skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the email was from an external domain.
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson. This is a factual account of 1940 and 1941 England, told as a day by day or month by month narrative describing Churchill and his close circle as the Germans ramped up their bombing campaign.

It reads like a thriller, and it taught me so much about the history of the war that I never learned in high school or college.
The Strategy of Peace by John F. Kennedy
Show HN: Idea of a Pear
Reading “The Easy Way to Stop Smoking” by Alan Carr probably added years to my life.

“Sirens of Titan” by Kurt Vonnegut resonated with me on an emotional level.
As someone who has purchased Facebook ads, it's /so very evident/ that this is happening, that it's not particularly hard to compile evidence.

Here's a specific example: we ran around $1k in ads last year, targeting senior-level engineers at technology companies, but the ads were getting liked by mostly people who worked minimum-wage jobs. Twitter and LinkedIn targeting were fine with pretty much the same parameters.

This is one example, obviously, but it's so trivial to see that targeting is almost completely uncorrelated with reality, that it's not hard to come up with more examples.
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a classic. If you want to live comfortably, you need multiple income streams.
Scifi is much more satisfying when it sets up a fantastical world/premises and then keeps an internal consistency as the narrative develops.
It’s far less satisfying to force the use of fantastical elements as a crutch for a weak narrative.
It's pretty hard to get your hands on a hard copy because of how large it is (usually published in multiple volumes for academia). The most accessible translation is Ganguli's, which you can find here [1].

[1] https://www.mahabharataonline.com/translation/
Over time security measures always cause friction. You'll always be the annoying presence, the naysayer, the 'needlessly' difficult person. Effective security imposes restrictions, hurts egos and interferes in natural social responses.

It's funny you say that my way of working literally makes people want to do the opposite of trust me, when I send them a phishing e-mail that's exactly what I'm aiming for ;P
I think you're being a bit harsh on the 286 with the benefit of hindsight. Remember that it hit the market in 1982.

For it to have finished up in 1982, it likely started development before or just as the original IBM PC hit the market. At the time, there wasn't a huge installed base of can't-afford-to-break 8086 code, or much of a precedent for backwards compatibility on a wholesale platform change for PCs. They may well have figured anyone trying to build a 286 system would be targeting a fully protected-mode OS, and the non-protected mode support was more of a stopgap for compatibility and bootstrap purposes.
Important: don’t “quiz” your child or test their absolute pitch progress in any overt way. That is a quick way to suck all the fun out of it and kill their interest in the games.
Well, I myself is an avid concert goer (before Covid at least) and I probably know more about classical music than I do about classical cinema :-) Although I mostly prefer music written c. 1900-1950 rather than Beethoven or his contemporaries (what a lot of people don't realise is that there were a lot of changes in classical orchestral music over time; the difference between, say, Mozart and William Walton is no less than the difference between Beatles and Metallica, probably even more so).

And indeed, the large & majestic sound of a symphonic orchestra has no parallels with the modern music. But on the other hand I think we can easily compare classical chamber music with jazz/tango/rock. And in this field I'd rather listen something like [1] than any classical quartet/quinter regardless whether it was written by Beethoven or by Shostakovich.

[1]https://youtu.be/XGeLtdmviGM
The Stranger by Camus
Merry Christmas
To you.
>> In your case, @xyzelement, do you see both? I know you see what’s good about the test, but do you also see why it’s a bad test?

I totally see why some people reacted negatively to it, though I think ideally mature people can see that it is a useful test and is trying to teach them something and thus get over it.

My personal value system is that I chose tough love versus coddling because the former breeds stronger and more capable people. It's not for everyone, but for example I want people who run security for my firm to err on the former.

It's a tradeoff. I don't want to work at a place that's more vulnerable because it (rightly or wrongly) assumed that employees aren't mature enough to go through a real exercise. That's just my view.
To Have or To Be? - Erich Fromm
This post should (1) reflect the 2018 posting date, and (2) the main hosting site: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wot7mkc1/release/9
Tesla. Acceleration of their cars and autopilot actually being impressive.

I would also add to this electric bikes.
E-book: How to Make $200 a day With Videos
I have not. Wow. I don't even know what to think of this...
They don't need to know your current salary.
I can't say I did.
how did you make it through all the lobster metaphors. Does it get better as you progress ?
Misconfigured AWS Bucket Exposes Hundreds of Social Influencers
The Von Neumann method depends on coins being independent.

But the measured bias here is a 51% chance of getting what you started with. Which means that if you flip over and over again, there is a correlation between consecutive entries.
How much depth is it really adding, though? Harassing non-specialists seems to have relatively limited value – plenty of security staff get phished – and there is a risk of making people think of the security group as adversaries.

