skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the thing I keep coming back to is something along the lines of guided self-learning.

As a university lecturer in CS, I agree this would be a great thing for a lot of students. The thing about CS though is a lot of students hear that programming is a path to a high paying job, and they are really not motivated to learn the subject in the way that people who frequent HN might be. They don't want to self-learn, they want to be told what they need to learn to achieve an end-goal of earning a high salary when they graduate in 4 years. If you sit them down and ask them about their curiosity, interests, or ambitions related to CS, they give you a blank stare. They just want to get paid.

This perception also means that our program is the biggest at my institution. Students from every college want to take our classes. Our department is not so big (in terms of faculty, fewer than 20), so our class sizes are huge. My PL class last year was 200 students. My systems course last semester was 160. What this means is that I can't offer the kind of guidance for self-learning. Maybe if my class sizes were 30-40 students, but not for classes of 100+ students.

And then there's the issue of what students imagine a self-guided education looks like. They want to do things like mobile app development and AI. Most students don't self-guide themselves into fields like compilers and operating systems in my experience. They just aren't interested. Hell, I wasn't interested in these topics, until I was forced to take these classes as part of the standard curriculum. Now compilers are pretty much the only thing I'm interested in! I guess that's where the "guided" part comes in, but the point is that if students are left to their own devices, I worry we'll end up with a generation of programmers who are experts at making predictive AI models and iPhone apps, but have no idea how an OS or compiler works. Then who is going to teach the next generation how to make an OS? Already we have problems hiring people in these fields. 90% of the tenure track applications from our last round of hiring were from AI/ML type researchers, with only a few systems people (2-3 if we're lucky). I even have trouble getting TAs for my PL class, because all of our available grad students only know Python and C++ for their ML research. I see this only getting worse in the future.
"No need for a notion of a 'time-varying-G'" interesting story on that here https://www.nature.com/articles/264346a0
>>>Apple store is not a public place. A sidewalk is a public place ...Inside a private business might as well be inside someone's private residence

In correct, an Apple Store would be a Public Accommodation, there are all kinds of laws governing Public Accommodation that do not apply to a Private Residence.
For your first point, that's often the result of using third party libraries via COM. That COM library is its own thing and it wouldn't make a lot of sense to put all of its settings under your app. Plus, some parts of the registry (thinking of CLSID) are basically directories where the system looks when a program says "give me an instance of ThirdParty.Grid".
Misleading.

They didn't prove that climate is changing.

They only found that allergies are worse at higher temperatures. They didn't establish that average temperatures are rise and/or will to rise.
He's complaining about the NYC licensing bureau sending him a letter about renewing his business license when he already did it last June. I didn't watch the whole thing either because I didn't find it particularly interesting. I'm assuming the license is supposed to be good for more than one year given his rant, which means he probably just got the mailer by accident and is making a clickbait video.
Nobody should poach ideas. But there's nothing wrong with asking, "Hey, if you are that firm on not wanting to write about it, do you mind if I do?" The publisher apparently didn't do that, but still saw fit to "lose respect".

I also don't see what's uncharitable about my reading. I see a rich man looking down on somebody for not being willing to take a risk he won't take himself. What do you claim I'm missing here?
Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world's urban greenhouse gas emissions
> Iran

Go ahead. Tell me about how Iran is more left wing than the United States. Perhaps they have especially generous rights for women?

The majority of those countries have had coups in the last decade and severely restrict basic liberal political freedoms like free political speech.

Your examples are pretty much an admission that you're wrong, afaict.
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It's interesting how the community that used to fervently argue that, say, the sampling of a few seconds of a musical composition is so obviously fair use doesn't extend the same attitude when it comes to snippets of source code.

Indeed I don't remember any of these complaints ever being made about, for example, AI-generated music or images, even though they work exactly the same and were trained on datasets of copyrighted works, both commercial and CC-licensed.

Compared to the manual sampling that DJs and other musicians do, the AI process almost certainly produces only fairly generic code snippets, since they always need a multitude of examples. Some loop-through-file python snippet is a legal risk but five seconds of a Disney song don't reach the level of creativity needed for copyright to matter? That seems strange to me...
Because the business-owner also has a popular Youtube channel. He does not have a popular blog.
To me "best practice" == above average, or someone referencing it because they don't actually know the reason for what they're arguing for.
Well compressed audio is indistinguishable from uncompressed stream to 99% of the population using 99% of the listening devices (even though those keep improving on average).

