skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is a lack of leadership who're given adequate resources to reach a self-sustaining point - especially difficult as you're competing with relatively dumb money of the current status quo VC-finance industrial complex who're looking to maximize returns in 10 year periods, to pump and dump while putting as much pressure - extracting as much value as possible - from society.

If you extend the time horizon to 20-50 years with the right system, policy, and protocols in place to allow an exponential growth path - then you'll be "laughing to the bank;" Elon Musk is on this path because he understands the holistic, foundational principles, and the only limitation of how much he'll guide or lead success is his organizational and emotional regulation skills (stress management etc).

YC sees the path and has been working on organizational structures, created a great funnel for themselves. Elon similarly built up his nest egg through the work he's done and subsequent sales and paydays he's had - to then invest the substantial necessary investments into Tesla and SpaceX. It's really incredible to study to find the insights and nuances of how these seeds form and out of all the seeming chaos and pressures they can sprout, start blooming. The odds seem impossible, they however make it through the rigidity and conservation of the status quo - creativity seeming to lead the way for progress.

Great quote, thanks for sharing.
> what me and perhaps many other Europeans think about the American suburb is simply not apparent to a lot of Americans.

I share this sentiment a lot. Especially given my 30+ years growing up and living in Italy, and 8+ years in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I liked how this article provided clear examples of what's different, and what's important, about a city.

A great book I'd recommend is Happy City, by Charles Montgomery. [0] It will most likely change your perspective on how a city should be, but often isn't.

[0]: https://thehappycity.com/the-book/
Sounds interesting and I like the idea of publishing my recommendations. What's the added value vs a page on my blog though?
People do not agree on ethical and moral questions.

The assertion that everyone who disagrees with you is objectively wrong is childish and you should work on overcoming that :)
What a great quote. Next time my wife criticizes me, I'm going to say, "Babe, there are only two kinds of men: the ones their spouses complain about and the ones that aren't married." I'll never have to take out the trash again!
Start burning. Destroy all private data, don't store logs, only identify by hashed data. Keep your user's data on your user's devices.
I urge you to google "cover-up" and "conspiracy" and see how often those words are used together.

Yes, governments tend to avoid releasing embarrassing info. Witness the way the US government failed to prepare for the virus and pretended everything would be fine and then only made changes when they couldn't possibly do anything else which probably is responsible for killing 500,000 people.
It's simple, far away objects are hard to video even with modern tech to untrained people. You can zoom in on your iPhone now but holding a steady position would be hard and still even with the zoom the level of detail wouldn't be great to something in the sky.
That seems to be the MO!
I think Joint Parallel is hard, as in when two threads on two different cores are trying to write+read to+from the same memory.

My solutions are:

1) Use Java on the server; it's GC:ed VM has a complex memory model that can handle fast lock-free concurrency relatively well, even using OO though you'll hit cache-misses.

2) Use C on the client, primitive variable types are generally atomic so if you know what you are doing (I don't because I haven't gotten that far yet) you should be able to joint parallelize cores with char, int and float arrays as data, also avoiding cache-misses!

There are many more arguments for this division, Java doesn't crash (usually) and C is truly portable (you cannot run Java on certain devices iOS, Switch, PS4).
That’s nice and all but I’m still salty about how Nokia shuttered Bell Labs Ireland last year. So many close friends lost their jobs.
Mr. Burns is Indestructible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0euMFAWF8
I just commented a similar thing -- I started using my piano bench when I had to move my office to my home and it's been great. The occasional fatigue is a good signal for me to stand up and walk around even.
Absolutely. It's self-fulfilling belief. If you believe yourself to be trapped in an exhausted world, then you are. It's usually better to choose an abundance mentality.

The idea that the world has been mapped to the point of killing all mystery is ludicrous. The Map Is Not The Territory[1].

There are mysteries lurking in your own neighborhood that you won't notice until you traverse it in a new way. Go for a walk with a child or dog. Take a bike instead of a car. Use a wheelchair. Volunteer with local advocacy groups.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
Sure. I wouldn't be surprised if they have better features along specific dimensions. I'm talking about monetizable market share and revenue.
The page won't load, but this does (with Javascript disabled to prevent medium's script from breaking the archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20210323150321/https://erik-engh...

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Maybe he should have used a map that indicates parks.
IMO, for whatever reason, the great comedies of the silent era are a lot more approachable to a modern viewer than the great dramas. Even the lesser comedies are usually quite watchable. Of the dramas I'd recommend The Passion of Joan of Arc over anything else I've seen, for someone who hasn't watched much from that time period. It's both excellent, and easier to watch (in one sense, I mean, obviously the subject is pretty rough) than most other non-comedy silent films.
I thought they were dead, but it seems they're back.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/06/26/coraids_athenian_resu...
Are you referring to this https://winworldpc.com/product/borland-c/40 or the later versions?
I think I do, but do you?

