skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m 40 and in the same boat but also moved overseas and travel a lot. I think that kind of forces you into not losing the ability to make new friends through your life.
Theoretically, sure. I wouldn't realistically rely in that even in the EU.
Check out The Impostor's Handbook: 2-parts on various CS concepts in human-readable language.

Also, I'd look into modern practices around the tech stack / programming language of your choice: code linters, debug tools, static analysis tools, refactoring tools, various command line tools, build/packagement tools, etc.

Also familiarize yourself with the CI/CD tools/approaches in your field.

Lastly, find one or more opensource projects with decent QA practices and start contributing to get into the habit of following prescribed tools, code standards, automated testing, etc.

Good luck.
fake it until you make it...to prison.
Is he trying to say like 'Nobody. See? No one in this company can write real code.'?
Invest them in a low cost global index fund and forget about them.

That's the simplest and best answer you can find.
It just replaces one scalper with another. Why the heck do you want to allow TM to double scalp you with fees just to give a ticket to your friend or family?
I'm not eager, but I do think it's inevitable.

That said, there are some images I wish I'd never seen.

If I could be sure it was only being used for good (by my definition of the word), that would make me eager to install a magical perfect opaque filter algorithm.

But it won't be perfect, and it won't only be used for what I consider to be good.
"The Truffle Hunters" is a very sweet film, worth watching even if you are not a truffle addict.
It's a common term in mathematics and when talking about field theories.
I noticed that, quite often, unclear or poor communication was the result of habits and unchallenged assumptions about others !
I know this is old now, but there are two possible answers here:

1. If you mean, "the market will not in fact go to the stock price that I think is correct in a time window that anyone can remain solvent for and perhaps ever," then what you are saying is you believe the EMH.

2. If you are instead saying that you are a small fish and big fish could play this scheme successfully, absorbing relatively small fluctuations, then, I mean, go pitch Jane Street in your brilliant approach of "look at the financials." (Obviously, you won't get anywhere because, spoiler warning, they already do this, and it's priced in).
Too bad it almost never works correctly. Even now it says I have no Internet while I do and can access those txt files.

I used thousadands of Windows machines in last decade, this is typical. You can ignore this "feature" almost entirelly.

If you introduce proxy in your system, then you can be certain that it will not work, including Windows updates. You have to masssage your system with net commands and learn about WinHTTP
proxy (that nobody heard about) sfor it to sometimes work.

To deal with this and other nuisances I made 2 functions in PowerShell:

Update-Proxy
https://github.com/majkinetor/posh/blob/master/MM_Network/Up...

Update-CLIProxy
https://github.com/majkinetor/posh/blob/master/MM_Network/Up...
Finding examples of the work produced is ridiculously difficult.
Elon Musk has convinced himself he has great "instincts", and he is likely surrounded by yesmen who constantly affirm this for him. So he does whatever his instincts tell him to do.
What's Kenya like for infrastructure development compared to regional neighbors? Seems always that Kenya is miles ahead of other countries in that part of Africa on almost every metric?
What do you mean by proper gears? Automatics have the same gears.
It did get to that and in many cases she sent fake and inaccurate results to people receiving these blood tests.
Note that most modern palettes are designed with various forms of color blindness in mind. For that purpose, they artificially restrict the range of colors, which in turn reduces the visual information they can carry for the vast majority of people who have normal color vision.

I'd be super interested to see a study that examines how color blindness-aware design affects people without color blindness. Such design often completely avoids red hues, which are of huge importance as visual cues to normally sighted people. It's hard to imagine this doesn't have a negative impact somehow, yet I've never seen this discussed anywhere.
>The 4D metric of the Universe is not close to flat (or Minkowski, which is the closest thing you'll get to Euclidean in Relativity)

It is. See the source provided above. Technically the ΛCDM universe follows the FLRW metric, but if you look at its line element, you'll see it's usually just Minkowski in spherical coordinates times a scale factor (capturing the expansion) for spacelike coordinates:

ds^2 = -dt^2 + a(t)^2 dΣ^2.

Note that a scale factor that affects all spacial coordinates the same does not induce curvature. The generalised form of the FLRW metric includes a 1/(1-k) factor for the radial coordinate, but the curvature k for our actual universe is measured to be 0 within experimental precision, which, again, is a mystery. There's no good reason why a universe containing matter/energy should be globally flat (*cough* inflation). Factor out a(t) in a line integral and you'll get comoving distances over more or less euclidean space, i.e. the common format in cosmology literature. Things like luminosity distances are more interesting when you e.g. want to know the absolute magnitude of a far away object, but that doesn't really make sense for the CMB.

>Probably the most widely used distance measure, from Earth's perspective, is redshift.

