skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article has a good example of exactly the kind of thing I also found useful in the book:

> He also discusses the fact that the language of mathematics is looser than programming in a lot of ways. In code, things have to be expressed a very exact way or they just don’t compile. Variables and functions have to be fully and explicitly defined if you expect the computer to run them. But in math, there’s a lot of tacit agreement and assumptions that go on. Lots of shortcuts and conventions.

This kind of context around how math is done as a human activity in practice, especially in contrast to programming, is extremely helpful orientation for programmers trying to self-teach mathematics.

It would've saved me tons of time and trouble if I'd known the above while trying to work through math texts after graduating with a CS degree: instead I wasted a tone of time writing over-detailed proofs, always feeling as if I were doing something wrong if every tiny step weren't explicit (more closely matching my experience with programming).
The single system you're describing, with all of its complexity, is a subset of what is required for autonomous vehicles. We will continue to have road construction, tunnels, and weather long past the last human driver. Improving the system here simply improves the system here -- you cannot forsake this work by saying "oh the autonomous system will solve it" -- this is part of the autonomous system.
It turns out rent in the west costs more than $120/month no matter how resourceful you are or how hard you work.
I get about 10+ spam calls a day, I just block all calls except for a couple of whitelisted numbers, and forward the rest to something that plays a hold song endlessly.
The Big Media Anti-Remote Op-Ed Complex
I have asked in several stores (in Denmark) where contactless doesn’t work, but the terminal has the required hardware - The merchant has to pay a fee to enable contactless.
My auto mechanic bitched loudly about it, until I told him he wanted $200 for enabling “daytime running lights” in my rear lights, which is also just “flipping a bit”
Not to be nit-picky, but is that data(or derivatives of the data) gifted, given, bartered for, or otherwise sent to parties that are not (plaid, user bank, connected app)?

Neither here nor there, but I just used Plaid for the first time yesterday to pay for the downpayment on my Tesla. It was a really nice, seamless experience.
Regardless of what one believes, we have to slow it down enough that our hospitals aren't so overrun that other emergencies take a back seat. That is already happening in a lot of places. Every time Covid peaks, for that matter. And just giving in, saying "it's endemic, get used to it" just allows for further mutation.
For Macy's, the 15 minutes you were forced to spend inside the store is a feature, not a bug.
archive site is getting hammered today capturing the myriad hot-takes out there on Afghanistan, but for posterity this article is archived at: https://archive.is/l5IPA
okay... i'll bite:
how does one use a card online without providing phone or email?
With student loans that isn't as true as it used to be. Today your required expenses are all covered, so every penny you earn from the part time job can be spent. They might only earn minimum wage, but all the required expenses are not paid for by the job (parents provide health insurance and a car; tuition, room, and board all come from loans), thus everything earned can be spent on whatever.

This will all come to haunt those students who take advantage of it in 4-8 years when they are out of school and need to pay off those loans.
Great, I have a newist laptop and it keeps asking "When will you put Slackware on me ?".

But, people should go here instead since I heard slackware.com is an old 32 bit machine.

https://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.t...

But that shows Slakware can take a beating and keep on ticking. :)
My, really setting themselves aggressive targets huh.
I'd prefer we just phase out MasterCard. I went to a restaurant the other day. QR code on the receipt. Scan that and it opens up Toast. Toast then connects to Apple Pay, which then connects to my credit card. No less than 3 middlemen to pay the restaurant, is absurd.

QRCode -> Wallet on my phone holding stablecoin on a L2 like polygon (which is collecting APY through DeFi) -> Restaurant
It's like you've never encountered idiots, drunks, or assholes. Civil disobedience is all well and good, but normalizing acting like an asshole makes for a shitty culture. Yes, intentionally blocking someone's car makes you an asshole, not an activist hero.
"You want me to turn left? "Right" "Right right?" "No left".

