skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this! James Hoffmann is how I got into the hobby. I binge watched all of his videos, including this one. But then I forgot a lot of the useful information he gives here, only remembering his frustration at the complexity of the problem. Upon second viewing I think there is some good stuff for me here.

I had been following Jim Shulman’s research which Hoffmann mentions in this video. It’s very dry and technical though and doesn’t provide much in the way of actionable advice on what equipment to purchase, instead recommending bottled water which I absolutely refuse to use (my household is already addicted to bottled water and I’m trying to break that addiction).
Yeah I sing the praises of Consumer Reports all the time. I think I pay $10 annually for a subscription and every time I buy or recommend something I check with them and so far have not been let down. Their reviews almost always include objective measurements and durability testing, it’s really surprising how people miss them among more modern options.
From https://github-wiki-see.page/

GitHub Wiki Search Engine Enablement (GHWSEE) allows non-indexed GitHub Wikis to be indexed by search engines.

This site will be decommissioned to redirect old links once the block is lifted or GitHub produces some other solution to index GitHub Wikis in harmony with their SEO concerns.

I do not see any wrongdoing from github-wiki-see.page here. They don't even amke money from it. Quite contrary, I do think that this is a useful project.
the github repo is just few html pages i dont see anh source code..
i wont trust this search engine...
It's pretty likely they'll change the data type somehow, but I guess the question is how fast they can test how that interacts with everywhere that might encounter that variable. Presumably the hack they implemented here buys them at least a month or two to test a real code change.
For some. For others it isn't.
> the intent of that original letter was to pre-bias against opposing viewpoints

Isn't that the same thing as saying the intent was "persuade" the reader? How is it different except in the sense that they managed to persuade people to believe something with which you disagreed?
Best I've found so far is https://lunchmoney.app
You can use any tools you want, including UML. Don't let fashion tell you which tool to use. The important thing is: the tool should be useful to you, and facilitate your work in some way, and not burden you.

However, I would suggest that you start at a lower level that has little to do with formalized planning techniques, since you seem to have trouble answering the most fundamental questions. (This is no criticism: fundamental questions are often difficult to answer).

The following technique is based on the idea that you only understand something if you can explain it to someone else.

Write down your thoughts about your software project in a project diary where you explain your work to an imaginary person. What you are doing, why and how,etc... Two to four sentences a day are enough, don't pressure yourself to write a lot, but do it.

Thoughts are often not as clear as we think they are. Putting words on a page forces you to clarify your ideas.

From this internal dialog, new questions will arise and new needs. Maybe you'll find out you need a complex inheritance structure in Java and UML could help you document that. Maybe you'll find out there is no need for that. But tool choice comes after answering the fundamental questions. The rest is just googling.
Which is why I pointed out who the author was. Someone who is interested in the book may be interested in reading multiple reviewers' perspectives. I had no objection to the posting of another review.
What more can Google even do about the onslaught of ever-evolving SEO spam besides hardcode some arbitrary "winners", which would have its own set of problems? It seems like a very hard problem.
I have been doing unpaid hobby projects for forty years, so I have an opinion:

Sometimes there are things that I would like to work on at work, but there is no official support. A at home hobby project is sufficient to be able to do a good “elevator pitch” that might lead to at work projects on what you would like to work in.

EDIT: you asked about UML. I co-write a book on UML, and now I don’t particularly recommend it. The only type of UML diagram that I occasionally still use is Sequence Diagrams.
Your comment is just not scientific

We have known that the virus can exist temporarily on surfaces since the beginning of the pandemic. Over countless millions of cases, there is still no evidence that anyone has ever been infected by contact with sars-cov-2 viruses on a surface.

> they may behave differently on surfaces than the strains that have been studied to date

"may" is doing the heavy lifting here. My priors for a small number of mutations being able to change the way a virus behaves on a surface are exactly equal to zero.
> Or those juice pamphlets were planted by Big Juice in a psyops move to increase juice sales

It wasn't psyops, it was just marketing.

The problem is, without evidence to the contrary, doctors are as want to go along with "common sense" as everyone else.

Thus, when "common knowledge" because "fruit juice is good for you" doctors just nodded their head and agreed with the advice, until evidence to the contrary come out.
I'm imagining that the Go people would have a hard time making the compiled program smaller, because they're bundling in a M:N threading system, inter-thread channels, a garbage collector, a stack resizer, a syscall parking and reactivation system, and all of the above are by necessity mutually interdependent.
A headless web client in general then. Seems to only be electron from what I can see
I'm not going to say "quit your whining" but rather, maybe this isn't "the world we built", maybe it's "the way the world is". I know I've been guilty of thinking the later when I should think the former but really don't know what we'd change. Do you really think the internet would have flourished if it was pay per view (or similar solution)?

