skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found following note in document titled "Turvalliset oven avausratkaisut poistumisreiteillä" (roughly translates to "Safe door opening solutions in exit routes"):

> Tiloja, joiden toiminnan luonne edellyttää henkilöiden eristämistä, ei käsitellä tässä. Nämä kohteet käsitellään tapauskohtaisesti pelastusviranomaisten kanssa.

Roughly that means that the document doesn't cover areas which require isolating people and their safety should be discussed case-by-case with safety officials, so it's likely they would require some similar measurements as there are in places like prisons.
I concede that "broken" is too strong a word. "Subpar" would be more accurate. Like a 7-bit MIME gateway in an 8-bit world.
> Price's law states that the square root of the number of people in a domain do 50% of the work. This means the number of "useful" people increases linearly with size but the number of not-so-useful people increases exponentially.

Assuming you mean that the smaller group accomplishing half the work is "useful" and the larger group also accomplishing half the work is "not useful", it certainly doesn't mean that.

It means, very clearly, that the number of "not useful" people increases linearly with size, and the number of "useful" people increases sublinearly. But even if your definition of "size" included only useful people, x^2 is a polynomial function of x, not an exponential function of it.
The photo was taken fifty years ago tomorrow (!), at the event covered here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/19.... Check out the photos—everyone looks like the poster guy. More here: https://www.google.com/search?q=October+21,+1967+march+penta...

It's hard to fathom that what is now the normal-young-person look used to be so radical. Or that it was forged in a handful of years, an astonishingly short time. That's another thing about the photo collection I mentioned: to our eye, the kids all look normal. Deviant social experiment is the last thing that comes to mind.
Probably it should be dealt with structurally, a very small anteroom that only allows access to one person and can't be entered (without obvious force/misbehaviour) until the security door is locked again, like a turnstile before the door. That makes it far more uncomfortable not to challenge someone as they'd have to severely encroach your personal space to gain access.
Redux-zero: A lightweight state container based on Redux
Maybe not dissolution, but surely:

1. Such a big fine that their stock goes broke

2. Arresting the execs who took high salaries but did not take their jobs seriously enough
As a junior engineer with only 4 years of experience it is best to take all feedback good and bad to analyze what you may or may not be doing that is not receiving approval acceptable to make it in the production build.

Are you following code style guidelines, is your code secure, is your code fast, are you make large code pushes that takes too long to review and test, are you submitting tests when required, are you updating your documentation, did you follow spec, does your code solve a problem related to a feature, bug request, etc.? If you are then there could be other things that might be outside of what you are doing that are not being properly communicated to you at all.

Have you talked to the team lead about the issues in your code to work towards improving the code you commit? Though it would be very beneficial to have the capability to submit your code to a dev CI/CD system that tells you what is wrong with your code automatically before you submit it for production review.

Though ultimately if you are not receiving feedback on how to improve the code your committing you should bring it up with management as it is the senior and above job to help guide and mentor junior developer's or new team members with any issues in their code. If this is not being done then it could be a leadership, managerial or cultural problem that needs to be resolved early on.

If you are still getting large rejections could you give us a few anonymized samples of some of the rejection notes on your commits?
Sure, inasmuch as taking labor without payment is slavery.
I'm in my 40s and still paying off the debt incurred to get 2 business degrees. Maybe the advice should be "don't major in business!" :P
This is not a civil comment by Hacker News' standards. Please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fixing this will have to be the next step. The first step was getting the body cams.

Also, you could probably file a suit to get the unredacted video, and you could make a big stink about this. That's how you get to the next step.
Brainstorm: what if we really make a vim plugin for pixel art?

I see this to be hugely practical. It will enable rapid charting in source code documentation, and also, solve the table formatting problem once and for all.

Edit: shapes? Patterns? Gradients? Dithering? (Think about cacao) lasso tool? Semantic movement? Like, w moves over all reddish blocks
AFAICT, it makes available to the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation the special powers available to some existing set during states of emergency.
The Runescape Players Who Farm Gold So They Don't Starve to Death
> (But yeah, this is something that is good for employees and bad for employers.)

From an employer's perspective it's great so long as everyone else is doing it and not them :-)
Even if the patents were worth $0, there's a big difference between a basket of assets worth $2.9B and a basket of assets worth $10.55B.
(I'm not American)
Smells like deception, can't you sue? You could in Europe.
If you think the definition of "hippie" is exclusively about hair, you've got some reading to do.
Thats okay. You're just not a proponent of free speech. Free speech is the deplorable and socially unacceptable.

It was once unacceptable to suggest black people had rights or that women should vote. To think we are at the apex of morality is hubris. Thus, I feel freedom of expression remains a vital component in modernity.
>"The problem is that a study that's significant at p = 0.05 but not p = 0.01 is worth something to science. It indicates something worth doing several more studies on"

I still don't understand this one. The null model is (almost) always false. In this situation a small p-value is only a matter of sample size and measurement precision. How can it possibly indicate you should work more on something?

