skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a footnote about Hungarian mathematicians in the 20th century from Prime Obsession. Amazing book by the way, highly recommended.

George Pólya (1887−1985). Look at those dates—another immortal. Pólya was Hungarian. Even more striking than the rise of the Germans in the early nineteenth century was the rise of Hungarians in the early twentieth. While the German states (excluding Austria and Switzerland) in 1800 had about 24 million people, the Hungarian-speaking population of Hungary was around 8.7 million in 1900, and I believe never rose above 10 million. This small and obscure nation produced an astonishing proportion of the world’s finest mathematicians: Bollobás, Erdélyi, Erdős, Fejér, Haar, Kerékjártó, two Kőnigs, Kürschák, Lakatos, Radó, Rényi, two Rieszes, Szász, Szegő, Szokefalvi-Nagy, Turán, von Neumann, and I have probably missed a few. There is a modest literature attempting to explain this phenomenon. Pólya himself thought that the major factor was Fejér (1880−1959), an inspiring teacher and gifted administrator, who attracted and encouraged mathematical talent. A high proportion of the great Hungarian mathematicians (including Fejér) were Jewish—or, like Pólya’s parents, “social” converts to Christianity, of originally Jewish stock.
I also started teaching coding around the time I read it, mostly to kids, so that has made me more motivated to be nicer. I don't want to be the jerk responsible for some little kid hating to code...
If only life were that logical. Under the rules as they are today, there are many scenarios where illiquid options/stock have a taxable event. People's finances have been ruined by this. I had a friend lose a house when he sold his company for stock.
Doesn't that mean that non-populist politicians should get together and actually implement some form of effective UBI to head off a dangerous and competent populist?
> It shouldn't have been a vote without requiring a Supermajority

Works well on the internet. Bad idea in practice. You have to remember that the government didn't want a referendum. They wanted UKIP neutered and the issue put on the backburner.

If there had been a referendum with anything other than a straight majority, and Leave won a straight majority, all hell would have broken loose. It would likely have split the Tory party and made Farage the most important politician in the country.

Similar argument goes for a 3rd option. They didn't want a sensible alternative, they wanted a "put up or shut up" straight fight. Same as had occurred in Scotland. These referenda (and the AV vote before that) were to put constitutional issues to bed not to find alternatives.
If all you're changing is the way it's presented to the user in a browser, you can still make changes without affecting the API - the logic is the same, you just modify the html templates.
Comparing Kubernetes CNI Network Providers
Indeed. At that level you might as well just order "Go make me some money." and the problem is that everyone else has that tool, too.
I'd be completely fine working with Alice. Bob would be a net negative to the team, though.
Doesn't sun exposure cause skin ageing and increase your risk of skin cancer?
> I'm not sure why pedroaraujo is being downvoted other than in response to his criticism of HN topcommenter Chuck McManis.

Because he phrased too much of his disagreement as personal attack. That's against the HN rules.

And because he took the example of chips from two generations ago (which is about how far back you have to go to find non-mainstream but reasonable chips) and says that they "were simple microcontrollers". IIRC, the NS32032 was close to equivalent to the Intel offerings of the time. Didn't even have a branch predictor? Nobody else did in those days, either.

pedroaraujo's points get lost in the vitriol and in trying to apply today's expectations to examples from 20 years ago. Most of the discussion seems to be centering on his points, which is good. But the tone of the post is certainly downvote-worthy.
I didn't know we can switch tabs by typing '%' in the address bar. Helpful indeed.
Latest one seems like it has a memory leak on linux. Starts off fast, but I've found that I need to close out all of Firefox about once a day. Not sure if that's the vanilla build, or the multi-account containers extension that's causing the issue.
Carriers who buy narrow-body aircraft like 737s generally buy them for medium-haul bread-and-butter flights, with bathroom design likely coming low on the features list. If Wikipedia is to be believed, Southwest and RyanAir are the owners of the largest fleet of 737s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_operators so they likely influenced the designs, everyone else just pretty much had to go along with what the big guys ordered.
Not per se, correct.