Because the way I understand it, vaccination trains only a very specific part of the immune system. Which is then indeed effective against the very specific virus, but does not really increase your general immune system strength.
O(1) does not necessarily mean "fast". It could take 400 years and still be O(1), as long as it would take 400 years independent of the amount of light put in. O(1) just states that the computation time does not change depending on the input.
yeah. One of the more efficient home torture devices ever invented!
> No. I think you're in a middle of a tantrum and that's clouded your judgment.

I have to admit, this is cool rage-quit punchline!

Edit:

> I am sorry if my mild and careful statements have touched on something that you clearly see as essential to your identity, but I simply see no way to discuss this subject with you.

> Anyway, this conversation is making me very uncomfortable, as I sense you're in a very agitated emotional state, and I want no part of that.

Wow, it got even better as I refreshed the page!
It's written by a developer with a disclaimer that it's "unfiltered". I think it's part of their PR strategy to sound authentic and not salesy. Seems to mostly work for them.
> owning your own home is a self-securing investment, it means you can't go broke no matter how bad fate treats you

lol what? Trees fall on houses all the time. Pipes break and water damage can seriously impact structure & foundation. Dumb-ass kids accidently drive their mom's car through the veranda. Houses burn down and kill people. A factory shuts down and now there are no more jobs so everyone leaves, driving your house price down.

Assuming a home is a secure investment -- even in a hot market like SF or DC -- is foolish.

> More than one-quarter (27%) of reported fires in 2014-2018 occurred in homes. Even worse, more than three-quarters (77%) of civilian fire deaths and almost three-quarters (73%) of all reported injuries were caused by home fires.

> During this five-year period, US fire departments responded to an estimated average of 353,100 home structure fires per year. These fires caused an annual average of 2,620 civilian deaths; 11,030 civilian fire injuries; and $7.2 billion in direct property damage.

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-too...
The article mentioned a redesign issue with t he site.

I got curious, never been a user of the site, so I went to the login screen, saw the "play" button in the corner, and pressed it.

The animation is nothing special, just using scaling I think to make baloons look like they are moving...

But whoa, how I felt sick looking at it. And I have no clue why, tested a couple more times, press play, get sick, stop animation, I feel fine... The contrast looks fine-ish to me, the drawings are fine, there is nothing flashing, yet as soon I see the baloons becoming big and small repeateadly, I get sick.

I am a designer, so now I am very, VERY curious about how that happened, I searched all over the place but no answers sadly.
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If design thinking can be assessed through open ended design questions, what is leetcode adding? Except proficiency in leetcode?
YES!
If P != NP then there is an infinity hierarchy of problems between them which are themselves complete in terms of difficulty within their level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-intermediate

Under the assumption that we understand P and NP a heck of a lot more if we were able to proof their distinctness, this hierarchy could possibly be used for actually USEFUL proof of work in crypto currencies, by choosing problems with exactly the right difficulty from a problem domain like protein folding.
Back then, my articles were published on medium.com. Not on randomjoedev.com as they are now :)
> First, that there's something inherently different about NP-complete problems, and the proof would tell us exactly what.

The way I see it NP problems require exponential time by default. The reason some of them can be solved in polynomial time is because those problems contain some special structure that allows you to short-circuit the general solution with some kind of "trick".

Then P vs. NP boils down to does there exist a "general trick". In other words do all NP problems contain structure that can be exploited to short-circuit the calculation or not.

I do agree that actually proving that P != NP seems like it would require discovering some as yet unknown structure behind virtually all of mathematics, simply because the hypothetical "general trick" could be hidden in just about any mathematical structure we know about (or even in one we haven't discovered yet).
Years back, I tweaked the Plan 9 kernel source so it could compile with Go's C toolchain. After a day or two it was booting, but we decided not to use it... I think the end conclusion was that the Go team was (reasonably) only interested in maintaining the compilers for building Go, and that they could at any time make changes that would break our builds.
I agree. Now why is it called a sandbox if it isnt one?
Why does this horse shit keep showing up here?
Everybody hated AT&T's shit license back then, and now it's freeware? or more like free open source abandonware. 30 years too late, pal.
The building part was and is possible anywhere.

People’s mindsets regarding investing and buying services from non consensus locations likely has dramatically changed.
great chairs for the office, but awful if you want to play guitar at your computer. I guess you can't have everything in one chair.
Well $5 vs $2 isn't really what happened. It was more in the UK:

>Under Bingham’s direction, the taskforce helped the Government to secure agreements to have access to six different vaccines across four different formats, amounting to 357 million doses – without being certain any of them would work. Spending £1 billion up front, it could not have been a bigger gamble.

