skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fish sauce to one culture is spoiled salty fish water to another. It's hardly a universal taste. And I'm not biased, I love the stuff.

Also, a huge number of cultures have a tradition of eating dried salted fish. Turning that into fish sauce is just dropping those into some water.
Keep in mind that people reading your comment might not have that much time and energy either.
For audio CDs, there's also CueTools, which can repair slightly damaged rips (I assume it stores some parity information). I have a CD where that appears to have either two slightly different pressings or a bad batch, and one has an audible click at the end of one of the tracks. CueTools detects this error, and lets me fix it.
I think most of us are young enough to live up to the point where we would look into the mirror asking ourselves what did we do 20 years ago and nobody will really remember because you know,a few bits here,a few bits there,and all it disappeared...
Is there good Linux software for cataloging offline media and identifying duplicates? On Windows/Mac/iOS there is the venerable (since 2000) http://abemeda.com.
> "Interesting choice using collections.OrderedDict here, why did you choose that?"

Without looking at the commit history, given enough time this is a challenge. I often don't recognize code I wrote myself 6 months ago.
I think it was when we over-through democratically elected governments to save the world from marginally more expensive Bananas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
I'm curious to read the book. I've practiced breathing techniques from yogic and meditative traditions for maybe 15 years now. Even just a minute of deeper, slower breathing has a calming effect on my mind and body, for the most part.

The breathing practices/exercises are, for the most part, useful and interesting. I have to let go of a lot of the metaphysics in these traditions though, there is a certain amount of "woo" to wade through.
If you go to the site and log in, they have an opportunity to ask you to confirm that you still want emails.
Blade is literally part of the laravel framework, it’s not a third party thing like react is to Next.
Coronavirus would also spike on google trends which is the control mentioned in the tweet.
Just water or is there some soap proxy?
True, true. In my poor defense I was imagining all candidates as identical versions of myself in a bubble and never considered taxes or anybody else's lifestyle.
Agreed. The practices seem to have an affect that I find useful and interesting. The metaphysical/energetic claims I can put to one side.
Yes, but Netflix's recommendations are limited to Netflix's catalog.
My friend had a power mac 6100 with system 7.1. It seemed pretty awesome at the time.
Well, part of the problem is that I said "we can take steps to make jobs cheaper" when I meant "we can take steps to make jobs safer".

We keep automating away jobs. People want/need work, mostly for money, but also because want to feel they are doing something and part of something. So I don't take it as a given that less free time and more human effort is objectively a bad thing. It really depends on the person and whether they feel a sense of accomplishment in their work.

As for death and accidents, that's somewhat addressed by my typo fix.

> It's only from the lens of the current economic system that it becomes a positive thing, which speaks volumes in itself.

The thing about the current economic system is that it's the current economic system. It can change, in small ways and big ways, but I'm not not sure it will (even if we're probably in the absolute best time to try out UBI we'll see in our lifetimes, and it will be a shame if/when it passes us by in that respect, even if it means life is much better overall).
Code often doesn't stand alone, there's going to be a commit history, there's often going to be comments and issues on other projects.

Ask questions about the code:

- why did you write this in this way

- explain how this works

- if you needed to add X into this, how would you do it

- are there other ways to achieve what you did here, what are the pros/cons of this?

- what would you do differently if you were to re-write this?

- are there any bugs or common issues, how do you go about diagnosing and debugging them? Could you write the code differently to be more resiliant to those issues?

Anyone who wrote that code (assuming it was relatively recently) is going to be able to talk about it sensibly, and be able to dig into the code and show how certain things are done.
Recurse Center has a pretty nice model where they give you a part of a program (small) to bring ahead of time (or you can pick any program you've written) and the interview is going through the code and adding a feature or two.

That kind of interview mitigates the amount of trivia and preparation-gaming while also ensuring that the applicant can solve problems as a team and is a competent programmer. It is cheatable in that one can memorize implementations of some features, though it seems somewhat difficult and not more cheatable than just memorizing a bunch of CS trivia.
If Covid-19 kills off the hands-on VR demo, how can VR grow?
I've been meaning to write up a page on how to do this, but basically:

- Take an ISO rip and never delete it since any additional encoding is a new derivative work of your data.

- Run it through MakeMKV to get a Matroska file for each title

- Assuming a video source (e.g. recorded TV shows or camcorder footage) use QTGMC to deinterlace the video from 60 fields per second to 60 frames per second. This will approximate the original look on today's screens by simulating the slight delay in the dimming of a CRT's phosphors after the electron beam excites them.

