skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do people manage to read modern science with a straight face? Is there anything more scientific - verifiable and reproducible - than our ancestral family tree relying on meats and saturated fats to live?
Your answer is a correct description of what you actually should do, but unfortunately, interviewing is a signaling game.

There’s a lot of people out there who are smart and can perform well in an interview, but aren’t do-ers. They don’t make things happen. You don’t want to give off any vibes that you are that kind of person if you are interviewing for a fast-moving company.

I believe Amazon calls it “bias for action”.
Yes this seems very worthwhile to try. It seems like a research topic to me.
For a long time archeology was simply known as “digging” and following that “digging for things”
Parent was talking about 42% tax rate, so taxes only. Yes you get deducted more for social services, health insurance, pensions and unemployment insurance push this up to 46% going to the government services when you earn 100k.
I read a quote somewhere - “If you want to make a perfect robot, have it experience your programming as their own choice “
It's considered prestigious by other engineers. Outside engineering, not so much.

At one point in my career I moved from a technical presales role to SRE. The engineers congratulated me on the promotion, while the sales people all thought it was a demotion. (And in terms of career progression it probably was.)
I don't use Spotify at all so not sure your point. I've listen to google play, amazon music, random guy on YouTube,
random busker on the street.

I hazard that more people are making money from music than ever before, maybe not mainstream but it's there.
Climate change in action, only going to get worse.
Not only that, there were some x86-based (but not PC-BIOS) devices running Android out of the box.
Something that worked for me: playing low volume noise on a stereo in the bedroom. Even barely audible noise would suppress the beeps and drone of my tinnitus.
Unfortunately the vast majority of the recommendations are completely irrelevant and useless. In theory it's a great idea, but I gave up on the site a long time ago
I loved this story but take issue with the framing. Dishonest reinvention of oneself is not a modern phenomena; my gut feeling is that this was a common occurrence. You have classic fictional books about the premise (IE the Count of Monte Cristo) which at least makes it sound like people used to feel the idea was plausible.

Rather, it strikes me that the ability to determine the lies is the real story here.

30 years ago, who would have questioned this, how would they have investigated this, and who would have paid the long distance bills for phone calls abroad?
Interesting. I get these scotomas about every 6 months or so, usually lasting for 30 or so minutes. I was told they were called "ocular migraines", and a cursory glance over the internet doesn't seem to help me differentiate between the two, although I will say that [0] is a very accurate depiction of how it looks when it happens to me.

I normally just take a break from whatever I'm doing and go for a walk. The first time it ever happened to me was the first day of a literature class--that was an awkward event, explaining to my teacher that I couldn't read at the moment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scintillating_scotoma.gif
Azure seems to be shaping up to be a security joke, there's been a concerning number of cross-account exploits in the last couple of years.

AWS isn't perfect, but you really don't see many exploits on this scale. What is Microsoft doing wrong here?
Recently the fed has been buying corporate debt etfs[1]. Not an expert, but I assume that must increase the money supply in the general economy? QE also pushes down the interest rate, making it easier for banks to lend to the general public.

I think QE usually doesn't lead to inflation if your employment drops at the same time or your population size is shrinking (i.e. Japan). In such a situation consumer demand decreases, balancing out the additional money supply. As evidence of this notice how QE in the US did not lead to high inflation until employment started picking up.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/the-fed-s-corporate-bond-portfo...
> Eventually, they would get frustrated

the trolls! That's genius!
I didn’t know about that channel but now I’m hooked. Thanks for the tip!
Peter Drucker was influential mid-20th century and I still hear MBAs talk about his work. He wrote in the 1950s-1970s about the importance of the customer, the value of decentralisation rather than command and control, managers as influencers of company culture, etc. Standard management guru stuff now, but novel at the time.

Of course it’s difficult to know how much management change was due to him. E.g. I’ve seen claims that he influenced the re-building of Japanese industry after World War 2, but I don’t know if it’s true.

The British Library has interesting pages about Drucker and other people they describe as “management thinkers”: https://www.bl.uk/business-and-management/management-thinker...
India has been happily buying discount fossil fuels from Russia. Foot, meet gun
Asahi includes a UEFI-only implementation, so running Windows 11 under that is already quite possible at least in principle.
It’s worth remembering that Spring Boot didn’t exist for the first nineteen years we used Java.
> and if she is his yevama he has not acquired her in this manner.

This is whether or not the rape makes the woman his, yes? And the word is unfamiliar to me, but I believe "his yevama" here means that if the woman is his widowed, childless sister-in-law, that this act of rape "doesn't count" for consummating the marriage which was a custom.

But, if the woman is not his yevema, he "acquires" her? It's not clear to me, but since the scholars and the blog post strive to avoid discussing what is actually described here, it's hard for me to say.