Nobody is arguing 96kbit mono should be enough for everyone obviously.
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> https://toneindicators.carrd.co/

Wow, they're actually using the term 'masterlist'. I'm pretty triggered right now. /s
The number is high, but farming in generally is a high risk bet.

I often say to people, I need to spend (i.e risk) $100,000 for the chance to make $20,000-$30,000 if everything goes correctly. One major event and you just lost 100K. Scale up or down depending on the size of the farm.
To be fair, it's usually like 5% slower. But I also don't usually have control over the flags if I'm writing a library.
You don't see the parallels to security cameras?
Here is a summary from the Louis Rossmann YT comment:

To answer some common questions:

a) I have already emailed & called, and I patiently await a reply...

b) You can't re-renew with a 13 month old PIN if you already renewed.

c) You can't show up in person without an appointment.

d) Appointments are only granted by means of contact that don't reply.

e) Yes I have two other licenses that AREN'T expired, but those are useless, they are for selling laptops, not fixing laptops, which I don't do anymore anyway after the city was unable to give me a straight answer on how to do so without being fined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi8_9WGk3Ok - I need this license in the video to be able to actually do repairs.

f) Just listen to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi8_9WGk3Ok This is what I am dealing with. After 15+ minutes and being transferred to two people, they can't answer a basic question about a rule they fined me for breaking that they can't even explain. They never emailed or called me back, which has been the behavior I have come to expect over the past nine years.

I am serious, if you work for the city and have any way of applying my 13 month old payment to this license renewal, you have the gratitude of myself & 14 of my employees who will get to continue paying their rents, mortgages, & food bill for their kids.

In spite of what people think, I am not a millionaire. If I'm forced to close - I can't afford to pay these people. I do not want that to happen.

I am not meming, I never get responses to DCA emails - not 3 months ago, not for NINE YEARS, and I don't expect to be able to now. Since I cannot sort this out in person due to the COVID closures, this channel is my only hope of reaching someone who can help me sort this out.
> Myers Briggs is the poster boy for pseudo science.

Amusingly enough, most psychology academics would be in violent agreement with you on that.
Taking pictures of people and posting them without their permission while they're at a private business is malicious in my opinion. And also illegal. There's a reason he had to hide it. Ethically it's no different to me than connecting to someone's webcam at home and uploading the photos.
Presumably these expenses have benefits, otherwise companies wouldn't be using them? It's like saying a company saved $200k by dumping their computers... so they can do everything on paper.
It really isn't. It's just the culture of business in my experience. Most offices would look down on someone who wore shorts and a T-shirt to work too. I guess there is a very different culture in some of the places some of you people are working.
There is no winning here anyway
Well, I agree that lights should just be turned off when not needed, it also kills their lifespan. But you don't have to be a nasty person about it :)
Any idea when they'll fix Firefox so you can make streaming calls without turning your MBP into a toaster? 40x the battery usage vs. Safari when on a streaming call. It's so painful. Heh, literally. The machine gets too hot to hold comfortably. It's still my primary browser, but optimization is needed. Sucks to have to change browsers just to make calls. We live on streaming calls now. This has been an issue since at least the start of Covid when I first really noticed it.
No, having worked with others going through the same issue -- the NYC beauracracy for local businesses is truly broken and terrifying for small time operators.
Guess you haven't lived in California.
> Also cash is not as anonymous as one might think. Bigger sums are always traced and recorded with the serial numbers on the banknotes, and theres always upper limits of 2K-10K eur of how much you can pay with cash without reporting.

When cash is dispensed from an ATM, even at small sums, are the serial numbers associated with the account it was deducted from? Seems possible from a technical perspective.
I have read about half the books in the list and this is the only one I have read from that list that didn't really feel like pop science. This is an amazing book and is the only one I am familiar with from that list that I would actually recommend everyone should read.

Edit: I will also add that The Body Keeps The Score is an interesting book, but I would definitely not recommend everyone read it. If you have suffered some trauma it is definitely worth a read.
wayback-machine-downloader uses the CDX API too btw. IIRC it has some rate limiting to avoid overloading the Wayback server.
What is the use for this? Don't a lot of the popular browsers have a "kiosk mode" or similar?
things like the Myers-Briggs test fall on the more scientific side of a continuum of explanatory and prescriptive narratives including The likes of "surrounded by idiots" The i-ching, tarot cards, mythology etc.

