skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, this is a free app to track and showcase what you studied. By doing that, you also contribute to curated catalog of learning resources of any kind. With ratings and network of topics.

Some background:

I always hate it when I want to learn about something new and don't know where to start. What webpage to read for a quick introduction? What book to buy for deep understanding? Whether a paid course will be worth it.

That's why I and my friend created this app. We have been working on it for over a year now. We released first version few months ago but it was pretty empty and users wanted to search for resources, not register them.

So we added a "single-player" feature in this release to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem. Basically you can register everything you read/watch online/offline and create your own "study profile". We think it's great not only for tracking what you studied (and easily finding it later) but also for sharing with other people (and putting it on your CV?) as this is better record of what you really know than for example your university diploma.

We also plan to add a feature where you will be able to find people that studied a topic you are interested in and get inspired by their learning path.

I am curious what you guys think about it.
> Bitcoin sure doesn't fair (sic) very well, except if you invest at the right time

Historically, you could have bought 99.8% of the days Bitcoin existed and you would be up today.
And how much of that _generated_ electricity from solar and wind is actually produced on demand?

Electricity generated from nuclear power can follow the load, neither wind nor solar can do that meaning you will _always_ need backup power plants.

Germany has 50% renewable energy in its electricity mix, yet their greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector are seven(!) times as compared to France.

There is a reason why China is nuclear power plants like crazy. They understand that electricity is worthless if it can’t be produced on demand.

> https://twitter.com/YanQinyq/status/1368830510210899968
It appears just to be full of spam at the moment. How do you plan on tackling that issue?
I wonder what percentage of people at their current job would pass if they had to re-interview without preparation.

In general, companies with more money than they know what to do with can offer increasingly larger wages to make people jump through arbitrary hoops. I know people get frustrated with this, but it's really the rational thing to do.

When you consider the expected value, siphoning up 10 to 25% of your employers time to practice leetcode at work will benefit you more than doing most things at work.
One of the advantages of nuclear, though, is land-area required. Nuclear takes about a third as much land as solar, and a fifth as much as wind, meaning that it can more easily scale up if energy needs outstrip available land for energy production without reverting to the equally land-efficient methods of coal and gas.

That said, improvements in the transmission grid might be able to remedy that issue, honestly not sure.
Keep in mind that hydropower is extremely disruptive to the water ecosystem up and downstream of the facility, destroying habitats and biodiversity. Definitely not the type of side effects you'd consider OK if it's your mission to combat the effects of climate change...
I don't get it, what if you want to use a different language to your clients? What if you want to have state shared across an entire company and spin up/down bits individually?
I have had times when a commute was kind of invigorating - walking through bustling streets flaneur-like, or getting the heart rate up on a bike (even in the pouring rain), or listening to something while the world rolls by on a bus.

Being around people gives me a kind of energy. When it's good, it bookends the working day nicely. And I'm currently missing that positive experience having been forced to work from home for a year. Personally, finding the motivation to recreate this every day is extremely difficult.

I would, however, never willingly go back to a long commute on my own in a car on main roads. I found it soulless and depressing.
I agree! I think trying to apply a high level value will result in more discrimination, however. i.e, if we see X group of society under/overrepresented by Y%, we do not have enough understanding to draw any meaningful conclusions from this. Large enough discrepancies should be investigated as possibly a canary for discrimination, but in some cases there may not be any (NFL lineman will likely always be men).

I think the correct answer is to evaluate people as individuals on their merits. However, this is expensive (in many ways) and still flawed. My view is that we are much close to coming up with a "fair interview" than we are with understanding the massive amounts of complexity explaining discrepancies in human populations.
I really really wish this supported experimental decorators with reflection metadata so we could use this in our Angular and NestJS apps.
A huge boulder of salt.

The document has been produced in consultation with Adrian Zenz, and his work is referred several times.

Zenz is widely known to have made numbers up, and in fact he has now been sued by Xinjiang farmers that complains of his defamation

https://twitter.com/MazementC/status/1369104709072662532

Frankly, this article is just war propaganda. Hopefully flagging it will help preventing more people being mislead by it.
His books and Rubik's appearing little by little in the back are hilarious.
The belief in encrypted message apps is a gold mine. In Brazil, the former president Lula has been convicted to jail. A hacker broke Telegram and got the messages that demonstrated a conspiracy between the judge and the prosecution: https://www.wired.com/story/brazil-hacker-bolsonaro-car-wash...

