skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, I also started with programming using Klik&Play when I was around 9! I only had the free shareware version, and if I recall correctly, it was not possible to use custom variables or if/then/else constructs in the free version. You had to be creative to somehow store the game state using only the position of objects, and then using collisions to decide on an action. Since you could spawn objects at arbitrary locations, you could use this to do primitive geometrical if/then/else branching. I also remember that you could generate a single exe file which you could give to your friends. I created so many DynaBlaster clones and other Jump&Run games.

A while later I accidentally stumbled over the BASIC interpreter of DOS and was amazed how easy everything was there - you could just store a number in a variable and directly do stuff depending on its value!

For anyone interested, here is a (bad quality) video from the 90ies explaining the software on Windows 3.1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUTpumYboDs
https://adf.ninja

I just wanted to show something if people tried to access my domain, that's it.
Yes, in modern warfare. But it used to be somewhat more true in the time before modern firearms, when battles were fought in close order formations. Even now, a company in many militaries seems like the smallest unit that's somehow "self-contained" or capable of independent operation and logistics in a way neither a platoon or a battalion does.

It's probably also not entirely a coincidence that a lot of military fiction seems to focus on a company or a company-sized unit.
That's the most ridiculous bubble valley thing I read in a while, coming from a non-k8s using non-FAANG-employed European.

Which isn't meant dismissive of the problem at hand, I can totally see how it's happening and how it might be bad for the people involved in the project.

To phrase it differently - if the project is dying because it hinges on people working on a promotion that gives them a /bigger paycheck increase than my yearly income/ - well, good riddance. I'm staying on my side of the fence and continue to not buy a new Tesla every year.
What I mean is an annotation tool that interacts with the model itself in such a way that it will present to the user exactly those training examples next that will have the greatest impact in helping the model learn. So an annotation tool that provides a user interface for annotating data quickly (with keyboard shortcuts etc.). And looped into inference through the model to be trained, so you always get presented with the very training example that, out of the ones available, the model currently would be most unsure about.
I dont think there are any broad foundational results, nor do I think there is a social science possible.

Social systems are chaotic, and extremely multi-casual, and extremely uncontrollable (in the sense of being able to isolate one cause). Under these conditions there is no scientific method. Anything called a science is just a ritualized imitation.

The world does not owe us it being intelligible to us; the success of science in being able to engineer trinkets has fooled us for the past 300 years -- the vast majority of the whole of reality is unknowable -- as in, there is no method which could produce a theory of it (in the strong sense).

I think apparently quantitative or "theoretical" results from social sciences are more like curios which could inspire some speculative designs for social institutions. They arent theories (as in science) by which we can engineer institutions.

Treating anything in social science as more than some ancient form of zoology, that is, some local observations jotted down by an aristocrat -- is a recipe for disaster. Outside the physics lab, the entire world is an infinite zoo with no grand discernable patterns.
It might have just caught me in a sour mood.
Well, this is the cutest thing ever.
> Japanese is no more closely related to Chinese than Chinese is to Swedish.

That's not true, reading Chinese gives a huge leg up when reading Japanese because of the kanjis (especially if you come from a place that use the traditional characters instead of the stupidly simplified ones). Additionally quite a few words come from Chinese, granted, the pronunciation is very different, it's often closer to Cantonese pronunciation rather than Mandarin pronunciation but it helps with learning new vocabulary.
good news. Beeware are one set of tools I've been waiting to try forever (build iOs/Android Guis with Python? Sign me up!).

But comments here warned me the tools were not stable and production ready.

It would be nice to see them finally reach production level.
You seem confused. Popular narrative is not driven by scientist, it's driven by saber rattling morons who will crucify anyone that speaks against them.

For example, what the scientific community understood about efficacy of masks, and how utterly useless cloth masks are, disappeared overnight with covid. Perhaps your memory is failing you but I can recall people being chastised for even suggesting they might be useless. And don't even bother trying to spin some bullshit about it's better than nothing. Attaching a cloth to your face and exposing it to warm/wet air all day is a great way to start a personal mold culture you can breathe in later. And before you try to say "well you should wash them after each use", how many people do you think actually do that?

And if you wanna get real spicy, let's talk about the "science" behind transgenderism. Discovered by your favorite tumblr user, and beaten into pop culture by the woke mob.
According to the input hypothesis of language acquisition, the ability to speak is a function of how much we've already heard/read/taken in, and understood. If you're someone who enjoys reading, and you find that parsing weird syntax comes easy to you, then you're all set for learning a language with something like the refold method[1]. You just gotta put in the possibly staggering amount of hours that it takes.

