skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here, you've actually said something,

I suspect that if you go back and read my comments, you'll see me saying that it would be nice if things were more consistent, simpler, and that "minor distinctions that do nothing to help are a waste".

> Well, then you should have literally written this instead

Somewhere between victim blaming and invoking the Just World hypothesis. You introduced the idea that I should care about downvotes, you blamed my downvotes on complaining about them. Then when I denied that, you blamed the downvotes on me being accusatory. Now you've settled on the downvotes being because I'm not good enough at communication, and now you have a reason why I deserve them, you can tell me how I "should literally" have behaved if I didn't want them - a suggestion only you have pushed. That's annoyingly smug with 20/20 useless hindsight. Yes maybe it would have been good from a downvote point of view if I had literally written something that took me hours to get round to framing, instead, but I didn't, and can't, and if the cost of that is downvotes then so be it.
My point was that general programming usually looks more like writing the sorting algorithm than simply calling it. Thus, I would be more interested in seeing real examples of how the properties of J allow you to write algorithms more concisely or otherwise better.

The article showed how J solves some mathematical problems with built in functions or their built-in modifiers. But in general programming, you won't find a function that does exactly what you wanted, maybe with a little adverb. You'll usually have to write that function yourself, to describe how it works in terms of some of those pre-existing functions.

Note that your second example could be expressed as something like

x.OrderBy(y => y[1])

In C#, assuming x is int[N][M]. I understand that J's version can work with many other shapes of X, but that is hard to appreciate without seeing example of how that comes in handy when writing some other (hopefully well known) algorithm.
> 75 years ago we saved the world from fascism. Who is going to save us from ourselves? :-(

It was mainly Russia who did that. The US effort may well have saved Europe from Communism though.
Money talks as Chinese chip foundries lure TSMC staff with salaries to f
And another generation will pay for millennials, when they collect social security. That's how the system works.
And inequality is up since the 70's, as are housing, health care and cost of living expenses, while wages have remained stagnant for nearly 50 years.
Google AppEngine recently stopped support for Go 1.9. My app ran for four years without my attention which was great. But I also didn’t want to give it any more attention. So Google pulled the plug after I didn’t upload a recompiled version. Yes, they gave half a year notice or so, but I really didn’t feel like crawling for the source code and re-compiling it just to satisfy some Google internal deprecation. When the time came, I redirected my users to my new app that is similar (and hosted on a 4€ Hetzner Cloud instance that I fully control).
Even here you have many false assumptions though. For instance, the Harvard median new grad salary is 69k [1]. So you’re wrong in your assertion that compared to nearly everyone at elite universities you have failed. By your own definition of success, compared to most (by definition of median) people at elite universities, you have succeeded, and it’s they who have failed.

You also have an implicit assumption that people who work at Cisco or IBM haven’t put in work or mental anguish, and you’re wrong. I know many people who worked and studied hard to get jobs at these places.

You’re artificially restricting the set of successful outcomes so that you can say you’ve failed because you don’t fall into that arbitrary set. Not to mention that your entire definition of success as defined by things like money and perks is wrong.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/09/14/sta...
https://qandahq.herokuapp.com/
This reads like someone in his department targeted him with the conclusion in mind: termination. Someone wanted him fired. They tried every option available, and they eventually succeeded.
I'm not 100% on "most"... but really most devs I've met prefer the NoSQL options and the devs who did really like RDBMSs seemed to eventually drift into DBA positions.

I'm not sure why you focused on Mongo... it is probably the poster child for a bad example of NoSQL. It focused on features and performance while leaving data integrity on the floor. Never understood it's success given its Jepsen reviews.

NoSQL excels when it is targeted. Like using Etcd for config management. Consul for discovery. Redis for shared, in-memory data structures. Cassandra for high throughput, write heavy systems. DynamoDB for no-ops, key-value storage. S3 for key-value storage with large storage reqs. Etc.... They don't do as well, like Mongo, when they try to be general purpose. RDBMSs rule the jack-of-all-trade-master-of-none zone.
The beeminder theory is undermining by the very concept of money, especially credit cards, which removes the short term cost of losing money.

