skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To attract ONE talented professional to visit SOME state?
What about whistling, singing or performing music live? Where is the line?

I mean, are the people enacting such policies even real person living a real life?
If it was ambiguous, these digital tests may have told you it was negative even when it would be positive a day or two later. You might have slept better but it wouldn’t have been based on accurate data.
Superphénix was politically killed. The technology was promising.
Roadmap to a Roadmap: How Could We Tell When AGI Is a 'Manhattan Project' Away?
For most of my career since the 1980s, I have been a Common Lisp and Java developer. However, I did have an eight year stretch of using C++ at SAIC and later for PacBell, Disney and Nintendo projects.

When I was done with my professional C++ stint, I fell in love with the simplicity of C. It was like a breath of fresh air. I stopped using C largely by accident: everyone who paid for my work wanted Common Lisp or Java, and that lasted until the start of the deep learning craze seven years ago.

I thank the author for making a CC licensed PDF of his book available.
> This would of course also open up for other things like perhaps including resources at a particular point in the podcast that the user could respond to - for example links to relevant demos of technique under discussion etc.

Minus the “that the user could respond to” but isn’t that just show notes and/or chapters?

Those are already a thing as supported by, e.g., Overcast [1]. Overcast also has a function to share short clips, which I guess is similar to being able to link to specific points in a podcast. Podcasters don’t use the functionality available, though.

1: https://imgur.com/a/X99bPqX
> Speaks English. How many YC folks don't?

It creates practical difficulties. Similar to when founders have accents so strong that people can't understand what they're saying:
http://www.paulgraham.com/accents.html
I too am surprised "proportion" was not the obvious answer.

Here's another recent HN/Twitter discussion [0] that surprised me and made me think a lot
of programmers haven't done much numerical programming.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24223033
This exactly. I had to convince my wife not to doubt herself. “Yes that’s a line. Instructions say that if anything appears even if faint then you’re pregnant. No we don’t need to double check. Wahoo you’re pregnant!!”
Because they want to visit specific people in the US. Unfortunately for the US, this is getting solved by attractive people leaving the US, and people who do have the right to visit are choosing to hold conferences in more-free countries.
The owner of "gamil.com" must get so much email. I have mistyped that domain so many times (and corrected myself), but whoever owns that domain has a massive amount of power based solely on all the unintended emails he receives. Imagine all the bank account password resets, confidential information, and personal information that are accidentally sent to "gamil" addresses instead of "gmail". If I were a state-sponsored hacker, I'd be trying to take control of as many typo domains as possible and hoovering up all the mistaken emails and mining them for valuable information.
Still effectively an eternity in the modern world.
By that logic, take all the paint away from Van Gogh and give it all to Jeff Koons.
If you have enough money you can buy the influencing of a lot of less analytical people.

In the UK we combat that by strict regulations on money spent influencing voters. Sadly, despite proving Brexit campaigns were backed by an excessive amount of money routed through a Russian oligarch the result remains (unintended ironic use of 'remain'!).

Democracy can only work with probity. If the people don't know the truth they can't vote for their choice.

Benevolent dictatorship seems likely the better option, just choose your dictator carefully!
Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017)
Because one of two major parties as well as State and local governments influenced by it help organize it, encourages it and fails to condemn even the most violent and outrageous examples of these generally lawless and violent demonstrations. Only tiny minority of these violent looters and criminals gets caught and prosecuted.

Ther are some secondary factors at play too, but you don't need a PhD to know the main reason.
There was a scare on Twitch a couple months ago where a few big streamers got dinged for infringements (along with another big gossip streamer saying he had sources that claimed there's companies with the tech to copyright strike every offending streamer on Twitch right now if they wanted to), but since then nothing has happened. Plenty of people play copyrighted music, and Twitch continues to mute it in the VODs.
The insiders make the rules. They might fear you will break sterility, or they might hate your ethnicity or religion.
Isn't all of that orthogonal to my point about quality though? I don't see any reason why you can't build an ad-supported service, even one that is manipulative, that's of high quality.
If this interests you, I strongly recommend visiting the Warther Museum[0] in Ohio.

[0] - https://thewarthermuseum.com/collection
I was just the right age when ‘Monkey Island’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis’ appeared in my life. That kind of in-world puzzle solving seems absent from a lot of what I see my early-teenage nieces/nephews (choose to) play now.
In general usage, 'proportion' is not limited to the unit interval [1][2]. Offhand, however, I cannot think of a use of 'portion' that does not refer to part of a whole [3]. I think this is the best suggestion so far.

