skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to add more to this cause the idea of entry level jobs teaching skills you need to work at other jobs isn't sitting right with me.

As a rule, the only skill entry level jobs teach anymore that apply to future jobs is how to eat shit and keep going. Every single habit you would learn would need to be unlearned to be valuable in skilled labor. You need to be independent and able to think of novel solutions to provide value at higher skilled jobs. Entry level jobs will grind you up and fire you under some made up offense so you can't even get unemployment. You succeed by being as close to a robot as possible.
https://sel4.systems/ is a formally verified microkernel.
I'm quite impressed how the US division of powers has held up against the present president so far. It kind of shows how valuable checks and balances can be. It's also been entertaining to watch. I'm looking forward to the next episode after the will the president be able to stop the investigation by firing the FBI head cliffhanger.
is this supporting evidence of the us doing something "wrong" by creating these tools?

disclaimer: i hope no b/c it's like any other military tech being leaked and used, but am not sold either way.
Even ARM's embedded cortex-m compilers have supported #pragma once for years now.

Maybe some of the 8-bit micros still don't..?
There are many reasons that are understandable, such as most media companies having to use multiple trackers to squeeze as much money out of their inventory as possible (ad javascripts take most of the loading time). I think these are shitty but still understandable.

But in this case, this is just a hipster website. The slow loading time is purely coming from the content. When NYT first did "Snowfall", people were trying to grasp onto anything that "might be the future of journalism", so that "rich format" took off for a while, but now people know better, these rich format articles have terrible ROI because creating them is really hard and not scalable, and in many cases it wastes a lot of traffic, and last and most importantly, readers couldn't care less about this "rich format" journalism. It's just the journalism people circle jerking about how "beautiful" it is.

Which is why this format mostly disappeared. That said, I have never seen anything THIS bad. I am leaving all these comments here because I am genuinely annoyed that they messed up the reading experience on a topic I was actually interested in reading, so bad that I decided not to read it.
The point of the UBI is that we are already giving things away for free, and we're doing it inefficiently and creating bad incentives in the process. Right now it's entirely possible for a low-income worker to get a raise and end up worse off, because they cross the threshold for a means-tested program and lose more in benefits than the amount of the rais. The question shouldn't be "would a UBI discourage work", it should be "would a UBI discourage work more than the current system does", and there are strong arguments that it would not.
And most countries on Earth are living under Monsanto's food killswitch.
Ok, but then the "process chain" needs to include the massive energy input from the sun.
Icon's are the written language of the digital world.
About a month, yes

In that case, it was supposedly because of the patch:

> According to court papers, the original Blaster was created after security researchers from the Chinese group Xfocus reverse engineered the original Microsoft patch that allowed for execution of the attack

The patch was

ms03-026: Buffer Overrun In RPC Interface Could Allow Code Execution
Published: July 16, 2003

(could, hah)

> The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003

It was a huge problem at college campuses well into September. Students would arrive with their brand new laptops running XP and get hit with the worm 30 seconds after connecting to the network.

Really the main difference is blaster was just an annoyance and mostly just broke random things like the DHCP service, but was easily fixed.
> The operating system that runs on a system has no bearing on how the data for various applications is stored

It's not impossible for a motivated user to go against every UI (dark) pattern to keep work on an open format, but it's so unlikely as to be irrelevant.

While the file formats may be open, it's widely known that MS keep enough secret sauce in Office so that an MS Excel nightmare won't open correctly in LibreOffice. Being able to decompress and parse the contents of the file (the open part) is not the same as humans being able to interactively retrieve information from it.

The user's intuition is to blame LibreOffice, but as technologists we should recognize that if you won't ship a working reference implementation for effective use of your 'open standard', then it's just malicious marketing.
NEW OUTBREAK OF EBOLA HITS CONGO
Very similar, though I would say House of Leaves is a vastly better book.

S. is a fun conversation piece, but… it's not a great book. The "base" book is amusing enough, mostly as an exercise in the sort of adventure novel that peaked with Heart of Darkness and mid-century magical realism vis a vis Borges. The metafictional in-the-margins story is just a mess.
> "They had one job: convey the story of how ..."

It seems to me that that wasn't actually their job; that their job really was: Convince marketers that they are doing a good job of conveying the story of how J.J. Abrams created...

Ceros is "Interactive Content Marketing Software." Whether or not they actually do a good job of marketing "S." is irrelevant; they just need to convince would-be marketers that Ceros did a good job of marketing "S.", and that the marketers should pay for a similar treatment of their own product.

