skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned how to learn from playing arcade games in the 80's.

First of all, read. Read the instructions on the game cabinet, the instructions on the screen, read the video game magazines, read the books of arcade game tips.

Second, watch the experts. I would never put a quarter in a new game until I had watched multiple people play and learn from that. Watching someone fail was a quarter they spent that I didn't. I wasn't rich.

Third, ask questions. If you've got access to experts, ask them how and why they do things. This got dicey in the arcade/7-11 since it was pretty working class and you had to be careful not to bother people, but if you could get them talking, that was information straight from the source. Invaluable.

Fourth, practice. Went to the 7-11 every day before school in the morning. Another session after school. Figure out what your weakest point is and target that. It can be brutal because the weakest points can be the parts you dislike or are not good at, but you have to decide if you want to be good or great. Might not be worth the pain if it's just a hobby.
I doubt they knew about the hexagonal storms, i dont have any idea if any 2000 y/o figures at all had any idea about planets, but maybe this could be a humorous rick and morty plot twist.

To change the subject almost completely to "weird things Plato argued", Plato recounted an interesting myth about the origin of sexes in the Symposium, that essentially humans were once male and female, with 4 arms and 4 legs and 2 faces, basically two people fused back-to-back.

If you examine human phylogeny, you will see that this isn't exactly true, but it's kinda close. Female and Male sex organs are derived from one structure in fetal development, the "gonad", which resolves into one or the other organ later during development. The full structure of male and female sex organs are actually rather visually similar (if you remove them and isolate the organ from the body, of course).

But the proto-humans or duplex-humans, not sure what its called, were too fast/strong/versatile because of these extra limbs and extra brain, Plato sort of inserting here the notion that maybe because they had 4 arms they were sort of 2x as strong/fast, these critters began scaling mount Olympus with the intention of challenging the gods, and it made Zeus a little nervous, or really i guess recognize that there would have to be a solution, even though he did not want to destroy the humans, he couldn't allow this challenge to continue.

Resultantly, Zeus decided to split the humans in two This would weaken the humans but allow them to continue most of their mortal endeavors. As a side effect, instead of vying for the power of the Olympians, they would be too rapt with lust, love, procreation to challenge the gods any longer.

Kind of cute I guess, that since they were separated in such a fashion, humans would forever yearn for wholeness that can come only from reunion with their actual other half :P

Thanks Zeus. You've really ruined a lot of my weekends.
I assume this statement was made not long after Einstein discovered the equivalence between mass and energy, so it's understandable it may not have been obvious at the time that we could generate power that way.
Same sort of bs is happening with the horse paste stuff now. The story about hospitals being overrun due to people oding were wildly inaccurate at best.

Whatever fits the narrative I guess…
> GCP lists a T4

GCP not AWS, or are you talking about a different OP?
If that was true than why doesn't that person sit down and use his coding talents to optimize bitcoin mining and profit.
Another commonly misused phrase is "begging the question" which you have done here. It means "assuming that which you need to prove."

You have no proof that it was exceptional. All you have is one case. You have no idea what other people in pay disputes end up doing.
You are absolutely right, but this is quite an advanced level of mathematical maturity, I would say Ph.D. level.

Someone who is not pursuing a math education can still get to this level, especially if they want to get a deep understanding of ML. You simply try to implement some of the ML algorithms using the math that you learned. If your math is wrong, the ML that you implement does not work. Debugging that is difficult, but once you get good at that type of debugging, you acquire the skills to self-check your math.

Until then, just successfully getting the answers to the Khan Academy exercises should do the trick.
So in Python, you can use Qt but I am not sure how their licensing works. You can give Tkinter a try in Python since it's a "default". Also there's Kivy but I don't have experience in that.

As for Javascript, you can use Electron or React Native but I don't know how far along React Native on the desktop is compared to Electron.

Hope that helps and someone may come along that could speak in more depth on one or more of these packages for your use case.
Netflix Releases the Social Dilemma for Free
Is there any plan to charge for premium features or something?

The landing page looks like it's trying to sell me a product, but the Github says it's MIT licensed...
Do people have the right through collective indirection to implement blatantly discriminatory control mechanisms that obfuscate the actual costs of things? (I'd argue not.)

Do people have the right to sell themselves into slavery? (Not in the United States)

There's just some transactions that aren't bueno, because of the higher order effects they cause.

I see normalizing surveillance as a case of that. I'm not even sure that most on aggregate even end up realizing premium savings since the data collected just filters into the new base truth for everyone. The more info an insurer has, the more lopsided the state of affairs for everyone else.

