skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the experience of learning how to read/write Japanese revealed this insight. In particular, I utilized a technique called RTK (for Remembering the Kanji, a book which describes the technique) in which each character is assigned an English word or short phrase that approximates its meaning, and then the student invents a colorful story that relates the key word to the sequence of strokes used in writing the character. Then, the information is committed to permanent memory through spaced-repetition study methods (including lots of actual writing of the characters).

This technique is often criticized for teaching only the writing and rough meaning of characters, while ignoring actual usage and pronunciation. However, for me it was an absolute revelation that allowed me to finally break through and eventually achieve something close to fluency in the language (passing the highest level of proficiency exam, the JLPT N1).

Later, I began to comprehend how the method itself--which is kind of abstract and involves quite a bit of raw repetition--achieved its amazing results by building a rock-solid scaffolding in my brain upon which I could hang all of my Japanese language knowledge. If learning is the process of building new knowledge structures in the brain, then understanding is the process of linking existing structures into tightly integrated patterns which can support higher-level reasoning. The stronger the base structures, the deeper the understanding that one can develop on top of them.

As for the "backdoor", I believe the original comment was referring to the way that the brain seems to naturally (and sometimes effortlessly) work to strengthen the connections between knowledge structures that are sufficiently "exercised". So, one can use conscious efforts to simply reinforce the raw knowledge as much as possible, and then trust in the "backdoor" to reveal the important insights and connections as they are uncovered.
LOL. Like that information isn't readily available on LinkedIn, FB, Twitter, Github, etc. There are ways ($$$) to retain talent.
For a laptop chip, single threaded integer performance is on par.

Multi-threaded integer and floating point performance is not.

>In the aggregate scores – there’s two sides. On the SPECint work suite, the M1 Max lies +37% ahead of the best competition, it’s a very clear win here and given the power levels and TDPs, the performance per watt advantages is clear. The M1 Max is also able to outperform desktop chips such as the 11900K, or AMD’s 5800X.

In the SPECfp suite, the M1 Max is in its own category of silicon with no comparison in the market. It completely demolishes any laptop contender, showcasing 2.2x performance of the second-best laptop chip. The M1 Max even manages to outperform the 16-core 5950X – a chip whose package power is at 142W, with rest of system even quite above that. It’s an absolutely absurd comparison and a situation we haven’t seen the likes of.

https://www.anandtech.com/print/17024/apple-m1-max-performan...

We'll see what happens when they make a desktop chip and are no longer so constrained on thermals and power draw.

The unreleased Mac Pro chip is said to have the resources of either two or four M1 Pro chips glued together.
Brain Activity Map Project and the Challenge of Functional Connectomics (2012)
Those that are familiar with Tesla's, would there be extra software features a car rental company would want?
Crime and Punishment doesn't tend to be what most Americans would expect. The major plot points happen up front and the remainder of the book is a philosophical exploration of, well, crime and punishment. The fact that the protagonist was free of the justice system but still tormented by what he did was the whole point.
Best Buy stores will soon offer Samsung foldable repairs
Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies
You are right in the sense that my company was underpaying relative to the market. The reasons I decided to stay were:

1. I had been there < 3 years, and was at my only other job was 1 year, and I think that has at least slightly negative connotations on a resume to some.

2. I get to be team lead (of a team of 2, yeah), which is not something I would get to do anywhere else, given my 4 YOE.

3. I like my team and WFH and WLB and taking a chance on a new company when the comp would be the same sounded risky.

4. I didn't actually have any offers. I had made it to 3 on-sites and had a few more in the pipeline, but most were for lower compensation than my counter-offer. I went ahead and did the on-site that was for more comp afterward (I told my boss I was doing this), but I didn't get the offer there either, so I didn't really have another option to choose instead.

5. 200k is top-of-band for non-tier-1 companies for my area / YOE, and more than half of the tier 1 companies in my area were over an hour commute.
Title should be appended with "...and could have gotten away with a .sh/.ps instead"
Yes, it does. SMS aren't encrypted. And messaging is closer to being solved than ever before. If you want to use a "dumbphone" with SMS you can do that.
I would be interested in whether they took an active role in the Jan 6 insurgency. I think it's well established that they'll take money from whoever, and then work for them with great determination. I don't think they have any INTEREST in the law, and spying on just plain citizens and consumers is the least of the things they've been up to.

All it takes is them going, 'hey this administration is going to get in the way of a revenue stream, we've been getting good money to facilitate what some customers want' (i.e. revolution, genocide, etc)

And then 'we should make ourselves available to these groups, to disrupt the administration that might hold us accountable. If they get hurt, so what? They are against us'

Look back to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook can serve to overthrow the government… any government… if their influence is profound enough. They've got control and have done studies on what they're able to do, and it's not unthinkable that they are doubling down rather than be brought to account. They rightly see themselves as a key player here. They're the megaphone to be used by state powers and revolutionists, in many countries including at home.

