skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/n21/francis-spufford/ope... :

It was around this time that an encounter took place between two outlooks almost equally marginal to the spirit of the times in Britain. Arthur C. Clarke, by now a well-established science fiction writer as well as the author of the pioneering paper on satellite communications, had been growing increasingly irritated by the theological science fiction of C.S. Lewis, who saw space travel as a sinful attempt by fallen humanity to overstep its God-given place. In Reflections on the Psalms (1958), for example, Lewis had described it as learning ‘(which God forbid) to ... distribute upon new worlds the vomit of our own corruption’. Clarke contacted Lewis and they arranged to meet in the Eastgate Tavern, Oxford. Clarke brought Val Cleaver as his second; Lewis brought along Tolkien. They saw the world so differently that even argument was scarcely possible. Clarke and Cleaver could not see any darkness in technology, while Lewis and Tolkien could not see the ways in which a new tool genuinely transforms the possibilities of human awareness. For them, machines were at best a purely instrumental source of pipe tobacco and transport to the Bodleian. So what could they do? They all got pissed. ‘I’m sure you are very wicked people,’ said Lewis cheerfully as he staggered away, ‘but how dull it would be if everyone was good.’
I'm currently using a 5x12 keyboard as is. I think seeing it in a smaller form factor is wonderful.

One advantage to designs like this is the thumbs get to press more keys (2-3 each). I imagine that especially with such a small device, taking up a lot of space when the thumb is just going to press the spacebar in the same place anyway is a poor design choice.

Maybe with the smaller form factor, there'd be more benefit to 'splitting' the 10 alphabetical columns so they're each on the outer 5 columns, which would mean the hands have more spacing between them.
> It's good to exercise the "everything is down/recover from zero" path now and then.

Yes! The more often the better.

Over the years I've been at AWS, we've focused more and more on building systems with relatively small internal partitions ("cells"). There are several reasons for this---the most important being reducing the "blast radius" of outages. One often-overlooked reason is that building out of smaller independent units allows units small enough to be economically turned off and on at "full scale". You can't do that with a region-scale deployment of any big AWS service, but may be able to with a "cell".
How do we know the OP had any issues coming up with valuable and insightful comments? Tone can have an impact - being particularly rude is not likely to result in good outcomes (but maybe it could in some situations). Why aren't we exploring what was originally asked?
Americans are always pushing their luck too much and spending too much money. So many people driving <20 mpg 40-50k$ cars and trucks in this country.
Plus that time when he flew his Red Bull at Valencia. Definitely the F1 driver with the most air time... so maybe the idea of a car that is actively pushing into the ground (instead of passively with wings/diffusers) would appeal.
Do you enjoy holding your smartphone? Do you enjoy holding your smartphone up to you face to watch a video?

I don’t know if many people enjoy it, but I see people do it every day. Sometimes you can

And you know, if the watch is really that uncomfortable when you’re holding it up for watching TV, you can even take it off!

> It is interesting to see a very clever product idea that completely ignores human anatomy.

I guess you don’t use, for example, laptops?
Not to be too much of a pedant, but the Brabham BT46B's excuse that the majority of airflow was used for cooling did stand, which was why Lauda's one race win wasn't taken away. It was protests from other teams, Ecclestone's personal interests, and rule changes after the fact that meant it only raced that one race.
> It feels almost like a new primitive is being discovered.

That's a really nice way of putting it. The impact on the field of computer graphics is tough to predict, but ohh my am I excited.
referring to shepherds related to Bullock via bucula , and maybe the bugle horn
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/orthogonal

having no bearing on the matter at hand; independent of or
irrelevant to another thing or each other:

And you're welcome.
Materials we got from the NRA changed to.
Images themselves have very little correlation beyond a few pixels in any direction. We might think of them as complex because we are interpreting 3D objects, light and building a scene from our understanding of reality, but none of this actually exists in the image itself. Audio on the other hand has a very high degree of correlation across multiple time scales. There is tone and timbre and harmonic structure that is information on a very small time scale, then there is transients like percussive sounds that are slightly longer, then there is changing pitch that is on a longer time scale, then there are note envelopes, rhythmic phrases, bars of notes, and longer musical phrases. There is still a lot of interpretation done by your brain to build meaning from all this information, but there is much more actual physical correlation with phase and amplitude of physical waveforms evolving in time that has to be inferred by a neural net. Another way to think of this, is what happens when you take a 'snapshot' of music? If you freeze time and take a snapshot you can capture all the phases, amplitudes, and stochastic properties of the music for an instant, but you basically lose all meaning. Compared to an image, a snapshot can represent an entire story, not because there is actually anything significant recorded in any of the individual pixels, but because your brain is able to construct a story out of simple symbols and shapes. The lack of correlation lets machine learning algorithms use relatively simple operations like small 2D convolution filters and divide an image into small regions and still a neural net is able to infer a useful new image. I think it is much more difficult to break apart audio into small representative parts, then reassemble into something that would be aesthetically appealing.
Oh and the expensive education, lacking healthcare, insane home prices and zero social safety net.
Ask HN: How do you find out about new things? Trends, Tech, Fads and etc.?
It's quite a silly question, isn't it? The obvious answers would be friends, random discovery via social media "scrolling" and the "news."