Whereas the EU didn't do that. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/work/kate-bingham-exclusiv...
They never even said that.

1. Any YC advice does not apply to all companies, but only to startups.

2. YC has funded companies in many places.

3. YC is not in SF.

4. This announcement doesn't say anything about location.
I won't really dispute the general point but you can certainly find small cities and suburbs that have a walkable core with residential buildings within walking distance. There are quite a few in Silicon Valley and outside Boston. Do you still need to drive a lot of places? Certainly. But the suburbs aren't all cookie cutter houses distant from strip mall retail.
Oh, the economist, this should be good!
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No shit! I guess all Ozu was not too bland for Kurosawa's taste. Really beautifully shot movie too but I guess all Ozu is.
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Weird.
I hadn't heard, it doesn't seem to have generated much press coverage now that I'm giving it a Google.
I always thought it was Dorothy Parker who said that, but the true origin seems to be difficult to track down: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/18/on-writing/
Options Greeks (Finance)
You describe suburbs likes it's the Microsoft Word of places to live.
FWIW, the upcoming software which has about two thousand beta testers is making left turns.

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

This is not my video
“American suburbs is a study in endless repetition. Houses lined up after each other in repetitive patterns.”

There is an innuendo that this is fundamentally bad, but surely this is true of many urban environments.

Think of london for example - streets are generally rows of identical looking houses repeated, and this is true whether we’re talking about the suburbs or the fanciest parts of central london.
What might not be apparent to this author is that lots of Americans dislike American suburbs, too. At least this one does. I also had a hard time telling the photos from Norway from places I've seen in the United States. It's quite large and diverse, unlike those suburbs!

> Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 2,937% larger than Norway.

There is, of course no doubt that the automobile enabled lifestyle is predominant here. And I also don't have any expectation of anyone emigrating from Norway to move to a boring American suburb! But if they wanted scenes like those photos from Oslo, there are places in America that look like that.

Of course, the author and I probably share some of the same feelings - we do not think our country is perfect, but we do hope to see the good things our country has, and perhaps feel some draw to defend what people think of our country when the merits are questioned!
This is why I feel subscription-based commerce does not take consumer psychology into account. They've seen it work for Netflix, so why shouldn't it be exactly the same for words on a screen?

Like you, I'm happy to pay for a physical product that creates a sense of wholeness. A book is time-bound and content-bound. It has a start and an end. A magazine subscription is similar. A physical product, plus you know what you'll be getting over a one-year timeframe. That kind of bounded-ness helps me mentally assign value to a product.

A Substack subscription on the other hand feels like a monthly retainer for a service I don't attach the same kind of value to.
Asking genuinely, why is China constantly targeted on HN? Its not like as if some elite countries based companies respect privacy or don't share data with government's, or its not like those elite countries use that data to target or bomb people.
FB and Parler (US based Companies)was one of the root cause of a particular group waging an attack on Capitol. Sure since parler was a small guy, it was booted. But what about FB. FB is already causing major issues on societies around the world, shitting propoganda constantly.
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https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410-s14/lectures/L31_P9.pdf

Well explained in this PDF.
EasyMotion makes it effortless.

https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
Again, the chance that the ten heads occurred "by chance", "occurred coincidentally" or "is a coincidence" is not 1/1000. IF they occurred by chance, the probability for such a thing to occur (again) is 1/1000.

1/36 is the wrong answer for the question "what are chances this is a coincidence?". That probability is unknown, because it depends on whether the dice are actually fair, and what other dice are there. For example, if you have to discriminate between fair dice and unfair dice with only 2s on them, a 12 would indicate that with 100%, it was a coincidence.

You might ask differently though: "What WAS the probability to throw a 12 with two fair dice?". But that probability collapsed to 100% when you actually throw them and got the result.
Nice and tasty word salad you got there
Or maybe most of them don't know better?

Anecdotally, I met thousands of Americans in my life, and I'd say the vast majority of them never cease to praise the life and balance of small European cities.
Perhaps. But from the employers perspective home assignments carry a much higher risk of cheating
There is at least some of a reverse effect by now. Because medium.com in a link already tells you to expect to get hassled about paying them just to read some marketing fluff piece.
Though unlike the Camry, the “affordability” is a mirage derived from being heavily subsidized by state and federal tax codes, decisions about how to prioritize infrastructure spending to promote sprawl, and zoning and housing policies that discourage any other form of development.
IIRC that was changed -- the interest payments being deductible -- as part of the Trump tax cut.

