skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”
> ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

I assume you want them to have a leveraged, high-impact job, rather than happening to spend most of their life on a certain type of problem.

Help by getting them exposure to people doing the work. A chance to talk, a chance to learn about the impact of the work. Learning materials are more accessible than ever, but a unique reason to pursue a particular path is less convincing than ever.

Empower them to find a path in that general direction. Help them find projects that they like (or love), that can contribute meaningfully to, and projects for which they care about the outcome—it has some significance to them (or delivers clear value to benefactors they care about).
Another solution would just be to pump in cleaner air. You could imagine a truck that drops off a few tanks of CO2-free air.
I have some experience in that area. If I'm reading this correctly, they don't know race, only ZIP code. They are extrapolating race from zip code. They also seem to be deriving results for extrapolated black/hispanic populations based on using the other populations as a control.

Its really just a question of whether their sample sizes are large enough to justify a conclusion about the overall population. They are reporting a 95% confidence interval. Real back-of-the-napkin math (read: don't take this to the bank) would say that a sample size of 9,604 could get you a 95% confidence interval with a 1% margin of error on a population of 100 million. So it seems they are doing ok, but this is not to say there are not a bunch of other possible issues or confounds to consider if someone dug into the study.
If it truly is the common practice to have unmasked reconnaissance flights around russian airspace then it does seem strange that that someone decided to mask this flight.

Perhaps an automatic switching system was installed and it tripped mid flight?
Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble? (2006)
This tool has been broken for a while, the API it uses has been deprecated.
>Remember when Buffet said to be fearful when others are greedy?

Except everyone seems to be having this same discourse. I hear this as everyone being fearful, time to be greedy?
Derek Lowe wrote a post this week on the "bradykinin hypothesis," and how it has been gaining traction as a unifying model that can explain many of the observed effects of infection, including sensitivity to vitamin D levels.

[1] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/09/08/br...
I just want a modern EEEPC in a 7" format with an FPGA for a brain rather than any processor, so you can build whatever you want.
you don't know that there won't be repercussions. perhaps when i say "America is already at dystopian North Korean levels of mass propaganda", my IP address is stored in XKEYSCORE and my cell phone billing info is cross referenced and my name is put on a Watchlist.

perhaps when i try to apply to a FedGov job, some automated sytem for scoring Inside Threats uses that Watchlist, and determines i am a security threat, and i am denied the job.

perhaps that automated scoring system is sold to the private sector, and then i am also denied jobs and bank loans and housing and travel when the system rejects me for unspecified reasons, since the existence of the secret Watchlist will never be known outside of FedGov.

through the existence of numerous forms of mass surveillance exposed by Wikileaks, we know the machinery of an automated social credit system has already been built. it's operational. the only question is how far along are they in putting it to use to truly turn us into a superficially happier nation sized prison camp like North Korea.
I don't know what goes on in the minds of interviewers, but if I had to guess, they use recursion to test the interviewee's ability to reason inductively --- which, of course, is necessary for writing even simple loops. Maybe a question about loop invariants might be a good replacement.

Regardless, yes, I doubt many people write a lot of recursive functions, since the data structures people use tend to either be flat, based on arrays, or neatly hidden away in libraries.
Vitamin D is arguably not a vitamin because we produce it when exposed to sunlight and it's actually a hormone. I guess that makes sunlight the vitamin.
I knew of this happening, but I wasn't sure to what extent it did not know it was that drastic.
things usually cost three times the international price
no. things usually cost three times the international price
They are slow off the mark here
In the context of my comment, better jobs. Doctors, lawyers, and proper engineers and such. Basically, the kids who worked harder excelled in college and stuck with it.
Same here. It was common knowledge that they would use the register, cancel in grace period, register strategy. The domain tasting strategy. Either they were doing this or they were leaking data that let them do this.

It was this warning everyone was given in the early 00s. I'm glad the anti-tasting provisions were brought into force by ICANN.

Interestingly I never found out if it was an urban legend or not. But I thought one of the domains I was searching for was snapped up like that while I was comparison shopping. But it definitely wasn't tasted. It's been a parked page for 18 years now. Fascinating.
100M-year-old sperm is the oldest ever found. And it's giant
I thought it was already established that Freud's teachings were among the dumbest shit in human history.

If he was Nigerian instead of Central European people would have probably burned him alive for insanity.
My grandmother traced her family back to the 30 years war. No records after that. Churches are a very good source for that in Europe. That being said, I never understood the obsession with lineage.
I don't get these sorts of "make X look like Y" products (Twister OS isn't the only one out there).

You can't polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter.

A Pi is always going to be a Pi. Its always going to be a Linux thing (Debian IIRC).

If you want Windows, buy a PC.

If you want macOS, but a Mac.

