skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First dev job after 2 years of working non-tech and doing data entry. It was a debt collection agency (took whatever dev job I could get) that specialized in student loans. Well, it turns out they were doing interest calculations in SQL Server. Funny thing, well not so funny, is that the output was generating interest that was incorrect. I sketched out the numbers and did the math on pen and paper and found the interest should be and what they were calculating were different. I fixed the bug and things were fine after that.

The other horror story was at my current job. There was a data transformation that needed to happen to take data from one system and put it in another. Both databases happened to be on the same server so the person who designed this decided to use several SQL stored procedures to accomplish this task. This is where the fun began. First, if there was already a column named something, such as "BirthDate" and this individual wanted to use a column with the same name, instead of re-using the column that already exists and populating it with the correct data, he would create a column named "BirtthDate". Now that example is made up, but he would frequently purposely misspell words to make unique column names to avoid conflicts with columns in the same table that had the same name. He also would do calculations in his stored proc but then would never use the result, or he would set the variable holding the result to a static value lower in the SQL stored proc. It made things very interesting.
In the past, I've received both invitation and rejection emails around 5-6pm PST
Timeline and Support – Bitcoin Segwit2x and Bitcoin Gold
Genode: a capability-oriented microkernel OS
how do you know that "hallucinations/strange visions of light" are not real effects that he did observe?

if one person is more receptive to certain things than the other .. it does not make him or her crazy...

"The mathematics of string theory suggests that the world we know is not complete. In addition to our four familiar dimensions - three-dimensional space and time - string theory predicts the existence of six extra spatial dimensions, "hidden" dimensions curled in tiny geometric shapes at every single point in our universe. "

"Don't worry if you can't picture a 10-dimensional world. Our minds are accustomed to only three spatial dimensions and lack a frame of reference for the other six, says UW-Madison physicist Gary Shiu, who led the new study. Though scientists use computers to visualize what these six-dimensional geometries could look like (see image), no one really knows for sure what shape they take."

"According to string theory mathematics, the extra dimensions could adopt any of tens of thousands of possible shapes, each shape theoretically corresponding to its own universe with its own set of physical laws. "

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070203103355.h...

The new work was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Research Corp.
At the end of the event loop you wait for new events. That part.
Self-Control Relies on Glucose as a Limited Energy Source (2007)
There are a few problems outlined in the article. I was referring to this one:

"epoll() seem to have LIFO behavior which can result in uneven load balancing across workers (in case of accept()ing from a shared socket)"

Which is unrelated to keepalives and pipelining and best addressed in the kernel.
I was not trolling rather appreciating that he did not go with the flow.
After reviewing this, and the coda site, I only have a vague idea of what it does, or can do.
I'm not the creator of this website. You can contact him on Twitter
Yes, makes sense to split it up :)
In the past they could change power peacefully because the outgoing leader didn't fear reprisals from the incoming one. But if it is accepted practice to attack others under the guise of 'corruption', then the outgoing leader always has to fear being purged. Can Xi trust that the next guy won't be able to find some excuse to purge him?
Great, so lots and lots of customers in Europe (and potentially elsewhere) are now suddenly acting illegally and open to all kinds of legal action.

Way to go, Mailchimp! You're now officially spammer's haven.
I live in a small town 30k population. Good teachers and doctors. Living in a city doesn't automatically indicate there are goods schools or doctors. You have greater choice, but that is all.
What is the reason for writing always in the same direction?

I don't ask this as a joke: is there seriously a cognitive advantage to having to pass your eye all the way back to the beginning of the next line (whether you read right-left, left-right or top-bottom) vs immediately dropping down and continue reading?

On the other hand I spent a lot of time in high school and university reading pictures of boustrophedon greek texts and once you are used to it you don't even think of it. Likewise R-L texts -- my difficulty with handwritten arabic is the wide variation in characters; the directionality rapidly became automatic, even in mixed-language texts.

In the case of boustrophedon texts, a dominating factor is the sheer irregularity of character shapes (nothing was machine made) and worse, a lot of the black and white photos in books are old, crummy ones which make the deciphering even more "interesting". And this was all before the development of spaces between the words too, and at a time when character shapes were evolving.

Regardless, all written languages I know of (even counting Korean, which is slightly different in-word), seem to have picked a single direction as a dominant, and even before the development of mechanised writing (which would make the characters extremely regular, which might drive a tend to optimize). So there could be some cognitive benefit. I could imagine there's an advantage in that you could train a NN in your visual system to recognize regularly-shaped characters and do look-ahead, but I have seen no studies of it.
Question:

- Which religion will be NEOM's?