But, as I look upon my foundation of what I do daily for discovery, it seems not all things are "new" but just "new to me" and then a total disconnection from what current trends, fads actually are.

So, HN, how do you do it?
Considering that emergency care and hospitalization aren't that common, and cannabis brings a number of reliefs and joys, some of us will gladly make that trade. Smoke cannabis from a joint every day, sure your lungs and systems will need extra care.
Not related to books/blogs/tweets, but if you are looking at space tech for 5-10 years from now, it might make sense to pay attention to 3D printing and anything around resource extraction robotics.

Exploiting offworld resources (like Trojan asteroids) will soon be possible with machines we can design, build, and test on Earth.
I imagine that eventually batteries could be recharged wirelessly, just by driving on certain patches of road, ala F-Zero. :)

We'll probably get there even for road vehicles in the next few decades.
> videos of ARMA 3 being used as war footage

I am genuinely disappointed in the public for falling for that.
That’s literally addressing only three words from my argument into a straw man caricature. Try the whole thing in good faith.
What I wondered looking at that chart of GDP over time.. is what is the point of using a measure made to measure the economies of the modern world, to measure completely different economies of the past.. of course its going to look flat and then take off.
Indeed. And it infiltrated gun culture completely.
Hell, a few weeks ago I was on a train in SF, and saw a family of five get on the train (definitely on their way to see a basketball game), and they didn't pay. If people who can afford 5 tickets to a Warriors game during the playoffs/finals/whatever it was won't spend $12.50 to get their family to the stadium (after they probably spent $75 to park their car), how can we expect homeless people to pay?

Enforcement is also nearly nonexistent, and I expect it's even more nonexistent since COVID started. In 12 years of riding transit in SF, I've only once witnessed a group of transit employees board a bus to check that everyone had paid. Anyone who rides transit frequently (and doesn't pay) is likely saving money even if they have to pay the vanishingly rare fine if they're caught.
In all likelihood, CCW-holders will be more likely to be robbed than the general populace, as they possess an item that is in very high demand for criminals, that has a high selling price, and that can be easily and quickly unloaded onto the black market. That's why most don't publicly announce their possession: it's not a deterrent but something that puts a target on your back.
You could have said the same about any laptop.

Do you enjoy a keyboard that ruins your hands and a screen that ruins your back?
I'm in the software business for over 20 years. Currently working as an architect, but still do a lot of coding daily. I believe I have a pretty good grasp on computer science concepts. Know several programming languages very well. Keep myself up to date with the latest trends.

I couldn't pass a technical interview. At some point in life I gave up. I realized the only way I can get a good job is via somebody in the company knowing me, ideally them reaching out to me to work for them. For the jobs, where I passed the technical interviews, I quit fairly quickly, as they were horrible jobs.

So when doing interviews myself, I just chat with them about the project we have and things they mentioned on their CV. You can easily detect if they are honest in their CV and their level of competence without actually asking too many technical questions, just by having them talk about the stuff on their CV.
> As mentioned in the quote introing this section, the Dwarves are explicitly described as mining coal in The Hobbit.

This is one of the key places where The Hobbit is unavoidably discontinuous with LOTR. Bilbo also has matches and a clock. Tolkien considered a larger revision of The Hobbit to bring it in line with LOTR but ended up only significantly reworking "Puzzles In The Dark", the chapter where Bilbo meets Gollum and obtains the ring. (Apparently the first edition also had a reference to tomatoes, which were replaced with pickles.) I don't think it's a strong basis for any arguments about the worldbuilding of Middle-earth.
They should have done a similar test on people during COVID and compared against their past result.
How quiet and convenient was the construction of that established neighborhood?
There's Round 1 in the Eastridge mall if you're looking for an arcade. It has a pretty decent selection of games according to ZIV: https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcade.php?id=2868#games
The MNT reform came way before the framework.

Note that the framework isn't completely open source, it runs an Intel CPU so it's by definition running a proprietary blob.

