skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School is already useless. See this essay for instance https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/02/contra-robinson-on-sch...

How many people use say more than 1% of the knowledge they learn in High School? Hell how many people even remember more than 1% of it? There have been studies done on unschooled kids - that get minimal formal education and are allowed to spend their time however they want. And they do only sightly worse than schooled kids.
I'm not completely sold on the relationship of stress and heart disease. I spend some time working in politics, and almost all principals worked 18h-days with less than 5h of sleep during the week. Yet life expectancy is higher than average.

There are obviously ots of competing factors at work: they have plenty of opportunities to eat healthy, and the discipline that makes them get up at 5am also makes them go for a run at 5:30. Then again two of my bosses had to retire after run-ins with the crystal meth law they themselves passed...

Considering the limits of willpower, I'd rank it Smoking/Exercise/Food/Sleep/Stress.
I think I understand the distinction in what you're looking for in this opening. I'm still excited about the idea of journalism taking it's output more seriously. Until news organizations get that, how will they know what the input should be?

I'm serious about wanting an attribute for unnamed sources. I would love for NYT and The Economist to have a preference setting where I can tell it "don't show me articles which use unnamed sources".
Since I'm no fit for this role I was browsing for other openings, and I noticed that this is not listed at https://jobs.lever.co/twitch

Do you hire for other engineering roles (besides this one or the sales positions listed) in Germany?
It's possible it's an Australian term and you were just surrounded by Australians in London.
I wasn't arguing about superiority. It was just a though of what things would be like if it had gone the other way.

Speaking of intuitive, a tiller on a car is only intuitive if you've used it on a boat. Pushing the lever in the opposite direction of where you want to go is counter-intuitive.
This is cool. Did you automatically extract the data, or did you have to search out a dataset for each different city?
What is the timeframe for hiring new grads? I'm graduating next summer and was curious about working in a investment firm.
Your friend should be able to easily learn everything he would need to know to land a software eng job in no longer than 1 month by reading online tutorials.

I have watched several of my friends go from absolutely 0 knowledge to senior software engineers in less than 6 months. Being a software engineer is incredibly easy and requires no innate talent.
Are you using a self hosted GitLab? I feel that GitLab would have the exact same issues that GitHub has. The TOS are just clarifying what is required to run a cloud source code repository. If they want to do things like index the code, run tests on it, fork it to other users, show it on their website, then they need certain permissions from the copyright holders of the code. These permissions are not special to github I don't feel. Anyone with the same set of features would require the same permissions.
Just wanted to expand a bit more on the knee jerk reaction of suggesting GitLab.com. From what I know from their business, GitLab.com is a loss leader and they make their money primarily from the enterprise self-hosted product. Please keep this in mind because this is important. No service is a charity and GitLab.com will always be their low priority. GitLab.com is not magically immune to problems that GitHub.com faces in terms of license. Once GitLab becomes big, you will see the same things all over.

To conclude, I suspect you are better off just self-hosting GitLab (just pay them license fees). It's really just 3.25 per user per month, please support their self-hosted instance.
Nintendo didn't get the memo - "mobile" gaming really means smartphone gaming. What is this monstrosity?
It's weird, isn't it?

They seem to be going from pillar to post, ditching products that may not set the world alight, but were surely never going to. Neither can they be dragging Google under. Meanwhile they're acquiring a reputation that will make it so much harder to launch new products.
Although zero-rating Wikipedia in itself is rather benign (it has already outcompeted other encyclopedias anyway), it does run the risk of creating more acceptance for zero-rating of other, possibly commercial services.
If they got so much more money than the rest of the US, can't they simply cooperate with China or Russia?

Also, Lincoln had the slavery as enemy, what would the current president have?
> I'll move on to things like GitLab or IPFS for transmitting projects I'm working on.

Or NotABug (https://notabug.org) which is a lot more friendlier toward open source projects. IPFS sounds good, I'd love to see something P2P in this space, but nothing P2P seems to be mature enough.
I don't really see any serious issues with the new terms of service.

As they say, when you upload some code to Github (or any other service or website), they are making a copy, and then more copies for backups. If the code is visible to other users, then they are distributing it to other users. If the code is searchable, then they are taking out and distributing little bits of it.

Github needs a legal basis to do all these "obvious" things - and so would every hosting service.

