skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt anyone really, a lot of results and major work in computer science came from mathematicians and academia where reading had long been a primary method of teaching. There is a long and rich history of great papers and text books in early computer science.

Even getting to the more applied side of things, books are common. Perhaps the most well known one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin... predates Norvig by several decades (not that I think Knuth kick started the idea either). Yes it does have exercises after each chapter but these are far less than the very dense extensive reading content including application of algorithms (and questions are obviously optional, and in the typical style of math text books).
The timing of news is really funny.

The 'negative news on bull run, positive news on crash' legend seems strong.
Really makes you wonder what the end-goal actually is for these craven politicians.
Emulating a neuron != taking a comparable part in a computation. Probably the former is a lot more complex. For instance, an artificial net can take advantage of backpropagation in a separated training phase -- that's a lot of complexity that's factored out of the runtime phase.
Once you get out of the major metro areas the rural towns which are alive all have various major factories.

Tokyo and Osaka houses headquarters, manufacturing is almost always in some small town. A big benefit is Japan has a flat consistent tax system. Towns and prefectures cannot compete with tax policy or tax cuts. Thus factories are much more diffuse. The large corporations can bring their support networks with them but when recruiting high school graduates a big plus is to be local. Thus a town might have a couple large factories which can consume the high school graduate supply.

Occasionally you'll see various R&D centers. Those tend to be within an hour or two from the major metro. Far enough away the companies can build large campuses and employees can buy large houses for their family.

For example HAL Labs, the company which makes Kirby games, has an office in Yamanashi. Which made them one of the rare non publisher video game devs who do not rent.
In reality, the non-tech population don't really care about that issue.
By the very nature of edge cases, most people don't experience them (in a given domain like "interacting with Microsoft products"). That said, this setup sounds broken af, maybe it's all so much worse than I realize...
Unless desktop linux makes huge strides that'll most likely be the case. The current LTSC is good until 2029, and it's rumored that the next LTSC won't be based on windows 11 but will be supported until 2031. Hopefully that's enough time for microsoft to get their shit together, or at least for linux desktop to make inroads.
People are too quick to blame the media. Whatever you want to say about Murdoch, he's not a huge fan of perpetual lockdowns and so forth, and he owns half our media.

The problem in Australia is not the media or the politicians, it's the actual electorate. Ordinary Australians pine for despotism. Unfortunately the general public are the last group outsiders think to blame, so there's this real mismatch between their theories of what's happening in Australia versus the on-the-ground reality.
International remittance without needing to pay the traditional gatekeepers a cut.
Installer/AppTapp did this first, to be fair. I should know, I wrote it. ;-)
It’s served me well to be able to hold money when stocks seem really high, without being coerced by inflationary policy to throw more money into a bloated stock market by our political masters.
When I was at Google I never heard Norvig’s name in connection with anything. At any internal AI conferences Jeff Dean would be present, Kurzweil, etc., but never Norvig.
Those are middlemen for fiat-to-crypto transactions. No middlemen are needed for crypto-to-crypto transactions like with fiat-to-fiat transactions, with the exception of physical cash.
Yep. This has been studied in MBA networking events too where the only person who ended up meeting everyone was the bartender.

>The few new meetings that did take place tended to be with others who were like themselves: the consultants talked to consultants, and the bankers talked to bankers. In terms of both new conversations and diverse connections, the most successful networker at the event turned out to be the bartender.
https://hbr.org/2018/05/go-ahead-skip-that-networking-event
Alternative form of money transfer (large sums).

El Salvador is experimenting.

Alternative form of payment on some sites (haven’t needed it yet)
Quoth the frog, enjoying his warm bath.
If BTC does well, other cryptocurrencies will likely do well, which means DeFi will do well, which presumably means less people needing JPMorgan as an intermediary.
"due for regulation"

It's already very , very heavily regulated. I remember in 2010 trading on etrade or ameritrade was a simple as filling out the form and wiring money, but with cryptooo there are tons of security checks, ID checks, verification, screening, blaocchain analysis to do anything.
Didn't read the OP, but this definitely helps. When you're on F.lux or similar and suddenly turn it off, it's like having a line of cocaine. Bzzzzzt! Focus mode!
> My grandma's in Tasmania. Hasn't needed to wear a mask the entire time. My uncle has worn a mask for a couple of days total.