When convincing someone that you are doing something well, it helps to actually do it well, but it isn't a prerequisite.
Đưa bể hầm khí biogas composite về nông thôn
This is brilliant!!!
anyone that can explain or refer to explanations of why ocaml boxes floats?
Well Chrome could rewrite to use the approved rederer - probably not. What's worse is Windows 10 S will be locked to only Windows Store Apps. That's why Apple just announced iTunes for Windows heading to the Windows Store.

If you want to use arbitrary software you'll need to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro at which point Microsoft will disavow any warranty as to the performance and reliability.

Nice.
How to Make Elasticsearch Fast
I just read over "Confessions of a used programming language salesman" [1] again.

I didn't quite get it the first time around, but now I get it. Good read. It is about the road from research to production, culminating in LINQ.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=17368623574878046...
Chrome stats accumulated from browser startup to previous page load
chrome://histograms
The display and the business end of the equipment are critical and should not be network-connected (or even have USB ports, for that matter). The part that uploads to whatever big server should have updates all the time. The critical bit should either be connected to the non-critical bit by a genuinely one-way link (e.g. unidirectional fiber) or should use a very small, very carefully audited stack for communication.

This is all doable, but it adds a bit of BOM cost and changes the development model.
Ask HN: Whatever happened to How to websites like Wikihow?
I think there's enormous value in short how to guides, especially if done on subjects like C's and the like. Add a curation system, and voila, seriously useful resource right there. These things used to be popular, what happened?
The primary issue with onerous regulation is that which is unseen. How many companies and entrepreneurs choose not to act or take risk when faced with a future full of ridiculous regulations. Or perhaps the regs simply codify the business model of the larger players, keeping out smaller competitors.
I notice that Microsoft is claiming the exploit is in SMBv1 in their patch description [1].

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012598/title
If you care about writing standard library functions which conform to a certain error bound, always. If one does not care, one should reconsider their routine as part of a standard library.
Did you record the sounds yourself?
This is about a decade old, I think. With a substantial optimisation suite added to ocamlopt since, some of it will be out of date. The advice on inlining in particular is obsolete.
Many people can't pay the cost to be a doctor. The filter seems to be less intelligence and more whether you are willing and able to forego income for a long period of time. Those with family support are more able to do so. This support is not necessarily monetary. It can be as simple as not having to support your parents.
Don't submit them to the Unicode Consortium. Please. Do not want.

There are now over 2600 emoji. Enough already.
As far as it goes I think it is a pretty fair statement. However it is important to know of other decisions in the language which make it easier for the GC. Particularly, the use of tagged values and a GIL. Tagging makes it simpler to distinguish heap values from other values, and the GIL means that the GC does not need to operate concurrently.
Reactfy: No more painfull React's setup
I would be curious as to the agenda of these "Shadow Brokers" it all sounds very Gibsonesque. Recent events have made Neuromancer seem more and more prophetic to me.
Perhaps I'm mistaken but I think the parent was implying that the current political climate (Trump presidency) is going to encourage aggressive/expedient MnA activity, particularly in wireless/similar.
I love my $3/month T-Mobile no-data "senior" plan with 30 minutes/texts a month + 10 cents for minute or text after that, which fits my needs exactly. As long as I can keep a similar plan, I'm happy. I think T-Mobile should be rewarded for being an innovator.
There is some reason to believe that self-reference is at the heart of intelligence. Human beings, for example, talk about themselves all the time. (I even do in this comment.) Hence, it's possible that self-reference might be important in the creation of artificial intelligence.
Because it takes more work to extract useful information from Yelp.
Yeah, it's a mix. I'm leading more toward block and dont know in your model but I steadily see some overpricing or underselling. Given the social aspects, I occasionally wonder how much underselling factors in where the people with valuable skills arent so good at selling them. That vs the companies' filters being too strong.
Well, the world is breeding new antibiotic-resistant bacteria at a terrific rate, and it's not clear that bioresearch will stay ahead in the race:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-strategy-ways-emerging-antibiotic-resistant.html

So your theory's prediction could also come about "naturally".
> It's truly amazing how much the US bill of rights still helps protect individual rights, even in 2017. Truly prescient writing which has impacted both law and culture.

It's kind of weird that people attribute these superpowers to James Madison when the Bill of Rights was mainly originally intended to be ineffectual but mollify states-righters who opposed the Constitution.

