skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next paper: Discovery of pseudo way to code, with no code. We show, contrary to modern tribal rituals, that drawing diagrams help students visualize their plans and improve results and effectiveness. The author heralds new dawn of human-machine cognition.

Joke aside, building something for a purpose is a great way to learn, ie. just look to gamer/mod culture and self-taught techies.

OTOH, building stuff/knowledge without purpose leads too often to a blind alley, or a hopeful pivot.
Well I'm ex military and just tired of this shit. I've experience shit half if not 99% have seen in their lifetime. I think this shit is funny and I'll add to my negative account. Get flagged for telling the truth and being honest. Oh and the system tells me to slow down cause I'm posting too fast for the fucking system to render my post. Big FUCK YOU moderator computer system.
I'll be you "Baba Yaga"
This isn’t a defense against harassment, defamation, or any of the other charges that may apply including wiretapping (of which you list a possible defense). Listen to a lawyer not people on the internet, including me, when it comes to legal advice
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Ask HN: How can I start learning Lisp?
I have been programming in Python for a few years. I have heard a lot about Lisp on HN. What is a good way for me to start learning Lisp?

Which dialect? Common Lisp? Which compiler should I use? SBCL? Do I have to learn Emacs?

My motivation to learn is to satisfy my curiosity and also write some useful programs for myself in future.

Can Common Lisp be a good substitute for Python for personal scripting needs?
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> we often focus on how x is analogous to y, but skip over the part where we think about how x is not like y.

Yes! Regardless of whether Djikstra is 100% right or wrong about "radical novelty", software engineering is relatively more novel than more familiar activities (is that phrasing tautological?). Analogies are comforting, because they make a strange thing look less strange. But we have to take both sides of the cut: we can compress our knowledge based on these similarities, while carving away those same similarities to highlight the differences in their own right.

A well-posed set of analogies can surgically lay out the internal structure of a concept. (But we still have to grapple with the pieces!)
Cool, that's new to me, thanks. "Liberman discussed the case of a woman who substitutes the phrase egg corn for the word acorn, and he argued that the precise phenomenon lacked a name. Pullum suggested using eggcorn itself as a label."
I'm super curious -- since Apple is not marketing on Ghz and playing the Intel game, how do they deal with variable chip manufacturing yield? Is there a narrow band or minimum chip speed that they'll accept and toss anything performing below?

Does the SoC become so physically larger that yields also go down by quite a bit, and any defects on 5nm become much more troublesome?
The important thing to note is, the COBOL skill shortage isn't as simple as say, a Python skill shortage would be. Learning COBOL itself is easy, but... all of the special-purpose databases and mainframes and stuff are the hard part. It's really an ecosystem problem.
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As Tesla has demonstrated Lithium-ion is pretty critical for balancing out a grid that has renewables in the mix. It drastically cuts costs and improves efficiencies because it can detect instability in the grid more quickly and arbitrage different power sources more efficiently (+ coal plants take a while to start up so it’s an important stop gap).
The Github source is more useful: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD
You say no, but the PowerPC 615 is an example of a core which did that. You just need two instruction decoders (and get to keep one of them off at a time, which is awesome for dark silicon reasons).
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They might just remove his account too if they see it as a legal threat? I'm not a lawyer.
Three hours is a very short duration, IMO. In my opinion, it should be at least a day (24 hours) or cover more than one’s average sleep duration so that any messages sent in haste can be removed once better senses prevail. Considering time zone variances across the people involved in chats, I think something more than 12 hours would be good.

We all have a need to amend our messages after ruminating on them for sometime. The three hour limit doesn’t gel well with how humans work (on this matter, even the HN edit limit duration is very short).
> black people are disproportionately impacted by COVID.

Serious question: I thought the African-America community in America was affected by COVID-19 disproportionately due to blacks being more likely to be having comorbidities. Is that not the case?
yep. should be focusing on the monkey, not the pedestal. but it's hard to convince unenlightened bureaucracy.
MDPI also publishes some high quality work, in remote sensing serious labs do publish good work in their journals “Forests” and “Remote Sensing”. You are right to be skeptic, though. They have very lax review processes and will publish anything that looks like science because their incentives are screwed up. Pay-to-publish for-profit OA is just as bad as closed-access IMHO, and in some case it’s worse when the publisher is a non-profit professional organization.
Is this a serious question?

I mean, we all know that EC2 is still there, right? An EC2 instance is like a computer. If you have a program, you can run it there. You don't even need a container!

