skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m constantly updating my rules to adjust for people I can’t predict.

But that is the implicit way. Everyone builds their psyche in response to the stimuli they encounter. There is value in building a system for yourself, but there is also danger in believing that the system is itself an answer. Build the system for yourself in the wrong way and you can end up with a severe psychosis. I think it’s better if we acknowledge that everyone is responsible for each other instead of peddling these self help ideas like “nonviolent communication” which are ultimately about selling books.
The relative performance of these two queries will vary by data volume. Swap in a sales table for the weights table, and make that a massive sales table at that, joining it to much smaller prices can be much faster than a group by. Stated differently, a join can be faster than a group by. This is even more true when the small table can fit into memory and a hash join can be used, and the data in the group by can't fit into memory.
>How did you develop your listening skill?

I'm not sure...I've always enjoyed listening to people's lives. Everybody's life is totally different than mine. Everybody's experiences are different than mine. By listening, I'm exposed to things in the world I would never be otherwise. Both good and bad...but still.

>How to be more empathetic?

It might seem cliché but, put yourself in their shoes. Imagine yourself going through the things they're telling you. Imagine how you'd feel. Not what you'd do to solve the problem, just how it would affect you emotionally as it happened.

>What common failure modes do you hit in your relationships as a low empathy person?

>How do you avoid them?

I don't know when to shut the fuck up. People don't always want to hear solutions, they don't want to hear about what could have been done or anything at all sometimes. Despite best intentions, sometimes the best thing you can do, to put it bluntly, is shut the fuck up. Resist the temptation to give advice or opinions, just listen and acknowledge. That part can be hard though.
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OP here. Nice, thanks! I didn't put math down because my undergrad was in applied math and I got to use it a lot early in my career. But sounds like I'll definitely need a refresher.
I've wanted to do the same for a while now, but I'm unable to find a curriculum that lists the textbook for each subject.

It looks like the article author is just "guessing" textbooks. I'm browsing the U. Waterloo curriculum and it doesn't specify any books.

The article is still useful, don't get me wrong, but I would love to see a list of the textbooks that are actually used at a university program. I've Googled it many times and I only find the names of the courses.
> There is a reason why you dont give millions of dollars to a postdoc that submit their first grant proposal, why we do that to postdocs that are founding biotechs is beyond my understanding

TINA. If you're a fund that needs to put an ass in a seat to say "we have a biotech investment", you go to whatever you can find. You have no way of doing due diligence in your portfolio and even if you hired someone like me to ultrafilter your proposals you'd probably come up empty, because the only postdocs that play this game are those that know they are good at parlaying their social capital, obtaining favorable reviews from their PIs (social validation), and have less scruples.

The heads down brilliant and honest scientist postdocs have already burnt out, and often aren't socially savvy enough to play the VC game, if they were, they'd be gunning for faculty positions instead.

If VC wants a better return they need to have a different heuristic. I'd pick postdocs that did years of grueling work with no results and ask them what they'd really prefer working on instead of their PI's hairbraned idea.
Where unrolling is an excellent term, thanks.

The best I can understand is the engines are (or were) just not setup so they can do repeated single key lookups, which is really the right strategy for a where in. As a result, they do some kind of scan, which looks at a lot more data.
The closest thing they'd be in English would be a Latin root. Some Chinese words are a single character, but most are multi-character, and like Latin roots, characters have a "meaning" associated with the set of words in which they appear. For example, the character anciently used for lightning now appears in many words associated with electricity, such as phones, TVs, electric subway trains, computers, and so on, as well as seemingly unrelated words (like "movie") which actually have a historical etymological relationship to electricity (the projectors).
It's a C99 variable-length array declaration, so the syntax is valid; but unfortunately it doesn't actually do anything useful. The 'const unsigned char data[len]' declaration just decays to 'const unsigned char *data' -- the first level of array-ness is discarded.

[ there was a bit of discussion about this earlier in the month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26349903 ]
And 46th in Life Expectancy:

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
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Old OS just 'feel' less delicate. Something like XP might be slow but you feel like you know it's working. Theres a robustness in the UI.
Really cool. One thing the most boring part of my mind is wondering about when seeing these is related to the legality of stuff like that: many of the drone videos this is trained on are obviously copyrighted, and the system has used them to learn how to come up with novel ones. The same applies to GPT-n, which is trained on massive amounts of copyrighted material, no?
Does anyone know anything about this; there must be a couple of dissertations on this topic by now?
You're using your definition of 'need' to point out that it doesn't fit into what the parent has said.

