skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's correct at the moment.
They're unprovable but they're also straightforward applications of basic physical theories to scenarios far afield from what we've previously encountered. Induction isn't a logical inevitability but it is the basis of science and as a matter of practice we assume that if E=mc^2 has been true up to now it will continue to be true. And likewise that it continues to hold true for very large and very small values of m even well beyond values we've experimentally verified. You can posit that E=mc^2 wouldn't apply to masses larger than a galaxy, or that Schrodinger's equation doesn't apply to things with momentums that make their wavefunction undetectably small. Or that, in the steady state, some regions of a microcanonical ensemble won't be swept. But induction says that the equations that apply at one scale apply at another.
Agreed. This is like the calls to ban self driving car technology such as Tesla's autopilot because they sometimes make mistakes.

Completely overlooked is the number of accidents prevented because of the technology.

Just recently when the guy in Florida was killed while the car was driving under autopilot there was news story after news story about the dangers of it, how it should be outlawed.

To have it 'their way' we could never permit self driving cars until there was a 0% chance of malfunction or accident.

That would be like outlawing seatbelts because on 0.1% of crashes they might cause more injury.

Thankfully reason mostly prevailed in the car "autopilot" battle.

Hopefully reason will eventually prevail in the nuclear power battle.
nobody made one[1]

[1]: https://chan.bbnet.io/
Macroscopic decoherence (and therefore many worlds) is a straightforward prediction of the Schrödinger equation. It's not something you can just dismiss as imaginary.
No, IB fees are definitely a factor in this decision. I believe the WSJ mentioned that was part of the decision process.

Also, the Google result is really hard to draw any conclusions from. It's one data point vs. many underwritten deals of which some have done better. some have done worse.

The the main point is I do not see any reason, at least in principle, that the current model could be vastly improved.
CBP routinely stops & questions all north-bound traffic on US 54 >20 miles north-east of El Paso. Am unsure of the distance, but they did request opening my rear hatch(SUV) to facilitate the dog sniffing my parts boxes and tools.

Am pretty sure the checkpoints on I-10 in western AZ are >100 miles N of the border, the Tohono O'odham* rez lies between I-10 & the border.

* The elders have also stated no wall will be built on their lands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham#Border_issues
I think the hardest part of anyone's career is when the children are young - you do not have time. Unfortunately, it is also the time that you have the moment to spring up in your career because you have experience and energy (which you use for the kids of course and not self growth)
It's probably an algorithm to get you some decent % of views early on to see what % of upvotes you get so it can move your post up or down accordingly.
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In France we have "Bankin" and other apps, but the problem is, since banks don't offer APIs at all, all these apps (called "Aggregators" in fintech language) are doing web scraping to pull the user datas.
This is from a friend with a similar problem who talked to a guy working with the feature, so YMMV:

Supposedly, the feature works at least in part by analyzing your playlists and giving recommendations based on what the people with similar songs in their playlists have there as well. He claimed to be receiving less Finnish rap m after removing his playlists with northern Swedish rap, so you could try that approach if you still have any Chinese/Korean playlists.

I just remove the few offending songs from my discover weekly, which I don't find too much of a hassle, but it doesn't seem to learn from that.
I've had no problem giving songs a thumbs down in the discover weekly playlists.
One thing I have seen done is taking filesystem (ex. ZFS) snapshots every n minutes on a secondary server. You can then restore the secondary and promote it to master.
It would be great to have "PR patches" as something handled gracefully by the web interface. Even if they're just branches under the hood, a "click to accept this change" feature on open PRs would be a nice way to encourage simple fixes.
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I cannot say definitively, but I don't believe there are plans to lower any limits. Additionally, given that the existing standard Search API has not been significantly enhanced in several years and the replacement is going to be based on the enterprise offerings, I'd expect the quality of the data to be a lot better than what you receive on the search endpoint today.
I'd have to pass validation on a non-conforming platform according to the manufacturers documentation. Good luck with convincing regulatory bodies of that.....
Agree with your point re. Wikileaks, but I disagree that the PRISM leaks were legitimate, or anything to be ashamed of. To my knowledge, no compelling evidence indicates that the Constitutional or legal rights of Americans have been violated.
> technical creativity is mostly about copying existing techniques and practices - i.e. competently repeating what other people have done, perhaps with some minor twists.