But to me at least there's very little point indeed making the UI look sort of, maybe, like Windows or macOS if the UX is going to still be Linux.
It was rebuilt, though. The final destruction was by evangelical Christians around 407 AD. They couldn't tolerate competition.[1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_pagans_in_the_l...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis#Final_destru...
What is relativity, anyway?
The author is has a famous painter as a parent, has studied art history, and this article is an excerpt from their book on creativity of artists.
No. Sophistry is ignoring 50 years of post-Nixon/Goldwater era Republican political strategy.

It's tremendously difficult to believe someone could live in the states and not have any idea this was going on.

Even former RNC chair Melhman was fairly straight to the point on the issue in 2005: "Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization." Nothing has changed since then.
There are these things called plants that do that kind of stuff, so maybe if you have enough of them inside your house, they eat the CO2 away... :)
for a couple GB? You should probably get 60-100 GB for that I'd bet.
> As OOO CPUs get better, they can become increasingly parallel when running the exact same assembly. While VLIW like Itanium was limited to 3 ops/instruction, which is already behind today's OOO CPUs.

There's no reason for the VLIW machine not to get wider with time. The fact that Itanium didn't speaks more of its economic unhealthiness than of anything else.
I love this. I like the form factor. I like the versatility of it that is being thought of from the start.
The post was obviously downvoted for being unsubstantive and flamebait, which is against the site guidelines. Your comment also broke multiple guidelines: the one against insinuations of astroturfing/shilling/spying, and the one against going on about downvotes. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
>SDE1 salaries at Amazon can range from $10,697 - $794,729

Yes, how a person making a minimum of $100K/y could know such things.
As a candidate your only option is to move on or write a bad glassdoor if you are so inclined and move on.

Not in the EU. You can file a GDPR SAR for any electronic records created during the process, which will probably include the interviewer’s notes.
Summarizing what I learned when I looked into this:

VLIW directly exposes hardware parallelism to the programmer, making more throughput available without requiring complex scheduling machinery (save die area + power). This works well for code targeting a single architecture (like embedded) where timing is predictable (like DSP code). Essentially VLIW machine code embeds a bunch of very specific assumptions about processor's internal design.

Here VLIW is alive and well for targets like a cell modem baseband or set top box video decoder chip that needs maximum efficiency and only runs the firmware from the manufacturer.

General purpose CPUs don't fit this model. They need to support running the same code across chip variants and generations, each with varying amounts of internal parallelism, cache, etc, and instruction timing is not predictable or deterministic (memory and IO latency, cache residency, etc etc). Modern high performance CPUs have extraordinarily complex and clever machinery to process what user space programmers think of as "machine code" to find and use as much parallelism as possible. This includes speculative execution based on behavior observed at run time, something not possible even in a perfect VLIW compiler. Given this you're not likely to see VLIW instruction sets exposed to user space. This is consistent with Linus's view I think.

Notably, as 3D accelerators became user-programmable VLIW stopped working well (see ATI/AMD GCN architecture rationale).

What Transmeta did is try to combine the advantages of VLIW hardware and stability of existing serial x86 code by filling the gap with a JIT living below the kernel ("Code Morphing Software"). There are examples like HP Dynamo that suggest this is a workable idea and in practice the 1st gen Crusoe product was decent. There are some different ideas why they failed but at least part of the problem is that they got squeezed by Intel's manufacturing advantage: 20 years ago being a year or two ahead in fab process was more effective than having a better design. I haven't seen any strong case that the technical approach wouldn't work at least as well today with TSMC and Samsung now leading in fab.

Interestingly the Denver architecture NVIDIA uses in their embedded products follows the Transmeta approach with an ARM front end and embedded JIT. Reportedly they were originally going to do x86 as well. I'm curious what's going to happen there now that they own Arm.
You read me correctly. I did intend the politer version of TFA of RTFA ("Read/The Fine Article"). IMO, Robert does a great job of setting up Pratt Parsing and his intent to write a Pratt Parser Generator. As such, it is a "Fine Article" adding to the compendium of Pratt Parsing & Operator Precedence Parsing.

I hear you though, there are many that (overly) use passive-aggressive and/or aggressive language in the form of acronyms like STFU, GTFO, RTFA, IDC, WTH, WTF etc. Not my intent. I sometimes use TFA as a reference to the linked article. I'll reconsider next time.
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Ok, so some feedback: I'm sad to report I stopped testing already. For my particular job I tend to debug and work with large files, especially JSON. A lot of debugging apps and looking through large crash logs, then looking at application states. This is probably not typical, but it's crucial to me.