You're right, your definition doesn't fit, his definition fits perfectly. Words have multiple meanings.
Multiple reasons. It wouldn't look good on nVidia if they were to raise prices too much. Between being known as a company that doesn't have enough supply/is too popular sounds much better than a company that price gouges their customers.

Gamers are also perceived as being loyal to a given brand, which is always good to ensure a certain level of demand and interest for their future products. If they can't buy a given product, they hardly can be loyal to that particular brand.

Miners are more rational actors, and will pay as much as needed to secure as much supply as they possibly can, as long as they can turn a profit. If the price of cryptocurrency is high, so is the price that miners are willing to pay.

While this sounds good for nvidia, miners will also dump unprofitable cards on the used market, therefore competing against new products from nvidia. If the price of cryptocurrency crashes, as it has done before, then there might be tens of thousands of used GPUs all flooding the market at a certain time. As these would be priced to sell, and the miners have likely turned a profit on the card already, any amount of money that they can get on selling the cards is just pure profit.

Nvidia probably doesn't want to have this sword dangling above their heads. It would be pretty bad for them to announce a new series of GPUs at the same time that the cryptocurrency market crashes, as they'd have to compete against used GPUs at fire sale prices.
Easier ways of cooking pasta probably run into other issues. If you’re boiling the pasta it’s not hard to be there and pick a piece up, and really you can boil pasta in any vessel.

It’s different, from, say, a rice cooker, where all rice more or less gets cooked the same way with varying times, you can definitely screw up cooking rice in a pot, and you don’t, say, need to reserve rice water for anything. Also rice cookers keep rice warm for hours on end in a manner that doesn’t detract from the taste or dry it out, but I don’t know that that would work for pasta.
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All software is bound to keep changing forever unless people stop using it... even after it's past its "perfect" place in terms of usability and benefits it brings to its intended audience (I am not saying perfect in terms of having no bugs - though that may also be the case)... because we can only know that in hindsight and we have no way of measuring this objectively.

Some old Unix tools are perhaps the closest we have to that. (ls, cd, tail...) but in terms of UI, I can't think of anything. As the needs of users change, so does what the "perfect software" for such users looks like... however, I would think there's usually a decades-long period in which some software could stay just as it is without there being possible improvements one could make to it.

I think it would be really interesting if we could find a good way to tell when that "perfection" is reached and tried to intentionally stop changing what is literally already perfect (though that will never happen in a commercial product, for obvious reasons).
The states, sure, but the people? Some of them still felt a little betrayed after 1848.

While the discussion about why Scandinavian unification never happened, while Italian and German did, is indeed an interesting one, the broader point is that I do not believe it is reasonable to say either the Italian and German ones were inevitable.

It was by no means certain in 1820 that Prussia would be able to beat Austria over German hegemony, hence whether it was probably not inevitable. The article kind of asks whether German unification the way it happened was inevitable. It is not unreasonable to think of a timeline where Austria learns some real lessons of 1848, and becomes a political powerhouse, while Prussia withers.
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Wow.

I am guessing this will be used in Google Maps Street View?
I agree on principle, but I'm not telling sick people that.
What about people who had to pay 2x-10x for same degree simply bc they were some born later? That is grossly unfair but so what?
This is a good idea for bookmarks to resources etc. However, you should not be sharing passwords in a shared profile because at the end of the day you would want to be able to go back and check which user made a particular change or authorized something or leaked data etc and if everyone uses the same password you can't do that.

A search for why shared passwords are bad gives us a whole lot of other reason why you shouldn't share/have common passwords.

Another problem is that if a user fat fingers and deletes something they will impact everyone that uses that profile. Or if they log in to a personal account at any site (ecommerce/medical/mail) and save the password they are essentially giving access to that account to everyone else who uses that profile
It's a long journey with many paths. The best you can do is set aside time everyday. I do an hour and it adds up quickly.
About 1/2 of the textbooks came from the old course outlines (e.g. https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~ece207/) and class shopping lists on UWaterloo book store. About 1/4 were guesses, and the other 1/4 I don't know where to even start looking.