> Free original thinking/expression is an unrelated talent

Unrelated? If you think the latter is completely unrelated, what do you think it involves?
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Messages, Facetime and iCloud work for me on Sierra on my new hackintosh without any fiddling. On my previous Hackintosh, which I believe is running Mavericks, those services don't work.
Ask HN: What prototyping tool do you suggest for non-technical users?
I'm looking for a prototyping tool for mobile apps that I can use with my two non-technical friends to iterate over design and layout ideas. None of us work in the same timezone and due to hardware/bandwidth limitations for one of them, the traditional pen & paper (+ scanning) approach isn't feasible. So I'm looking for an easy to learn tool that we can all use. What do you suggest? Also, any tips from people with similar experiences would be very much appreciated.
What do you mean by "doesn't work well on a lot of laptop hardware"?

I'm using Lenovo Yoga 510, not Ubuntu-certified, two-in-one device with a touchscreen and a dedicated graphics card. Sure, there's no such thing as a tablet mode in any of the Linux distributions at the moment, but it works. WiFi works. Touchscreen works. Open source graphics driver works. Battery usage has no noticeable difference compared to Windows.

In my three or four years of running Ubuntu-based distributions, I'm yet to find a single laptop where WiFi / sound card / touch screen or any other piece of laptop hardware that doesn't work.
Not an expert, but can't you just temporarily make the replica the master?
Except it's illegal to prevent employees from discussing salary.
Well, how do you know? How many 94y old non-retired professors have you interacted with yet?
Are there any cases of people suing the CBP for unlawful restraint? I remember seeing a video a while back where the guy wouldn't get out of the car, and they just broke the windows and took him out anyway.
Here in India, you are not only asked your previous salary, you have to provide your last (sometimes three) payslip while joining. Some companies have a policy of NOT giving more than a 30% hike from your previous salary - you need top management approval for such a hike.
Indeed, but it's just missing a lot of the polish and modern features
I also had a Mac Plus with an external 20MB hard drive (this was late 1988). It wasn't the Apple HD20 [0] (which I had never heard of until now) but a 3rd party model, it used the Plus's SCSI port and had the same footprint so it sat underneath. I see Apple also made an HD20SC that used SCSI.

I didn't understand walrus01's comment to mean an external, rather than internal, hard drive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Disk_20
I believe in that case it was someone upgrading to 16.04 rather than a fresh install. The user configuration would remain unchanged in that case.

Here are some other sources:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-online-search-feat...

https://www.howtogeek.com/188589/5-things-you-need-to-know-a...
Dark energy suggests that a big crunch is unlikely.
For me, all the time. I've negotiated well throughout my career, so I'm above a lot of pay bands.

My concern is I hope to be doing this for another 25 years...
Haven't used React myself, but would be curious if anyone who uses React has used this and if this would make it easier to learn.

Also, curious as to why this isn't a plugin for all the other IDEs and is a standalone.
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I agree with you about one thing. The war on terror is a mistake (or a plan to make money). "Terror" can't be fought by the military.

Only "societal and public policy responses" can stop terrorism. What "mature" response are you suggesting?
Failing nuclear plants have contributed far less radiation than working coal plants over the lifetime of nuclear.

The point is that even if you see these failures as inevitable going forwards, coal is the larger radiation threat too, even though the radiation threat from coal is tiny compared to the vast numbers of dead due to respiratory illnesses caused by coal.
Um... Need I remind you, that everything from Vault 7, was leaked on flash drives, (vault 7 shit doesn't require infrastructure to deploy or use as most nsa implementations do), and given to ex spooks, contractors, ex contractors, private contractors, even those with no intention of working for the government. Basically a deal sweetener, for those with similar status or ideals.
This isn't cut-and-dry. There are plenty of opportunities to work in cheap parts of the country (US). If I lost my job (or more than likely, quit on my own terms, which I've done many times before, even before I had a position lined up), I wouldn't be concerned with finding another one within 2 weeks. Every day I'm responding to recruiters on LinkedIn looking for talent. And I'm not that talented.

There are even requests around the geographical region, which I consider if I hadn't had a family and mortgage.

I can utilize all the cutting-edge technologies developers on the coasts think they're privy to, too.

This flyover mentality gets me so worked up. It's really from a pre-internet era.

I can see your argument for doing so in another country (relocation, other added expenses vs. U-Haul across the country), but I'm making the assumption there's more than one fruit farmer there, too.
I see. As with any decent obvious idea, it's already been done 10x better than I could hope to. Thanks.
> There is no evidence at all that this stuff has been used domestically.

I read the article and they do not imply any connection to PRISM.

Anyway, why would you be fine with such tools being used on non-US targets? Would you not be outraged if an equivalent tool was used on US targets by a non-US government?
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Very nice, I didn't know about the Deedy Resume template. I'll give it a try, to see if I can squeeze my 2 pages (modern-cv) into a one page.
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All,

I rcenty launched my side project https://backmail.io . I really thought my side project solved a painpoint in lot of people's live. There is no easy way to get a backup of your gmail content. Gmail takeout is very slow, and you cant have a regular backups using that. This tool also works for the Gsuite users, so when you have a componay provided email account in google cloud, you can easily take a backup when you leave the company without any hassle. Since there are very few users for this service, i had decided to shut down the service.