After that Port/Starboard would make sense and I'd be chucking someone over one of them.
>>Otherwise the waiter/waitress typically asks you how much you want to pay before typing in the amount.

That is never going to work in the US. Very few people would be comfortable with that.
Here in Canada, portable POS terminals usually have a screen before "TAP/INSERT CARD" that says "Add tip?" and offers vendor-set default options, usually either 10%/12%/15% or 12%/15%/20%. The fourth option is always "custom", which allows people to enter 0 if they wish. (There are also payment flows that have an initial "Yes/No" on the "Add Tip?" question, in cases where a tip may or may not make sense, e.g. a bakery/deli that offers both high-touch dine-in and extremely-low-touch "we just take it from the fridge and give it to you" take-out service.)

Since Canada and the US have basically the same tipping culture, these POS systems seem to be already tailored for adoption in the US market (or at least, being cloned by US POS mfgrs.) Not sure why they haven't been.
Looks cool. Have you had feedback from people using braille displays? Can they understand these images or do they look like garbled text to them because it is using letter symbols without their actual meaning?
This connects to something I had been thinking about. I had visited my alma mater (State University of New York at Stony Brook) last year and the overall impression is: it is so much nicer than when I graduated in '03 which I heard was much nicer than it was ever before.

My idea is this - a hundred years ago, college was a rare thing that a small subset of population (intellectuals, driven to expand their minds) strove to achieved. They did not "mind" the poverty of the experiences because to them the education was the goal.

Over time, as college education became "something everyone gets" - the percentage of true scholars became a minuscule part of the student body. However, the student body itself became much larger.

As any business, the way a college serves a scholar vs how it serves an average person is different. Because an average person cares not for expanding their mind, but they might very well pick a campus that looked brighter, dorms that looked nicer, etc, colleges obviously invested in those things.

I had never seen anything like the dorm in this article, but the idea doesn't shock me as a representation of the movement of a college student from scholar to a consumer.
Even in the US, I can't remember when I last had to use the magstrip. [1] I could probabbly degauss the magnetic strip and not have any issues. If you have a chip debit card that you never use... it probably isn't a bad idea to make the card chip only.

What I actually want is a specific bank alert if the card is used without the chip. Currently I just make any transaction over $20 send an email.

[1] I guess at resturants where they actually take the card for a minute, I don't know if it's chip or magstrip transaction.
Ok, so what is the class of problems that is hard for any input?
How naive of me not to see that it was all just a big ol coincidence.

'Accidentally' killing kids is A-OK, so long as the kid is standing next to a 'legitimate' target when you drop a bomb on them.
ML was designed to be the metalanguage for the LCF proof system, used to write proof tactics. It was then recognized to be interesting in its own right as a programming language.
Yeah, it was very confusing the first time I went to the US for more than a couple of days. When getting some cash, I was used to putting the card in ATMs and leave it there during the operation. In the US, the ATM did nothing before I took the card out.

When I came back I kept pulling the card early.
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Purism? https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
It seems you joined a field you thought you would enjoy, but that didn't work out, and you don't mention anything you would like to work on. Is there any job you think you'd like, or is pay the only motivator?

If pay is the only thing that makes a job worthwhile, then maybe you should stick with the high paying job and just retire as soon as you can.

Admittedly, you might not enjoy retirement either. But at least you can sleep in.
This was exactly me when I was big into video game emulation. I would spend 90% of my time hunting down rare roms and then categorizing them, testing them, ensuring that they were valid, etc and only 10% of my time playing the games. On top of that, the vast majority of the games were barely worth playing at all.
I feel this post is really hard to understand. You are:

* A phd in quant finance in London

* You joined due to high comp

* You say getting a home would cost 10 times your salary

* You have a partner earning multiples of your salary (?!)