The higher the course the lower the confidence of having the right book.
Well if you instead define a need as a want, then of course it makes sense, but that is because it’s tautological. “People do things because they want to do them.” That’s hardly an insight.
It looks maby like the remains of a row of haylage. Basically chopped corn, stalk and all, which is used to feed livestock. Usually you see this stuff in long white bags in the US country side, but there are multiple ways to store it. The stuff smells ferocious and self ferments. So they've probably used up the previous years haylage pile and now they are cleaning house so the rats don't totally mow down the spring planting their about to do.
I don't think I've ever seen 'alphabet' used as it is here:

https://design-of-forms.online/the-form-in-print/alphabets/

What does it mean? A cross between today's "letter case" and "font style".

Wonder if that's old timey English and/or old timey graphic design.

Also love the old-timey copy-editor directions on the same page.
What helped me was to start with the assumption that the other person is just as intelligent as myself.

The worst is when you start making suggestions after listening to two sentences. If you assume that the other person is as intelligent as you are, then something you came up with after two minutes of listening is not useful -- they have probably considered this already.

It's different from your job, because at work you probably are a specialist and it's possible you know the solution after two sentences.

But for the problems we face in everyday life it's not so easy -- there usually are no easy solutions, and most people have a similar amount of experience.
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That's what scares me...

So you agree with the EU's actions on this? You are refuting that they are in the wrong? I grew up in France and have elderly relatives there. The fact that the EU are behaving like this is deeply saddening.
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We already do texts and emails[1]. Users wanted desktop and mobile notifications, as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26520303
> Instead, it found a middle ground

There is no middle ground when it comes to privacy. Either the government can access your data or it cannot. Yes, the user theoretically has the option to not install the government apps, but just as you can skew poll results with subtle rewording of the questions being asked, you can likewise influence people's decisions by how you present this "choice". There is no effective difference between "Would you like to install these standard government-approved apps?" and "Would you like to allow the government to have access to all of your data?" But I'll bet a lot of people will say yes to the former while recoiling in horror from the latter.
If you consider those mice I'd hate to see what you consider to be rats!
Looks like James Falen manages to preserve the feel of orgiginal rythm. Also Kozlov(1998) is close. You can check others by yourself there:

English Versions of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/pml1/onegin/

It's hard to tell which one is the best, because I do not like the original ... too boring.

I've tried it again today and it's boring again but today I have found that a few primitive tricks were used many times when rythm doesn't work.

I think the common view about beauty of the poem is greatly exaggerated.
It's also used as a kind of humble brag. I just read an example today in the Journal.

The subject of the piece Austin Russell seems really really impressive and SO young. But the advice from one of his mentors Nick Woodman stuck out to me.

“To be your best self, you have to take care of yourself,’’ he urged the Luminar CEO. As a result, Mr. Russell shortened his average workweek to 80 hours from 120. “Burnout can be real,’’ he says. “It’s all about finding the right balance.’’

It's great advice, but those numbers just seem unbelievable to me.

Maybe I'm just projecting my personal experience!

But to me it comes off as kind of the common Japanese trope of going into the office just to brag that you're "working" insane hours.

Those numbers are just insane to me and I have a hard time believing A it's physically possible, B you're actually being productive to the point it's worth doing 120 hours (literally only 6 hours of potential sleep almost every other minute working) versus 'taking it easy' (lol) at 80, which at least seems humanly possible with a lot of sacrifice.

http://archive.is/1e7Zs
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Yeah, it worked pretty well for my purpose. The only downside is that the edges got a bit rounded off, leading to more distortion than ideal in my peripheral vision. It was definitely an improvement overall, in that I was less steroid-aggro while wearing them afterward. My brain had no trouble filtering out the increased distortion, vs. the visual artifacts (starbursting) from the worn out coatings.

I sanded the lenses by hand with 200 grit, then 400 grit, then 800 grit wet sand paper. There was the AR coating, but then under that there was some sort of underlying "toughness" coating that I had to completely sand through to get down to polycarbonate. That's what took the longest, since I didn't really know how far I needed to go with it, and it was fairly resistant to the abrasion. I tried soaking the lenses in isopropyl alcohol to soften the coatings, but I don't think it helped at all vs. just applying elbow grease. Once the surfaces were uniformly smooth but frosty looking, I polished them with Novus plastic polish #3, then #2, then #1. It wasn't perfect like a new lens, but the center was optically clear without any starburst reflections. With all the coatings gone, the polycarbonate quickly picks up little scratches just from cleaning, but it's quick to polish out again.

