skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunning-kruger effect (DKE) maybe part of the salesperson mentality. But I see it as more than just DKE.

You can be a DK without any pressure. With research/academia,

- there is a lot of pressure to excel and show that your work is the next best thing since sliced bread. Another popular phrase is 'publish or perish'

- the audience of such researchers are burdened with information overload, and that adds to the difficulty of having your voice heard, leading to a habit of taking shortcuts and trying to wow the audience when you really didn't do much.
Don't forget their long status as a mockingbird operation. You got downvoted with no comment because there is very little intellectually honest retort to be had, but in their defense, the surveillance state and general degredation of journalism as a whole has affected much more than just WaPo.

The fourth estate is dying and the internet, which should be it's replacement, is under legislative attack because it is a threat to the oligarchy.
Maybe if the entire population was like the UK this might work - Americans are rather less healthy in general - and one of the "inefficiencies" the UK system does away with is paying for treatments that offer particularly bad value for money, so you'd have to tell a bunch of cancer patients that tough, they're not getting chemo, now go and die quietly, and even then it's not clear whether UK levels of cost efficiency are even possible in the US.
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Yes, and what kind of reasoning is that? You do not fork a language to make your framework a little more convenient. It's inane. That's how you end up with both a dead language, and a dead framework.

Microsoft saved them from themselves. (I expect they could have arranged to have the feature added without first publicly declaring their intention to fork the language, but that's above their community engagement skill level.)

Google's Closure Compiler was the best version of compiled JavaScript for five years. It should have been the winner, but Google did nothing to make it palatable to the open-source community (docs are a disaster, the code is full of unexplained Google-specific workarounds, it integrates with nothing), got trampled, and now they're forced to adopt someone else's tech to remain relevant. Google is so bad at this.
When I multiply 5 and 6 am I creating 30?
I am Mauritian and the whole country is incredibly proud of this achievement, small David against huge Goliath.

Of course, we also know that there is still a long way to go before the conclusion.
The keyword "auto" means int?
I wonder about Ryzen's new SHA1/SHA256 instructions, not only for Bitcoin but also things like SHA1 collisions.
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That would be true if marijuana were an issue separate from everything else. But in reality it's a choice between multiple types of harm - the lesser of them is better.
Gold does not have to be the official currency for people to use it to save their money. They are free to do so now or any time.
I suspect that this result extends to most painkillers. It was demonstrated before that emotional pain and physical pain are partially regulated by the same mechanisms, so painkillers work for emotional pain too (though less effective than specialized drugs) -- which will prevent sharing emotional pain from some situations, which can be reinterpreted as diminished empathy.
“Location-based” marketing coupled with dynamic pricing
Yes, a man obsessed with typography (fonts, kerning, pixel perfection), man who often mentioned how calligraphy class changed his life would stand in front of this crooked abomination.
It means automatic storage duration (i.e., on the stack). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2192547/where-is-the-c-a...
LOL For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to view the One America News Network, they think the guys over at Fox are a bunch of liberal pussies.
I'm unsure about the commercial licensing aspect of it if that's what you're asking, but mayavi has both a GUI interface as well as a scripting interface depending on how you want to use it. In my experience it's essentially the library to use for 3D plotting when matplotlib isn't cutting it.

(I just checked wikipedia and it seems it's released under BSD license. Unsure if other products available which are built on top of it)
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I had never heard the name "Acetainophen", apparently it's the same as Paracetamol.
Ask HN: Self taught programmers without CS degree working at one of the big 5?
Self-taught programmers without CS degree working at one of the big 5 Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon. Kindly share your experience, how you did it & how happy you feel.
I agree that the ratios are most important. I tend to do highly targeted job searching (i.e. carefully screen for roles that would want me, that I would want).

My most recent job search had an 85% response/interview rate, and 42% of the total applications resulted in an offer... of course I only applied to 7 jobs :)
My favorite HN moment was when we were all debating whether a crew could burn a shipwrecked boat for several years. Someone who happened to be burning a boat for fuel for years stepped in and confirmed it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803552
I recommend The Real News, Jacobin, and wsws.org. WSWS has some interesting geopolitical coverage that I don't see elsewhere that makes it worth reading despite being very opinionated [1].

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/17/pola-j17.html
[1]
Like those thousands Facebooks and Reddit mods, whose job is to deal with unspeakable horrors every day.

Though I suspect that acetaminophen might not be enough in this case, and they use a stronger drug with proven effect of easing emotional pain: ethanol.
Afghanistan's All-Girl Robotics Team Can't Get Visas to the US
My copy of The TTL Data Book suggests that the ALU was able to do XOR, an earlier blog post stated that microcode opcode bits go through a table instead of being fed directly to the 74181 function pins.

