skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can get used to applying Bayes Theorem in your head as a second nature, it helps greatly as a quick dummy check with reality. Obviously this doesn't mean calculating hundreds of probabilities in your head at once, but it can be very useful as a litmus test for all manner of things.

Knowing roughly what the value will come out to be if your priors are ~10, ~100, or ~1000x apart is very helpful when trying to discern if you're just being led down a wrong path.

Generally speaking doing Monte-Carlo simulations in your head would be nothing more than a stress test on your brain, but the simple multiplications and divisions used in reasoning under uncertainty can take you quite far, and with very little effort. You can even double check your work in the future if you really felt you did a bad job, and you'll be able to point out exactly where the error was (to yourselves or others) because it's more formalized than "I had a gut feeling."
Also the illusion of explanatory depth.
I think the writers believe what they're saying. They're just unable to express themselves concisely or think clearly (or both).

It's a lot of words to say something really simple: "minimalist stylized logo with lines and light effects suggesting motion."

I also agree with your implication that whoever wrote this piece of self promotion takes themselves way too seriously. I'd never hire anyone who wastes so much time and so many words on such a simple concept.
Like what ?
This is the answer.

* Sacrificial account crawls all the questions and puts them in queue

* Team members pull questions one by one - and push answers back

* Leader fills out answers as soon as the current one comes in (assuming you can't jump backwards/forwards)

As long as the people are good enough at these kinds of tests, you'll win. It'll probably end up being a battle of 10+ teams that work like this
I always had a low opinion on these high-end restaurants, but had my girlfriend convince me to try a Michelin stared restaurant. I have to say that my opinion has completely changed, and I've tried a few since. One Japanese one in particular, was the best food I've ever tasted. I didn't think such an experience was possible - it was way out of scope of things imaginable for me.

I've since been thinking, we spend a lot of money for certain experiences in life, but paying such amounts for a meal is for most people ridiculous. Our sense of taste is a big factor that can perceive a staggering amount of combinations, so I think it is justifiable to spend a bit more money to go on a kind of culinary adventure from time to time.
Just imagine if other forms of transport used the same ticketing system...

"I'm sorry sir, you can't get on the 09:03 Southbound Red Line express subway because you didn't check in 40 minutes before departure. Check in has now closed, so you'll have to buy a new ticket."
We had an agreement much like that in 1994 [1] and look what good it has done the Ukraine.

In practice the only thing that really matters is a full mutual defense commitment, in the manner of NATO or the EU, because without that any commitment is only theoretical.

1: https://www.npr.org/2014/03/09/288298641/the-role-of-1994-nu...
I grew up in late 70's early 80's UK and remember distinctly as a child the threats the USSR (then Russia) would make in this regard as they were being hammered by Sanctions.

Its a pretty cruel threat to live under that you don't quite understand - but now I'm older and do, cant help but feel the fear inducing threat of this is infinitely more destructive than actually facing people like Putin.
This caught my interest, I hire freelancers (normally North American) and if it would help someone I would consider hiring Ukrainians (wherever they are). It seems like it would be tough to confirm that the people you are hiring are actually those in need, and any confirmation process would be most burdensome on the people who actually need it.

One think we can do it lobby the government to accept Ukranian refugees / immigrants, so they can work here (wherever here is, the west).
Has anyone tried to solve SATs with AI yet?
Some of my favorite experiences were excellent meals.

I hate the idea that fine dining is only for the immoral rich who are happy to conspicuously consume their way through an overpriced meal.

A great meal can be as eminently rewarding as any great sensory experience and equally worth the price.

If you don't see anything wrong with buying a hotel room to hear a concert from a favorite band in a distant city, or buying a plane ticket to fly somewhere with an incredible view, then there's equally nothing wrong with every now and then splurging on an amazing meal.
Vacations work the same :) visit Puerto Rico now because everyone thinks it’s destroyed by natural disaster and political problems. Yeah it’s destroyed, but stunning beaches, resorts, golf courses, restaurants, etc for a fraction of the price.

Best golf course and lunch I’ve ever had were at the royal isabela in PR. Absolute ghost town, but $90 all in. Stunning place.
You do not need to really know most of that stuff - the most important things are just the actuation force of the switches and the type (linear, clicky, tactile).

I would just recommend going to a physical store that has any brand(s) of mechanical keyboards and try them out - then you will know if you want one with higher actuation force ("heavier" switches - harder to push) etc etc. Instead of a switch tester I would probably just recommend starting with getting a deal on a decent cheap keyboard that is close to what you want and see how you like it after testing.
> Lots more crazy flavors, presentation, exotic ingredients, etc. It's not that it has to be 'better' than the best $12 bbq joint you've ever been to, just different.

Not all Michelin starred restaurants offer the kind of modernist fare you describe. There are many michelin starred restaurants serving exactly the normal-but-better food.

