skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems obvious to me - to learn something, you need to practice recalling it not storing it. You have to practice deciding which button to press to get the reward, not remembering which button to press to get the reward.

More generally reading and re-reading material isn't as effective as trying to remember the material using flashcards. It's the same technique used in language systems like DuoLingo.
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I'm almost afraid to ask this, so please assume good intent and bear with me - I promise this is a genuine question :)

Different cultures definitely consider different things to be acceptable / polite / etc in the same situation (e.g., do you take your shoes off when entering another person's house?). I've heard that there's groups of Indians (possibly the descendants of certain castes?) that place a high value on entrepreneurship and that "go get'em" attitude you often see in motivated sales / business people.

I wonder if that's a factor the behavior you observed - if there's a cultural pressure to assertively put themselves out there and actively look for jobs in these ways.

So with that said - I'm interested in other people's takes and happy to accept constructive criticism :)
Inoreader. It allows me to add rss, twitter and youtube and apply rules and filters as to what to include / exclude.

I don’t like twitter but sometimes that’s the only way people communicate or share their art. Inoreader lets me add twitter users with a filter (e.g not interested in tweets without pictures (artists), not interested in retweets, only interested in tweets that contain ‘released’, ‘beta’ or ‘rc’ (software).

Really cool for trimming down the noise and a smooth, clean experience.
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A lot of minor changes are important though and blanket closing all diffs with minor changes will take out legitimate changes with it. Also, it's so easy to get around this by just making diffs with two files changed. Or making a diff that copy pastes the same line 100 times.
Yeah we definitely aren't disagreeing. I think my comment was mostly driven by surprise that you've apparently encountered a large number of people who just throw up their hands at a slow database. I've worked with some people who really frustrated me ("this operator isn't doing what I expect, and I don't see what's wrong, must be a bug in sql server") but even they'd try to tune a slow query. But I that might be more an artifact of working in a shop where the devs owned the database bottom to top (no dba's, and the sysadmins certainly don't know sql). I forget that for a lot of devs writing sql might not be a daily occurrence.
I blame git providers for not giving very fine grained controls to repo owners to limit PRs.
> Honestly, even having to attempt that sounds pretty dystopian

What's the alternative? A local testing center?
> Because the numbers actually matter.

If numbers actually mattered for then then they wouldn't be both neglecting official statistics, specially growth rates, and also fabricating their own data out of thin air.

These people don't care about numbers or facts. These people are too embroiled in their petty world view or conspiracy theories to care about the harm they are doing to everyone around them. These idiots complain about jobs and classes as if having a million people dying on them and many more being debilitated is something that harms no one or their economy.

This shit could have been contained if these idiots acted responsible and stayed put and took basic sanitary precautions. But no.

I lived in Spain during the start of the year, and witnessed the spanish army trucks carting healthcare workers around and carrying loudspeakers asking people to stay indoors in a time where, according to verified tests, nearly a thousand people were dying per day due to covid. The death rate was so high that the spanish government had to commandeer an ice ring to serve as a makeshift morgue. Social distancing and lockdown and basic sanitary care drove those numbers to single digits in about a month.
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It's only a personal suspicion, but I think this is his way to step down from the presidency with a sense of dignity and hope it will give him some sympathy credit when the dust settles.
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I see it a lot when integrating legacy healthcare systems that effectively operate on state-transition queues with an assumption of in-order processing.
First of all I am limiting this argument to white collar professional setups. Your comment is way off the mark about Christians in India and to a great extant about Muslims as well.

Your first paragraph is very poorly put generalisation. As a resident non-upper caste Hindu Indian I couldn't disagree more. While lower caste and Muslim oppression has skyrocketed in India since 2014 (esp. among low income groups of society), this is far from true in professional setups especially in the generalised way you've put it.

> But the higher castes are extremely insular, and treat anyone of any race poorly.

This is just untrue!

