skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That time is gone meanwhile. In late 2019 I had a very hard time getting access to my Gmail account, despite trying all the usual workarounds and staying in the best hotels in town. Even non-English news sites were blocked, sites that I could browse freely just a few years ago.

Skype worked ok, but text chat only. Images never arrived.
Fair enough. Though you didn't mention the pub, which is what the parent comment started with?

OOC roughly whereabouts do you live?
Hey, I didn’t even think of it before reading this post. Hug to everyone who did!
Have you ever spent time in China? If you had, I suspect you wouldn’t be writing this comment.
I’m a senior web application programmer in the US and absolutely suck at math. Most of the field doesn’t require much math. Basic geometry and algebra would be enough. Knowing the basics of how to calculate combinations and permutations is useful.

Some people have recommended Kahn Academy. https://www.khanacademy.org/

Don’t be afraid to use a calculator when things get complex. Calculators are not cheating. But try to do as much in your head and on paper as you can. It helps to learn why things work.

You will get frustrated. Be patient and walk away for a bit when you need to. :)
But you're still trying, and deep down you want to keep trying. So listen to that, even though it feels stupid because it isn't working.
Does it make it better to make our workers compete with people without rights, healthcare, holidays, sustainable pay? I don't have any problem with China they can ban what they want, I would just desire that this open borders crap would require import only from countries where workers have a compatible standard of living of importing countries
> by the transitive

If you bring such qualifications as a measure of 'evilness' of an economic or a government system then you are surely can explain how would you rate England on your scale of evilness.

Hint: Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae
People even those that like being alone or have a hard time with others (I have family members like this), sometimes like being social. The short days of winter effect some people (vitamin D?) and
I think the pandemic has exacerbated this. I notice a lot of the little interactions I used to have are gone although not really deep I miss them.
OOC how often do other neighbors knock on your door just to say hi/introduce themselves?

This seemed somewhat common growing up in the suburbs, but I think has literally never happened in my adult life in a city.
Punk Rock on an accoustic guitar, you didn't have that anywhere else, i think (actually it's poetry, if you ask me)

Моя оборона/My Defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9LHowWc9Qs&list=OLAK5uy_kf0...

Пуля дура / Stupid bullet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FE9k6XPKhM&list=OLAK5uy_kf0...

Мы гуляли по трамвайным рельсам/We walked on the railway lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IQ7P1yvcJQ
I'm surprised to see mutable default values not mentioned. It's bitten me more than once to discover that:

def f(xs = []):
xs.append(5)
return xs

print(f())
print(f())

will print:

[5]
[5,5]

and I love python despite this horrendous decision, but it should be mentioned more often in beginner resources.

edit: thanks for the downvote? I've answered on the order of dozens of questions about this very mechanic on SO, via IRC, and more... it's a well-known confusing factor
Talented is a massive understatement. Fabrice Bellard and John Carmack are folks that get 9.5/10 as developers (10 being reserved for God).
Agreed, posts like this exacerbate the feeling of being alone.

I'm alone this Christmas, and it's bloody great, a morning of simracing, followed by pizza and a nap then maybe watch die hard.

A large proportion of people seem to make the assumption that being with family is amazing and everyone should do it. But if your family are largely arseholes, then why waste your time and energy?
But why in a hotel?
Does NYT really deserve that money ? Typically I've found their journalism to be subpar and their opinions to be to partisan.

At least with Audible, your getting books from a real diversity of authors.
That would be the case if we used that sand as a reserve of value, what looks quite more unlike than using bitcoin instead.
Technically, VPN apps are banned, and VPN usage by individuals is illegal in China. Don't know how much this is enforced though, probably not much.
Basic linear algebra can be taught in elementary school. It definitely doesn't require a lot of background.

Most linear algebra courses and textbooks do. Without a lot of background, you'll run into a hard brick well.