For example the Michelin starred curries in London tend to fall in the normal-but-much-better category.

Michelin starred sushi is usually normal-but-better, sometimes with weird fish options.

France is full of normal-but-better French restaurants with stars.
Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin (2018 – Yale Univ)
yeah, that's true. It just feels a bit in bad taste. But everyone has a right to their own POV on it!
Concurrently running dupe currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30499169

:) :) :)
Would you expand this to allow reporting of bots and manipulated accounts? I've seen a ton of false reports about the RU invasion of UA from recently-created accounts this week.
Technically Briar doesn't have any kind of signup process, it's only asking you to choose a nickname and a password that will be used to encrypt the content stored locally (and securely store the encryption keys). The nickname is only an arbitrary label shown to other users (multiple users can have the same nickname, but they'll have a different procedurally-generated avatar tied to the actual unique ID).

You can literally type in anything, since there's no server that validate that info.
Pokémon Go's 2022 Roadmap Has Been Revealed
Yes!! Exactly.
The Future Fund
Bright lights give me a headache, especially in midday when it's bright outside. I'll often resort to wearing sunglasses indoors when it gets out of hand.

Perhaps it's a certain kind of light, but I don't get the same kind of headache outside in bright lights. (Although I do find bright days painful.)
Can it also make Linux as good for gaming as Windows 95?
Such page design make me dizzy. Left, right, left, right, scrolling a whole page to get barely a paragraph. Awkward. Blah.
I've learned a lot more about Linux playing with it.

Learned Python playing with it.

Learned more about package managers using it.

Used to to play with e-ink displays and other interesting peripherals.

I enjoy the Pi and have happily watched as it has become more and more user-friendly.
Dear Dygma people.

Please make your keyboard work under the BIOS and Grub.

Thanks,
a happy-but-not-fully-happy customer.
Zelensky urges Biden, NATO to impose “no-fly zone” over Ukraine
To prevent showing the world how truly ignorant a person you are, like this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krHkjdnniDE

from an editor of the New York Times, and 'the most trusted named in journalism' Brian Williams, not to mention all the other people along the way in producing this piece who couldn't do basic math, that allowed this 'story' to make it onto the air without anyone sensing that it was off by a factor of about a million.
While this is nothing new (computer-in-a-keyboard was a common form factor in the 1980s), this device looks like a thinner Raspberry Pi 400. Hardly innovative or an advance in computing.
Something that could have been avoided if static linking was more popular, the drivers would have been designed differently.
It's likely automated, so they wanted to have some data to type (even if it's arbitrary such as this case) in for the automated tester to move forward.
Elon "funding secured / sued by the SEC" Musk was absolutely born into wealth. His father co-owned an Emerald mine in Zambia, he went to a private high school in Pretoria, and attended Universities in South Africa and Pennsylvania.

Further reading: "As a result of this, the teenage Elon Musk once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket. His father said: “We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe,”"

source: https://web.archive.org/web/20211215175402/https://www.indep...
“What one thing at work makes you a better person?” / Twitter
I think that is just called understanding the world.
That particular one you have to catch lucky. I stumbled across it in the University library, and it's basically an aggregator of the work of the biggest names in the Quality Management/Quality Assurance field. I.e. if you haven't run into those gentleman before and regularly hold the title of QA, you are missing out on the theory behind what you are doing.

Most text/theory in Quality Management lit focuses on industrial/manufacturing incarnations and there are some (the most tiring people on the planet) who insist somehow Software engineering is fundamentally different than manufacturing; it isn't. That's a myth disproven time and time again. The book will walk you through how the work of Quality Management permeates all layers of any number of different business verticals.

I scored mine in paperback used for a steal. It was awesome.

Long story short, it isn't. It's just easier because material expenditure tends to be lower, but this is compensated for in higher communication overhead when interfacing between teams.

The reasin they aren't in print, is since, as the name suggests, it is a reference book, they generally do not fly off the shelves like hot cakes, and are the kinds of texts you reach out for when you've basically exhausted everything you have and still have no idea what it is you are missing, and damnit, someone had to run into something like this before.

Remember, publishers are profit driven, and the practitioners in a field, (nevermind the subset that actually take into account the historical theory in their field) is not a numerous bunch.

Even for 230, I'd have bought it just to have the theory in my hands in a form I find more conducive to reference than otherwise.

I'd also caution against scoffing at out of print literature. We lose reams of expertise and old nuggets if wisdom that when cross referenced with newer material actually help build up a profound understanding of a field. I've not gotten one book I regret buying in terms of professional brush up, and it does more than you think to proof you against the great hype BS cycle that tech is so rife with. I can't count the number of times I've caught domething in tge bud as abother manifestation of a path already tread.