I'm all for freedom when you aren't just effectively creating soft, coercive, control mechanisms.
Is it me or does this sounds like early 4chan?
Did you leave a word out here:

> I mean, how can you read "Joe Biden pinup coloring book" and immediately go "oh, this is a joke")

Should read and not immediately?
Any kite surfers? How have you found Windy for spotting decent places to surf? I’m a fan of Windy but sometimes find it a bit “lowres” in the sense that it does a good job on translating wind direction/force in broader, more general areas while it’s hit and miss for specific spots (eg beaches or nooks). POVs?
> expect to get paid a lot more as a contractor for the same roll as a FTE

In general, there are no FTE positions at the big-name companies themselves for Mechanical Turk-like gigs like these: high-turnover and churn is expected because the work is so monotonous. It’s all contracted-out to “body-shops” (like TEKSystems, etc) who have a roster of their own FTEs who are then seconded to the host company (Google, Microsoft, etc). They then get rotated out based on the company’s time limit (Microsoft’s was 18 months, I think?) assuming they don’t burn-out or quit before then.

This is also where Facebook and YouTube get their content moderators from.
USB hotplug works fine, and has for 20+ years now. You may be blaming the OS for your vendor's incompetence at driver maintenance.
Recommend striving for both.
The story is supposed to indicate that you should adjust that prior. If it's this easy for someone to trick us into getting mad, what other things are we still mad about because we don't yet know the trick? (When I first learned this lesson, I spot checked a few old controversies I was mad about, and a few of them had indeed been proven false without my knowledge.)
The above x100. Technology isn't a cheat code for a hard problem, it's just another tool. When we assume that tech fixes everything with no further research, everyone gets a lot worse off.
Works fine for me in Firefox on Mac.
I wouldn't hold my breath too much.

Something I noticed since I've started timing builds is that codegen and linking usually takes less than 30% of the build time for an incremental build.

So in practice, switching to Cranelift and lld/mold will shave maybe 2 seconds off a 10-seconds build. Better, but still flow breaking.

If we want Go-like compile times, we're going to need some more fundamental improvements to the compiler.
So you think there are no rules
Ask HN: How has GraphQL panned out for your organization?
I'm curious to hear anecdotes from people about real-world usage of GraphQL. Did the added complexity get offset by the benefits? Are you glad or regretful that you made the jump? Did you encounter any little-discussed benefits or costs? What kind of services architecture do you have behind it that influenced how useful it was?
> Microsoft is building the dev environment for the next decade.

Big claim, most devs I've met either use Mac or Ubuntu. Can't remember anyone using Windows...
These days I'm tending to prefer structural sparsity over pruning, because if you make good choices you get high-quality models that are fast on both CPU and (G/T)PU. The EfficientNet architecture (which leans heavily on seperable convolutions) is a good example of this. Using GRUs with block-diagonal matrices and some 'side channel' for communication between the blocks also works very well.

A good structurally sparse model can usually be carefully pruned as well, but the gains are a bit smaller once you've already settled into a 'small enough' model architecture.
So far no good. That feature was a preview release that required insider builds, which require enabling telemetry that sends, among other things, "information about websites you browse, apps and features you use..."
Moreover, I'm not able to use Windows 11 which has the feature because of my AMD Threadripper 1950X processor.
The PC; the whole idea of a universe of independent microcomputers.

Microsoft, Amazon, Google (and Facebook?) each have their own angle on it, but seem to be moving towards the same goal: a return to the old model of centralised computing, with the Web as the substrate, your "PC" reduced to a graphical terminal, and their servers as the mainframe.

The difference in angles is partly just that they each want their servers to be the main mainframe, not those of one of the others; and partly because they're each coming at it from different directions, each trying to play off of their own strengths. But the goal and direction? All absolutely the same.

The best we can hope for (if I'm being pessimistic) is probably that none of them wins outright, but instead we get a shaky balance between as many as possible of them.
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I recently wrote a blog post about "learning loops" which is the process of learning more when motivated by the progress you are making: https://minireference.com/blog/learning-loops/

This is how most autodidact programmers learned to code, and a really good way to make progress on one's own. Not because of taking courses, but doing projects...

For context: I've also been many many years in the formal education system, but all the actual useful skills I have developed came from a self-directed learning loop.
If I implied "conscious ill-will" was required, it was unintentional, though I do assume there's more than an ample amount to marvel at. Certainly some nasty roads are paved with benign intentions. I also didn't intend to attribute all human failings exclusively to tech, though it does seem wantonly irresponsible in many areas. Regarding autocracy and fascism, I see them as elements in a far greater stride toward totalitarianism. I'm also not convinced that consciousness is saint of the ignorant. Perhaps many are truly unconscious, but if it's self-imposed, it's not inevitable. One point I single-fingeredly (typing on a small phone screen) attempted to indicate in my ramblings is that the remoteness, impersonal, quasi autonomous aspects of tech and the digital era make detachment much easier. The more manifold, indirect and distant the effects our our actions, the easier, but not necessarily justified they are to ignore. It's much easier to pilot a drone to explode dozens of civilians than it is to peer into their terrified eyes while slitting their throats one by one, with one's own hands. Yet the result is essentially identical and the most average of persons is capable of understanding this.

