small projects (a few man-months or man-years), things may be very different in large ones).
The real throwback would be going back to use newsgroups, and only have competent people posting.
All this discussion is doing is making me crave pizza and making it mighty hard to stay on my diet...
America Isn’t a Racist Country
I believe the article is specifically about semver, not X.Y.Z format. You can have the format without the meaning. Linux uses X.Y.Z for example, but it's explicitly not semver.
For some people, authority figures shining their flashlights in the faces of poor people is entertaining.
This is a classic example of twisting statistics to fit a narrative. That match had ~65k attendance with ~2k false positives for sake of argument. thats < 3%. Not great, but then consider the system is going to scan a vast portion of those in attendance which a human eye alone could not do. Even with the false positive rate, in terms of making human jobs easier, its surely a benefit to scan 2000 false positives than some large portion of 65,000 when checking for unsavoury characters.
So many of the popular management techniques look at the output of well-trained, highly experienced and very motivated teams and think that if they can just replicate the outward characteristics of those teams, they'll get the productivity as well. Needless to say, the same practices with recent bootcamp graduates suffering under JIRA-inspired micromanagement from a manager who has zero training except "being a developer for three years" will not have the same output. It's cargo culting at its finest.
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Looking at this plan reminded me of how these plans never convey a sense of scale, and how you have to learn that when exploring the city. The Paris Metro has a similarly looking density of lines and stations: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Carte_M%...

In Paris it takes you 3-5 minutes to walk between mostly any of the stations of one line. Coming to Moscow I was somewhat surprised to find that the stations can be 30-45 minutes walking distance apart.

That all makes sense of course, given the population density structure of the cities and the mix of inner-city and suburban trains. But it's kind of hard to take that from these kinds of plans if you don't already know the city, and every station is evenly spaced apart on paper.
Yes, but...

Now one worries, is this itself a test? Are they judging my desire to donate.
I agree, we're not trusting teachers with their abilities. Like someone said on a top comment, there's several ways to teach children to read. I would rather leave this choice to the teacher.
In the mid 2000s I spent years converting bitmap mockups into html table designs using Fireworks (using the slice->export workflow). My managers were perpetually in awe of how much faster I churned out the work when compared with the Photoshop wizards we had in the house.

Really miss Fireworks.
It should not default to ads, at least.
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> 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.

Indeed. Here's a page from a textbook for second-graders: https://i.imgur.com/g1UlUZP.jpg

It's a story teaching the meaning of the proverb 揠苗助长 (pulling sprouts to help them grow). Some of the characters are annotated with their pinyin above, e.g. 揠 yà or 筋疲 jīn pí. This text in particular is a bit weird in that it only uses 揠 yà in the title and replaces it with 拔 bá in the story, so the reader would have to infer that 揠 yà and 拔 bá are synonyms. I think 拔苗助长 is actually the more common way to write the proverb.
Mist of this post is badly wrong, wind turbines are essentially a close cousin of steam turbine, and are massively more expensive per Mw of power. A single steam turbine can generate a GW and will weigh less than a wind turbine that generates a MW, a thousand time less!

We run steam turbines as high pressure because that gives us efficiency, not because we have to.

"he rate of improvement hasn't start to slow at all, so i am confident"

You have no evidence, so you are confident?

Also airdinamics are well understood, there are no miraculous effficiencies coming to wind turbines
I like Vivaldi. It's a great idea. But the UI is sluggish and sometimes (very rarely) glitchy. I'm on the fence until they make it more responsive.
I use pinboard to get a bottomless bucket for interesting bookmarks that is shared between browsers and platforms. Browsers and platforms come and go, but Maciek's service stays reliably the same.

I could use better (as in faster and incremental) search, but otherwise I love the functionality.
Memepool was before del.icio.us but Memepool was not open to everyone...
The federated architecture is a powerful check on mob behavior. A Mastodon instance that enables the sort of mass harassment and mobbing you routinely see on twitter will just be refused federation by well-maintaned instances, just like Gab has been.
5 Tools that Facilitate Software Project Management
I understand what he wanted to say, but it is same in the end - where it's crowded it is expensive to built and cheaper to operate, where it is not crowded it's vice versa, but in the end you end up with both being not affordable by his quote, so there is no difference between them really, they are both not financially efficient.
"sentimental versioning" rings so true!
You need none of that, and a single thick server on Debian will cover all your needs.
>1. First interview, the candidate interviews us. What market we serve, what our development processes are, what our technology stack is.

I somehow feel this rewards opinionated developers.

Also right now I'm looking at a couple places because their recruiters called me up and said they were willing to meet my requirements which are basically pay - I don't care about most of these things, if they want me to do stuff and are willing to pay my rate and if they, after looking over my cv believe I can handle their stack, that's it. I don't really have any questions for them.

So I guess you don't have people looking for people for you - you only have people coming in that think your company is special enough that they really really want to be there and are invested about finding out everything just to confirm that commitment on their part is good?

on edit: this of course supposes that 90% of the companies out there are very similar and do not have any problems that are so interesting that I should feel prompted to ask. If I ever applied to the Internet Archive I'm sure I would have things I would like to ask.
Funding is in no way a guarantee of success, and many YC companies have failed. Here's a list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13HIAEwspdjqKENvi5uHJ...

The list only includes companies that have reported, I'm sure many others just silently die, or barely keep operating.

Another reason investment doesn't equal success, look at Pebble, $63m investment, acquired for $23m. How much of that acquisition money do you think went to employees.

Not to pick on Pebble, if your definition of success is shipping a product people love, that defines a new industry, and that you can be proud to have worked on, I'm sure that ticked all the boxes, but from a monetary standpoint, it was not a winner.
Thanks for the reply. I'm sure as a writer it's frustrating to get glib replies so apologies. I read your article late last night so didn't give it the time it deserved. I re-read it this morning and it gave me a lot to think about.

I think the mall is such a uniquely American phenomenon. As you write about, it's been the community center for so many normal people in the past and those times are changing. In the homogeneous country I'm from, that place used to be the church, now it's probably the pub. In the US, while there are many churches, they don't seem to be the place where people meet across communities - that was the mall.

What we have in common is that whether it's the US, or where I'm from, these communities are dividing and moving online and it's worrying. Having the liberal elite come in an sneer doesn't help, in fact it's a symptom of the issue. The liberal elite (which I guess I'm a part of) are the ones least affected by this fraction and division and the ones most easily able to pay their way out.

Thanks for writing.
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