If LPPL requires the integrity of the author's source code, then it's not just incompatible with Github's ToS, its incompatible with all search engines that show snippets of results.

Is there anything that they are asking for in the new ToS that they have not been already doing by running the website, and everyone being okay with when they upload code?
OK, but you can say that because you happen to KNOW what it is, and that's fine.

People drop dead too frequently because they wait too long to get help when they have unexplained chest pains that [they think] couldn't possibly be a heart attack.
The supermarket I go to recently got rid of all of its self checkout lines and replaced them with additional express (15 item or less) lines. I'm not sure their reasoning for it but I don't think cashier automation is a sure thing.
Does this mean users of this thing will not be able to substantially edit wikipedia, because they won't be able to cite sources ?

Or check sources ?

Because if they get free access to wikipedia only that would be the case.

If, on the other hand, only people who are already subscribers don't get their wikipedia traffic counted, then that seems a small improvement at best.
The 3DS used a relatively deficient browser engine, with much less support for web standards; it didn't support anything a non-trivial game might need.

A browser based on current WebKit or Blink, with full hardware-accelerated support for WebGL, a fast JavaScript JIT, WebAssembly, fullscreen, joysticks, and other such standards would make a compelling platform.
"Why Twitter ignores the crap which pollutes their product", this is easy to answer. Investors.
Investors who don't care about nothing but vanity metrics, investors who don't make CEOs accountable. This is why, twitter is not the exception.
You can't possibly mad for people gaining access to knowledge. For me personally, it's the single most important thing Internet gives.

But as for net neutrality? Of course I'm sad. How are they going to check the sources of the articles? Wikipedia is still pretty limited in some areas of knowledge.

Nothing is perfect. I'm very happy they get to browse wikipedia. It is magnitude of order better than not having access to it.
> I don't feel like many people are actually concerned

Judging by how frequently I read this sort of comment on HN, there are definitely many people who are concerned here.
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It's sad, but given the (positive, don't get me wrong!) response to the Dear Github letter from a while back, it seems that mass outrage is the only thing the company understands.

Most companies are allergic to lawyers. As in, they'd rather avoid the issue outright and go elsewhere if a hint of a legal question comes up. The fact that they didn't bother floating this change by the greater community at large does not give me the warm fuzzies that they learned their lesson.
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> In Evan’s keynote, he proposed a really interesting and ambitious solution to the problem he called “lifting the core.” It involved shipping Ruby with LLVM intermediate representation of the CRuby functions to allow the LLVM JIT technology to look inside the CRuby functions and dramatically increase the optimization horizon. As far as I know, this hasn’t been attempted yet — although, if it has, I really want to see it!

Actually unladen_swallow and cperl are doing this.
Compile the whole runtime to a lib<rt>.bc (trivial make rule), load this bitcode file (a single call), and add the expensive optimizations, esp. the inliner and IPO in llvm. Just the type-checks need to be done in the jit. This inliner does a lot of good magic esp. for the small RT functions. >10x faster.

The compiler is expensive though (i.e. very slow), and LLVM changed it's jit API 3 times already. <=3.4 jit, then mcjit and >= 3.6 ocrjit, all 3 of them still having major quirks.

With mcjit you cannot selectively add jit code to a module. So every single body needs to be a new module. So module != package/class/namespace. So the jitcache is a bit complicated.
With the latest ocrjit you got problems in finding the symbols in the bc. The C API doesn't support the name resolver at all, and it's a major quirks with C++. LLVM's C API is really behind, but at least they don't change it that often as the C++ API.

unladen_swallow has a huge JIT overhead library, which nobody really needs.

For the cperl jit I just used 4 days so far and doesn't even link yet. I used the C API, not the better C++ API. No C++ for cperl.
But it's very simple. https://github.com/perl11/cperl/blob/feature/gh220-llvmjit/j...
The US Department of Labor has more detailed info in their "Occupational outlook handbook".[1] They project a 2% increase in the number of cashiers from 2014 to 2024, compared to 7% for all occupations.

Bank teller employment is in decline.[2] -8% from 2014 to 2024, says DOL's projection. Although, as DOL says, "Job prospects for tellers should be favorable because many workers leave this occupation."