My gut reaction is that this is really the tip of the iceberg, and what they're really up to is on a very large scope. If you found you had the Panopticon and could swing any election, flip any issue, what would you do?

Then consider it's Mark, in sole control of all this, and the same guy he's been all this time. I don't think he delights in destroying people. But the guy is purely self-interested and is just being a paper clip maximizer, the paper clips being 'power as he has been able to wield it'.
Really?

There are more people than ever before. People live all over the world now, near almost all species. It follows that there are lots of opportunities for spillover, more than ever before.

https://archive.md/28jQa BTW.

EDIT: There are about 250 people per km² in the area where corona first appeared if you exclude the biggest city.
Went freelance at 43. Turns out a bit of white hair and experience is actually considered valuable. Pretty much same dev job, contracts usually renewed every 6 months and three to four times the money. I only accept 100% remote if that's your kind of thing. It's a great time to be an experienced dev. Just don't try to compete with the SV crowd.
Most wing suit flying is generally far away from obstacles. When they do get close its not many obstacles and it’s carefully planned. Flying FPV through forests is a lot of fun because of how random it is, and how dangerous it feels, but you quickly become aware that the human brain is not set up to do that kind of high speed navigation. There is no traction and flight lines have to be planned a few moves ahead. There is very little margin in the best of times, and sometimes no margin at all. It’s like that ball tracking / hidden monkey experiment. While you are watching one tree another jumps out at you from nowhere. It would be like playing Russian roulette non stop. You’re looking for the intersection of people who are actively suicidal and with a spare $100K.
Has anyone added a compilation step that adds all the memoization boilerplate for you?
I like K-9.

https://k9mail.app/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_of_action_of_aspirin
They're protesting against infrastructure and laws that they see as anti-cyclist. Following the laws they're protesting against is generally an ineffective tactic, although it has also been done (with large groups of bicyclists diligently following traffic laws, which causes massive traffic holdups).
Agreed. I think adding back some legacy ports is a cover for not being able to add a 4th tb4 port to the M1.

I would have preferred to stick with 4 tb4 ports and none of the legacy ports.
Now that agile has been preached for over a decade, has software actually gotten “better” for end users?

So much focus seems to be on anti-patterns like mining users of their information or minimizing costs by outsourcing development to cheap, unskilled contractor mills and churning out widgets to meet the mad march toward unicorn status along with all the other identical unicorny startups.

The agile crowd talks about pleasing and providing the customers with a product that meets their needs, but is that what we are doing and has agile made this worse, not better?
Tokyo's Government Is Finally Saying Goodbye to the Floppy Disk, Kind Of
Heh - somehow missed that I had already responded to this one, my apologies. (and no immediate way to edit after the fact).
Now all ARM and Apple need to do is to persuade governments to ban x86 as not being energy efficient. Just like they want to ban diesel cars etc. Could be a tough battle for Intel.
Stack/build upward if possible! Go standing-desk!
36 hours in North Korea without a guide (2008)
Yet strangely, if anyone suggests similar goals for the US they're invariably attacked as socialist or communist.

It's more accurate to say that socialism is a later expression of the same ideals - which actually date back to the late 18th century, when they appeared around Europe during a period of revolutions and enlightenment-inspired liberalism.
Yeah but that said my question is serious, I've seen offices relying on servers and desktops .. when in fact their entire operations could fit on an iphone (circa iphone 10).

I have the feeling that a lot of information systems are not exchanging much but require huge payloads to coat things enough to keep cute in the html5/es6 era

Quite often what would have been done with a bunch of bytes on a dumb terminal now requires full blown windows + browser, network shares of useless files, mail servers holding massively redundant content
Crime and Punishment is probably my favorite novel of all time. Never before/since have I been so completely immersed in the mind of character.

There were times while reading the rationalizations/thought processes of the main character that I started to feel physically nauseous and had to take a break.

If you are at all interested in psychology, sociology, history, and/or philosophy, give it (or the audiobook) a go.
No, it’s the same in the UK, I just quit Barclays to go 90% remote and a 50% pay bump for no extra responsibility. Maybe the OP just isn’t any good
> For the rest of adolescence, you’d flee any adult wielding a camera.

I'm convinced we will see this again as children born in the last ~5 years become adults. Every toddler I know is constantly harassed by their mothers to pose for yet another picture, and if there's one sure way to make a kid hate something, it's for their parents to force it on them. I imagine a generation of kids who refuse to get into a group photo, and who instinctively turn and walk away when someone says "Ok, smile!"
I feel like these rants happen with every new OS release
Hertz Orders 100k Tesla Cars in Effort to Create Electric Fleet
Fully vaccinated now might not be considered so in future without a C-19 booster
>What's with all the effort to discredit this source?