I didn't decide on "acquires" for the translation, but it seems you'll talk about anything except what this passage literally describes.
No. Imported wine is quite often cheaper than domestic ones in the US.

Also, you want to compare the quality of products and you can not base yourself on Walmart for that. The average American eats horribly compared to the European counterpart.
I think this is very contextual. I sometimes find a minute or two calls to resolve matters more efficient when accompanied by a mail right afterwards. Rather than going back and forth on a mail itself. Of course, at other times, when topic is nuanced, mail back and forth becomes a necessity.
https://social.network.europa.eu/system/site_uploads/files/0...

A little bit transparent huh?
I've read some of his advices before. He does not pretend to be the original author.

Everybody is free to find something useful in that list, or not.

I did have some use of his advices. While I've read this year's list and the lists for the years before, I was meditating about the advices. Thinking if they will work and if so, in what context they will work.

This isn't the first list of the advices I've read.

Why do I think that it might be valuable? Because this man verified these in his long life. It's not a quick list compiled using Google to make an SEO optimized article.

Most of the bits aren't very profound and they can occure to anyone with common sense and a bit of experience. But while any of us can think of them, we generally don't occupy our minds with philosophy of life. And even if we do, and come up with something useful, chances are we don't act on it.

So, reading something useful, and thinking on it, might give us a chance to act on it when we find ourselves in that situation. Instead of acting impulsively and subconsciously, we can take a few seconds, think and maybe remind what KK said and try that.
I love building websites the old-fashioned way: with Jekyll.

But I also love styling them with a bit modern approach: Tailwind CSS.

So I posted a guide on how to make those two work together.
ClojureRS – Clojure interpreter implemented in Rust
Ever since I learned that the frequency ratio between adjacent keys on a piano is always a constant twelfth root of 2 regardless of whether you're going black-white or white-white, I've been sort of frustrated with the way pianos are designed. Transposing a song to a different key could have been effortless if keys were structured differently, such as with uniformly alternating white and black keys, rather than the 2 black 3 black groups we have now. By optimizing pianos for C major / A minor, we've made everything else so much more difficult. And no other instrument does this afaik. String instruments don't obscure the constant ratios at all, so it's easier to transpose songs on them.

I suspect someone may reply to this with "it'd be harder to keep track of what notes you're on if keys were uniform like that", but I don't think we actually rely on feeling the keys to know where we are. Would be willing to be proven wrong on that. But I suspect simply coloring/shading each fifth and octave differently should do the job, maybe also texturing them differently for the blind.
According to what I've read, MPEG LA would also charge the some fees for "free software". It makes me wonder if e.g. ffmpeg would adopt VVC would they have to pay for it? https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Art...
> the woman wouldn't have much to lose by contradicting her rapist's account of falling off a roof

Hello there, interesting that you say that. What's it like in a different universe where women have always been able to safely point out an abuser?
https://materialize.com/about/

Seems like they could’ve used that instead (plus a Kafka connector) and benefited from a lot of deep research into how to do this optimally
> What we call “free will” consists of a multitude of forces we have no control over.

What is "we" in this context?
> Youth participation in sports, especially full contact sports, had been going down since before covid

Do you have a source for this? From what I could find, participation has been roughly flat for the last ~20 years.

https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-10/National_Yout...
See, a friend of mine suggested having some illustrations to go with the concepts to glue them in the mind of the reader. And since I have no artistic skills, I had to get them commissioned.

Since I grew up with Italian Disney comic books, an anthropomorphic yak sounded perfect, so I turned to a friend for suggestions on artists, and eventually contacted FurryViza (https://twitter.com/FurryViza).

I just gave her a prompt of what I had in mind and let her take it from there. I'm absolutely stunned by how it turned out!
Intro Data Science :

Introduction to statistical learning from Hastie, et all. Generously hosted for free by the authors here.

https://www.statlearning.com/
Yeah, why care for the poor population even when Europe is busy buying oil for itself. It’s not like per capita consumption of the west is 10x or greater.
> I hoped to learn a couple good RL algorithms and then never have to actually learn the concrete details of optimization

I think that you can use optimization without having to learn anything about its algorithms (learning the basics is always advised of course, but that takes nowhere near as much effort). Nowadays, an off-the-shelf black-box solver will perform better than a custom implementation in most cases: what you lose in fine-tuning is more than compensated by the implementation quality and the sheer number of algorithms available.

> best resources for branching out from RL to more classical control and optimization

It depends on your problem. For general unstructured (nonconvex continuous) optimization, like the OP, you can use NLopt's documentation as a pragmatic starting point [1].

Optimal control is a whole different thing though, and you may have to start with some academic papers/books. I have been recommended this one [2], but I have not read it.