The transition is made hard because of the odd default key mappings (they hotkey editor is very difficult to use. I went back and forward and couldn't understand why my mappings weren't working only to find that it was due to having to use the hotkey editor in a specific way). I really think a good keymapping is the first hurdle people have to overcome, so shipping it with an hotkey extension for Sublime, VSCode, etc. would be a big win off the line.

The autocomplete and jump to definition seemed to work well. I had a hard time figuring out if "Find references" were working. It kept telling me to go to some obscure tab or place somewhere but since it's all symbols, I don't know where to actually go. VSCode is easy by comparison - a "peek" window shows up prioritized references.

However, Nova is a no-go for me because it simply stalls when opening a >2 MB JSON files. Forget about trying to search-replace - it's simply too slow. In defense of Nova, Sublime also can't deal with it.

My impression going away from Nova is: It's like Xcode and VSCode had a baby. Perhaps with time it'll improve in performance and be fine tuned to a point where I can use it daily - but given it's primarily paid (not "free with nag screen" like sublime), I can't review it any time soon again.
Perhaps we can install oxygen lines next to our natural gas lines.
I Quit a $500K Job at Amazon to Work for Myself (2019)
This reminds me of a post here before. I read someone here post how he got his initially unwilling teen son to learn how to code.

The dad tried to get him into learning to code but the son was uninterested

However after the son worked at a sandwich shop for 6 months earning minimum wage, the son came to dad asking for help with learning how to code.

I thought that was hilarious.
> You want D3 variant, rather than D2.

Huhm, I have multivitamins that say "Vitamin D" with no hint as to which type. Any idea which it's likely to be?
Well sure. I'm not taking Amazon's side on this, just trying to explain from my perspective why it's not really an online vs physical issue like the grandparent comment suggested. Other factors (I listed a couple; co-mingling also matters) are the points of contention.
The correct solution is to apply Content-Security-Policy plus character escaping as needed.
The Crushing Reality of Zoom School
> If pytorch wasn’t able to keep the gpu busy, I would be more inclined to try Julia or lisp again.

Julia's GPU programming stack is fantastic and very advanced btw.
In 2016 the senate and the White House were held by different parties. Since SCOTUS nominations come from the executive, and are seated with advice and consent of the Senate, what McConnell did is not only normal it’s perfectly in line with a century of precedent. The idea that it was out of line, or against some nonexistent norm, is a narrative invented to make people feel better and discredit the court in the eyes of the public.
What exactly qualifies a protein as being conductive? There’s not enough detail in the article to understand that.
The gov can put dissidents in prison, won't be any need to open fire on protestors. Works fine in another big country.

I think against wide spread surveillance, small arms cannot do much.
1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14B miles from home
Dr Fauci takes 6000 international units (150mcg) of Vitamin D per day [video]
I'd like some crack you're smoking.

Rust is very well optimized for developer happiness. Built in decent package manager, minor type system annoyances that do not cause real slow down once you get the hang of it.

If you say Java is optimized for developer happiness, or worse, Haskell, I'll pass on this cheap trolling attempt.

C family is not optimized for happiness at all, not with the hours spent debugging someone else's bugs that break your code.

C# is somewhat better Java. Still not good enough.

Python and Ruby are, but you'll curse the day you have to performance optimize code.
Object Pascal and Visual Basic, but they're rarely used for systems programming nowadays.

Perl has not shaken the write only language moniker, even with Perl 6.

What are your other suggestions? Smalltalk or Squeak? Lisp? I think the people have spoken on these...

JavaScript with all the silent bugs you can make in it, and the awkwardness of the runtime?
This looks very nice, and actually pretty rugged. A few thoughts:

* Would it increase the complexity a lot to provide a linux-capable SoC as an additional chip? (OK, this could be a daughter board)

* "iCE40UP5K SG48, 98% utilized" <- isn't it a bit restrictive to start with such a low room for growth?
I was trying to be generous because if we use the literal interpretation of postmodernism what he is saying makes no sense. Or if you can explain how the modernist/postmodernist movements relate in the context of his post I would be glad to hear your interpretation.

And my favorite simple way to define it is:

modernism - post industrial revolution enthusiasm about humanity

postmodernism - post ww2 depression about humanity
That's my experience. My customers never tell me "We need 2,000 more lines of Javascript code by next month." They do tell me "We need to reduce shipping costs" or "We need to put up a new marketing web site." They don't care how I solve those problems, though their existing infrastructure, code base, and staff will usually put some constraints around the possible solutions.

My customers almost never look at my code. Most of them couldn't tell you what languages and tools I used. They care about the result, in the same way I care that clean water comes out of my faucet a lot more than I care about what kind and brand of pipe was used in the construction of my house.

As I already wrote in other comments, mastery of multiple languages, tools, idioms, and purely technical skills are necessary but not sufficient to call yourself a "senior programmer" (in my opinion, anyway), and necessary but not sufficient to build a long-term career as a programmer.