[1] https://www.refold.la
A traditional magnetic compass can be confused by metal (ferrous) objects in the vicinity. Do you have a way of reading just what the phone's compass is saying, as opposed to the output of some software that uses all available information? If you do it would be interesting to check how well the compass works when the phone is in a car and attached as it would be when used for navigation.
No I don't see how to implement QM as a computer program while preserving basic complexity invariants of Turing machines. That is the point of quantum computing: that the complexity classes for quantum computers are different than those for Turing machines. If you take the view that that the whole Universe is one gigantic entangled quantum state, the cellular automaton simulation would get pretty bogged down.
The secret to the Darigold plastic/paper dichotomy may be in the expiration dates. At least for the 1% product, the half-gallon cardboard cartons tend to expire at least one month, sometimes two, later than the plastic jugs sitting next to them. Not hard to imagine how milk that's been sitting around in a plastic jug for an extra month or two will taste worse.
Yes, to be clear, I want this to work! I just need to figure out how to make it play nice with ancient Safari.
You can put your PHP site into a single phar (PHP Archive) file if it is important to get that single file effect.
One could argue that Musk's achievements are nagative net sum to human race.

Better car? With all this money and influence personalities like that could shape for much better future - livable, walkable cities, public transport, social guarantees.

Private cars in private tunnels for the rich? Is this what we call "achievement"? "There will be no traffic jams in LA because I will be riging my car in private tunnel"?

Rocket's are super cool. Then again a lot of people would argue that instead of aiming for the Mars we should aim to fix Eath's problems - climate, pollution etc.

Depending on how you look, Musk is actually who accomplished far far less. Just made the world better for individualist rich men not much more. Growing up rich and just spending inherited money on expensive stuff might be better for the human race in the end.
That is my current workaround but my hub's cable is really suffering from it.
Yoyo: PHP framework to build interactive PHP apps with minimal JavaScript
"Get a win, then get another win."

Not OP but I interpret “win” in this context to mean something more like “success” and not strictly about winning or beating someone else.

It’s certainly a turn of phrase that I’ve heard used in that context a fair amount.
I just never really liked the taste of alcohol, so I figured why bother? Alcohol isn't good for me and if I don't actually enjoy it, there's not much point. If the waiter brings a complimentary glass of champagne in a restaurant or something I might have a sip or two just to try it, but that's about it.
That's how the west is behaving but that would go against Putin's interests. He would be slaughtering his proverbial golden goose. It would be more appropriate to think that he is monopolizing fossil fuels in Ukraine and benefiting from higher oil prices during the chaos.
Keep on trucking and like someone else said find pleasure in the process. Deadlines are arbitrary and most of the time meaningless.
I don't attack the vaccines as a useful tool in many cases, but the way in that they are/were marketed and mandated and the way in that sceptics are/were treated, as well as the way in that concerns about adverse reactions are treated.

> That’s because the vaccines did a great job of preventing infection for a good year or so until newer variants came in. Protection against infection with two doses of the mRNA vaccine has dropped from something like >90% in the original trials to <50% with the newest variants.

But wasn't that to be expected, because viruses mutate? It was surely mentioned by many when it started, but that did not stop the discrimination.

> First, the spike protein produced from mRNA vaccines is not a pathogen.

If it is not the spike protein, then what is most likely causing post-mRNA myocarditis?

> Second, mRNA vaccines do not reproduce or replicate.

That's not what I claimed, but that even after 8 weeks new spike protein can be produced. If spike protein is likely to cause myocarditis and potentially other adverse reactions and spike protein is still produced 8 weeks after injection, then delayed reactions seem reasonable. Public claims were that spike protein only gets produced for a very short amount of time, while there were never actual numbers. Because nobody knew, I guess.
I've gone no javascript for mine, focused on load time

Can be found at either:

http://csi.lk/ or https://xn--g5hx212o.ml/ ([emoji beard].ml)
I don't have this problem. I feel like I've achieved loads. I just don't see the point of any of it and it doesn't make me happy. I've spent my life working hard and now I can look forward to my body and mind deteriorating in a world with not a soul who cares about me.
You are of course correct. And to straighten another record, it was specifically cape gooseberries I used (they're not called either here), which might be relevant to your future comparisons.
Not sure I understand - it seems to me that your first two paragraphs contradict each other (and the second (pessimistic) one is correct, not the first).
In my opinion just keep trying and try to bring up the age topic early just to confirm that the company is really open about hiring him if he meets all other qualifications. At least you can eliminate those companies early on and not waste your time.