When it comes to MNT, this guy went as far as reverse engineering all SD card drivers, writing his own HID drivers, writing his own display drivers, implememting u-boot support for flashing the BIOS etc.

Look at his github profile, it's kind of insane how he never gives up. [1]

It's pretty serious in terms of being able to claim it's 100% open. I mean, even the batteries are standard ̶L̶i̶-̶I̶o̶n̶ 18650 LiFePO4 cells that can be replaced without soldering or anything. [2]

Whereas with the Framework it's basically "just get a new mainboard" the very same as Apple's laptops are "repaired" these days, which I think is a shame...and they could've gotten much much further if they really wanted to.

In terms of practicality though, it's always the RISC vs Intel debate. Different markets, different expectations.

[1] https://github.com/mntmn?tab=repositories&q=reform

[2] https://mntre.com/reform2/handbook/parts.html
It's brave now to deliberately choose to route infrastructure through neighborhoods that have minorities living in them?

I think with today's politicians it's more of an issue of credit. These projects take a very long time, piss off people until they're done, and there's a high chance a different politician will be in the office at that time and claim credit.
I’ve used a template for about 23y now:

“Instead of doing A here, let us instead use a B approach, otherwise there is a risk of C happening.”

And for shit: “This isn’t great because X. A refactor needs to take Y into consideration, which will result in Z-quality code.”

It’s all case by case, though, in reality. If I know someone we’ll, I might ask why they went with a certain style or a particular algorithm and just talk them through to grokking the error. If they’re somebody who is newer to the field, I usually point them towards a linter, especially if what I’m reviewing would’ve been flagged by said linter.
Open source 5G project’s that you can get your hands dirty with
Good collection of 5G projects
Why bother going outside when we literally have the whole world in our hands now?
All of the above are fine. If both parties know that the review is about the code and not the author then tone is more or less irrelevant.

I’d prefer something like this: “I think we should extract this logic/code/etc into a separate function for better testing, less code duplication, and better maintainability.”

You only have to say that a few times before you can use the short hand: “Extract this into a function.” because you stated reasons before.
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It's certainly impressive that you thought up this profound and fundamental flaw in their study in just a few minutes pondering this on the couch and after briefly skimming a summary article published in a pop-media publication ... yet the fleet of scientists and researchers didn't consider this, factor it in, describe their control processes to cater for this and other confounding effects etc, for a study that spanned many years.
Thank you! Added.
Notice that this guy used the lexical domain of religious belief. Not even trying to explain why, just "if you believe, come to my church".
How much does it cost to build a private 5G/LTE network in India
Super impressive. On a more obscure side, I for one would love to learn how the Fanatec APM - Advanced Paddle Module - is used in the car.

These magnetic carbon shifters feel great in my simrig; it's interesting how they are to be seen in this monster of an EV!
When I saw the equation for labor factor of

LaborSupply x LaborProductivity / CostOfCoal

I couldn't help but think of modern robotics and industrial automation as

LaborSupply x LaborProductivity / CostOfSoftware

Given the extreme cost of software development, and the diminishing cost of labor due to globalization - it's no wonder we don't have robots everywhere. It will be curious if the current wage spike leads to increased automation.
Except we have nothing to sell you.
Someone mentally unstable yelling at me is not a worry, it's not their fault. I had misunderstood the statement to mean that eye contact was enough to warrant a physical confrontation with violence. I agree with you yelling and such doesn't necessitate a gun.
I had to be that troll: (But the tech seems good, good work!)

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For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

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I've never heard of an effective alternative to Leetcode though.

We're engineers.

If you don't like something, make something better.

Take home projects and how many marbles in a jar are extraordinarily worse than traversing a binary tree.

I suspect that any interviewing practice will always being in detractors. It's a process of culling, those culled will dislike it.
Then create another one, and share that one. It's not like there is a limit of how many GitHub accounts you can have.
No. This was not a problem. The ukrainian central bank and ministry of defense both had official announcements and publicly posted account numbers for swift/iban transfers to accept private international donations. These were setup and directly collecting funds within days. They raised millions of dollars, directly to operational accounts, in short order.

You are tilting at a windmill.
Refer my response to parent.

Specifically to your most recent point, however, I'd observe that if treatment diagnosis is delayed as long as possible to avoid the stigma, that would put back treatment diagnosis for both groups, so it's hardly a compelling distinction there.

Anyway, I'd expect people with dementia at the time of their flu shot would have been assessed by the caregiver, and they would probably have been taken to the clinic by a family or friend anyway.