A simpler way to get the same result is to make the future present by surrounding yourself with pictures of your goals.
Non-profits have to report financial, and in their 990 forms have to say all employees who make over 100k a year. You can look at them usually through the IRS website. Gates Foundation posts theirs here: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Informati...

The only people making more than 300,000 are their 4 directors.
Probably not. Most Americans won't save and won't invest if they do.
Isee. Would love to find an elegant way to use PostgreSQL permissions system from Django that would result in a great perf boost, no doubt.
Few years without side projects can really put you out of business in IT if you dont have a very specialized knowledge. Im not gonna talk about management path because „few years adventure to seek out true self” can be seen as „brave” and „what a true leader would do” yada yada
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like this lets you port existing Fortran programs over to using the GPU with minimal effort. And if that's the case, wouldn't this be pretty big?
I think you're misunderstanding how power grids work. There's no way to stockpile large supplies of power like you can with food and water; to first order, all electricity that's produced today has to be consumed today. So it's an impossible task to have enough capacity available for arbitrary demand surges. It's not just a matter of shoveling coal in the furnaces twice as fast or drawing down the local power reservoirs.
Here you go:

https://www.surplustraders.net/banking-and-pos/atm
The Indian reservation part is true. Most Americans have never set foot in one. If you want to see what it's like, I recommend driving through the South Dakota reservations. But be prepared for a shock of sadness. They feel like different countries entirely.

It has been great to see the support in recent months for equality among all races in the US. But I wish we would also see more explicit support for Native Americans, for their suffering and their genocide. They are a group that has been exploited, victimized, and stolen from as much as any other group in America.
Besides the Thermodynamic Arrow of Time, there is also the Adaptive Arrow of Time, which is effectively its reverse.

The theory of Natural Selection is an example of the Adaptive Arrow of Time, since over time, variability in a population is minimized instead of maximized, as the law of Thermodynamics would have it. That is to say, in living things, randomness decreases disorder, at least for the time that a thing is living or exhibiting life-like behaviours. Conway's Game of Life is so named because of it.

Thermodynamics favours, among a set of probabilities, the most probable state. Natural Selection, on the other hand, favours the improbable state. A purely thermodynamic arrow of time would disallow increasing stability in populations, and the entire concept of species.

There are other "arrows of time," but I don't know enough about them to compare. My point is merely that thermodynamics explains only one of them. It is a fascinating topic, and they are all probably related in some magical way we are yet to understand.
Go back to the ‘50s and ‘60s and you can actually see things change. California voters put the brakes on infrastructure projects starting in the late 1950s, for example, like the 1959 anti-freeway San Francisco Supervisors vote. It all made sense to me once I learned about the Second Great Migration, a topic that strangely wasn’t taught to me at all by American public school curriculum.
Yes, it's all about discoverability. I don't normally look at my vanity metrics (as you correctly put it) but I definitely get views by just sticking stuff up there. And it's just an easy way to put presentation content up without any real effort. (Also easy embedding if I want to also put a link up on my blog.)

And conversely, if I'm looking for talks on a topic, it's a good place to search for them.

That said, Slideshare isn't a big deal to me one way or another. Especially if it looks like it's going to largely go behind a paywall, I'll just start self-hosting PDF and promote through other means.
We bought our batting from Shepherd's Dream [1], which looks like it also sells actual beds.

The blankets are just queen sized wool blankets that you can find various places.

We made our bed in the winter of 2013/2014. We used 5 wool blankets with a layer of "2yd extra thick wool batting" between each pair of blankets.

It starts out very thick, but compresses down to probably 2-3 inches thick over time.

We just made a set of similar beds for our three kids, but we used 3 yards of wool and a single queen sized wool blanket folded in half for the exterior.