A few good starting points

- Project Algebra's Road Coloring curriculum

- 3B1B (on Youtube) has a series on the geometry of linear algebra. You should have the mechanics of adding/multiplying matrices, but not much more

- Game theory is a nice place to explore early

Linear algebra is a many, many year progression. It's quite deep and interesting. But you don't need to start with singular value decompositions and whatnot. Start with those sorts of things, and then apply it in different domains:

- 3D graphics

- Image processing

- Control theory

- Quantum computing

- Data analysis

... and whatever else suits your interests.

After a decade or so, if rather fascinating deep dives, you'll have a deep understanding not just of linear algebra but of some rather interesting domains.
Before the Capcom logo and song finish playing on boot, enter the code: Down, R, Up, L, Y, B.

This enables both players in World Warrior to pick the same character.

Entering the same code in SF2 Turbo on the TURBO logo screen unlocks more game speed stars in the options.
Good site, but something of a so-called “taxation on stupidity”.
I notice that when I speak to Japanese people (I live in Tokyo) that I subconsciously simplify and slow down my English, and even occasionally imitate their English errors; but when I speak with other native English speakers I naturally pull out loads of slang and speed up significantly. I also notice that my friends don’t always do that naturally, and so my Japanese friends confide that they didn’t understand much of what my friends were saying. I wonder if I’m more attuned to that since my own parents weren’t native, 100% fluent English speakers (I definitely dumbed things down for them, too).
The GP makes a gross mischaracterization. It's a centre to centre-right publication and is among the most popular in our country. I'm not sure what axe they have to grind with NP, but it's resoundingly clear they're not replying in good faith.
> If you are okay with being chained to a power outlet, sure.

Maybe you need to get an M1 ;)

I can easily go a full day off power developing in Intellij.
Good for you! It’s so liberating to realize you don’t have to be pressured into pretending to be somebody you’re not, and there’s nothing wrong with being you.

Of course, you can still enjoy Christmas without being into any of the religious stuff, if you wish. I’ve been an atheist since I realized religion wasn’t for me at about the age of six, and Christmas is actually fun for me because there’s no pressure. It’s just a bullshit holiday like any of the others and an excuse to celebrate, or not. If you don’t like it, you can just ignore parts or all of it.
Can you point me where to sign up to get paid to defend China online?
> What technology do you use today that is far from mainstream?

Pen and paper. ;)

Also, I have been using an agenda with on the left side the week, and on the right side notes for the last 10 years. It has a special holder for a pen, contains some information on units, UTC differences, a world map, holidays, year overview, and much more. This is very useful. At work I only have to carry around my agenda. It contains all information that you need directly in meetings. And I can take notes on the right side that I can process (digitally) when I'm back at my desk.
But do you have a venue? Wouldn't everything be closed?
Has it been conclusively proven that medication has no effect on ASD patients then? (Genuinely asking, I don't know the answer)
The powder cannot be responsible for those crimes, if it was, the government could solve the problem overnight by simply allowing a legal supply of white powder. And if that’s the case, how is the government not to blame?
Mobile is rapidly eating desktop marketshare.
I hope I'm alone, or someone is getting a free show. I'm not wearing pants.

Also, Merry Christmas!
One of the European contributions to the mission is the launch vehicle.
There are about as many people in rural areas with volunteer fire departments as there are people in non-rural areas with volunteer fire departments.

17% of the US lives in a rural area. 32% of the US population is covered by a volunteer fire department. There are plenty of suburbs with VFDs, often lower-income.