The compelling anecdote of your gran notwithstanding, of course.
The other alternative is soullessness via standardized tests. Why? Isn’t it better for people to hire people?
And I thought IP law in the states was bad.
A 1 bedroom apartment I live in near work is about 3k/month with utilities. I don’t do the super expensive car with a huge payment thing but put those two together and you’re halfway there. Throw in some expensive vacations (gotta fly business internationally can’t be a peasant) and you’ll make decent headway.

Or maybe you are a dog owner so you rent a house so your dog has room. It’s fairly easy to do in a high cost of living area just to feel “middle class”

Music festivals and Vegas trips are also a great way to set small piles of cash on fire.
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If punctures were a concern, you could seal the inner tamper-evident, vacuum-sealed bag in a second, outer bag (with more rice and beans or perhaps colored styrofoam peanuts if you wanted).

This process could be repeated as many times as you wanted, adding extra layers until the desired level of protection was achieved.

Another approach would be to encase the tamper-evident packaging in wood or metal before putting it in a shipping container.
> What do you think should happen if there are multiple foreign keys connecting the two tables?

Compilation should fail and require you to explicitly specify what key to use. Please don’t do anything magic.
What do you make of reporting that claims a virus almost identical to COVID19 was previously identified and studied at the Wuhan lab as early as 2012?

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

> Since the middle of last year, Li's postgraduate thesis has been circulated online as purported evidence that a coronavirus very similar to SARS-CoV-2 could have been infecting humans as early as 2012.

> Some also believe the paper provides circumstantial evidence for broader allegations that WIV had captured, studied and conducted "gain of function" experiments on viruses found in the mine, including RaTG13.

> First identified in 2016, RaTG13 shares 96.2% of its genome with SARS-CoV-2, according to a paper released by Shi and other researchers early in February 2020, just weeks after the first COVID-19 cases had been identified in Wuhan.
Interesting read. This caught my attention:

> Middle Earth is framed, explicitly, as an account of the history of our world. That is, the world of the Lord of the Rings is one and the same as our world, just at a very different point in its history. Thus, while Middle Earth may possess resources that we do not, such as Mithril, unless the resources of our world were deposited later, they must have been available to the people of Middle Earth.

I think this is a common mistake when analyzing Tolkien's work. His universe isn't meant to be the history of Earth, it's supposed to be an origin myth of England. With all the caveats that go with similar origin myths. To quote the letter that prefaces The Silmarillion:

> I was from early days grieved by the poverty of my own beloved country: it had no stories of its own (bound up with its tongue and soil), not of the quality that I sought, and found (as an ingredient) in legends of other lands.

Why hasn't the world of LoTR had an industrial revolution? Well for the same reason Troy didn't. Because if it did, it wouldn't be an origin myth. It's no more reasonable to discount the worldbuilding of Tolkien for incongruences with history than it is to discount the "worldbuilding" of Homer.
I didn’t downvote, but I don’t believe your chosen definition is widely accepted. Further, many elite soldiers will say that they rarely would put their weapons in full auto in a fire fight. I’m certainly not one of them and can’t speak to it, but I’ll take their word their semi-auto rifles are plenty lethal.
This old game explores industrialized fantasy as well:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_and_M...
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Barring court packing.
Instruments transform possibilities insofar as they required a transformation of possibilities and a transformation of the mind to come about. And the profit with which they do so determines their worth.
I just wonder why he doesn't have army-flattening magic? Why does he draw his sword so much? Talking to eagles is cool, but lifting and catapulting boulders would be much more effective at defeating orcs and whatnot.
> You even said it yourself, you want to work with people that you like and that you get along with.

And you.. don't?

> Unless there's data that backs your choices vs the ones that you rejected, all you're doing is reinforcing particular stereotypes in your company and in the software industry.

I've gotten plenty of training that makes it extremely clear that discrimination based on protected classes is unacceptable in all contexts, especially interviews.

At some point, you have to trust your team to build your team. Not everything can be blindly metrics driven.

You're hiring humans to work with other humans.
I still have quite a collection of Sharp Zauruses (Zaurii?) in a box somewhere.

It's so hard to believe how badly Intel fucked that up, first omitting floating point altogether when they replaced StrongARM w/XScale, then selling it off to Marvell just when mobile was becoming interesting. I digress...
Maybe as a child, but as a grown ass adult? Don't be ridiculous.
Just wait til companies start using this as part of their background checks of employees.
Yeah I’m not trying to say it’s better or anything, I’m just so unfamiliar with environments where going out of bounds isn’t an immediate failure.
Pretty sure that's most capital cities in europe. E.g. London, Rome
Yes. And I'm a huge Black Sabbath fan so that lined up super nicely :P