skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yay! Good luck, hope it works out! If the enthusiasm can be channeled, then that's great. The minigames should keep him from getting overwhelmed. But 5 can be hard sometimes, and if focus isn't there yet, just wait a bit and try at 6 :) Thanks for commenting, makes me smile!
Your body breaks constantly in minor ways, yet it's automagically repaired to a degree. This evolved naturally, but after sufficient breakthroughs in material sciences we could evolve/design materials that are indestructible.

If you haven't already, give Rendezvous with Rama a read.
Looks like a bit of a mixed bag:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambo_cleanse
Withdrawal symptoms usually last a few weeks for me. Head over to reddit.com/r/leaves if you need support for quitting.

I've struggled with this a lot over the years. I'll quit for 6 months, get rid of all my paraphernalia then find myself starting up again. I keep telling myself that I'll use it more responsibly this time, but then I end up doing it every day.
You mean that it is intelligent? Surely it’s trivial to prove you’re a computer by solving some math real fast.

“Can you prove you’re a machine?” – “Sure, check this out:” runs Doom

The intelligent part would be figuring out that you want it to drop the pretense. Although if it is intelligent enough, it might choose not to.
I wonder how viable it'd be to issue a chargeback.

I guess in grandparent poster's case, the hotel owners were afraid of booking.com and caved into their demands, while in your case, the owners knew booking.com and you can't do anything.
Wow, I've been flying in YSF for what feels like over a decade. Up until recently it was just a game I installed on my parent's computer and would play when I went home.

One thing I love about the game is that they nailed the F-22's thrust vectoring and supermanueverability. I play the game with a keyboard and a mouse (as opposed to a HOTAS setup), and after all these years flying the F-22 I'm proud to say I can execute stalls, a Pugachev's Cobra, and more maneuvers.

I'm not your typical gamer (I don't own a console, and I own 2 games on Steam that I never play), but YSFlight has been my "Come To Jesus" moment for recreational simulation. If you're on the fence about downloading it, I encourage you to do it. You will not be disappointed.
Then they should have just called it a rocky planet. Earth-like is a massive misnomer/clickbait here.
Is your position that crowdfunding platforms are bad because intelligence agencies and other baddies could use them to funnel destabilizing movements in places with social and political instability? Since when was that a problem they needed to solve?

Did you raise this issue during previous mass protest crowdfunding events or do you not like this protest in particular, but others can be okay?
Anti-evolution laws and the future of vaccines
Limits on calorie intake by flies, worms and mice can enhance life-span in lab
Immutability is independent of whether something is a method call vs a function call.
Sometimes I catch myself when I unconsciously type the address of a web site.

I think I've been addicted to the internet for 20 years.
Show HN: Windi – knowledge management and sharing platform based on short notes
MITx Multivariable Calculus starts next week
To offer a different perspective a bit: For every person who desires to learn for it, there are also folks who want to do as little as possible and see no issue with just copying solutions to turn into homework. This includes groups who hold onto the solutions and will give them out to folks taking the classes. Professors had one of two ways to fix that: change questions every year, or just not allow solutions.

That being said, I seem to recall that when I took math classes in college, we had books that had even questions that the solutions were in the back, and the odd questions did not (they were only provided to the teachers). The questions were largely the same, so if a student had an issue with an odd question, they were able to just go to the cooresponding even question and work it out. I felt that was a reasonable compromise.
You want to have strong analytical abilities on your side
I would get a lot of value out of a tool like this. I have a strong preference for a portable executable and file-based storage. Performance can be a problem with those, but I want to use my existing file management and synchronization tools as much as possible.

If that's not possible, than my second preference is a docker-based deployment on Unraid. That's the easiest way for me to self-host. Nice to be able to point to an existing DB for that too.
A parser that can't handle comments doesn't care about obeying the robots.txt in the first place.
ETL on streams? To be pedantic, does that even make sense? Extract, transform and load... a batch of data. But a stream?
> Their protesters have used their trucks to ram counter protesters.