I wonder why Xerox didn't want to use all the ALU features.
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Could you explain both of those in layman terms?
Thank you. I failed in marketing. This is a very specific market.
'auto' means 'automatic storage duration' and does not carry type information.
Back when I worked for the UK version of Minitel (Prestel) for high profile events such as budget day staff where asked not to use it.

Thigh as I worked on the Byzantine Prestel billing system we had permission to use the budget pages and also listened live to the speech in case the government did something fun like change VAT (sales tax) in the middle of the month.
Hmm. In contrast to a GPU / ASIC implementation, where thermal load is spread equally across the die, I'd guess that coin-mining usage levels will lead to local overheating and thus throttling - or worse, if there's no thermal sensor for this area, even permanent damage.
> The government face-planted themselves miserably with demonetization experiment. They thought it would be easy to muscle everyone to use electronic payment without understanding the ground realities. The economy is performing below expectations solely due to it and they still haven't disclosed what they have achieved(good) with demonetization.

You're completely missing the point of demonitization. Modi got elected partly on the promise of doing something about black money and corruption - which is what pulled down the previous government.

Demonitization was basically a way to demonstrate that he was keeping that promise. For months on the end, towns were filled with stories of the corrupt rich desperate trying to get rid of their unaccounted for cash and government officials getting raided.

In other words, it was primarily a political exercise designed to show he will take action if he makes a promise. The vicarious pleasure the common man got hearing about the discomfiture of the corrupt rich I reckon is more than sufficient to get his government re-elected and also give him some slack from people if the GST thing falls flat - given they trust him more due to demonetization.
Show HN: A JavaScript calculator using the latest ES6 features
Which do you trust more? The decisions of a government, or the laws of mathematics?
Author here.

A few notes:

I'm not proposing high touch methods are incorrect. I'm proposing there exists an alternative.

HR professionals, the receiving end, spend their day spamming people on LinkedIn, email, etc. The same is true about sales people, marketers, and anybody trying to get the word out, except they do it at scale. I'm a little surprised by how many folks take issue with messaging people who might be interested and also do exactly what you're doing.

If everybody does this, then job hunting becomes more like marketing since your message/resume has to stand out more. Consumers are bombarded with messages every day, they're good at ignoring things they don't want. The folks doing the hiring would become better "consumers".

Engineering roles are, in general, way easier to land than a non-engineering roles because there aren't enough decent engineers.
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s/This popular painkiller/Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol,/

I, for one, never studied chemistry.
How did you not unlearn how to play?
Intel's chips have those too - but I highly doubt the speedup will provide even close to gpu power efficiency.
Maybe we can start one?
Condescending, incoherent, and wrong. If you think that CS is about how computers work in practice you should take that up with Dijkstra and Knuth. It's an absurd position. If you think that 'can read code, can debug' is the benefit of a university education then what about that takes four years to teach?

I'm a self-taught programmer. I talked my way into my first coding job with no experience and learned as I went. For the theory side of things I went with MIT and Stanford's online coursework, and the relevant papers when appropriate (e.g Turing 1936, Shannon 1948, McCarthy 1960). These days I'm getting into Haskell and J -- I hate being outgolfed by the array languages. Recently I audited a couple courses for a local coding academy. At the coding school, the default expectation is that you will be working with a framework that you have no prior knowledge of, possibly in an entirely new language, and expected to complete three to five projects per day, with specifications, unit and integration tests, and a meaningful commit history, five days per week for twenty-odd weeks. Most people require significant amounts of study time outside of class. This is not descriptive of CS coursework. It's almost like there are two related-but-distinct bodies of knowledge are being pursued in different ways!

If you have the idea that bootcamps are easy then I definitely invite you to try one sometime. Discard the idea that what the university and bootcamp are offering are somehow equal. A CS education may or may not be a better preparation for a career in programming, but it's not good job training, and that's on purpose. If things were otherwise, coding schools would not need to exist, would they?

A CS degree is a loosely-correlated proxy for being able to code. It happens to be very easily measured. This leads small minds to believe that it is a good proxy, especially if they happen to have CS degrees. I'm sure the rationalizations and condescension come naturally.
Money has 3 main uses: a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value.

Bitcoin works reasonably well as a medium of exchange, as long as transactions are confirmed relatively quickly.

Bitcoin prices are pretty much always tied to the price in US dollars or some other fiat currency. Online prices can be changed dynamically, so Bitcoin doesn't really need to be its own unit of account.