- Crop the video if any black bars are present. Many DVDs have 8px of dead area on the left and right edges because they are rooted in the D-1 4:2:2 standard and often have a program area resolution of 702 or 704x480: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-1_(Sony)

- Convert the chroma from SD colorspace to HD colorspace to avoid them looking washed-out on modern displays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._601

- Decide how to handle the aspect ratio. People use "anamorphic" to mean "widescreen DVD" but that's kinda a misnomer because all DVDs are anamorphic: its 720x480 pixel resolution is 3:2, halfway between 16:9 and 4:3. Each title sets a flag telling the display to stretch it ±18.6%, depending. You can leave it like this, setting the same DAR flag, but I've come to prefer resizing it myself to a square-pixel resolution since I'm usually cropping it anyway and VapourSynth will do a way better job than most displays can do on the fly. I also dislike the idea of throwing away horizontal pixel data by resizing 4:3 video down from 720x480 to 640x480, so some times I stretch it vertically instead, to 720x540 (or 720x544 with 4px black along the bottom if you want to follow the ATSC 3.0 HEVC recommendations).

- Encode the video with x265. I have a personal "SD" tuning that I've been working on and would love to share once I can get some example clips together :)

- Encode the probably-AC3 audio with FDK-AAC. I find it handles voices and other things better than faac thanks to its low-pass step, but for very high-bitrate sources (like concert DVDs) I disable that by using VBR-5: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Fraunhofer_FDK_AA...

- Mux your new streams together into a new MKV, and take a moment to fill in all the metadata fields the container provides. You can even attach a JPEG named "cover.jpg" and have it display as the icon in Explorer!
> What’s your threat model here? People making up elaborate lies about code they’ve written?

Likely people making up elaborate lies about code they didn't write. It's trivial to push code of which you are not the author.
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With the rise in homeschooling due to the pandemic, I'm not surprised this book is currently out of stock on Amazon!
This is the first time I've seen libido written as libedo. Could it be a typo?
So true. My father tells the story of when he was a kid and got a job loading bubble gum machines with bubble gum. Apparently they told him he could eat as much bubble gum as he wanted which blew his mind. Of course then after the first week he couldn't stand the stuff.
Pie in the sky when you die....
Completely valid point and shows my shortcoming. I hope I will improve it. But with COVID19 and danger of going homeless, it has become hard for me to manage it all. But you are completely right.
This seems to promote Google Docs > whiteboard, what? At least you can brainstorm or draw diagrams on a whiteboard.

IMHO the worst of these options is coderpad/hackerrank/etc. - it's robotic, discourages pseudocode, and perpetuates the idea that rote memorization is required to pass an interview.
In another life, I was a land surveyor and I did a lot of LiDAR work as well as heavy use of USGS data. Almost anybody except the most blinkered in that industry would have seen this coming, I think. It's just one more data point that convinces me that Google should be broken up or at least not allowed to silo previously public categories of data.
Thank you for the TLDR.
It's been used to induce spin in Tennis racquet marketing for more than 5 years now. /s

https://www.tennis.com/gear/2015/02/racquet-review-head-grap...

https://www.tennis.com/gear/2020/07/racquet-preview-head-gra...
Companies like google and facebook are paying 200k for entry level engineers. They aren't going to have any issues getting people to apply even with the whiteboard interviews.
Yes, I taught all 4 of my children using that book and it’s amazing and works and should be the standard everywhere.
It was actually recommended to us by our first daycare teacher who used to teach elementary school before retiring. She said that early in her career they were all using this book and never had a problem teaching any of the children how to read ... until the school system was flooded with new theories every year that promised to do it better only to end up worse with every decade she taught. So she went out and told every parent she could to get the this book and do it themselves.
Worked like a charm.
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Congrats!

I was wondering what is the mechanism for updating/invalidating a policy file across a fleet of servers?
This is nice, but I'd still like to find a no frills, to-the-point explainer on how to assemble an epub from standard tools. After all, it's really just a zip archive with a couple directories and some specially named files.

All of the tutorials I find are either woefully out of date - usually they can't create valid EPUB3 content, require stupid software like Java due to epubcheck, or just punt the whole issue to something like Calibre, Sigil, or worse, InDesign.

Have no actual, working programmers - save for John Siracusa - ever seen an epub file?

/rant
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180428070843/http://dvdisaster...
Blarg. Half thought. I mean, Baltimore just revealed a budget that contains zero police cuts. All 15 council members are Democrats. How is this Republicans’ fault?
I like whiteboards, if there is an interesting problem.

Going through my GitHub account however isn't good. It's full of quick one shot things, experiments and so on, very little production ready code and not representative of anything.
>>> small scale reactors

I believe this is the DoE position. Leverage AI/ML to design smaller magnetic confinement. With the goal toward commercialized products and partnerships.