Redshift is used to measure these distances sans any reasonable alternatives. But when you want to make e.g. a map, you can't use redshift (or proper distance for that matter), unless you want your map to be distorted.
Yes, I don't believe a concrete computer can "simulate" anything in the relevant sense, let alone a human brain.

Computer, as defined abstractly, is just any abstract function from {0,1}^N->{0,1}^M.

Any realisation of that, eg., by providing each {0,1} as an electrical switch, realises physical properties associated with electrical switches only.

The reason that electrical computers are useful has vastly more to do with the electrical part than the computer part. The "computational properties" of the electrical devices we call computers are relatively trivial.

But in any case, no system in virute of being an implementation of a discete function thereby acquires physical properties. A woodern "comptuer" is useless precisely because you can't play video games on it.

Likewise, even if the brain can be described by a discrete function -- (which is so implausible as to be a bit mad and certainly purely an act of faith) -- then it still requires the relevant physical properties to implement. These properties are extremely unlikely to be those of electrical switches.

The "computational work" done by biochemical signalling alone should probably be regarded as "infinite", saying much about the limitations of discrete conceptions of information.
Cloudflare has played a major part in making VPNs suck, by providing a service that actively blacklists VPN IPs and selling companies on integrating the VPN blocker into their services.

It's probably true that some VPNs are used for nefarious stuff, but it's also lame that Cloudflare is such an anti-privacy warrior.
Because infinity is a mathematical trick, to say where something is going but it is not calculable (it is not a number in itself)
[Mathematical truth as a social construct]

> Yeah, that is how it feels like nowadays,

It's always been that way. (Again, I really recommend the book[1] ). And it's hard to see how it could be otherwise.

(Also depends a little about what exact mathematical truth we are talking about and whether you are a Platonist or Constructionist)

That doesn't imply what either the recent proponents or the critics seem to think. It does not at all imply arbitrariness or that anything goes.

> however the truth is bound in a narrow set of assumptions.

Yes, it is. Again, something being a social construct does not make it a free-for-all. More the opposite, because the constraints are socially enforced.

> And while there is an epistemologic level to reality, you would dismiss reality entirely by calling it a social construct.

Mathematics ≠ Reality. Science is about reality, but scientific truth is also a social construct (see Popper), and highly constrained by reality (ibid).

[1] https://www.amazon.de/Mathematical-Experience-Phillip-J-Davi...
By 'party line' you surely mean that old-fashioned rule where business owners are praised for not destroying their business willy-nilly?
I too feel that cover bands nail the vibe of the original. I live in a metro, but I've had a hard time figuring out when and where cover bands play. Some bands don't even have a website.

How do you find out when a cover band of your favorite artist is playing in your city?
Elon Musk is not naive. He is a very shrewd business person. Whatever we see in public about him is a well choreographed PR activity. His PR agency/team seems to be doing a very good job.

One thing to note. CEOs of big companies have a "CEO's office", meaning they have a large dedicated team to manage their every activity related to business, from scheduling meetings, self-promotion/branding campaigns, email handling, social media management etc. These CEOs are super busy. Anyone who thinks that CEOs of big companies sit in front of a computer or mobile phone tweeting most of the day does not understand the way big companies "manage" their CEOs and marketing.
That's interesting. I'd assumed the USA would use the letters on the phone dial, since those are still used in advertising today but have fallen out of use in many other countries.

In Britain, the area codes were originally allocated based on the letter corresponding to the number, except for London.

01_ London
021 Birmingham (B=2)
031 Edinburgh (E=3)
041 Glasgow (G=4)
051 Liverpool (L=5)
061 Manchester (M=6)

with other cities taking two-letter codes:

0532 Leeds (LE = 53)
0742 Sheffield (SH = 74)
...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_telephone_numbers_i... (impressively long article)
After estranging so many users who don't support his ideals, after closing the offices so that only his most loyal techies could enter, I would say the chances that poll is staged will be close to 100%. Not very different from the recent Russian referenda in Donbas, that after occupation and deportation of all "dissidents" could only end with full support of Russian occupation.
I like this a lot. I wish sidebery (firefox extension for vertical tabs) had a style like this. It's all I've ever wanted from vertical tabs but no one seems to get this right. If I could do it myself...

Here's to hoping I can figure out how to make a react component of it :)

(Thank you for showing us this!)
It's a learned response. Sometimes children have strange food preferences. Eg. can't stand chunks in their food, some food seems foreign to them so they won't eat it, somebody won't eat pasta, others fruits or vegetables.

I've just this week read about some moms trying to reverse this in young children (in adults it's worse, but not impossible), the article was not in english, so i won't link it here.

Their solution was to change the disgust with play. Like you don't like pasta? Come here, you don't have to eat it, just try if it will stick to the window. The kid plays with it, and in time it may change his perception of the food enough to try a small bite, their timescale iirc was two weeks. They explained some unexplainable occurences with prenatal conditioning ... like mum ate something and then fell, and those two unrelated things got written into child's brain.

