skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pragmatic Programmer

https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-2...

It's been a long, long time since I had access to the book; and much of it is internalized by now; but back then it changed everything for me.
> Why else put text ON TOP of the footage?

Isn't that an Instagram thing?
Is there a problem with that? Of course people want to maximize a scenario where decision-makers share their political views.
No, I mean in the on disk format, the history is stored per-file. This is why svn blame is massively faster than git blame, because git blame has to go through history for all files to find the right bits whereas svn does not.

The svn file format vs the git pack format are very very different on-disk.
I Think Room 641a put what you say clearly into question, [p]. THe government has hooks into Skype when MS bought them and it went from P2P to P2S2P. I firmly believe the government has direct access to MS, FB, Google, etc.... Either permissively or on their own volition.

[p] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Smart home, eh... looking forward to the news that Russian hackers infiltrated some secure infrastructure through their IoT Christmas tree...
For certain hostile foreign actors I'm sure dividing the EU in this manner has payed off in spades.
I also never find the things he says very inspiring. Just rehashing the obvious mostly. Of course even the most obvious things might be useful to someone, but the bars for what Sam Altman says during what he calls a "lecture" should be higher than that.
Linux, since the inception of Proton is a viable place for gaming. Go ahead and try it out, I promise you will be pleasantly surprised ;)
What if they did. Would it change the argument?
mjburgess has a point. There is a relationship with online advertising for the following reason: online advertising has been a perfect testbed for the latest AI research for years because (1) it leverages massive amounts of data (2) is not mission-critical (the human cost of failure is low) (3) has little accountability regarding fairness and explainability. For these reasons, online advertising has been surfing the latest AI hype, well in front of other domains (healthcare, defense, education, etc.) where either (1), (2) or (3) is not met.
A summary can be found here https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...
If you want to compare to modern visions of Berlin have a look here (articles in German):

https://unvollendete-metropole.de/wettbewerb-berlin-brandenb...

https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article229533354/Visionen-f...

https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article230886508/Berlin-im-...
Breaking Bad. Refused to watch it for years due to the hype.
Apple car couldn't come sooner, good riddance iDrive and ye olde car manufacturers who can't work together to create a seamless consistently good experience when connecting your smartphone to a car and trying to use the damn car controls with your car being handed off your existing smartphone apps and data connection so they are ready to go immediately. Let me drive the damn car and not fidget with my phone or your distracted driving inducing touchscreen buttonless usability nightmare that is in fashion in cars today (see Tesla).

In my Mercedes they charge thousands more for "hands free calling package" when my basic toyota comes with that out of the box. This upselling of basic tech functionality needs to end and I'm glad Tesla and hopefully Apple car disrupt the mired incumbents.
Not saying the site is legit, but there's nothing wrong with using a template with some simple custom images. People on HN are constantly complaining about overengineered websites.
The patches to the Kernel are in review and can be seen here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/patch/20201...
Over christmas break? Lord of the Rings.

More than enough wisdom packed in there to last a lifetime.
My 6 year old son played with SimplyPiano for several months this year, and I tried it out a bit as well. For me, SimplyPiano brings the excitement of being able to play popular music that you recognize and enjoy in a matter of weeks. The app has easy arrangements of everything from Adele to Beethoven that it takes you through as it 'teaches' you. There is also a gamification aspect that gives you more stars for hitting the right notes at the right time.

When I had piano lessons as a child, playing classical music for years became boring and uninteresting to me. I believe apps with a wide range of music help keep interest levels up. The app seems like a great way to dip your toes into playing piano without committing to finding a teacher.
Of course it was awful. It was 1997.

But you can't claim that something "wasn't possible 5 years" ago, if 7 years ago said feature was included in inexpensive consumer product (LG TV).

I'm not acting cynical, but it's tiresome for me to see people who claim that 20-30 years ago we all were living in a caves and catching bugs with wooden sticks, and now boom, ML!

Regarding "something truly different", well, my personal computing / mobile experience not changed that much from 2015. Honestly speaking, progress from 1995 to 2000 felt much more impressive and 'truly different'.
I mean, think of it, during this timeframe we went from DOOM via V.34 modems to amazon.com and ordering pizza online.
The photo from the original article is different:

https://imgur.com/a/anfsAsa

I can't access wfaa.com ("Access denied" errors even on /), perhaps they are blocking European traffic?
Mars: Elon Musk, Blue Origin and US Could Set Up Extraterrestrial Government
Evernote also does similar stuff, right? What is new? Sorry I haven't tried Craft myself yet.
1. New Testament (I was not raised in a religious household)
2. The Imitation of Christ
3. The Lord of the Rings
4. The Iliad
Likely they did, but I don't think we have the DNA to know for sure. Even if we did have some trapped in amber inside insects like in Jurassic Park, we couldn't link to bones.