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/proportion

[2]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proportion (3rd. entry)

[3] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portion
I've been using Reddit since 2009 (after the Digg exodus for ironically - a bad redesign.), and the biggest change I've noticed (aside from the terrible single page app they switched over to) is how massively popular schadenfreude content is now. Subreddits like "Justice Served" and "Public Freakout", "Malicious Compliance" "Entitled Parents", the list goes on and on.

It's all "This person/people/group did something bad and now are getting their comeuppance." and the site has become like a nerdy version of World Star Hip Hop.

You really can't browse the regular Reddit front page without encountering a lot of content that is designed to upset you. I've started to actually hate using Reddit. Niche subreddits are still useful in limited ways, but it's a shame to see things go this way. Reddit had a good run.
> or that it will magically disappear after the US elections in Nov

I don't think it will magically disappear, but I think people will get more comfortable with the idea of "approaching normalcy" whether we have a vaccine or not if Biden wins.

There is a political profit to being as censorious as possible with covid reporting wrt Trump.
It's not difficult to imagine a battery that is digitally tied to a particular vehicle or key fob. Please don't make dangerous suggestions like short circuiting though. Nobody wants their house to burn down just because someone had a "cute" idea.
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Best and most accurate comment. I couldn't agree more.
Because they force us to use this app, I stopped visiting reddit.
I would expect people that contribute to have a higher old.r percentage, and smaller subreddits as well. (Frankly I expect this to go with age, everybody above 17 must ude old.r in my Imagination). Do you have any insight on this?
I think you're right here. When you're emotionally invested in the result (you want to be pregnant, or you don't want to be), then a less than certain result can force you to agonise over whether you're doing it right, or trust your own senses.

A digital readout (assuming is pretty accurate) can remove this ambiguity.

The other benefit is for anyone who has difficulty with colour perception, or is in a poorly lit environment. I assume the device can read the stip in pure blackness leaving little enivornmental light to cause confusion.

But when it's all said and one, I bet this was created by the marketing department.
They're the same people who purposely ruin their products with advertising, pervasive tracking, and hostile UX. Then they claim they're doing their users a favor. By "helping businesses reach their audiences". Because that's clearly what people use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all other social media services for, right?

Social media companies are waaay out of touch with the real world.
I use Sync for Reddit and have been for ages, great Android app :)
This is REQUIEM
I am sensing a confusion. Syntax has nothing to do with applicability to microcontrollers.
Students uncover method to manipulate AI grading algorithm
Notary is a signing scheme from the publisher. It is an improvement over GPG signing + a better scheme for signaling to clients the next version to update.

Asset Transparency doesn't require the publisher to be involved at all and can work on any URL on the internet that is publicly accessible. It also complementary to signing schemes.

Here is the Asset Transparency CLI fetching and verifying the contents of a notary release for example:

tl get https://github.com/theupdateframework/notary/releases/download/v0.6.1/notary-Linux-amd64

Or if you are curious hit the service’s lookup endpoint directly:

curl http://beta-asset.transparencylog.net/lookup/github.com/theupdateframework/notary/releases/download/v0.6.1/notary-Linux-amd64
Did you ever read these comments? There was almost no value added by allowing people to shout into the wind and have it appear on your website. Or worse, it detracted from the quality of original content.

News website comment areas are as bad or worse than YouTube comments; places inhabited by trolls and shitposters.
I was getting started in the field right around the time this was written, attending college (and later being employed) at a university that was an all-DEC shop. I wound up being introduced to VMS and Unix at the same time. I greatly preferred Unix at the time, but looking back on it, it was for a completely different set of reasons than I would apply now.

The biggest was that I wanted a machine of my own to work on, not just a shell account on a big Vax with a tiny quota. The price of the lowest-end, used machine with a hope of running vms at a decent clip was astronomical, upgrades were proprietary and expensive. I think the machine in my office at the time came with a perpetual single user vms license, but if I wanted to create shell accounts for my friends, buying license paks was also quite expensive.

If I wanted to, say, run irc on the vaxstation, instead of the handful of popular clients that one could build on Ultrix, there was a single vms port, and to build it would require licensing a compiler. Downloading the source would require buying the tcp/ip module license as it would be years before that was bundled in.

So if I ditched the Vaxstation and got one of the MIPS based DEC pizza boxes, I could put Ultrix on it and at least get the GNU toolchain installed and be able to build and run a bunch of the software I wanted. My older colleagues who preferred working with VMS would spend weeks attempting to port some popular utility to VMS, which seemed goofy to me at the time.