The plaques seem almost similar to remnants of an incomplete chemical synthesis. For instance, glutamate is synthesized in the brain and is used as a neurotransmitter.

If a bacterial infection prevented glutamate synthesization (potentially by utilizing some crucial component for it's own propagation), you'd see a build-up of otherwise useful amino acids that would manifest as plaques.

The plaques should hypothetically be cleaned by neuronal autophagy but something could be throwing that off as well.

And if neurotransmitter production is degraded, of course cognition will suffer. You seem similar symptoms in Schizophrenia as well.
Yeah I know right?
I read this article on this amazing blog, which talked about making 6 figures income and still not feeling rich.

https://www.financialsamurai.com/how-to-make-six-figures-a-y...
Interesting read!
How to properly secure cryptocurrencies exchanges (2016)
"This specification recommends device manufacturers practice defense in depth by designing their devices to only accept signed firmware updates and/or require physical access to the device in order to apply some configuration changes."

Yes, let's put the burden of protecting users from browser-transmitted malware on to the hardware manufacturers, who've had a such a wonderful track record of caring about and protecting their users' security in the past. What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah it doesn't help that a lot of programmers are traditionally "nerds" who have grown up being bullied by others (I did).

It is possible to understand how to handle this kind of behaviors though. I would wager that most software engineers could certainly learn a bit more about behavioral psychology. In particular, although it is still a little taboo, I would recommend talking to a therapist even if one doesn't seem to exhibit any explicit pathologies. Its rather shocking just how much our formative experiences influence the subconscious throughout our lives; and in my opinion it is helpful to at least understand that better, if not to change them.
It’s common to see large disparities; from looking at a random street (Betlin Ave, Cupertino) there is a house with an assessed value of $67k while Zillow estimates its value at $1.7M. Assuming that inflation is ≥2% per year yet property values are held constant, it would take 164 years for the assessed value to “catch up” to market value. And the tax discount is not just for the elderly. Children inherit their parents’ low assessment. The tax only jumps up beyond 2% in a year when the owner renovates or sells the house.

The tax rate is around 1.25% (limited by Proposition 13 to 1%, plus slightly more for infrastructure bonds). The low tax rate contributes to higher market prices. Proposition 13 is a very good system for property investors.
Yeah, Bob is definitely no team player, and unless kept on a tight leash, probably a serious liability. Alice is a liability on some teams.
Google did dumb thing and now they are paying for it
A few days ago the conservative group PragerU published this video on its website featuring the James Damore, the author of the google women in tech memo, defending his arguments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_o42QaVnA

I encourage you to read the full source text (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586-Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.html) as well as Motherboard's analysis (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evzjww/here-are-the-citations-for-the-anti-diversity-manifesto-circulating-at-google) for yourself.

I find the author to be making several unsubstantiated/poorly-substantiated claims - but ultimately in two separate arguments. The first is that Google's whole-hog investment into aggressive group-think PC culture is wrong headed (this south park clip summarizes perfectly what is meant by group-think PC culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3n7yP5g8RQ). The second is that a root cause of the gender-issues in tech is/may (here the author vacillates in terms of the veracity with which me makes this claim) be biological.

Dealing with the wide array of shitty things that tends to happen to women in tech will require a sustained and thoughtful process of constructive debate, experimentation, and patience. Google had an opportunity to do just that but instead chose to shut down the conversation and in-so-doing, enabled the dialogue to metastasize into a reasonable argument that Google doesn't give two shits about meaningful change and is interested only in maintaining the appearance of doing something so as to hold at bay PR challenges that might impact their bottom line.

Curious as to HN's thoughts on this. This is a complicated issue and even if Google refuses to talk about it - nothing is going to get better unless we the community are willing to.
Hand-wavey generalizations like this are not so good for Hacker News; please refrain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Solid principles also make porting between languages so much more possible. I ported Apache Shiro from Java to Python. It was a major undertaking. However, it was made possible by the authors following SOLID design principles. There was no one point where I was completely overwhelmed.