I remember using online services in the 80s where they charged by the minute. CompuServe, GEnie, and even just my ISP when I first got internet in the 90s. Data of 1 but I know that gave me a "use it as little as possible" mindset.

Further, if some groups set out to charge and some other groups offered "free with ads" I'm pretty confident "free with ads" would win (see Radio, TV, Podcasts as other examples of "free with ads"). So, short of outlawing free (which would likely never happen), I don't see how we'd have not gotten where we are at the moment.

That isn't to say we can't do better now but I'm less confident we could have conscientiously directed ourselves to better. I think natural forces got us her and will take people experiencing better to get them to switch better.

To put it another way, without tasting the "free with ads" kinda sucks, few would be willing to fork over $ for better.
Wow. 37 combined mpg, that’s great for a truck. Starting at 20k??? How…
Well done. My father was a realtor, and taught me early to distinguish between House and a Home -- the former is a physical thing, an investment, and is your Home while you're living in it; the latter is a precious concept, but a separate one. I'm grateful for him teaching that wisdom to me and my siblings when we were younger.
I can remember seeing British comedian Frank Skinner explaining to Kenny Rogers why his name was funny to Brits.

Still raises a smile when I think about it.

The phrase “to love… forcefully” was used.
Two groups betting against each other
- the one who is betting the prices go up (and buys houses)
- the second who is staying out of the market claiming it’s a bubble

In the center, there’s the interest rate, where the first group claims needs to stay low so they can win/survive, but if it does, the second group loses.
Your buys happened to coincidence with the peaking of the housing demand in the US. Are you temporarily lucky or does this advice hold true for everyone forever?
I have no inside information on this, but it's based on my usage of Google recently. I believe Google seem to be guessing at people's intended search query rather than performing the query based on the actual terms.

This is probably great for most people as Google's own data shows that most people do indeed search the same things at the same time, so guessing intention (especially with relation to current affairs and the queries of others) is probably a winning strategy for giving most people what they want - even if their search terms were a bit junk.

The down side is that the ability to hone results by tweaking or rearranging ones search terms goes largely ignored. Previously one could peel away layers of results with such meddling, now it seems there will usually be some word or name in the search query which Google will be affectionate towards, and the results are unmovable from that.
There is plenty of space in USA too. Except that no one wants to be in the middle of nowhere.

So it's not surprising at all that some digital locations will be much more desirable than others.

In the metaverse people will want to live next to celebrities too.
A Booming Startup Market Prompts an Investment Rush for Ever-Younger Companies
do you have any way to back your statement? otherwise it’s just dust in the wind
Easier to get started maybe, but there's something to be said for the 'ease' of having to worry a lot less about crashing the kernel you're working on.
How do you handle something highly noise sensitive like baby crying in another room while being on a Zoom call?
Is there good evidence that Google isn't doing a good job of finding content anymore, or that good content doesn't exist on the public internet anymore?

Google is only doing a bad job if what you're looking for exists but can't be found. I have a feeling that for many searches, what you're looking for simply doesn't exist anymore.
I have never seen a Github issue clone or StackOverflow clone in my life.
There are mods, plural? I.e. someone else besides dang?
It could be many things.

The simple explanation, that getting a vaccination that prevents or reduces the impact of a disease makes more sense. To the point that it’s a no-brainer.

It’s a moot point now, as this phase of the pandemic is played out. People embraced fear, ignorance and doubt in the name of freedom. Many will needlessly suffer as a result.
I think there’s lots of factors going on here too. Products were less often considered disposable two or three generations ago. A manufacturer wouldn’t offer 6 versions of nearly the same thing to capture all price points. Things used to be predominantly manufactured by hand, which also meant they were inspectable and repairable by hand. Manufacturing businesses typically kept less products on the market for longer periods (model numbers have become quarterly iterations or specific to a retailer). There’s now 50 options that appear identical for nearly every product when previously there might have been 5. It all contributes to it being difficult for staff to meaningfully “know” what’s being sold even if they wanted to, and businesses aren’t going to spend that time and money training employees on a product they won’t be selling in a month.
You just described the effects of the student loan industry, too.
Life is like a musical piece. If it were all about getting to the destination, then the best composers would be those with the fastest songs. Play is about the journey, rather than the result.

In this sense, shed-building is somewhere between work and play. The act is enjoyed roughly as much as the product.
Meta will give out a couple billion free plots in their metaverse and this problem will evaporate.
Bond films did not exist in the classic film noir era of the 1940s and 50s, but yes they did precede Bullitt and are a good example of films with car chases as major plot devices.
I had a mortgage that had PMI for a time in the late 90s. (I could have afforded 20% but then I couldn't have afforded a bunch of improvements which the fixer-upper really needed.)
It was definitely a rickety system before Covid impacted it. But I suspect any strong shock could have caused a similar destabilization.
Ada came out of the DOD so assuming it's an all-caps acronym makes a lot of sense. ;)
I highly recommend going for the beta version which features a (game-changing) built-in pdf reader[1], with annotations (searchable and synced with the beta iPad app) and many more improvements.