AEI's last data point is from 2008, which was before most ATMs could cash checks and pay out immediately. Now that ATMs can read and validate checks (including handwritten ones, there's considerable AI behind that), the big Friday check cashing line is at the ATM, not the teller windows.

A friend of mine runs a branch of a major bank. The bank is moving to a branch layout which looks like a car dealership without the cars. There's a receptionist to direct traffic, and offices on both sides with sliding glass doors, just like the ones in car dealerships. That's where they sell loans and other financial products. In the back, barely visible, are two teller windows. There are conveniently placed ATMs both inside and outside the branch. That's what's happening to bank tellers.

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The plain body text is under The MirOS Licence, so that’s fine. For more, see http://www.mirbsd.org/LICENCE
I think that particular issue is older though, I'd guess 1999 or 2000. If I recall correctly people were still going on about the information super highway around that time, along with very literal illustrations of "surfing the web." 2005 is just when the snapshot is from I think.
s/no remote/ONSITE/ is probably some of the downvotes
Like advertising - 99% of advertising is useless, but identifying which 1% isn't is hard.
Interestingly enough, this _might_ apply to paid repositories unless you pay for having different ToS apply to you.
It seems that both sides are well-represented here. That's true on a number of issues, and is what makes HN pretty unique among discussion sites.
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Faster please. Anything that accelerates Twitter's demise is ok in my books. Bonus points if wounds are self-inflicted.

I'm old enough to remember when you only had to deal with the crazies holding signs and hollering if you went to certain parts of town. If you didn't go and/or engage the crazies they didn't really exist. Sort of like if a tree falls but nobody is there...

Now everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and spouts nonsense all over Twitter. Time to take away the soapbox.
> I just want to play Mario/Zelda/Metroid with a regular gamepad!

Both the Wii and WiiU offered pretty good controllers so you can do just that.
hey man, there is a reason shortness of breath will get you rushed past the ER.

almost lost a buddy once to a brain tumor around 25. he was light headed with slight pain for a 3 days. checked himself in on day 4 for slight but persistent pain. rushed into surgery immediately. wouldn't have lasted another day.

don't take a chance. would rather be a hypochondriac than dead. a good doctor will respect that.
Massive permafrost thaw documented in Canada, portending huge carbon release
Keeping that up to date would cost huge amounts of bandwidth though, of which 99.99% would be wasted.
Scrolling is also broken if your mouse is on the left-hand side of the page.
Way ahead of you

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wikipedia-zero-fa...
>Except when Twitter makes that a heuristic for detecting bots

There are several dozen. Maybe not turned on in prod, but that's a whole another story.
In fact, within three months of joining, way back in 2012, one of my very first tasks was to write a standard datamining job that would compute the difference between the GPS location during office hours (9-5pm) and the GPS location during home hours (7pm-7am) of everyone who tweets. A histogram of those differences would tell you about the commute distance of the average American who tweets. You could then bucket by region and say interesting things like the average NY tweeter commutes 25 miles more than the average CA tweeter.
Looking at the results we got, it was clear there was a substantial percent of bots, because their location varied so widely, minute to minute hour to hour. Haversine of GPS diffs will be reasonably stable, because your IP maps to the GPS ( we used the standard Maxmind geoip2 API) , and those IPs are relatively stable....Except if you are a bot and switching IPs willy-nilly.
This was just one instance, but there were several such projects...usually interns and new employees would work on these to get their feet wet, and then move on to more substantial projects.
> Most people don't wear watches and it's usualy considered rude to pull out your phone mid-convorsation. I always wear a watch and so people just say "do you have the time"?

> If you can't ask Siri you can just ask whoever you're talking to. Also, if you express you want to know the time and they say "I don't know" you can then just ask Siri and tell them. It works out nicely.

The point is that people _can_ look at their watch or smartphone while still listening in on the conversation. It's hard to hear and pay attention to two different things at the same time.
(edit since I didn't expect many votes, I am not a lawyer at all)

The text doesn't seem totally true, for example:

> Section D.7 requires the person uploading content to waive any and all attribution rights.

Yet, from the ToS, section D.7:

> You retain all moral rights to Content you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Service, including the rights of integrity and attribution. However, you waive these rights and agree not to assert them against us, to enable us to reasonably exercise the rights granted in Section D.4, but not otherwise.