* You want to retire early

I guess I just feel like this story doesn't seem like the numbers make any sense? A quant finance phd should be able to afford a home. A quant finance phd with a partner earning multiples of them should easily be able to afford a home. Maybe not in cash, but certainly with a mortgage, even in this market. You say "an 'adequate' house in London would cost at least 10 times my salary", but that seems manageable with your partner's help?

It seems like your economic position is incredibly favorable to me, and that you wouldn't really experience any difference economically if you got a more pleasant job with lower income if your partner is going to be the breadwinner, in such a way that you can make life better for the both of you.

edit: The housing thing is really throwing me for a loop. Perhaps I have no sense of the London market, but I'm going to assume no person can be unsatisfied living a million dollar home, that a quant finance phd must earn at least $100k per year, and that a partner earning multiples of that must earn at least $300k per year. How do these numbers check out?
That always seems so weird about US (and other countries that do it similarly) dorms to me. Why not let people keep the same place and leave the stuff in it?
Just wanted to chime in and say that I'm feeling the same way. I'm 34 years old, and have a wife + kid. In my twenties, programming was exciting and cool. In my thirties I view myself as a powerless slave doing tasks out of a never ending backlog. Been at my job for 7 years and don't have the willpower to LeetCode. Even if I were to land a FANG I don't think I'd want the workload that comes with it. Fantasize about retirement on a daily basis. My dream is to have a cabin somewhere at the base of a mountain and to never touch a computer again.
Wrapping it in receipt paper works great too
Honestly, I don't know that I'm with Greenwald all the way to the conclusion, here. I think it's just as possible that successive administrations all fell for a mix of sunk cost fallacies, confirmation bias, poor incentives, etc, that caused leadership to receive or only pay attention to the most rosy results, the best possible models, the most positive data.

Bureaucracies are weird, byzantine things. To assume malice when, given the information we currently have, incompetence is equally likely seems to me to be editorializing.

Is incompetence good? Hell no, and the administration has a lot to answer for. But to assume, not just that the administration didn't know how bad the exit from Afghanistan would be, but that they intentionally lied about it, is a leap that, while possible, I'm not yet willing to make.
Coming from Canada: my last experience with the stripe, >3-4 years ago, was more like: pull out the card. Swipe it (it doesn't work), Swipe it (it doesn't work), Swipe it slowly (it doesn't work), wrap a garbage bag around it and Swipe it slowly (it doesn't work), Swipe it one last time -- hey, it works! Then, physically sign my name on some piece of paper with a gross pen they had lying around.

vs my last 100 contactless payments: pull out the card, tap. Almost instant happy beep.

I once actually got stuck at La Guardia because of the chip/stripe divide. I hadn't thought to get enough US cash out in advance, and all I had was my Canadian CC and Debit cards. I'd used nothing but the chip on the CC for > a year and didn't realize the magnetic stripe was completely worn off!

I tried several money-changers and ATMs there, and even called my bank -- no options at all. I finally found $5 CAD in my backpack and changed it to USD for bus fare, then caught a local bus to a nearby actual bank, where they were finally able to use my ID and the card number to authorize an advance. It was a heck of a day.
Yes, all these disparate databases can be merged together and you can get a pretty darn accurate picture of me.

But so what, what is the end game here?
I'd offer an idea like "How about going back to college? Is that something your partner would be okay with?"

But I have the feeling that you are showing signs of depression. It removes all color from an otherwise colorful life. Get out of that situation as soon as possible, it is damaging your mental health.

As for early retirement, check out the leanfire subreddit. I think your view on retirement could use a different perspective.
NYSC Mourns as Corp Members Lost Their Lives in Ghastly Motor Accident
Horrible naming. It is simultaneously, inaccurate, misrepresents things, and then also brings up unrelated political concepts to mind all at the same time.
The rational powers that be were saying out loud 3 days ago that in an optimistic scenario the Afghan government would hang on for another 90 days, in a pessimistic scenario only for 30 days. As we all know it collapsed completely in just 2-3 days.