> This might be taboo, but every time I see a situation where there are multiple Indians in a reporting chain, I run.

I have never worked abroad/in the west (other than short stints in SK/JP) so I can't comment on what you've said directly. But coincidentally most of my friends (different caste groups) who work in the USA (or even EU) avoid this as well - but because of some other reason. Work culture - as in timings, out of work hour calls and forced unreasonable expectations. They know that (and I agree) work-life balance will be shitty in a team full of Indians up, down, and around.

Hell, years ago I got an MS accept from MSU but I ran away seeing pretty much the entire CS department manufactured in India and China - PhD scholars, profs - all of them (I had applied w/o checking that). Yes, is this another generalisation but to be honest that's how I felt at that time. Apologies if it came across as offensive.
My entire youth could be described as having all the time in the world but not a dime to my name.
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Thanks for the hint, lots of interesting talks on the conference.

https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/dfried_celebration.html
They just got very good at it like the pianist/e who's been playing piano since s/he was five. Like Chick Corea or Ray Charles.
Being from India, his videos did show up on my recommendations. And I have opened some of them. The tone of the videos are bit off for me. He has some photo copyed written notes that everyone does in colleges in India. Needless to say I never could go beyond these display of notes.

After doing all these programming videos, he then started doing laptop recommendations and what not. But I never expected this. I mean there are lot of simple tech videos coming out of India some good some bad but I never expected to see encouragement of such kind of behaviour.

But I have also seen videos by Indian "gurus" who preach how to get free websites on github, without understanding what github really is.
Did you actually read the article? The problem is that not all usb-c ports/cables/chargers are the same, but they all look the same.
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> I feel ashamed to say I am an Indian.

I don't understand this. You don't have to defend the actions of individual(s) even if they share their nationality with you. It's sufficient to call them out for unacceptable behavior. For people who ascribe this to all Indians, it's on them not on you.
> It should be noted that although it was terribly designed the Commodore 1541 disk drive was by far the most common peripheral sold with the machine. It was fairly uncommon for C64 owners to load off of tape unlike other 8 bit systems.

That doesn't match my experience. Fewer than half of the C64 systems I encountered had disk drives, and all of them had tape drives. Turbo Tape was the most common software in use.
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Power cords aren't that different - you can buy cheap and crap 6ft cords for $3 that won't last or you can buy construction-site worthy cords that get thrown around for $30+

Most charging cables get treated more like a power cord on a construction site - they don't just get plugged in and hidden behind a TV so the quality of the shielding and connectors is paramount to withstand the twisting and strains
Flu is uncommonly asymptomatic during the infectious period.

Adopting the Asian custom of wearing bog-standard blue medical masks when we have the sniffles is a fine idea, overdue really.

Everyone wearing cloth masks during every flu season is an absurd overreaction.
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People don’t want to be racist. Nobody here (at least, I hope) is getting pleasure from saying that a bunch of Indian people are spamming them with low-quality pull requests. But the fact is that this is happening, and it’s better to try to figure out what is actually happening rather than throwing up your hands and saying “these people have tarnished my ability to ever file a pull request”, it’s much more useful to try to identify what’s really happening and then see if we can fix it.

The fact is that DigitalOcean basically ran a lazy but well-meaning program that was promoted with a poorly-thought-out (but also well-meaning) video on YouTube to a majority Indian audience who largely had no experience with open source etiquette and thus we have the logical result. It’s not that they’re bad people or stupid or whatever, but they were just in the perfect storm of things that told them to do what they’re doing right now because they literally got no guidance at all. This is just “I accidentally sent my feature request email to the development mailing list because I’m unfamiliar with how this process works” but magnified by several orders of magnitude and also slanted towards participation by a certain group of people. The frustration is of course towards the circumstances that led to this happening but it’s often hard to express that and much easier to tweet angrily about “Indian dudes spamming me with PRs”.
Good idea about the TOC.