Zotero is an amazing tool and I could not imagine writing papers without it. For collaborative writing, it syncs the bibliography with overleaf[2] and google docs. The browser add-on allows to build your library with one click while browsing, and it parses wonderfully meta-data from all (most) publishers and pre-print servers. Then my unique bibfile (symlinked in every project) is continuously updated to reflect new items or manual changes.

But I use it even for non-publishing side of research: one can save webpages (with snapshots) and write notes with formatting around them. My personal research workflow involves note-taking with the markdown app Zettlr[2], from which I can cite my Zotero library using simply `@[Author:Title:Year]`. I can then build notes from a twitter thread and stats.stackexchange.com answers, then connect it with papers and blog posts that way, and a specific chapter of a book with my annotation on the cloud. It not always straightforward as a workflow but it works wonders.

And the team is very responsive on the forum and on twitter. If one of the dev is ready this, thank you so much for making researchers life way easier !

EDIT: I just realised I can share my libraries online. A bit ashamed because it is very messy, but in case you are wondering what a Zotero library looks like, here is the link to mine [4] (without the notes and the embedded pdf and data files because I cannot share all of them. Moreover, I don't use the folder structure anymore so its very messy).

[1] https://www.zotero.org/support/pdf_reader_preview

[2] I recommend the BetterBibTex extension for anything related to tex, it'll save you a lot of time

[3] https://zettlr.com, another great app.

[4] https://www.zotero.org/wosk/library
Fossil hunter Richard Leakey who showed humans evolved in Africa dies at 77
The knowledgeable RadioShack employees were probably canary in the coal mine for RadioShack
Coinbase, Binance, Tether are a problem to decentralization. They are far more centralized than the fiat alternative. Imagine if the stock exchanges, brokerages, payment processor, private and commercial banks were all controlled by one or two companies.

The success of these centralized exchanges ought to give anyone pause with regards to how truly decentralization crypto really is.

Regardless, defi exchange won’t stop monetary expansion. People with a currency will want to gain a return on those currencies, since they don’t do anything productive sitting in a wallet. Therefore, banks would emerge with deposit accounts who would then lend out loans in excess of deposits. I don’t see a defi way of doing that which would replace institutional banking, because individuals and algorithms are not equipped or financed to analyze the lending risks, fraud, take legal actions, etc..
Ask HN: Recommendations for podcasts about machine learning or data science?
A previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715179) pointed to

* Linear Digressions (now finished, http://lineardigressions.com/)

* Talking Machines (http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/)

* Data Skeptic (https://dataskeptic.com/)

as good podcasts on machine learning or data science, but I'm curious - which other current podcasts do ML practitioners and data scientists on HN recommend?

Some preferences:

* Graduate level (doesn't need to explain the fundamental structure of an ANN)

* Covers practical deployments of models and recently published research, not "what can AI do in the future" predictions
There are a couple great YouTube channels that I watch when I want something low stress/drama

Duzer TV (Most positive guy on earth)- https://www.youtube.com/duzertv

Adventure Archives - https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventureArchives

Matt's Off Road Recovery - https://www.youtube.com/c/MattsOffRoadRecovery

Venture 4wd - https://www.youtube.com/c/venture4wd

Cody Townsend Fifty Project - https://www.youtube.com/c/CodyTownsend

Dom Whiting DNB on a bike - https://www.youtube.com/c/DomWhiting

Sam Pilgrim Crazy bike guy - https://www.youtube.com/c/SamPilgrim

If these are new to you, check out videos from a few years ago and go from there. Tons of great content, no drama.
> You have the freedom to do a lot of things. You can go and play in traffic if you really want. Everyone else has the freedom to call you an idiot and shout at you for how stupid and inconsiderate you're being.

You can't go and play in traffic - that's jaywalking and it's illegal

> We actually do. Authoritarian regimes do it at the drop of a hat, but even free democracies ban activities they view as purely destructive.

When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. But using the banhammer for things you don't like is never good is the long run, because it creates an incentive for other people to use it against think you like but they don't.

> It's important to remember, people need energy to heat their homes and not die, and we're not going to pretend that's an equally useful application of energy as bitcoin mining

And people need food, which is why we have food banks.

In the end, heat is just heat. Unless you also legislate you can't heat your home above 80, let's not pretend heating is not wasteful. Then the next thing will be legislating you need good insulation, then you forbid to use oil like recently in Quebec or gas like recently in New York.

The only people really hurted by this are people who have different preferences (I like heat, so I'd like my house to be 80) and people who're poor (they can't buy electricity, but they can buy an oil furnace to warn their bedroom).