Here's Gordon Wood in Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic:

> In the early fall of 1789 the Congress passed the amendments and sent them to the states for ratification. By then many Federalists had come to see that a bill of rights might be a good thing after all. Not only was it the best way of undercutting the strength of Anti-Federalism in the country, but the Bill of Rights that emerged, as Hamilton pointed out, left “the structure of the government and the mass and distribution of its powers where they were.” Anti-Federalists in the Congress began to realize that Madison’s rights-based amendments weakened the desire for a second convention and thus actually worked against their cause of fundamentally altering the Constitution. Madison’s amendments, as opponents of the Constitution angrily came to realize, were “good for nothing” and were “calculated merely to amuse, or rather to deceive.” They affected “personal liberty alone, leaving the great points of the Judiciary & direct taxation &c. to stand as they are.” Before long the Federalists were expressing surprise that the Anti-Federalists had become such vigorous opponents of amendments, since they were originally their idea.
"Tooltips aren't always used."

Some people have implemented icons poorly, so we shouldn't use icons, isn't a compelling argument. Those people might implement anything badly, for instance choosing bad text in a text-based approach.

Agreed re: consistency -- good icon design requires understanding what people expect and matching it, which isn't always easy (as the referenced project demonstrates!)
The section "OCaml Blocks and Values" at https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/memory-representation-... is a good explanation.
Mmmm that's not what half-life means. Half-life means that in 521 years, half of the DNA is "gone", not cut in half.
I feel that this is a over simplified version of a much deeper problem and cannot be concluded based on the experience of the Author alone. There are many things that cause burnout and many different reasons that cause depression. In the case of author the Work did it but there are people in this world who get burnt out because of sickness of their loved ones or even because of ambition & their vision. Interestingly the word depression is not even mentioned in the article.
After having lived in metro Detroit for 16 years prior to moving in 2013, while a part of me thinks it's nice in a "better than nothing" sense, the more realistic part sees this as nothing more than a nice press release which, at the end of the day won't actually do anything for the city.

At the end of the day Detroit is a city which was designed from the ground up to discourage public transport. Combine that with the lack of any sort of a population within walking distance of the Q Line and the line neither going or connecting to anything meaningful, the lack of expansion plans and at the end of the day you just have a shiny train to put in a press release that won't even see enough ridership to even come close to covering it's own cost.

Have a look at the cover photo in this article - Woodward is the centre right road in that image. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/07/opinion/sunda... - This is the road along which the Q Line is travelling. I think you can see exactly how much ridership one can reasonably expect.
Data Programming Prctice Problems
To be honest, I don't notice the difference.
This is one Korean company that does it.
I am in no position to judge your salary.

If you feel that you are being underpaid, then why go to HN about it? The best option would be to go directly to your management and negotiate a better salary. If they won't pay you what you ask for then you would go and find a job elsewhere that pays more than you are currently getting.

If neither approach yields you a higher salary, then the answer is that you are NOT underpaid.
I agree that probably the Founding Fathers did not quite envision the current circumstances when they drafted the Constitution but I don't agree that, therefore, we should abandon the idea. I mean, the Founding Fathers also didn't originally intend that the stuff about not establishing a religion applied to individual states, but I don't think we ought to go back to Massachusetts establishing the Congregational Church, etc.

It is practically a law of nature that any law passed to ban "harmful" speech is soon put to political use.
I still love jQuery and you should too
Knowing people in real life.
Is it really though? I read the London Review of Books regularly and I distinctly remember reading an author of an essay blithely assert "nobody really believes there should truly be free speech even in cases like hate speech" and move on without bothering to offer any arguments.
Not to be too light about this serious topic but anything in COBOL. But that is what I said before I had to program in RPG III for about a year then discovered COBOL was not so bad. But then what are you going to do on an IBM system 34.

Also I will never again write a furniture store inventory and accounts receivable program in Altair Basic.

Incidentally not many of you know that Altair Basic was written using a BSO 8085 emulator running on a PDP 10 somewhere near Harvard. Possibly unlicensed.

Which is a cool idea--if you can't lay your hands on the target hardware, write an emulator for it while you wait. I actually did that for a totally obscure bit of hardware while writing a compiler back end for it. I think it was a flight simulator system.

Admittedly these are more personal than ethical. But isn't there sort of a connection between ethics and a sense of proper design?

[edit typo]
So many ways to do this. What are you trying to scrape? If its light weight, you could use a Chrome plugin called Data Miner. Right now I am using Beautiful Soup for most of my scrapping and love it. Python is incredibly easy to learn and powerful.
>As always, single cases really don't say anything about how widespread a phenomenon is statistically,

For every guy you put in prison, a hundred will self-censor.
x86 did not. x64 did.
Thanks. I imagine it would be like confusing an Australian and a New Zealander. Or a Canadian and an American. We're just so darn similar that it's so important to us to be considered distinct.