The conviction prevented him to run for office (he was the favorite in the polls). Yesterday the ex-president got his political rights back and will probably be candidate in 2022 to try to defeat Bolsonaro.

Everything due to the hacker (And the journalist Glenn Greenwald of Snowden fame)
It is pretty well established in psychology that women score higher in agreeableness (in the sense of the Big 5 trait). This difference is pretty small, the distributions overlap a lot, but I think, the fact, that women are more agreeable in general is pretty indisputable.

As far as I know, whether the difference has biological or cultural reasons is not equally well established. But it seems somewhat stable across cultures, which seems to me to suggest that it’s indeed biological, see e.g. Costa et al (2001), Gender Differences in Personality Traits Across Cultures: Robust and Surprising Findings: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11825676_Gender_Dif...

“In brief, gender differences are modest in magnitude, consistent with gender stereotypes, and replicable across cultures. Substantively, most of the gender differences we found can be grouped in four categories: Women tend to be higher in negative affect, submissiveness, and nurturance, and more concerned with feelings than with ideas.“
Did you have an automatic static code analysis tool to flag non-compliance? This is the sort of thing I see and use to warn people away from blindly spending money on this sort of thing, installing the tool, and calling it good.
That's why the microwaves approach might be preferable to the laser approach: "Safe, low intensity levels hardly stronger than the midday sun. Birds and planes wouldn’t notice much of anything flying across their paths."
When the rules are to "sit still" and "be quiet", yes, probably so. Boys are diagnosed with ADHD at a rate of 12.9% vs 5.6% for girls [1]. I've heard many counselors and psychologists (in my counseling program) suggest that many cases are misdiagnosed.

Sit in any classroom or ask any teacher who their problem children are, and they're almost always boys. They're louder, more violent, more likely to disobey, and have a harder time sitting still.

Are all boys a problem? No, of course not. I imagine a lot has to do with home balance, the involvement of two parents, etc. Are all girls good? No, of course not. But statistically there is a difference. This is true until they settle down in their mid to late twenties...just look at insurance rates.

Maybe it's not biological and is cultural, but it's true from a very young age through young adult that boys are less able to sit still, be quiet, and listen. And school is structured in a way that punishes those traits, and we as a culture medicate boys to make them calm down.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html
the people work there usually start in areas of intelligence as stated. at that field, all work is done for protection.

ignoring that is naive.
not sure why even comment, most of the people here lack basic understanding of reality of life here.
when you run with your kids for shelter from missiles, we will talk
Instagram photos help Facebook AI 'teach itself'
To Dfinity and Beyond: Static Front-End Hosting, IC Gateway, and the Next Steps
That should be way, way simpler. It sounds like a neat computer vision class project.
Put it into numbers. How much would you like to see an Amazon warehouse worker make? Remember, mom + pop warehouses need to be competitive too. They don't have a multi-billion dollar "cloud platform" to move profits from around.

I'm guessing Amazon already pays between $15-$17/hr. What would you like to see, $20? $25? Wouldn't that just push Amazon to automate harder/faster, putting these people from $15/hr -> $0/hr when they are out of a job altogether when it vanishes?
See, the problem there is the "paying" part.

What do you, the customer, allegedly willing to pay, get from a search provider? Especially once everyone else piles on?

What you get is a simple tool, that then requorements bloats as soon as the rest of the economy notices you're a growing centralized control point.

You start getting DMCA pipelines. You start getting hosting amd analytics, and monetization. You get your supplier suddenly weighing everyone else's interests against yours.

You start getting manipulated results streams when all you wanted wss reasonably consistent and well organized search results according to your query.

And in today's age? You, the customer, will always lose. So people are willing to pay for search engines, they exist, but just aren't willing to pay for "someone else's" search engine. Many may even go as far as starting their own, and not advertising or commercializing it to minimize the number of entrenched filters between them and the Net. As impractical as it sounds.

Not a lot of normal folks grok it enough to articulate yet, but nevertheless I see the pattern starting to coalesce.
What is the point in selling the 12 chapters individually? Plus the book at $40 or $50 makes one chapter for $30 feel silly at best.
Lots of volatility in the snee market.
Western strategy needs to pivot to pushing for CCP democratization a la reformism from monarchy to democracy in the UK, rather than "removing the CCP."