This is bad, but a lot of people fail to realize this, and commit the fallacy of composition by projecting their set of preferences or characteristics (ex: having the money to buy electricity, or living in a country where they can trust the central bank)
Sure.

What's the goal of your hobby project and how many do you have/start per year?

As a comparison, i have like 40-60 hobby projects ( currently only 3 in progress and 1 big one for customers + 1 site). A lot of them are probably lost on previous computers, that's okay. I would say most of them were 1 weekend of work.

The ones that I actually wanted to use were promoted and/or redone from scratch ( = at least integrated with my STS )

For when it's appropriate, I actually try hard to keep them as simple as possible.

To be honest, I'd say i start one within a month of thinking about it and reading more about it. But I have most of the project planned before in my head before i even start.

I normally keep my hobby projects small and disposable.

Eg. You're currently on V1 of the engine. How much of the code would you want to start over, now that you know more about it? In general, business make the same errors. Iterate and improve.
There is good content, it just never shows up in search results. So yes, I blame Google. Their ability to ban obvious spam / copycat content is laughably bad.
> Where?

"vaccinated people not understanding the science"

> which claim?

"the fact that countries with high vaccination rates should effectively have a R trending towards zero if the vaccines even worked half as well as they should" (implying they do not have R trending to 0 vs unvaxxed).
> distinguish between House and a Home -- the former is a physical thing, an investment

so a 'house' is 'someone else's Home that you happen to profit from heavily'?
How much good advice holds true for everyone forever?

Use this kind of stylus and don't pick a fight with the Babylonians may have been great advice, even if it wasn't eternal.
'Bene Gesserit school'? How hyperbolic. I am talking like 10-15 minutes of meditation a day. I used to do it in the break room for 10-15 minutes twice a day while working at Walmart or elsewhere. It is no issue at all. I'm not sure what you have in mind that would be more complicated than that!

> retrain the entire human species to fend off media manipulation

Mindfulness assisting in opening one's eyes to media manipulation is just one of the benefits, not the only one. There are many benefits to teaching it to all.
Nothing should be in the repo. There is no source. Check author's link [1].
Oh, I think you're right. The nested FOR loops of the "Micropoly software rasterizer" are running on the GPU.[1] I think. I though that was CPU code at first. They're iterating over one or two pixels, not a big chunk of screen. For larger triangles, they use the GPU fill hardware. The key idea is to have triangles be about pixel sized. If triangles are bigger than 1-2 pixels, and there's more detail available, use smaller triangles.

[1] https://youtu.be/eviSykqSUUw?t=2134
I could only afford a 30 year term. Now I'm half way through my mortgage 5 years later. You don't have to stick to the original repayments.
I usually just search the topic plus "reddit." The advice from a subreddit on something will usually be reliable.

Then other times I take a chance on Amazon, like the ~$700 Viribus mountain e-bike I got a few months ago. E-bike enthusiasts seem to say that price range is universally junk, but it's been treating me great on trails and the road. Oddly can't find anyone else talking about it online but the Amazon reviews were good.
Not news, it's been getting shitty for awhile to the point most of my searching uses "" to force those keywords to show up. And now I'm regularly getting results in which the page doesn't contain required keywords. Super aggravating.
uBlock Origin is a must when clicking on some first page Google results how, as well as a good pause and study of the results. The unscrupulous ad baiters have gotten real good at Google SEO and content scraping. I'd guess they do well for themselves, as the practice has picked up significantly in recent times. It reminds me of part of the reason Google stole Yahoo's marketshare so rapidly: if you deliver useless results too often then it's a waste of my time to use you. Perhaps the time has come for a new breed of search engine, to disrupt the search engine game, which it seems Google shifted their focus from long ago.
Nuclear materials yes, waste no. Chernobyl was an active reactor, for example.

There's an inverse relationship here with the half-life. The most dangerous waste is stuff that burns up in a few decades, the type that lasts for millions will emit very little radiation per unit time.
1h on a 5K?
Much like today's TCP/IP world, the encryption was layered on top of the phone call. The military used codebooks, code words, and authorization codes.
I've been working 100% remote for over 5 years and I feel like my skill set is becoming rusty because I'm no longer able to work directly with people and I'm also becoming even more of an introvert because I can't grab a coffee or a lunch or even a drive-by conversation with coworkers. I desperately want to return to an office environment and I feel like my home office has become a prison for me. There's no start or stop to my days and I feel like I'm working 100% of the time due to a lack of transition from work-life to home-life. I've been trying to work out of a local hackerspace, but because of the pandemic there aren't a lot of people that go work from there.
Yes, I have definitely experienced this too. I also sometimes get results from websites that seem to be reskins of github (usually issues and pull requests).