Also makes me think about Quebec. Canada would not be Canada without Quebec. But there's always been some sibling rivalry with the province.

Finally, while this isn't Reddit and I have to learn to be more metered about my silliness, I just can't help but include this, as it's quite relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2q0T7QXETs
That is what contracts are for.
> Figuring out suggestions based on preferences and given choices with so constrained options is an easy problem.

Then why do Spotify and Netflix et al persist in identifying artists and songs I've heard of (because of obvious similarities to stuff I like) but have actively ignored (because of any of a number of reasons that don't boil down well into an algorithm), over and over and over again?

I still don't want to watch The Office, Netflix. I won't in another six months, either.

But I could tell a person why not, and they could factor that into their recommendations. It's like the difference between trusting Waze and trusting a local that says "even though the app says go another half mile then turn right, turning right here is way easier, since if you wait you'll have to then quickly make your way across three lanes of traffic in a hundred yards to make your left, and making the right here gives you more time to get over."
FYI - I am not at a YC startup :)
Old features, especially this old, fossil-level old, are just not used in real life. Modern software never enters this ancient mode for any reason. Ancient software is emulated in software again, e.g. in DOSbox.

New features are actively used, and thus actively tested. They are likely much less broken than disused old ones.
There's an interesting discussion by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers of how Korean culture of this type may have caused the crash of Korean Air Flight 801.

>Korean Air had more plane crashes than almost any other airline in the world for a period at the end of the 1990s. When we think of airline crashes, we think, Oh, they must have had old planes. They must have had badly trained pilots. No. What they were struggling with was a cultural legacy, that Korean culture is hierarchical. You are obliged to be deferential toward your elders and superiors in a way that would be unimaginable in the U.S.

>But Boeing and Airbus design modern, complex airplanes to be flown by two equals. That works beautifully in low-power-distance cultures [like the U.S., where hierarchies aren't as relevant]. But in cultures that have high power distance, it's very difficult.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/malcolm...
Other companies seem to be able to handle international law.
When the problem is "we need to be able to run our existing native Windows applications", this matters. No matter what Microsoft does, a country can't be prevented from running their own native Windows applications on their own machines. They have all the necessary software and expertise locally. One strike is not a victory.
> If you run a large installation of computers, taking updates can be a huge risk. Often they can break things, and then you're in the position of being blamed for running an update. Not updating can often lead to much higher stability.

There is such a thing as staged rollouts for this exact type of scenario.
Where is the cynicism and bile?

At this moment, there are 5 top level comments of which yours is one, and the other 4 comments are neutral.
People bother to build little narrow streets all the time in non-slum areas, and their emergency services work fine. It just doesn't happen in North America.
A possible explanation would be this:

People are on a continuum between "extremely lazy" and "extremely hard-working". I know that I would stop working if I had ten million dollars, even though I love programming, because I would prefer to read books all day long. Elon Musk, on the other hand, would probably not stop working even with ten billion dollars, because he is obsessed with creating stuff.

This suggests that most people will generally settle where they are content with what they're making. I know this is true for me (it would be easy for me to make twice what I'm making now, and ten times is achievable but would take a lot more effort than I'm willing to put in); from what I can tell, it's true for all the people I know.

Also, you're equivocating on the "giving money" expression. Giving $10 to a homeless person and to Elon Musk would probably not motivate either of them.
Fair enough on the first two points. That makes sense.

> How so? Far more often, people tell others that their problems are non-problems in an attempt to shut them up, not to help them. What actual value comes from attempting to precisely determine who has it worst?

Now that I think about it, I do see this on the internet a lot, and agree that it's highly unconstructive.

What I was more getting at was a critique of a pervasive idea that everyone's self-reports should be taken at face value, and treated with equal gravity.

A contrived example: imagine someone who feels depressed because they were pumped full of self-esteem as a kid, then found out in their twenties that they weren't that special; and someone who feels depressed because of chemical imbalances they can't control. Both people would use the word "depression" to describe themselves, and in our culture, you're not allowed to say that one is "real" while the another "isn't." But in fact it would probably help the first person to know that their depression isn't, in a strict sense, real: they can get out it by improving their external circumstances, while the second person can't.

(That's not analogous to the situation here; it's just a random example.)
Business is mostly a series of failures, but failures are better than having done nothing.
It may be the but from a couple of talks I've gotten they go to pretty extreme lengths to maintain that performance.