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-too...
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks (2019)
Ugh, x and y the wrong way round obviously.
Your situation is way more common than you probably think. My IRC and discord channels have been very lively in the past 24h. Lots of shared good mood by people celebrating "alone by body, but not by mind".
I thought so too until one day I suddenly found myself was able to access google.com etc. without any issue for days until I search some sensitive keywords when I was in mainland China.
So the blocking seems to be heuristic instead of a blacklist. And also it seems GFW is able to filter SSL contents as I have always been using HTTPS if I can.
The ICC has not yet prosecuted China [1]. One would have to be quite thick to ignore Beijing's wanton criminality in its west.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
MacOS has pbcopy which serves the same function and is an amazingly useful way to work.
Those rights are available domestically in the West, yes, at least for the time being. Those same rights have never been extended to the citizens of the countries whose democratic governments were toppled or subverted by what we call the West. But hey, here in the imperial core we are quite comfortable. So this state of being must represent our ideals!
A bit of algebra is good to know but more math knowledge is really only required if you want to work in a domain which requires it like Machine Learning, graphics engines, Scientific Computing, algorithm development and some other domains.

So I would explore and see how far you can get in math before investing to heavily into a specific language. If you want to learn one that’s useful in many domains and is easy to learn while focusing your studies on math my suggestion is Python.
No creature more brainwashed exists than a kiwi in their natural habitat.
Go live on twitch! Oh oh oh
> VPN traffic is also slowed down extremely.

Exactly that. It took me >30 minutes just load my emails - if I found a spot where the VPN would connect at all. Basically I needed two coffees. One for the time to load the email, and the 2nd coffee to wait while my repliess were sending.

At the same time, access to Chinese websites was super-fast.
Good launch.

And over 472k viewers on the livestream. Good service by YouTube.

(I don't get to praise them often, credit where due.)

All launch events seemed precisely on schedule and trajectory.

The 2nd stage even caught the solar panel deploy on camera, which I believe was an unexpected bonus.

Now we've got 30 days of deployment events, another 300 or so SPOFs to clear. Arrival at L2 in a month.

Six months to chill and calibrate (with or without Netflix I'm not sure).

Science starts in June.
Yes I always comment on it for this reason, sometimes (if I know the code will be maintained by someone with less python experience) with a link to the standard doc.

It's actually a super useful pattern for any kind of search iteration. I've used it many times.
ESA have the best rocket that can fit it in
I lost some parts of my mental health too after two last years (unrelated to global “events”, and partly due to a failed relationship). Idk if it makes it easier, but you’re faaar from alone in it. Just live through the biggest of this, because when things clump up they feel much worse than they are.
Street Fighter II, subtile accurate animation
You might think you are helping people, but you are not.

You can't argue against solitude. If people feel alone, it's because they would like to be around others, but can't.

Telling them not to feel that way "just because" is useless, and telling them they should feel like you do because you decided it's better is just condescending.
Watching the NASA stream I find it amazing that they as a science organisation are still using non scientific units. All this talk about miles, miles per hour etc.
Ariane 5 was the best rocket for the job
I hear what you're saying, OP. Also spending Christmas alone here, but to me it's just another day too. Also, I'm not really a fan of Christmas anyway.

We're bombarded with so many messages about Christmas being a time of happiness and togetherness, but it's with false intent; it's mostly all about guilting people into buying unnecessary consumer products for their loved ones, and increasing revenues for retailers.

Christmas was stolen from the Christians and had the act of collective worship for their saviour - a genuine feeling of coming together as one with a community - replaced with secular commercialism.

The modern icon of Christmas, Santa Claus, favours the rich above the poor, is used to promote a narrow and capitalist view of a worthwhile family time, and wasn't even crucified. Even as an atheist, I feel quite bad for the Christians that their festival has been upended with this nonsense.