I just don't know a non-sarcastic way to say this. Containers, and especially container runtimes, just aren't necessary. Containers can be _useful_, certainly. But for decades before they were invented, we ran programs on computers and it was pretty good. We can still do that.
The Lancet or Nature don't exactly have stellar reputations anymore. Source reputability should not be weighted heavily when assessing new information in our information environment — this is a very outmoded, maladaptive norm.
While I agree with you that most people who run Linux as a daily driver might be capable of running Windows as a secondary OS on occasion, this discounts the fact that he or she would be required to purchase the license (else break the law), and also ignores the fact that they should not be required to do so
Standard distance measure in most atomic-scale condensed-matter fields. Certainly inorganic crystallography/materials science/condensed matter physics.
I'm always curious about how someone ends up where they are, be it physically, or spiritually.

In your case I assume you didn't always subscribe to these beliefs and viewpoints, right? I assume based on everything you're written that there was a time, perhaps working at the bank, where you were just like me or anyone else... Working, dissatisfied, looking for more...

What changed?

What sparked the transition?

I admire your conviction but at the same time, it's yours. You'll never be able to just say those things and convey the same power that it has on you. It just doesn't work.

Instead, maybe, you can explain to someone how you got there. How did you come to these convictions? How did you become a person who believes in a higher power who has good intentions and is always watching? For some of us, that sounds more like an acid trip than reality - yet I'm open minded.

In my case I'm comfortable. Very comfortable. Maybe even too comfortable. I want more in life, and I chase happiness like a carrot on a stick. I guess you could say I'm having a mid life crisis my entire life. I can perform exceptionally well when I am inspired, but being inspired is a transient state. I'd love to find peace with my situation, and be inspired to work hard, and work well.
If we needed any more proof of how badly our universities have and continue to fail in their educational mission, the current year has provided it. There's no reason college students need to be on campus in a time of pandemic. Many schools have opened in order to "support sports" and for other asinine reasons, and then closed almost immediately. [0] Educational institutions that actually value education have cancelled athletic seasons completely.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/11/the-colle...
(Joke well taken!)

Category theory was founded on topics like algebraic topology, so there's actually a rich framework of analogies to draw on between the two topics. The problem is, most of us aren't algebraic topologists.

I want to find a better set of analogies between category theory and software engineering, that aren't so coupled to yet other fields of mathematics. I feel like they exist, but in a lot of ways, I'm still in the pre-rigor phase on category theory :(
The parent comment here said publicise, not publish. The studies will go ahead, but you won't see the mainstream media putting this on the front page.

The reason is that it's too sensitive. Look at the massive argument and tension that was generated just from someone pointing out that certain skin types are not suited to certain environments (melanin skin to north europe, non-melanin skin to australia) - nobody who values their political or academia career will want to touch this one, so the problem will get worse and worse, silently. It could even end up impacting educational and career outcomes in certain parts of the population that would appear to be racial characteristics because the science impacting those traits is a forbidden subject... which ironically makes people more racist.
More interesting is comparing core size, I think. Just spitballing in MS Paint, if we chop off the FP the Zen 3 core plus 1MB L2 is probably ~ 3 sq mm. The M1 seems to be about 2 Firestorm complexes high and 4 wide, so a complex would be 15 sq mm, or ~ 3.75 sq mm for a core plus 3MB L2.

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-5000-zen-3-vermeer-undressed-...
I think fission to fusion is more like steam engine to jet engine. Fission can happen by _accident_ if you have the right materials at energy levels of just dropping something on something else [0].

Starting fusion isn't easy, but as I understand it, that's not even the hard part. Containment is the big deal, because of the energy needed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
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Heh. Its like I am neither from USA nor China. For me, both are equally adversarial so one party saying "look. China bad" does not say well about their state of mind and arguments.

This software has an MIT license. There are no "secrets" for Chinese or someone else to "steal". This is a wide open software with the least prohibitive license. This FUD is what makes us non Americans and non Chinese think "this is nonsens" when ideas like huawei backdoors is used across the world. Absolutely no evidence and yet "don't use china sponsored company but USA sponsored company is fine"

Interestingly, CIA was recently outed to have hands in Swiss crypto software for like 50 years. For 50 years they sold software and hardware to States for secrets and they had access. No one is calling them out or making them pay but because China is not playing by their rules, the propaganda must work.
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Finally, some reporting on the pre-pandemic pneumonia spike.

What isn't mentioned is that this wasn't isolated to Hubei.