Anecdotal evidence - my son when very young was suspicious to some fruits and veggies also. My solution was to eat the vegetables & fruits while watching tv shows with him. I've eaten whole apple, and gave him very thin, see-through slices of apple to play with, to look through, to suck and to nibble on. In a week time he was eating regular pieces with me and loves the fruits now. Small/thin pieces were the key for us.

TLDR: don't force children to eat something, it will only strenghten the problem.
Looking at the code, it looks like they're using TensorFlow to rate images, videos etc. [0], specifically the SQRX family of models [1].

[0]: https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/wingman_jr/blob/79a1a882...

[1]: https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/model/blob/master/sqrxr_...
It might be possible to analyze insurence data for damage cause when parking depending on the distance traveled before. First few pages of google results didn't provide any, unfortunately.
I'm not old but I have an Advance Directive on my file that essentially says if I'm fucked then they should let me go. (And I'm in the UK where treatment is free at point of use).
"You can beat me all day, but it's impossible for me to fulfill your demands, you'd also need to beat these other four people, and they're located all over the globe."

Someone might be quite happy to engage squads in lots of countries to kidnap and beat everyone if the payout is billions of dollars, but it's a very different problem and e.g. the Bahamas government or some local thug won't be able to do it. I have no idea how large a cartel would need to be to have reliable operatives on the ground in lots of countries, and I'd assume if you're part of a group holding the keys to those amounts of cash, you're going into lockdown when two of your associates suddenly vanish.
The problem is not the synthetic truffle flavouring, which I like, but the fact that it's so expensive. Very upsetting.
What is significant? A few thousand dollars?
I’m sorry to self promote again - but: https://whispermemos.com

I’m in love with the idea of pressing button on my Lock Screen and getting a perfect transcription in my inbox.

Also, just added emoji summarization in email subject, a small visual reminder of what your memo was about.

I hope this is useful to someone!
It's not using the Quake engine, or it wouldn't be running at 30 fps on current hardware. It's probably Unity or something more modern and bloated.
> Cloudflare can't 'properly' MITM the inbound email.

Define 'properly'.

It's a bog-standard forwarding specifically because this is the only way to have to separate systems to operate.

Gmail doesn't know what `yourdomain.tld`[0] is yours and what if it receives anyhting to *@yourdomain.tld it should route it to yourmailboxname@gmail.com.

If you don't point yourdomain.tld MX records to Cloudflare then Cloudflare would never receive anything to @yourdomain.tld, because MX doesn't point at them.

[0] the only way to for it know that is to run some Google Business or whatever it called now, where you actually ... point yourdomain.tld MX records to Gmail and it would process them... but it would not deliver them to yourmailboxname@gmail.com!

BTW it would be absolutely the same idea if instead of Cloudflare you would use Google Business (again, whatsitsname). You would setup 'Send As' in yourmailboxname@gmail.com as a usual SMTP identity which would allow you to use Gmail interface to send from somename@yourdomain.tld, and similar you need some way to explain to Google/Gmail what all mails at *@yourdomain.tld should be forwarded to yourmailboxname@gmail.com.
Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to Evernote?
I use Evernote but I am considering switching to another app. I am interested in finding a good note-taking app that works via web and has iOS and Android clients. Has somebody had a great experience with any of the alternatives?
From the same evil imbeciles who want "Pandemic Amnesty".
stop giving them attention.
> There are no white and black winter truffles out of season. They cannot be frozen, cooked, sterilized, packaged, or stored

Is that really true? I’m not a truffle expert, but I’ve seen several suppliers offering flash frozen winter truffles.
> She’ll probably get out somewhere between 3-8 years in.

I don’t know that it’s that irresponsible given that her family is incredibly wealthy and she’ll be gone for a relatively short time in their childhood.

I mean I know it’s going to be unpopular to say but she’s a blonde-haired, pretty white girl from a wealthy family. I’m astounded it was as long as 11 years (really 3-5). I’m sure she is too, and I imagine it’ll be reduced further on appeal once Balwani has been painted as the criminal mastermind of the operation.

We’ll know better once we see what he gets, and what the justification is for that sentence.
> I'm more interested in the problem of "I'd like to read something in [German]"

Something can be done here. Books with aligned/inlined/popup translations, tracking known/unknown vocabulary, spaced repetition for new words.
It seems to excuses her fraud in a roundabout way.

She's not just a random entreprenuer. Medical startups need to be held to a higher standard than average tech companies and the punishment for fraud that puts patients at risk should be as harsh as possible.
Hey @dang, I’ll reply to your comment here, considering you seem to have blocked replying on your sticking comment…

You can have as many rules and guidelines as you like, but you can’t go around stamping on people’s right to free speech, just because you don’t like them, especially when their comments aren’t offensive.