If you are writing software that others will use in a variety of ways, consider following SOLID principles as empathetic programming.
Hiring brilliant jerks is fundamentally a decision that comes down to the specific situation and imo it should rest with the hiring manager.

Letting brilliant jerks ruin it for others is a management problem, not a brilliant jerk problem.

However, professionalism is a two way street. Bobs and Alices that make professional salaries can be expected to improve, though the professionals that work with them should make some concessions.

One major problem with corporations / labor / the modern world is that the demands on employees are extremely high. It makes sense - people want to work in good jobs and corporations are paying for the labor and the corporations have to make money so they have incentives to hire the best people for the jobs.

Professional standards are very high - I'd say that most professionals in America are in the top 20%-30% of multiple skill sets - communication, leadership, self-directedness, tolerance for b.s, along with any domain specific skills.

We don't have an environment that most people can succeed in. And solving it would be good for people who struggle with some things or people who don't want to focus their life around professional accountability/development.

The right question to ask isn't "is bob valuable" but more like "how can build a company in that gets a single parent to manage Bob"?
Containers are great, but there needs to be an easier way to open a link in a new container. Right now it's burried in a sub menu of the context menu. Lifting the menu item to the top level of the context menu would be a great improvement. Ideally there should also be a configurable keyboard shortcut.
I agree it was legal, I'm just clarifying that it was not all of us who voted for it (or who thought there should have been a public referendum).
Sometimes it would need to be raised and sometimes it would need to be lowered. It will, however, always be a politically unpopular position to lower it, even if it needs being done.
Why its to stop some shareholders being taken advantage of by companies with different share classes.
I agree. I kinda of have a love-hate thing with HTWFAIP. I find it incredibly irritating but also useful? I'm a 3rd gen software engineer and my grandpa and dad were always known for being extremely mean. So I learned a lot bad behaviors from them and other engineers. I think the workplace now is getting less tolerant of that kind of thing though.
Non Violent Communication (by Marshall Rosenberg) provides some good scaffolding to ensure people can communicate in such a way that their criticism isn't taken as hurtful. Useful in many situations in life, not just company meetings.
At the same time, most early stage startups aren't actually doing much that requires such high levels of talent and specialization. They really just require good amounts of "get shit done". And there are plenty of people in this country that have adequate levels of that. They're just mostly not in SV.
>Take the extremes; is cancer incidence markedly lower in perpetually sunny cities like Phoenix or Los Angeles compared to perpetually cloudy cities like Seattle or Portland?

you need to compare not the whole populations of geographies - you nee to look at people who isn't evolutionary adapted (in this particular case - skin color to manage the sunlight and vitamin D level in particular) to the geographies they are currently living at.

For example, children autism is much higher in the Somali immigrant population in Minnesota and Sweden (vs. Somalis in Somali) as this immigrant population has, for obvious reasons, extremely low, frequently almost non-detectable, vitamin D levels.

If cancer rate has negative correlation with vitamin D levels, we'll, unfortunately, see it for sure in like a decade or 2 in those immigrant populations.
> How do you pick up one over the other?

I believe you do not have a choice. iOS, Android, macOS, Linux Desktop goes to Mono. No choice there. Application Servers go to .NET Core. No choice there considering performance and Cloud deployability. Windows Legacy goes to the .NET Framework. No choice there. Modern Windows App goes to UWP (another .NET Core).

I do not see a choice except when you want to run a service on Mono. Which everyone will tell you not to do.
China Pulls Ahead of U.S. In Latest TOP500 List
The UK was but the "Empire" wasn't
Genuine question, what does that line mean?

Is it saying, the UK will have to leave the EU (for whatever definition of "leave") if that side of the vote wins.

Is it saying that the UK cannot change its mind ever i.e. it cannot rejoin even after a change of governtment and a second referendum?.