I will see if I can get some pictures.

Happy to answer questions either here or at the email in my profile if people are interested.

[1] https://shepherdsdream.com/

Edit:

The blankets might actually be twin sized.

Their dimensions are very close to the footprint of a standard queen bed. So I think that means they are a size down since usually blankets will overhang the mattress.
Grid yes , maybe not the power plants themselves. Typically in robust networks you have good interconnects to neighbours you can purchase power from .

Also robust grid which enables selling back to the grid would have helped, such extreme hot weather goes in hand with solar generation
Isn't this just a $ decision?
Do you build a power point that runs only for 4 hours every 10 years?
Batteries may pencil out?
I wouldn't call that an obscure encoding issue, but an absolutely fundamental one. Absent meta information, you can never be sure that some text (or actually any data) is in a specific encoding (at best, you can be sure that it is not in some specific encoding). As an (indirect) illustration, see polyglots (programs that are valid programs in multiple programming languages simultaneously):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)
By making SlideShare a content subscription site?
https://ticktick.com/ Does this really well.
Strange reporting that people were "believed" to have been blacked out. We lost power yesterday in Sunnyvale from 5-9pm. Very interested in more info on the "hundreds of thousands" because it seems like the cuts were fairly limited. There was enough power to keep the fridge running but thats about it.
Sort of related. I always wondered how people in my photos would react knowing Google Photo was essentially scanning their face without their approval. I am sure this is covered by Google Photos T&Cs somehow, nevertheless, it's a real problem. Should I disclose anyone I snap about this? Even someone walking in the background?
The best mattress I ever had was soft fine sand in the curve of a dry gulch, after weeks of sleeping on hard ground on a long hike. It was also one of the stupidest places I've slept since a flash flood could have ended me.

But if I had to sleep rough in one place for long I might build a sand box bed. If the ancients did that I doubt archaeologists would discover it, since it's just a pile of sand.
You are a CEO of your house.

You bought a house for $100k in SF in 2000.

You hire a maid to clean it every week. The maid basically upkeep your asset.

It's 2020 now. You sold the house for $2m.

Should you pay your maid much more since your didn't do much and you earned profit?

Should you give equity to your maid?
Just looking at and I feel like I can't breathe in there.
Man, I read all the way to the bottom expecting the NeXT story to be a prelude/context to some information about a new logo project...
Hey gamerDude,

I've been wanting to create something like this myself. Would love to join forces and learn more. What's a good way to contact you? Thx!
Mastering Machine Learning with Core ML and Python
Where is all the load coming from? Aren't most of the office building (in the Bay Area) empty rightnow due to Covid?
This 100 character version is probably the cleanest.

M = np.reshape(np.arange(16),(4,4))
np.array([np.roll(M,(i,j),(0,1))
for i in [1,0,-1]
for j in [1,0,-1]])
I think it'd be nice to have a native driver instead of loading fuse and then a userspace driver. Is it going to revolutionize my NTFS access and make me toast in the mornings? No. Do I care to see it included? Yes.
> no one has yet solved the waste problem (okay, the US has ample free land, but the rest of the world does not!)

Waste is completely overblown as a problem. Solar and windmills have much lower energy density than fission. So your zero-carbon alternatives to storing fission waste somewhere are:

- Find even more land from somewhere for solar/wind farms, or

- Vastly reduce electricity consumption

Neither option really seems better than storing fission waste.
Seems most people are buying foam mattresses these days, not spring?
All Gas No Brakes is fantastic - strongly recommend to anyone remotely interested in journalism. This article sort of suggests he’s not a journalist - which I have to take issue with... He asks as few questions as possible and intentionally doesn’t steer the conversation - which is maybe not the kind of investigative drilling were used to in modern times - but is exactly what journalism needs. Every video provides enough context that you don’t feel silly commenting on it - you aren’t nagged by that “what did they say right after that clever edit back to the studio...” feeling.