Within a couple of years 386BSD and Linux came along, and my plan to save up the 5kUSD or so to buy my own DECStation quickly vaporized when I saw that pretty much everything I wanted to run on Ultrix would build on Linux, so I certainly had no more interest in VMS after that.

Now a couple of decades later, I sometimes think about the things that I desperately miss about products like VMS. The expansive, exhaustive documentation. The robustness of the systems in production, the great interoperability between the various compilers.

We also got pretty amazing support from DEC, but the amount of money that we paid for all those things was breathtaking. If you were using custom software for critical businesses or processes, it was not a terrible arrangement, but if you wanted to stick an email server in the closet of your small business and you weren't already a fan of VMS, it would have seemed crazy to choose one of those boxes. They were very much a premium product in a space where developers with DIY tendencies where suddenly being presented with heaps of cheaper choices, even if they weren't as reliable or well-documented.

I'm very curious to see what becomes of the x86_64 port; now that I'm a little older, more patient, and have a few bits of software that I'd like to stay running all the time, it might be nice to have the option. I think I even remember enough DCL to get around :)
I'm just getting into the hobby of woodcarving myself. There are some online classes but most of them charge a small subscription fee. If I were looking for an in-person class these are probably good places to look and/or ask, they appear to be the biggest communities:

old.reddit.com/r/woodcarving
forum.woodcarvingillustrated.com

There are also a ton of free tutorials on Youtube that are pretty good.
These are all my suggestions, I would also add look for ways to spread out tasks to other smaller VMs - the general pricing is +$5 "per" ($5 per +1 vCPU, $5 per +2G vRAM), a $5/$10 webserver only handle static asset delivery, then apps on middle tier app servers at $15/$20 would give better fault tolerance and spread out the load and still keep blue/green.
I added a rule in HTTPS Everywhere that redirects everything to the old site.
TLDR: We're here to help each other. That's how we give our lives (existence) meaning. We now know lots of ways to do that effectively.

My main concern has always been fairness. I might be a Rawlsian. Not inequity or egalitarianism stuff, like most lefties, but fairness.

I blame this on being raised in a liberal Christian church and the Beatitudes. And sibling rivalry. Because I need things to be very simple, I somehow landed on:

- Help people help themselves.

- Help those who cannot help themselves.

Note that I don't focus on merit, worthiness, guilt, blame, punishment, and so forth. While all very important, those are someone else's problems. In my upbringing, it was god's job to pass judgement, not mine. So I'm content to mitigate cheating and freeloading.

One derivation of my "help each other" ruleset is we have a shared responsibility.

Not the notion of personal responsibility from the conservatives. And not the notion of equal rights from the liberals. I have no quarrel with either of those beliefs; they're both good and true. I just think "shared responsibility" resolves the paradox, is more fundamental.

I see shared responsibility as the most effective way to achieve my half-baked notions of libertarian and anarchist styled maximal personal freedom. We can't just cut people loose. We're all stuck on this rock together. So we have to figure out how to bring the least of us (Beatitudes FTW) on the journey. (Goldblatt's theory of constraints also applies here.)

--

I have a geek's game theoretic worldview of stuff like capitalism, democracy, competition, markets, taxes, etc. They're just clever algorithms for tackling optimization problems. Slice and dice and recombine them as needed to best attain desired social and civil outcomes.

I was learning and applying (professionally) optimization and voting systems around the same time (1990s). Many eurekas. Bee colony optimization (for example) and group decision making (using approval voting, for example) are both part of a whole.

So that's about it. My views on politics, economy, collective action all come from my half-baked notions of fairness and figuring out how to best help each other. Confusingly, my advice for action changes as circumstances change, because the problem space is always changing.
That widget is a bit over the top - I added the next/prev/random links in plain text instead. Anyway, I love the idea of reviving web rings, so of course I joined.
I don't think "normalised" is specific enough. Normalising can refer to division by values other than the maximum. I'm also not convinced it implies non-negativity.

(My vote's with "proportion" BTW.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_(statistics)
This does happen. But are you sure those are “real” followers? There are services you can pay to give you followers.
Last time I saw the redesign, there was an option to "opt out of the redesign" in the user menu. It worked — I have never seen it again.
AIR: Slashdot redesigned, people moved to Digg, Digg redesigned, people moved to Reddit (was MySpace in there too?), Reddit ... let's redesign (actually they've partially reinvented themselves a couple of times to my recollection).
Thank god. I’d hate to see the book grow to a thousand pages.
> Guan had access at UCLA to a "graphics processing unit," a piece of technology with potential military applications

A GPU. Very dangerous. Very suspicious.