Got a source for that? I'll believe it when I see it. I have only been made aware of one car attack so far, and it was perpetrated by a left-wing individual against protesters.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/canada-trucker-protest-hit-and...
magnus is just magnificent
Makes sense to me and is consistent with my observations: https://jakeseliger.com/2021/09/30/the-death-of-literary-cul...
Sounds like she would have enjoyed a stats class more. Applied math without as much emphasis on first principles and formal proofs. I didn’t like university level math (first year lvl) because I preferred programming and doing math without computer assistance seemed to involve a lot of wasted effort. Maybe I’ll revisit it with Lean.
Agreed, tracking time is an interesting idea!
How do you define that though? My cannabis use is certainly persistent, but is it compulsive? Maybe I'm just in denial, but it's hard for me to say. I've certainly stopped many times, but find I enjoy life less sober, so I end up smoking again. When does partaking in an activity you enjoy become an addiction? I feel like my urge to read late at night has caused me more problems than my marijuana use because of the many sleepless nights it's caused.
Really. I couldn't find it either for a good 10 minutes. I went through all the links painfully and got to careers and there they have some glimpse into their precious company.

>What we're building
At Ashby, we’re on a mission to help professionals excel at their jobs with software. We believe current software is barely scratching the surface and the most promising productivity improvements haven’t materialized yet.

We’re starting with a suite of products that help talent leaders, recruiters, and managers excel at hiring. Prior to starting Ashby, our Co-Founder and CEO, Benji, experienced the limitations of current products first hand. This experience has created a relentless focus to solve recruiting’s toughest problems with powerful and delightful software.
I'll take a shot since I'm the one asking.

Epic Electronic Health Records:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2021/04/08/billio...
Here's a company working on small rooftop wind turbines [1].

There are several other prototype wind power generation designs that would also probably be suitable for building-top use. Here's a 17 minute video looking at several of them [2].

[1] https://www.halcium.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGfB4najfM
Indeed. HN has been around for quite a while though. I’ve been a member for over thirteen years.
What I've found, is that often teachers (really anybody who's understood the subject and is willing to teach) will try to teach both the subject AND how they have learned; i.e. they do not only tell you about the math but also the way in which they have arrived at understanding it (how they've related to it).

to use an analogy, when describing the math they tell one about a place where they are (a 'place' where the math is there, already understood) and how they got there (the analogue of route they took to get there e.g. "took public transport line 4, get off at station Example and walk until you're there").

This leaves little room for those who may prefer to ride a bike all the way there (the analogy has been stretched to the breaking point), cuz the teacher will knock you off the bike and insist that you ride the line 4 then walk, same as they did.
There's a term for go minigames in Chinese, but I don't recall it. You might enjoy this site: https://senseis.xmp.net/?ProblemsAndExercises
I've been 100% remote since August 2019, and 100% remote+onsite with my customers since April 2008

Here are some pointers:

- have a routine/ceremony that starts your day (doesn't matter what it is, be consistent)

- have a dedicated work space ...but be flexible (eg: I work-from-car sometimes (while my wife drives))

- make sure you eat meals

- make sure you take breaks (water, coffee, bourbon, walks, whathaveyounot)

- be "available" while logged-into work (IM, chat, email, phone, etc) like you would otherwise be if you were "in the office"

- don't skimp on your home office setup - whether it's a curbside desk and $19 Walmart chair or a $15000 custom live edge and stainless steel elm slab conference table and $1500 Aeron chair, be comfortable with your workspace (my "comfortable" might be your "agony", or your "extravagance")

- have a routine/ceremony that ends your day

There is a world of variation in how you accomplish the middle items on my list, but you must have the first and last to be successful: if you don't have defined starts and stops to your day, you'll burn out
It sounds like you are confusing being fired with being laid off.
Electron if the local comments are to be believed. Also, mouse drivers that ask you for a cloud account in order to work. Soon Intel will ask for a subscription to use the cores on your CPU, so they will be strong in this ranking, I suspect.
> A phone customer service can specialize

So then outsourced CS should be better than in-house. But it doesn't seem to work like that.