Extremely happy AGNB got signed to AbsoLutley. I want Tim & Eric to do to news what they did to comedy.
Corner case. Fixed. Thanks!
“due to the insane effort by the WHATWG standards to truly describe what is actually happening in browsers”

I wonder whether one could reuse testcases from other browsers. Might be easier than having humans translate those WHATWG descriptions, written for humans, into a form that computers running tests can use.

And nitpick: it isn’t easier than ever. It was a lot easier for Tim Berners-Lee and the first few other browser writers, before there was a lot of agreement on how a browser was supposed to behave. Certainly, before JavaScript and css, SVG, XML, etc. The scope was a lot smaller.
Building seems to require nightly, not just beta due to use of the `or_patterns` feature.

rustup toolchain install nightly
rustup default nightly

All tests passed for me. Check out main.rs to get an idea of where it's at. Not as fun without text though :)
"Willpower" is just another facet of attention. I claim it's easier to do deep work when not in a cluttered, crowded, overly-warm workspace with unasked for music, a dynamic precluded by the purely-incentive based model you're falling back on.

You actually /can't/ just weigh the tradeoffs of being disctracted and reach a decision of not being distracted.

No -- it's meaningfully and sustainably easier to make good decisions when bad options are removed from the table (sometimes literally.)
In theory. The Sciter engine is not far off that, though it uses its own scripting language:

https://sciter.com/

EDIT: reply to c-smile below (HN won’t let me reply, sigh):

My “in theory” was referring to Kosmonaut. Then I pointed out Sciter as evidence that something similar has already been done.
As a crude workaround, you can try...

curl -O http://image.slidesharecdn.com/PATH-TO-SLIDES[1-50]-1024.jpg && convert *.jpg PRESENTATION.pdf

...to save a local copy. You need to view the page source for the URL and adapt the bracketed number of slides, but I used this previously and it worked well enough. I won't log in or even create an account so this is how I do it instead.
People like to dismiss this by pointing to the shiny parts of America, but every city in the world has good and bad neighborhoods. The surprising thing about corrupt countries is the wealth inequality -- the political class is full of grifters who pocket the contracting fees and the citizens who are supposed to be recipients of government services are wondering why the highway has been under construction for the last 5 years. Or the bullet train in California. Billions of dollars are disappearing with barely a track bed to show for it. I'll quote this NYT piece.

"“Approximately two dozen other countries have found H.S.R. feasible, including Uzbekistan,” she said, referring to high-speed rail. “And there is no reason it can’t be done here.”"

The government collects and spends trillions of dollars, and most of that is wealth transfer to contractors, much less value reaches the ground, where much of the country is dotted with emptied out farm towns and improvised shelters. If you don't believe America looks the way some see it, take a cross country train, you go through everybody's back yard that way.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-28/californ...
Instagram faces lawsuit over illegal harvesting of biometric data
> All you have to do is perform the most basic of optimizations

I mean, of course this is possible, and every compiler everywhere hopefully optimizes this, but at the same time you need to understand why one is faster than the other in order to understand why it makes sense to optimize it. In the end, you’ll acquire a more in-depth understanding of these semantics.

Regarding the inner workings of a CPU, I wasn’t claiming you will completely understand a CPU, my god I hope you don’t because it’s a crazy rabbit hole.

Again, I was thinking about the higher level, like touching the top of the iceberg and seeing what’s in there. Many a programmer don’t have any idea how function calls work, or how functions return values by using the stack, etc etc.

Bottom line, just because you don’t learn everything, doesn’t mean you’ll learn something.
Not an extension, but this is a common thing that could be done with a bookmarklet - open all links on the current page in a new tab.

Perhaps this is a good starting point:

https://gist.github.com/toastal/01c2387456ad2e6385f4
That is exactly nuclear energy comes in. It is impossible to actually run a grid off a renewable (esp. Solar) energy power-plant in any stable manner.