IMO, anyone who has spent extensive time in China can see what a pipe dream overthrowing the 100 million strong CCP is. Think about the likelihood of overthrowing the United States government.
Not sure about you, but I don't concede any moral authority to "The Multibillion dollar global defense industry" so the refutation is invalid to say the least.
just like cost effective and environmentally advantageous grid scale batteries at the scales required to smooth day and week scale intermittency
Basically, the USA has strategic interests in Muslim countries. They therefore maintain a military presence there. There is a lot of fighting going on in those places, which means that sometimes the military is forced to respond, people get killed, sometimes. These accidents keep happening because the conflicts are ongoing.

By the way, can you show statistics to back up your claims?
Some of the chinese people that help build products are in the concentration camps. Not all of course.
> at least China hasn't invaded any countries in the name of bringing democracy to them.

Tibet would like a word.
That happened 70+ years ago, we have had a genocide as recently as the 1990s back here in Europe [1] and nevertheless the country that got out of that tragedy doesn't feel like it's in an "existential threat" (I'm talking about BiH).

From some point on (I'm betting on the second part of the 1990s, after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin) parts of the Israeli establishment decided that it's more worth it to double-down on the "existential threat" discourse because it was good for business instead of really wanting a way out for everyone involved (including the Palestinians), and here we are almost 30 years after the Oslo accords, no end in sight for the tragedy that happens to the Palestinian people, to say nothing of the Israeli citizens that have to live in a constant state of war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
If many companies are doing it, and many are forced (or feel forced) to do it in order to compete, then it isn't fair to just single one or two of them for public shaming via a publicly funded broadcaster. There's also libel ... maybe the threshold of evidence is high enough to write an article about some unnamed company buying reviews, but not high enough to hold up in court.
You're correct that the US MSM has poor coverage on China because of pressure from the CCP, ad placements from the CCP, and journo-leftist solidarity.

To learn more, you can watch the NTD media Youtube channels, especially China Uncensored and Crossroads. NTD is affiliated with Falun Gong, so they don't pull any punches - their reporters are based in the US, but still get death threats from the CCP.

https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDChinaUncensored

Also, there's a few vlog channels like serpentza/ADVChina that provide more background from people who lived in China long-term. Note these vloggers have all been forced to leave China in the past 2 years by the CCP, or face imprisonment.

https://www.youtube.com/user/serpentza

The reality is that most people can't handle the truth about what the CCP is doing - who wants to study the horrors of a 2021 version of Auschwitz?

For example:

- women are in the camps to disrupt their reproductive cycle (live births are down 90%)

- the camps are organ harvesting pools. China's hospital system is funded by organ medical tourists and organ exports.

So ... how much do you really want to know?
It’s very concerning that the responses on this issue are so timid. I think for individual corporations to reroute takes a bit of effort but that it would be possible for groups of corporations to do this with guidance from the government. Not doing this is funding the atrocities.
The Petticoat Panel: CIA's First Study on the Role of Women in Intelligence
The most interesting part of the Uyghur situation is that the world has had more or less the same reaction that they had to the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the 1930s. We know it is happening but we are not going to do anything. Arguably if not for Pearl Harbor the US wouldn't have interfered with Germany either.
Only if you believe that Israel's occupation of Palestine is legitimate. In 1948 we knew better that to create a new colonization project (or should have).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
Privacy (encrypt data at rest) requires global identifiers like BankID, RealID, or equiv.

It's a counter intuitive conclusion.

cite: Translucent Databases

source: worked on medical records and voter privacy stuff
Exactly. I don't like going through these interviews, nobody does, but there does seem a lack of perspective in how this issue gets discussed.

You can really leave a lot of money on the table with this attitude of "oh well, I dodged a bullet, if the interview was hard then the job is probably bad and the whole company too."
> So write your own software for your needs and sell it for a one off price?

Should he tailor his tshirt too? It is totaly fine to whine about something without fixing the industry by yourself.

I for one don't like the movement of commercial software to forced cloud integration. Big or small business. What would have been shareware or naggware would today be SaaS and be gone the day the server shuts down.
The Smallest Owl [video]
Maybe. They could substantially cut into mining capacity, but the degree is hard to isolate because miners do not generally publish location information. They could probably unilaterally take down some 30 - 60% of the mining power, and redirect it towards empty blocks, but once again, that would be a capacity constraint.