> almost anyone who can talk is qualified to do phone customer service

That's not consistent with my own experience; for example, many third-world telephone CS outfits employ staff with accents so thick that I can't understand them. I mean they may be able to talk in some language; but they're not that good at talking English. Outsourced CS reps are much more likely to just hang up on the caller if it looks like it might be a difficult call.

Also, "qualified" is doing quite a lot of work there. Anyone that can talk (the customer's language) is qualified to pick up the phone and follow a script. But good customer service means reps that know the product, and don't need a script.
There is nothing Marxist about The Netherlands.

Maybe if you actually read some stuff, you'd know this.
Yep! I agree with you 100%. The way I see it is once you move away from internal CS teams it means the customer is no longer your priority.

Outsourced teams will never care about their work as much as an internal team does and because of that everything else suffers.

Such a shame.
> After five months, we just accepted the loss.

Yeah, these kinds of "customer" "service"'s job is to dick around with you until you give up. Same story with the plentiful cases of AirBnB "customer" "service" just offering partial refund, etc, etc.
It's resembling an attack of the author, instead of the authors ideas, aka a form of ad hominem. So it's kinda ironic to say the author adds nothing while simultaneously adding nothing with a non sequitur.
There is no anti-renewable plan.
I want to install a solar roof, my brother has one already, in summer he sells electricity but in winder he has to buy. So what happens when we all have solar roofs or we are powered by solar and is winter so cloudy for 2 weeks?

It is obvious that private companies or people will not buy some extremely expensive batteries for 1 week a year, it will not make economic sense. T he country needs some power plants that could work extra in winter or low light conditions, or we all buy 3x more solar panels and expensive batteries.
I would agree with this, but I think for me it's more of an undiagnosed ADHD thing, where I have periods of fabulous productivity where I'm up all night for days riding an endless wave of dopamine, and then other times where it's weeks of feeling stalled and unmotivated even when the next steps should be fairly clear.
> It makes you wonder "could you fuck up education any worse, if you were intentionally trying?"

Of course you could. Take a look at K-12 schooling some time, where the prevailing educational theory is that "students must learn the math by themselves", and are expected to devise "their own methods" to do so, including "guessing" and doing calculations in their heads, not on paper. Is it any wonder that even "getting the right answer" has been de-emphasized, never mind "show your work"? This is what passes for math education these days, courtesy of "educators" who have never gotten a proper education at the college level in the actual subject.
"Even so far away, with about 20 of those lamps visible it destroys the night darkness, not just for sensitive astronomy, but even for a good night's sleep."

I don't get this _at all_. I happen to live in Sweden, you know the dark, cold place.

We have extremely short summer nights, and I can guarantee you that the SUN is so much brighter than your puny lights that its just silly. Nobody (well, almost) complains about that here. There are even many different solutions to, you know, block light from coming indoors. Or are you really sleeping outdoors? It just sounds so much like hyperbole.
Long time ago I wrote a small program. It simulated a simple world with creatures and food. Creatures had "energy" which was lost when they moved, when energy was low, they "looked for food close by" to feed. When energy was high, they "looked for a suitable partner close by" to reproduce. When they reached food, they gained energy, when they reached a "suitable partner" they turned in 3 creatures with combined energy equally distributed among them.

To "look for", at each iteration, the creature randomly picked a test-target. If it had no current-target, the test-target was turned into its new current-target. If it had a current-target which was more distant than the test-target, then the test-target was copied to the current-target for the creature.

Creatures had a "threshold". When its energy was above the threshold, it entered "reproduction mode"; when its energy was below the threshold, it entered feed mode. A "suitable partner" was any other creature which was also in "reproduction mode". When they "reproduced" the new creature threshold was an average of the threshold of its parents plus a small random number.