It seems strange that it takes the dilemma of the unvaccinated to consider ignored responsibilities. The majority seem under the impression that by remaining unvaccinated, one is directly terrorizing humanity. Maybe so; but why is this such a lonely example of passive behavior as such a threat?

I don't think I'm assuming much, really. I think I'm simply perplexed by the horde of elephants in the room. Thanks for the reply.
“Just in Time” CSS
I know it was a -10, I made the mistake of writing that I'd have used Unix and then conflating that with Gates/Allen using a -10.
I’m curious about the professional ethics of this. If they couldn’t know until after they uncovered it that it wasn’t covered by Vermeer how did they know they weren’t destroying the artist’s composition? If they didn’t know that how did they make the determination to do it?
Maybe you were talking about other companies. Google is still wildly profitable.

> the company just set an all-time record revenue of $61.9 billion this quarter, and record profits for the fourth quarter in a row at $18.5 billion.

From https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596592/google-q2-2021-r...
New Relic is hiring in Sales Enablement
Multimedia, Graphic Designer and Curriculum Design for the Sales Enablement team. I have 2 positions open. This one is totally remote. Create content that explains the value of observability.

I have another position that is in the Atlanta area, that is similar in you will create course content for new Sales team members - https://jobs.jobvite.com/careers/newrelic/job/oqrNgfwE?__jvs...

Great people to work with, not just saying that. Really nice and fun group of co-workers.
The article is about crappy network switches though, the USB-C hub did nothing wrong :P
The word "prove" used to also encompass the meaning of "challenge" or "put to the test".

It still retains that archaic meaning in the phrase you mentioned and terms like "proving grounds".

Edit:

And like so many other proverbs like "A few bad apples", "Blood is thicker than water", "Carpe diem", "The exception proves the rule" means exactly the opposite of what most people think it does.
Anecdata, but I used to dual boot, until Windows mucked up the Linux boot more than once. Didn't play nice. So I run Windows in a VM now, it's not getting near the boot sector again.
Thanks for the explanation!
The Option example makes perfect sense.
That seat that Microsoft have on the Linux Foundation board of directors will come in useful for that.
This kind of pedantry about which words people use to make an argument is literally garbage.
No, the problem is some broken switches forwarding PAUSE frames to other ports, in violation of the 802.3 spec. It's perfectly compliant for the adapter to send PAUSE frames when it can't empty the incoming packet queue, but that should only pause the single port on the switch.
Undoubtedly. But, generally speaking, an unimportant thing and an important thing cannot be important at the same time.

I don't think that the "Internet troublemakers" did anything wrong, on the face of it.

Making a joke forum where you pretend that you're a Texan who is seriously bounty hunting women for the crime of abortion is no worse than, oh, Jonathan Swift writing an essay about how poor people could improve their situation by their children to be eaten by the rich.

If some people believed it, that's their problem.
Yes, although it's not exactly retrospective. The trick is, each time it sees your card the system is trying to figure out what the minimum price it could charge is for everything that happened so far. The fares are designed such that it can't ever be cheaper to do more journeys†, however it might not be more expensive, so the extra cost of any completed journey is always going to be somewhere between £0 and the maximum peak single fare.

This happens live because you are shown the current balance (which needs this calculation) when completing journeys in some places, and can also check it from outside the system.

So you can see that a journey you just made cost say 10p even though obviously there are no fares that low, because 10p was the difference between the cheapest way to do your previous set of journeys, and the cheapest way to do all those journeys plus the new one.

† There are sometimes weird corner cases where e.g. travelling one extra stop and walking back is slightly cheaper but that's a different journey not an extra one.
The things that make me not like Windows are it's aggressive Windows Updates, lack of real true security, and the way windows regularly ignores settings. Steam automates configuring Wine for you and most games just work. But for work? There's no reason to use Windows anymore unless you have some proprietary software that runs only on Windows.

Btw the whole "Access Windows internals and GUI" from Linux already works. You can just run Windows commands from bash and of course make scripts using those commands so essentially all windows command prompt commands are available to you now.