On Land of the Lost "Grumpy" was called he and "Alice" was called she, but I don't think anyone knew their sex for sure. "Alice" was an Allosaurus.
CubicDOOM a ray-casting game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes)
I have always felt something is wrong with that game with the bitter feeling you have when you win. Anyways taking into an account it is the most popular game on Earth - it is also a stellar example of gamification. Education by playing.
We address the problem of adding provenance without rewriting your tensorflow/scikit-learn/pytorch/pyspark application by adding CDC support in the ML stack and collecting all events in a metadata layer, building an implicit provenance graph. It's now part of the open-source Hopsworks platform. See this USENIX OpML'20 talk on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAzEyeWItH4
I don't understand this. 1080p on 15 screen is still pretty decent, I think Windows by default set scaling on such ppi.
Influence: Science and Practice, by Robert Cialdini. Stores have no power over me anymore.
That is really not comparable to Germany back then.
Really? If it wasn't for the visa waiver programme in the US for example, being from the UK wouldn't I need a visa to enter?
I’m curious if you are a musician? This description of music theory (whiteboard algorithms) feels really off to me (feel free to look at my sibling comments as to why).

If it’s your experience as a musician I would like to understand why.
On that list, I only have first-hand experience with Uber. The Uber entry on that list links to a blog post from Uber engineering. This four-year-old blog post says:

> We rip out and replace older Python code

How many other companies on that list also "use" Python the same way that Uber "uses" Python?
>I type a message on my phone - I see it on my PC the moment I press Send button

I use some telegram groups and sometimes i'd start typing in phone before the message gets too long and i'd prefer to carry on the message in my laptop instead. It is so useful to have this feature.
The page is a collection of video lectures, the majority of which are by guest lecturers, such as Patrick Collison and other founders or VCs. There is no written advice on this page, and only a small number of the videos feature Sam.
These kinds of things never turn out to be that sophisticated. It's always that they left the SMB port open and the password was "password".
You don’t need to apologize for your discomfort at my choosing to understand things in a way I personally find sensible. This has never bothered me because in the areas where it pragmatically matters I’ve achieved success and in the areas where it’s academic I’ve at least somewhat satisfied my curiosity.

Collecting a catalog of phenomenological observations is the defining characteristic of a phenomenology. One may feign hypotheses as one likes to fit that data, but that activity, valuable though it may be, is qualitatively distinct from the proper science of predicting the phenomena before they are observed. Of course phenomenologies can provide the necessary insight for predictive science. Like all human endeavors boundaries can blur.

Sadly much so called science is just computer aided trunk wiggling[1].

[1] https://quotefancy.com/quote/1342664/John-von-Neumann-With-f...
That's the first line of the proem and complicated tells us nothing about the protagonist. Everyone can be complicated, but only Odysseus is πολύτροπον. It's a quality of character few people possess. I feel like Pope's line, despite the artistic license, kept that uniqueness.
No because I didn't learn how to start a sustainable business from a book or online resource unfortunately.

It was more a case of trying something, seeing if it worked, keeping it if it did and stopping it if it didn't. Aka trial and error.

Problem with trial and error is that unless you're naturally gifted at running a business (I'm not) or lucky (I'm not) it takes a long time to learn all the lessons you need to learn to make a successful business.

The best shortcut is a good mentor...but those are hard to find.

Edit: Having said that, Reddit has a lot of smart people on it that are able to provide sensible guidance for specific business problems.

Also: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-CEO-Within-Tactical-Building-... <-- this was a great framework for running various areas of a business. Wish I had stumbled across it sooner than this year.
I have mixed feelings about the emulating-Windows approaches. They've let some people run some games, without running Windows, for whatever reason they want to do that, but...

Another way to look at it is that this has been going on for 20+ years, and it's kept relieving whatever pressure exists to get games then on Windows to be on something more open.

(Yes, I built a SteamOS box a few years ago, but that turned out to look mostly like a negotiation tactic, for Valve's continued coexistence with Microsoft. Maybe there will be another attempt someday, supported by Vulkan.)
Merry Christmas, avancemos!
Perhaps you just found an old dusty upright piano next to a dumpster, and you moved it into your apartment. Pehaps you pay a "very expensive" teacher $50 and make a "large time commitment" of 30 minutes for a single lesson. (Btw-- what's the going rate for even moving an upright these days? I'd bet it's more than $50)

The teacher asks you where you'll be practicing, and on what type of instrument. Suppose it's the old upright. As a professional responsibility, that teacher is going to find out exactly what shape that piano is in, if it's in tune, if it has a broken soundboard, etc. Based on what the teacher finds out, they will give you valuable feedback on whether it's even worth it for you to devote learning on that instrument (perhaps it's woefully out of tune[1], which you wouldn't know if you're just a beginner). As well as whether it's worth paying a piano tuner to have a look at the instrument. Tuning costs more than $50, so on that detail alone you may have gotten your money's worth.