But you do you. Your style and mind probably works different than mine.
TSMC R&D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage
> When you buy a flight or a journey, you are actually buying a ticket. This used to be a paper ticket, but now it's electronic. But the actual process is the same as before, it's just an electronic implementation of the paper. The ticket is your proof to the airline that you paid an organisation it trusts for the flight. The airline will only distribute its unique ticket paper to travel agents it trusts.

Back a very long time ago, I worked for a company that had a lot of traveling employees. We were our own travel agent and had on-site all of the things a retail travel agent (at the time) had. As a junior sysadmin, I was responsible for the computer parts, specifically getting the ticket printing machine placed in a secure room--TWO keys and a reinforced door and door frame--and working with our telco vendor to get the dedicated circuit connected to the nearest Sabre Global Distribution System hub.

One day, the ticket printing machine experienced a fault and ran a whole stack of ticket paper through at high speed, shredding all of the blank ticket stock we had. Though it didn't look like it at the time, this wound up being an absolute nightmare. We could only get a certain amount of ticket stock at a time (since there were few digital controls, if I took a blank ticket and typed my own details onto it, free flight!...until someone matched up the audit number). We couldn't just ring up our sponsoring corporate travel agency and ask for more ticket stock because they had the same limitations on themselves.

I spent all weekend picking all of the pieces out of the machine and taping them back together to get the audit numbers off of enough (I think 90%) of the destroyed ticket stock, along with pictures of the shredded pile and of the inside of and nearby the machine. The pictures were developed at a K-Mart and the whole works sent off via FedEx first-AM overnight (the most expensive parcel I'd ever shipped, $135 at the time) to an address somewhere in Colorado. Three hours after delivery, I had a phone call saying our request for replacement ticket stock was granted and they sent a stack of ticket stock via hand-delivered courier who I had to meet at the nearby airport.

Fortunately we didn't need to issue any tickets for our employees to travel that weekend.
Another alternative I've seen recently is https://oku.club/
This is exactly why overbooking exists. Airlines expect that a certain percentage of their passengers won't make the flight, for whatever reason, so they sell a few extra tickets so the seats won't be empty.
You might already be aware of this, but the HL7 FHIR PlanDefinition resource type is specifically designed to support your use case.
Attack on Ukrainian Government Websites Linked to GRU Hackers
A “sober and calculating” person would never have entered into this conflict.

Putin seems to have an almost-religious perception of this situation. He views Ukraine as part of a “greater Russia”, and the post-Soviet reorganization that put Ukraine on a vector away from Russian influence as a great historical humiliation.

His comments about there being no point to a world without Russia in it (from 2018) and about the Russia/Ukraine split as an accident of history rather than a fact to be recognized (from last summer) are deeply disturbing.

Russia seems to be relatively weak in all dimensions but two: the ability to indiscriminately level a city and nuclear weapons.

Perilous times.
To me this feels like a call for more powerful language primitives. i.e. a way to specify some action to take to "set up" the child process that's more explicit and readable than one special behaving in a particularly odd way. I'm imagining closures with some kind of Rust-like move semantics, but not entirely sure.

(if we're speaking in terms of greenfield implementation of OS features)
I've been usimg the app for several years before Wikileaks tweeted about it, it's not like it came out of nowhere.

And the app is open-source, you can even compile it yourself.
fwiw "… nontrivial C programs will not compile as C++ code without modification."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C++
What helped me understand async await concept was to understand the concept of generators in javascript. One quick way to do it was to implement generator using ES5 javascript.

From generator then it was to see on how to implement async await using them. This was how 1.x version of koajs did (https://github.com/koajs/koa/blob/master/docs/migration.md).

Another way was to understand how polyfill for an implementation works. eg. https://github.com/facebook/regenerator
sad. i just noticed it's no longer open for lunch
m:n threads (aka green threads) https://twitter.com/joeerl/status/1010485913393254401
Hard to deny videos and pictures of destroyed russian equipment. Hard to deny the reality that they have not captured key cities. Impossible to deny how united the world stands against Russia.

Something that seems obvious, there's a major proxy war going on. Ukraine just happens to be the ground. This is why Russia is losing so badly.
You opt into inheriting specific contexts from the parent, instead of copying everything by default:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processth...
There is news Turkey is providing drones to Ukraine. Should this continue too long Ukraine may very quickly have the best armed military in the world.
This does not go back very far does it. Must have been a fair number of iconic games written by a single developer in the eight-bit era.

Lords Of Midnight by Mike Singleton springs to mind, as does Sandy White's astonishing Ant Attack.
That sounds insightful tho...
I love that game, though I only have been able to beat the Heart with the Defect
Goodreads lost all of my reviews
Or if you want to multiply by 15, multiply by ten, then add on half again.