It also had three settings: number of new generated creatures per unit of time, number of new food packs per unit of time and number of iterations per unit of time.

It had a very "real behavior". After a few minutes running, I usually set the "number of new generated creatures per unit of time" to 0 and watched creatures look for food and reproduction. Set a small number of food packs and watched famine, set it high and saw creatures thrive...

But, whenever it was the time to close the program, I had a small feeling. I didn't like stopping it. It was like killing an entire fishbowl.
>It is sometimes hard to judge HN, because by numbers it doesn't seems that big, but by impact sometimes it surprises me.

True, you can find top dogs from tech field roaming around on HN. The front page or newest submissions are read by a pretty large number of individuals, by RSS Feeds or manually visiting the site.

If your submission like 'Show HN' hits the front page, it is similar to hitting the jackpot due to the overall impact it has for your project.
You might like the paper "Do NLP Models Know Numbers? Probing Numeracy in Embeddings": https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07940

Neural network models seem to encode an approximate notion of quantity in their representations. This paper is pre-GPT-3, but I would think the larger training set and larger model capacity would help the model learn quantity more easily.
Incidentally the German company DeepL is not only widely known for offering the best machine translation quality, but they also offer a plugin to translate websites:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deepl-translate-be...

Wunderbar!
Assuming you don’t get paid hourly you’re basically selling a service. Why does a company care as long as you deliver and you don’t work for a competitor? (Obviously they DO care, I’m aware of that, the question is why is that so unethical)
Because it sets a bad precedent. The former used his presidency to push as many buttons as he could to see just what the extent of the President's powers are. Sure there are some legal rumblings now, but I'd wager he will never see a prison. Ever.
>Group meals

This is the biggest loss in wfh, imo - it doesn't even matter what the conversation is about: there is value in face-to-face communication
just crawl it... i love the humor on these guys.
That page hurts my eyes. Not the font, the colors and motions. I do not understand why we design pages like this anymore. Does anyone like that style?

Sorry to be a Negative Nelly. I'm sure some devs worked hard on that sigh. I do like the typeface itself.
> How do all those translate to UI toolkits not having accessibility functionality being illegal though?

You put up a non-conforming website using one of these UI toolkits, someone sues you (there are lawyers who specialize in this), you lose and have to pay lots of money. And then you still have to make your site conforming.
I'm curious about what is going on while .NET is "optimizing"?

I haven't seen something like that, my laptop is AMD though? (I write .net code) Unsure how much of a difference that makes.

I like .Net, it's not without it's issues, I think the same is true with Java, having been the administrator for some Java servers in the past, I've seen plenty of Java issues that seemed crazy ~ but I think we're talking about how great things are now, maybe, while saying it doesn't matter because how bad the legacy tech is?
> We took a chance that Slate would support more browsers and its API would remain stable (despite the maintainers strongly suggesting that both might not happen!). Unfortunately, our gamble didn't pay off, and the maintainers introduced significant breaking changes to the API and document model…

You have been warned…
That doesn't really change anything. Throughout the design phase Apple was fully aware that a large portion of users would use AirTags this way.
Elon Musk provides an update on Starship: “It’s been mindbogglingly difficult”
> I don't think this is going to fundamentally change anything.

me neither.

my in-laws (90+) in Japan are excited about a new DoCoMo phone and always talks about the latest features. He is not an engineer. He is also not a rare case in that country (or that continent).

My own mother back in EU and most of my family are deeply ambivalent at best, or absolutely opposing new Tech / data-driven ideas.