Or is it just saying, the result of the vote is the result?
In case anyone was curious:

> television adaptation will explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring

So it's not going to tell the main story itself, which is probably wise given the film adaptations aren't even that old.

Maybe it's just me I'm not super-excited by this news. I wish there were more original universes being created with the insane amount of TV money swirling around these days. This just feels like a very safe "me too Game of Thrones" play.
I'm not entirely sure I subscribe to this "behavior based" vs "merit based" look at job performance.

Consider this criterion:

> 1. After encountering the person, do people feel oppressed, humiliated or otherwise worse about themselves?

Bob and Mary are staunch members of <opposing political parties>. While they never discuss it at work, Mary deeply resents the views Bob posts on social media. During a code review, Bob is bluntly critical of Mary's code. Mary perceives this to be related to their political differences, and feels oppressed. Mary files a complaint with HR.

Bob claims he is being objective, and targeted for his political views. Others are hesitant to criticize Mary's code, lest they be lumped into a "tolerance witch hunt".

If you want to talk about performance, it should be objective, not subjective. Anything else opens the door to drama. Yes, "jerks" create issues. But making a rule that says "no jerks" will not solve those problems. It might even make things worse.
That's only half the battle since you still need to get past the TSA checkpoint so if the flight is important to you, you'll get to the airport an hour early just in case the line is significantly longer than usual.

Over the past 6 months, I've spent nearly 60 minutes in security more than once due to equipment failure and/or understaffing.

Trains are a good backup to airports since airplanes can be grounded (or highly delayed) due to weather, security concerns, equipment problems at the airport, etc. Trains are not (generally) subject to the same concerns so make a good backup.

I was in Japan recently and my intercity flight to a city 300 miles away was canceled due to an incoming Typhoon. I was able to book a high speed train that got me in there to catch my flight (and depart before the typhoon hit that airport too).

When a blizzard hits NYC, all you can do is sit it out and wait for flights to resume and it can sometimes take days to find an available seat.
Artificial Intelligence Poses New Issues for Countries' Militaries
And those who will _on average_ die before we leave, voted overwhelmingly in favour of leaving, tipping the balance.
I prefer working with "Alices". It's refreshing to see people actually called on their bullshit.

IMHO there's also a limit to how much you can spare everybody's feelings and still be effective at that ^^. I think the OP believed that there isn't a limit. I think he's wrong.

In a corporate environment, there's almost no value in actually being one though. Linus Torvalds would almost never be promoted and would frequently be unceremoniously terminated - as advocated for by Brendan Gregg.
> Airlines have nothing to gain by making bigger seats

They do gain revenue from upselling "premium economy".
The Norwegian Institute for Air Research has a fairly simple online calculator: https://fastrt.nilu.no/VitD-ez_quartMED.html

I can't personally vouch for its accuracy though.
Scientists Propose Downsizing Next Big Particle Collider
Ditto, I need my life to come with a disclaimer that I might be late, or not attend at all, and that it is not on purpose, and probably stems from my computer not beeping loud enough to warn me that a meeting is coming up.
These placeholders are tiny (<1 kB for images with 10 triangles) and quite beautiful in their own right. I found this post inspiring.
there was a recent post here about B12 supplementation causing cancer.
And prior to that you could run multiple Firefox instances with different profiles. Not super hard.
If it genuinely is a monopoly, then that is terrible, and hopefully something can happen to change the situation. I guess it's hard for me to picture because it's not my bag.
Walk This Way: A Better Way to Identify Gait Differences
They've shown an "attack vector" that's virtually impossible to reproduce. Someone has to be able to get detailed 3D renders of your face before also stealing your phone. Then they have to get a team of artists to hand craft your nose, hand craft human like skin, 3D print a mask, and a makeup artist to make it all look realistic.