I know in many jobs language skill and experience matters a lot, because the company has already committed to an ecosystem and can't afford to or won't invest in lengthy training (mainly because of the high cost and risk). Some shops absolutely do care that their new hires already know Python or C++ in depth, and I have worked in those environments. But that's because they can test and measure that ability, whereas they can't easily measure a candidate's ability to add value and solve problems in the business domain. I can say with confidence that I can learn a new language ecosystem very quickly because of my decades of experience, but I may not be able to persuade a room full of programmers quizzing me that I have that ability. As a freelancer I'm normally dealing with business people faced with business problems, not a a group of programmers forced to interview me. Either I can deliver or I can't, that's all that matters to my customers. I have a career history that shows that I can work in a programming team and contribute effectively, and I can learn new languages and tools pretty fast, but I would today not get far in a Google or Facebook interview because they tune their screening process for technical skills they can measure and evaluate. They can afford the false negatives. At my age they wouldn't consider me anyway but that's another problem. I used to work in Silicon Valley for a big tech company but that's not an environment I'd go back to. I now prefer working directly with the people who can make business decisions and pay for them, and not for people who think my inability to balance a binary tree on a whiteboard is relevant.
U.S. military has a heat ray [video]
> Mill has no answer for the unpredictable cache misses.

Yes, they have. They have separated fetch and use operations and a completely rethought writing cycle.

Of course, I have no idea how that actually works on practice.
I heard tanning in short doses is actually ideal to prevent melanoma and procure the best vitamin D intake.

By exposing more of the skin, you absorb more vitamin D quicker, and so if you tan only 5 to 20 minutes depending on your skin complexion, you basically avoid skin burns and excess damage which causes melanoma and you get the benefits of the sun.

What do you think of this?

Edit: Maybe not what people think of as tanning, but it's basically skin exposure to the sun where you want to limit how long each part of the skin is exposed, but maximise the surface area for vitamin D absorbtion.

Source: https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
I believe so, and it's less than useful on network with a captive portals like hotel rooms.

At least the upcoming Chromecast with Google TV comes with a remote, so you should be able to interact with the captive portal and use it that way.
I will repeat. Most of visitors to Thai national parks, vast majority of them are Thai citizens.

The Thai government has increased prices for Thai citizens and reduced price for foreigners for exactly that reason at Doi Inthanon. And also because foreigners dont appreciate being ripped off.

There is huge online movement against dual pricing of foreigners in Thailand. You might not have heard about it.

Yes its precisely Thailands business. Thailands tourism industry revenue comes 2/3rds from foreign visitors. A discriminatory surcharge harms the tourism industry, and other countries in SEA proved that by making such practices illegal.

Thai people aren’t charged double or 10x more to enter national parks in other countries just becuase they are Asian :) its illegal there, its called discrimination.

Filipino and Malay people get Thai price at national parks in Thailns, because they look similar to Thais. So its then racism if caucasians get charged 10x more.

Would you think it fair if foreign operated business in Thailand charge their Thai customers 2-10x as much as foreign customers? It would be a big scandal if they did.

Overcharging foreigners is also a big scandal. Check social media. Its being reported on a daily basis and its bad for reputation of Thailand. Tourism Authority of Thailand thinks its not fair to charge foreigners more.

Not sure why you think discrimination is ok.

A fair equal price would bring more visitors :) im sure of that.

On a trip to a national park nearby my Thai friends were shocked that i would get charged 10x as much. Each of them gave extra money to pay for my ticket. Not because I couldnt afford it. But because its discrimination.

Since then we visit national parks less often. Not because we cant afford it. But because it feels bad to be discriminated against. It ruins the experience at such places. There are lots of other beautiful places to explore in Thailand, for free, with good Thai friends.

Edit: just to add, now that Thailand does not allow foreign tourists entering the country due to Covid, relying on tourism by expats living here has become much more important. The revenue generated by Thai tourists traveling to other parts of the country has brought occupancy in hotels just to 10%. Thats not counting those hotels/guesthouses/restaurants that already closed forever.

Edit2: embarrassing typos
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All those problems happen even if your speakers are perfectly in sync. These aren't headphones. If you have a couch for listening, the difference between sitting on the left and sitting on the right is just as big or bigger. You get the same interference, yet it isn't a problem.
Why Python has won among dynamic languages
If you IQ is high enough, note taking is often not necessary unless the material is very detailed or complicated. working memory and long-term memory both positively correlated with IQ. In the high school i went to, the smartest kids in my class were able to get good grades on tests without taking notes.
> It seems like it could have been anonymized.

But maybe the consent was not given for such a usage. Even if anonymized, we must respect the guise under which the data was provided to the researchers.