JET was on track to breakeven. And I think most of the researchers involved believe they would have gotten there if the funding hadn't been cut. I think what they want is simply long term commitments. The sort of thing that is risky in fiscal budgets that can change year to year ;)

Final Report of the Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S.Burning Plasma Research (2018)

http://brookhaventech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Burning...
Does my pseudopod look fat to you? How about now?
I learned to read at home, as did my parents, and my kids. My mom used what i think is called "phonics," where we learned the letters, then learned to sound out words. Written English isn't perfect, but it has a phonetic alphabet, suggesting a clue as to how reading works in a language with a phonetic alphabet.

Everybody I know who has taught their own kids uses phonics. Most don't use a manual or any special teaching materials other than starting with really easy words.

Now there's another factor as well: We learned to read without the stress and pressure of learning it in a classroom. We had time to break it up into tiny pieces throughout the day. I see parents out with their kids. They'll point to a sign, and say: "What's that word?"

Also, we were given time to read on our own rather than moving on to the next subject, because there were no other subjects at home.
Oh, that would nice to include in the README - changes my entire perception of this project. Thanks for the context!
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Interesting...my first few small entries were sort of neat.

Then I tried creating a longer story including quotations and references to “you.” The reply seemed to be hard-coded to deal with hard case. Something like, “You think I’ll tell a story.”
"oh no, this 'no-name company' is _only_ going to pay me $100k+ / year while I live in a low-cost of living area, boo hoo hoo"

Scrolling through there are a lot of high-quality companies (Auth0, ASOS, Blue Bottle, Basecamp, Buffer, Canonical, CircleCI... and more and more).

Just because Google or Microsoft aren't on the list doesn't mean these are backwoods operations. Those companies don't need to bring in new candidates by being on these lists.
You would never hire a senior engineer like this (or anyone who is currently employed), but maybe it has its place for high risk hires.
I can’t imagine a situation where you couldn’t work that out with five minutes of casual conversation about the codebase but maybe I’m naive.
Here we go again perpetuating the stereotype of the whiney privileged engineer put in a position of mild discomfort by the villainous abusive white board interview boogeyman. I don’t mind whiteboard interview exercises. They’re not great, but they often give a very good and reasonable signal that often has a high corollary to work performance. I think there’s bigger fish to fry in refining fair and objective interview processes, I’ll never understand the perpetual moaning around this aspect of technical interviews.
Android dev here : big fan of having a what's new containing "we improved things".

ALL the majors apps I am familiar with basically launch new features in the same way : first under a feature flag (e.g. the feature code is in the app but deactivated by default, we control its activation server side). We open up the feature to a small percentage of users, look at how it is behaving (bugs, crashes, impact on metrics) and then decide whether we want to open it up to more users or not.

With such a system where your version number does not mean much, at best release notes would be "we added a new feature, you might or might not see it".
The problem is that you're biased - confirmation bias, expectation bias, selection bias, optimism bias, observer expectancy effect, the list goes on - and you end up learning all things except the truth.
Because France was desperate to have its own nuclear weapons.

It was not economic for them either (tho back in the day it displaced coal - try having a coal plant next door)
Which is why the interviewer should ask specific and thoughtful questions about the project, so they can gauge the candidate's level of understanding. This concern could also be addressed by introducing a trial period.
I second the exercise thing. I needed to get out of the house when Covid first hit, and ended up hopping on my bike and just exploring around. I gradually wanted to hit up more of the city, and in SF that meant hills. Both my anxiety and my resting heart rate plunged as a result. I now listen to my heart to fall asleep because it's so gentle.

I imagine the hills essentially provide the HIIT type situation for me, and my previous realization before reading this was that I absolutely need to be out of breath, heart pounding, at least once a day.

It makes a world of difference.
Look under the "Projects" tab to see it laid out more visually.
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There's nothing far more plausible about your explanation. If anything, two events occurring is less likely than one, given that plenty of other cultures didn't create fish sauce and yet had an abundance of fish nearby.
"The teachers drew her a Venn diagram of the three-cueing system. Adams thought this diagram made perfect sense. The research clearly shows that readers use all of these cues to understand what they're reading.

"But Adams soon figured out the disconnect. Teachers understood these cues not just as the way readers construct meaning from text, but as the way readers actually identify the words on the page. And they thought that teaching kids to decode or sound out words was not necessary."

Ultimately, this sounds like a difficulty in translating research into application. The cueing theory was incomplete but has taken over because it usually works. The newer theory is better, but has to fight its way in.

Teachers are required to have continuous training. There seems to be a breakdown between research and teacher education that isn't addressed in the article.
Probably, but that's only a problem if you live in Russia.
Nice one there!

sort is an elegant solution even tho the time complexity may be O(nlogn).
Interesting info. Thanks! I wonder if anyone has looked into DNP under medical supervision.
> That said, as an ignorant person regarding graphene, it seems graphene never "took off" as mass-produced material so I wonder what actual applications with graphene can be seen in the wild, regularly produced and commercialized or embedded into some market product?