Now have them attempt that on the mainland. They'll be liable to have their bones broken by the police response.
He may be uninformed or outright wrong about Bitcoin, but he runs the largest investment bank in the world. A whole lot of people care what he thinks about financial matters, and even if he's wrong about Bitcoin, the fact that he holds that opinion is important in itself.
That's 0.075% of working-age adults. Fear of covid has driven more people out of the workforce than dying from covid.
Is there an equivalent to the Electronic Frontiers Foundation or American Civil Liberties Union for Australia that i can donate to to advocate against this?
If you don't find reasons to dislike them, I and many others can tell you a few stories from the nineties that will change that.
Matt Corby – Made of Stone (Lyon Remix)
No thread on surveillance and privacy is complete without this clichéd quote, might as well be me:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness – Sean Carroll [audio]
Well there's another acronym that includes them. Unfortunately it's rather vulgar so I'll list out the letters in alphabetical order: AAFGMN.
Similar here. The process made me want to donate to the Minetest team because every last one of our worlds is still available and lan parties are still fun. Same with Super TuxCart, so easy to get going.
The NSW one it's not clear from the context whether that person was at a protest.

The second one it's pretty clear they were.

I don't know which protests they were, but a number of anti-lockdown/vaccine protests were violent, which is likely the reason the police were investigating. That it's months later is almost certainly because police have been going through a shitload of leads.

The same thing is happening in the US where people suspected of participating in the January 6 riots are/were being investigated months after events.
It clearly wasn't worthless for the early adopters.
Everyone fucking hates MS with good reason.

They have been in this steady march to pull people in using tricks/dark patterns, then the services they for people into are almost always half-assed and break for no obvious reason, with catastrophic results.

People don't accept these broken ass systems unless they have to. Look at how iPhones, Macs and Chromebooks made inroads. MS is going to lose out on the next generation of computing, but instead of improving, they are doubling down on the BS.
"The man" wants his pound of flesh for as many financial transactions in the economy as possible, extracting various kinds of fees.

Permissionless public-ledger cryptocurrencies cut out the priviledged middlemen.
And your comment isn't "one dimensional" and "unnuanced"?

As a fellow Chinese person, it's pretty accurate. Deng Xiaoping deserves the credit for modern China's economy. China was slowly but surely opening up and slowing becoming decentralized for efficiency, and it was a moderate rule by committee with term limits vs a one man dictatorship for life that's veering into a centralized economic planning disaster reminiscent of Mao. He is destroying China, one industry at a time.

I can understand your "patriotism" if you're commenting from the mainland. Not so much if you're writing from elsewhere.
> currently federal law enforcement can hack online accounts, remove, add, or modify data

Terrifying -- we are trusting officers who are incentivised to make convictions with the power to remove, add and modify data which could be used as evidence in determining the outcome of criminal cases.

Would love for someone to tell me that I am missing something here that makes this acceptable.
Bitcoin blasts JPMorgan's Dimon as 'worthless', due for regulation
While we're on the topic, one of my favorite blog posts of all time is his "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years"
https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
As you will see hints of here, and in full effect if you ever stray into the strayan parts of reddit, most of my fellow citizens at best simply give no fucks, and at worst are raving statists under the impression they're with the screws rather than the inmates.

To most Australians, "liberty" is a silly concept for yanks, much like halloween and black friday sales.
It's not about fear of competition. Crypto doesn't remove the middle man. There are just other middlemen, but JPM also is not stupid and will figure out how to compete in this space. The new middlemen are folks like Coinbase, the other exchanges, middlemen like PayPal that are built on top of middlemen like Paxos. Regular people aren't going to using private keys to send money (where a typo leads to permanent loss) anymore than regular people are going to be coding in assembly on their machine to do addition and subtraction.

If there's really value in bitcoin and it becomes a thing, JPM will figure out how to help. Why? Because they are good at what they do, they have tons of clients and relationships. They add real tangible value to their clients. If middleman means "tangible value" then yeah, they're a middleman. JPM figured it out with currency markets, stock markets, bond markets, commodity markets, credit markets, equity derivatives - they figured it out with big institutional clients, with retail clients - they figured it out in simple products (buy EURUSD) and complex products (buy a 5 year forward knock out call option on EURUSD, contingent on SPX, quanto into Yen). I'm sure they'll figure it out for digital assets - if it truly becomes a market worth entering.

In the meantime, crypto has yet to add any real world value. What sane person takes a vacation to Tokyo and does anything other than use their Chase-issued Visa card (now available on your iPhone!) to buy stuff? Are you going to go there and pay with your bitcoin? Ridiculous. And guess what, the credit card route works instantly and it costs nearly nothing.