The Thousand Talents Program is just a talent recruitment program. Tons of countries have analogous programs. Canada calls theirs the "Canada Excellence Research Chairs" program. The UK calls theirs the "Rutherford Fund." The Chinese program has nothing to do with "seeding US universities." It's mostly about encouraging Chinese scientists to return to China, to reverse the brain drain.
Subs are already selling merch.

Look at r/teenagers mods selling cheap printed shirts.
Anyone inclining towards the view that comments are harmful, as good code is always self-documenting, should ponder the amount of debate that has already gone into this one tiny issue.
May you be so lucky in your career as to always correctly predict the obvious-in-hindsight.
Anything that knocks a fully functional multiple thousands of tonnes of concrete, steel, water and fissile material onto it's side was already going to fuck up your day.

As far as I'm aware we've never had a nuclear reactor go sideways, and it's kinda ludicrous to even ask. It's one of the most massive structures, built on bedrock because it's too heavy to be built on anything else, and even these "small" reactors will be incredibly heavy.
Adopting a transactional sales model – lessons from Ahrefs
Those articles from mid-1990s are great to read; they are both funny and informative. Even as many of the points they make are still valid today, even more valuable is the ability to look at succeesses or failures with 20+ years of hindsight.

I feel the pain of the user in this particular case. But I also understand the frustration of the people who wanted to write their own smaller programs with less restrictions than the well architected but highly constrained VMS architecture. And ignoring such users can topple a better technology. That is why (a technically horrible) DOS spread like wildfire on personal computers, super unreliable Windows (Win 95 had to be rebooted daily) killed a much more robust OS-2, etc.

We can call such users who want capabilities quickly, even if they are not fully reliable "ignorant lemmings" or whatever, but ignoring them when a competitor does not is very risky. My 2c.
You'd expect people that lived at any time during the Bush administration could see through the blatant rhetorical trick of using "good" words in names to evade criticism.

BLM, Antifa, etc.: I don't support Operation Iraqi Freedom even though I support Iraqis being free.

Same thing with being pro-life/choice. "You don't support life?!"
The caveat I'd make about that comparison is that the question a lot of people end up asking is "How many SV flavor of tech companies are on the East Coast vs. SV?" Ignoring, for example, biotech, defense contractors, finance, etc. The comparison isn't invalid but it's certainly biased towards tech=web-scale.
Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other
I am so fed up with Windows changing my default program associations every week.

I set PDF to Adobe Reader. Next week it's back to #$%@ Edge again.

I set PNG, JPG to HyperSnap. Next week it's bloody Edge again.

I have written a script to reset the associations, but it does not work.

:: need double-% so it doesn't mistake it as a parameter of this batch file
ftype htmlfile="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "%%1"
ftype jpegfile="C:\Program Files\HyperSnap 8\HprSnap8.exe" "%%1"
ftype pngfile="C:\Program Files\HyperSnap 8\HprSnap8.exe" "%%1"
ftype AcroExch.Document.DC="C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" "%%1"
I used k&r as my first C book. You can learn C from it. However it does teach a C that is not really used in the wild. Specifically function definitions and tri-glyphs. Its memory management is kind of hand wavy and it does not stress enough the importance of getting the types right (like the nightmare of printf). Both of which can cause memory issues very quickly. If you start with that book I would recommend one of those others to go along with it. Using C is easy. Getting it right takes time, practice, and a few stubbed toes.
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I was usually using the Reddit is Fun app, but yeah maybe a direct subreddit link in browser could be a good middle road.
>“Now it's literally, if you don't have connectivity, you can't do school."

It seems that in our current world, having internet access is increasingly like access to power or water. I wouldn't count on incredibly limited plans like the one linked to get us there. Like water or power, it seems that getting public investment at the community level is the best way to provide residents affordable internet access.

Unfortunately, 22 states have banned municipal governments from providing internet access [1].

[1] https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
Frankly I have no idea why are people acting so impressed. ~15 years ago were extremely common images which showed user's IP address, it was usually done in PHP using imagemagicks. This is basically same, just with added cache of text which is then showed. I even remember POC html/server only chat which sent clients new gif frames as they posted new messages (found it [0], it's over 20 years old). That was much more impressive.

[0]: http://zesty.ca/chat/chat.cgi
Oops, looks like Bash at least accounted for this case. Really, I think you want to route new user to "man intro" first, if they just asked for help.

$ help
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
These shell commands are defined internally. Type `help' to see this list.
Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.
Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.
Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this list.