Re: lambda: it's important to realize that this series is building up incrementally bigger features from nothing. This Lisp compiler won't have a full implementation of closures or even labeled procedures for some time. So right now we're getting used to name binding and using what we have.

While it's possible to generate the same code I did even when rewriting to lambda, you'll probably have to have some kind of strength reduction afterward.
> This flood of low quality PR spam appears to come from a YouTuber with an audience of 672K where he demonstrates how easy it is to make a Pull Request to a repo.

> Where he went wrong was demonstrating a low quality PR, thus setting the bar low for his viewers who went on to copy exactly what he did.

This is the problem on the industry today. All these “how to...” and no depth
Spot on. I've no doubt that many sites will measure the trade-offs to reach 100 and find it reduces the metrics they care about.

A quick examination of the sites on https://www.11ty.dev/speedlify/ suggest there's a distinct look/set of trade-offs made to get this score.
I'm so glad you're enjoying them!
Unsecured claim I think is the better business analogy ...
good fuck em
You're more than welcome to your opinion, but I've explicitly outlined that those are non-goals of this series. Maybe maybe I'll get to caching or optimization.
If you could imagine a person who does deserve to die this way, what would they act like?

Just a little bit similar?
> Today, we observe almost universal failure in compliance throughout the (so-called) Internet of Things (IoT) market. Only unrelenting enforcement that holds companies accountable can change this abysmal reality.

Which is why Linux on embedded is facing competition full of non-copyleft based OSes.

NutXX, RTOS, Azure RTOS, mbed, Arduino, Zephyr (ironically from Linux Foundation partners), Fuchsia, ....
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I use krill because I like to get my feeds in a CLI. It also supports adding twitter. Development has stopped a while ago and I don't know of any active forks unfortunately.
I didn't really, because I can't remember half the route that way. Usually not even a few turns, and I frequently zone out with no idea where I am. Google Maps were a lifesaver for me.
Yeah, we still have people who think this way, but as opposed to 1959 (compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659208 ) when they had a majority of the electorate, now they're only reflected by 1 of the 4 parties in government (out of 12 who've sent representatives to our legislature).

Multi-party democracy FTW.
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Quite the opposite. Covid is dangerous for elderly and people having severe medical condition, much, much less dangerous for young and healthy. Flu is more dangerous to young people than Covid.

Flu also causes hospitalizations in comparable amounts to Covid[1]. Note that we have a vaccine for flu, and it is still causing almost a million hospitalizations in bad seasons.
2nd gen Indian American here. I've been working in Silicon Valley since 2004, and have never been quizzed about my caste. And my last name isn't a caste name or even caste associated name. And somewhere between a plurality or majority of my coworkers have been Indian born.
Good point! It's sort of a throwaway comment to handwave away linguistic differences. I'll try to make it better when I have access to a computer.
I’d really like epithet to reserve that for people who are actively malicious. There are no signs to the contrary for the people submitting spam PRs being enthusiastic developers looking to get into open source and score some swag while they’re at it but lacking the guidance to really understand that they’re being annoying to other people.
Even the title of the video is "How to Earn Free T-Shirt, Swag & Goodies Online!", and the description is in the same vein mostly focusing on getting swag, while seeing (meaningful) PRs as secondary.
Does gen_server have a measurable overhead compared to this? The main event loop of gen_server looks remarkably similar to what you are doing but handles calls, casts, hibernation, debugging, provides stacktraces and doesn't "force" exit trapping. In the "happy-path", I don't see any additional overhead to what you are doing.

I would also like to see "handle_call" and "handle_cast" (maybe even "handle_info" with a blanket noreply-implementation) optional, but until then I can deal with the additional two lines to exit on cast or call if I don't require those.
The problem is that far too many people are blasé about flu.

Flu is a nasty disease, a killer with severe repurcussions for certain people.

And it is very likely to kill and harm younger people.