Also, referring to other people’s comments as “cheap”, as if you somehow feel your opinion of others and the way they express themselves is somehow more authoritative than say, UN charter on Human Rights (the right to freedom of expression) gives me the impression you have little respect for others.

“We want the later, not the former”. Ever heard the expression “‘I want’, never gets”? You appear to suffer from what I refer to as a “deluded sense of entitlement”. You have no right to try to censor people, or bully them, just because that’s what “we want”.

I’ve been HN reader for quite a while. I enjoy the community, and the debate, it’s not a stinking cesspit like Reddit, but your comments are a step too far.
Well the troll has been well fed
Back when ER was a hit show, there was survey among medical professionals and hospital staff asking for their favorite medical drama series and the reasons for it. Grey's Anatomy, and similar series, constantly beat ER. The reason was that medical staff considered ER way too realistic. Makes sense, why would I entertain myself during my off hours with what is basically a documentary about my on-duty hours.
Not, he shouldn't do that, specially when there are much better options.

Sometimes one of our parents is not good. It happens all the time. Millions of children have one parent in jail. Is not their faults and we should still support them. They became pretty decent and sane adults still somehow, with a few scars and own problems, as every one of us, but totally functional socially and morally. Charlize Theron would be a good example.

Men had proven many times that we can take care of the children in a single-parent family also. I don't think that the children of Rick Moranis grow in a hapless family, or became bad people, psychotic, or play the bass in Satan Moranis band now.
Even without NAT I don't necessarily want any old program to be immediately immediately reachable from the outside, so I still want a default-deny inbound firewall, and as long as it happens under your control, there's not much of a difference between having to configure my router's NAT and having to configure its firewall (in the case of my home router it's literally the same settings page). I.e. no big deal for me, and still a bit of a struggle for non-techies (but with sufficient motivation some will still manage it).

(And if you want something like UPnP to let programs automatically punch holes themselves anyway, again it doesn't matter much whether we're talking about NAT or "just" a plain firewall.)

The true evilness of NAT only really comes in when it's done by some third party outside of your control (CGNAT and friends), but I think that compared to home routers doing NAT the latter is a slightly more recent phenomenon that only got widespread traction when the IPv4 shortage became more acute.
To illustrate the point further, once you get to Paris how can you be sure it's an Eiffel tower? I guess you have to ask the man in the street. See the truth of it is a social construct. And whether you accept this as truth is a social construct, and so on. QED.
Depends. For instance, I like; nature, rainforest, mountains, forests, programming, building startups (and then selling them), beer, cooking and some other stuff. So when I went to Scotland for instance for the first time (I was 43 I think), I sat in a pub drinking beer and programming an app, got talking with a guy who asked what I was doing. We talked briefly, he is a coder too and into elixer and haskell. Then my wife and me went hiking to the Lochs; it was winter and heavy snow, but I hike in any weather. We ran into this guy, hiking on his own. So we became friends and made a startup; it failed but we will do things in the future; he visits me and I visit him. Had almost exactly the same experience in Thailand a year later with a dutch guy (I am dutch) living there.

Interests connect and these guys hardly ever meet or met someone that intersects as much, so they clear their schedules (as do I) to foster a friendship.

I met most of my friends, business partners and clients this way. Overlapping interests and chance encounters.

I meet plenty people on internet in subreddits with the same interests and sometimes we meet up and then it clicks or it doesn’t.
I think the market for this will be very small.

Electric sports cars will have better performance, and be familiar to everyone in a few years. Won't most people want a car they can also drive to work?

I can imagine it will be like a neighbour who owned a very old (1930s?) car. Maintaining it was a hobby, and actually driving it on public roads was something he did only a few times a year.
Very little.

A computer is an abstract mathematical description (eg., like "prime") of a certain mathematical object, a function.

A computer is a way of specifying a discrete function (ie., one which maps a finite number of bits to a finite number of bits), in terms of a sequence of mathematical transitions.

It's an "algorithmic" way of specifying the domain and codomain of a discrete function.

Electrical digital computers aren't actually computers in this sense, and are extremely aproximately described by them. Inasmuch as the shape of the earth is aproximately "spherical".

In any case, pretty much all of physics does not use discrete functions (indeed, I can't think of a single case). In every way physics describes reality, ie., parameterised on space and time, functions are continuous.

They map an infinite amount of spatio-temporal information to an infinite amount of spatio-temporal information.

And there is yet no reason whatsoever, other than the AI PR machine, to suppose that all of physics is wrong in this regard, and the universe is describable by anything else.

This is relevant here, since the problem that cannot be represented to the machine uses ordinary equations of physics, none of which are computable.
Avoid speculative investments like single stocks, crypto or anything like that when you're starting out.

Depending on your risk appetite, you may want to consider index funds from Vanguard (very low fee) or government bonds (low yield, consider this if you're extremely risk averse).