I would certainly agree that the exercise could have some value but I think it would be wise to weigh that against the costs and especially to think about how you can make it supportive rather than punitive. In particular, most people are not only not given good tools for making untrained security decisions and many of them will be told to violate that advice regularly. For example, what percentage of vendors, outsourced HR, etc. will tell people to open unexpected attachments or click on links which are difficult to distinguish from phishing? SolarWinds was far from the only company training their customers to ignore security errors on installers, too.
Sharing the loss usually comes in the form of layoffs and reduced hours.
Here is a simple, troubling scenario with this product. You're going to a professional event with your boss. Each of you is driving their own car and your boss is following you. Now your boss knows you have an expired warranty, which, whether you like it or not, will reflect badly on your professional image. You may think this scenario is far-fetched, but it will happen regularly because people who know each other sometimes drive with each other. The same kind of stuff happens with highly personalized advertising on your laptop. All these things seem inoffensive but seriously violate user privacy and will (for sure) get people in trouble in the end.
Best non-technical book ever read
The best non-technical book that you have ever read.
The reason we don't just have great expert systems from the last 30 years is because Capital is more interested in cutting wages than increasing productivity.
The emails claim the FB employee said 41% precision - so they only reached the targetted viewers 41% of the time, or 59% of the time an ad for high-earner, college educated reached someone who wasn't a high earner and/or college educated (I'm unclear whether it's supposed to be 'and' of 'or', but it's largely irrelevant).
>Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

No shit
Not to mention, some hardware terminals had bugs. Most of them never got fixed -- just worked around.
wesołych swiat!
I don't use it much, but I have heard from others that do that Proton is good and continually getting better. While things like drivers are still hard problems, distros like Ubuntu have made them easier for users that aren't super technical. Linux is a much better place for gaming than it was just a few years ago.
Not to be a dick, but Sam hasn't started a sustainable business; so keep that in mind when you read this advice.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman:

> In 2005, at age 19,[9] Altman co-founded and became CEO of Loopt,[10] a location-based social networking mobile application. After raising more than $30M in venture capital, Loopt was shut down in 2012 after failing to get traction. It was acquired by the Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million.[11][12]
Feynman: Rules of Chess [video]
So who's gonna set up thisgamedoesnotexist.com?
> Christmas decorations had been left behind in the smart home thing

That's very true, but equally does it matter? Currently, these products are usually so un-seamless so setup and faff around with that I was seriously considering just making my own with some ESP32s I had lying around.
Cybernetics and systems engineering certainly has to make a comeback if we are to solve coordination problems like this at planetary scale. It deeply saddens me that we almost reached a popular acceptance of cybernetics in the 60s, but it passed us by - we'd be in a much better position now if it had become a mainstream science in the way that other, much less useful sciences have.
I agree our education system is wrongly geared. I do not agree on the usefulness of algebra in daily life, nor on that of maths beyond primary school. I've been trying to use this as a motivation too, but it falls flat. Calling it extremely useful is almost taking the piss.

And stupid people exist, really. If you take IQ, a considerable portion, almost one in six, of the population scores below 85, classified as intellectual disability, borderline functioning, or worse. These people do not know what's odd and even. It's not sad. Many can lead normal lives, and find joy in other things.
You just got someone fired. Happy holidays.
All the financial institutions have already opened a EU office. They didn’t wait around until New Year’s to see whether a deal would come through.
'Time to Leave Brexit Behind': EU and U.K. Agree to Last-Minute Trade Deal
> I understand the limitations mentioned for reencoding, which are perhaps likewise applicable to other software vendors also. It does limit usage though, in my opinion. It may be fast with GPUs, but the difference on my high end machine is still of an order of magnitude if reencoding is avoided.

Interesting, I'm actually curious of some numbers. This probably makes sense for insanely simple editing, but very likely if you do any edit, you'll always need to reencode (since you do some processing).

> Typical video software has it like a build process. So there are these project files maintaining the list of all resources, edits performed, settings, etc. Editing a Word document needs none of it. For many casual edits, it would be great to just open a video file, make edits (e.g., rotate the video, remove some segments, increase brightness, etc.) and click save (which overwrites the original file), and all done. There's no "project", no auto-save, etc.

Interesting, I do understand the allegory, but I'm not sure this is such a good idea. Just imagine this - you put some text on top of your video. In 5 minutes you want to move the text a bit lower. Bam, you wouldn't be able to do that.
It's easy to target but what FB wants to do is to sell junk traffic as if it were highly lucrative. It prefers to sell more rather than do proper targeting. The traffic swap was an old black-hat trick used by ad network affiliates even before 2000 (they used to push pop-under traffic as SEO traffic, for example). Just cheating.

