skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This situation sounds quite similar to me. In my mid 30s now and the COVID pandemic has pretty much killed off the social life I used to have. A group of us moved from the UK to Canada about the same time 10 years ago and for a few years we used to do everything together. We'd be that big group at a restaurant on a Friday night, ordering cocktails and sat there for 3+ hours that everyone else rolls their eyes at. Someone would always be up for doing something at the weekend and no one was ever really alone. Today that group chat has gone cold. The last text message was from about Dec 2019. No one wants to do anything anymore, some have got married, some have had kids, some have bought that cabin up in the sticks and spend weekends there.

I go to the movies alone now. Instead of going to restaurants with a group I now sit alone in McDonald's or maybe a ramen bar if I'm feeling fancy. I'm a loner, I'm not really interested in romantic relationships, I might get a dog one of these days but the time isn't right at the moment. Do I feel sad? Not really. I've kind of resigned myself to this realization that this is the way it's going to be. This is my life . It's lonely socially and I don't have a huge number of friends left, but I'm super busy at work. I'm in (and actively leading) teams calls from 9am to 6pm, monday-friday, literally non stop. I get home exhausted.

My solution to all of this - VR. My oculus quest headset provides me with a great outlet on those fairly rare occasions I feel sand and lonely and need to reach out. I can play poker with a table full of people often with exciting and colourful lives of their own. I can watch a movie with a theatre full of people making witty or insightful comments at just the right time. I can play 1 on 1 mini golf with a stranger and have some deep interesting chats for an hour or so.

For me this is enough.
I suggest some people group together to simultaneously order the repairkit / battery replacement to figure out how many of these self repair sets exist. I would not be suprised if it was only 10 to 20ish.

On another note, legislation with the intent to advance the right to repair needs to be carfully worded like when the devil grants you a wish: You want your phone battery to be user replacable? Yes, wish granted. Oh and also not accessable without a 1200$ deposit and authorization. Enjoy your hell.
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There is nothing sickening about people liking aesthetic keyboards.
Here's my objection to putting it this way, especially the hyperbolic 110% thing.

With one exception, every split key you can buy or make right now is a product of the mechanical keyboard community's enthusiasm. I'm referring to the Kinesis Advantage of course, which is a wonderful device but not my choice.

So yeah, there's a whole subsection in the hobby which makes like 30 key hello-kitty-themed clickbait (look maybe someone actually uses the really minimalist layouts but I roll to doubt), and I don't begrudge them at all, because it's the same hobby that develops things like the Dactyl Manuform, which is going to be my next keyboard some time after I get my filament printer set up in my new home.

In other words, if you think sourcing split mechanical keyboards is hard now, you should have tried to do it before the mechanical keyboard hobby invented them.
In case you aren't aware of the background of the author: He went to Stanford and was President of Y Combinator at the time he wrote this.

If you feel as though you could feed a bunch of VC advice into a database and have your ML algorithm generate something similar to this post, you're right. If you don't subscribe to the philosophy that success coincides with doing things that make VCs richer (with a small chance of benefits for yourself too) there's not much in there for you.
Fair enough, however I’m not making a point about the origin of the behaviour, but how the behaviour manifests. Cultural behaviour can change very rapidly, and propagate through a population in significantly less than a generation, whereas instinctive behaviour takes many, many generations to develop and propagate. It’s not reasonable to equate the way they develop and propagate as being the same simply because they are both behaviour, and anyone who suggests they can clearly isn’t a credible source on the subject.
I got access last month to the closed beta and it's indeed still very Barebones and buggy on Marcos. Although, they seem to be pretty active on the bug tracker, I think it will take some serious time before its ready.
Fun fact: If you believe in the Everett interpretation of QM (Also called Many World), there may be one "world" for each of us where we become thousands of years old.
I would guess comments are more insightful when the topic being discussed is less niche.
Please show me the light, any more examples of how to use the GPU for more generic problems? I'd love to play around with it.

THanks!
I don't know if it would be usual to call these "dead" here that was just the obvious word for them to me, as someone with relatively little crossword ability and I didn't ask an expert. I lack whatever spark it is allows several of my friends to do cryptics with great success, in Private Eye for example once it enters my mind that somehow the answer might be the slightly childish "BOOBS" it might take me days to realise "BOSOM" fits the clue much better and aha, now I can solve an adjacent clue because that fourth letter is an O not a B...
Also hinges on the assumption that Elon Musk is someone that one should aspire to emulate.
It's the standard pool/index tradeoff : instead of storing an array of possibly-duplicate objects, you simply store all unique objects once in a pool and store the array as an array of references into that pool.