So 34 times 15 is 340 plus half of 340, which is 170, so the answer is around 500 (actually 510).

But if you want 34 (specifically) times 15 there are other ways to go.

Or (34 times 15) is (17 times 30). Six times 16 is around 100, so three times 15 will be half that, or around 50. So 34 times 15 is around 500.

Or 34 is about 100/3, so multiply that by 15 is 100/3 times 15, which is 100 times 15/3, which is about 500.

Being good at mental arithmetic and estimation isn't about being able to do sums quickly and accurately, it's about being happy with rough calculations, retaining a sense of how accurate you are so you can fix it later (if necessary).
In addition to the sibling comment, some of my keycaps are blank. The LEDs let me group these by category: arrow keys, modifier keys, etc. When you’re playing around with the layout, figuring out what is best for you, this can be pretty useful.
I mean in the US, you have the CFAA and in France a quick Google search indicates the illegalities of doing something like this. I wouldn't be surprised to see the company go after you and to be questioned by law enforcement. Don't say no one warned you.
Of course, but the 4680 Y in Austin is being manufactured this year, possibly even right now. The cells aren't provided by this plant in Japan, they are currently being provided by Tesla's own equipment in CA.

I'm just guessing as to how they might use these cells that won't be produced in volume for at least two years. To me, new vehicles that haven't yet been announced are the most likely candidates. That could easily turn out to be wrong, of course.
This doesn't usually work in authoritarian countries with well functioning secret services. Economic situation in North Korea is much worse and I would not expect an uprising there.
yes, 20th does include most of the world population. Humans started out within 20 degrees of the equator for the vast majority of human history, and eventually fanned out, but it takes longer than a couple thousand years to make up for the loss in D3 synthesis.

edit: it could be 25th or 30th, i have a hard time finding a single paper amongst thousands, either way it includes 90% of the population of the US, regardless of what parallel.
You mean doing something like:

ngrok http 80 --oauth=google

That would be pretty cool.
I've found that many of the finer things in life, after a certain point of thing thing serving the purpose well, it's more about variety and taste than one is objectively better than the other. Will a $1000 guitar sound and feel way better than a $100 guitar? Absolutely. Will a $10,000 guitar sound and feel way better than that $1000 guitar? Probably not, more just different. Is a Bugatti Chiron "faster" than a Pagani Huayra ? Sure, in some regards, but they're entirely different cars made to do different things and feel very very different, despite both being "hypercars".

Art is subjective after a certain point of being well-crafted and well-executed. Most food is more or less for utility and much less for art. Fine dining is much more art than utility, just like so many other things in life.
Percentages are useful because they communicate scale without deep context. Who knows what we are talking about at all with regard to 0.0015? What units are we using? Most people don't have the context necessary to evaluate what it means that we started at 0.0015 foos and are now up to 0.002. But the percentage abstracts most of that away: on some metric we care about, this intervention increased the output by 33%. That immediately suggests the scale of the effect, without requiring anyone to walk out into the weeds.

Obviously this can and is constantly abused, but it is undeniably useful.
And/or competitive programing challenges and time yourself if that makes it more fun for you.
My experience with a Michelin star restaurant (Maydan, in DC) was “what I normally eat, but better”—much, much better. The menu items themselves were not exotic (hummus, beet purée, pickled vegetables, ribeye, chicken kabobs), but the execution and complex cascades of flavors were on a whole new level of reality. The prices/portions are generous as well (e.g. $10 for the best hummus you’ve ever tasted, $50 for a cut of ribeye that would cost $30 at Whole Foods).
Even if you don't speak Russian nor Ukranian use Google Translate and just wade though the available information, preferably original source info from the ground and not the media regurgitation. It is a work, yet your cynicism will get back to reasonable level.

Personally i can say that the Western media this time is pretty much on point. It doesn't mean that media has become better. It is just that their standard narrative of bad Russia has really matched and even got exceeded by the reality this time as Russia is actually waging (and losing by all the signs) criminal and completely unprovoked and unjustified war while the Ukrainians are really fighting it tooth an nail.

It is true that there have been issues with nationalism in Ukraine and treatment of Russians by them in the East Ukraine (the issues totally ignored by West). Unfortunately that war by Putin totally poisoned any effort to fight those issues, and made those nationalist forces one of the key forces in the current Ukrainian fight for freedom and independence, and thus totally unassailable for the foreseeable future after the coming Ukrainian glorious victory in this war.
That probably means that Ukrainian air force was defeated.
No user accounts, by design
A similar thing that drives me nuts is when people report quantities that only have interest as a flux over some time, like eg tax cuts or investment costs or whatever and they just report the dollars. Is the tax cut 1 trillion USD / year or decade or century? It isn’t just 1 trillion USD that is a meaningless statement. If we switch to AWS we save how much per month? Not just how much.