It's a chicken and egg problem. No one has really bothered to put graphene into a mass manufactured product because of supply issues and no one's got the resources to accelerate work on the supply issue because there's no demand. Actually using high quality graphene to e.g. improve the performance of a capacitor or a battery cathode/anode by a few percent is really easy once you are sure that any money invested in doing it at scale won't go to waste because of supply issues.

Aluminum when through the same exact process in the 1800s so it's a natural consequence of the intersection of economics and science. I've got an old Scientific American from right after the Civil War with pages of people talking about this new wonder material aluminum and how it will change the world of metallurgy forever (and how useless the "machine guns" were during the war and the repeated discovery of heat treating asphalt and a bunch of other cool stuff). It wasn't until the Bayer and Hall–Héroult processes were invented in 1886-8 that aluminum became cheap enough to use in every day things. It took something like 60 years from first pure piece of aluminum for mass manufacturing to become practical but only 30 years before it changed the face of transportation and war.
I feel like old stuff always feels way slower than I remembered when I revisit it years later. I couldn't believe how slow of an iPhone I lived with when I booted my old one up recently.

Plus, most of modern Excel's apparent slowness comes from the animated text input and the animations between cells in the spreadsheet. I think that the text animations could be safely removed, but animations that give users a sense of relativity on the 2D plane when they make movements are very useful for UX.
Just don't buy chips on Ebay, Aliexpress, Amazon, etc. or any other online market where the seller is not well known to be reliable, especially costly parts. Chinese vendors in these cases almost always sell fakes; but beware also of local sellers who, whether knowingly or not, buy shoddy cheap parts from those vendors in quantities to sell them locally.
Get in production chips from the usual suppliers (Mouser, Farnell, Digikey, etc. - I would recommend tme.eu in the EU; no affiliation, just a happy customer) and for vintage, obsolete or hard to find parts, go to ham fests or if you search online, pay extra attention to the products and the sellers history and feedback: if a cheap part can be easily turned into a more costly one just by relabeling it, then you can be sure it eventually will.
Not CDs, but one brand/manufacturer of HD-DVDs is notorious for rot (I've heard suggestions they used bad glue, but I haven't confirmed this). Of the 20 or so I have (all Warner Brothers IIRC), at least half are unreadable (usually the first 20-50% is readable then it errors out).

They did replace 300 with a Blu-Ray copy (this was after HD-DVD was obviously on its way out), but the rest didn't fail until much later or were bought used for literally pennies.

For pressed CDs, I can't ever remember getting one that was unreadable and not obviously scratched (though I did have a game CD shatter into hundreds of pieces in the drive).
It's getting pretty close: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/production-pyra-pho... :)
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/blob/master/C...
If you squint you can see Basilisk II under “Credits” in the screenshot.
> they often give a very good and reasonable signal that often has a high corollary to work performance

Do you have any statistically significant data to back this claim?
SF author and marine biologist Peter Watts has a trilogy on a very similar premise, where an early "fork" of life (that is actually more efficient than our entire tree of life) got stuck down in the ocean depths at the dawn of time, until we accidentally bring it up.

https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
Nope.

There are other alternatives, and grid scale batteries are viable now. Just cheaper to burn gas/coal and fsck the future!

The obvious alternative is pumped hydro, that is well established. Another is demand management, unexplored because the greed heads in control do not believe that our society can work together for the common good.

Coming from Aotearoa, as I do, I know that is a fat lie.
Dear, you always look wonderful to me.
I had a former coworker re-write a library we had open sourced as their own. They had used the original version at work so knew it well, knew the internals by asking lots of questions while working for performance reasons. They renamed things and changed pointers around to their preference. They did this right before they left and had it on github as their work. They could meet all of your questions. They didn't really write the code, but it was MIT, what can you do.

It was very obviously there as bait for people like you and it was removed as soon as they took a new job. It was never used in production in its "released" form.

I had no problem with the person's abilities to code, but for reasons like this I probably wouldn't work with them again, or hire them as a eng lead or higher.
Kodak is not a well run company, so crony capitalism? Seems a very odd "gift" to receive at this time, by the current federal administration... Well, reading a bit, this is Trump stealing federal dollars out right to manufacture his hydroxychloroquine fantasy.
Why do you think economic incentives won't be enough? Solar and wind are already the cheapest energy sourve in terms of production. We just need large scale storage to become cheap and practical and we're sorted.

The UK government has committed to being carbon neutral by 2050. That's well before you're even prediciting the fusion becomes available.
"the subtle art of not giving a fuck"

there are only a few fucks we can give in this world, make them count.

for me its family, health, and then bills in that order.

if i feel im being stressed out at work or side projects, i remind myself its just work i can replace it if they fire me.
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