But it never really works as a store of value, due to its volatility. I have about $20 in Bitcoin today, but I have no idea what that will be worth in a week, so it's risky to keep any large amount of money in Bitcoin. The safest way to buy things in Bitcoin would be to buy it, and then immediately send it to whomever you're buying from.

So I think that Bitcoin will be much more usable when its price stabilizes, and there's much less friction with each purchase.
It's just as bad in politics. I lie to all women I meet in professional settings: I drop a line about my "fiancé" whom I'm very much in love with. It's sad and crazy how quickly that puts most women at ease.
When did anyone ever say inhaling smoke is harmless?
Bitcoin will enter mainstream progresively, and will be replacing Gov currencies as fast as the society realizes it. Once reached the point we decide there is no need for Govs to manage us we'll be free. Dont worryabout concepts like i nflation deflation, having a fix number of bitcoin is like havin a fixed number of tons of gold. Each bitcoin will vary its value in a offer/demand basis, naturally
That's not a thought experiment, it's just a statement.
Wait, what's the contradiction? You can definitely have liberal fascism. Italy under Mussolini is considered by many scholars as a liberal, fascist regime. There's lots of scholarly work on the subject.
Whoa, why is this downvoted so heavily? It's obviously a joke, and it's funny because Jobs really cared about typography, so he probably would have objected to this.
Trump Fraud Commission Asked States to Send Voter Info Over Insecure Email
I think Americans in general suffer from widespread righteous indignation. How dare you park in my space. How dare you disagree with me. How dare you say an inappropriate comment. Agreed that we are a very litigious society, but it's that righteous indignation that fuels it.
Only Goldmont Atoms I think.
This book is an incredibly good book for making this kind of decision: https://www.amazon.com/How-Will-Measure-Your-Life/dp/0062102...
alloy wheel and so many other items from performance cars now only bought for aesthetics make rides less smooth but people with your rationalization never skips on them.
The original article is also generally biased and filled with opinion. At least the comments might have a diversity of bias.
The majority of survey respondents seemingly disagree. Also, you argue a false dichotomy.
I said already:

> [...] this would be semantically identical to not sharing anything.

Erlang's data sharing (and no, not all binary data, just over a certain
threshold; if you want to nitpick, be diligent and precise) is
merely optimization trick, highly uninteresting when it comes to discussing
type systems (because its semantics are identical to not sharing anything at
all).

BTW, if you talk about Erlang, use proper Erlang's terminology. Erlang doesn't
have "actors", it has "processes".
Ask HN: How to get real SEO improvement?
I have a website (https://enlight.ml) that has really poor SEO results.

What kind of meta tags or strategies would work to improve rankings significantly?
As a married man, I'm wary of going to lunch alone with someone of the opposite sex - for most of the reasons in the article. Not because I would say or do anything inappropriate but for two reasons - the appearance of impropriety and it's way too easy to get caught up in emotional affairs and to take your eye of the ball in your own relationship. If for no other reason is that it's easy to get caught up in how great your coworker is - you work with them everyday, you by definition have a lot in common, and your work relationship is "easy". You don't have to worry about all of the compromises and stresses that are involved in maintaining a household and you only see each other's best self.

On the other hand, if I did have both male and female reports, I would treat them all equally - no solo lunch meetings, no late nights alone, etc.

When I was single, and most of my coworkers were single it was a lot different.
Interesting implications for fixed location energy storage. A palette sized tote of water is about 1000 liters, so 1.45MWh/tote. That is roughly a month of US household electrical consumption.

I'm not finding numbers for efficiency of creating the formic acid, and for the catalyst I find notes that the good ones use expensive elements. So I guess when my new lead acid battery bank wears out in 8 years I won't be installing a formic acid system.
Privacy lol I bet France telecom could look at every thing and as it was tied to the phone line it wasn't very anonymous.
Imagine a world where crime is literally impossible to get away with. In such a world, new laws would have no need to follow common standards of morality or decency, and could be made arbitrarily specific. Politicians and policymakers could simply decide what they wanted the law to be, and would have no need for common people or police to report crimes or enforce these laws.

Today, there are many laws that could not be made, because doing so would be ridiculous; almost nobody would report anyone breaking them, and police would almost never enforce them. There are some such laws today, created in the distant past, and the cultural norms have simply changed around them. Imagine if all such current laws would be impossible to break without automatically being detected with irrefutable evidence. There have been outdated laws in the past that have eventually been overturned, since they were obsolete by community standards. If they were instead impossible to disobey, where would the incentive be to abolish them? What would the laws of such a society eventually look like?
Argentina: home to the majority of Latin America’s tech unicorns
So someone with low salary who goes into debt buying luxuries is perceived as being more successful and gets promoted as a result? What you point out is that without real knowledge people are forced to rely on less accurate proxies.
Oh, we look abroad. We like what Indonesia is doing with mandatory health savings accounts that is owned by the citizen (can't be raided by crooked politicians, a la social security). I wonder if you can explain: if socialized health care is so great, why do so many Brits purchase supplemental private health insurance?