Europe is like the polar opposite of Asia in that sense. The US is some kind of weird middle-ground. When I returned from Asia to EU after 10 years over there I had a reverse-culture shock that lasted at least 5 years. Everything looked backward and stagnant to me. As I get older I realize I'm also becoming very critical. But age can't explain the ambivalence otherwise Japan would be the most Technology hostile society in the world.
Another option is not to grade homework. I had a bunch of classes in college where the homework was not graded. The problem vanishes entirely.
This is particularly evident in creation myths. In answer to "where did we come from, how was the world made", instead of a shrug or some unsatisfying facts, we hear a story. And our need to understand is such that we cling to that story, no matter how bizarre. It was the Great Coyote. No, it was a war between the Sun and the Moon. No, it was the invisible Sky Fairy. Some times it takes an unusual person to hear such a story and think WTF? And decide that they just don't know.
I've been using homebrew for almost 10 years and I just wanted to say thank you for your amazing work!
It could even be a good name for a smtp provider as well :)
Why not both? A particularly bad class demonstrating typical problems in an unusual intensity. Also an individual who had a particularly intense mismatch between her learning style and the course design.
> They don't cause the severe dysfunction found in substance abuse.

Big disagree. I'm not going to say opioid addiction isn't a worse thing, but I watched a friend fail out of college because he played WoW all day every day. For a whole year he barely left his room. It definitely wasn't healthy.

I remember at one point I was playing Everquest all night in high school. My friend had an account and let me use it when he was sleeping, so I'd play from 9:00pm to 6:00am, then go to school, then repeat. I hardly ever slept, which was definitely not healthy. There's a reason they called it Evercrack.
maybe this is a clue to which ones it succeeds on, and how it goes wrong when it does not.
Thank you! For several years I'd been looking to get back into CAD modeling but after >10y away (took a few courses in HS) I was feeling intimidated by the size and scope of many popular CAD programs. I really appreciate how approachable it was to me, and how well it runs on my older computer. I've yet to get very far with actual modeling but I've at least got a program to start with.
Imho, not a matter of "if" but "when". I'm convinced that it will be a future civil rights battle, with young people largely on the "AI has rights" side and old people largely on the "AI has no rights" side.
I'm wondering about the physical level—or at least how the EdgeDB conceptual level is translated to the Postgres conceptual level. The docs, and the comment you linked to, have helped me get pretty clear about the EdgeDB conceptual level.
According to the author, the course is "for underclassmen who are majoring in engineering or sciences", but she is a humanities student who wants to "explore STEM fields."

Isn't it obvious that the course is not designed for her learning purpose?
Less informative/marketing/design, just the downloads: https://github.com/IBM/plex
A past company I worked for decided to outsource recruitment.

Went from having a dedicated human to talk to knowing me, and being aware of what kind of team people were running to having generic folks on the phone crawling linkedin profiles for me.

Who do you think was having a better success rate at finding the right candidate?

In companies where there are many roles open, someone needs to be aware of what kind of team would fit the profile to ensure success.

A couple years later, half the teams were using under the radar private hiring firms to help find talents.

A loss on all sides.
I'm a very passive hackernews reader, and don't engage much with posts. I want to break that passivity to say that Visidata is the tool that has given me the greatest joy out of any other piece of software I've ever used.
Yeah I guess so! It isn't too much work :)
Sparsity could really be a good thing but so many times I've tried to use it and walked away disappointed in terms of accuracy.
Syllabus

Unit 1: Functions of two variables

Graphing functions and slicing
Level curves
Partial derivatives
Tangent planes
Linear approximation

Unit 2: Geometry of derivatives

Vectors
Dot products
Gradients
Vector fields
Directional derivatives

Unit 3: Optimization

Critical points
Second derivative test
Constrained optimization
Lagrange multipliers
Least squares approximation

Unit 4: Matrices

Systems of equations
Matrix algebra
Undetermined and overdetermined systems
Linear functions as matrix maps

Unit 5: Curves

Parametric curves in 2 and 3 dimensions
Chain rule
Vectors and derivatives in three dimensions and higher
you would think Princeton professors would think that their students wouldn't cheat. Must be those kids who paid to get in.