Early on during the pandemic (the first half of February 2020) the people writing on Twitter about covid in China were being labeled as conspiracy nuts, with some of them outright having their accounts suspended by Twitter. Covid/coronavirus was (I think purposefully) kept out of the trending charts on Twitter, the Oscars were seen as much more important.

And these are only two recent examples that came to my mind where the "rational" parts of our society (the experts and the media) failed completely, as such it's only rational not to trust these pseudo-rational entities anymore. Imo I think in a way the post-modernists were right, (almost) everything is negotiable or a social construct, there's no true or false, apart from death, I would say.
Is tree-sitter highlighting enabled by default?
Because these chains have decades old point of sales systems which no one wants to touch. It isn't simply a matter of swapping out one card reader for another.
I've played that. Unfortunately I don't think the spherical planetoid map concept works... navigating from one place to another is a huge PITA, and even the largest planetoids are still too small

I can't quite put my finger on why I don't like PA, but something about it just feels off. Which is a shame, I really want to like it, and the planet-smashing aspect of it seems like it would be a lot of fun.
Same here, though probably 1996 or 1997 and on a 486 we got somewhere for free. I made install floppies. I never did get XFree86 configured, unfortunately :(. But it was awesome to install Linux and play around with it.
There are a lot of good points here in the comments already about the relative safety of Tesla's system compared to other vehicles and other automated driving system -- and I think they're probably right.

The differentiating issue with Tesla's system is the way it is sold and marketed. Important operational safety information shouldn't be hidden in fine print. Subtly misleading marketing has unfortunately become acceptable in our culture, but this idea needs to stay out of safety-critical systems.

We need a mandate for clear and standardized labelling for these features, à la the Monroney sticker. All manufacturers should have to label and market their cars with something like SAE J3016. https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/gallery/cm/articles/pre...
Google Voice (GV) and Voip.ms have fairly sophisticated screening that tends to get the 'vehicle warranty' bots to hang up quickly. I wish our phone carriers offered such methods to ensure that their 'services' remain relevant in an increasingly spammy world. Edit: for GV, you will need to enable screening by going to https://voice.google.com/u/0/settings and setting "Screen calls" and for Voip.ms, you will need to setup a IVR so that callers have to enter in a code before they are allowed through.
I was surprised not to find any demo of the Alda generated music on their website.
Show me an open source hardware system as performant and power efficient as M1 and I'll throw some support (time, money, press, something) at it and forego using Asahi Linux. If, however, I can run an open software system on the M1 and also still run an open hardware system right beside it on the same desk while the hardware in the open hardware system plays catch-up, I'd rather do that. If everyone forwent open software because it didn't run on open hardware, we wouldn't have Linux, BSD, Darwin, FreeDOS, ReactOS, Haiku, OpenIndiana, X, Wayland, MySQL, Postgresql, KDE, Gnome, XFCE, i3, LibreOffice, Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, Kafka, Pulsar, gcc, clang, rust, Julia, Perl, Python, Ruby, Node, Chromium, Konqueror, Safari, Firefox, bash ... any open software at all.

Your ideal taken to its conclusion is that we wait for RISC-V or OpenMIPS or something to catch up to ARM before we write or use any software. That's simply untenable. What software would we even have to port to such things if we couldn't develop open software on closed hardware? What use would RISC-V be outside of embedded projects without QNX, Linux, BSD, RiscOS, or something else developed originally on closed hardware to run on it?
Highway tolls didn't have contactless in France until 2016 at best. It's getting better now.

https://www.autoplus.fr/securite-routiere/peages-le-paiement... - only 20 contactless toll gates in all of France in 2016 (gates, not tolls).
Isn't it the thing you'd expect from American parents, with their crazy helicoptering-I-will-control-everything-and-spend-any-amount-of-money-on-my-children?
Even if you don't care, there are enough stories/videos/message of Afghans in tears at losing the little bits of freedoms that western military and billions could grant.