One thing I think may make sense is to get a bunch of p-values and then choose the lowest 10 or whatever to focus on for further work. There is no reason to include an arbitrary cut-off here though.
Remember when twitter was praised for being part of what helped the Arab Spring?

Now both corrupt and moral alike can be clamped down by these rules. Who will be the arbiter of what is considered a "violent organisation" and what is considered fair? Are "freedom fighters" on the side of good exempt from these suspensions or are twitter now simply too much part of the establishment to care for the next revolutions?

I can understand that twitter absolutely need to clamp down on spread of hate-speech and the spread of horrendous videos such as those that were produced by ISIS/ISIL for propaganda and recruitment purposes. But vague rules leads to selective enforcement which could be worrying for free speech and democracy in future.
Poor Oscar was just click-baiting, like the Paris Review.

Here, have a Fake Steve of 2011 vintage: http://www.fakesteve.net/2011/01/my-talk-with-a-left-wing-ha...

Same old, but it seems ages ago.
Interesting - I remember seeing CSIS at CS student events in Vancouver, but I don't think I saw CSE.
Until you get the separation of concerns that you are arguing would make publishing surveillance footage a non-issue, it is an issue.

Not everyone has the same privilege as a college student here and now.
(For anyone interested, I can rant a little)

This problem is easily fixable code-wise, but there's hesitation to diverge from the standards upon which Mastodon is based, and the original standards body behind this particular issue has long since disbanded. Other than monkeypatching Mastodon (and potentially breaking GNU social federation), the solution would be to re-convene a working standards body to implement a "correct" spec for this problem. Since nobody seems willing to do that, monkeypatching Mastodon to make an order of magnitude more users comfortable with switching to it is probably my recommendation.

The world needs more protocol standards bodies and more engaged, engineering-minded parliamentarians.
The author mentions needing to package python for distributing the product, which suggests that the product is intended for Windows. Which means that clr (unlike python and jvm) is probably preinstalled on most of his customers' machines.
Use SIP trunking with unlimited minutes. Can be had from all sorts of providers. I'm using anveo.com.
I'm pretty sure the wireless tap is some form of challenge response/one time password so it's probably not a huge issue. It's not like they can make unlimited purchases just by reading it. It's slightly more secure than just a credit card number.
Ask HN: What will make the market collapse?
The market keeps going up it's almost impossible to see what would make it collapse beside a complete distrust in the US or Chinese economy.

What could make it collapse?
Ask HN: Do you wish you could leave comments on Job Posts?
Would you like to be able to ask questions about a job post? If yes, would you prefer them to be public or private?
> How does that pay the bills? Maybe back in the day, when you could expect to stay at your employer for the whole of your career such tokens of appreciations were meaningful. But nowadays there's no common purpose in the employer-employee relationship, and these things are about as worthless as the medals they used to hand out in the East Bloc.

You're absolutely right that we do not expect to stay with one employer for life. Maybe I misunderstood it but it seems like the point is that because we don't stay with the same employers for our whole lives, the original article equates it to working on a movie or a television show where we credit people. Maybe we can even create some sort of an IMdb as a who's who of software development. It would be so cool, don't you think?
the gifs are annoying, imo.
> You can sort of think of MIR as "core Rust", in that it's the final, desugared form of everything.

Though I don't want anyone to get the impression that MIR is a source-compatible subset of Rust; it's a pretty different thing in its own right. (Worth clarifying because one could imagine a "fully-desugared" maximally-explicit subset of Rust, where e.g. all method calls are maximally disambiguated via UFCS, all types are explicitly annotated, no lifetimes are elided, all macros are expanded, etc.)
> Even the most optimistic AI scenario seems pretty depressing to me... its consciousness would dwarf our own and we would be pretty meaningless

This seems like a classic optimist/pessimist situation, like when we find out the world/universe is bigger than we imagined. I think our brains are poor at dealing with absolute values, so we use relative ones instead: when we discover some unfathomable new landscape, our minds "zoom out" to encompass them, which makes the previous stuff look small in comparison.

That's just (another) limitation of the meat in our heads though. The world doesn't actually get smaller when our transportation improves: it's just as vast as it was for any explorer; the Earth didn't become less special when we discovered that the planets were worlds; Sol didn't become less immense and powerful when we discovered that the stars are other suns; our solar system didn't become less intriguing when we found exoplanets; the Milky Way didn't lose significance when we discovered other galaxies; baryons didn't lose their complexity when we discovered dark matter; etc.
Because the person who writes a lot of blog posts is the person who spends a lot of time marketing themselves but not actually getting shit done. If you think a blog post is proof of knowledge, well wow, you'd be shocked at what academia's peer review process is.
Rather appropriate for today.
Nice 'diesel gate' style hack.
Show HN: Google Search results in extension popup
One of the things I love about HN is that people get really pedantic about things like math terms used in casual conversation. That's not sarcasm, I actually do love it. Thanks for increasing the specificity of the language.
Why is "I'm going to kill s73ver_" not ok, but "I hope someone comes over and kills s73ver_" just fine?