So you don't waive "any and all" rights.

From the article:

> Section D.5 requires the uploader to grant all other GitHub users… right to “use, display and perform” the work (with no further restrictions attached to it)

From the ToS, D.5:

> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to access your Content through the GitHub Service, and to use, display and perform your Content, and to reproduce your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality.

So uh yeah, there are lots of restrictions on it. "solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality", so they can only use Github functionality (i.e. Forking) on your content. They can't sell your content or relicense it or host it on their own website.

The only real problem I see here is that unless you created the work entirely by yourself ("you" here can mean a group), you can't grant the rights necessary to upload to Github, even if you're well intentioned or the original authors may be fine with it. And these rules apply to private repos, too. I wish the author had focused more on that.
Let me ask you a question. would you pay someone to manage this hassle for you?
What I don't understand: Why doesn't twitter take moderation seriously? On reddit it's left up to the moderators of each sub. It does very. But having a very "up to interpretation" but yet not politically biased set of rules and enforcement is great.

We don't have a code of conduct or any of the nonsense. Someone violates it and we catch it, they're gone. (Also that's subjective to time based on how many times we caught them as well) End of.
As far as I can tell: no, unless GitHub takes taking excerpts from works too far and redistributing them without the licence attached. But nobody else is allowed to deal in those excerpts then, except via the original licence, so, likely not.

But 4-clause BSD and similar advertising clauses are _probably_ affected, and Apache 2 _when_ a NOTICE text file exists is _very likely_ affected. (Maybe even without; the Apache 2 licence requires giving recipients a copy of the licence text, too.)
GitHub links new color?
Am I the only one whose eyes are bleeding (almost for real this time) from this new color of all the link on github?
It's quite possible many disabled people will have more medical costs than they pay in taxes. It's reasonable for them to at least be cautious letting them in.

It's unethical to discriminate against your own citizens. They have zero obligation to provide entrance or any service to foreigners. No one has a natural right to enter New Zealand, especially if they aren't providing value to that country.

That's one of the sad costs of public safety nets though. You need to control immigration to keep out people who would take advantage of it. Otherwise this wouldn't be an issue.
That would get moderated out of existence really quickly.
Wow I had no idea anyone was shipping bitcode of their runtime for dynamic compilation. Are there any blog posts, papers, etc about it? Does it work well?
About a decade ago, I got a physical after having not set foot in a doctor's office in about 12 years. The doctor asked what made me come to get a physical after so long, and when I said nothing in particular, he pretended to write on his clipboard "Wife made me come here."

He said middle-aged guys with no obvious health problems pretty much only come to the doctor for one (or both) of two reasons: Their wife made them, or they want Viagra.
Thanks for this link.

I'm afraid I won't be able to attend GSOC this year. It requires you to be college student prior to 7th May. I finish secondary school this year, so I will officially become college student mid-July.
AFAIK, there are not that many large-scale operational retrievals of wind velocity by remote methods. The ultrasound technique you mention for remote retrieval (which was news to me) is apparently based on this kind of rig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SODAR

Ocean surface winds are retrieved on vast scales by satellite measurements, due to their effect on the surface roughness, which is measured by radar (e.g., https://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/products.php). But that's an exceptional case.
Metafilter?

> What's the difference between 10 people telling you to kill yourself and just 1, because the other 9 got blocked? Is that not still an unacceptable level of harassment?

"We can do something, but it won't be completely effective, so we shouldn't do anything."

What's the use in vaccination? After all, it doesn't completely eliminate disease. Unless used very consistently for a lifetime.
When I first tried JamKazam (a-play-in-a-band-over-the-Internet-thing) and talked to my friends over low-latency, high-quality gear, I was amazed but how much it felt like being in the same room.

That's when I realized that most conferencing solutions simply have too high latency. It's a matter of milliseconds - if there's too many of them people start interrupting each other by talking at the same time, and the feeling of having a natural conversation is lost.

They'd probably do better financially by selling their technology as a conference solution. ;-)
They fixed some awkward "custom routing" screens a while ago. I've been using my single account with different companies for years now. I just make sure my git `config.email` is set right, set GitHub to route notifications for work repos to my work email, and it's done.

I've also been the admin on those Business accounts. It's easy.
The Expanse is fantastic.