The standard deduction was increased for everyone to compensate for it.
CodeSmell
While I can't speak to all our systems being breached, I can tell you that priority targets are often cohabitated with multiple actors. I've seen networks destroyed because warring factions within the same country of origin were fighting each other as much as they were working on compromising the target.

It's crazy how all of it plays out. Both in Govt. World, and Public security world. You see it all.
100% smart phone's cameras are designed to photos of people at a close distance. Any "Zoom" on a smartphone is just digital, it does not have the ability to take clear photos from a distance due to it's lack of optical zoom.
I am doing Andrew Ng’s ML Coursera course with Matlab.

I’ve now got the crazy desire to see matrices and vectors built into every language in a clean and succinct way.
I know nothing of physics, but I'm just curious - could you explain in layman's terms how one could say an electron is fundamental without infinitely precise measurement tools?
> A prism calculates Fourier in “O(1)”

Only because the prism puts an upper bound on the size of the input. If you do that, every problem is O(1).
wow. must have gotten paid a basket of cash to go shill for some life coach product.
Indeed, but there is a much longer history of people trying and failing to break the schemes, and we have come to understand the hardness assumptions in classical crypto as probably quite reasonable.
Does anyone know how matrix multiplications are implemented in CPUs GPUs or ML asics? Are there optimizations used or do the optimizations take too much circuitry and thus the n^3 method is still used?
The examples I know of all involve gravitational or similar potentials, so there is unbounded negative energy available from 1/r. But you can still get singularities without collisions: Xia, Annals of Math. 135 411–468 (1992).
Python has a module called PRAW.
https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/quick_...

I wrote a quick script a while back to dump my comments by subreddit to a text file to grep through. There's probably better praw scripts running around.
https://gist.github.com/Zren/82befb7bf63e3d9156de1bbd48b0ffe...
Is there evidence for your claim? How many were (made) aware of alternatives? It's easy to accept local customs, so much so that you think you like them, but that doesn't really prove anything more than that habituation is a thing.
The research in this field proceeds under the umbrella and framework of physics, yes. But it's not clear that it's possible to scale up to the number qubits required do anything nontrivial. It's plausible there are hard engineering limits on error correction which make it asymptotically more difficult with each order of magnitude more qubits involved.

It might not look that way because there's a lot of (relatively) mainstream investment in quantum computing. However it's pretty common for speculative physics research to be pursued for years without ever coming to fruition. Especially when there are promising early results before it's shown that scaling the work reduces to an intractable problem.
Did the larger hackathons have any benefit, besides to prime the organizers for PM and "growth hacking" positions?

Thinking back to MHacks 2013, I know of more companies started by people who could have, but chose not to attend MHacks, than came out of the hackathon. And that's assuming company creation is even a good metric! I also don't know of _any_ company that thinks they have a good ROI on recruiting.

Perhaps no one is bold enough to do larger hackathons because they've realized hackathons are sham to inflate the organizers resumes.
If you don't have the paid version here is a pdf:
https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/164007796_30546805094701...
I would love something like this for wow raiding, sometimes I want to say something thats relevant only to my fellow class/role but the raid leader is saying something important. We ended up just having a teamspeak server running in parallel with discord for my class, which worked but is understandably not optimal.
Then why weren't we mass producing pills of cold viruses for people to take?
> I feel like you've read some tweets and made up your mind instead of actually researching someone you've just lied about on a public forum

This is par for the course in trans circles in my experience (as someone who's queer).

There's a tendency in a least some segment of the community to be extremely bigoted, casting anyone that says something that doesn't conform to their ideology as "harmful" without ever carrying the burden of producing evidence or explanation (of course even broaching this is met with "it's not my job to explain why what you said is wrong" or "I'm so tired", etc.).

It's weirdly religious in terms of dynamics of the community.
Do they like them because of inherent qualities of US-style suburbs, or do they like them because that's all they know?

Also, suburbs are only affordable because we continue to defer infrastructure maintenance. At some point, we will have to pay to maintain all the bridges, roads, etc.

I'm not anti-suburb necessarily. But, I do loathe the car-based culture we've created. And the rage that any mention of alternative transport seems to elicit among many suburb dwellers (who also love to bitch about traffic problems, but only want more tarmac as a solution).
Android Broken Phone Recovery
Isn't hashed data based on belief of cryptographic security?

I know there's cryptographic hashes and non-cryptographic but given a sophisticated enough state-actor it seems they'd find how to find a key collision.

Is there a hashing mechanism/or similar technique that wouldn't be at risk to hash-collision attacks?
I do operate in damage control all the time, its much much easier to be good at apologizing, than it is to prevent that offense.
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