Where are the real use cases for crypto? Digital gold? Maybe. Weird trading card things, ok maybe. But real ones? Maybe they will come, but also maybe not... When internet/BBS came out to real people in the mid 1980s, even then (even then!), it was obvious that this was huge and had real value. People communicated, played games, etc. In the 1950s, business used computer to automate processes. We didn't need to wait until 1995 to figure out the internet (or computers) would eventually be huge. But with crypto, 10 years later, and nobody who actually understands traditional finance can articulate where crypto is better/faster/easier/cheaper, or any other use case. Maybe it will come, but I haven't heard it!
You need more than a first approximation.
For your last para - I seriously doubt it. I often see youngsters being awed by Musk and sometimes even Gates due to his foundation work/PR/whatever. Jobs? Nope. Yeah, most of them know him and maybe are aware of him but that's about it. And rightly so.
This is a fantastic article and I have shared it with many, many engineers in the past. It's one of those totally counterintuitive things about career growth. It's all about accumulating scope as one grows into a senior-level role. Then everything flips, and one's seniority tends to grow proportional to the amount of scope one gives away (therefore enabling others to work on larger-scope initiatives). Applies to managers as well as individual contributors.
AKA Money laundering and tax avoidance.
The thing with the needles is crazy scary - I keep seeing them a lot recently when in Seattle, not only downtown.

Just the other day I visited Capitol Hill around 15th Avenue and an entire park is full of tents, and a person defecated in an alley by Kaiser Permanente in broad daylight. Reminded me of Tenderloin district...

Feels like the city is going downhill - especially if you have family I'd stay away
That One Side Would Like to Utterly Destroy the Other Side Seems Significant
My uncle's few days in a mask were in Sydney. No broken bones thus far. I've about a dozen relatives in Oz, including quite a few on the mainland; all seem to have had a much better pandemic experience than I have in the States.
> Devices that came before it were mostly open.

This really depended on your carrier and handset. My iPhone 3G was my first unlocked device, and the first one I could actually build and run software on.

Apple wasn't the first "store", because the carriers tried and failed to operate the same model (curated store of apps from partners, pre-established billing, a big cut for the privilege of working with them, etc).

Apple took off because they had a compelling platform to develop software for, and they were willing to work with orders of magnitude more developers. Apple also was willing to put the store front and center, on the first screen after you set up your phone, and make apps the primary value of the "phone" itself.

> If Jobs had tried this with Mac back in the early 2000s, it would have failed. He got to do it with iPhone because he dominated the market.

If Jobs had tried to do this with the Mac in 2000s, he would be mandating a more closed distribution model and generally more closed operational model, after devices had been in market for 16+ years.

Thats why the Mac has been moving that way as a game of inches over the last decade, while the iPad started there day 1. Just like the iPhone, the platform has only ever had one real supported way for the masses to get software, and the entire security stack is built around it.

Domination would imply that Xbox and Playstation stores (which BTW launched before the iOS App Store) are somehow both dominant, and now Nintendo has emerged into the market also dominant. It is how those platforms were designed. A platform designed like that would likely fade to nothingness just as locked down.
Interesting how often they break the rules, unrelated to crypto

https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/banks-15b-in-fin...

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/banks-have-been-fined-...
Easier to run on fear of simple things that people understand as being a more immediate threat, unfortunately.
Reminds me of https://emblazeyourtrail.com/products/cairn-crusher?variant=...
Not justifying excessive use of violence my the Victorian police. There have been incidents by individuals and must be properly dealt with.

If being thrown to the ground and sat on is a bad as it got for illegal protests during a public health stay at home order we still have some way to go before we reach full dystopia.

The yanks had 5 people die during their failed insurrection. There were another 20 dead in riots in the same year. They had cops firing on media.

The federal government's yearly bipartisan expansion of surveillance powers to catch up with our allies is seriously chilling shit that doesn't get reported in our media or pushed by the usual suspects on Facebook. But it concerns the hell out people in technical and legal areas and the problem will be with us long after emergency health orders are cancelled.
Here is one perspective on Bitcion: In a world where abundance is abundant (every day we have more cash, cars, etc..) scarcity by itself could manifest value. As per law of supply and demand.
Ok, we've taken 'leaves' out of the title.
For the thing that keeps exciting me, has been for about 5 years now, is single board computers. At first the Raspberry Pi and the forks of it were exciting to me. But as time as has gone on more CPU power, memory and even graphics have been stuffed into these boards. Sure, they don't 100% replace a beefy desktop but considering they give some desktops of the 2000-2015s a run for their money is exciting. Not only that but the size too. Just the power/size and general usability is exciting to me. Then there is the whole connection headers for programming the board as a microcontroller for robotics or whatever.
I mean that’s what happened in 2017-2018 yet again we are repeating the same bubble. I guess these crazy run ups will end at some point but I see no indication this will be the last.
I'm not convinced that the population of El Salvador is into it to the same degree that Nayib Bukele is. The whole thing sounds very fishy.
That "new job" is picking up new legos. Looking at what problems there are to solve. Which legos would fit the best.