Everything else comes down from it.
Deep Listening at the Recurse Center
Why Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh
Excel has named columns with "tables".

Random tutorial off Google:

https://www.excel-university.com/indirectly-refer-to-table-c...
What if you used port knocking, but instead of opening a closed port on a correct knock sequence, you switch the service listening to the target port from honeypot mode to normal mode? Anyone connecting and presenting genuine authorization credentials during that window gets genuine access, while everyone else gets routed to the honeypot.

The 40th basement door from the left opens to a storage closet until someone says, "swordfish" at the 30th door from the left, then 15 seconds later, it opens to a vestibule with an imposing, riveted-iron door for the next 60 seconds. That locked door requires a genuine invitation to admit you to the speakeasy.

If you didn't know the speakeasy was there, you might not bother trying to dig through the back wall of the closet with a pickaxe. If you watched someone else go in, and copied their actions, you still don't have the invitation. Any noise you make banging around trying to fool the automated bouncer is much more noticeable when all the casual traffic and robot-driven attackers are mostly just stealing boxes of detergent out of the decoy closet.
This article is illogical. It simultaneously calls the report "non-partisan" while also pointing out that the current administration disagrees with it.

Furthermore, it gives the impression that the cost of every natural disaster is being associated with climate change.

Lastly, I do not see any mention of what it would cost to implement so-called climate change prevention strategies. For that, they would have to acknowledge that this is a global issue.
Amazon Video Push Aims to Keep Shoppers from YouTube Search
Conversations with some of the most interesting people in science and tech
Yes, it fluctuates depending on numerous factors, including how unhappy those without capital get about the unequal distribution of capital. You see this when monopolies start getting broken up and some wealth gets passed back down. But inevitably the capital gets concentrated again because that's how capitalism works. And even when some of the wealth gets passed back down the people in power generally stay in power.
Square is expanding its lending business
A sibling comment suggests that it's to help encode the direction, but I wonder if there's a less intentional reason, which is: why not mirror the letters? If I were coming up with conventions for reading and writing for the first time or possibly based on descriptions that some sailor had reported, it's not obvious to me that the direction of the letter should matter, especially if the letters you are using aren't mirror symmetric with other letters (lower case wasn't invented until ~1,000 years after the Hellenistic period, when boustrophedon fell out of favor).
Here's a tangentially related article about a crossword-solving program called Dr. Fill, which got tripped up by boustrophedon in its debut at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 2012.

http://www.crosswordtournament.com/articles/iw032212.htm
The failure to appreciate how paranoid and scared the Soviets were almost started a nuclear war in 1983 with the Able Archer debacle - at least Reagan realised that the "Evil Empire" rhetoric was a mistake and calmed things down.

[NB I'm not trying to defend the Soviets, who were a thoroughly unpleasant bunch, but the colossal failure to understand their motivations and just how one side the Cold War was for most of the time almost ended things.]
As long as this is disclosed, why would it be shady? This is no different than executives retaining a fraction of the shares after doing an IPO.
We don't want something that merely drives as well as a person. We want something that does better. To that end, if it is easier to build sensors that don't have to train so hard on just 2d images, why wouldn't we?
Not sure if this is technical enough, and maybe it is not at all, but it is a book that keeps inspiring me to build new things:

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

It is a long book, but there is a lot to learn there.
I'm not sure why you would call that statement racist.

Poverty tends to beget crime, this is very hard to deny. Because the black community - as a result of the slavery of its ancestors in this country - suffers disproportionately high rates of poverty, it also suffers from disproportionately high rates of crime.
> I wonder how much text I would have to read like this before it felt natural?

If you see my note above I mention that it wasn't a big deal. More to your question, frankly learning ancient Greek grammar was far more painful -- the effort to learn to parse old inscriptions was in the noise compared to the effort to understand what the hell they were writing.
Yes, oxygenate is the correct term.
Thanks for pointing me to Robert Kegan.