Now imagine that instead of an old dusty upright, you have access to a grand piano practice room at a college with a well-funded music dept. You again pay your astronomical fee of $50 for the long duration of 30 full minutes. But the teacher spends the last 10 minutes of your lesson talking about dusty old broken uprights, and all the problems you'd run into if you happened to be playing on that instead of accessing the college's practice rooms.

As a beginner, that last ten minutes would clearly be a waste of your time, right?

Now extend that waste of time over, say, 1/3 of the total time you attempt to learn the piano.

That is pretty much the problem you run into with online/self-study. Either the guide gives you so much material that's irrelevant to your context that it slows your pace of learning, or-- probably worse-- it leaves out crucial details that you need to know in order to progress efficiently.

Finding a human mentor through a web of trust avoids those problems.

In fact, it gets worse over time for the online/self-study because you're entirely dependent upon your own opinion of your progress, which-- as a beginner-- is guaranteed to be flawed. This is an easy route to burn out. Perhaps you feel your progress stunted, whereas a professional could tell you that you've simply underestimated the increase of difficulty of a particular skill. Not to mention setting reasonable expectations for progress in the first place, and a hundred other considerations that a mentor can immediately discover and provide feedback for.

[1] More exponential explosion-- there are various ways in which a piano may be out of tune. A teacher can tell you whether that happens to be imperfect yet usable, or whether it renders it completely worthless as a practice instrument.

Edit: clarification
Surprised no one mentioned all the Grand Theft Auto games.
Right from Vice City, every game has been an overload of fun to play.

GTA 5, especially, had a lot of hype for a long time and it lived up to every bit of it.
You'll hear the term provenance used quite a bit on PBS's long running Antiques Roadshow.
How to write better landing page copy
The way things are done in TF can hardly ever be considered good practices.
Sunfish – a strong chess engine in 111 lines of code
An even better one here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attach...
A country might want to trade with its direct (and near) neighbors as frictionless as possible. That's where usually the majority of the trade is going to and coming from... for example factories in the UK have been a part of the production networks in the EU with extensive just-in-time production logistics.
In the security research community, it's common for reviewers to expect discussions of things like responsible disclosures, informed consent, data confidentiality, and the legality and ethics of research methods. I think it's a great thing for researchers to be cognizant of their work's broader impacts; not just for harm reduction, but because it makes your work so much more interesting to a wide variety people.
oh please stop... don't take something as joyous and wonderful as Factorio and try to make it about misery. I play games like Factorio to not worry about the world's problems for a few hours.
Perhaps you'd like "There is no game" then.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240210/There_Is_No_Game_...
The answer is carefully hidden right in the first sentence of the article:

> The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), a superconducting fusion device also known as the Korean artificial sun, set the new world record as it succeeded in maintaining the high temperature plasma for 20 seconds with an ion temperature over 100 million degrees.

Tokamak here is a Russian for toroidal chamber with magnetic coils. The plasma is hold in place by interaction of magnetic fields from these coils with magnetic fields from currents flowing trough the plasma.
Oh, I have kids. I just give them their own accounts
If I have never learned this entire set, I bet you that my mum won't learn it. Most users not only aren't power users - they have zero interest in becoming power users.
The comment might not be a perfect, but I don't think it is "disgustingly misleading". Although the current trade problems are indeed caused by protective measures against the new Covid19 strain, as you wrote. They are still representative of what will probably happen if normal border crossing for wares and goods is prohibited from one day to another. So, I'd say it is relevant, but not the same thing.
Are you serious?

The UK had the same problem when they banned pit bulls. Not a single dog was killed. They just disallowed people from getting new dogs, and the ones that already existed just died out of old age in their existing homes. If new dogs are found they just go to an animal shelter where they get neutered and that's it.

In some cases, like the US, unwanted (but legal) dogs go to Canada where they get new homes. Checkout YouTube for that, they all look like happy puppies.

Not a single breed-specific-legislation in the world resulted in any dogs getting killed.

What we're talking about here, is dog breed which single handedly are responsible for over 90% of fatalities and serious injuries should be neutered and not allowed to be sold to the general public. They can be in shelters, as guard dogs or used by the police or military, just not regular family homes with elderly and children who can't defend themselves.

Where did you get that gruesome idea of killing dogs from?! No one anywhere in the world has done that or even talked about it.
These SV made-men, taken as a group, are Exhibit A for survivorship bias. Their primary talent is having been in the right place at the right time and they've spun an entire self-help industry out of it. If they hadn't gotten lucky early on, they'd just be dopey middle management parasites at some investment firm. These aren't they people that can build anything, they're just the middlemen between rich idiots and people with actual talents.
Why the aspect ratio change from 4:3 to 16:9 to even wider formats?
Where does NASA keep the Moon Rocks?
Let's wait until it's actually implemented. Also, there was nothing stopping having that promised worldwide scheme before
Congratulations on a well-worded ask.