If they then chose to create more mining power to reach 100x (as the article proposes) of existing mining capacity they would likely find that beyond their means without stressing their economy to the breaking point because of the energy requirements. And as the price varied it's not clear that mining capacity would not grow in other places to reflect the increased price.

And this is putting aside the idea of political will, which is still something that even an authoritarian state has to deal with -- there are factions inside the CCP that would be happy to take power if the current leadership was damaging the economy through a useless fight against magic internet money, even if they phrased it in capital-flight terms.
Also, a big reason LWRs use so much reinforced concrete is that they have huge containment domes. The reason they're so big is that the water is pressurized at around 100 atmospheres, and if there's a pipe break it'll flash into steam at a thousand times the volume. You need plenty of space for the steam to expand inside containment.

A molten salt reactor is at atmospheric pressure and has nothing to cause a chemical explosion. You still need containment, but you don't need to contain a large empty space.
humiliation is something very different!
and you are comparing what israel does to nazi germany? nice
I work for a utility who often needs to work with interval data. The last interval of the day is 23:00-24:00 whereas the first interval of the day is 00:00-01:00. Some libraries can handle that as you'd expect, others can't. A lot of people are surprised to see 24:00. The key is 24:00 is the same date as 23:00, whereas 00:00 is the next day. It sounds like you have a similar need?
You stated three possible reasons, I added a fourth possibility. My statement was a fact about correlation, not causation.

Perhaps you could provide us with some details about how education is not biased based on sex?
Societal expectations that women do child rearing rather than men probably has some impact on that decision.
Depends on the exam. If we're using something like the SAT or ACT, I can agree with that statement to an extent, but if it's a state exam, those are frequently flawed[1]. I think it's the best we can do though, since while people frequently bemoan any exam as testing one's ability to take exams, I've never seen a better alternative proposed.

[1]: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article1952...
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Creative ideas and all, but we're already struggling to build, transport and store enough solar energy down here on earth. I'm guessing that in the timeframe this needs to deliver the cc mitigating benefits, this might be less feasible...
People who are on the IB side of IB, who are making way more than 250k/year, were just born into the right social set and got hired by their dad's pals from Yale. Easier, much easier, but requires more luck.
Hey, another comment that doesn’t understand the difference between system cost and levelized costs of electricity.

Solar and wind are ONLY cheap if you ignore the costs for backup power plants and extra landlines.

We have the highest electricity prices in Germany worldwide. I really wished people stopped claiming renewables are cheap, they are not.

> https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/
I'm in biotech and its a very similar situation here. We're a small company and dropping a few grand on regulatory documents would be a non-issue, a negligible part of our operating budget. Having said that, we would rather just pay for consulting/expertise from someone who has experience with the regs rather than interpret them ourselves.

I remember buying my first ISO document (INCITS/ISO/IEC 14882-2003) for $30 in like 2005 or something, back when I was still writing code. I thought I would become a better C++ programmer, armed with the standard, but turns out it didn't help me at all (reading books/writing code helped more). I did become a better standards-lawyer though! :D
Of course, but it's too late now (in their mind). They made a faustian bargain like most western countries and companies, hoping that china would change, but unfortunately they were wrong...
iv = secrets.randbits(IV)
plaintext = "Text for encryption"
aes = pyaes.AESModeOfOperationCTR(key, pyaes.Counter(iv))
ciphertext = aes.encrypt(plaintext)
print('Encrypted:', binascii.hexlify(ciphertext))
What's really "cringey" is resorting to infantile insults to attack the validity of an informative video that dismantles your narrative instead of formulating actual arguments.
Zulip is another interesting point in the design space IMO. I think it’s worth a look for its take on the identified problem.

https://zulip.com/
This has already happened in America - many union based orgs become totally noncompetitive and had bankruptcies and layoffs rather than blowing away the "drinking buddies" businesses. In the private sector unions now only have a small fraction of jobs (I think < 10% now?)

Unions work much better in public sector where they can't go out of business. Police unions, prison guard unions, teacher unions etc. I wouldn't say service or accountability is that great in these systems.
It's actually worse than that, given that all 3, 5 and 7 have 1 as their power-0, and the rest seem to encode powers of the former. Too much WTF and not enough comments.
Here’s the history of it, straight from the horse’s mouth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBTT827b84