If you don't think FB would organize a pro-FB shill campaign, you haven't been paying attention.

The tell is the ad hominum "not a real whistleblower"/"has a PR team" (as if FB doesn't) attacks without any corresponding claims (much less any evidence) that the information is in any way incorrect.
This one is interesting, because React has a separation between the renderer and the library. There is a different renderer for e.g. react native, or even for the terminal (!!). It’s a little ambiguous where memoization falls (does it belong to the renderer, or to the core?). I totally agree that being able to switch on behavior for an entire tree or subtree would be ideal, but react tends to use components for that as well (e.g. <React.StrictMode>). Perhaps this should be a component, it could even be implemented via the context system.
Mirrors are too ugly. They must be replaced.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/au...
Rocket builder ABL raises $200M, increasing valuation to $2.4B
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're thinking of previous issues with thermals and throttling, but this has been an issue over the past several years due to Intel falling behind AMD and TSMC, and thus driving power through their chips in order to stay competitive, but that generates heat, and ultimately ends up triggering throttling.

If you read about these particular chips, it should be startlingly clear that they are much more efficient than the Intel chips they replace.

In this article:

> Apple doesn’t advertise any TDP for the chips of the devices – it’s our understanding that simply doesn’t exist, and the only limitation to the power draw of the chips and laptops are simply thermals. As long as temperature is kept in check, the silicon will not throttle or not limit itself in terms of power draw.

> The perf/W differences here are 4-6x in favour of the M1 Max, all whilst posting significantly better performance

Read page 3 of this article. They really do cover a lot of this.
I'm not sure I'd say social media has a anti-conservative bias. Part of the issue with social media, especially Facebook, is that their algorithms were very self reinforcing of your own views.

It led to a lot of people forming echo chambers of their political beliefs if they were also unlikely to get news from outside their social media circles.

Social media also greatly helped get Trump elected, and is one of the greatest sources of politicized covid-19 misinformation, as well as qanon. I'm not sure how that squares up against having an anti-conservative bias.

Unless you're implying that the Republicans will peddle that line that they were treated unfairly, regardless of how things played out.
An air ambulance that flies above roads is actually a real good idea!
My understanding of what motivates a company to want me has matured as my soft and hard skillset has.

Moving from Sr Dev to Lead Dev, Staff Dev, VP of Engineering, or CTO means you're now able to do things like 1) architect better systems 2) restructure for growing pains as well as 3) come up with new ways for your company to expand and grow.

Companies will pay a lot for resolution of pain points or growth plans. That is your next step.
I did take it as being a bit pedantic :-)

You're right though. I don't think anyone has any real concept of a general purpose interface for easily wearable devices that replaces a phone/tablet.

We pretty much know it's not voice. And it's not tapping on and looking at a watch. Those can work for simple and/or specialized interactions but not in the general case. Maybe AR glasses and some sort of new mode of input device? But we're certainly nowhere near that today.
Two words: regulatory capture.
what was the model of the acer ? I have an asus 1015e that is my favorite computer I've ever had, but it's very old at this point and essentially unusable because its disk is so slow and it has very little memory.

I'd love to replace it with something more usable.
I moved from "regular" engineering to data engineering in the last few years which is closer to ML which I find very interesting but comprised of all the stuff that actually needs to be done before ML happens and moved up to "higher end" engineering from having worked entirely in startups to my first big corporate job where I make enough money to retire in 6 years if I want. Bonus is this company isn't a FAANG and morally I get to have a neutral to positive impact on the world but they pay roughly L5 Google level total comp.

If things go well, then if this whole industry goes south I'll be insulated.

Also not joking though blunt it may be, don't be in a European country where wages don't even approach our lowest end dev in the US.

BUT

I don't see the industry going south -- I see it being bifurcated where lower end devs who glue APIs together see their wages driven wayyyyyy down. Find a difficult niche that pays well and try to keep skills towards the top like 60th percentile and higher and your life won't change.
The relevant sense of "stop" is stop /processing/. And the relevant object is the neurone, not the perception.

ie., our visual field lags during, eg., a saccade; but all the neurones backing the visual system are still responsive to light. And it isnt that the visual field is blank, nor the eye/neurones unresponsive.

The neurones are in constant continuous contact with environmental stimuli -- they don't just stop being causally activate.
Yeah you do. But this thread isn't about you. So, I find it pretty irritating.
I don't need a powerful GPU, but I do need the additional RAM the max supports..
Yeah, the Max has exactly the same CPU as the Pro. Only reason I picked it is because I wanted the 32GB RAM, and only the Max has that by default — customised orders take a long time deliver in India.
“We are qualitatively different. All we need to do is open our eyes. You look out your window at that beautiful ~~city~~ anthill that happens to be out there that cannot be explained by this gradual increase of biological complexity.”