I think your definition is far too narrow, and makes distinctions without a difference. I don't believe it matters at all if the person legitimately intends to commit violence against me. It's going to have the same impact.
I agree, but when you paid $12B for the basket, I think it's fair to be interested in whether it came out to be worth more or less than that.
Heard a story recently of a major MSP forgetting to disable the Ethernet port on the back of a set top box, and it provided access to a VLAN with direct access to the company’s back-end systems. They didn’t have passwords on many of their databases because they assumed the firewall would protect them. Pwnage ensued.

This is a big company you have definitely heard of. You didn’t hear about the data breach because they basically paid the hacker off with a security consulting contract, then said he was a pen tester. This happens all the time.

Most companies are really bad at security. The bigger they are, the worse they are.
Thanks for the answer. I figured out how to narrow down the exclusivity definition so that the partners will be satisfied and my opportunities to sell the patent licenses to others will not be limited significantly.
The idea is to define the exclusivity related to the scope of the patent. When exclusivity was defined out of the patent scope, intuitively I had bad feeling, that something is not right. Now I can sleep calm. Thanks! :)
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Hmm, maybe you and I have a different definition of 'ninja programmer'.. I, and my coworkers, define it as someone the is highly skilled and is able to get in and get the job done quickly and effectively.

I don't see how you can stereotype based on a skill, ignoring physical qualities of the people with the skill. Maybe we're just naïve.
This essay seems to ignore the concept of "neural networks" (NN), both biological and artificial.

Now, that doesn't mean that our current artificial representations of neural networks are anywhere close to how biological neural networks work (for instance, as far as I know, we have yet to find anything like "backpropagation" in biological NNs - but if anyone knows differently, I'd be most interested in learning).

But artificial NNs are the closest we've gotten to something that seems to work how brains (biological NNs) work, and how they are structured. We have a multitude (and seemingly ever growing) of models, but there is something lacking - something almost seemingly fundamental.

For instance, we have all of these different models, but none of them are "general" in the sense that there is a single one that can be used for different tasks. Not only that, but there are also a multitude of means for simulating the stimulus/activity/firing of the neurons in the network; for a while the "activation function" was a sigmoid filter, but today best results are found with RELU - then there's the whole concept of "spiking" networks which don't work like such (they seem somewhat "time dependent" from my understanding). There are tons more where those came from.

Now - in this field I don't have much knowledge; I'm no where near an expert, and I am certain it shows. At the same time, based on what I do know, I have this feeling in the back of my head that while what we have built does seem to work ok on certain classes of problems, it isn't the answer.

I think what we've built is overly complex; I think there is an answer out there much simpler. It may be something that needs new hardware. I don't think it will involve GPUs or any other linear algebra methodology (hardware or software). It might likely be one of those "forehead slappers" when we do discover it, whatever it may be.

It's a nagging feeling I have - maybe completely wrong. It just feels like we are in a certain manner trying to build an airplane that flaps its wings to fly, when the answer is ultimately much simpler. Maybe my feelings are false.
humans.txt already exists. http://humanstxt.org/
Even Seven light years is a vast, vast distance. The limit isn't 100 light years, it's something like one or less light years.

Any ordinary radio transmission dissipates the square of the distance involved. At a certain level, transmissions become so faint they are indistinguishable from quantum noise.

You can find the math done on Quora (apologies for semi-walled-garden link). Remember, there's difference between getting a signal whose properties one knows and getting arbitrary signal - if there a strong GPS transmitter or something we knew, we could wait long enough and get micro-data. But arbitrary signal, no, information theory says no. (read all the answers together).