Nuclear energy serves the purpose of acting as the filler for the delta between the peak and trough.
It happens, just less often than is probably healthy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/ny-nra-lawsuit-letitia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
Just keep in mind that it's very heavy. Very. Like your building's construction code may not allow that much weight per floor area. Shipping or mooving it around would be similarly "fun".
That helps a lot. Thanks!
The more terrifying fact is that the scenario described in the novel has already partially happened in the real world.

* New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction

> Russian hackers planted a unique specimen of malware in the network of Ukraine's national grid operator, Ukrenergo. Just before midnight, they used it to open every circuit breaker in a transmission station north of Kyiv. The result was one of the most dramatic attacks in Russia's years-long cyberwar against its western neighbor.

https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ukraine-cyberattack-power...
https://mobile.twitter.com/california_iso gives heads up on grid issues,
stage 2 = grid at capacity,
stage 3 = lights start going out for someone.
Wow. In that case substitute what I said for past tense :)
The problem as I see it is that Mozilla is fundamentally two companies, one relatively small that makes almost all the money (thanks to google) the other rather large that makes basically nothing

Paradoxically, the small cash flush company is a nonprofit, while the larger bankrupt one is for profit.

Worse, the larger for profit company is simultaneously attempting to he a research institute, an advocacy group and a service.

I see no problem with the ceo making a "big" paycheck given the industry and location, but I do have major reservations about the seemingly directionless steering that they and their board have done.

This is not a critique of the individual research project, some of them being great, but just because Google gives you a big wad of cash does not mean you can spend it without a plan, or that you can do "everything"
> global identity (pubkey based)

Pubkey based is good, but a global identity is a recipe for disaster. Ideally, you derive a unique identity per domain, while still managing only a single (master) key pair at the user-level.
That worked for Einstein.
I'm starting an open collaborative knowledge sharing platform for personalised learning that would be registered as a non profit if things go well. First release on the way: https://sci-map.org/
From what I've seen there's really few social projects aiming for an exponential growth, startup style.
Another great article. In some photos we see small circles labeled as "vias" and other's show small circles as "contacts." What exactly is the difference between vias and contacts?
VMs have so much utility, so +1 to the author on the nerd nugget for compartimentalizing the use as a game cartridge.

VMs and VEs (environments) have gotten so portable that IOT and 5G will have to compete with raw storage (TB's) for the best user experience in a post-filtered world.

Possibly OT (or use case), but I've demod LTSP [0] to run multiple environments on a single server (PXE menu) and clustered multiple LTSP servers (bouncing to other LTSP menus by manually adding a server list to boot menu(s)) and treated them as books with chapters (each LTSP being a book).

Customizing each chapter by OS needs and media/content/apps has so many uses (immersive news,learning,entertainment) and paves the way for offnet productivity/entertainment that currently doesn't exist in the market (ala Home Library/Encyclopedia Server).

LTSP was not as PnP as it needs to be for consumer use (and external PCIe form factors were pricey), but anyone writing a VM (or decorating the interior) is already riding the next wave of physical data subscriptions/refills that bypass metered networks (SDCs or SSDs in TB capacities with OS agnostic data) for 8k video, VR and compilation/mixedtape datasets.

Portable VMs are a trend waiting to happen, so anything you can learn about it (inside-out) is not a waste.

[0] https://ltsp.org
People can be brilliant in some areas and absolutely batshit in others. I think that is the norm not the exception actually. If you discount their brilliance because of occasional batshittery you’ll miss out on a lot of insightful stuff.
The brilliance is how Andrew never mocks or judges his interview subjects, no matter how outwardly insane or ridiculous they might be. Obviously the videos are edited for comic effect, but I don't think he could have gotten half his material if he didn't just allow people be their raw unfiltered selves. The results are pretty fascinating and funny, you could probably write whole anthropological dissertations on some of these videos.
I usually deal with that problem by copying the link to Notepad++, where the distinction is quite clear.