The only constant in our study of life is underestimating the complexity of other living things.
I don't think I agree with this -- I've spent some time doing amateur digital and film photography, and my experience has been that film photography is much more forgiving by default. You can do really excellent things with a modern digital camera, but a lot of phone cameras have short focal lengths[1] and create very harsh captures of peoples' skin, grease, features, &c.

Edit: This is to say that photos might be more realistic now, which in turn tends to make them less flattering ;-)

[1]: https://www.diyphotography.net/gif-explains-changing-focal-l...
Where did this bizzarro alternative definition of "whistleblower" come from? You realize that the US government has had programs for a long time now that specifically pay whistleblowers a percentage of fines received in order to encourage people to rat out illegal behavior. Some of those people have been paid multiple millions.

Now, whistleblowing against the government is always a dicier proposition, but that's certainly not the only definition of whistleblower.
I don't think the existence of a crate or not really impacts anything I said. More to the point, it would put a reliance on someone else to maintain a crate for critical functionality in ripgrep. (And if that fell through, I would invariably need to pick up that burden. Removing functionality is a lot harder than adding it.)

It makes a lot more sense to me for something like Hyperscan to be maintained out of tree. I did work with the patch author a bit, and in particular, made some changes to ripgrep to make maintaining such a fork easier: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1488

Bottom line is, a lot of people think that adding a dependency has nearly zero cost. But it doesn't. Not by a long shot.
Most of the hyperbolic Apple complainers seem to be trolls to me. "But the notch!" You mean, the option they chose which gives you more screen real estate (if you show your menu bar) and no loss of screen real estate (if you default hide it, like me)? "But USB-A!" You mean the port that doesn't support as much throughput (power or data) as USB-C? The one you can get a cheap adaptor for if you really need it? The one you haven't had on your MBP for 6 years anyways?
I've never been one to care about social media presentation and don't take many photos, but I have a vivid memory of having a photo taken without warning around high school and instinctively duck facing it, which in retrospect was a defense mechanism to purposefully any culpability of not looking good in that particular photo. Very unexpected and unsettling self reflection.
That is ideal, yes.
It's been a while since I bought a "Pro" computer from Apple. I am kind of wondering about the perf-per-$$$ factor. With a starting price of $2000, these are expensive computers. But maybe they are worth it!

The M1 computers seemed like an absolute bargain for the performance.
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Nine raspi's... and the mother of all gpio expansion boards. Holy shit that control board is glorious. I want this for my living room :)
sure, I can accept that definition of latency.
However, the author, when describing latency, only specified the distance traveled to justify a graphql server without implicating anything else.
Yep, Apple is the biggest customer. Apple is 25% of TSMC's revenue, AMD is only 10% -- and that's after the recent growth spurt. Just one year ago, AMD was behind Apple, Huawei, Qualcomm, Broadcomm, and NVidia.
Here's an appropriately low-effort response for your low-effort strawman, I'll defer to the master, the late Mr. Carlin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leWjdWUR_KI
When you rent a car, do you pick the type of car today? I always have, I usually see a big list of cars, where larger/more luxurious is pricier. I imagine that's what Hertz will do here. Teslas on the menu, but if you don't want to, or are driving more than 200 miles, you should just go with a Camry.
Dumb question, but is there an equivalent concern for Vue? Or a reason why this kinda checking isn't necessary there?
I'm conflicted about this.

So the research group React19, for instance which is dealing with vaccine complications since end of 2020, supposedly has 5,000 people it has been in contact with (from where supposedly 6 people had committed suicide - according to Kyle, who's also been talking with the group). They have conducted a survey, there was a following question:

Are you the only one in your family to have a persistent
adverse reaction to the vaccine?
Yes: 142
No: 13

So out of 155 respondents, 13 had another family member who had persistent adverse reaction. What is the average count of family members per people? This implies a lot more frequent persistent adverse reactions from vaccines that is generally reported so far.

At least I would like this being addressed somehow.

And similarly looking at anecdotal stories, there are often couples who have had persistent adverse effects, and there was just now a video story John Campbell showed where 2 training partners together were diagnosed with one pericarditis and the other one with myocarditis. If there's multiple people together getting this diagnosis with the frequency I'm seeing, it seems it's generally under reported.

According to the same survey top symptoms are

1) Fatigue

2) Brain fog

and heart issues only comes next.

I definitely don't want 1) and 2) either, so I'm just waiting for someone to address all of this.
I use node-red for Escape Room game high level automation. Gathering data from all the puzzles (over CANbus and mqtt), displaying game state for game masters, fallback control, audio+light sequences, etc