There’s a reason we have a vaccine for flu - despite it being monumentally difficult to produce one.
No, he renamed it to "package: An Amazing Project.json"
No, just cooking an egg for a long time at high temperatures will bring out the sulfur taste. Try boiling an egg for 15 minutes.
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Does adding timestamps not handle this case?
I'm an Indian and I beg to disagree. I have made small contributions to open source projects, including fixing typos, and have never felt unwelcome.

I'm a teacher of economics and open source software including Python, Julia, LaTeX, R and Linux are essential to my work. I would find it hard to pay for proprietary equivalents of all the open source software I use. I consider it my duty to contribute back in whatever way I can.

My national pride is not hurt just because another Indian who did something wrong was criticised on the Internet.
:D I'm trying my best to be...diplomatic. In any case, Lord of the Rings taught me that no one deserves death, and that's my motto by default... even when I sometimes disagree with it
This is my favourite trash PR
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Ellus wrote about "a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity"

Preserving old ways is a tiny fraction of human activity, and those preserved 'old ways' are themselves a tiny fraction of all 'old ways'. Very few people are doing so as their main (professional) activity.

Even those preserving some old way often either say that it offers various advantages (i.e. it is 'more efficient' upon the set of criteria they chose), or (for a IMHO very minute fraction of them) are into some form of challenge expressed as 'what can I achieve, given a very limited set of resources?'... which also is a quest for efficiency (in a constrained environment).

The central thesis is that technique is 'autonomous' (has it own dynamics), has a major influence on any society using it, and that there is nothing we can do to 'smooth out' this influence.
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Headline is now "President Trump and First Lady Melania Test Positive for Covid-19".
Generally speaking, humanities was a mistake. These "scientists" memed the main principle of science from scientific evidence to scientific, or more precisely - sectarian consensus.

Peer review is not by any means criterion for even approximation to the truth. The article in question should have been reviewed exactly like I did.
As someone who just started working at an AI startup and with a 7 year old who just got Snap Circuits for his birthday 2 days ago, this is super timely and relevant. Thanks for posting.
And as I discovered in my family hyponatremia which has left my mother on anti-seizure tablets for the rest of her days.

Don’t underestimate flu
While I agree with you factually that the term hasn't been officially around since before 16th century but it definitely was used before the British arrived and colonised India for good https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hinduism#ref261605.

Besides, let's just be honest - today Hinduism/Hindu is a religion - there is no two way about it - practically and technically! This reasoning, that "oh, it's just a way of life", is often provided by people who try to deflect the argument away from Hindu nationalism, extremism, and fanaticism - especially of today. (This might not be your intention though).
Ask HN: Java developers, are you using the primitives short or byte?
I am a software developer with about three year experience (mostly JVM languages) and currently reading Code Complete 2.

Because of that I wondered why I never had a chance to use short or byte - or at least I never saw one.
Of course I have learned about those, but during my professional time (circa 3.5 years and 4 projects) as a developer I believe to never have stumbled upon any usage.

I am just wondering whether they are or are not obsolete by now, because the performance gain seems to be not too extraordinary.
I thought that would be more because of the Linux bloat + security risk. I don't think it makes much sense to use Linux in the embedded space, but something that is 100x smaller.

I certainly wouldn't want self-driving car systems to be powered by Linux...
So, in that scenario, how does the fan help?
Microsoft gives you 4G of RAM when you can get 8G RAM on a $200 phone.

What a joke
Where do the occupants of the full prisons come from then? Are the prisons full of life sentence prisoners from back when they weren't full?
This is literally how DigitalOcean is advertising their program, too. It’s just that they intended their audience to be people who fully understood the goal of what this was supposed to be, and the YouTube video was watched by many who didn’t.
Statistically, it does? You have a citation, then. Would you share it, please?
Most of them will because Hacktoberfest relies on project maintainers to flag the PR as `invalid` within a certain window and close it, AFAIK.

Though I imagine with all the outrage over this that will definitely be changing.