You win if the original array of duplicate objects was so long or so duplicated that replacing it with references into the pool is a worthwhile reduction. The objectSize/indexSize ratio also plays some role.
Humans are pretty good understanding texts with missing letters. I guess that if it considers also the context it would be possible to predict better the destroyed words.

But basically, we would be storing the missing information in the decoder, not in the data (which is not bad idea, considering that most most languages are used more than once). If we also only modify the letters that can be recovered successfully...

And also, this would not contradict the pigeonhole principle. Some words would be impossible to store, like a text full of typos. It would require escaping the word somehow, producing documents longer than the original.
Yeah, anyone saying that you shouldn’t think about money when making perhaps the single largest expenditure in your life* probably doesn’t have your best interests in mind.

* admittedly, a lot of people buy homes that cost more. Still probably in the top 5.
What is your definition of a startup? You can find a well maintained list of tech cooperatives from all over the world at https://github.com/hng/tech-coops.
You can buy a starter kit, plenty of them. It's double the price but if you starting with rpi it's necessary.
> Self-belief alone is not sufficient

Self-belief can also be a problem when it turns into overconfidence. See Pinky and the Brain.
Why are people using "building" while all they do is merely assembling?
I've been skirting this rabbit hole for a good while now, since even though I do electronics building my own keyboard seems excessive and I do like (and prefer) laptop keyboards.

I am, however, quite interested in low-profile, split Bluetooth keyboards with minimal layouts (like the Ferris - https://github.com/pierrechevalier83/ferris and the Sweep - https://github.com/davidphilipbarr/Sweep), and keep hoping someone manufactures one and slims it down to Apple specs...
What’s your full tech stack and OS, and how much swap/pagefile do you have? My personal Windows machine has 8 GiB, and it’s quite easy to fill it up by just running Firefox (with far too many tabs) and WSL, let alone an IDE.
50 buyins is pretty reasonable for an average (which means losing because of the rake) player for a year. You can plug in the numbers into one of the poker variance calculators. At 1 hour per day (60 hands), 10 BB/100 rake, NLHE 6-max cash games only, you get the 95% confidence interval of -5150 BB to 770 BB after 1 year.
Great answer, do you have a resource(tutorial)/code to share?
(note that I assume I have the full dictiotnnary)
Thank you for perfectly encapsulating a large part of why municipalities can't get anything done for a reasonable price these days.

There's a lot of "copy paste engineering" that anyone with a little care can do with an acceptable success rate but we prevent them from doing "because liability". So then we go engage the services of an engineering firm which does the copy paste, makes the client sign some boilerplate that disclaims most of the liability anyway and charges a lot of money for the privilege.
Both skills are important.

A shape rotator that can't convince won't scale.

A wordcel that doesn't understand complexity, is just hot air.
Just wait for it, specially if we really get into WW III with nukes.
A reflex motion of a head by temporal pressure for wearable interface [PDF]
this is what I've been expecting when clicking on this submission
This is very wholesome. I hope you were able to conserve and protect some of that thinking.
You can also use numpy to use stdev, and i would argue thay in most contexts where you need to compute stdev you are also likely to use other numpy and scicpy features
The traditional remapping for esc is pressing alt, because the alt key sends the escape key in terminals.

Being able to fiddle with your keyboard layout is part of the fun of mechanicals, I happen to have this remapped at the OS level, because even on a laptop keyboard (yes I have a physical escape key) it's more convenient 90% of the time to press left Alt than the reach my pinky all the way up into Esc land.
The funny thing is that entrepreneurship doesn't even have to require dropping out of school. A three month summer break is easily enough time to start digging into a niche and validating the market. It probably won't get to sustainability, but by the end of a summer of focus you may at least know if there is something there worth pursuing. A better investment of time than backpacking across Europe.
I laughed at this fragment:

"Making the berries more affordable was “the whole purpose” of expanding operations and focusing on efficiencies, Oishii co-founder and CEO Hiroki Koga said."

More affordable? Rather "less expensive". Affordable they are not.
Poker or Chess, please make your kids actively participate in something. This will help them to avoid as much passive consumption as possible.
> Engineers balance cost, safety, traffic flow