[1] https://nlopt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[2] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4471-0967-9
I like these projects very much haha
What amazes me is the London ExCeL centre which can host huge events of tens of thousands of people but the connections don’t seem to be that overloaded, with Crossrail no doubt even less so.

Though sporting events still overwhelm the system albeit for an hour or so.
You should probably try to figure out what sort of programming problem would interest him. That will narrow the field because the libraries needed are not available for all languages or hardware.

Is he interested in making websites, games, AI, embedded control of robots (drones, vacuum cleaners, etc).

Without a goal in mind learning about programming, for most people, is a sterile exercise.
What would our world today look like if the Romans had not won but lost the Punic [1] Wars? Christianity likely still had happend and so our current world might not be all that different…

Any and all new information that can be gleaned from finds like these about the ancient Canaanites that once influenced our Celtic, Iberian, Germanic and Roman ancestors is interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_Wars
But why are you defecating nonstop on HN?
Slow progress of hacker news turning into 9gag
An electric guitarist usually has a pedalboard that they use to make different guitar tones. Let's approach this like an electrical engineer might.

Time is a straight arrow: call it t.

The guitarist plays, and their guitar pickup records a signal. At any time t, measure the value of this signal's waveform: call it x.

That signal can go into a pedal that maps each value to create an output signal. Call it f(x, t).

The pedal is a linear system when it satisfies f(x1 + x2, t) = f(x1, t) + f(x2, t). In English, you can blend two guitar signals going into a single linear pedal, and it will sound the same as if you used a separate pedal for each guitar.

The pedal is a time-invariant system when it satisfies f(x, t1) = f(x, t2). In English, a time-invariant pedal does not warble over time.

The magic happens when a system is both linear and time-invariant. These systems are so special, we call them "LTI" for short. Feed an LTI system a single, really loud, POP! Something like a clap, or a gunshot. Record the sound of this gunshot, and call it "impulse_response.wav". This file characterizes EVERYTHING about the system. If you know how the system responds to an impulse, you will know how the system responds to any other sound. All you have to do is convolve the sound with the impulse response, i.e. use the contents of impulse_response.wav as a set of weights and pass the sound through it.

The echoes you hear when you speak in a large room is a real-world example of an LTI system. People will go to a cathedral, an open field, or a large tunnel, set up a microphone, and fire a blank pistol. They can go home, convolve the sound of their guitar or voice or whatever with the impulse response, and it will sound exactly like they're in that space! There are whole communities of people making and sharing impulse responses out there, and I just think it's the coolest thing ever.

For any guitarists reading this, I'll bring this back to the pedalboard. Another cool thing about LTI systems is that when you chain multiple of them together, the order does not matter. Reverb, delay, EQ, and wah are all LTI effects. If you've ever wondered why pedal ordering sometimes matters and sometimes doesn't, this is why.
Well, India is a pretty big place, so I'm sure there are some nice smelling places out of the way here and there. But yeah I bet some of the cities smell about as unpleasant as any other city under a heat wave.
First find a small problem that you would like to solve then search for a programming solution.
>no, the bit about having no money was a response to a claim that the advice was 'actionable' and i pointed out a situation where in believed it was not actionable dute to practical financial constraints

The advice is not about giving 1 USD. The advice is to giving something back in return. It does not have to be money. A thank you, applause, a hat off, a flower or a heartly smile will do.
There are Greek and Roman ruins in Russia.
I am a victim of the religion of self-optimization and productivity for the sake of productivity myself, but in the end you do not have to optimize yourself at all. If you and your family have enough to eat, you are fine. If you are procrastinating something, you can also just decide to not do it. Just live, you are fine.
It is revolting to me that people are replying to me with "let's not get too hasty, what if the woman wanted him to fall from the roof and become 'inserted' into her."
Remote work isn't ruined, first of all.

The power of remote work is unlocked by working asynchronously with many folks at a time, each of whom can choose for themselves when to focus and when to interact. This is lost on people who insist on using Zoom et al to simulate the synchronous in-person experience.

Blocking "focus time" space on your calendar is the best way to push back on Zoom culture, and is both rational and easy to defend the business value of.

I ask the engineers on my team to aim for two full days a week of focus time (Tue and Thu seems to be working) and at least one 3 hour block on each of the remaining days (in whatever part of the day overlaps least with the rest of the team timezone-wise). We miss this for incidents or voluntary hacking together, but n for required/ritual meetings.

Also, I guess I took the clickbait, but stop it: extroverts as a category didn't do any purposeful harm to introverts as a category, and certainly didn't ruin anything for them. Play to your strengths and GLHF!
Our eyes are wired up to detect a limited spectrum of wavelengths. Although those wavelengths correspond to a color, not all colors correspond to a wavelength. That’s why OP stated that color is a brain phenomenon.
Men are most often victims of violence generally including murder as well.