It was worth it to keep me from going completely insane for the next month it took me to get an eye exam and order new glasses.

Taking corticosteroids briefly then stopping cold turkey like that is pretty rough on your endocrine system. I had to be on the high dose for many weeks to get the desired effect, and my doctor had me slowly taper off over the course of a few months to keep from crashing like that.
I was wondering the same thing. This is basic math...
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Are you familiar with the works of Paul Watzlawick? Especially https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89200.Pragmatics_of_Huma... ?

I am asking because your first statement does not seem to adequately explain all the factors which are in play when we communicate.
What would anyone recommend to someone who really only had high school math[0] to get up to speed on enough math to handle more advanced computer science concepts?

I’m really interested but all the material I can find is either for kids (which just isn’t sufficiently stimulating for an adult) or aimed at college kids with a decent background in math that is fresh

[0]: not even calculus just what they called technical math which is like all practical example based curriculum. One of my life regrets here to be honest
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For what sort of games?

There's a few ways I see procedural generation as worse than limited [human] curated modelling - you lose the very careful balance, the iterated architecting to enhance game play, you also lose the commonality of experience across players, and if the game is often played you lose an aspect of the player's ability to become expert at the game.

It's natural that game companies will use lots of procedural/ML generation of game aspects; but it's probably going to be "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

Television had a certain manner of aiding societal cohesion when we only had a few channels (3 when I was little). That meant lots of commonality of experience. It seems [some] games could go the same way - players getting such vast differences of experience that we lose some of that shared experience that binds people together.

Ultimately, a future of us all living in our own entirely unique VR realty seems like some version of hell.
> I run cycles of listening, paraphrasing and then solutionizing almost every day. This doesn't translate well in friendships & relationships where the other person just wants someone to listen.

One thing that greatly helped me was realizing that listening itself oftentimes is the solution, rather than thinking of problem-solving and listening as completely separate. (Paraphrasing can help the other person feel heard. If you're already paraphrasing, then maybe add a pause here to gauge how the other person has reacted to just being heard.)

Another was learning to ask whether the other person wanted advice, perspective, and/or feedback instead of automatically offering it.
This exact idea has been bouncing around in my imagination. Would work for some employees better than others.
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run a technologically secure code, with root of trust in cryptography/security model your software uses

On modern pc/server/mobile computers it's impossible, your root of trust there is manufacturer and their microcode/embedded security modules with separate operating system etc
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But if you have to watch and be ready to take over at a moment's notice... it doesn't really remove that cognitive load? Unless you don't watch and aren't ready of course, but that's not really the point.
I know there are a bunch of things I should change but I can't be bothered, this is just a proof of concept and a tiny project to test out Hybrids.js (pretty good lib btw).

Idealy I'd use a black flag icon, add a colorblind mode and introduce a checker to make sure the grids that are generated don't rely on chance to be solved (or like you said order the colors in the cells).
It's just a minor typographical variation, similar to how some lowercase "g" glyphs have a closed loop while others have just a hook, or how some Latin fonts have serifs and others don't. It's not a totally different numeral system like the Greek or Maya systems, or even a dramatically different set of glyphs like the Eastern Arabic or Brahmi numerals.

The old African numeral glyphs resemble today's European styles more closely than Caslon resembles blackletter, more closely than either resembles Palmer cursive, and more closely than any of the three resembles Roman monumental inscriptions (except, of course, for the upper case of Caslon). Yet we consider Caslon, blackletter, Palmer, and the inscriptions all to be the same Latin alphabet.
I don't see any mathematics nor psychics books. During the first two years of our 5 year ECE degree we mainly did theoretical courses. Some examples: single variable analysis, multi variable analysis, differential equations, arithmetic analysis, algebra, mechanics, electronagnetism, waves.

All these were full semester courses. These courses were actually needed if somebody wanted to properly understand the whole theory of electrical engineering (signals, em transmission, antennas, microwaves, optical fibers, theory of electronics, electrical machines, electric power systems, etc).

Depending on which subject you want to focus on you may not need all these mathematics and physics but your will definitely need some theoretic knowledge to actually understand it!
Looks very cool, will definitely be trying this out.
According to the website below, the DP solution is O(n^2 * 2^n). That would be a big speedup.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/travelling-salesman-problem-se...
http://sprachlos-blog.de/westgotisches-ahnenerbe/ lol
How is this disagreeing with the OP? It specifically says that memorizing e.g. theorems is bad.