In that article, point about "Fire people. Just do it!" means, that if there is some part of business that does not generate enough profit or other success, those people need to be "fired" or they should find another job in same or other company, so that job would generate enough profit. If those people are not "fired", then company will get less profit or go bankcrupt.

That "new job" depends, what customers actually need the most. Customers could say "faster horse" but can not imagine "auto" or other most efficient, easiest to use solution.

Sometimes with those legos, it's about picking only most important in use legos, making them work together, and then making many groups of legos working together, and groups of groups, while each lego has a failsafe way to recover from possible error scenarios.

Sometimes it's looking at what some most advanced competitors are doing, and imagining what way it could be hugely improved and simplified. Even better, going in completely different direction with more advanced solution, and leading the way.

Point with legos is, to not be too emotional about changing legos, job contents, etc. If there is a way to solve something completely, automate oneself away from job, and move to bigger different role with more advanced legos, just do it. With more advanced legos, it's possible to solve bigger problems.
The answer isn't to force people to come into the fishbowl to be watched, the answer is to judge employees by output and for us to build alternative places to socialise.
> Their posts are often their kids or their families or politics or something that just isn't that interesting to us. They're still friends, but they just aren't interesting to follow on social media.

Plus, the life events that would be interesting to me, I much prefer hearing about once every however long over drinks - and even my heavy-facebook-user friends have commented that they really quite enjoy the fact that they get to tell me about things like that face to face rather than just assuming I'll have read it as it scrolls past.
Microsoft's multi-factor authentication system is 100% broken. I'll just leave my anecdote that I mentioned on a previous occasion [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27447820

> I lost my Microsoft account years ago. I still get emails from Microsoft stating that there's suspicious activity on the account. I got two just yesterday.

> Despite that, despite still having access to the email the account is on, I cannot recover the Microsoft account. Despite Microsoft notifying me that the account is still, years later to this day, being abused, cannot use any form of recovery. I cannot access the account with help from support or even after visiting a brick-and-mortar store.

> It's one big reason that I've long since refused to purchase anything more from Microsoft and have ditched Windows.

Funny enough, after reading the article's tl;dr it sounds exactly like what might have happened to my account:

> TL, DR: If you have MFA enabled on your Microsoft account, this automatically adds your phone number as a sign-in alias, supplementing an attack surface to your account. Attempting to remedy this issue by limiting your phone number to only be used during MFA removes your phone number from the MFA backend instead while leaving it on your account. That prevents MFA from working altogether, but it does not disable it for the account. Thus, leaving your account completely inaccessible forever. Microsoft support will then blame their bug on you, the user, and refuse to acknowledge the issue clinging to an internal policy set up entirely incorrectly. If you think account recovery, MFA setup, password reset or account reinstatement forms will work, you would be wrong. All of these rely on the same system that has been allowed to enter an unsupported state and cannot recover independently.
That's when it was introduced - Apple has retained this behavior and even the iOS 15.0.2 update that went out today turned on Bluetooth for anyone who had it disabled.
Therein lies the rub. I've never had a manager either suggest or provide a new opportunity to me while they were encouraging me to hand off my work to someone else.
100% this. Early 20th century tractors are pretty damn simple. A big torquey engine bolted to a sturdy I-beam based ladder chassis, two big ass drive tires, two thin tires for steering.

I think they have designed a neat utility vehicle, forklift and loader, but it's not a tractor.

However, Marcin says they rigorously test all the equipment on an actual farm, and are quite familiar with tractor maintenance, so I don't think he's that far off base.
the word 'free' in English to decribe the software has been, and is problematic. It leads to a lot of heat minus light in conversation, it seems. I support direct GPL software, and, its important to make sure the person you are talking to, is using the same terms to mean the same thing, right away.
Yeah they do. We just don't hear their complaints about not wanting to create a fucking Microsoft account because they just cave and make the account. Few people want a microsoft account, which is why they force you to get one.

Apple gets this right. You can have a local account on your machine separate from your iCloud account.
I really want them to try this. I think it'd be fun for Facebook to geoblock all of Australia.
Not even just that. Often we engineers know about the issues, but they are so rare the PMs aren't willing to let us work on them. PMs get bonuses for shipping features, not letting their engineers do KLO work and keep all the rare edge cases functioning.

My team once had a bug on a client app that caused the phone to vibrate randomly, and the PM still wanted us to spend a week to rewrite an Android demo to iOS so he could look better for a presentation to the CEO next week instead of fix it.

Sometimes the release team will put their foot down on a really bad error rate and force a team to fix it or not get into the next release. You pretty much need hundreds of crashes an hour for that, though.

One guy paranoid about people trying to login with his phone number and flipping a weird option would just get set to priority normal, backlog status in the issue tracker and never looked at.
I guess their journalists are paid per word? A broken way of working.