However i would like to know what i did wrong? Should i have done some market research before implementing this? There was some serious discussions in the HN about easier way to move away from gmail, or take a regular backups of the gmail, which i thought was an validation to the idea. Should i have done something more? If so, any pointers / advice would be very helpful? Should i have put more effort marketing??

Any advice would be really grateful!!

Thanks,
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In the early stages where we are now, we're finding the new architecture pretty robust. There's an acknowledgement back on our side with webhooks responses, so we can build features that ensure your apps never miss an activity.
No, I've never been on Twitter. I make up all of my opinions on the spot. It's not like Twitter's "Trust and Safety Council" is made up predominantly of "liberals"[1], and their entire purpose is to decide what accounts should be banned and how the process of "keeping people safe" should be done (thus introducing massive bias, especially since many of the members have shown that even disagreements are considered some level of harassment).

Everything is going great.

[1]: https://about.twitter.com/safety/council
I remember using it in middle school and the prices were quite high. It was a great idea but no parents wanted to pay an extra premium on top of an already expensive product.
If it was true you couldn't disclose salary it would make lots of things really difficult like getting a loan.
Thinkpad T470. Great machine.
Apart from that minor "Let's create an infinite number of universes out of nothing" problem.

Mathematical solutions are never guaranteed to be physical, or even potentially realisable.
>Generally, in price negotiations it is advantageous to name a number first.

This is absolutely 100% wrong. In price negotiations you will almost always fair better if you force the other party to bring up a number first.
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I guess you could argue whether PRISM was lawful or not. I think we can all agree though that there was a recognizable moral gray area there that needed to be brought to the attention of the people. When brought to the light, the legitimacy could be argued.

These current leaks are just attempts at undermining.
So it's still $2.5tn .

And people at the poverty line get state support(Medicare , etc) . So that's more money.
This is an amazing development. Google is in a unique position to run this on truly massive scale.

Reading this, I couldn't shake the feeling that I heard all of this somewhere before in a work of fiction.

Then I remembered - here's the relevant clip from "Ex Machina":

https://youtu.be/39MdwJhp4Xc
A lot of the analogies and reasoning I'm reading here is faulty. Nothing stops HR depts. from sharing information which to a first degree of approximation would give them an idea of the market rate for the positions they're filling. Companies are already free to rescind offers if they find out that you've lied about aspects of your past work history. It's part of what at-will employment is. This is about interfering with the negotiation of the individual job seeker. If I can't ask for your salary history, then I might miss out on the competitive advantage you as a candidate have in that you're willing to work for less over potentially more qualified people as you build your skill-set and expertise. The right way to help those who are taken advantage of is education about how to bargain and what information they need and need not share, not legislation.
Is he using religion as a protected class here? I'm struggling to see how he can force any ad agency to show his ads, let alone claim they are responsible for lost revenue for not letting him use their platform.
I notice you haven't named the terrorists you believe wanted to attack us then.
Very true. Also consider: The "screening" phase is the toughest part to get past. When someone has 400 resumes on their desk to quickly go through, they are going to barely scan maybe the top 1/3 of the first page of your resume, and I guarantee they won't look past page 1. You need to have your strongest pitch front and center on the very top of page 1.

Your resume is the first hint a company gets about your communication skills, including your ability to edit and summarize. Unless you've got heaps and heaps of experience, 2+ pages can send the message "trouble editing".
What makes it seem imaginary to me is this: in what dimension(s) do all of these infinite "universes" reside? Why do they not interact in any way? What causes this creation of matter and energy?
As far as I know, there's nothing to stop employers from exchanging salary information directly with previous employers under quid-pro-quo agreements.

And there's nothing to stop employers from buying/renting this information from third parties, such as recruitment agencies or brokers in personal data.

All of these are arguably more reliable sources of salary information than asking the candidate directly.
Gitlab is an interesting case: they publish their compensation formula, which yields different pay for the same work depending on the employee's geographic location.
It seemed to maybe be getting easier, then right before the talking started I recognized "Lichen is hit. Lichen is killed." I'm not sure if I was actually getting a tiny bit more used to it, or that was a particularly easy piece to understand, or the lack of subsequent high speed speech allowed my brain to take a second to process it, or some combination of the above.