Xmas break (not weeks), life changing, recommended for everyone (here)...

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
It's absurd to use an OS that will arbitrarily lock you out of your old apps when you update
computer graphics and color science communities are fairly distinct, although obviously there is some overlap.
Can you please share what insights you gained from “the art of ...” and how you utilised them to accomplish more in the last 5 years?

Have heard many good things about the book - curious to get some concrete anecdata
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. I really cannot summarize the plot, but it is such a good read. My favorite author.
Science is objective and there is a long history of morality and ethical changes, and incorrect evaluation to societal impact. I think this is a concesion to political pressure.
Adobe Lightroom v6 is Falling Apart
I didn't solve any problem, I just demonstrated that a faster horse is not the only option even though the article presents it as such. The physics of orbital rings are understood well for many decades; it just costs a lot and the economy is not there yet. It might not get there if nobody said rockets aren't the only option.
Endgame, by "LoGan". My older brother was into PUA stuff, I was dumped recently so he recommended me to read some things. All the other books and blogs were like "you have to do this one trick to get laid", but this book was a bit deeper. It changed my mind about being a happier and more fulfilled person by myself, and don't stress over being liked by other people, which in turn makes you more likeable.
Sure. I think you are seeing a path dependence thing - more so in the past, but still there are engineering departments that are very matlab oriented, and others that are not. So depending who you work with, you'll see a ton of it or little.

This is a bit like the python/R dichotomy in data science.
> I would compare him to what threeblueonebrown is for math

Never heard of that person, but I'm intrigued. Are they better than Sal Khan?
All creatures die regardless of how reckless they were when they were alive

the question is why males seem to become fossilized more often than females. Uneven distributions of recklessness while alive are irrelevant
So the strategy is basically to get into the FAANG club once and then you are golden as long as you keep up your grinding?
Proton is a compat layer, and it often incurs performance cost or glitches. In a few cases games are not even playable. Granted, some games work perfectly.

Nonetheless, I've done my fair share of Linux gaming, and I'd never ever recommend an average gamer to put Linux on their rig.
Ask HN: How Stable Is Pijul?
I read Pijul’s blog the other day and it looks like it’s close to 1.0 as of November. Is Pijul still experimental, meaning, are the theories behind it still a WIP or is it just that it isn’t as performant as the creator or community would wish?
Good comment, especially WRT trade off between confidentiality and availability. Nonetheless, I do feel that many of these items (few standards, little interchange, often old tech, data decentralization) are primarily problems because the vendors and hospitals don’t really have strong incentive to solve them. I do appreciate that the problem is non-trivial, but I don’t think that the problem would be unsolvable should the appropriate incentives be put into place.
I'm not sure what this implies. Nuclear is a good example, because it can have immense positives in providing clean and safe power. War has existed for millennia, but that doesn't mean nuclear weapons aren't a uniquely dangerous technology to enable it.

The example I gave is perhaps the worst possible scenario, where AI systems are specifically engineered for the goal of racial bias. The recent advancements in facial recognition technology (helped by the great progress in image recognition by neural nets) make possible a wide-spread surveillance system. I would certainly call the scale enabled by the automatable human-level performance of facial recognition systems dangerous, just like I would call the scale of destruction of nuclear weapons dangerous, even if they are dangerous in different ways.

Even then, e.g. in the United States AI systems aren't necessarily engineered for bias. However, if we're not careful, existing racial, gender, or socioeconomic biases in society can enter these systems and can be reinforced by them (this has already happened in well-documented ways). There I think AI ethics researchers can provide immense value in helping us identify and fix these urgent problems, and I welcome ethics researchers playing a part in any field for this reason.
Not one of motorcycles, horses, cuban cigars, Bach, Helene Grimaud, faith, and as a super weird outlier, Freemasonry, has disappointed me.
What are you even saying?

Scientists use statistics from hospitals. They find that 90% of brutal gruesome deaths are caused by one breed or variation of such breed, they ban that breed from being adopted.

Result? 90% less gruesome bloody murders of innocent children and elderly -> success, the law is here to stay!

Where is the "illogical" or "circular" part? I don't understand what those words have to do here.

Do you like to allow poisonous snakes and tigers to be owned by the general population without any special license and guards too?
I was curious to try, so I followed the project's Makefile to create floppy.img and than ran it in a web x86 emulator. It worked!

Grab the floppy.img file here: https://paste.c-net.org/CannotCursing

Then head over to: https://copy.sh/v86/

Set the "Floppy disk image" to the above-downloaded file, and click "Start Emulation"

Cheers & Best wishes!