I agree with every point you've made in this thread! Glad to find others who share these perspectives.
Go Live with a Friend
Wasn't SoftICE a bit of an overkill for cracking WinRAR? If memory serves right, it was a tool mainly for debugging kernel-level code (drivers) -- that's why it had to start before windows. WinDBG and similar userspace tools should have been just as good (or even better, as they woudn't interfere with WinAMP :)) for dealing with userspace processes.
there are a lot variations (hungarians seem to consume a lot of chicken liver which I have _never_ seen in a supermarket in Italy, while beef liver is very common in Italy and seldom sold in Budapest), I just felt the blanket statement towards "the west" was wrong.
Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Pingfs%20points%3E3&sort=byDat....
Somebody disagrees with 'x' does not make 'x' partisan.
But importantly, the government went after Microsoft for anti-trust and actually won even if they didn't break them up. It's impossible to really know the counter-factual of what would have happened if it wasn't sued for anti-trust. But, you can safely say it wouldn't have thrown a lifeline to Apple with the investment and it may have been much more aggressive in these emerging spaces. I still think it was still not fundamentally "ready" for the Internet and mobile but I do think that lawsuit made it much, much friendlier to newcomers.
It feels like Firebug’s had a longer farewell tour than Barbara Streisand.
Why the Fact-Checking at Facebook Needs to Be Checked
Most items on Archive.org have torrent files, so there's some degree of (potential) decentralization. They run their own tracker, but in principle the torrents could live on via DHT. Most are poorly seeded, however.

They also have multiple backups in other locations.
I think animations are pretty useful in this context. It reassures you that your sausage fingers didn't hit the wrong number.
Why does everyone seem to believe this talk is about the fact that these problems were "solved" decades ago? My takeaway is that, no, these things weren't solved, they were abandoned. We got tunnel vision and decided that a handful of ideas were what programming is, rather than just a tiny subset. This talk isn't about how the early programmers were better at everything, if anything it's the opposite, that we should question their decisions and not take anything for granted.

"Do you know why these ideas, and so many other good ideas came about in this particular time period, the 60's-early 70's? Why did it all happen then? It's because it was late enough that technology kinda got to the point where you could actually kinda do things with computers, but it was still early enough that nobody knew what programming was. Nobody knew what programming was supposed to be. And they knew they didn't know, so they tried everything."
A shortage is supply vs. demand by definition.

Shouldn't real estate developers be able to make even more money on top of this by increasing the housing supply? Wouldn't the "banks" have cheap loans for real estate developers? This can't explain a shortage.
Jenkins vs. Travis CI vs. Circle CI vs. TeamCity vs. Codeship vs. GitLab CI vs. Bamboo
When I looked a while back, CMUSphinx seemed to be the most promising option but I struggled to get it installed and got distracted with real work. Some discussions online suggest it’s still fairly poor compared to the online engines.

Snips was mentioned here recently but I haven’t taken a look at it.
Actually, good morning صباح الخير has a strong vowel right there "ا" in the first word.

One of the problems people face with learning Arabic is that weak vowels are implicit by nature and you need to know them by heart in order to read the words properly.
I'm guessing secularity or humanism or maybe the church of reason?
Suggestions on getting this in audio form? I guess it requires transcribing the handwritten parts. The Chrome OCR fails there. Is there a better one?

Sample:

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To the first order the equations (1) - (4) and (7) - (9) are
It's amazing how quickly the mind absorbs trends and makes assumptions. From the moment I started reading the top of the page I assumed this was going to be publicity for a new ICO raise.
Monopolies are a natural phenomenon in capitalism. I'm not sure why people glorify capitalism as much, given the fact that competition is impossibly hard in many areas, and that to reduce costs, and remove competitive pressure, companies tends to consolidate, i.e. reduce competition. Neither socialism nor capitalism makes sense today. We need a totally new system, but it's really hard to make a dent into the status quo, which is well-entrenched, and would resist any change!
At that point it seems you would have just promoted politicians in to the capital class without the middle-person, but again they now represent the capital class and all their non-politician capital class buddies at the cocktail parties, instead of representing those without much capital.
as well as Tesla was recognized during his lifetime. Plenty of folks thought da vinci was crazy too.

helicopter prototype was off (just needed different shape propeller, additional stabilizing propeller and proper weight distribution), but it was on a correct development path. parachute design was correct as was demonstrated in 2000. (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bgE0_zA9lEU/U29iF1bk9QI/AAAAAAAAEu...)

what if tesla's highly speculated work is even 50% close?

we had thousands of electric cars manufactured and sold in USA 100 years ago (stop and think about it for a second: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/80/34/c5/8034...). wireless transmission of electricity/energy could put us on a completely different path as a humanity (as well as completely change political and business landscape worldwide).
Many web applications are so low traffic that a single node is enough to handle everything: application server, database, queue system, static content, etc. It's up to the business deciding if they want to spend the money to buy high availability. In my experience almost everybody don't and have lived years with only occasional downtimes that didn't harm their business.
So against we have Brian Goldman, MD. And for, we have Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and pretty much every other tech/entrepreneur darling of the 20th century. I'm pretty sure the results speak for themselves here.
Thanks Mike for creating Sidekiq and this. pre-1.0 is alright with me for showing it on HN.
My first encounter with a lot of the concepts of how robust QR codes are and how they work internally was Hackaday embedding logos in them[1]. Needless to say, QR codes are amazing and incredibly powerful

[1]:https://hackaday.com/2011/08/11/how-to-put-your-logo-in-a-qr...
Are there expected advantages from using continuous values?