It's not right to judge ML by the quality of recommender systems. First of all, recommenders are just a small corner of ML, and on this scale are only developed at few companies. Second, I am not 100% sure they maximize what you want to see, instead they maximize what will make them more money. That's why it sucks.
I don't believe printing is table stakes for an editor any more. Quality export to a printable format, yes. Directly sending an application document to the system print queue via some printing language (PostScript, PCL, DVI, PDF..), though, I don't see that as being a big thing anymore.

I'm not saying the paperless office is here, but with everyone WFH and no access to the office color laser printer, who is generating much paper any more?

You know what would be better? A feature to generate an epub or kindle document. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/epub-kindle-and-mult...
Life changing? Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide.
There are plenty of reports of hospitals using out-of-support Windows versions (95-XP) with known vulnerabilities on _networked connected_ devices. ( https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/20/nearly-half-of-h... )

On the parent comment I am not saying that hospitals aren't HIPPA compliant but rather that the security expectations of credit card data are higher than medical data.
Deep Vision’s Polymorphic Dataflow Architecture
> > if you have a line you wont cross to train your users, then youre leaving a vulnerability.

> How about a phishing test that downloads something that nukes your hard drive?

The phishing weakness opens that possibility. The act of wiping the HD does nothing to improve behavior or identify weakness.
If you want a fresh perspective on Christianity and religion generally, read the Book of Mormon. Even if you’re not religious at all, it has lots of moving stories that have helped me understand how to get along better with people I disagree with or with difficult life circumstances.

There’s an app and a website:

- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-book-of-mormon/id547313550
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lds.bom
- Website: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/ti...
The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights stipulates that EU citizens have the right to protection of their personal data. And the fact that you (the driver) have an expired warranty is private data. Period. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data...
They're actually illegal in the UK (although the web seems to be a huge grey area) - I can't imagine how fucked the country would be if we had those kinds of spending and broadcasting rules.
Suzanne Treister's works are wonderful, I recommend her Hexen 2.0 project (https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html), which I call "mysticism of the 20th century". Counterculture, infomation revolution, CIA, LSD, quantum - presented as Tarot cards and Sefirot.
Reminds me a bit of the movie "The Rocketeer" which featured a jetpack of unknown origin [0]. Great movie.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi0Et31E7s4

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocketeer_(film)
I would consider just continuing to use the CIELAB adjusted cube root function, with a linear part near zero. It has been used widely for 45 years and people understand it pretty well. It is plenty fast to implement (just takes one extra conditional move or the like and one FMA).
The Brookings Institute who published this have $435,964,000 in net assets. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-an... Couldn't they pay their people more?
10 out of 10 isn't really that impressive.

If his actual success rate is, say, 70 out 100 10/10 is easy enough to get by chance.

990 out of 1000 would be much more pressive.
Interesting, you didn't like the entire backstory and what was being alluded to in the flashbacks?
K&R and the C64 Programmer's Ref Guide
Possible Aerosol Transmission of Covid-19 Through HVAC in Seoul, South Korea
Yeah I played with dragon in 97 and it was awful - it didn’t work at all, completely unusable.

Today voice transcription is a solved problem and while their engine might be the same in name - I’d be surprised if the approach isn’t totally different than what they were doing in 97, either that or the LG tv voice transcription probably doesn’t work as well as everyone else’s.

The deep learning revolution and the applications we’ve seen since 2015 are a major step forward and something truly different. People pretending otherwise are just acting cynical in some attempt to project intelligence or seem wise, it doesn’t work.
Why do you think the authors would want to promote a view where employers are expected to share profit?
There's a weather report every day. It's something notable. There has never in history been a day without weather.
How is any of that relevant to libraries of mathematical functions and (more generally) of mathematical models and their properties?
That's a bigger problem than not being able to send my file to printer. Looking at what Craft does, a paper version is going to be very "lossy", it's what Clay Shirky calls a "shearing" layer.
Yes. Obsidian might not yet have an iOS app but it's certainly draw the line of the (real) futur of note taking.
OMG we're trapped inside MATLAB!
> It looks really cheap

It is pretty much the same cost as CIELAB. Just uses 2 full 3x3 matrices where CIELAB can be thought of as using matrices with a bunch of zeros in them.
They confessed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/business/media/facebook-a...
Also waterpiks. Much better for your gums than flossing, and 10x easier. (Granted you still need to floss to prevent cavities, but still.)
You’re right. I would bet the CIA is at least a little less starry eyed about the “good” they do in the world, compared to Facebook engineers.
Ah. The on average bit is what I was missing. It keeps going against my intuition though... like: on average, buyers of lottery tickets get back ~90% of their investment.