He basically is part of a minority group and being discriminated against. Search for companies that already hire from minority groups and are vocal about that. I think it would improve his chances.
LOL great catch! Assume you're referring to this:

"One of our code refactors introduced a bug which flipped the sign of the reward. Flipping the reward would usually produce incoherent text, but the same bug also flipped the sign of the KL penalty. The result was a model which optimized for negative sentiment while preserving natural language. Since our instructions told humans to give very low ratings to continuations with sexually explicit text, the model quickly learned to output only content of this form."

Yeah, for measures that are subsetting out only the nice data, "flipping the sign" would be picking the other subset. So something like "data_to_train_on = (good_data_split, evil_data_split)[accidental_one_based_index_because_humans_still_cant_agree_on_how_to_count]"
> get into crypto (building projects not speculation)

Are there crypto projects that actually justify using crypto and not fiat + database, and aren't total scams/Ponzis?
> There were also a lot of helpful PSAs like the 3C model [0] and comparing the potential aerosol spread of the virus to cigarette smoke (when you would smell the smoker - he could also infect you with the virus)

Early on when people were still often forgetting to stay farther away from strangers I seriously considered switching to doing my grocery shopping between my morning workout and my morning shower to discourage people from getting too close.

I did switch to doing my grocery shopping early in the morning and it turned out there were so few people shopping then that it was easy to avoid them, except sometimes at checkout when the person behind me in line might stand too close.

That was easy to deal with by simply standing in front of my shopping cart when in line instead of behind it. That way I could decide how close to stand to the person in front of me, and the person behind me had to at least stay a shopping cart's length back.
> (All of these are examples of very senior promos at my own FAANG company).

you have your own FAANG company? remember always that "your" company will drop you in a moment.
People don’t like to step over drug users in the doorway
I'd hope someone hires him.

He probably doesn't have the skills for a traditional translating job, just as the average bilingual person hasn't. There are jobs for "unskilled" translators, not sure how much and in what contexts. Not sure if there is a job description out there for "hyper-polyglot genius". Niche-skill at best, unfortunately.

Maybe as a tester for multilingual software?
I managed to read the first two paragraphs before being quite certain the rest would be a waste of time.

As far as I can tell (not a psychiatrist), this individual is suffering from mental illness and could benefit greatly from cognitive behavioural therapy.

I hope he gets better soon.
You must be at least 'this' privileged to succeed. However there are a lot of people that are at least that privileged and most don't "succeed" either. And among that cohort predicting their chance of success cannot be done by simply looking at their relative level of privilege.

Also I feel like you just moved the goal for success. Getting 1 round of VC funding for your startup and getting your startup into the Fortune 500 or two wildly different levels of success.

If we're defining success as "1 round of VC funding for your startup" then, yes, I will happily concede the 'privilege' plays a much larger role.
Wow! ok .. https://petergarner.net

A semi-constantly evolving site, mainly tech, but also stuff for when you need a break from IT...
https://klntsky.dev/

Nothing fancy, just links and CV.
> Calling him delusional or a fraud is Wittengtein’s Ruler in action: It says far more about you than it does about him.

Do you think it's impossible for him to be a skilled mathematician and delusional?

Do you think smart, successful business owners are incapable of committing fraud?

The interminable negative reactions to anything Wolfram does are boring, but the counter-impulse to "he's done good math, so this can't be a fraud" is outright dangerous.

> But vilifying him for wanting to create a research institute is absurd.

I think many noted plagiarists trying to open a research institute would get a similar response.
Well this blog article is crackpot science. It doesn't matter that Wolfram created Mathematica or that he was a good scientist before. There are many examples of good scientists, even Nobel prizes, that became crackpot scientists.

Science simply doesn't work like that.
Sounds like they will just be publishing their results and tools for free under a permissive license. I can't see very much wrong with that.
https://willhackett.com

Links on a page, essentially. I'm really bad at this.
Troops consuming 5000 calories a day seems reasonable for walking (and occasionally running) across Europe with a pack and a gun.
https://andersource.dev
>What's external and what's internal? Where do your desires come from? Your hopes? Some people think they are the masters of their mind, that what they feel come from them, but what about the influence of their parents, their friends, the movies they watch, the books they read, advertising, music, social media?

How about thinking about it with common sense, as opposed to trying to find some perfect rational answer that squares the circle?

There will always be external influences, but we still call most of them "internal" if they gently shaped who we are, as opposed to us chasing after them like junkies and getting overwhelmed by propaganda (ads, unattenable images of success/body/status in the media, unhealthy peer pressure, and so on), or beating us to submission to them (e.g. like parents insisting on instilling their own youthful dreams or desires of becoming X or Y to a kid).

Especially if we mostly care for the trappings (being Elon Musk rich, and having Elon Musk lifestyle), and not the process (making stuff).
RuAssets – a service for checking links with Russian and Belarusian assets
Unlike a lot of SEO ranking factors this one is actually one that not only benefits SEO efforts but also the actual user as it values the right things that also aid accessibility in the process.