And they generally don't wanna talk about it because lord knows a subset of the public throws a fit once you start trying to draw a line in the safety sand.
It is dictionary compression: https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Data_Compression/Dictionary_...
Some bureaucrat probably decided that too large a proportion of people wouldn't understand that you're supposed to yield to the traffic in the roundabout (and that a yield sign would somehow be insufficient) hence the creation of a "dual purpose roundabout and fishing stop pretext/revenue generator".
The prevalence of human sacrifice throughout history baffles me. I know it's just my cultural heritage to see humans as unique individuals with brains full of original ideas, but it still shocks me every time I hear it that someone would willingly, without being threatened, extinguish a human life.
It will be interesting to see what happens to YCombinator and other unicorn-focused VC in the era where tons of money is no longer printed and pumped into stocks every year. In the past decade, lots of VC's profits came from faux-unicorn piramid schemes such as Uber, and there's a good chance it won't be possible to pull off the same trick in the coming years.
The War on Economics
Sounds similar to: https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy

https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2540

> The modern data compression is mainly based on two approaches to entropy coding: Huffman (HC) and arithmetic/range coding (AC). The former is much faster, but approximates probabilities with powers of 2, usually leading to relatively low compression rates. The latter uses nearly exact probabilities - easily approaching theoretical compression rate limit (Shannon entropy), but at cost of much larger computational cost.
Asymmetric numeral systems (ANS) is a new approach to accurate entropy coding, which allows to end this trade-off between speed and rate: the recent implementation [1] provides about 50% faster decoding than HC for 256 size alphabet, with compression rate similar to provided by AC. This advantage is due to being simpler than AC: using single natural number as the state, instead of two to represent a range. Beside simplifying renormalization, it allows to put the entire behavior for given probability distribution into a relatively small table: defining entropy coding automaton. The memory cost of such table for 256 size alphabet is a few kilobytes. There is a large freedom while choosing a specific table - using pseudorandom number generator initialized with cryptographic key for this purpose allows to simultaneously encrypt the data.
This article also introduces and discusses many other variants of this new entropy coding approach, which can provide direct alternatives for standard AC, for large alphabet range coding, or for approximated quasi arithmetic coding.

Check out his other papers / the github project (looked super interesting and similar).
The fancy deep learning poker bots that beat pros don’t even consider past opponent behavior.
> "In 2005, at age 19,[9] Altman co-founded and became CEO of Loopt,[10] a location-based social networking mobile application. After raising more than $30M in venture capital, Loopt was shut down in 2012 after failing to get traction. It was acquired by the Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million."

What a great success...create tons of hype, run the company into the ground and offload overpriced equity onto a bigger fool. The American dream.

No wonder he likes Musk so much. It's basically the same modus operandi.

Title suggestion for next blog-post:

"How to fail upwards" also

"How to play poker with chips payed for with teachers pensions funds"
I wonder how often that happens.

Could you elaborate on why you increased your dose? Was there a loss of effectiveness?
Hardly. But I am endorsing our product by putting my personal email on it and I think that's a pretty big endorsement.
Spoken like a true helicopter parent.

This kind of thing was huge in the Chinese community when I was growing up. Every child played chess, was taking violin or piano lessons, was a member of the debate club, was vying for a place on the student council, was in AP classes, was being driven to so many extracurricular activities (chosen by their parents of course), and was downright MISERABLE. One even committed suicide.

Meanwhile the rest of us would go out to wherever we wanted (by bike usually), do whatever we wanted, came home by dinner, and had a wonderful childhood.
sorry that solve for Niece made no sense. Why pick the letter E? am I daft or is it more of a function of practice on these?
in that case that would require something like a traffic light with a button for the rare pedestrians.

or, of course, a complete reversal of the car-centrism of the last century, but this quick fix was probably not in the toolbox of that particular bureau.
> array: everyone uses numpy for the same purposes

It still is used in situations where numpy doesn't fit (serialization of data, etc)

Agree with shlex and glob

> statistics: should be handled by scipy

It was just added. I guess for people who want to import numpy to calculate the mean of an array? (please don't do this - you don't need to do this)

getopt is a needed evil and I think requests uses a lot of builtin stuff

Python does deprecate some modules once in a while
So now you switched from "the guy who (used to) take your ID on a cross-border night train might have been an imposter" to "when I am on a train I am not constantly under survellaince by a controller".

Your fantasy scenario conveniently omits the part where on a night train where you have booked a special compartment with beds and you are crossing borders you can put up a uniform, access the locked wagon-lits cars of the trains, get my passport, get back to the rest of the train, change back, drop off at the next station.

(Hint: the cars with bed compartments are separated by the ones with seats, you access these by showing the tickets to the same uniformed guy who would get your passports and wake you up later, and also night trains do not stop anywhere for hours - stops at the border are as short as possible, and passengers are not allowed to leave the train: for wagon lits the controller will take care of the passports, while people in the normal cars will be checked by the police)

The whole point of taking your passports at the start is to save you being wakened by the border police, so you can sleep for the whole trip.

And for the same reason, wagon lits are locked so that regular passengers cannot get there and disturb you, or try to evade police at the border.
It might seem to be to simple, but don’t underestimate the power of boredom and curiosity. The new player won’t know what you’ve been folding the whole time and will have had nothing else to do but call a sudden change in behavior to see what you have, or fold and keep the pattern going.