About the economic exploitation argument: I fail to see any scenario in which any of coalition countries could have hoped to gain even a tenth of a percent back of the money the war in Afghanistan has cost them.
Well I didn't read it like that, neither I think it makes sense to have that interpretation.

It's pretty straight forward, second sentence: My first instinct whenever I see something in an ad or something being marketed is to assume it is a scam and just move on

Then he goes on about his buying habits and said that "Companies hates people like me, they would rather I not see their ads since it is just a dud anyway.", so for me it was pretty clear he was talking about marketing in general, then he went more specifically about ads.

I simply said that pricing, packaging and placement are examples of marketing tools used to position products and services. This has been in text books since the 60's. A product listing is literally being marketed to, per definition.

So I really don't understand how this is missing the point, or how I'm deliberately missing it by pointing some marketing tools used in the Marketing Mix.
When I did a GOL demo (for my own pleasure because: why not?)[1] I quickly got frustrated by the idea that you need a 2D array to store the current state, and a second array for the next state. My thinking was that we only need to know the index positions of the live cells (row * width + col) which can be stored in a 1D array. Identifying neighbour state then resolves into checking whether the currentState array includes the index of the neighbour cell (== alive).

I have no idea whether this approach is more, or less, efficient - but it was an interesting thing to model. Sadly I would've failed the Reddit interview because getting to that solution took me 3-4 hours; I was still fighting with 2D arrays at the end of the first hour.

[1] - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/BaLdwer
Linux glibc security fix created a nastier Linux bug
I don't actually have NFC on any of my cards, though I do use it on my phone.
If you decide to try it again and get a similar slowdown, please report it on the discord and we'll look into it.
That's one way of looking at it, the other is that the financial system itself begins to fail under the volume and price of fraud.

Ransomware ransoms have increased massively. They were often a few thousand dollars only a few years ago, now often hear about $50m+.

On the smaller scale SMS/email phishing has got absolutely enormous too in volumes. Banks and credit card providers are refunding 100s of millions (if not more) in fraud, in actually a very low margin business (retail banking). It genuinely could threaten the ability of banks to continue operating retail banking services if it continues to almost exponentially grow.
Human irrationality will only get worse on average. There's very little evolutionary disadvantage for humans to be irrational in our modern society.

Not synching up with reality would likely cost you your ability to be in the genetic pool back in the day.
What access controls are being bypassed?
In a world where that was actually the goal, you'd presumably be able to see a little image of the signature used, beside each card-provided charge in on your credit card in your online banking portal.
In before a 20yo culture warrior says "allowlist."
Yes. I was (explicitly) talking about traditional "dumb" cruise control. I haven't used adaptive cruise control but I agree it sounds more useful than traditional cruise control once you get above minimal traffic.
> Or what grows when you leave food in the fridge for a month.

With the rise of meal plans though, you see a lot of Americans going out of college at age 22 being... completely useless?
I cannot open the study in the first link but the second on seems to actually refute the claim instead of supporting it.

> There is a body of research on how driver behaviour might change in response to bicyclists’
appearance. In 2007, Walker published a study suggesting motorists drove closer on average when
passing a bicyclist if the rider wore a helmet, potentially increasing the risk of a collision. Olivier
and Walter re-analysed the same data in 2013 and claimed helmet wearing was not associated with
close vehicle passing.
Best known for Zero-K, an open-source multi-platform futuristic RTS game that uses Spring as engine.
I've used this npm package to implement spaced repetition review of bookmarked words in a dictionary app. It's nicely put together and very readable.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/supermemo
From the Slack About:

Curious about the machine running this site, eh? Also fairly high on the importance scale (for this site, anyway) is the box itself. The machine is a Pentium III, 600 MHz, with 512 megabytes of RAM. It runs (of course) Slackware Linux, and does an efficient and reliable job even with moderately old hardware. The slackware.com site has been known to run for well over a year without a reboot.
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