But remember it's Windows. You can set all the registry settings you want but it will still sometimes ignore your settings and just do what it wants.
More weirdness in our Solar System

Mimas - A moon of Saturn which from certain angles looks like a death star. [1]

Hyperion - Another moon of Saturn which looks like a sponge. [2]

Phobos - A moon of Mars with a huge crater on one end.[3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_%28moon%29
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(moon)
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)
It's the network switch that failed there. Apple adapter works only because it has less features.
I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that we 'force unnecessary medical treatment' on kids.

What is being made available to parents is the option to vaccinate their children if they deem it necessary.

Also, while kids are less at risk of death or hospitalisation from COVID than adults, the risk is not insignificant:

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/cdc-335...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-covid-19-hospital...

Regardless, COVID remains a much greater risk to kids than the vaccines:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/04/opinion/covid-vaccine-kid...

Therefore, parents need to make up their own minds.
In the UK it’s fairly common for SWEs to also work on a contractor basis (but they own their own personal company which contracts directly with the contracting company’s HR dept: no bodyshops or consulting firms are involved in this particular style of employment). This happens a lot because of how the UK’s tax-law is set-up (by accident, not by-design, though).

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Outside of the games industry, the UK’s been less-and-less of an attractive location to be as an SWE, which I personally attribute to the UK’s corporate culture which places engineering as strictly subordinate to management instead of embracing engineering-led management, which (in my opinion) is tied to the entrenched class-system (e.g. upper-management read classics at Oxbridge, why on earth would they allow a MEng from an industrial redbrick like UMIST or B’ham into the board-room for even a briefing, let alone help making decisions for the company? /s)
Not to mention that the solution to not uploading over cellular (on iOS at least) reads:

> To avoid excessive data charges, connect your phone to Wi-Fi or disable cellular data for iCloud. iPhone Settings > Cellular > iCloud Drive > OFF.

Like I have to be inconvenienced when I simply want to grab a pdf from iCloud, just to avoid having a few GB of my data cap used if I happen to be out at 2am.
Spreading it to others?
This seems like a very reasonable thing to do in order to stop wasting power.
Ah yes, 9p2000. The network filesystem where caching is non-existent and left as an after-thought.
The Genetics Behind Tabby Cat Stripes
I would buy that the moment it is released. That would be the fabled Year of the Linux Desktop.
Some background on this story that you won't get from the media.

On August 23, 2015, I founded the Tesla Owners Club of New Mexico, with one purpose: fight for a change in the state law that protects the franchise dealer monopoly on sales and service in New Mexico. Six days later, on the 29th, we held our first meetup event, at the Jinja restaurant in Santa Fe. 12 people attended; we all sat around a long group of tables that the restaurant had pushed together.

The 12 of us discussed the law, how we could get it changed, and during the conversation the idea of "well why doesn't Tesla just put a service center and store on tribal land?" That idea was so brilliant, I was so excited by it, I quickly reached out to Tesla to schedule a call with the corporate development and policy people at the company. That led to multiple long calls over a few weeks, and then Tesla suggested I do some research on the idea. So I wrote up a report with maps, photos, etc of various locations that seemed to make sense from an owner's perspective, and submitted it to the company. The company kind of stewed on it but decided to continue to pursue the legislative fight.

So for the next four years I worked with Tesla, and many many state senators and state representatives to push for bills that would change the restrictive, protectionist laws and enable--hasten, really--the adoption of electric vehicles by companies like Tesla which did not use franchise dealerships. We held hearings, we had committee meetings, we had club members show up for events, offer legislators rides in our cars, we tried everything. But by 2019 it was clear there was just too much political pressure on the state government from the dealers and other interests like Big Oil, to get a bill through.

All along we owners continued to urge Tesla to look at the tribal alternative. They finally began to look into that. We were largely in the dark for the next two and a half years as Tesla canvassed the state for a tribal partner. They found one in the Nambe Pueblo. The result was announced yesterday.

Never again will Tesla owners in New Mexico have to plan indefinite hotel stays hundreds of miles away in other states while their car is serviced at some remote service location. Yesterday afternoon I used the app to schedule a long-deferred service appointment for my car (squeaks and other things) and the app showed the new local service center and I got an appointment! Yeah, baby. Never looking back.

p.s. The Tesla Owners Club of New Mexico now has 536 members and is growing fast. http://tocnm.org
> Within one year there appears to be myocarditis at a rate of 16 COVID deaths per 1 myocarditis case.

Is that age stratified? E.g. in 18-29y/o males where myo/pericarditis risk is highest? With and w/o commodities would be helpful in the risk benefit calculus as well.
Neato, this looks great.

Small(ish) request, can you add weather info in there? Always super important to know to reshuffle activities properly.
Porsche breaks ground at synthetic fuel plant in Chile
already eating enough protein*