One player (beginner) wants to have fun (maybe not overtly, but this is usually the case), the other wants to make money.
Some stores in Finland have them. But you might be correct: Looks like the stores in Finland have stock left but seem to have difficulties ordering more. The demand must be so low, that they're still only slowly running out of the stock they have.
> I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter.

I'm not rich. I've done important stuff, that has almost certainly saved lives, and is being used daily, by thousands, around the world. I'll never get much credit for it, and never made a dime (in fact, it cost me thousands, out of my own pocket).

I have to work on projects for no pay, because folks don't think my skills are worth paying for.

I feel that I am quite successful.
Re leveraging UTF-8 for encoding text to be visually small: if you have your conflict-free hash as a binary number, you could do this fairly easily by making an 'empty' UTF8 char of the right length and replacing all the data bits with your hash, and it would be converted to a potentially invalid, but still transmissible, character for you (if you have to make the characters valid, you may need a lookup table to jump over these)

> My proposed scheme enable to have N * 255 * 255 1 byte characters. With a constant cost per string of 1 byte. This seems revolutionary.

The main issue in this context would be limitations in encoding enough languages - there are too many characters (144k in unicode) to encode in 256 code pages (16k max). Additionally, frequently switching code pages (for example swapping back to ascii to use Latin chars / numbers) would incur a large cost on the size of the string

Also note that some of the 'earlier' unicode symbols that don't fit into ascii are in 2 bytes as well, it's not just 1/3/4!
It seems extremely easy to detect this problem and pop-up an annoying, ugly but dismissible warning.
Your comment is written like a logic puzzle rather than as prose that’s meant to make sense. Well, at least the start of it is, which can be enough to persuade someone to stop reading an move on
Serious question which language doesn't have this 'escape hatch'?
AFAIK even Haskell has unsafePerformIO to allow this..
> A better investment of time than backpacking across Europe.

For some definition of “better”. I’d personally go with backpacking at this stage of my life and what I currently value.
Jetson: The Nvidia Raspberry Pi
> What surprised me the most about growing my own fruits and vegetables in my back yard is that many of the cultivars for standard things like tomatoes, strawberries, etc. are bred to survive transport at the expense of flavor.

I might be in a bubble, but I would have thought this to have been common knowledge for ages?

I got gut feeling that it is even bit outdated info at this point, and the trend is swinging back towards improving flavor instead of so solely focused on yields and transportability (etc).
hah "diverse" views

truth doesn't exist right?
I would recommend osquery as a free/open source substitute that may be deployed relatively easy and allow you to gather plenty of high quality telemetry. I've success story with it deployed to medium-sized company (20k workstations, 3k servers).

Keep in mind that you will need to implement monitoring based on data produced by EDR and corresponding incident handling. This is more difficult than paying for software and deploying it to your assets.
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Eddy Merckx :)
And in the spirit of OP's article, what do you think makes you successful?

What differentiates you from other people who are not successful?
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> Earlier this year I wrote about HCI as the intersection of technical
craft and social sciences. Interestingly the responses I got from
people in the HCI field was the inverse of the sentiment in this
article (...) I got pushback on that too.

Some things seem defined not just by intersection but by exclusion.
I've experienced both sides. As a computer scientist working in arts
and music, I find the "computer music" field builds on a strong
affinity. Technology and arts form a natural positive bond, although
one meets the occasional purist who only hand-carves their own
medieval flutes. It's a fusion intersection to which one can never
bring too much humanities nor science. I don't feel out of place
discussing philosophy and matrix multiplication in the same breath.

As I matured my interests post 2013 changed focus to digital rights
and cybersecurity. It seems to me this area is currently defined by
antagonism. It is a human-computer design field, yet is a chasm
between human values and rigid thinking where people and systems
clash.

In computer music, what is at stake is mostly joy. In cybersecurity
what is at stake is power. As in any struggle the technocrats just
wanna "hit them harder with more". More cryptography. More
lockdown. More central authority. The actual utility, or god forbid
'pleasure' of computing be damned.

But there is another movement emerging in cybersecurity, to which I am
affiliated. "Computing in the public interest", or "humanistic
computing", whatever you want to call it, where technical concerns are
fused on an equal basis with rights, freedoms and responsibilities.

Existing dead centre of that exclusion means getting push-back from
both sides. But, to be honest I take that as confirmation that the
work is fresh, valid, and essential.
it seems that these painted ones act as real ones

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

(so what I'm trying to say - even though I'm a complete layman - is that from the "personal injury" aspect every painted crosswalk is a real one)