- Faster loading times

- Less shifting of the layout while the website is loading

- Better behavior for users with slow connections
< Exercise will make you happy, but only while you're doing it. Getting a raise will make you happy, but only for a short time period after that raise. "Having" a relationship won't make you that happy, but the process of building the relationship is highly enjoyable.

Hey, thank you for crystallising such a fundamental and valuable piece of wisdom so neatly.
winamp is missing the "nullsoft" easter egg
"within" means values which you can hold against those of your immediate local environment; "external" means being driven by your immediate local environment.

As in, if you chase situations in which your local environment is full of applause, then you're only going to be satisfied when you're in those environments. If you chase situations in which you are, eg., finish some project in some area of interest, then you can be satisfied with "resources more your own".
>The problem with many people today, is that their only measure of success is whether they are a success in the eyes of others, often strangers or people they don't even care about.

I think the real problem is the pool of people they can compare themselves to is so much larger. No matter what your interests, vocation or career it's easy to find someone on social media who appears to be an order of magnitude better than you are.
https://marcolabarile.me

Trying to find a new theme for my website or improve the current theme. Any ideas?
Also discussed here two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30915923
> A full-time employer pays for their employee's health care, it doesn't matter if it comes out of taxes or not.

The difference is that in countries with universal healthcare, everyone who works, companies, etc, pay for everyone's healthcare - an unmitigated social good that many in (say) America wish the US would learn from.
https://jfelisaz.eu

Nothing fancy, just a static page with CV. But writing a crude org mode -> HTML generator in AWK was fun
> The culture and dynamics around scientific and academic programming is different from both FOSS and commercial software. This needs to be taken into account.

I'm currently teaching modern scientific Python programming, if that's a thing.

You raise an excellent point, the software development life cycle is quite different in academia. Do you have resources in mind on that topic?

I was thinking of dividing academic code in 3 "Ps":

- Playground: throw-away scripts for data analysis, fast moving code where any rigidity slows the process. Internal use by a single researcher usually.

- Prototype: code that serves as a foundation to the above, or is reused frequently, but is otherwise not shared outside a research group.

- Product: code, often open source, that is shared with the community.

Most tutorial about "good coding practices" do not make distinctions between these three stages.

For Python, there are practices that work at any level: auto-formatting code and sorting imports, gradual typing. But things like tests, API documentation, dependency management only apply to steps 2 and/or 3.
I dropped such worries when I was 25 and started working for a startup, the founders of which were roughly my age for the most part(only the CEO was 34, which happens to be approximately my age at the moment). Eventually they built a successful company employing hundreds of people.

Since then I started measuring my success by comparing to my past self - I think it's healthier that way.

I've also found that it's a lot like breathing - you need to, ahem, "exhale" from time to time - take up a less ambitious role just so that you can focus on other aspects of life.
Roughly 2000 words are enough for a basic level. Because some of these languages are related, their vocabulary and grammatical patterns overlap.

You are underestimating the capability of some people to memorize certain information. Sometimes it is called "eidetic" memory. The best chess players just don't forget any chess position they ever see. Similar reports in music. Most of them are useless when memorizing any other form of "data". The carpet cleaner in question probably has that facility for words, phonemes and grammar. He just doesn't forget that stuff.
Some few articles on reinforcement learning with all the code and theory explaination: https://antonai.blog/
Isn't the whole point of venture capital that VCs also make poor judges of which companies will be successful? Remember the fact that most VC companies fail, and the unicorns pay for them. How is that different?
Remove malloc from your libc and catch this entire family of problems at link time.
I love things like this. Reminds me of the old FlyakiteOSX site or Gooey.
I think the missing link is going from a real world application to a practical teaching problem. A topic that motivates an audience would also depend on the audience.

Trying to think of a good example reminds me of a puzzle game; and how sometimes the contrived puzzles in such games can be obtuse or phrased poorly because they really don't want to give away the answer.

The example should start with an unsolvable problem, then simplify aspects to make it more of an estimation model; which is a useful skill as well.
I ask the equivalent DS question in a lot of my interviews.

Generally people tell me about the hot new XGBoost model they fitted, and I ask them how much better it was than logistic regression.

9/10 they don't have a good answer.

That being said, my favourite answer was from a candidate who told me that Kaggle contestants didn't use log reg, and therefore it was a bad choice.

Oddly enough, we didn't hire that candidate.

OTOH, I've worked at places where they wouldn't hire you if you didn't talk about your awesome neural networks/XGboost experience, so it really depends on the interviewer.