These days, I only wish Christians a Merry Christmas. Everyone else can just enjoy their Happy Holidays or Good Winterval or whatever.
Less bad but still bad. Consider that /bin/mkdir is still interpreting whatever you pass to it. What if you provide it a "filename" that starts with a dash? Then /bin/mkdir will interpret that as an option. What if I give it "--version" as the name? It will return 0 (success), even though no directory was created.
While it is rather harmless for /bin/mkdir, this might be a bigger problem for other programs.
No? I'm responding to the poster implying that we're not entitled to privacy on employer-owned equipment.
Why? It matches exactly my experience while being in China.
They rely on funding from the US tax payer, they have to speak in US customary units otherwise they get complaints and then pressure in congress and reduced funding.
English (or Americans) colonizers would have wiped out your entire village. They haven’t even considered you human (like the natives of Australia).
I get your point of view, but for a lot of people it's not. Friends leave for family, life comes to a hold in a lot of countries (shops closed etc.) and the whole vibe created around this day screams togetherness (family, friends, and so on). Some people don't need it. But there can be people that feel left out, although they like to be left alone, because everyone suddenly adjusts to that time and they don't.

What I'm trying to say, why do we not just take posts like these and accept that it can do something positive for people. Nothing more nothing less. This bit by Ricky Gervais perfectly sums your post up for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3dxMGzt5mU
The users can see the certificate in their browser though
Well take another example, you have human right to wear what you want like for example a swimsuit all day long.

Somehow most people understand that swimsuit is appropriate on the beach and on the swimming pool and not in the office.
> what advantage is there in keeping the obtuse language?

Because if a new legal vocabulary was introduced, I would now have to read contracts in both "old legalese" and "new legalese".

I don't think it really matters how clearly contracts are written or how simple the language is; most people won't read them anyway.
I'm personally opposed to the idea of visiting certain countries, such as China and North Korea, to 'see for yourself', especially when you don't know the language, when you're not willing to risk your life to understand and uncover the parts the government doesn't want you to see, like VICE did in Xinjiang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AYyUqrMuQ

That being said, if you go then please try to walk into a random hotel/apartment you see on the street to try to book a room.. then you'll discover that 9/10 hotels/apartments won't allow foreigners to live there. I lived in China for more than a year before I realized this was the case, and I have on multiple occasions even been kicked out of friends/partners apartment because someone told the landlord there was a foreigner in the building (or maybe they saw through the surveillance camera).
This so much. My wife and son are in France with the parents in-law. I refused to go because racism and bigotry and, and, and... I have also loved being alone my entire life. I made a bird feeder this morning.
The `write` function here comes from the `Write` trait[0]. This isn't the unbuffered write API, it's just the write API. What it's writing to could be a `File`, or it could be `StdOut` or a `Vec<u8>`.

It also doesn't take a string; it takes a slice of bytes. In Rust, prefixing a string literal makes it a `&[u8]` instead of a `&str`, which is why you can just pass it straight into `write`.

Adding a length field would only make it more error-prone to use without any added benefit. Slices already know their length, and subslicing is trivial. If you have a larger slice, and you only want to write a subsection of it, you just index it. Forcing the user to pass in two lengths is just silly, and all the API implementations would do is subslice the input to that second length anyway.

You could argue that `File::open` and `File::create` should return a `BufReader<File>` and `BufWriter<File>` respectively, and I would agree that this would be reasonable as the most common use-case probably benefits from buffered IO. However, that ship's already sailed, and those functions can't be changed.

The description for the `File` type should also more explicitly state that IO is unbuffered. I'm surprised it doesn't, the docs are typically better at that sort of thing.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/trait.Write.html
I've experimented with labeling search results that contain js, amazon-links, video, analytics/tracking, etc. on search.marginalia.nu; you can also require/exclude results by those standards. Seems to work reasonably well, even if there are some false positives.

> Better metadata search, and inclusion / exclusion by category, would be great. Search exclusive to scientific, technical, or academic sites, or exclusive of commercial, paywall, erotic, gaming sites, for example. (Such filters could of course be reversed if that was your kink.) Inclusion/exclusion of social media is probably another big one.

I would like to do this, but I'm not quite sure how I'd implement the labeling. .edu and .ac.xx works for academia for the most part, but the rest is a lot harder. Could possibly be done approximately using graph adjacency, but I don't know how you'd get a true-false value out of it...
Because working in an environment of trust is way to retain employees. I don't expect people to try and steal secret, most of the time but I do expect them to take a few personal moments throughout the day. If I found that a company was monitoring my network traffic, I'd terminate the relationship.
German corporate culture is functioning without snooping around on employee's emails and chats.