They are very useful for inscribing yourself into the narrative in order to break you out of your perspective and help guide you toward a more positive direction than otherwise.
Yes. I can ssh into an AWS instance and run Firefox with a remote X display.
whatismyipaddress.com shows that I'm in the AWS datacenter.

I can also run a WireGuard VPN with AWS as the endpoint. The second way works better on slow connections.
I mean a more picture-like emoticon is more neutral in my opinion. And it can be supporting/cheering, e.g. when doing a complicated change or deployment. Probably there are better alternatives though. ;) can be interpreted as condescending, so I rather avoid that with work topics. :) Is generally friendly though, I think.
Where are you seeing "Persuasion"?
Definitely, that is basically what it is for.
That sounds more promising. The site might be able to store data and then send it the next time the page is loaded. I think at the end of the day, a malicious dev could probably find a workaround to most implementations. Might just be better to vet out sites and use reputation to state they are truly offline.
I was referring to the privacy side of things, since that's the context of this story. Also would apply to trespassing - hence you can be removed from a private business if the owner/manager wants you gone.
> I’m well versed enough with psychology. I even remember when people took the DSMIV seriously!

That's the manual of psychiatry (which is a very, very different thing) right?

DSM's only interaction with the field of psychology is for insurance purposes for therapists who are also psychologists.

I mean, I read it when I was doing a psychology undergrad, but it definitely wasn't something that was required.

FWIW, I think that you may not be defining psychology the same way as many of the commentators here.
Watzlawick's take on meta-communication is this, basically:

Your cat can communicate to you that he wants some more milk. This is communication.

Your cat CANNOT communicate about its own communication, i.e. cannot "say" something like: "hey, you bastard, I meowed for milk 4 times already, are you deaf or just too lazy to pour some for me?".

This would be meta-communication, and no animal species can do it. It is like adding a whole extra dimension to it.

(The cat example is straight out of the book, as much as I can recall it, at least).
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Does the average person care? The New Mexico desert now has an employment center, one likely to grow substantially because of this achievement. The average people in that area are sure to see some benefits.
They are a way of training generative models similar to GANs or autoencoders.

My understanding is that if you train an autoencoder with a gaussian likelihood then you will tend to get fuzzy samples, but using an iterative process where each step is a gaussian conditioned on the previous step can give you nicer samples.
Why would Ballmer care? He hasn't worked at Microsoft in a decade.
I’m not going to endorse it as a good or desirable system, on the contrary, but rather than shutting down his business this person should probably hire an expediter.
A german article on that phenomenon is here:
https://www.dj-lab.de/reportage-die-fabelhafte-welt-der-twit...

Yes a bit german heavy, but quite remarkle in contrast with the polished stuff like `cercle`.
Yes, this is the key takeaway. It is really a blow to academia that a private company could be so much better than them. It clearly demonstrates, to my mind, that academia is a poor engine for progress and getting worse. This is due to structural and sociological pathologies which there seems to be little appetite to mitigate.

I say this as an academic, of course.
Not just a lost sale. Multiple lost sales, because in cases like that I'll not only avoid that game, but others from that publisher, and I'll steer other folks away from them, too.
Apple are a patent troll company, often using their size and weight to beat down competition. They have stolen functionality at will to make the product they want, and then fought it out in court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Trademar...
Thirteen Lives is now in production with a good cast and Ron Howard as director. Likely to be released around the middle of 2022
My question still stands. How many people must be involved in the system design for you to consider it 'large scale'?
Despite this artists claims, he was basically taking a bunch of people close up pictures without their consent for their personal gain.

Steer photography at least has more plausible deniability
Overall good article but I was expecting an in depth assessment of how to actually teach CS. I was particularly interested in hearing how teaching CS might be different from teaching other subjects, particularly math, engineering, etc.

Instead the article was more about why student reviews are not a good way to evaluate the teacher. It’s like letting your toddler decide what’s for dinner… “ice cream and candy, again?!?!”
So 1) no tech involved 2) no blackmail involved, 3) no prime minister (at the time of the event in question) involved.
> Any particular compiler and command-line setting where it is not optimized away tells you nothing about what that or some other compiler may do in a different release or command-line setting.

Can you provide a different program, compiler/version, and command line where it will be optimized away?

> Talk to any core compiler implementer, and they will say that the optimization is allowed.