I imagine error resistance would become incredibly harder. Does information density grow fast enough to compensate it?
So you add basic input validation.
I think they do those exact things when up against fascists. The people they’re fighting are those who espouse racial superiorities and commit acts of cultural and physical violence to intimidate the populations of people they’ve chosen to see as inferior.

Appeals to the centrist middle are only meaningful insofar as that same center is willing to act to protect the people being targeted by hate speech. If the center is frozen by its own obsolete sense of propriety in the face of this socially destabilizing hatred then I think it is not unreasonable to see a small group take the call to action on themselves.
FCC eliminates rule requiring a local presence for AM/FM/TV broadcasters
Not the same thing...

The Firefox dev tools' Firebug theme gives me the illusion that I can click the network tab and find that old, reassuring interface. And instead it's the (in my opinion) less functional one from dev tools.

At that point, I prefer ditching the Firebug theme altogether, and embrace the loss. :(
But its in Saudi Arabia, excuse me for saying this because I have lived in Bahrain where certain youtube channels are censored but still considered more open than other gulf countries, how do you access an open internet in neom?
Of course it's not solved. We don't even know how to define the problem.

Speech is[1] a fundamental component of Language, which is a fundamental component of Intelligence[2]. This is addressed somewhat in the conversation around semantic error rate; that there is more to processing raw audio speech than the calculus of mapping signals to tokens; some understanding of semantics and context is required to differentiate between otherwise indistinguishable surface forms.

I find it doubtful that there's a clean interface that separates the 'intelligent' parts of the brain from the 'language' parts of the brain from the 'speech' parts of the brain. This leakiness (or richness, really) means that you can't neatly solve any one part of this chain to the level of competence that the brain solves it. That means to 'solve' speech recognition, you have to 'solve' language, and thus 'solve' general intelligence. And to 'solve' general intelligence, you have to understand it, in a theoretical sense, which we don't. Indeed, it will likely involve solving all the other modalities of sensation as well. It's definitely the case that you need to have a model for prosody to understand speech. It is entirely possible that vision is a large factor as well, in the form of body language, lip reading, eye contact, and so on.

Speech recognition is quite good for what it is. For many practical applications, especially to do with young, white, newspeaker-accented English speakers who sound the most like the people who develop it, and the data sets used to develop it, it is good enough in the 80/20 sense. But it is nowhere near solved by even the least rigorous definition of the word.

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[1] according to the philosophy I subscribe to, at any rate

[2] according to the philosophy I subscribe to, at any rate
Excel 2007 solved the naming problem with tables. You can refer to cells in the same row, or an entire column or range of columns. https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Using-structured-re...

Edit: and of course individual cells can be renamed since forever.
The entire collection is available via large torrent files. Check Reddit or the Archive Team site for details.
Non-partisan doesn't mean nobody disagrees with it.

If well established practices and fact are disputed by one party, that doesn't make it objective to abandon them. If non-partisan means splitting the difference between the major parties, then there would be an incentive for each party to tack as far away from center in order to sway the GAO.
I see more competition possible in some much more corrupt countries, so, maybe that's not exactly the root cause.
Finding one (moderate) Republican congressperson and one Democratic congressperson who will sponsor a report also does not make it "non-partisan" which is a clear attempt to characterize it as "not political"
Ask HN: Would you pay for good documentations? How much?
I deal a lot with APIs, it seems to me that the bigger the company it is the less they care about API docs. Would you pay for good, well written, updated docs? How much?
There are torrents.
That's production faults, not inherent to HFCS.

I try to stay away from added sugars too, but there is no reason to demonize HFCS specifically.
Google announces Gmail add-ones for developers
It is in Saudi Arabia.
Halite II: An AI Programming Challenge
It's hard to model the dollar cost ("all of them"?) of runaway climate change, or of individual actions that are necessary but insufficient to avert it.
> Sunlight tolerant is done with a few tricks. Narrow-band interference filters cut out everything but the color of the beam being used.

What about a beam collimator at the detector? It would reject a lot of noise but would cost some power.
Is none an option?