In the end, they've shown is FaceID is just as secure as Apple claimed. Apple never claimed impervious to any attacks, they claimed it would work well an quickly, and be more resistant to attack than TouchID. Requiring a Mission Impossible level team to create a mask that duplicates your face is not a level of attack most customers are concerned with.

TouchID can be defeated simply by stealing the device, lifting the owners fingerprints from said device, and 3d printing duplicate prints to use. FaceID is far more secure than that.
I started taking vitamin d because I have a family history of colon cancer, and it has been shown to reduce such instances. My doctor said it is one of the few vitamin supplements that has strong clinical evidence to support its use. A happy side effect was that vitamin d also nearly totally made my acne go away. I take on 5000IU in the morning and one at night.
French company developing building-free data centers
There are so many amazing fantasy novels that need movies or TV shows. Tolkien was good, and for his time, amazing. But compared to what we have available today, I wouldn't even put him in the top 10.

sigh
The situation with B12 isn't so clear: https://www.health.harvard.edu/cancer/b-vitamins-may-raise-r...
I did the test cold, expecting it to be in-situ practice for a 'real' test which I anticipated to write a year later. I scored over 170 easily.

I later trained to become an LSAT instructor on the basis of my scores and realized I didn't have any aptitude for it because none of my strategies for dealing with the test were explicit - they were just my test taking routine.

If you did logic puzzles for fun as a kid and read enough to develop a large vocabulary, good test taking practices will take you the rest of the way. For what it's worth, in my experience most of the kids who did the LSAT coming from the sciences considered it a joke and prepared minimally with good results. They, however, constituted maybe 1/100th of the test takers.
I've met the brilliant jerk (and depending on who you ask, I've been the brilliant jerk). It's a real thing.

One surprising thing is that it is possible for people to change, at least in how they treat people. Once I was told I would have to interact with the "brilliant jerk" and I complained and my manager said, "no, really, he has CHANGED" and, miracle of miracles, he had.

I wish I knew exactly how and why he changed, my best guess is treatment for clinical depression, which often surfaces as extreme irritability.
It looks like people are downvoting this. Perhaps it's because of the tone of the first sentence; if we rephrase it to "If you're on macOS, why not just use Safari?" I think it's a reasonable question.

There are reasonable answers -- Safari's extensions aren't quite as capable as the other two, so it's possible you're relying on an extension that Safari doesn't have and can never duplicate, and of course if you need to sync bookmarks and other browser data across OS platforms, Safari falls down in the way all iCloud-backed apps do. But Safari does focus a lot on battery conservation, and if you're on a laptop that can make a big difference. And, while I'm sure there are benchmarks out there to quibble over, in practice Safari seems to be just as fast and just as compliant as Chrome and Firefox are.

I've been using Safari as my main web browser for years without feeling like I'm missing out on either performance or killer features. I keep copies of Firefox and Chrome around and keep them up to date, mostly for web site testing purposes; neither of them have added features compelling enough to make me want to switch back. I doubt Firefox 57 is likely to change that equation, although I'm happy to hear that they've got their groove back, as it were.
Research drive could ‘untangle’ vexing problem in computer-simulation technology
At this point in time, Fortran is basically a domain specific language, analogously to using regular expressions for text processing. It is a nightmare to write full applications in it. The f2py approach to Fortran is undervalued IMHO, as Fortran is brilliant for certain types of simulation, and much easier to write and optimize than C/C++.
Vitamin D can be stored by the body. My Doctor also prescribed me one whole bottle every week for a certain period of time, then I switched to 6 drops a day.

Vitamin D defficiency is really a problem, I didn't know I had it till I got a blood test. I was feeling tired all the time, my bones ached, I felt low, dizzy, etc. Getting Vitamin D supplements helped cured all the symptoms, I feel much healthier now.
The definitions of most Americans doesn't matter in this case. What's in the proposed congressional bills matters.
I'm not saying it wasn't legitimate or legal, just that _most_ of us did not vote for it, which is why I felt "bone headed people" was too much of a generalisation.