Listening again, I still can't recognize anything except until the end. For this, I also imagine a slow ramping up of the speed helps. That way you know what messages might be said, so it's easier to pattern match on the fly.
The original project only generates LaTeX, it doesn't compile or output.
That's awesome! I just wish I could use Root then, with a state-side available bank.
The linguistic backflips used by Deliveroo
Just built my second one because of their BS. Cost about $1100 for a computer that Apple would charge at least $5000 for. I've inspired friends as well because the process has become fairly easy nowadays.
> I never consider interviewing and negotiations a waste of time. It's very valuable practice, no matter what the outcome. Practice is how I get better at both. The more interviews I go on and the more times I negotiate salary, the better I get.

This. I get the impression that most software devs don't make an effort to learn this incredibly valuable skill. It doesn't even have to be haggling, per se. Just asking for a higher salary is often going to increase it by thousands of dollars. It just boggles my mind at how so many people will leave so much money at the table...
Engineering tends to assume it works for the "good guys", and I suspect the people that rolled this out did not consider NSL's and the other onerous legal implications of giving themselves access to everyone's hard drives.

I'm not saying it is right, but I suspect a lot of naive engineers and middle management designed the telemetry system.

They produced a product most people cannot use in good conscience; in the long run, it will be Microsoft's loss.
What effect is this going to have if the state agency wages are already online: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?tags=salary
I agree with you regarding interview and negotiation practice being valuable (albeit to a certain extent - sometimes negotiating with certain tech companies/recruiters is like wrestling a pig in a muddy field... after a while, you realise the pig is enjoying itself).

I also don't think salary is everything - far from it! Yet I've never had a problem saying "I believe my market value is $XYZk, however if the culture, team and product is a good fit for me then I'm sure we'll be able to find a salary level that works for both of us."

Normally I say this right off the bat and have not yet had bad feedback about it. I don't see anchoring as a psychological trick, rather an opportunity to save both you and your potential employer a lot of time.
Without a reasonable estimate on how much money that will require that's still very vague.
Interesting. An additional argument for lying is that you're probably already lying in other parts of the interview.

Why do you want to work here? (money, and the desire to pay the bills and feed my children)

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? (probably not at this company)

What is your biggest weakness? (not like I would actually tell a stranger a real answer)
>You're proposing a lot of regulation that I'm personally not interested in.

I'm not really proposing any specific regulation. While it is telecom infrastructure, I'm not suggesting they must be subject to exactly the same regulations as hard-line providers, and there are reasons to craft a different class of rules for them.

The point is that just saying "they're a private company, they can alter things and silence customers however they want" shouldn't work anymore.

>And why is it that Twitter has to carry that regulatory burden?

Because they're a massive communication platform that people depend on to accurately represent conversations. Why should Comcast or AT&T have to carry regulatory burden? Same reasons.

>At what point does a company/website become telecom infrastructure?

Whenever they act a carrier or intermediary in conversations not intended to go directly to/from them. If you're talking to someone else through something and trusting it to carry your communication, it's a telecommunication device.

Of course, there can be limits on when/where any potential restrictions should become effective.

>One of the issues with ISPs and other utilities is that they have been given local monopoly in exchange for regulation, so I would not say they are similar to Twitter. This is also why your statement "you can go to another company, or heck, even start your own, right?" is supposed to cut.

Whether the monopoly is imposed by fiat or occurs organically, it should still be recognized and addressed as a monopoly.

>You're also not giving very much credit to the audience you speak of. The audience has always had to ensure their own information sources are good.

Yes, but in the past, it was not really possible to shut everything else out. There was an opportunity for competitors to get their attention in the physical world where everyone in the same vicinity shares equal access. You couldn't get outside information whilst remaining cloistered up inside your house; you at least had to go to the doorstep or mailbox, where people could leave their own publications.

In cyberspace, you have a blank window until you explicitly request some content. There is no opportunity to present anything that the user doesn't explicitly pull, and then the user is pulling that data from platforms entirely under the control of a very small handful of corporations.

When at least 90% of people are getting their data from the same sources, it's reasonable for some controls to be in place.

This isn't new; until the early 00s, we had rules that prevented a single corporation from controlling too many media outlets in a specific market. Until the late 80s, we had the Fairness Doctrine to ensure that controversial public issues were presented fairly.

If those controls were needed to help control broadcasters whose range was 50 miles, how is it absurd to suggest similar things apply to Twitter/Facebook whose range is infinite and whose user base reaches into the billions, an appreciable percentage of all humanity?
Writing in continuation passing style manually isn't great. It really does become confusing and hard to debug very quickly. That said, promises also aren't the solution, because you still have to contort your code to be compatible with promises. Further more, async/await is yet another non-solution because now you have to differentiate between synchronous and asynchronous functions. Still, both of these are improvements upon simple callbacks. What JavaScript is lacking is a real implementation of "communicating sequential processes" a la Go, ConcurrentML, etc.