https://www.quora.com/How-far-can-radio-transmissions-from-E...
that's too bad.
I think you're on to something, there.
I totally agree, but I hold different standards for developers of apps than the developers of operating systems. I'd expect that at some point in the QA process software goes through an accessibility check, especially at a company like Apple.
Serverlessconf New York: Monitoring Serverless Performance to Manage Cost
See the difference is cops - get away with anything/almost anything. So without a 'penalty' or fear factor for doing wrong, what's the point if they do, other than possible public humiliation?
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Without President Trump twitter would be useless in all honestly. It was slowly dying similar to tumblr, myspace, etc. But Trump revitalized it and made it a staple of politics. Great way to bypass the media and talk directly to the people
Qualcomm Tests First 5G Silicon Specimen – Microwaves and RF
I think it's because, if Twitter users can interact with Mastadon users, there's little incentive for them to leave Twitter. It's like when you could run Windows programs on OS/2. There was little incentive for developers to create native OS/2 programs, and then little incentive for people to run OS/2.
You realize the internet is real right? There are actual people getting work done and building relationships on Twitter. If someone posts information about you, others could show up at your house or lie to your boss about you. If your feed is full of gross descriptions of rape it's hard to get work done. If a mob of hundreds of people start wishing you harm, you might realize it's not just "words". And large groups are forming now to sway elections.
I remember reading this in 2013. Does anyone know what became of the drug they're talking about?
Apple aren't a monopoly, they aren't a problem in the way Facebook and Google are.
Where is "here" for you? California is a big state, and outside some major cities traffic is not the issue you make it out to be. CA also has world class roads for enthusiasts.
(0) True, but the default assumption really should be that the indirection tax is fine. There are plenty of non-realtime C apps. If you're really seeing a slowdown, then by all means trade off some of that abstraction power.

(1) & (2) You could use conversion functions, no? E.g.:

typedef struct ordering_t* ordering;
typedef struct person_t* person;
typedef struct business_t* business;

ordering ordering_of_person(person);
ordering ordering_of_business(business);
void* sort(void*, ordering);
> Why can't companies like Visa, Mater Card, etc give ID Password facility for easy pay online?

They already do. You can pay with a username and password, just like PayPal, or Amazon Pay, etc.

Visa Checkout: https://usa.visa.com/pay-with-visa/visa-checkout.html

Masterpass: https://masterpass.com/en-us/

AMEX Express Checkout: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/content/express-checkout/

It's up to merchants to accept and integrate them in their shopping carts.
I don't turn off cookies.
Most Debit Cards in India require a PIN to verify the transaction on POS (and sometimes online as well, in case One Time Password doesn't work / not available) which actually makes sense.

Now, the same debit card (if international) would not require a pin/otp in case of transaction happening on a US payment gateway. Now, it really depends how banks (or the country) handles the credit/debit card transactions.

Here's a good read on why US has the least secure cards: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/us-dete...
At least in my corner of Google the direction seems pretty clear. We are trying make our storage stack cheaper and more efficient so we can pass the savings to internal (other PA's) and external (Google Cloud Platform) customers.

The big thing I see happening at Google is that as Google has grown, it has become more and more like a "big company". So that means different PA's (product areas) will have different experiences, and different cultures. I wouldn't call them autonomous and separate business units, but there is a trend in that direction. And honestly, I think that is a Good thing. It means the company is scaling.

It does mean that the company is not going to have "one" direction. The last time we had something like that was one Vic pushed everything into Social, and it's clear that was a disaster. So Android is going to have its core direction, and You Tube is going to have its core direction, and Technical Infrastructure/Cloud is going to have its core direction..... and I'm OK with that.

Finally, as far as "half the company don't really have anything to do" --- that certainly isn't my experience at TI. We have way too many things we would like to do, and we're hiring. :-)

P.S. Google is not a dysfunctional big company. Eight years ago I left IBM, and so I know what dysfunctional big companies are like. I've also worked at VA Linux systems, so I also have a very good idea what dysfunctional small companies/startups are like. As far as I'm concerned, Google's is a place where I'm quite happy. Is it perfect? Of course not; but it's better than all of my other previous employment experiences.
A better way to put this is, in general, refactoring code to make it healthier, or improving product excellence by fixing some long running bugs, does not get the same visibility as launching something.

However, to be fair, I haven't been at many companies where "cleaned up code base with large scale refactor and improved documentation" gets you noticed. It's just not as sexy as a customer facing launch.
I chose English. The top five it found for me were:
1. Chinese
2. German
3. Looks English, except for the word "astronomie"
4. French
5. English
If Twitter starts censoring mainstream political speech by even the POTUS, I think that'd draw more attention than they want.

Right now and in the future they can censor people that few people care about and probably have a much bigger impact without any outrage outside of niche communities.
huh? Facebook and Google are monopolies?
I've found that companies that are serious about this will offer some form of compensation (gift card, etc)
He said:

>Police officers are almost entirely decent people . . .

Between 20% and 40% abuse their families. Does an entirely decent person abuse his family?

I'm not aware of a higher family abuse rate among EMTs, and a quick Google search produced nothing, so I'd appreciate any sources. Your reasoning makes sense, but I can just as easily say that violent people are more inclined to be police officers and soldiers - for obvious reasons. I'd guess it's some of both (some high stress and the attraction of the occupation to violent people).
Building a Python monorepo for fast, reliable development
It’s supposed to be a low profile vehicle
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