I heard anecdotally back in March about there being a spike in pneumonia cases in Australian hospitals after my wife was treated for it. You don't see much influenza during the Australian summer, so it was notable. Her test came up negative for influenza, but also negative for SARS-CoV-2 when she was later tested.

This doesn't let China off the hook for it's poor reporting, and something would appear to have occurred in Wuhan that caused the virus to become more virulent if it was in fact circulating earlier.
That's likely also the case, but aside from the melanin-vitamin-d angle, there's been some work suggesting a genetic susceptibility to covid for people with significant recent SSA ancestry.
"For all intents and purposes, they don't have COVID."

Japan is seeing all-time record case counts:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/tags/82/

South Korea is seeing infections growing "at their fastest pace since the early days of the pandemic":

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-southk...

Taiwan is actually seeing case growth, as well (albeit from a small base):

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/taiwan/

And not that you brought it up, but Hong Kong just saw an infection spike that has them instituting a bunch of new restrictions:

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
I was going to say something about how I like Awk, just for the things Awk is good at and meant for, but in fact I really hate Awk and avoid it religiously.
> generative grammar/ symbolic approaches were pretty much left behind by NN methods

Which is the same thing as hand-engineered feature stacks being left behind in vision problems, really. The story in every field is more or less "you're not clever enough to engineer good features"; "you might be clever enough to define good symmetries for the feature space in which the features live... maybe" (convolutional neural networks in image problems); "... but maybe not even that" (attention mechanisms).
Tesla/SpaceX are not doing anything closer to the research needed for Plasma discovery, they just put in industrial production technologies that already existed. Some of these technologies, like space exploration, existed for 50 years before SpaceX started. If you're looking for a model for Plasma exploration, the model should be closer to Manhattan Project/Man on the Moon rather than yesterday's tech that SpaceX deals with.
For comparison, San Francisco has about the same COVID-19 death rate as Zimbabwe or Uzbekistan.
What's interesting is sometimes it boils down to the words effect or an affect in modern English. I think it's actually more interesting when you zoom out and look at bias caused to a lingua franca of standard modern discourse (it's probably counted in units relative to pi and Euler's consts on modern computers). If you switch individual words from roman (latin-1) to greek (I only was englightened to this by reading history book about the Byzantine empire, which the author had tried de-latinifying many words). You'll see the huge ae-bias, the large effect on greek logic thought its effect on math. Now, what's even more interesting is to also take a look at the east. Indo-European languages are all subclassed together in a morphological sense. Most classic Indic languages are heavily prosodic. Sanskrit is a very syntaxic heavy language. Actually the Dali Llama's take on it was quite interesting (see: Universe in a Single Atom) about how ancient wisdom, and indeed Buddhism spread from India to Tibet in the first place. It was over the himilaways so the trek was akin people trying to invade the Swiss during the Middle Ages. The vedas seemed to be like early particle physists (and where basically describing the world using all possible of the word were equipossible with basic afterlife being measurable via some abstract karma) who wiped out the memory but indirectly mentioned other Decartes (mind/body)-like sects. I wonder if it had anything to do with humidity needing that much 'state space'. Celsus the greek school of thought (so). The rate at our technology reinvention or more weakly put our transmission of knowledge about nature and what words mean relative to the experiments and phenomenon they describe has rapidly gotten better, but words cannot simply express intent content in and between n-ary multiple brains in a global enough semantic way. I think various IEEE/W3C and even Unicode will help debias and preserve aboriginal cultural behavior.
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I also hired an editor to look at my essays for a prestigious scholarship. Although the application ultimately was unsuccessful, I can say without a doubt that it is some of the strongest writing I've ever put together.

My editor did exactly what Samantha asked of Michael: asked me why, over and over again. Why I am I telling this story? Why should anyone else care? Why should they read past the first paragraph? Why is this sidebar here?

I always thought editors as being like the New Yorker's Comma Queen, focused on sharpening syntax. But while that is certainly part of their purview, they are masters at crafting compelling stories and tailoring the facts of the matter to the intended audience.
Pay-per-click implies a surveillance network to track authentic clicks. What if search engines were privacy-first? What if a search engine had "billboard time" for advertising on search queries with a bidding system, rather than PPC? No user data would need to be stored because it doesn't matter how many times one person clicks the same ad. Is privacy important to users in 2020? People treat privacy like access to their credit card -- they are not that concerned. The problem is that there are no chargebacks in privacy land, once the info is out there, it's out there. Would you use a search provider that provided just-as-good results if they could guarantee you would not be tagged and tracked relentlessly?
It’s the speed of change that suggests it’s more than just the natural evolution of food. I am not saying it’s a purely negative effect, just describing what’s happens when a new ethnic food gets introduced to the American pallet.