You wouldn't get that impression reading the news.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_men
I would have thought that the air system in Crossrail would be far more capable, they’re aware of the issue, and have a clean slate to build on.

The platforms have doors, ostensibly this allows trains to enter stations faster, but also would keep out break dust from getting onto the platforms, as well as reducing suicides (a grim feature of commuting in the run up to Christmas)
The older I've gotten, the less I find the introvert/extrovert deliniation useful. It's a characterization that brings a ton of assumptions to it, especially when employed in a Myers-Briggs-like fashion like this article is. A better headline would be "Did people who don't like remote work ruin remote work for the rest of us?" But that's practically a tautology. When you step away from that, this article is really just a rant about meeting culture.

Different companies have different ways of getting things done to build concensus, and some are more compatible with remote work than others. The fact that you see so many different ways of doing things implies that they're all valid and relatively efficient. That's why most large companies that went remote during the pandemic are returning to their old ways. Two years isn't enough time to shift that culture.
People do buy wooden pellets and logs for domestic heating.

And on the other hand, of fixed infrastructure (pipeline) distribution: how much does one pay in the bill for infrastructural costs (maintenance, administration etc.) and how much for the combustion material itself? The infrastructural costs can be an important component of the total - sometimes overwhelming.

So: you really need the numbers to crunch a balance - energy does not reach your heat exchange terminals for free anyway.
Cain’s book is a good read and introversion is definitely a thing. It isn’t an in indicator of anti-social behaviour though and nor is it an excuse for it.

This article however is not about that.
The Era of ‘The Car You Own Forever’ Is Coming to an End
In statistics, the mean and median are both averages, but are technically quite different. The mean is the sum of all items divided by the number of them, while the median is the middle item in the sorted list. When they are different, this can have strange effects. For example, when estimating engineering tasks, the mean error is often positive while the median is often negative.

This is why your manager believes that engineers are too conservative and always pad estimates, while projects are always late. Indeed, they can learn both these things from observation without realising that they are contradictory. Because humans learn by the most common observation, which is represented by the median, but outcomes can be dominated by the less common, which affect the mean but hardly affect the median.
That’s assuming you charge consumption taxes equally. If you exempt basic items it evens up far more.

I don’t pay consumption taxes in the U.K. on food, rent or public transport, that’s the majority of expenses.

My neighbour does pay them on eating out at a restaurant, a kitchen refurbishment, and a new mercedes
Some electromagnetic frequencies are colors, but not all colors are electromagnetic frequencies. That’s why parent stated that color is a brain phenomenon.
Python for its expressiveness and "learning" "how" to code.

OCaml for the functional language close to writing math expression and be able to do a lot of other things
C or C++ for memory management and close to baremetal.

Basically see different paradigm, their tradeoffs.
For JSON pretty printing I generally use jq (`cat foo.json | jq`). It highlights and indents the output, and it's easy to add a filter.
Go Concurrency Exercises
Perhaps the solution for those stuck in the Tube at rush hour is to petition their employer to vary the hours so that the peak is wider an not so high.
It's terrible. It's called "littering". And you're modelling it for them as "adult behavior".

No. No.
Ordering a typical printed circuit board with components placed on it is so cheap nowadays that this is a viable option for electeonic hobbyists nowadays (e.g. just ordered 50 pieces of audio output amplifiers at 3,49 € per piece (customs and shipping included), where 1.60 € would be the parts cost of the two chips on it.

Only thing you need for this is:

1. An idea and some knowledge about electronics

2. An EDA software where you design the schematic and the PCB (Horizon EDA, KiCAD, Eagle, ...). This software will give you the Gerber files needed to manufacture the PCBs and the BOM (Bill of Materials) and a Pick-and-Place file which is basically just a CSV telling the manufacturer which part goes where and in which orientation.

3. Using the BOM you find corresponding parts the manufacturer has and put create a CSV that matches their format requirements

4. You order (e.g. I ordered at jcbpcb)

The electronics knowledge is the hardest part.
sudo means “I sweat” in Italian.
You are perfectly right.

As soon as I had seen the misleading title about "metal jaws", I was going to make the same comment.

Unfortunately, this kind of stupid title about "metal" body parts appears periodically in popular science publications, whenever the topic is about animals which use skeleton reinforcing minerals that happen to use manganese, iron, copper or zinc ions, instead of the (more commonly encountered in skeleton minerals) ions of calcium, silicon, strontium or barium.

There are a few bacteria which are able to reduce some metallic ions to the corresponding metal (e.g. silver ions to metallic silver), with the purpose of precipitating the metal ions from the water and thus avoiding the toxic effect of those metallic ions.

However, there are no known living beings, except humans, which are able to build useful structures using metals.