It's strictly forbidden by law and only allowed in very constrained circumstances when the employer has a strong suspicion ("Anfangsverdacht") that the employee is doing things they aren't allowed to. Even then the work council has to be informed and a representative has to be present to ensure no laws will be broken and privacy is preserved.
I'm looking to move and work in the US this year, together with my wife (she's a phd, I'm a dropout, both coming from the EU). Our plan is to grow a remote dev team to build cool products. We have access to professionals and can also tap into universities for promising students. If anyone feels like Santa, I can share my Linkedin profile. Best wishes
James Webb Space Telescope lifts off on historic mission
Congrats to launch team, Webb has just separated from Ariane 5. Perfect ride!
Beautiful sentiment that I agree with - I greatly enjoyed my Spanish class, got decent enough at it to have good experiences traveling in Spanish speaking countries, and ended up much more open to living abroad (which I’m doing now) and have language learning as one of my main hobbies. Was it useful for business or academically? Not particularly, but still very worth my while, and others have different experiences that resonated with them too.

That all said, instruction quality is a big differentiator; I agree that most classes taught at schools are pretty miserably bad, so from that perspective, point taken.
Being christmas I feel being charitable is apropos. You're right, and GP means well.
What, exactly, are you trying to argue?

Disingenuous HN snark never stops; (re-)read the whole thread to find out what you've missed.
“A festivus for the rest of us”

I got to get my aluminum pile from the crawl space for next year.

https://youtu.be/1njzgXSzA-A

Looking at this again in context of this thread no it’s commentary becomes clearer.
I'm glad you're feeling well all things considered. If or perhaps when that changes, don't hold it against yourself.

That type of grief is humbling, initially destructive and absolutely crippling. I've experienced that loss and found the highs and lows to be challenging, but what ever feelings you have, you're not alone. It doesn't get easier, but, the pain does become familiar and less frequent.

Best of luck to you.
If you're worried about theft, hopefully you've disabled Bluetooth and USB because I can move a hell of a lot of data without a network device.

Also, if this is a legit concern, you may have a hiring problem (or you work for .gov or on .gov contracts exclusively.)
I mean, one can have whatever view of rights they choose, but many rights are often considered to be contextual.

E.g., in the US, you have a right to not have your picture taken indoors, but outside in public spaces you don't have this right.

You have a right to do more or less whatever you want with your personal laptop, but your agreement with your employer generally implies that you should only use a work computer for work tasks.
20 years ago one guy failed to light his shoe on fire and to this day we’re still taking our shoes off at the airport.
It depends on how your VPN services are hosted. I actually tried to host VPN myself on google app engine and the first time lasted a day or so before it was blocked.
The second time lasted 1 hour or so.

The I changed the strategy to create a VM in azure and it was never blocked for years, the only down time was M$ trying to save me some credit by automatically shutting it down as the load of the VM had always been almost 0%.
The Myth of the Holiday Blues (2019)
> Not because I'm being paid by the CCP

But you _are_ being paid by the CCP?
I think they are more than just useful. I think the reproducibility, regulatory, and continuity aspects of having documented instructions, templates, and checklists are vital to a business.
I guess I've got to ask, did you read my comment or skim it?

Because the point of it is why are you surprised that Google doesn't want to spend time on resolving and reinstating his account, not the trademark issues which were only restating for context.
This, totally. Nobody cares—or should be forced to care—whether a given compiler does something in a single or multiple passes, what counts is ergonomics and overall speed. FWIW when I still worked with TeX (XeLaTeX) I soon built my own wrapper for the executable that simply compared the sha1sum of the relevant *.aux file from before with that from after the run and would loop until the checksum wouldn't change any more.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682051