I stand by my original point that you can’t call something authentic X after you significantly later what it is. Small town pizzerias and snobbish restaurants are both very distinct from classic Italian food.

That said, if you go to Italy today they very much cater to tourists expecting food their familiar with. Further, while the tomato was only imported in the 16th century, that’s plenty far back to confuse the issue.
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> Bezos has already effectively ceded “space guy” to Musk, might as well put in the cash to be “fusion guy”. Good way to make sure you’re in the history books for all time

I think the advantage of that is if he did and fusion energy was a large portion of energy that powers the Super Charger Network it would amuse him enough to consider putting his considerable wealth to that end.

He really is like a real life Lex Luthor, and when the only way he can one-up his rivals would be to make them dependent on them at rate Royalties +15% (because he has dominant market share and be because he quite honestly 'just could') would be very befitting after having being out-done in the Space Industry. And the reality is that since Solar city is probably the only real Musk Corp he can actually displace, that's where he'd probably get the most bang-for-his-buck and kick-start the 'battle of futuristic futures' by the 2 richest people on Earth that we were supposed to have already.

Bezos also made lots of platitudes about how he wants to help make the entire Earth a Nature preserve: so in case you're reading this (or iithe Saudi's who have rootaccess to his new hacked his phone...) why the hell not, Jeff?
> Also, don't gatekeep the field, unless you have a citation that proves that modern teaching techniques have really led to a decrease in quality of software engineers.

I don't think modern teaching techniques have. I think the profession has done admirably (but not good enough) at cultivating the basics in more people than managed it ever before.

But when you multiply the size of the profession by so much, even if teaching improves greatly, odds are you're including a lot more volatility in the amount of ability/intrinsic interest/talent.

There's people who are making it today who'd never have been good enough 20-40 years ago. We need a bunch more programmers and software engineers now, so we tolerate it. And thankfully, improvements in tooling, debugging, and instrumentation, along with a bunch more available performance and storage, limit the harms.
TIL: debugging via memory dumps is a Principal Engineer level skill.

Anyone here actually do this? I read about it in Release It and it sounds by far like the closest thing there is to a super power when it comes to solving production incidents. I've never actually seen anyone do it though.

Recently saw a video on this technique from Dotnet Conf. Piqued my curiosity again, and now this. I've really gotta learn this.
I thought I was pretty clear that I fully expect Apple will be able to migrate their entire line.

My only question is whether they will blow the doors off Intel/ AMD the way they did with the M1. With the MacBook Air (and largely with the base MacBook Pro), Apple was able to more than double the processor speed even while increasing processor speed. I'm not convinced we'll see that kind of explosive speed improvements with the 16" MacBook Pro. Battery life will almost certainly trash the current MBP. I'm just not confident we'll see the base 16" MacBook doubling its CPU performance.

FWIW, I don't see anything Apple has done as a slap in the face. They've been pretty reasonable about not mentioning Intel in their performance numbers. Instead all metrics are based on the performance of previous generation MacBook Air.
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LineageOS is both more successful and more practical than Purism thingies.
What if it's more worse? I don't think desperate times call for throwing caution to the wind. A fundamental principle of medicine is "First, do no harm."
I really like that there is active research being done in this area.

It's interesting to see a constructivist lens applied to teaching concepts in computer science, and I would agree with the author that Dijkstra's insistence on a "blank mind" is the wrong approach. It seems like it would limit learning to those who "just get it", especially for introductory concepts that are typically taught to students who don't have the maturity to dive into abstract reasoning straight away.
yes, NeuraCache is a mobile app that can sync with OneNote (no matter how you use it)
> Same with their rocket engines. They iterate and qualify pretty quickly.

They iterated starting from a LOX/RP-1 rocket engine cycle that has been proven to work and in widespread use for half a century. Fusion is totally different.
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Tokamak Energy has made 3 fusion devices in 11 years. It's not super fast, but certainly faster than the megaprojects. They are planning on their current design hitting 100 million degrees.
This idea means whatever exists on the open web is trying to exploit whatever people use it for money. Not thanks. Another possibility is a strong enough social movement to demand the de-commercialization of significant parts of the internet. For example, nationalize facebook, make it more difficult to spend money on the internet, ban or severely limit advertising, and other ideas if one were to be so bold as to suggest them