Any study or metric, huh? Sounds like you prefer lies, damn lies, and statistics.

For instance, the US is hands-down the best in the world for intensive care after premature births. But you wouldn't know that if you just looked at infant mortality rates as compared to other countries because they use a different standard for what constitutes a "live birth". We actually place some value on life and work really hard to rescue the preemies, but that skews our numbers because lots of them still die.

When you make blanket statements, try bolstering them with some truth or else you sound like an ideologue.

Drill down a little. Make sure you shake those assumptions you've been fed and make the ideas resilient to attacks.
Britain argued that it should be resolved bilaterally. America took its side. But with its State Department understaffed and its president widely distrusted, its lobbying effort failed. Britain’s diplomacy was no better; the name of Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, “raised an eyebrow or a laugh each time it was mentioned”, according to one person present. In an inauspicious sign for “Empire 2.0”, the nickname British officials use for their plan to forge closer links with the Commonwealth, the vast majority of Britain’s former colonies backed Mauritius or abstained.

The money quote. Some chickens seems to be circling near the roost.
yes it was the old central state controlled telephone system model a bit like OSI x.400 and x.500 where supposed to work.
"GOP breakfast includes a bowl of Tylenol"
same environment other than memory constraints?

... I'd think this wouldn't even work at all
I flag anything from WSJ because of the paywall that can't easily be worked around.

Besides that, this topic has been discussed as nauseum on HN.
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14682816
uBlock Origin already has this. I don't see any ads on the article.
In microcode, the Alto provides the 16 most useful functions of the 74181 (calling most of the 74181's operations "mostly useless"). This includes XOR and OR. However, the Alto copied the Data General Nova's instruction set, which doesn't include OR and XOR, so you can't use these instructions from machine code. I think there's extended microcode that provides "extra" instructions for XOR and OR and an improved BCPL compiler to make use of them, but I haven't tracked it down.

See the Alto hardware manual (page 4) on bitsavers for details: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/xerox/alto/...
SHA256 doesn't require all that much storage nor code --- a few KB at most for a simple, not very fast implementation.
Quick first point, the proper term to be used should be cannabis.

Back about 10 years ago I looked into this, the main problem was that the University of Mississippi was using very questionable methods to produce what they call "research-grade" cannabis. They were growing and then doing "thc extracts" (focused on just the thc content, not the other cannabinoids), and then spraying the concentrated THC onto what everyone who interacted with it called questionable "plant-matter", supposedly so they could more carefully control the THC percentages.

In essence, for a long time, all the studies that were using UoM cannabis were actually not using natural cannabis, so it's no wonder many of the studies failed in general.

Personally, after working in genetics for a while (just as a sysadmin), I came to the conclusion that the big guys like Monsanto just wanted to get all the IP/patents on the genomics so they could then do modified versions it would be illegal to grow on your own, and as soon as they get all that sorted, they will use their corruption of congress to get it legalized under their control.

On a more constitutional note, I personally have come to the conclusion that the government primarily has abused the commerce clause (as it has in many other instances) in order to get to this level of control in the "drug war". On top that, as a general principle, under natural rights, I don't think either the federal or state government has any rightful power to restrict what I do or do not do with my body, whether that be drink coke, smoke cannabis, or eat lettuce. Therefore on princple as a constitutionalist, I have to admit the real proper move is to legalize drugs and treat them as medical issue.

One of my primary criticisms of the recent recreational/legalization movement is that often in those states it is still illegal to grow your own. I think this is also unconstitutional, because there is no reason to require people to buy from someone else when they can easily grow it on their own.

What's next, you may not grow your own tomatoes or jalapeno peppers? A overly dramatic rhetoric for sure, but you get my point.

The other problem is that the drug war has essentially enabled pre-crime to become commonplace because that is what it is on it's face. We arrested that drug user because he is doing drugs and therefore will eventually commit a crime...

One more thing, I get really tired of people who pop adderall all week, get drunk all weekend, and smoke cigars of acting all high and mighty about people smoking cannabis.
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Well, the current president's Attorney General believes marijuana is just barely less bad than heroin. Not an exaggeration, not putting words in his mouth. You're right that the American public in general is fine with it, but evangelicals (and social conservatives in general) have a much greater voice in our government than their numbers in the general population would merit.
I'm sorry if this makes you uncomfortable. It's just true.