I guess the difference between lottery tickets and genetics is that one is compulsory, with no benefit whatsoever for not playing.
not OP but I do wish that the lobster metaphor was the worst part of the book. I think Petereson is a great speaker and he makes interesting points but his writing drags on and on. I could hardly finish the 12 rules of life, although I thoroughly enjoyed his lectures and interviews.
Getting Started with Color Basic - TRS-80 Color Computer
Have you found a job using this approach? I just think that if I were on the receiving end, i'd be a bit creeped out if there wasn't an introduction. How would I get an introduction? Thanks for the unique tip though.
> Like science, it's an ongoing project to minimize harm in a very real way.

What would this "very real" way be? Different people have widely different objective functions they are trying to maximize. The expectation that we should always attempt to pursue cosmic justice is completely unrealistic.

We already have a proper way of enforcing "very real" ways to curtail abuses, it's called passing laws.

There probably is a place for serious, proper discussion of what the proper working ethics for a software engineer are, but it's nowhere near as preminent as the zeitgeist is suggesting.
> 1. It could have and still could be fixed

Microsoft actually tried to fix it in DOS 2.0 with SWITCHCHAR. In CONFIG.SYS, you could specify SWITCHCHAR=/ or SWITCHCHAR=-, and then there was an API (INT 21,37) programs could call to find out which to use.

However, they pulled this feature from the 2.0 documentation, and then mostly removed it in 3.0 (some vestiges remained, but it was non-functional). I think the big problem they faced was that while programs shipped with DOS would respect the SWITCHCHAR setting, third-party programs wouldn't (at least until new versions using that API were released). I think they found out that it was too late and all too hard due to the backward compatibility constraints with the already (even by then) vast base of existing DOS software.
I’m not an ML expert, but my understanding is that a model is going to spit out a list of recommendations — each with a score. As you design your model, you need to figure out what it is your optimizing for.

I understand your approach to be more of a heuristic - build a tree like structure by traversing through the channels for each channel.

If I’m interested in A, how do you determine where to start traversal in this tree? And how do you pick out a set of recommendations and rank them?

I have a cursory understanding of ML. In addition to finding the relevant entities, you need to rank them.

An important question is, “what are you optimizing for?” For YouTube, presumably they want to optimize for watch time. If they want to suggest ads, that model might want to optimize for maximizing revenue. I’m going on a tangent here, but when we say “YouTube’s recommendations are bad” we should keep in mind YouTube might be optimizing for revenue... which isn’t the same as optimizing for seconds watched or optimizing for clicks.
> The question you posed assumes that the EU will continue to be involved with half of the UK's trading activity, which I don't buy.

The difficult bit to buy, hard as Brexiters have been selling it, is that the reduction in the proportion of trading activity with the EU will be compensated for by an increase in trading activity with countries which are further away, more protectionist and/or poorer, as opposed to just a reduction in trade overall.
Texas breaks from CDC in vaccinating elderly over police and teachers
A more accurate statement: Some career politicians care a little bit. I can guarantee 99% of Americans have no idea what Northern Ireland would be or what border arrangements they do or don’t have with the EU and UK
Total solar eclipse. Unbelievable. Life changing. Partial is meh. Totality made me cry.
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
>>Bosworth, a major confidant to Zuckerberg, stating that [...]

Talking about (inadvertent) misquotes: the quote was attributed to a "February 2016 internal memorandum sent from an unnamed Facebook manager to Andrew Bosworth, a Zuckerberg confidant and powerful company executive who oversaw ad efforts at the time [...]". (Italic emphasis is mine)
Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

by Diana Walstad
I had similar thoughts but was so glad I stuck with season 4, it is probably one of the best seasons of TV I've ever seen and provided satisfactory closure. IMO season 4 is worth watching no matter what you thought of the middle seasons, I've rewatched it a few times which I almost never do.
Live in a city with Facebook offices. Work for a similar company.

Recruiters offer phone calls not jobs. You still have to grind to pass the interviews.
Sorry I've been off the market for 2 years now. Holding onto my job and super easygoing boss for dear life. I found by it pure luck and its at a boring company that does nothing innovative but the pay is good and there is no stress. I wish you luck in your search.
„Small Gods“ is another good one, probably my favorite Discworld novel.
The problem with web-based software subscriptions like this is that you don't really have any option to fall back to a perpetual license with the version you're at. It's ok for shorter term use cases like specific projects, but it's hard to commit for longer-lived documentation or personal documents you want to maintain over years. Your usage may ebb and flow. Aside from that, the company may go out of business or just change its priorities.
Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman! I first read it as a college student and have read it many times since. Feynman was a fascinating character. Reading about him taught me to appreciate the value of curiosity.
This comment is disgustingly misleading.

The border between UK/France was shut due to concerns over the new Covid strain, not to do with Brexit, as stated by the first sentence of that article:

France and its EU neighbours are scrambling to thrash out a coordinated plan in response to a new strain of Covid-19 that has blocked trade and air travel to the UK and left hundreds of freight trucks banked up outside the border with France
Would you recommend another place that has all this information together?