Are you just guessing that they'll say this, or have they actually said this? If the latter, can you link to where they did?

> No compiler performs all permitted optimizations, in any release, but the set of those each does do, varies.

My Godbolt link is a really obvious, easy place that the optimization you claim is possible could be performed. I think the fact that none of the 4 major compilers optimized it away is decent evidence that it isn't allowed.
It’s the study of the “mind” (not brain). It’s very basis is the study of a pseudo-religious phenomenon. Neuroscience is real science because it studies the brain not the artificial and archaic concept of the mind.

There can be personal value in studying psychology. It’s just not science, it’s fictional.
If American drug makers fired all the young ladies whose job is to bring coffee and donuts to your internist's office, and they stopped sending your internist away for golf weekends to learn more about why they should be prescribing Rosuvamax instead of Crestulon, I think they could probably bring costs in line with those in other countries...
Could that realistically be the culprit? Sounds insane
Have you read the Body Keeps the Score? It felt pop in the sense that it was on the leading edge, but I felt the author made a best effort to put forth the available science
In the US, your local National Resources Conservation Service office also provides this service. Costs $7 - $10.

Source: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb116...
Actual serious question.
Are bribes a part of the picture of getting things done?

Met people who talk about greasing the wheel to get things done. But won’t say more.
At what point has New York violated his civil liberties through sheer red tape? Is this something the ACLU would pick up?
It makes literally no difference, as the parent comment already mentioned. You deserve protection for coming up with the technology, not for using it. These patent trolls are one of the methods to support a research program. Universities, for example, aren't set up to sell devices.

As long as the patent is for some actual innovation, there is nothing wrong with this market structure, economically or morally.
I also have ADD. (it took me 16 years to graduate college medicated.) This book is profoundly interesting and will give you many fun thought experiments and examples. This book sunk its teeth into me and I could not put it down. It's so much more than the basic concept You may already understand.
Not sure about c, c++ Those corporate backings happened WAY after they got popular. Rails is not a corporation.
It's been years since I read it (and I didn't actually finish, but that's another story), so I might not remember things very well.

I think some of the examples of bias or other cognitive misgivings that he gives throughout the book could be insightful by themselves. It might be easy to express a general idea in a couple of pages, but concrete examples of the phenomena help bridge it to real life. It could also be interesting as a quick peek at how some of the studies were designed and conducted.

The problem for me is that, since at least some (perhaps many?) of the results Kahneman presents haven't actually been replicable, and I'm not an expert in the field, I have trouble figuring out which of them to believe and which, despite his convincing tone, might not be true after all.

The blog post of the title doesn't actually seem to even mention the problems with replication at all even though they're moderately well known, which kind of makes me want to question whether the "must-read" list has been really considered that critically at all.
Not OP, but "if you leave, nobody else will be able to maintain it"
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it's pretty clear what it does. It uses the evolutionary information expressed in multiple sequence alignments to make reasonable judgements about interatomic distances, which are used as constraints for a force field. We've been doing variations on this for decades. The evolutionary information encoded in multiple sequence alignments is pretty much all you need to fold homologous proteins (apparently). No, this technique doesn't do anything about the harder problems of actually understanding the raw physics of protein folding (nor, does it seem, that we need that to solve downstream problems).
I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security (2015)
The only way is to vote with your feet, and leave former political preferences behind in the states that where destroyed by them. I've heard Texas is a popular choice nowadays.
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The Body Keeps Score is one of the most impactful books I’ve read in the last few years. The thesis is that trauma resides not only in the brain as an experience, but in the body (the central nervous system) as a reaction to that experience, and so resolution of trauma must be more than “talk therapy”, and indeed the research shows that all manner of physical action helps to resolve trauma. There are many components that are needed, and I can confirm with my own n=1 study of the effectiveness of many of the techniques. I hope to continue with the things I am doing and try more of the things he talks about. Highly recommended!

Also, pair with “Widen the Window”
On YouTube there are dozens of videos taken inside shopping malls. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W54i8i_sSvM

Does that feel malicious to you as well?
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That's the thing: we live in the real world. Yes the C abstract machine blah blah blah. Ok, but, I called memset for a reason, and the compiler writer, being also of the real world, should realize maybe I'm deleting sensitive data? And yes I know there's memset_s but it strikes me as bad prioritization if I have to seek out a secondary function to do what I mean.
we will see how it goes in a year or so, i think the sooner we go to c and then into lisp the better